Quotes of Anita Brookner

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You have no idea how promising the world begins to look once you have decided to have it all for yourself. And how much healthier your decisions are once they become entirely selfish.

- Anita Brookner

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“ If you are too busy to pray, you are busier than God wants you to be. ”

- Wanda E. Brunstetter

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

- Neal A. Maxwell

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

- Mark Twain

“ If every life is a river, then it's little wonder that we do not even notice the changes that occur until we are far out in the darkest sea. One day you look around and nothing is familiar, not even your own face. My name once meant daughter, grandaughter, friend, sister, beloved. Now those words mean only what their letters spell out; Star in the night sky. Truth in the darkness. I have crossed over to a place where I never thought I'd be. I am someone I would have never imagined. A secret. A dream. I am this, body and soul. Burn me. Drown me. Tell me lies. I will still be who I am. ”

- Alice Hoffman

“ Don't worry when people only bring up your past. It's only because your present and future looks brighter and better than theirs ”

- Kimberking

“ You are attracted to the love you didn't receive as a child ”

- Jodi Ann Quarrie

“ 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

“ If I love you more than you love me, I’m as good as dead. Yet I can’t make myself take it back. I can’t just walk away from you, because every time you pass by me without smiling, without touching my hand, or at least making eye contact, it feels like I’m dying inside. ”

- Rachel Vincent

“ Confidence is how we perceive the manifestation of truth in us. ”

- Mike Stagnitta

“ Don’t marry him. Don’t be with him. Be with me. ”

- Jenny Han

“ 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

“ All for one and one for all. ”

- Alexandre Dumas

“ How many slams in an old screen door? Depends how loud you shut it. How many slices in a bread? Depends how thin you cut it. How much good inside a day? Depends how good you live 'em. How much love inside a friend? Depends how much you give 'em. ”

- Shel Silverstein

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

- Anne Sophie Swetchine

“ Let no one who loves be called unhappy. Even love unreturned has its rainbow. ”

- J. M. Barrie

“ Love isn't a feeling or emotion that changes timely, it's everlasting... ”

- Gandhi

“ The only time a man can do the right thing is right now. ”

- John Verdon

“ You need just the right amount of 'Fuck the world' and the right amount of belief in something...and you need the right amount of love. ”

- Gerard Way

“ The price of your birthday outfits should go costlier with respect to the ages you lived. ”

- Anwesha Mohanty ‘Anny’

“ There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see the toothache in his own humor. ”

- H. L. Mencken

“ The little unremembered acts of kindness and love are the best parts of a person’s life. ”

- William Wordsworth

“ There are many Mondays to go before I die. I may as well look forward to them. ”

- Trevor Carss