UNDER THE TUSCAN SUN BOOK QUOTES

“Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumblebee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams.”

“Life offers you a thousand chances… all you have to do is take one.”

“When you think things are bad, when you feel sour and blue, when you start to get mad… you should do what I do! Just tell yourself, Duckie, you’re really quite lucky! Some people are much more… oh, ever so much more… oh, muchly much-much more unlucky than you!”

“You need to live in a rich and diverse culture, you need to be outside because that’s where life is happening.”

“If you want to get out of your rut, you have to get out of pretty much everything.”

“Fear can be good when you’re walking past an alley at night or when you need to check the locks on your doors before you go to bed, but it’s not good when you have a goal and you’re fearful of obstacles.”

“There is no answer — there is only the search.”

“Each town looked to me like the center of the universe – a place where no one had ever been before, and no one had ever left.”

“This was love: a string of coincidences that gathered significance and became miracles.”

“Life offers you a thousand chances… all you have to do is take one.”

“And yet, sometimes I’d find myself lost in longing for someone I knew I could never have. Someone that was still out there, living a life that had nothing to do with mine.”

“One should never underestimate the power of beauty.”

“Just when you think it can’t get any worse, it can. And just when you think it can’t get any better, it can.”

“If there is to be any secret to happiness, this must be it: the ability to find beauty in humble surroundings.”

“Every lover is, in his heart, a madman, and in his intellect, a poet.”

“Why did people talk themselves out of the very things they wanted most?” STRONG AND POSITIVE QUOTES

“I fell into history blindly, blindly accepting whatever they gave me, and I bought something very different from what I’d been shown.”

“It’s amazing how much the heart can mend.”

“Fear is a mean little demon that would eat your soul if you let it.”

“In the end, I convinced myself… I deserved much more.”

“Love does not come when you’re ready, love does not come waiting, love sweeps you off your feet and you’re never the same again.”

“Immobility is the biggest killer of the soul.”

“Someone’s opinion of you does not have to become your reality.”

“Every path can be either a journey or a curse, depending on how we choose to view it.”

“To be reborn, you have to die first.”

“I had arrived at a peace and calm inside myself, realising that you can take care of yourself, and indeed you must, for if I am lost then nobody else can come right into your shoes.”

“You have to chase life full throttle for it to chase you back. You have to know what you are looking for and give everything to find it. And if you fail, you have to get right back up and try again. That is how you find happiness.”

“Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.”

“Being strong doesn’t mean you have to stay and fight all the battles and petty arguments that come your way. Being strong means you don’t have to stay and respond to rude remarks. Don’t retort by throwing insults back at them. It’s what they want. Keep your dignity and don’t lower yourself to their level.”

“Life is too short to wake up with regrets. So love the people who treat you right. Forget about those who don’t. Believe everything happens for a reason. If you get a chance, take it. If it changes your life, let it.”