Life Quotes Quote by Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.”

“Atticus had said it was the polite thing to talk to people about what they were interested in, not about what you were interested in.”

“With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable.”

“You see they could never, never understand that I live like I do because that's the way I want to live.”

““Oh threats of Hell and Hopes of Paradise!”

“There are things so deep and complex that only intuition can reach it in our stage of development as human beings.”

“Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.”

“Oh, something is there, waiting for me. Perhaps someday the revelation will burst in upon me and I will see the other side of this monumental grotesque joke. And then I'll laugh. And then I'll know what life is.”

“At the beginning of our life, we may feel bare and helpless and gradually adorn ourselves with the most fanciful trappings, trying to be ‘someone else’. After erring and drifting, we eventually realize we want to discover ‘ourselves’, without any airbrushing, so as to meet our real self and not the one imposed on us. ("Lost the global story.")”

“All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair.”