Quotes of Thomas Carlyle

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A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.

- Thomas Carlyle

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“ The purpose of life is not to be happy—but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you lived at all. ”

- Leo Rosten

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

- Michael Novak

“ Sometimes when I'm alone, I take the pearl from where it lives in my pocket and try to remember the boy with the bread, the strong arms that warded off nightmares on the train, the kisses in the arena. ”

- Suzanne Collins

“ 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

“ To pay gratitude, sign of generosity. ”

- Shekhar Srivastava

“ He made me feel the infinite number of feelings, In which I lost myself. ”

- Luffina Lourduraj

“ 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

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

- Tanner Walling

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

- Michalopoulos Angelos

“ She believed she could so she did. ”

- Unknown

“ 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

“ Your heart is a powerful force. Use it consciously. ”

- Amy Leigh Mercree

“ My sister will die over and over again for the rest of my life. Grief is forever. It doesn't go away; it becomes a part of you, step for step, breath for breath. I will never stop grieving Bailey because I will never stop loving her. That's just how it is. Grief and love are conjoined, you don't get one without the other. All I can do is love her, and love the world, emulate her by living with daring and spirit and joy. ”

- Jandy Nelson

“ Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know. ”

- Michel de Montaigne

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

- Ruby Dee

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

- E. L. Simpson

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

- Suzanne Collins

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

- Melissa Marr

“ And during, I realized that the labels didn’t matter, because when two people feel that sort of pull toward each other, it just works, and the only label that mattered was that I was in love. Totally, fully, ecstatically. ”

- Bill Konigsberg

“ 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

“ The only time we can effect an action is now. So learn from the past, have a vision for your future but act NOW. Today will soon be your past so don’t miss your present. ? ”

- Andrea McGibbon

“ Love is like a brick. You can build a house, or you can sink a dead body. ”

- Lady Gaga

“ Every second that passes is another grain of sand in your hourglass that is gone, forever lost in time. ”

- Nyki Mack

“ Reading is life, Reading is knowledge, Reading Is Everything. ”

- Ezra Heft