Quotes of H. L. Mencken

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Men are the only animals that devote themselves, day in and day out, to making one another unhappy. It is an art like any other. Its virtuosi are called altruists.

- H. L. Mencken

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“ Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. ”

- Mahatma Gandhi

“ Love is blind, they say–but isn’t it more that love makes us see too much? Isn’t it more that love floods our brain with sights and sounds, so that everything looks bigger, brighter, more lovely than ever before? ”

- Susan Fletcher Eve Green

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

- Unknown

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

- Mark Twain

“ Keep your face always toward the sunshine and shadows will fall behind you. ”

- Walt Whitman

“ If every life is a river, then it's little wonder that we do not even notice the changes that occur until we are far out in the darkest sea. One day you look around and nothing is familiar, not even your own face. My name once meant daughter, grandaughter, friend, sister, beloved. Now those words mean only what their letters spell out; Star in the night sky. Truth in the darkness. I have crossed over to a place where I never thought I'd be. I am someone I would have never imagined. A secret. A dream. I am this, body and soul. Burn me. Drown me. Tell me lies. I will still be who I am. ”

- Alice Hoffman

“ A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes. ”

- Robert Frost

“ Be supportive of others the way you would want them to be supportive of you. ”

- Ken Poirot

“ Drunk and alone and hopelessly in love with the idea that someday somehow it might just get better. ”

- Stefanie Sybens

“ You lose nothing when fighting for a cause ... In my mind the losers are those who don't have a cause they care about. ”

- Muhammad Ali

“ Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them. ”

- Paul Hawken

“ Never worry a bit in Life. Always be full of merriment. ”

- sharda sriram

“ Sometimes love means letting go when you want to hold on tighter. ”

- Melissa Marr

“ I do love nothing in the world so well as you is not that strange? ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Find the things that matter, and hold on to them, and fight for them, and refuse to let them go. ”

- Lauren Oliver

“ Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic. ”

- Anais Nin

“ What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us. ”

- Helen Keller

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

- St. Augustine

“ And these aches in my heart create poetry! ”

- Avijeet Das

“ The beautiful thing about love is that you just need to plant it once and nurture it and it shall bloom into blossoms that would cover the valleys. ”

- Hermann J. Steinherr

“ When your only competition is becoming a better you, you will always win the game. ”

- Jackie Griffin

“ If you don't run your own life, somebody else will. ”

- John Atkinson

“ Love is not a feeling of happiness. Love is a willingness to sacrifice. ”

- Michael Novak

“ 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