Quotes of Robert Graves

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About this business of being a gentleman: I paid so heavily for the fourteen years of my gentleman’s education that I feel entitled, now and then, to get some sort of return.

- Robert Graves

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“ Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly. ”

- Dalai Lama

“ I have come from the End of the World. From the River of Dreams, through the gauntlet and the Briar and the Deep Wyld, in order to stand before you today. I have but one request—to take my place at your side. To resume my duty as your knight, and to protect you and your kingdom for as long as I draw breath. ”

- Julie Kagawa

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

- Suzanne Collins

“ It is our wounds that create in us a desire to reach for miracles. The fulfillment of such miracles depends on whether we let our wounds pull us down or lift us up towards our dreams. ”

- Jocelyn Soriano

“ If I love you more than you love me, I’m as good as dead. Yet I can’t make myself take it back. I can’t just walk away from you, because every time you pass by me without smiling, without touching my hand, or at least making eye contact, it feels like I’m dying inside. ”

- Rachel Vincent

“ How can I put the Auras back in the chest?” I asked, terror boiling inside my stomach. “You can’t. Not if those that were or will be struck by them won’t be eager to express their feelings and let you help them. You do not change people, dearie. It’s the people that change themselves. You’re the Guardian, but they’re the bearers,” the Oracle whispered. “I’m no Guardian. I’m doomed!” I said and I knew that this was true. ”

- Victoria Moschou

“ 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

“ Superhuman effort isn't worth a damn unless it achieves results. ”

- Ernest Shackleton

“ Denna is a wild thing," I explained. "Like a hind or a summer storm. If a storm blows down your house, or breaks a tree, you don't say the storm was mean. It was cruel. It acted according to its nature and something unfortunately was hurt. The same is true of Denna. ”

- Patrick Rothfuss

“ It’s only after you’ve stepped outside your comfort zone that you begin to change, grow, and transform. ”

- Roy T. Bennett

“ Education must not simply teach work – it must teach Life. ”

- W. E. B. Du Bois

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

- Karl Lagerfeld

“ Your love needs no explanation, and their sin does not deserve your revenge. ”

- Praharsh Prasoon

“ Don't let him take who you are. Make him fear who you'll become. ”

- Mary Weber

“ Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning. ”

- Albert Einstein

“ The more one judges, the less one loves. ”

- Honore de Balzac

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

- e.e. cummings

“ Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself. ”

- Leo Buscaglia

“ What you meet in another being is the projection of your own level of evolution. ”

- Ram Dass

“ I am convinced that one should tell one's spiritual director if one has a great desire for Communion, for Our Lord does not come from Heaven every day to stay in a golden ciborium; He comes to find another heaven, the heaven of our soul in which He loves to dwell. ”

- St. Therese of Lisieux

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

- John F. Kennedy

“ Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame. ”

- Henry David Thoreau

“ 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

“ To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love. But then one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer; not to love is to suffer; to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be happy one must love or love to suffer or suffer from too much happiness. ”

- Woody Allen