Quotes of W. Somerset Maugham

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The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.

- W. Somerset Maugham

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“ I wonder if you have noticed a rather rummy thing about it viz. that it is everywhere. You can't get away from it. Love, I mean. Wherever you go, there it is, buzzing along in every class of life. Quite remarkable. ”

- P. G. Wodehouse

“ If you want a future that makes you happy, if you want a world that you’re excited about, get your ass out there and earn it. ”

- Tom Bilyeu

“ I love words.  I crave descriptions that overwhelm my imagination with vivid detail.  I dwell on phrases that make my heart thrum.  I cherish expressions that pierce my emotions and force the tears to spill over.   In essence, I long for a writer's soul sealed in ink on the page. ”

- Richelle E. Goodrich

“ Confidence is how we perceive the manifestation of truth in us. ”

- Mike Stagnitta

“ My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it. ”

- Mark Twain

“ Love overcomes bitterness, overpowers sorrow, overwhelms anger, and overthrows hatred. Medicine heals the body, faith heals the heart, wisdom heals the mind, and love heals the soul. ”

- Matshona Dhliwayo

“ Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love. ”

- Mother Teresa

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

- Annie Dillard

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

- J.K. Rowling

“ You are everything I never knew I always wanted. ”

- Fools Rush In

“ Love shapes who you are in many ways. Its presence or absence in our youth impacts our adulthood, which impacts our future generations; the cycle has to be restarted somewhere. ”

- Hani Selim

“ Mythology is not a lie, mythology is poetry, it is metaphorical. It has been well said that mythology is the penultimate truthpenultimate because the ultimate cannot be put into words. It is beyond words. Beyond images, beyond that bounding rim of the Buddhist Wheel of Becoming. Mythology pitches the mind beyond that rim, to what can be known but not told. ”

- Joseph Campbell

“ The little unremembered acts of kindness and love are the best parts of a person’s life. ”

- William Wordsworth

“ Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm. ”

- Winston Churchill

“ How do I say “I miss you” in a way that will make your heart ache as mine does? ”

- Unknown

“ I would die for you. But I won't live for you. ”

- Stephen Chbosky

“ You see, when we set goals that feel safer and achievable, we are caving in to our own preconceived notions of what we are capable of. We’re not pushing past our comfort zone; we’re just settling for status quo. ”

- Ruth Soukup

“ You need just the right amount of 'Fuck the world' and the right amount of belief in something...and you need the right amount of love. ”

- Gerard Way

“ Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through selfgratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. ”

- Helen Keller

“ In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can’t build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery and death. ”

- Anne Frank

“ We're staying together," he promised. "You're not getting away from me. Never again. ”

- Rick Riordan

“ And these aches in my heart create poetry! ”

- Avijeet Das

“ Fake it 'till you make it. ”

- Gayle Forman

“ The love we say we feel for another is, in most cases, just a selfish hunt for our own happiness. ”

- Tatjana Ostojic

“ Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It is never rude or selfish. It does not take offense and is not resentful. Love takes no pleasure in other people’s sins, but delights in the truth. It is always ready to excuse, to trust, to hope, and to endure whatever comes. ”

- Anonymous