The best Quotes by Tove Jansson

One summer morning at sunrise a long time ago I met a little girl with a book under her arm. I asked her why she was out so early and she answered that there were too many books and far too little time. And there she was absolutely right.

Books

You must go on a long journey before you can really find out how wonderful home is.

Moominland

Home

It was a particularly good evening to begin a book.

The Summer Book

I'll have to calm down a bit. Or else I'll burst with happiness.

Moominsummer Madness

The thing about God, she thought, is that He usually does help, but not until you've made an effort on your own.

The Summer Book

God

All things are so very uncertain, and that's exactly what makes me feel reassured.

Moominland Midwinter

A theatre is the most important sort of house in the world, because that's where people are shown what they could be if they wanted, and what they'd like to be if they dared to and what they really are.

Moominsummer Madness

Theatre

August is the border between summer and autumn; it is the most beautiful month I know.

August

The quiet transition from autumn to winter is not a bad time at all. It's a time for protecting and securing things and for making sure you've got in as many supplies as you can. It's nice to gather together everything you possess as close to you as possible, to store up your warmth and your thoughts and burrow yourself into a deep hole inside, a core of safety where you can defend what is important and precious and your very own. Then the cold and the storms and the darkness can do their worst. They can grope their way up the walls looking for a way in, but they won't find one, everything is shut, and you sit inside, laughing in your warmth and your solitude, for you have had foresight.

Moominvalley in November

Winter

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Helsinki isn't all that bad. It's a very nice city, and it's cold really only in wintertime.

Linus Torvalds

Helsinki

Helsinki may not be as cold as you make it out to be, but California is still a lot nicer. I don't remember the last time I couldn't walk around in shorts all day.

Linus Torvalds

California Helsinki

They say money can't buy happiness. But it can book your flight to Helsinki - which is kinda the same.

Helsinki

A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone.

Tyrion Lannister in Game of Thrones - Season 1 Episode 2

Books Mind & Apprehension Intelligence

"One must always be careful of books," said Tessa, "and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us."

Cassandra Clare in The Infernal Devices

Books

But he was home. Hogwarts was the first and best home he had known. He and Voldemort and Snape, the abandoned boys, had all found home here.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Home Hogwarts

It's like you're homesick for a place that doesn't even exist.

Garden State

Desire Breakup Home

God never made no difference between black, white, blue, pink or green. People is people, y'know. That's the message we try to spread.

Bob Marley

God Tolerance

Our God is a God who saves; from the Sovereign Lord comes escape from death.

Psalms - 68, 20

God

School! Then you haven't heard of the easy road to success. I'm speaking, my boy, of the theater. Bright lights, music, applause, fame!

Honest John in Pinocchio

Theatre

I think in any form of acting, you're always well served if you've done theater.

Jim Parsons

Theatre

I realise that it is August: the summer's last stand.

Sara Baume in A Line Made by Walking

August

The quiet August noon has come;
A slumberous silence fills the sky;
The winds are still, the trees are dumb,
In glassy sleep the waters lie.

William Cullen Bryant - A Summer Ramble

August

Nearly everybody gets twitterpated in the springtime.

Walt Disney

Spring Winter

In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.

Albert Camus

Summer Winter

After all, you still need time to just sit there and take a look around.

Astrid Lindgren

"Oh yes, time flies and before you know it you're old," said Pippi. "Come autumn I'll be ten, and I suppose I'll be past my prime then."

Astrid Lindgren in Pippi Longstocking

Age

It's real, Six. You can't get mad at a real ending. Some of them are ugly. It's the fake happily ever afters that should piss you off.

Colleen Hoover in Hopeless

I want you to help them open... because I need you to watch me give you the very last piece of my heart.

Colleen Hoover in Hopeless

What other people think of you is none of your business.

Paulo Coelho

Self-Confidence Gossip & Rumors

If you're brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello.

Paulo Coelho

Change Beginning

This is the true measure of love: When we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will ever love in the same way after us.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Love

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Children & Childhood Family Parents

The Light failed; but the Darkness that followed was more than loss of light.

J.R.R. Tolkien in The Silmarillion

Darkness

The Elves made many rings; but secretly Sauron made One Ring to rule all the others, and their power was bound up with it.

J.R.R. Tolkien in The Silmarillion

Whether you come back by page or by the big screen, Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home.

Joanne K. Rowling

Hogwarts

I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book.

Joanne K. Rowling

Books Reading

The first time you fall in love, it changes you forever and no matter how hard you try, that feeling just never goes away.

Nicholas Sparks in The Notebook

Falling in love

Every girl is beautiful. Sometimes it just takes the right guy to see it.

Nicholas Sparks in The Notebook

Love Beauty Valentine's Day

She was beautiful, but not like those girls in the magazines. She was beautiful, for the way she thought. She was beautiful, for the sparkle in her eyes when she talked about something she loved. She was beautiful, for her ability to make other people smile, even if she was sad. No, she wasn't beautiful for something as temporary as her looks. She was beautiful, deep down to her soul.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Beauty Love declerations

The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.

F. Scott Fitzgerald in The Great Gatsby

Solitude & Loneliness

Hope is like a shard of glass. Tread on it, and you'll end up wincing with every step. The best policy is to tweezer it out. Sure, it will hurt like billy-o and the wound will take a while to heal, but after that you can walk again.

Sebastian Fitzek in Therapy

Hope Breakup Grief & Condolence

"Lost something?"
"Yes, my mind."

Sebastian Fitzek in Splinter

The dead are dead, and talking won't bring them back to life.

Otfried Preußler in Krabat

"It's no use fretting for what you can't get," croaked the raven. "Does being angry make any difference? Be sensible! What can you do about it?"

Otfried Preußler in Krabat

Anger

There are so many magical places in books that you can't go to, like Hogwarts and Middle Earth, so I wanted to set a story in a place where children can actually go.

Cornelia Funke

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