Quotes of Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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“ Hope is a waking dream. ”

- Aristotle

“ There’s only so many variations on the basics of human relationships. To me, it’s all about the detail and how you tell the story. How you say, ‘I love you.’ ”

- K. Flay

“ Is there any positive energy like enthusiasm? ”

- Lailah Gifty Akita

“ Love is like a brick. You can build a house, or you can sink a dead body. ”

- Lady Gaga

“ Anything I ever did for a person was out of love, nobody can ever finesse me. ”

- Genereux Philip

“ The desires of man are frequently more influential than their rational thought. ”

- RJ Intindola

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

- Sherrilyn Kenyon

“ To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best. ”

- William M. Thackery

“ Her footprints are leaving green marks on the desert heart of mine ”

- Ismaaciil C. Ubax

“ Yet there are moments when the walls of the mind grow thin; when nothing is unabsorbed, and I could fancy that we might blow so vast a bubble that the sun might set and rise in it and we might take the blue of midday and the black of midnight and be cast off and escape from here and now. ”

- Virginia Woolf

“ Relationships are like Rome difficult to start out, incredible during the prosperity of the 'golden age', and unbearable during the fall. Then, a new kingdom will come along and the whole process will repeat itself until you come across a kingdom like Egypt... that thrives, and continues to flourish. This kingdom will become your best friend, your soul mate, and your love. ”

- Helen Keller

“ It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not. ”

- Andre Gide

“ Don’t take the high ground and assume you already know what you’ll do. The truth is, when it comes to someone you love, you’ll find there isn’t anything you won’t do. ”

- Richelle Mead

“ Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that. ”

- Martin Luther King Jr.

“ If you fuel your journey on the opinions of others, you are going to run out of gas. ”

- Steve Maraboli

“ A dream comes true through repeated actions. ”

- Lailah Gifty Akita

“ In case you never get a second chance: don't be afraid!" "And what if you do get a second chance?" "You take it! ”

- C. JoyBell C.

“ I felt overwhelmed. I didn’t expect a first kiss to be so…life altering. In a few brief moments, the rule book of my universe had been rewritten. Suddenly I was a brand new person. I was as fragile as a newborn, but instead of the doctor placing me in my mother’s arms, he’d put me in Ren’s. What would Ren do with me? Would he draw me near, soothe me, and teach me about this new world or would he reject me and tell the doctor there must be some mistake. There was no way to know. What a breakable and delicate thing a heart was, no wonder I’d kept mine locked away. ”

- Colleen Houck

“ It was like I’d met my life’s purpose. Like I’d been hurtling through the cosmos, blind, and without a destiny and he gave me one. He was fated to be the man who would break my heart at last. The heart I’d kept under scrutiny, sheltered, for this long, he tore through the heavy vaults and ripped it right out of my chest. From then on, there was no me, and no him. There was only us. ”

- Ellie Fox

“ The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplaceable being. ”

- Tom Robbins

“ When you become the image of your own imagination, it's the most powerful thing you could ever do. ”

- RuPaul

“ Family where life begins & love never ends. ”

- Unknown

“ Do you have to make me feel like there's nothing left of me? You can take everything I have, you can break everything I am, like I am made of glass, like I am made of paper.Go on and try to tear me down I will be rising from the ground like a Skyscraper... ”

- Demi Lovato

“ Love alone could waken love. ”

- Pearl S. Buck