Quotes of Marguerite Yourcenar

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The true birthplace is that wherein for the first time one looks intelligently upon oneself; my first homelands have been books, and to a lesser degree schools.

- Marguerite Yourcenar

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“ Confusion, obsession, and potential love walk handinhand. ”

- Ashli and Trisha Edwards

“ Gratitude is not love. Don’t mix the two because they are not the same. ”

- Frank Matobo

“ If you love me as you say you do,' she whispered, 'make it so that I am at peace. ”

- Leo Tolstoy

“ Many, many readers have written asking me wistfully about the nature of Sam and Grace's relationship, and I can assure you, that sort is absolutely real. Mutual, respectful, enduring love is completely attainable as long as you swear you won't settle for less. ”

- Maggie Stiefvater

“ To touch the soul of another human being is to walk on holy ground. ”

- Stephen Covey

“ Visionary decisionmaking happens at the intersection of intuition and logic. ”

- Gandhi

“ The pillow looked astonished, wondering what ended the late night river that used to run through it, but only he knows that she is the reason ”

- Ismaaciil C. Ubax

“ She was right about something else too," Dimitri said after a long pause. My back was to him, but there was a strange quality to his voice that made me turn around. "What's that?" I asked. "That I do still love you." With that one sentence, everything in the universe changed. ”

- Richelle Mead

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

- Ezra Heft

“ Your big opportunity may be right where you are now. ”

- Napoleon Hill

“ Tough times never last. Tough people do ”

- Robert Schuller

“ 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

“ Love shapes who you are in many ways. Its presence or absence in our youth impacts our adulthood, which impacts our future generations; the cycle has to be restarted somewhere. ”

- Hani Selim

“ Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall. ”

- Confucius

“ When people think they know you and put you in a box, keep growing and give them the box. ”

- Jackie Griffin

“ If you listen more, you will judge less; and when you judge less, you will appreciate differences; and you will be more happy. ”

- JOHN TASKINSOY

“ Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and a richness to life that nothing else can bring. ”

- Oscar Wilde

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

- Leo Buscaglia

“ Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination. ”

- Voltaire

“ Every day is your entire life. ”

- Mike Stagnitta

“ 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

“ I love women, but I feel like you can’t trust some of them. Some of them are liars, you know? Like I was in the park and I met this girl, she was cute and she had a dog. And I went up to her, we started talking. She told me her dog’s name. Then I said, ‘Does he bite?’ She said, ‘No.’ And I said, ‘Oh yeah? Then how does he eat?’ Liar. ”

- Demetri Martin

“ To pay gratitude, sign of generosity. ”

- Shekhar Srivastava

“ Maybe everyone can live beyond what they're capable of. ”

- Markus Zusak

“ Until you step into the unknown, you don’t know what you’re made of. ”

- Roy T. Bennett