Sophie Kinsella Quotes

To consider oneself different from ordinary men is wrong, but it is right to hope that one will not remain like ordinary men.

We are all worms. But I believe that I am a glow-worm.

I had a strong conviction that there was something out there in the world that was wonderful.

Perhaps the only difference between me and other people is that Ive always demanded more from the sunset.

As time passed and he grew to know people better, he began to think of himself as an extraordinary man, one set apart from his fellows. He wanted terribly to make his life a thing of great importance, and as he looked about at his fellow men and saw how like clods they lived it seemed to him that he could not bear to become also such a clod.

Self-realization is a comedown from salvation, but still gives us something to hope for.

I always thought I was different.

We are better than we think and not yet what we want to be.

I tell people that I'm not necessarily any good, it's just that there is nobody like me. I just promise you will not be bored.

It's alright, just wait and see, your string of lights is still bright to me. Who you are is not where you've been. You're still an innocent. It's okay life is a tough crowd, 32 is still growing up now.

Dream big, my friend, and never give up. We all make mistakes, but none of us are mistakes. Take one day at a time. Embrace the positive attitudes, perspectives, principles and truths I share, and you, too, will overcome.

I do not choose to be a common man.

When you realize no one else on this earth can be like you... that no other soul may know the beauty, sorrow, light and darkness you alone are given to see... then you will, at last, be the fearless individual your Heart of hearts has called you to be.

What you want, what you're hanging around in the world waiting for, is for something to occur to you.

Everything that is done in the world is done by hope. No merchant or tradesman would set himself to work if he did not hope to reap benefit thereby.

God is busy making you someone no one else has ever been.

Do you say that tree isn't pretty cause it doesn't look like that tree? We're all trees. You're a tree. I'm a tree. You've got to love your body, Eve. You've got to love your tree. Love your tree. (Leah)

Those that hope little cannot grow much.

I suspect the truth is that we are waiting, all of us, against insurmountable odds, for something extraordinary to happen to us.

A man of my acquaintance once wrote a poem called "The Road Less Traveled", describing a journey he took through the woods along a path most travelers never used. The poet found that the road less traveled was peaceful but quite lonely, and he was probably a bit nervous as he went along, because if anything happened on the road less traveled, the other travelers would be on the road more frequently traveled and so couldn't hear him as he cried for help. Sure enough, that poet is dead.

Our individuality is all, all, that we have. There are those who barter it for security, those who repress it for what they believe is the betterment of the whole society, but blessed in the twinkle of the morning star is the one who nurtures it and rides it in, in grace and love and wit, from peculiar station to peculiar station along life's bittersweet route.

Hope is desire and expectation rolled into one.

To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect

No one is perfect and everyone is different, but everyone one is beautiful in their own way and that's what makes us special.For me, it went beyond being a beauty queen. For me, it was about being the 20-year-old girl from India on international platform and a lot of people actually would assume that I wasn't even educated in India because of the way I'd speak.

I'm a pessimist about probabilities, I'm an optimist about possibilities.