Wendy Mass Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
-
“The trick is that as long as you know who you are and what makes you happy, it doesn't matter how others see you.”
-- Wendy Mass -
“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about.”
-- Wendy Mass -
“Maybe some things aren't meant to be known. maybe there just meant to be accepted.”
-- Wendy Mass -
“The sidelines may be safer but life is played on the field”
-- Wendy Mass -
-
“A fight is going on inside me," said an old man to his son. "It is a terrible fight between two wolves. One wolf is evil. He is anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego. The other wolf is good. he is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion, and faith. The same fight is going on inside you." The son thought about it for a minute and then asked, "Which wolf will win?" The old man replied simply, "The one you feed.”
-- Wendy Mass -
“If nothing ever changed, there would be no such things as butterflies.”
-- Wendy Mass -
“Whoa!" she says as I plow into her. " What are you DOING? Get off me!" I hang on tight. "Can't a girl just hug her big sister?" She stops fighting me. "Are you dying? Am I dying? Did Grandma die? I laugh. "No one died." "Then get off!”
-- Wendy Mass -
-
“My eyes are bright, my hair has come loose from its ribbon, and Stella's scarf is waving around my neck. But that's not what I see when I look at the picture. I see three unlikely friends holding hands. And Ryan, Kenny, and Melanie are standing behind us, rapt. And in the sky above us, I see a miracle.”
-- Wendy Mass -
“comparing what you see during an eclipse to the darkness at night is like comparing an ocean to a teardrop.”
-- Wendy Mass -
“and as streams of light fan out behind the darkened sun like the wings of a butterfly, i realize that i never saw true beauty until now.”
-- Wendy Mass -
“Whereever you end up;" Jack whispered into my ear."I wish you clear skies. Always”
-- Wendy Mass -
-
“My arms flew up of thier own accord knoking my bag down. I grabbed hold of the desk to keep myself from falling down.”
-- Wendy Mass -
“I blend in the backgroud. when I arive for lunch my friends are surprised i'm not already there.”
-- Wendy Mass -
“The thing about leaving something behind for the last time is that you rarely realize you're doing it.”
-- Wendy Mass -
“I had been in the ditch for 2 and a half min. I wondered if my friends missed me.”
-- Wendy Mass -
-
“I blame my dad for my sweet tooth. His motto was 'Life is short; eat dessert first.' How can I argue with that?”
-- Wendy Mass -
“How can you, of all people, say everything will be alright?" He has a point. I consider my answer. "Well, it's better than saying 'Keep on crying, I'm sure things will just get worse,' right?”
-- Wendy Mass -
“I'm going to be so normal that when people look up normal in the dictionary, my name will be there.”
-- Wendy Mass -
“Just as I suspected, my room does look different, post-eclipse. It looks smalled, like it can't contain me anymore. After all, I've got a whole new world to see.”
-- Wendy Mass -
-
“And when he [the author of the universe] had compounded the whole, he divided it up into as many souls as there are stars, and allotted each soul to a star. And mounting them on their stars, as if on chariots, he showed them the nature of the universe and told them the laws of their destiny. - "Timaeus" by Plato 427-347 B.C.”
-- Wendy Mass -
“Everyone thinks I named my cat Mango because of his orange eyes, but that's not the case. I named him Mango because the sounds of his purrs and his wheezes and his meows are all various shades of yellow-orange.”
-- Wendy Mass -
“It's not an old book, or a treasure map. Nope. Staring up at me was a pile of rocks.”
-- Wendy Mass -
“You take the flotsam," I tell her, "I'll take the jetsam." You always get the jetsam,"she says pretending to pout. "Do you ever think if poeple heard our conversations they'd lock us up?" All the time.”
-- Wendy Mass -
-
“Do you ever think if people heard our conversations they'd lock us up?" All the time.”
-- Wendy Mass -
“A wise man once remarked that we can count how many seeds are in the apple, but not how many apples are in the seed.”
-- Wendy Mass -
“So softly Lizzy has to lean over to hear me, I say, 'I can't face the world until I know why I'm here.' You're kidding me.' I shake my head vehemently. 'No. I need to figure out my purpose. Until I do, what's the use of getting up?”
-- Wendy Mass -
-
“The people on the train with me don't know it, but in my head I'm dancing.”
-- Wendy Mass
You may also like:
-
Andrew Clements
Author -
Cynthia Lord
Author -
Gordon Korman
Author -
Jeanne DuPrau
Writer -
Jennifer L. Holm
Writer -
Jerry Spinelli
Writer -
Jon Scieszka
Author -
Kate DiCamillo
Writer -
Margaret Haddix
Writer -
Mary Downing Hahn
Author -
Norman Rockwell
Writer -
Patrick Carman
Writer -
Pseudonymous Bosch
Author -
Rebecca Stead
Writer -
Robin Wasserman
Novelist -
Sharon Creech
Writer -
Sharon M. Draper
Educator -
Trenton Lee Stewart
Author -
Walter Dean Myers
Writer -
Kekla Magoon
Author