Cecelia Ahern Quotes

To be really happy, we must throw our hearts over the bar and hope that our bodies will follow.

It's embarrassing to go through any rebellious stage in front of people that you love and respect, and yet I'm glad I did.

President Obama's election has taught us to stop being paralyzed by excuses and given us a floodgate of hope. I'm more daring and going after things that I once thought were not possible.

I'm afraid of only two things: being lazy and being cowardly. I get up early in the morning and go to work. I love to write.

I love those who yearn for the impossible.

And you must dare to do as many things as you dream of.

A dream is what makes people love life even when it is painful.

Fain would I climb, yet fear I to fall.

We are built to love. Have the bravery to open the heart you have contracted from life's disappointments. This is how the heroes roll.

Try everything with an open heart, looking to fall in love.

Don't be afraid to have dreams.

My first passion was to create for young girls the idea that you have to be brave and courageous, it's not easy taking big steps and saying, 'I'm going to be a professional dancer'.

Don't be afraid to admit what your dreams are.

Don't be afraid to step through some of that uncertainty that you might feel when you're passionate about doing something.

He [the writer] must, teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid; and, teaching himself that, forget it forever, leaving no room in his workshop for anything but the old verities and truths of the heart, the old universal truths lacking which any story is ephemeral and doomed - love and honor and pity and compassion and sacrifice. See Poets & Writers

There are people who put their dreams in a little box and say, 'Yes, I've got dreams, of course I've got dreams.' Then they put the box away and bring it out once in awhile to look in it, and yep, they're still there. These are great dreams, but they never even get out of the box. It takes an uncommon amount of guts to put your dreams on the line, to hold them up and say, 'How good or how bad am I?' That's where courage comes in.

Never give up. There is always hope, there is always life. You've just gotta open your heart to it. Live in love.

I know I can do so much more than this, I know that I could be a life force, could love with a heart full of soul, could feel with the power that flies men to the moon. I know that if I could just get out from under this depression, there is so much I could do besides cry in front of the TV on a Saturday night.

Daring to dream means daring to live.

I'm not afraid to live. I'm not afraid to fail. I'm not afraid to succeed. I'm not afraid to fall in love. I'm not afraid to be alone. I'm just afraid I might have to stop talking about myself for five minutes.

They only can shoot a body but they cannot shoot my dreams.

Love is selflessness and self-fullness; it can only be known deeply with an open, vulnerable heart.

It took a long time, but my heart now feels full when I think of him. When you fall in love again—which I have—it's funny the other things that come back in with that open-ness. You have this ghost chorus of the lovers who came before, but they're benign now, they're good spirits.

We should not let our fears hold us back from pursuing our hopes.