Quotes of Chinua Achebe

somelinesforyou_157941877598.jpg

Do not be in a hurry to rush into the pleasures of the world like the young antelope who danced herself lame when the main dance was yet to come.

- Chinua Achebe

Make your own quote image here

Note* For better image experience, you need to upload a desktop layout image, it means horizontal layout, not vertical layout.

“ This new day is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on the yesterdays. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ Warm someone's cheek Whisper Caress Kiss for 10 seconds, or more, or for the rest of your life Be there Love Long Belong Be loyal Be love Be with someone always Belong to yourself ”

- David C. Sarnacki

“ A heart filled with anger has no room for love. ”

- Joan Lunden

“ Mysteries of attraction could not always be explained through logic. Sometimes the fractures in two separate souls became the very hinges that held them together. ”

- Lisa Kleypas

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

- Honore de Balzac

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

- Leo Buscaglia

“ 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

“ About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won't like you at all. ”

- Rita Mae Brown

“ My mama always used to tell me: ‘If you can’t find somethin’ to live for, you best find somethin’ to die for.’ ”

- Tupac Shakur

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

- Roy T. Bennett

“ The art of existence is to find a sensation of spiritual expansion that makes you larger than existence itself. ”

- Talismanist Giebra

“ 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

“ Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something. ”

- Rainbow Rowell

“ This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness. ”

- Dalai Lama

“ How would your life be different if…You stopped allowing other people to dilute or poison your day with their words or opinions? Let today be the day…You stand strong in the truth of your beauty and journey through your day without attachment to the validation of others ”

- Steve Maraboli

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

- Frank Matobo

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

- Michalopoulos Angelos

“ I felt overwhelmed. I didn’t expect a first kiss to be so…life altering. In a few brief moments, the rule book of my universe had been rewritten. Suddenly I was a brand new person. I was as fragile as a newborn, but instead of the doctor placing me in my mother’s arms, he’d put me in Ren’s. What would Ren do with me? Would he draw me near, soothe me, and teach me about this new world or would he reject me and tell the doctor there must be some mistake. There was no way to know. What a breakable and delicate thing a heart was, no wonder I’d kept mine locked away. ”

- Colleen Houck

“ We cannot face up to what lies ahead, without facing up to what lies within. ”

- Eleesha

“ The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why ”

- Mark Twain

“ feeling upset? look up a lover ”

- Arif Naseem

“ Because, if you could love someone, and keep loving them, without being loved back . . . then that love had to be real. It hurt too much to be anything else. ”

- Sarah Cross

“ Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes. ”

- Friedrich Nietzsche

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

- Confucius