Quotes of Maurice Sendak

“ And Max, the king of all wild things, was lonely and wanted to be where someone loved him best of all. ”

- Maurice Sendak

“ A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. Ideas have endurance without death. ”

- John F. Kennedy

“ Drag your thoughts away from your troubles… by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it. ”

- Mark Twain

“ Writing is the knitting of the soul ”

- Khaled Talib

“ Do it big, do it right, and do it with style. ”

- Fried Astaire

“ You are like nobody since I love you. ”

- Pablo Neruda

“ I guess that’s just part of loving people: You have to give things up. Sometimes you even have to give them up. ”

- Lauren Oliver

“ If you are too busy to pray, you are busier than God wants you to be. ”

- Wanda E. Brunstetter

“ Mysteries of attraction could not always be explained through logic. Sometimes the fractures in two separate souls became the very hinges that held them together. ”

- Lisa Kleypas

“ Love is beautiful as written in The Greatest Proposal Book ”

- Khuliso Mamathoni

“ It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not. ”

- Andre Gide

“ It’s time to care; it’s time to take responsibility; it’s time to lead; it’s time for a change; it’s time to be true to our greatest self; it’s time to stop blaming others. ”

- Steve Maraboli

“ Anything I ever did for a person was out of love, nobody can ever finesse me. ”

- Genereux Philip

“ We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire. ”

- Francois De La Rochefoucauld

“ We cannot all do great things, but we can do small things with great love. ”

- Mother Teresa

“ Uncertainty will always be part of the taking charge process. ”

- Harold Geneen

“ This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness. ”

- Dalai Lama

“ Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more. ”

- Erica Jong

“ No matter what you do in life, make sure your juniors are learning something good from you. ”

- Parul Prashar

“ It takes courage to be honest and to work, while others play, cheat, sponge like parasites or are idle. There is value in the work that you choose to do, and you are an innately valuable person. ”

- Zita Steele

“ Meditation is a way for nourishing and blossoming the divinity within you. ”

- Amit Ray

“ Love is blind, they saybut isn't it more that love makes us see too much? Isn't it more that love floods our brain with sights and sounds, so that everything looks bigger, brighter, more lovely than ever before? ”

- Susan Fletcher

“ He didn't realize that love as powerful as your mother's for you leaves its own mark. ”

- J.K. Rowling

“ Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom. ”

- Thomas Jefferson

“ Living with a purpose in life is more fulfilling than living a rich lifestyle without a purpose. ”

- JOHN TASKINSOY

“ Every risk bears with it the seeds of an opportunity: failure success, fall rise, and setback comeback. ”

- JOHN TASKINSOY