Quotes of Alan Paton

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If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn't concern the central issues, it wouldn't be worth publishing.

- Alan Paton

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“ Those who ignore the rise of evil and depravity in a democracy, grant tacit license of acceptance and draw harm upon the vulnerable. When someone has altered our course without consent, we must engage to restore our path. ”

- RJ Intindola

“ Spend the afternoon, you can't take it with you. ”

- Annie Dillard

“ Where there’s marriage without love, there will be love without marriage. ”

- Benjamin Franklin

“ Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone. ”

- Pablo Picasso

“ An early. morning walk is a blessing for the whole day. ”

- Henry David Thoreau

“ With every rising of the sun, think of your life as just begun. ”

- Unknown

“ Love is the answer. But while you're waiting for the answer, sex brings up some pretty good questions. ”

- Woody Allen

“ And these aches in my heart create poetry! ”

- Avijeet Das

“ Perfect is annoying, boring, and impossible to sustain. Knowing how to translate conscientiousness into something beyond the fleeting satisfaction of “me” toward a “we” mindset is the best move you can make. ”

- Kristen Lee

“ Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame. ”

- Henry David Thoreau

“ I can't make someone stay, but I can make me stay with someone. A successful relationship needs a constant decision to remain committed. ”

- Jeffrey Alcuizar Igot

“ My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right. ”

- Abraham Lincoln

“ Tragedy and adversary are the stones we sharpen our swords against so we can fight new battles. ”

- Sherrilyn Kenyon

“ Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. ”

- Unknown

“ With love comes the risk of losing it. With love comes the risk of getting burnt with it. When love burns, it consumes even the soul. ”

- Jyoti Arora

“ A daily dose of daydreaming heals the heart, soothes the soul, and strengthens the imagination. ”

- Richelle E. Goodrich

“ Better to have, and not need, than to need, and not have. ”

- Franz Kafka

“ The human tendency is to resemble or imitate those we admire; the common result is the delusion, that to emulate another’s personality creates a pseudo persona, measurably dissimilar from our own. ”

- RJ Intindola

“ Anyone who stops learning is old, whether twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing you can do is keep your mind young. ”

- Mark Twain

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

- Eleesha

“ 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

“ Keep your face always toward the sunshine and shadows will fall behind you. ”

- Walt Whitman

“ Willingness to show we are interested in our children’s needs takes the burden and worries off their minds. It shows compassion on our end, and it builds trust on their end. ”

- Charlena E. Jackson