Quotes of J. M. Coetzee

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In the whole wretched business there was something generous that was doing its best to flower.

- J. M. Coetzee

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“ At the beginning, you need no support other than your pen and paper to write down the ideas that your brain is ready to supply you at any given time. ”

- Godspower Oparaugo

“ 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

“ Keep in mind that three months worth of sowing equals three months of reaping at harvest, Remember not to stop sowing your fields in all ways in life after the first three months as its easy to feel good and live off of the fields already sowed but like a meat grinder the stock will eventually run out ”

- James D Wilson

“ 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

“ What I stand for is what I stand on. ”

- Wendell Berry

“ We accept some black people, receive some white people, embrace some Asian people, and welcome some mixed people, but God commands us to love all people. ”

- Matshona Dhliwayo

“ Sometimes, change is what we need to retain our sanity. ”

- Life

“ You don't need a million dollars in the bank. You just have to have passion, hustle and drive ”

- Daymond John

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

- J. M. Barrie

“ The only love that I really believe in is a mother’s love for her children. ”

- Karl Lagerfeld

“ Uncertainty will always be part of the taking charge process. ”

- Harold Geneen

“ And out of Tristan's heart there grew a hazel tree, and out of Iseult's a honeysuckle, and they arched together and clung and intertwined so that they could never be separated anymore. ”

- Rosemary Sutcliff

“ Writing is the knitting of the soul ”

- Khaled Talib

“ Now, I return to this young fellow. And the communication I have got to make is, that he has great expectations. ”

- Charles Dickens

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

- Mark Twain

“ Nothing can bring a real sense of security into the home except true love. ”

- Billy Graham

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

- e.e. cummings

“ 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

“ It is time to stop a young woman from being manipulated to break her ass and tear herself down to the core in order to build a man up. Once she builds him up, more than half the time he leaves her to figure out the millionpiece puzzle of life. Wow! It never amazes me how men forget who was there for them when they didn’t have a damn thing to their name. It’s a timeout for that! ”

- Charlena E. Jackson

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

- John F. Kennedy

“ When things do not go your way, remember that every challenge — every adversity — contains within it the seeds of opportunity and growth. ”

- Roy T. Bennett

“ Sometimes the best of gods gift's arrive by the shattering of all the window panes. ”

- Paulo Coelho

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

- William Shakespeare