Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.
– Anais Nin
Quote – Oscar Wilde
Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
– Oscar Wilde
Quote – Abraham Lincoln
We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses.
– Abraham Lincoln
Quote – Stephen King
You can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.
– Stephen King
Quote – Napoleon Hill
Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.
– Napoleon Hill
Quote – Confucius
The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.
– Confucius
Quote – Harriet Stowe
When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you … never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
– Harriet Beecher Stowe
Quote – F. Scott Fitzgerald
Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
Quote – Salman Rushdie
I repeat for the last time: to understand me, you’ll have to swallow a world.
– Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children
Quote – James Joyce
I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.
– James Joyce
Quote – Salman Rushdie
The only people who see the whole picture,’ he murmured, ‘are the ones who step out of the frame.
– Salman Rushdie, The Ground Beneath Her Feet
Quote – Milan Kundera
The worth of a human being lies in the ability to extend oneself, to go outside oneself, to exist in and for other people.
– Milan Kundera
Quote – Salman Rushdie
Memory’s truth, because memory has its own special kind. It selects, eliminates, alters, exaggerates, minimizes, glorifies, and vilifies also; but in the end it creates its own reality, its heterogeneous but usually coherent version of events; and no sane human being ever trusts someone else’s version more than his own.
– Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children
Quote – Helen Keller
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
– Helen Keller
Quote – Albert Camus
Sometimes carrying on, just carrying on, is the superhuman achievement.
– Albert Camus
Quote – Mark Twain
To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.
– Mark Twain
Quote – Robert Frost
Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can’t, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.
– Robert Frost
Quote – Robert Frost
The best way forward is always through.
– Robert Frost
Quote – Henry David Thoreau
Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.
– Henry David Thoreau
Quote – Buddha
You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
– Buddha
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