Quotes by Authors - Page 5164

Those who have eyes…do not know their happiness.
André Gide
What would a narrative of happiness be like? All that can be described is what prepares it, and then what destroys it.
André Gide
God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
André Gide
The color of truth is grey.
André Gide
Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.
André Gide
Yet I'm sure there's something more to be read in a man. People dare not -- they dare not turn the page. The laws of mimicry -- I call them the laws of fear. People are afraid to find themselves alone, and don't find themselves at all. I hate this moral agoraphobia -- it's the worst kind of cowardice. You can't create something without being alone. But who's trying to create here? What seems different in yourself: that's the one rare thing you possess, the one thing which gives each of us his worth; and that's just what we try to suppress. We imitate. And we claim to love life.
André Gide
You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore
André Gide
Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
André Gide
I do not love men: I love what devours them.
André Gide
The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.
André Gide
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
André Gide
I'm not young enough to know everything.
J.M. Barrie
Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
J.M. Barrie
The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply because they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings.
J.M. Barrie
The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it.
J.M. Barrie
Life is a long lesson in humility.
J.M. Barrie
All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust.
J.M. Barrie
If you have it [love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.
J.M. Barrie
You know that place between sleep and awake, that place where you still remember dreaming? That’s where I’ll always love you. That’s where I’ll be waiting.
J.M. Barrie
To die will be an awfully big adventure.
J.M. Barrie
If you tell people you talk to God, they'll think you're religious, but if you say God talks to you, it's ten to one they'll think you're crazy.
Robert Fulghum
Above all, if what you've done is stupid, but it works, it ain't stupid.
Robert Fulghum
I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.
Robert Fulghum
We're all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness — and call it love — true love.
Robert Fulghum
We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness—and call it love—true love.
Robert Fulghum
You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,Love like you'll never be hurt,Sing like there's nobody listening,And live like it's heaven on earth.
William W. Purkey
What irritated me most in that entire situation was the fact that Iwasn’t feeling humiliated, or annoyed, or even fooled. Betrayal waswhat I felt, my heart broken not just by a guy I was in love with, butalso by, as I once believed, a true friend.
Danka V.
So I placed my heart under lock and key To take some time, and take care of me But I turn around and you're standing here
Deborah Cox
There's a difference between really loving someone and loving the idea of her.
Gillian Flynn
We are asleep until we fall in Love!
Leo Tolstoy
Maybe...you'll fall in love with me all over again.""Hell," I said, "I love you enough now. What do you want to do? Ruin me?""Yes. I want to ruin you.""Good," I said. "That's what I want too.
Ernest Hemingway
It's all right," said Wolf. "You loved her. I would feel the same if someone wanted to erase Scarlet's identity and give it to Levana's army.Scarlet stiffened, heat rushing into her cheeks. He certainly wasn't insinuating . . ."Aaaaw," squealed Iko. "Did Wolf just say that he loves Scarlet? That's so cute!"Scarlet cringed. "He did not--that wasn't--" She balled her fists against her sides. "Can we get back to these soldiers that are being rounded up, please?""Is she blushing? She sounds like she's blushing.""She's blushing," Thorne confirmed, shuffling the cards. "Actually, Wolf is also looking a little flustered--
Marissa Meyer
He was too perfect, despite being one of the most imperfect people I knew.
Richelle Mead
Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.
Nicole Krauss
It does not matter how long you are spending on the earth, how much money you have gathered or how much attention you have received. It is the amount of positive vibration you have radiated in life that matters,
Amit Ray
You picked a lemon, throw it away lemonade is overrated. Freaks should remain at the circus, not in your apartment. You already have one asshole. You don’t need another. Make a space in your life for the glorious things you deserve. Have faith.
Greg Behrendt
I love you, in my mind where my thoughts reside, in my heart where my emotions live, and in my soul where my dreams are born. I love you.
Dee Henderson
If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans.
James Herriot
This is part of what a family is about, not just love. It's knowing that your family will be there watching out for you. Nothing else will give you that. Not money. Not fame. Not work.
Mitch Albom
You made me feel alive again.
Julie Kagawa
Happily ever after, or even just together ever after, is not cheesy,” Wren said. “It’s the noblest, like, the most courageous thing two people can shoot for.
Rainbow Rowell
If I know what love is, it is because of you.
Hermann Hesse
The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image. If in loving them we do not love what they are, but only their potential likeness to ourselves, then we do not love them: we only love the reflection of ourselves we find in them
Thomas Merton
You're asking me to define an abstract concept that no one has managed to explain since time began. You sort of sprang it on me," Gansey said. "Why do we breathe air? Because we love air? Because we don't want to suffocate. Why do we eat? Because we don't want to starve. How do I know I love her? Because I can sleep after I talk to her. Why?
Maggie Stiefvater
Isn't it funny how the memories you cherish before a breakup can become your worst enemies afterwards? The thoughts you loved to think about, the memories you wanted to hold up to the light and view from every angle--it suddenly seems a lot safer to lock them in a box, far from the light of day and throw away the key. It's not an act of bitterness. It's an act if self-preservation. It's not always a bad idea to stay behind the window and look out at life instead, is it?
Ally Condie
One of the things that makes me who I am is the loyalty I have to people I hold close to my heart.
Simone Elkeles
A friend of mine once defined love as finding someone you can talk to late into the night
James Patterson
To be rejected by someone doesn't mean you should also reject yourself or that you should think of yourself as a lesser person. It doesn't mean that nobody will ever love you anymore. Remember that only ONE person has rejected you at the moment, and it only hurt so much because to you, that person's opinion symbolized the opinion of the whole world, of God.
Jocelyn Soriano
Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.
Charles Dickens
The only way love can last a lifetime is if it's unconditional. The truth is this: love is not determined by the one being loved but rather by the one choosing to love.
Stephen Kendrick
I believe in the immeasurable power of love that true love can endure any circumstance and reach across any distance.
Steve Maraboli
I'll find you. There is no place in this world you can hide from me. I'm watching.Love, Dimitri
Richelle Mead
Sometimes two people have to fall apart, to realize how much they need to fall back together.
Colleen Hoover
[H]iding how you really feel and trying to make everyone happy doesn't make you nice, it just makes you a liar.
Jenny O'Connell
Your absence has not taught me to be alone, it merely has shown that when together we cast a single shadow on the wall.
Doug Fetherling
She was the kind of girlfriend God gives you young, so you'll know loss the rest of your life.
Junot Díaz
Someone once wrote that a novel should deliver a series of small astonishments. I get the same thing spending an hour with you.
E. Lockhart
The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.
G.K. Chesterton
Learn to deal with the fact that you are not a perfect person but you are a person that deserves respect and honesty.
Pandora Poikilos
Why is the measure of love loss?
Jeanette Winterson