Lauren Oliver Quotes

Pay attention, don't let life go by you. Fall in love with the back of your cereal box.

Anything one does every day is important and imposing and anywhere one lives is interesting and beautiful.

It's the imperfections that make something beautiful, that's what makes it different and unique from everything else.

That's important to me, to find the extraordinary inside the ordinary.

I think what I like to do is to begin with the ordinary and find the extraordinary in it.

At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough. No record of it needs to be kept and you don't need someone to share it with or tell it to. When that happens — that letting go — you let go because you can.

Nature didn't need an operation to be beautiful. It just was.

Your imperfections make you beautiful, they make you who you are.

I believe, every day, you should have at least one exquisite moment.

The process is the most beautiful part.

In the middle of it all, pause and look around you. Appreciate what’s beautiful. Take in the love. Nod to what’s good and true. And then move forward one step at a time.

... every time you look at the world and the people in it closely, lovingly, imaginatively, it changes you. The world, under the microscope of your attention, opens up like a beautiful, strange flower and gives itself back to you in ways you could never imagine.

How beautiful the world was when one looked at it, without searching... just looked, simply and innocently.

There's a feeling that feels like what I've been told is love. It has to do with what Louis Schwartzberg said today about beauty, love, whether it's squirrels outside my door, the rabbits, or the birds. They're not trying to impress me or anything, and me watching them isn't getting me or advancing me in anything. It's just beautiful. When I think of the relationship I'm in, there's a feeling that comes over me sometimes.

Tea ceremony is a way of worshipping the beautiful and the simple. All one's efforts are concentrated on trying to achieve perfection through the imperfect gestures of daily life. Its beauty consists in the respect with which it is performed. If a mere cup of tea can bring us closer to God, we should watch out for all the other dozens of opportunities that each ordinary day offers us.

The more you mature, you realize that this imperfections make your more beautiful.

You can remember times when you were a kid, when life looked too doggoned deliciously beautiful to be left alone. So you could feel like that again if you worked at it.

It is only framed in space that beauty blooms; only in space are events, and objects and people unique and significant and therefore beautiful.

The whole of the life -- even the hard -- is made up of the minute parts, and if I miss the infinitesimals, I miss the whole. These are new language lessons, and I live them out. There is a way to live the big of giving thanks in all things. It is this: to give thanks in this one small thing. The moments will add up.

Everything is beautiful in its own way.

Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.

True wisdom consists in respecting the simple things we do

If you don't look at things through your concepts, you'll never be bored. Every single thing is unique.

What I have always loved most in men is imperfection. I get moved by the wrinkles on the throat of a man. It makes me love him more. I think it is sad that more women don't take the chance that maybe men will be moved by seeing the chin a little less firm than it used to be, that a man will be more in love with his wife because he remembers who she was and sees who she is and thinks, God, isn't that lovely that this happened to her. And be moved by life telling its story there.

In this world, the greatest courage is to drop the mind aside. The bravest man is who can see the world without the barrier of the mind, just as it is. It is tremendously different, utterly beautiful. There is nobody who is inferior and there is nobody who is superior - there are no distinctions.