Famous Quotes by R.J. Palacio

“Sometimes I think my head is so big because it is so full of dreams”

When given the choice between being right or being kind, choose kind.

You can’t blend in when you were born to stand out.

Courage. Kindness. Friendship. Character. These are the qualities that define us as human beings, and propel us, on occasion, to greatness.

Everyone in the world should get a standing ovation at least once in their life because we all overcometh the world.

The things we do outlast our mortality. The things we do are like monuments that people build to honor heroes after they’ve died.

Sometimes I think my head is so big because it is so full of dreams.

Kinder than is necessary. Because it's not enough to be kind. One should be kinder than needed.

It’s not enough to be friendly. You have to be a friend.

The best way to measure how much you’ve grown isn’t by inches or the number of laps you can now run around the track, or even your grade point average—though those things are important, to be sure. It’s what you’ve done with your time, how you’ve chosen to spend your days, and whom you’ve touched this year. That, to me, is the greatest measure of success.

Sometimes, you don’t have to mean to hurt someone to hurt them.

It's so weird how that happens, how you don’t notice the exact moment something changes. It’s like one day you realize there’s less green in the tree, or how the sky has turned more gray than blue.

You are a wonder.

If every single person in this room made it a rule that wherever you are, whenever you can, you will try to act a little kinder than is necessary—the world really would be a better place.

The universe was not kind to me. But it’s not kind to anyone.

Funny how sometimes you worry a lot about something and it turns out to be nothing.

Don’t try too hard to be cool. It always shows, and that’s uncool.

It's not what you say, it’s what you do that counts.

We carry with us, as human beings, not just the capacity to be kind, but the very choice of kindness.

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

The world is full of amazing things you can discover if you just know where to look.