As a college student, sometimes I find it difficult to find motivation to get out of bed in the morning. For me, quotes are an essential part of my life. They give you unique perspectives about the world. They help you to feel like you are not alone in the world. They empower you to be bold - to make yourself heard. Below, I have compiled some of my favorite quotes from literature that inspire me.
1. “The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”
George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman
2. "Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.”
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote
3. “It is a great misfortune to be alone, my friends; and it must be believed that solitude can quickly destroy reason.”
Jules Verne, The Mysterious Island
4. "Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter--tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.... And one fine morning— So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
5. “He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.”
Leo Tolstoy, Anna Kerenina
6. "Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same."
Emile Bronte, Wuthering Heights
7. “If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving one be me.”
W. H. Auden, “The More Loving One”
8. “How wild it was, to let it be.”
Cheryl Strayed, Wild
9. “The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.”
John Milton, Paradise Lost
10. “Get busy living or get busy dying.”
Stephen King, Shawshank Redemption
