Quotes of Nicolas Chamfort

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The only thing that stops God sending a second Flood is that the first one was useless.

- Nicolas Chamfort

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“ If you are depressed, you are living in the past. If you are anxious, you are living in the future. If you are at peace, you are living in the present ”

- Lao tzu

“ There are no trips to your past that are free ”

- Michalopoulos Angelos

“ Because, if you could love someone, and keep loving them, without being loved back . . . then that love had to be real. It hurt too much to be anything else. ”

- Sarah Cross

“ We are mathematical equations where your life is the sum of all choices you've made until now. The good news is you can change the equation so that you start making a difference in your life. ”

- Steve Maraboli

“ In love, trust is a tonic and suspicion is a poison. ”

- Abhijit Naskar

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

- George Edward Woodberry

“ Education must not simply teach work – it must teach Life. ”

- W. E. B. Du Bois

“ 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

“ The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplaceable being. ”

- Tom Robbins

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

- Winston Churchill

“ When you know my love, my love will warm you. ”

- Ruby Dee

“ When I was a little girl I used to read fairy tales. In fairy tales you meet Prince Charming and he's everything you ever wanted. In fairy tales the bad guy is very easy to spot. The bad guy is always wearing a black cape so you always know who he is. Then you grow up and you realize that Prince Charming is not as easy to find as you thought. You realize the bad guy is not wearing a black cape and he's not easy to spot; he's really funny, and he makes you laugh, and he has perfect hair. ”

- Taylor Swift

“ The gospel is this: We are more sinful and flawed in ourselves than we ever dared believe, yet at the very same time we are more loved and accepted in Jesus Christ than we ever dared hope. ”

- Timothy Keller

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

- Andre Gide

“ As an African elite, look within and ask, what can I do to change the present African narratives? What niche can I carve and do my uncompromising best to lift this continent? For my sake and for the sake of my children Jumoke Odepe ”

- Jumoke Odepe

“ We cannot have a world where everyone is a victim. "I'm this way because my father made me this way. I'm this way because my husband made me this way." Yes, we are indeed formed by traumas that happen to us. But then you must take charge, you must take over, you are responsible. ”

- Camille Paglia

“ The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion. ”

- Alexander Graham Bell

“ Until you step into the unknown, you don’t know what you’re made of. ”

- Roy T. Bennett

“ One rarely falls in love without being as much attracted to what is interestingly wrong with someone as what is objectively healthy. ”

- Alain de Botton

“ Art is in the act, not the product. Products simply provide a means to continue the process, a loan of sorts from the buyer. Now the Art is in the hands of the buyer who transforms a simple act as a gift of time to the artist. I for one can not say which is more beautiful. ”

- Vic Stah Milien

“ Getting an idea should be like sitting down on a pin. It should make you jump up and do something. ”

- E. L. Simpson

“ It's all a conundrum, isn't it— forgetting the mixed tape in the car... feeling forgotten when... so many people are thinking of us? Drinking when we should be eating... sleeping when we should be making love... thanking God above when we don't have enough? Each day is a mad rush to something irrelevant. We measure our pricelessness by our successes, which... still equals money. Life goes by so quick when each day is a mad rush to slow motion. We eat fast food so that we can go to bed on time, but, trust me, everyone wakes up too late. ”

- Heather Angelika Dooley

“ Buy a pup and your money will buy Love unflinching that cannot lie. ”

- Rudyard Kipling

“ Damn right you are. Tinley, you know I love you, and I want nothing but the best for you. But you are only as capable as you believe you are. I know you could do anything you want to in this world, but you have to want it and tell yourself you can actually do it. Stop second guessing yourself and let yourself live. Truly live. ”

- Alexandria Bishop

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

- Mae West