Hi guys! Hereâs a little masterpost of quotes from childrenâs books that you can use in your bullet journal, or anywhere else you feel like!
THE LITTLE PRINCE (ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPĂRY)
âIt is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.â
âThe most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched, they are felt with the heart.â
âYou become responsible forever for what youâve tamed.âÂ
âYou - you alone will have the stars as no one else has themâŚIn one of the stars I shall be living. In one of them I shall be laughing. And so it will be as if all the stars were laughing, when you look at the sky at nightâŚYou - only you - will have stars that can laugh.â
âGrown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to themâ
âA rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.âÂ
A LITTLE PRINCESS (FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT)
âIf I am a princess in rags and tatters, I can be a princess inside. It would be easy to be a princess if I were dressed in cloth of gold, but it is a great deal more of a triumph to be one all the time when no one knows it.â
âWhen you will not fly into a passion people know you are stronger than they are, because you are strong enough to hold in your rage, and they are not, and they say stupid things they wish they hadnât said afterward. â
âThereâs nothing so strong as rage, except what makes you hold it inâthatâs stronger. Itâs a good thing not to answer your enemies.â
âIf nature has made you for a giver, your hands are born open, and so is your heart; and though there may be times when your hands are empty, your heart is always full, and you can give things out of thatâwarm things, kind things, sweet thingsâhelp and comfort and laughterâand sometimes gay, kind laughter is the best help of all.â
âSomehow, something always happens just before things get to the very worst. It is as if Magic did it. If I could only just remember that always. The worse thing never quite comes.â
âBut I suppose there might be good in things, even if we donât see it.â
âYou donât forget, but you bear it better.âÂ
LITTLE WOMEN (LOUISA MAY ALCOTT)
âI am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.â
âItâs wicked to throw away so many good gifts because you canât have the one you want.â
âLove is a great beautifier.âÂ
âWatch and pray, dear, never get tired of trying, and never think it is impossible to conquer your fault.â
âI want to do something splendidâŚsomething heroic or wonderful that wonât be forgotten after Iâm dead. I donât know what, but Iâm on the watch for it and mean to astonish you all someday.âÂ
âConceit spoils the finest genius.âÂ
âBe comforted, dear soul! There is always light behind the clouds.â
âLife and love are very precious when both are in full bloom.â
âThe only chivalry worth having is that which is the readiest to to pay deference to the old, protect the feeble, and serve womankind, regardless of rank, age, or color.â
âBooks are always good company if you have the right sort.â
âThe humblest tasks get beautified if loving hands do them.â
âNow and then, in this workaday world, things do happen in the delightful storybook fashion, and what a comfort that is.â
âSo Matildaâs strong young mind continued to grow, nurtured by the voices of all those authors who had sent their books out into the world like ships on the sea. These books gave Matilda a hopeful and comforting message: You are not alone.âÂ
âNever do anything by halves if you want to get away with it. Be outrageous. Go the whole hog. Make sure everything you do is so completely crazy itâs unbelievableâŚâÂ
âI have found it impossible to talk to anyone about my problems. I couldnât face the embarrassment, and anyway I lack the courage. Any courage I had was knocked out of me when I was young. But now, all of sudden I have a sort of desperate wish to tell everything to somebody.â
âIâve always said to myself that if a little pocket calculator can do it why shouldnât I?â
âThere is little point in teaching anything backwards. The whole object of life, Headmistress, is to go forwards.â
âIâm afraid men are not always quite as clever as they think they are.â
THE PHANTOM TOLLBOOTH (NORTON JUSTER)
âSo many things are possible just as long as you donât know theyâre impossible.â
âHave you ever heard the wonderful silence just before the dawn? Or the quiet and calm just as a storm ends? Or perhaps you know the silence when you havenât the answer to a question youâve been asked, or the hush of a country road at night, or the expectant pause of a room full of people when someone is just about to speak, or, most beautiful of all, the moment after the door closes and youâre alone in the whole house? Each one is different, you know, and all very beautiful if you listen carefully.â
âTime is a gift, given to you, given to give you the time you need, the time you need to have the time of your life. â
âYou must never feel badly about making mistakes ⌠as long as you take the trouble to learn from them. For you often learn more by being wrong for the right reasons than you do by being right for the wrong reasons.â
âThe most important reason for going from one place to another is to see whatâs in between.â
âWhat you can do is often simply a matter of what you will do.â
âWhat you learn today, for no reason at all, will help you discover all the wonderful secrets of tomorrow.â
âWhatever we learn has a purpose and whatever we do affects everything and everyone else, if even in the tiniest way.â
THE GOLDEN COMPASS (PHILIP PULLMAN)
âYou cannot change what you are, only what you do.â
âWe are all subject to the fates. But we must act as if we are not, or die of despair.â
âEvery opportunity will come again.â
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