Quotes of Charles Bukowski

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The less I needed, the better I felt.

- Charles Bukowski

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“ The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink. ”

- T.S. Eliot

“ An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it. ”

- William Bernbach

“ If I had to live my life again, I’d make the same mistakes, only sooner. ”

- Tallulah Bankhead

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

- Talismanist Giebra

“ Love overcomes bitterness, overpowers sorrow, overwhelms anger, and overthrows hatred. Medicine heals the body, faith heals the heart, wisdom heals the mind, and love heals the soul. ”

- Matshona Dhliwayo

“ If you care about someone enough, you’ll always be there for them no matter what. ”

- Roy T. Bennett

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

- Jackie Griffin

“ Each of us is an innkeeper who decides if there is room for Jesus! ”

- Neal A. Maxwell

“ No matter what you do in life, make sure your juniors are learning something good from you. ”

- Parul Prashar

“ Find the things that matter, and hold on to them, and fight for them, and refuse to let them go. ”

- Lauren Oliver

“ Don't be afraid of the shadows, that only means there's a light nearby. ”

- Evanescence

“ Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexations to the spirit. ”

- Max Ehrmann

“ Your best creative assets do not occur unless you do a mental shift. You have to be in a positive frame of mind because inspiration is fleeting. I walk to work for inspiration and to clear my mind. ”

- Ron Ben Israel

“ A successful marriage requires falling in love many times always with the same person. ”

- Mignon McLaughlin

“ It is that we are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so helplessly unhappy as when we have lost our loved object or its love. ”

- Sigmund Freud

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

- Malcolm Forbes

“ Faith is taking the first step even when you can’t see the whole staircase. ”

- Martin Luther King

“ Never run from the truth. It is always there; it never changes – save your energy. ”

- Steve Maraboli

“ Mythology is not a lie, mythology is poetry, it is metaphorical. It has been well said that mythology is the penultimate truthpenultimate because the ultimate cannot be put into words. It is beyond words. Beyond images, beyond that bounding rim of the Buddhist Wheel of Becoming. Mythology pitches the mind beyond that rim, to what can be known but not told. ”

- Joseph Campbell

“ Every risk bears with it the seeds of an opportunity: failure success, fall rise, and setback comeback. ”

- JOHN TASKINSOY

“ Everyday of your life is a another lesson. If you learn the lesson well and apply it; whether positive or negative, you determine what happens in your tomorrow. ”

- David Kofi Awusi

“ My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it. ”

- Mark Twain

“ Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts. ”

- Richard Crawshaw

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

- Mary Weber