Quotes of Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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“ I thought it (love) meant like you hold out your hand and someone takes it, holds it hard, and pulls you safe from the river. You talk. You tell him bits of yourself. You say here's where I hurt and you give it to him and he holds it and gives you where he hurts in return and you hold it and that's how you learn to love. ”

- Elizabeth George

“ The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. ”

- Émile Zola

“ To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others. ”

- Anne Sophie Swetchine

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

- Eleesha

“ A failure is always in the passenger seat in his or her life. ”

- Stephen Richards

“ The key to success is not through achievement but through enthusiasm. ”

- Malcolm Forbes

“ 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

“ Do not let your negative thoughts have power over you because those thoughts will end up controlling your life. No one can live a positive life with a negative mind. ”

- Roy T. Bennett

“ Sometimes, as we're stumbling along in the dark, we hit something good. ”

- Susan Ee

“ Sometimes what seems so right turns out wrong and what seems so wrong turns out right. What do I call this phenomenon? Life. ”

- Charles F. Glassman

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

- Chesterton

“ She was rain to a parched desert She was color to a gray sky She was the beautiful butterfly you longed to possess But I let her fly For fear of breaking her wings! ”

- Avijeet Das

“ There is a distinct, awful pain that comes with loving someone more than they love you. ”

- Steve Maraboli

“ Freedom comes from a sense of empowerment. ”

- Amy Leigh Mercree

“ That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much. ”

- Robert Louis Stevenson

“ There are times in life which proves life is wife and wife is life. ”

- Fahad Basheer

“ 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

“ The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience. ”

- Emily Dickinson

“ Take wrong turns. Talk to strangers. Open unmarked doors. And if you see a group of people in a field, go find out what they are doing. Do things without always knowing how they'll turn out. You're curious and smart and bored, and all you see is the choice between working hard and slacking off. There are so many adventures that you miss because you're waiting to think of a plan. To find them, look for tiny interesting choices. And remember that you are always making up the future as you go. ”

- Randall Munroe

“ A good idea always attracts other good ideas. ”

- Patrick Ness

“ 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

“ 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