Quotes of Joyce Carol Oates

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We inhabit ourselves without valuing ourselves, unable to see that here, now, this very moment is sacred; but once it's gone — its value is incontestable.

- Joyce Carol Oates

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“ My love for you does not recognize boundaries, distances, borders, or timezones! ”

- Avijeet Das

“ Music is love, love is music, music is life, and I love my life. Thank you and good night. ”

- A. J. McLean

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

- Zubair Ahsan

“ The art of existence is to find a sensation of spiritual expansion that makes you larger than existence itself. ”

- Talismanist Giebra

“ I never want to change so much that people can't recognize me. ”

- Taylor Swift

“ My mama always used to tell me: ‘If you can’t find somethin’ to live for, you best find somethin’ to die for.’ ”

- Tupac Shakur

“ Your dream is a reality that is waiting for you to materialize. Today is a new day! Don’t let your history interfere with your destiny! Learn from your past so that it can empower your present and propel you to greatness ”

- Steve Maraboli

“ ...most of the time, all you have is the moment, and the imperfect love of the people around you. ”

- Anne Lamott

“ and then I look deep into your eyes and we melt into each other and enjoy that melting, like those things that belong together... (fragment from Passion beneath, chapter Passion) ”

- Claudia Pavel

“ Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence. ”

- Ovid

“ Numbers by popular consensus don’t make a wrong thing right, and if you are misunderstood for being right, don’t be afraid because they are not yet in the right time zone. ”

- Erwin D. Maramat

“ 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

“ 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

“ She was right about something else too," Dimitri said after a long pause. My back was to him, but there was a strange quality to his voice that made me turn around. "What's that?" I asked. "That I do still love you." With that one sentence, everything in the universe changed. ”

- Richelle Mead

“ Always go with the choice that scares you the most, because that’s the one that is going to help you grow. ”

- Unknown

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

- Winston Churchill

“ Everyone's time is limited. What matters most is to focus on what matters most. ”

- Roy Bennett

“ There is more to sex appeal than just measurements. I don’t need a bedroom to prove my womanliness. I can convey just as much sex appeal, picking apples off a tree or standing in the rain. ”

- Audrey Hepburn

“ Gratitude is not love. Don’t mix the two because they are not the same. ”

- Frank Matobo

“ Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all. ”

- St. Augustine

“ My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right. ”

- Abraham Lincoln

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

- Suzanne Collins

“ I will be generous with my love today. I will sprinkle compliments and uplifting words everywhere I go. I will do this knowing that my words are like seeds and when they fall on fertile soil, a reflection of those seeds will grow into something greater. ”

- Steve Maraboli

“ 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 no one who loves be called unhappy. Even love unreturned has its rainbow. ”

- J. M. Barrie