The best Quotes by Emma Goldman

Heaven must be an awfully dull place if the poor in spirit live there.

The motto should not be: Forgive one another; rather understand one another.

If I can't dance, I don't want to be part of your revolution.

When we can't dream any longer we die.

I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.

Heard your new joint, it's embarrassing, sh-t
You talk to the cops on some therapist sh-t
You act like you love this American sh-t
But, really, the truth is you scared of the Six

Canada is a country of ingredients without a cuisine; we're a country with musicians without an indigenous instrument; Toronto's a city that doesn't even have a dish named after it.

Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die.

Monsieur, when a finger is pointing up to the sky, only a fool looks at the finger.

The sky is always beautiful. Even when it's dark or rainy or cloudy, it's still beautiful to look at... it'll be there no matter what... and I know it'll always be beautiful.

Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away.

Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.

Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.

People find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right.

The only way out of this labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

The rarer action is in virtue than in vengeance.

Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass. It's about learning to dance in the rain.

One move can set a whole generation free... one move can make you believe like you're something more.

Whoever said happines comes with sunshine, has never danced in the rain!

It's not about dancing professionally so others like it, it's about having fun, and it's best to move the body the way it wants to move.

It does not do to dwell on dreams, Harry, and forget to live.

When dreaming we enter a world, that's entirely our own.

Well, there's one thing: they can't order me to stop dreaming.

Don't ever let someone tell you, you can't do something. Not even me. You got a dream, you got to protect it. People can't do something themselves, they want to tell you you can't do it. You want something, go get it. Period. All right?

The flower that blooms in adversity is the most rare and beautiful of all.

What if you slept ? And what if in your sleep you dreamed? And what if in your dream you went to heaven and there plucked a strange and beautiful flower? And what if when you awoke you had that flower in your hand? Ah, what then?

For women are as Roses, whose fairr flowre,
Being once displaid, doth fall that verie howre.

Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.

It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.

A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

Truths and roses have thorns about them.

The sharp thorn often produces delicate roses.

Even in the darkness, diamonds still shine.

When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure.

A diamond is a chunk of coal that is made good under pressure.