Cecelia Ahern Quotes

There were hundreds of them spread across the floor, each telling its own tale of triumph or sadness, each letter representing a phase in her life. She had kept them all.

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• I love New York. It's hard to explain, but it's the energy of the city. It's not like L.A. where everything is spread out.

  

  Hailey Bieber
  • Energy
  • City
  • Hard

• If the spectrum linking everyday depression to Major Depression sometimes hinders understanding of it, it also offers an opportunity for empathy. Because almost everyone, at some point, experiences feelings of sadness, of hopelessness, of emptiness, not to mention lethargy and irritability.

  

  Gayle Forman
  • Opportunity
  • Understanding
  • Everyday

• It's a source of great sadness to me that my father died without having seen me do anything worthwhile. He was constantly having to make excuses for me.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Great
  • Father
  • Sad

• I want to paint something that's gorgeous, something that's perfect. So that it's full of sadness.

  

  Gary Hume
  • Want
  • Perfect
  • Sadness

• The trouble with boxing is that too often it ends in sadness.

  

  Barry McGuigan
  • Trouble
  • Boxing
  • Sadness

• When the night falls, my lonely heart calls.

  

  Whitney Houston
  • Heart
  • Night
  • Fall

• Light has spread, and even bayonets think.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • Think
  • Light
  • Spread

• Piglet opened the letter box and climbed in. Then, having untied himself, he began to squeeze into the slit, through which in the old days when front doors were front doors, many an unexpected letter than WOL had written to himself, had come slipping.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Doors
  • Letters
  • Piglet

• Some time all kinds of letters will be published to the ineffable delight of endless readers.

  

  Alice B. Toklas
  • Time
  • Letters
  • Readers

• Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain unless you've used up all the other four-letter words.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Up
  • God
  • Words

• We cling to the letter because the spirit is so much harder to master.

  

  Rachel Grace Held
  • Spirit
  • Masters
  • Letters

• When that ineffable compound of depression, sadness (these two are not the same), anxiety, self-hatred, sense of failure and fear for the future begins to steal over you, start telling yourself that what you have is a hangover. You are not sickening for anything, you have not suffered a minor brain lesion, you are not all that bad at your job, your family and friends are not leagued in a conspiracy of barely maintained silence about what a s**t you are, you have not come at last to see life as it really is and there is no use crying over spilt milk.

  

  Kingsley Amis
  • Life
  • Family
  • Job

• Do not allow your daughters to be taught letters by a man, though he be a St. Paul or St. Francis of Assissium. The saints are in Heaven.

  

  Alphonsus Liguori
  • Heaven
  • Letters
  • Daughters

• Each night about this time he puts on sadness like a garment and goes on writing.

  

  Anne Carson
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Night

• Spread positivity; don't matter how big, or how small.

  

  Beyonce Destiny's Child
  • Small
  • Matter
  • Bigs

• It isn't a coincidence that prayer was commanded right after the year of sadness. The prayer was the greatest comfort.

  

  Yasmin Zarine Shahmir
  • Years
  • Prayer
  • Sadness

• And hard times are good in their own way, too. Because the only way you can achieve true happiness is if you experience true sadness as well. It's all about light and shade. Balance.

  

  Gabrielle Williams
  • Good
  • Experience
  • True

• I'm sorry for the anguished hearts that break with passion's strain, But I'm sorrier for the poor starved souls that never knew love's pain, Who hunger on through barren years not tasting joys they crave, For sadder far is such a lot than weeping o'er a grave.

  

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • Heart
  • Pain
  • Passion

• When you have your heart broken wide, you are also open to things of beauty as well as things of sadness. Once people are not here physically, the spiritual remains, we still connect, we can communicate, we can give and receive love and forgiveness. There is love after someone dies.

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • People
  • Heart
  • Giving

• A small child from a developing country has the advantage, from a very early age, of having access to toys which structure his mind, which constitute a sure advantage over the little African child who has never even held a modern toy.

  

  Abdoulaye Wade
  • Country
  • Mind
  • Age

• There were hundreds of them spread across the floor, each telling its own tale of triumph or sadness, each letter representing a phase in her life. She had kept them all.

  

  Cecelia Ahern
  • Sadness
  • Letters
  • Spread