Jennifer Stott
Past Quotes
July 2017
“You can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.”
― Stephen King
August 2017
“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
― Albert Einstein
September 2017
“If you are going through
hell, keep going.”
―Winston S. Churchill
October 2017
“There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
November 2017
“Just because you fail once doesn't mean you're gonna fail at everything.”
― Marilyn Monroe
December 2017
“You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.”
― Maya Angelou
January 2018
“And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke
February 2018
“But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see the stars.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.
March 2018
“Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.”
― Lloyd Alexander
April 2018
“Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.”
― Shel Silverstein
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July 2018
“There is scarcely any passion without struggle.”
― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
October 2018
“There is no exquisite beauty…without some strangeness in the proportion.”
— Edgar Allan Poe
May 2018
“Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.”
― Leonard Cohen
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August 2018
“There are times to stay put, and what you want will come to you, and there are times to go out into the world and find such a thing for yourself.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish
November 2018
“Being different is a revolving door in your life where secure people enter and insecure exit.” ― Shannon L. Alder
June 2018
“Books are the mirrors of the soul.”
― Virginia Woolf, Between the Acts
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September 2018
“There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.”
― Beverly Sills
December 2018
“I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.”
― Edward Everett Hale
January 2019
“Not I, nor anyone else can travel that road for you.
You must travel it by yourself.
It is not far. It is within reach.
Perhaps you have been on it since you were born, and did not know.
Perhaps it is everywhere - on water and land.”
― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
February 2019
"There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved."
— George Sand