💬 Quotes

"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us."

"Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything good in the world."

"To keep my heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent—that is to triumph over old age."

"I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace."

"All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride."

"I was born to join in love, not hate."

"There is nothing, no pain, no suffering, no misfortune, no disgrace that I have not seen to be yours and mine."

"The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are."

"Marriage is a relationship in which the individual is sacrificed to a relationship, and yet the relationship is for the perfecting of the individual."

"A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself."

"Omnia mutantur, nihil interit: errat et illinc huc venit, hinc illuc, et quoslibet occupat artus."

"Medio tutissimus ibis."

"Video meliora proboque, deteriora sequor."

"Ut desint vires, tamen est laudanda voluntas."

"Tempus edax rerum, tuque, invidiosa vetustas, omnia destruitis."

"Non bene conveniunt nec in una sede morantur maiestas et amor."

"There are two Londons. There's London Above—where you live—and there's London Below—the inhabited ghosts, the monsters and saints, the murderers and angels, and the frightened and hopeless people who slip through the cracks of the world."

"I’m nobody. I’m just Richard Mayhew. I’m just a guy who had a job and a life and I lost them, and now I’m here, and I don’t know who I am anymore."

"The problem with people is that they forget that most of the time it’s better to be wanted for murder than to be completely ignored."

"I think you have a good heart. It’s just that you haven’t quite decided what you want to do with it yet."