Life Lessons Quote by Maureen Johnson — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Claim whatever you want. Say you only want a happy family or a successful career or a big house. I say: no, that's not what you want. You'll settle for those things, but you really want a monkey that does your evil bidding. Pullman is a genius just for this.”

“Welsh is an actual, currently used language and our next-door neighbors Angela and Gaenor spoke it. It sounds like Wizard.”

“WORTH IT and perfect are different things. No one’s perfect, yet in romance, everyone becomes WORTH IT. And that’s the trick.”

“I looked at the stained-glass image of the lamb in the window above me, but that only reminded me that lambs are famous for being led to slaughter, or sometimes hanging out with lions in ill-advised relationships.”

“Goals are the road maps that guide you to your destination.”

“Big things were built out of small things; and it was always in the small things first that principles were compromised away until they were compromised away entirely.”

“Every man hangs by a thread, any minute the abyss may open under his feet, and yet he must go and invent for himself all kinds of troubles and spoil his life.”

“being born a princess is all right, but behaving like one can be dangerous.”

“Your story is yours, every mistake, every heartbreak, every lesson. You don’t need anyone’s approval to tell it or to live it. They may judge, misunderstand, or walk away, and that’s ok, it wasn’t their path to walk. No one felt what you felt, no one carried what you carried. So live your story your way, unapologetically, honestly, and without looking back.”

“Learning was a by-product of her search for pleasure”