Words. They are powerful small things. Edward Bulwer-Lytton once said “The pen is mightier than the sword.” That is true, because pens write words. I love words especially in the form of books or quotes. Words have the power to lift someone up, or to tear someone down. In today’s world, there are so many places to share words. Some people say kind things, but many more say unkind things.  That’s why I wanted to share with you some of my favorites words, in the form of quotes.

I hope you like them as much as I do,

Bright Eyes

“I am not afraid, I was born to do this.” – Joan of Arc

“Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through, no matter what.” – Harper Lee

“Imagination is the air of the mind.” – Philip James Bailey

“No need to hurry, no need to sparkle, no need to be anyone but oneself.” – Virginia Woolf

“No one has ever become poor by giving.” – Anne Frank

“The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.” Nelson Mandela

“Throw your dreams in the air like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back: a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.” – Anaïs Nin

“In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.” – Albert Camus

“Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage.” – Brené Brown

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” – Oscar Wilde

“We become what we think about.” – Earl Nightingale

“The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you like.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Only in the darkness can you see the stars.” – Martin Luther King Jr.

“Be yourself. Everyone else is already taken.” – Oscar Wilde

“I’ve dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after… and altered the color of my mind.” – Emily Brontë

“Fears are paper lions.” – Amelia Earheart

“Courage dear heart.” – C. S. Lewis

“I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.” – Albert Einstein

“I’d rather be vulnerable and be hurt, than be closed off and never feel a thing. – Bright Eyes