Quotes of John Updike

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What art offers is space – a certain breathing room for the spirit.

- John Updike

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“ There is the great lesson of 'Beauty and the Beast,' that a thing must be loved before it is lovable. ”

- Chesterton

“ If you love something so much let it go. If it comes back it was meant to be; if it doesn't it never was ”

- Albert Schweitzer

“ Though lovers be lost love shall not. ”

- Dylan Thomas

“ Do you have to make me feel like there's nothing left of me? You can take everything I have, you can break everything I am, like I am made of glass, like I am made of paper.Go on and try to tear me down I will be rising from the ground like a Skyscraper... ”

- Demi Lovato

“ Being love rather than giving or taking love, is the only thing that provides stability. ”

- Ram Dass

“ Hope is a waking dream. ”

- Aristotle

“ As powerful as your genetic combination is in determining the outcome of your life, your decisions are more powerful. You will ultimately look like your decisions. ”

- Kingsley Opuwari Manuel

“ We don’t really care for things that we get easily in life. Life always needs to be served hot. ”

- Subhasis Das

“ You are successful in my book if you do what you love for a living; you do not owe money to anyone; you have a place what you call home; you have a wife/husband, a girlfriend/boyfriend, or a partner who loves and respects you; and most importantly, you are surrounded by friends and loved ones who stand by you in good and bad days. ”

- JOHN TASKINSOY

“ If you are really broke. You can’t afford giving up. If you can afford giving up. Then that means you are not broke. ”

- De philosopher DJ Kyos

“ Don’t marry him. Don’t be with him. Be with me. ”

- Jenny Han

“ and then I look deep into your eyes and we melt into each other and enjoy that melting, like those things that belong together... (fragment from Passion beneath, chapter Passion) ”

- Claudia Pavel

“ Live your life, no matter what that life is. ”

- Corey Taylor

“ Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence. ”

- Ovid

“ There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them. ”

- Phyllis Bottome

“ 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

“ The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office. ”

- Robert Frost

“ There are four basic human needs; food, sleep, sex and revenge. ”

- Banksy

“ If you fuel your journey on the opinions of others, you are going to run out of gas. ”

- Steve Maraboli

“ A life lived in love will never be dull. ”

- Leo Buscaglia

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

- Leo Buscaglia

“ The road to success is always under construction. ”

- Steve Maraboli

“ 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

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

- Daymond John