Quotes of James Baldwin

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Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck — but, most of all, endurance.

- James Baldwin

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“ Faith is to believe what you do not yet see; the reward for this faith is to see what you believe. ”

- Augustine of Hippo

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

- Kilroy J. Oldster

“ I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. A tree whose hungry mouth is pressed Against the earth's sweet flowing breast; A tree that looks at God all day And lifts her leafy arms to pray; A tree that may in summer wear A nest of robins in her hair; Upon whose bosom snow has lain; Who intimately lives with rain. Poems are made by fools like me, But only God can make a tree. ”

- Joyce Kilmer

“ True love is not so much a matter of romance as it is a matter of anxious concern for the wellbeing of one's companion. ”

- Gordon B. Hinckley

“ Tomorrow I will run more courageously, more outrageously. ”

- Talismanist Giebra

“ I just...I just miss him. And I hate being so alone. ”

- Suzanne Collins

“ I thought it (love) meant like you hold out your hand and someone takes it, holds it hard, and pulls you safe from the river. You talk. You tell him bits of yourself. You say here's where I hurt and you give it to him and he holds it and gives you where he hurts in return and you hold it and that's how you learn to love. ”

- Elizabeth George

“ If ur laptop doesnt smell like fire then ur losing. ”

- Genereux Philip

“ Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly. ”

- Dalai Lama

“ When we go into stillness we can hear our soul’s voice loud and clear. If we speak from our heart we share our soul’s melody with the world. ”

- Christina Goetz

“ Where wild souls meet wild lovers is where hurricanes are made. ”

- ventum

“ Life is tough, darling, but so are you. ”

- Stephanie Bennett Henry

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

- George Edward Woodberry

“ You are attracted to the love you didn't receive as a child ”

- Jodi Ann Quarrie

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

- Winston Churchill

“ It was like I’d met my life’s purpose. Like I’d been hurtling through the cosmos, blind, and without a destiny and he gave me one. He was fated to be the man who would break my heart at last. The heart I’d kept under scrutiny, sheltered, for this long, he tore through the heavy vaults and ripped it right out of my chest. From then on, there was no me, and no him. There was only us. ”

- Ellie Fox

“ Never apologize for burning too brightly or collapsing into yourself every night. That is how galaxies are made. ”

- Tyler Kent White

“ In the waltz of the leaves in the air In the features of the playful clouds In the nostalgia carried by the wind In Paris alone, I save your love (fragment from Your presence “partout”, chapter Hope) ”

- Claudia Pavel

“ I think romantic love evolved to enable you to focus your mating energy on just one individual at a time, thereby conserving mating time and energy. ”

- Helen Fisher

“ I am not an optimist, but a great believer of hope. ”

- Nelson Mandela

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

- Ernest Shackleton

“ If I love you more than you love me, I’m as good as dead. Yet I can’t make myself take it back. I can’t just walk away from you, because every time you pass by me without smiling, without touching my hand, or at least making eye contact, it feels like I’m dying inside. ”

- Rachel Vincent

“ I love you and it’s getting worse. ”

- Joseph E. Morris

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

- John F. Kennedy