Wisdom Words from Alice in Wonderland (Lewis Carroll)
“Alice asked the Cheshire Cat, who was sitting in a tree, “What road do I take?”
The Cat asked, “Where do you want to go?”
“I don’t know,” Alice answered.
“Then,” said the Cat, “it really doesn’t matter, does it?”
- Alice laughed. “There’s no use trying,” she said: “one can’t believe impossible things.”
“I dare say you haven’t had much practice,” said the Queen. “When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”
- “Well, now that we have seen each other,” said the Unicorn, “if you’ll believe in me, I’ll believe in you. Is that a bargain?”
- “Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?” That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,” said the Cat.
“I don’t much care where”- said Alice.
“Then it doesn’t matter which way you go,” said the Cat.
“–so long as I get SOMEWHERE,” Alice added as an explanation.
“Oh, you’re sure to do that,” said the Cat, “if you only walk long enough.”
- “It’s no use going back to yesterday because I was a different person then.”
- “It takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!”
- ‘Who in the world am I?’ Ah, that’s the great puzzle!
- “Begin at the beginning,” the King said, very gravely, “and go on till you come to the end: then stop.”
- “If everybody minded their own business, the world would go around a great deal faster than it does.”
- “have I gone mad?
I am afraid so, but let me tell you something, the best people usually are.”
- “Alice: How long is forever?
White Rabbit: Sometimes, just one second.”
- “I’m afraid I can’t explain myself, sir. Because I am not myself, you see?”
- “If you don’t know where you are going, any road can take you there.”
- “Take some more tea,” the March Hare said to Alice, very earnestly.
“I’ve had nothing yet,” Alice replied in an offended tone, “so I can’t take more.”
“You mean you can’t take less,” said the Hatter: “it’s very easy to take more than nothing.”
- “When I’m a Duchess,” she said to herself (not in a very hopeful tone though), “I won’t have any pepper in my kitchen at all. Soup does very well without. Maybe it’s always pepper that makes people hot-tempered,” she went on, very much pleased at having found out a new kind of rule, “and vinegar that makes them so r- and chamomile that makes them bitter- and barley-sugar and such things that make children sweet-tempered. I only wish people knew that; then they wouldn’t be so stingy about it, you know.”
- “People who don’t think shouldn’t talk”
- “The executioner’s argument was that you couldn’t cut off something’s head unless there was a trunk to sever it from. He’d never done anything like that in his life, and wasn’t going to start now.
The King’s argument was that anything that had a head, could be beheaded, and you weren’t to talk nonsense.
The Queen’s argument was that if something wasn’t done about it in less than no time, she’d have everyone beheaded all round.
It was this last argument that had everyone looking so nervous and uncomfortable.”
- “She generally gave herself very good advice (though she very seldom followed it), and sometimes she scolded herself so severely as to bring tears into her eyes;”
- “Then you should say what you mean,” the March Hare went on.
“I do,” Alice hastily replied; “at least I mean what I say – that’s the same thing, you know.”
“Not the same thing a bit!” said the Hatter. “Why, you might just as well say that ‘I see what I eat’ is the same thing as ‘I eat what I see’!”
“You might just as well say,” added the March Hare, “that ‘I like what I get’ is the same thing as ‘I get what I like’!”
“You might just as well say,” added the Dormouse, which seemed to be talking in its sleep, “that ‘I breathe when I sleep’ is the same thing as ‘I sleep when I breathe’!”
“It is the same thing with you.” said the Hatter,”
INSPIRING QUOTES
- Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it. – Dennis P. Kimbro
- Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. ― Mahatma Gandhi
- Staying positive does not mean that things will turn out okay. Rather it is knowing that you will be okay no matter how things turn out. – unknown
- Free yourself from your past mistakes, by forgiving yourself for what you have done or went through. Every day is another chance to start over. – unknown
- Strength doesn’t come from what you can do. It comes from overcoming the things you once thought you couldn’t. – Rikki Rogers
- Your mind is a powerful thing. When you fill it with positive thoughts, your life will start to change. – unknown
- Your hardest times often lead to the greatest moments of your life. Keep going. Tough situations build strong people in the end. ― Roy T. Bennett
- Being brave isn’t the absence of fear. Being brave is having that fear, but finding a way through it. – Bear Grylls
- There are moments when troubles enter our lives and we can do nothing to avoid them. But they are there for a reason. Only when we have overcome them will we understand why they were there. ― Paulo Coelho
- Don’t be afraid of your fears. They’re not there to scare you. They’re there to let you know that something is worth it. – C. JoyBell C.
- No matter who you are, no matter what you did, no matter where you’ve come from, you can always change and become a better version of yourself. ― Madonna
- You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really start to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, “I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
- Happiness is a choice, not a result. Nothing will make you happy until you choose to be happy. No person will make you happy unless you decide to be happy. Your happiness will not come to you. It can only come from you. – Ralph Harslon
- People lose their enthusiasm and disengage for a variety of reasons. It can be due to boredom, disinterest, rejection, apathy, overwhelm, or exhaustion. Once a person begins to disengage, the tendency can bleed over into other areas of their life and disconnect them from what would actually bring them joy. ― Susan C. Young