Jen Lancaster Quotes

Despising anything that was easy to achieve because if no sacrifice was involved, it obviously isn't worth having.

Life is earnest, art is gay.

The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.

Happiness is reverence for all life.

Friendship is a relationship, friendliness is a state of your being. You are simply friendly; to whom, that is not the point. . .

Your destiny is too great, your assignment too important, your time too valuable. Don't let fear intimidate you.

The questions I would have liked to ask people were: ‘Are you in love? What are you reading?

The born-again Christian sees life not as a blurred , confused, meaningless mass, but as something planned and purposeful.

The world is so great and rich, and life so full of variety, that you can never lack occasions for poems.

In art, a dress is never just a dress; nor in life either.

You are what you believe yourself to be.

A good sketch is better than a long speech.

Life sucks, and then you die.

Yesterday's pain is the Warrior of the Light's strength.

I do not have a psychiatrist and I do not want one, for the simple reason that if he listened to me long enough, he might become disturbed.

Music is the soundtrack to my life.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.

First of all, let us try to know what love is. If love means to possess someone or something, then that is not real love, not pure love. If loves means to give oneself, to become one with everything and everyone, then that is real love. Real love is total oneness with the object loved and with the Possessor of love.

Life in itself is so beautiful that to ask the question of the meaning of life is simply nonsense.

The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection -even though nothing more than the pounding of an old piano -is what alone gives a meaning to our life on this unavailing star.

You were supposed to die. It would have been a good start. (Kessar) I don’t know. I die, you get bored. World ends. Doesn’t really fit, does it? Besides, I can’t make things too easy on you. What’s life without pain? (Sin)

You matter as much as the things that matter to you. And I got so backwards trying to matter to him. All this time, there were real things to care about: real, good people who care about me, and this place. It's so easy to get stuck. You just get caught in being something, being special or cool or whatever, to the point where you don't even know why you need it; you just think you do.

Sleep; and if life was bitter to thee, pardon, If sweet, give thanks; thou hast no more to live; And to give thanks is good, and to forgive.

Stories don’t always have happy endings.