Quotes & Sayings About Courage In The Book Thief

Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see. — Edgar Allan Poe

There is a terrible conservatism, like a cancer, right in the heartlands of music-making, a tremendous resistance to change, an absolute horror of the idea that more people might connect with music. That infuriates me more than I can say. — Charles Hazlewood

I had tried, as I thought as a nun, to open myself to God and God seemed totally uninterested in me. The heavens remained closed and opaque. I now realize, of course, that I had a very, very inadequate idea of God. I was expecting clouds to part, a little sort of whisper in my ear, and of course, that's not what God is. God is not another being; we are talking about something much more profound. — Karen Armstrong

Great as it is, the knowledge of self, if there is not that natural desire raging like fire does not manifest. — Hazrat Inayat Khan

When you cannot measure, your knowledge is meager and unsatisfactory. — Lord Kelvin

Kids shouting and skidding in the playground with no idea what future Hells awaited them: boring jobs and ruinous mortgages and bad marriages and hair loss and hip replacements and lonely cups of coffee in an empty house and a colostomy bag at the hospital. — Donna Tartt

I've been blessed in so many ways. — John Wooden

We have spent the better part of the last fifty years being inundated by advertising, being told that we will be happier if we get more stuff. But that's been backfiring recently. — Jayni Chase

Carmen glanced up and saw the room's open window, its balcony reflecting the sun's beams and the blue sky outside. She stood and walked over before sticking her head out and observing her surroundings. There was a huge drop from the window to the gardens below. There were no other balconies nearby either, only a slight ledge lining along from her window to the one next door. — Robin Lane

Learn to think in positive affirmations. Affirmations are any statements you make. Too often we think in negative affirmations. Negative affirmations only create more of what you say you don't want. Saying, "I hate my job," will get you nowhere. Declaring, "I now accept a wonderful new job," will open the channels in your consciousness to create that. — Louise Hay

Every successful person I have heard of has done the best he could with the conditions as he found them, and not waited until next year for better. — E.W. Howe

It's often a bad sign when people defend themselves against charges which haven't been made. — Christopher Hitchens

I suppose it's one way to forget what's going on around them — Kiera Cass