Quotes of W. Somerset Maugham

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The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willingly avoids the sight of distress.

- W. Somerset Maugham

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“ I was watching the first raindrops falling down on the porous ground. Each drop disappeared eagerly into the sand without any hesitations. The Earth, in turn, embraced it warmly like it has gotten back something precious that once belonged to it. I, somehow, thought that this particular image suited more our story than anything else ”

- Ismaaciil C. Ubax

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

- Sherrilyn Kenyon

“ I only have so much willpower, Helen," he whispered. "And since you apparently sleep in the most ridiculously transparent tank top I've ever seen, I'm going to have to ask you to get under the covers before I do something stupid. ”

- Josephine Angelini

“ You left the same way you: with 6 duffle bags and your heart intact. ”

- Gandhi

“ Be brave. Don't just live in your cave till your grave. ”

- RVM

“ Live a life of substance. The rest are mere fantasies. ”

- Pragnya Sahoo

“ How many slams in an old screen door? Depends how loud you shut it. How many slices in a bread? Depends how thin you cut it. How much good inside a day? Depends how good you live 'em. How much love inside a friend? Depends how much you give 'em. ”

- Shel Silverstein

“ Whether you know or not, you are the infinite potential of love, peace and joy ”

- Amit Ray

“ 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

“ It takes writing a billion bad words before you get to the good ones. ”

- Ray Bradbury

“ A dream comes true through repeated actions. ”

- Lailah Gifty Akita

“ feeling upset? look up a lover ”

- Arif Naseem

“ The path is paved with consistent, conscious mental and spiritual alertness and the gradual growth of goodness in our heart and clarity in our mind. We are awake. If we keep trying to understand, we will understand. If we keep telling ourselves that we are loved by Life and if we keep looking for evidence of that love, we will find it. ”

- Donna Goddard

“ I would die for you. But I won't live for you. ”

- Stephen Chbosky

“ I think romantic love evolved to enable you to focus your mating energy on just one individual at a time, thereby conserving mating time and energy. ”

- Helen Fisher

“ 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

“ Most people never truly live because they never do what they truly love. ”

- Tanner Walling

“ The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. ”

- Émile Zola

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

- Alexander Graham Bell

“ We werent exactly lovers yet, But we were a little more then friends. We just kept meeting at the wrong time, but our connection never ends. ”

- Nikki Rowe

“ Don’t take the high ground and assume you already know what you’ll do. The truth is, when it comes to someone you love, you’ll find there isn’t anything you won’t do. ”

- Richelle Mead

“ Sometimes you never realize how much you like someone, until you watch them liking someone else. ”

- Unknown

“ Though lovers be lost love shall not. ”

- Dylan Thomas

“ Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back. ”

- Arthur Rubenstein

“ At one time or another we are all called to leave the safety of our homes, the certainty of what we know, the illusions of who we are. Not everyone will heed this call, of course. And those who do will risk losing themselves completely. But if we choose to ignore the invitation, we risk never knowing who we might have become. We risk dying without knowing what it is to live. ”

- Thomas Lloyd Qualls