💬 Quotes

"Man has it all in his hands, and it all slips through his fingers from sheer cowardice. That's a truism."

"The soul is not a bag of grain; you cannot measure it out and distribute it. It is something much more complex and perhaps more fragile than we care to admit."

"Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."

"It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards."

"When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less."

"The time has come, the Walrus said, to talk of many things: Of shoes—and ships—and sealing-wax—Of cabbages—and kings."

"It takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!"

"Life, what is it but a dream?"

"I want to be brave, and selfless, and smart, and kind, and honest."

"Fear doesn't shut you down; it wakes you up."

"Human reason can excuse any evil; that is why it’s so important that we don’t rely on it."

"Becoming fearless isn't the point. That's impossible. It's learning how to control your fear, and how to be free from it."

"It is our choices that determine who we are, far more than our abilities."

"I am selfish. I am brave. I am Dauntless."

"To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life."

"Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise."

"If any one asks me what I have done, I shall say: I have saved my country; but if any one asks me what I have done for the people, I shall say: Nothing."

"To love another person is to see the face of God."

"There is nothing like a dream to create the future. Utopia to-day, flesh and blood to-morrow."

"The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves."