Quotes of Samuel Johnson

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Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.

- Samuel Johnson

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“ Accepting personal responsibility for your life frees you from outside influences – increases your selfesteem – boosts confidence in your ability to decisions – and ultimately leads to achieve success in life. ”

- Roy T. Bennett

“ Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame. ”

- Henry David Thoreau

“ Tragedy and adversary are the stones we sharpen our swords against so we can fight new battles. ”

- Sherrilyn Kenyon

“ Confusion, obsession, and potential love walk handinhand. ”

- Ashli and Trisha Edwards

“ Tough times never last. Tough people do ”

- Robert Schuller

“ I felt overwhelmed. I didn’t expect a first kiss to be so…life altering. In a few brief moments, the rule book of my universe had been rewritten. Suddenly I was a brand new person. I was as fragile as a newborn, but instead of the doctor placing me in my mother’s arms, he’d put me in Ren’s. What would Ren do with me? Would he draw me near, soothe me, and teach me about this new world or would he reject me and tell the doctor there must be some mistake. There was no way to know. What a breakable and delicate thing a heart was, no wonder I’d kept mine locked away. ”

- Colleen Houck

“ The purpose of life is not to be happy—but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you lived at all. ”

- Leo Rosten

“ Love thy neighbor — and if he happens to be tall, debonair and devastating, it will be that much easier. ”

- Mae West

“ Unless you love someone, nothing else makes sense. ”

- e.e. cummings

“ 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

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

- Suzanne Collins

“ FORGET SWAG, I'VE GOT SHAKARA', ”

- Genereux Philip

“ And these aches in my heart create poetry! ”

- Avijeet Das

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

- Nelson Mandela

“ You must learn to let go. Release the stress. You were never in control anyway. ”

- Steve Maraboli

“ My poetry has been engraved with your name And my heart is by your memory scarred ”

- Zubair Ahsan

“ There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them. ”

- Phyllis Bottome

“ Your environment will eat your goals and plans for breakfast. ”

- Steve Pavlina

“ I can only think about the past, but I can always design the future. ”

- Davin Ferrigon

“ Sometimes the hardest one to see . . .is the one standing right before you. ”

- Lenora Porch

“ If you get tired, learn to rest, not to quit. ”

- Banksy

“ The superior man thinks only of virtue; the common man thinks only of comfort. ”

- Confucius

“ Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, To the last syllable of recorded time; And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more. It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Your heart is a powerful force. Use it consciously. ”

- Amy Leigh Mercree

“ Your love needs no explanation, and their sin does not deserve your revenge. ”

- Praharsh Prasoon