Quotes of Thom Gunn

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I don't know how to sit outside myself and test against a hypothetical self who stayed home.

- Thom Gunn

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

- Martin Luther King

“ I marinate my life in gratitude, creativity and love. What about you? ”

- Francis Shenstone

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

- Jackie Griffin

“ Often, we fabricate the people we love to make loving them more palatable; the fictionalized version of them reduces the awareness of truth. ”

- RJ Intindola

“ In meetings philosophy might work, on the field practicality works. ”

- Amit Kalantri

“ Keep away from small people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. ”

- Mark Twain

“ Many, many readers have written asking me wistfully about the nature of Sam and Grace's relationship, and I can assure you, that sort is absolutely real. Mutual, respectful, enduring love is completely attainable as long as you swear you won't settle for less. ”

- Maggie Stiefvater

“ Live a life of substance. The rest are mere fantasies. ”

- Pragnya Sahoo

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

- Gandhi

“ The love we say we feel for another is, in most cases, just a selfish hunt for our own happiness. ”

- Tatjana Ostojic

“ My sister will die over and over again for the rest of my life. Grief is forever. It doesn't go away; it becomes a part of you, step for step, breath for breath. I will never stop grieving Bailey because I will never stop loving her. That's just how it is. Grief and love are conjoined, you don't get one without the other. All I can do is love her, and love the world, emulate her by living with daring and spirit and joy. ”

- Jandy Nelson

“ I don't dream at night, I dream at day, I dream all day; I'm dreaming for living. ”

- Steven Spielberg

“ How do I say “I miss you” in a way that will make your heart ache as mine does? ”

- Unknown

“ 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

“ Love alone could waken love. ”

- Pearl S. Buck

“ Your dream is a reality that is waiting for you to materialize. Today is a new day! Don’t let your history interfere with your destiny! Learn from your past so that it can empower your present and propel you to greatness ”

- Steve Maraboli

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

- Jodi Ann Quarrie

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

- Robert Louis Stevenson

“ Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you. ”

- Chuck Klosterman

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

- Mary Weber

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

- Fahad Basheer

“ Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself. ”

- Leo Buscaglia

“ To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love. But then one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer; not to love is to suffer; to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be happy one must love or love to suffer or suffer from too much happiness. ”

- Woody Allen

“ Every man is a boyfriend. But some people do not have the ability to become husbands. ”

- Sajal Ahmed