46 Quotes About Nicholas Spark

Nick Sparks is a well-known author and screenwriter who’s sold more than 50 million copies of his books. He’s also won several awards for his work, including being inducted into the Book of the Month Club Hall of Fame as well as the National Association of Independent Publishers’ Hall of Fame. In 2007, he was awarded the Waukesha County Humanitarian Award for his work with the Boys and Girls Club in Wisconsin. As a widower, he has been married to Danielle Sparks since 1994 Read more

They live in Columbia, Missouri and have four children: sons Nicholas and Andrew, and daughters Sophie and Maggie. Nick founded the relationships education charity Love What Matters, which encourages people to ask whether they love what matters most to them or what matters most to others; and he also works with organizations such as the National Park Foundation, where he serves as a board member. The following are quotes from Nick Sparks' book "A Long Way Home". "There is no such thing as one perfect person." "When you realize there's no such thing as one perfect person, you realize that every person is perfect for you." "Be true to yourself and true to others." "We don't want our kids to become cynical about life." "Even if we don't succeed it will give us something we never had before: the chance to do something we never dreamed we could do." "If we can just be kinder than we were yesterday, we can feel better than we did yesterday." "You don't choose to love someone; you fall in love because it's right." "If you could see yourself as others see you, you'd be beautiful all over." "You can't truly love someone else if you can't truly love yourself..." "Love actually doesn't mean being nice all the time... it means being nice more often than not...

It's not always about being nice... It's about having enough self-confidence to be who you are even when people aren't too happy about it." "We are not defined by our fears...but by our ability to overcome them..." "I know it's hard not to get discouraged when things haven't gone your way lately... but remember that this is all part of life.

There are ups and downs in every relationship..but what matters is that you continue believing in your relationship even when things get tough." "There are two kinds

