Quotes of Alice B. Toklas

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This has been a most wonderful evening. Gertrude has said things tonight it will take her 10 years to understand.

- Alice B. Toklas

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“ If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people. ”

- Confucius

“ I keep thinking about this river somewhere, with the water moving really fast. And these two people in the water, trying to hold onto each other, holding on as hard as they can, but in the end it’s just too much. The current’s too strong. They’ve got to let go, drift apart. ”

- Kazuo Ishiguro

“ I find it odd the greed of mankind. People only like you for as long as they perceive they can get what they want from you. Or for as long as they perceive you are who they want you to be. But I like people for all of their changing surprises, the thoughts in their heads, the warmth that changes to cold and the cold that changes to warmth... for being human. The rawness of being human delights me. ”

- C. JoyBell C.

“ Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something. ”

- Rainbow Rowell

“ The sun shall always rise upon a new day and there shall always be a rose garden within me. Yes, there is a part of me that is broken, but my broken soil gives way to my wild roses. ”

- C. JoyBell C.

“ And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about. ”

- Haruki Murakami

“ Where there’s marriage without love, there will be love without marriage. ”

- Benjamin Franklin

“ Perfection does not exist you can always do better and you can always grow. ”

- Les Brown

“ Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure. ”

- George Edward Woodberry

“ Most people never truly live because they never do what they truly love. ”

- Tanner Walling

“ It’s only after you’ve stepped outside your comfort zone that you begin to change, grow, and transform. ”

- Roy T. Bennett

“ If you grow it, they will cum. ”

- THIGHBRUSH

“ When you love someone, you say their name different. Like it's safe inside your mouth. ”

- Jodi Picoult

“ Spend the afternoon, you can't take it with you. ”

- Annie Dillard

“ I love my attitude problem. ”

- Unknown

“ 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

“ Pet names are a persistant remnant of childhood, a reminder that life is not always so serious, so formal, so complicated. They are a reminder, too, that one is not all things to all people. ”

- Jhumpa Lahiri

“ Superhuman effort isn't worth a damn unless it achieves results. ”

- Ernest Shackleton

“ Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great. ”

- Niccolo Machiavelli

“ 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

“ If you are really broke. You can’t afford giving up. If you can afford giving up. Then that means you are not broke. ”

- De philosopher DJ Kyos

“ At the beginning, you need no support other than your pen and paper to write down the ideas that your brain is ready to supply you at any given time. ”

- Godspower Oparaugo

“ Love is a panacea for a wound that never stops weeping. ”

- Kilroy J. Oldster

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

- J.K. Rowling