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The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds. And that's what you've given me. That's what I'd hoped to give you forever Nicholas Sparks
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They didn’t agree on much. In fact, they didn’t agree on anything. They fought all the time and challenged each other ever day. But despite their differences, they had one important thing in common. They were crazy about each other. Nicholas Sparks
My daddy said, that the first time you fall in...
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My daddy said, that the first time you fall in love, it changes you forever and no matter how hard you try, that feeling just never goes away. Nicholas Sparks
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And when her lips met mine, I knew that I could live to be a hundred and visit every country in the world, but nothing would ever compare to that single moment when I first kissed the girl of my dreams and knew that my love would last forever. Nicholas Sparks
If conversation was the lyrics, laughter was the music, making...
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If conversation was the lyrics, laughter was the music, making time spent together a melody that could be replayed over and over without getting stale. Nicholas Sparks
The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the...
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The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it... Nicholas Sparks
Romance is thinking about your significant other, when you are...
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Romance is thinking about your significant other, when you are supposed to be thinking about something else. Nicholas Sparks
She wasnt exactly sure when it happened. Or even when...
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She wasnt exactly sure when it happened. Or even when it started. All she knew for sure was that right here and now, she was falling hard and she could only pray that he was feeling the same way. Nicholas Sparks
How far would you go to keep the hope of...
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How far would you go to keep the hope of love alive? Nicholas Sparks
No matter where it is in the sky... No matter...
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No matter where it is in the sky... No matter where you are in the world... the moon is never bigger than your thumb. -John Nicholas Sparks
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If you simply ignored the feeling, you would never know what might happen, and in many ways that was worse than finding out in the first place. Because if you were wrong, you could go forward in your life without ever looking back over your shoulder and wondering what might have been. Nicholas Sparks
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Deep in her heart, she wasn't sure she deserved to be happy, nor did she believe that she was worthy of someone who seemed...normal. Nicholas Sparks
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Every time I read to her, it was like I was courting her, because sometimes, just sometimes, she would fall in love with me again, just like she had a long time ago. And that's the most wonderful feeling in the world. How many people are ever given that chance? To have someone you love fall in love with you over and over? Nicholas Sparks
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I am lost without you. I am soulless, a drifter without a home, a solitary bird in a flight to nowhere. I am all these things, and I am nothing at all. This, my darling, is my life without you. I long for you to show me how to live again. Nicholas Sparks
I love you now for what we've already shared, and...
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I love you now for what we've already shared, and I love you now in anticipation of all that's to come. Nicholas Sparks
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For a moment, I wondered how different my life would have been had they been my parents, but I shook the thought away. I knew my father had done the best he could, and I had no regrets about the way I'd turned out. Regrets about the journey, maybe, but not the destination. Because however it had happened, I'd somehow ended up eating shrimp in a dingy downtown shack with a girl that I already knew I'd never forget. . Nicholas Sparks
Youth offers the promise of happiness, but life offers the...
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Youth offers the promise of happiness, but life offers the realities of grief. Nicholas Sparks
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Distance can ruin even the best of intentions. But I suppose it depends on how you look at it. Distance just adds a richness you would not otherwise get. People come. People go. They will drift in and out of your life, almost like characters in a favorite book. When you finally close the cover, the characters have told their stories and you start up again with another book, complete with new characters and adventures. Then you find yourself focusing on the new ones. Not the ones from the past. Nicholas Sparks
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Logan stopped and gazed skyward as the kite began to soar above them, and when he clapped his hands at Ben's obvious joy, she was strucked by the simple truth that sometimes the most ordinary things could be made extraordinary, simply by doing them with the right people. Nicholas Sparks
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If pinpointing God's presence were really that simple, then he supposed the beaches would be more crowded in the mornings. They would be filled with people on their own quests, instead of people jogging or walking their dogs or fishing in the surf. Nicholas Sparks
I've never been afraid of them. Not once. Because I...
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I've never been afraid of them. Not once. Because I had you. Nicholas Sparks
As a girl, she had come to believe in the...
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As a girl, she had come to believe in the ideal man -- the prince or knight of her childhood stories. In the real world, however, men like that simply didn't exist. Nicholas Sparks
Marriage is a partnership, not a democracy.
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Marriage is a partnership, not a democracy. Nicholas Sparks
You might not understand, but I gave you the best...
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You might not understand, but I gave you the best of me, and after you left, nothing was ever the same. Nicholas Sparks
EVERYONE MAKES MISTAKES, EVEN THE PERSONS WE LOVE.
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EVERYONE MAKES MISTAKES, EVEN THE PERSONS WE LOVE. Nicholas Sparks
The world is a better place when you smile.
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The world is a better place when you smile. Nicholas Sparks
I mean, if the relationship can't survive the long term,...
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I mean, if the relationship can't survive the long term, why on earth would it be worth my time and energy for the short term? Nicholas Sparks
It hadn't been so long ago, yet sometimes she felt...
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It hadn't been so long ago, yet sometimes she felt that she'd been an altogether different person back then. Nicholas Sparks
Daddy loved his son. Daddy believed his son walked on...
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Daddy loved his son. Daddy believed his son walked on water. Daddy, Mike had long ago decided, was an idiot. Nicholas Sparks
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There are guys who grow up thinking they'll settle down some distant time in the future, and there are guys who are ready for marriage as soon as they meet the right person. The former bore me, mainly because they're pathetic; and the latter, frankly are hard to find. Nicholas Sparks
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Marriage is about compromise; it's about doing something for the other person, even when you don't want to. Nicholas Sparks
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I don't care if your dad is the Sultan of Brunei. You happened to be born into a privileged family. What you do with that truth is completely up to you. I'm here because I want to be with you. But if I didn't, all the money in the world wouldn't have changed my feelings for you. Nicholas Sparks
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...but unlike me, she has a hard time saying such things. She loved me with a passion, but I felt it in her expressions, in her touch, in the tender brush of her lips. And, when I needed it most, she loved me with the written word as well. Nicholas Sparks
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My daddy saidthat the first time you fall in love, it changes you forever and no matter how hard you try, the feeling just never goes away. Nicholas Sparks
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Everyone has a past, but that's just it--it's in the past. You can learn from it, but you can't change it. Nicholas Sparks
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In the end, people should be judged by their actions, since in the end, it was actions that defined everyone. Nicholas Sparks
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I'll think about you every day. Part of me is scared that there will come a time when you don't feel the same way, that you'll somehow forget what we shared, so this is what I want to do. Wherever you are and no matter what's going on in your life, when it's the first night of the full moon-like it was the first time we met- I want you to find it in the nighttime sky. I want you to think about me and the week we shared, because wherever I am and no matter what's going on in my life, that's exactly what I'll be doing. If we can't be together, at least we can share that, and maybe between the two of us, we can make it last forever. Nicholas Sparks
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God, with a wisdom I can't claim to understand, called you home a long time ago, and the tears I shed that night have never seemed to dry. Nicholas Sparks
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I don't hate it here, " she said automatically. Surprising herself, she realized that as much as she'd been trying to convince herself otherwise, she was telling the truth. "It's just that I don't belong here." He gave her a meloncholy smile. "If it's any consolation, when I was growing up, I didn't feel like I belonged here, either. I dreamed about going to New York. But it's strange, because when I finally escaped this place, I ended up missing it more than I thought I would. There's something about the ocean that just calls to me. . Nicholas Sparks
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If there is a heaven we will find each other again, for there is no heaven without you. Nicholas Sparks
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You kissed me yes, But it was not just goodnight even then I could feel the promise in it. The promise that you could kiss me like that forever. Nicholas Sparks
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Even when we were standing in the church and I was getting ready to take my vows, I can remember wishing that you were standing there, instead of him. Because I not only still loved you, but loved you beyond measure. Nicholas Sparks
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It's funny, but have you ever noticed that the more special something is, the more people seem to take it for granted? It's like they think it won't ever change. Just like this house here. All it ever needed was a little attention, and it would never have ended up like this in the first place. Nicholas Sparks
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If we'd never met, I think I would have known my life wasn't complete. And I would have wandered the world in search of you, even if I didn't know who I was looking for Nicholas Sparks
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I love autumn", Emily said to me. "It wins you over with its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay. Nicholas Sparks