Quotes of Mark Van Doren

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To be what no one ever was, to be what everyone has been: Freedom is the mean of those extremes that fence all effort in.

- Mark Van Doren

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“ You have to be the bravest person in the world to go out every day, being yourself when no one likes who you are. ”

- Matthew

“ It’s time to care; it’s time to take responsibility; it’s time to lead; it’s time for a change; it’s time to be true to our greatest self; it’s time to stop blaming others. ”

- Steve Maraboli

“ 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

“ A failure is always in the passenger seat in his or her life. ”

- Stephen Richards

“ The sun shall always rise upon a new day and there shall always be a rose garden within me. Yes, there is a part of me that is broken, but my broken soil gives way to my wild roses. ”

- C. JoyBell C.

“ Your big opportunity may be right where you are now. ”

- Napoleon Hill

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

- Trevor Carss

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

- Wanda E. Brunstetter

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

- Anne Sophie Swetchine

“ A drop of water shall be returned with a burst of spring. ”

- Pat Cher

“ Your environment will eat your goals and plans for breakfast. ”

- Steve Pavlina

“ The more one judges, the less one loves. ”

- Honore de Balzac

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

- Jenny Han

“ If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember that this whole thing was started with a dream and a mouse. ”

- Walt Disney

“ Attitude is a choice. Happiness is a choice. Optimism is a choice. Kindness is a choice. Giving is a choice. Respect is a choice. Whatever choice you make makes you. Choose wisely. ”

- Roy T. Bennett

“ 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

“ Stop hating yourself for everything you aren’t and start loving yourself for everything you already are. ”

- Unknown

“ Remember, darkness does not always equate to evil, just as light does not always bring good. ”

- P.C. Cast

“ After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same language even when they speak the same language? ”

- Russell Hoban

“ Love is blind, they say–but isn’t it more that love makes us see too much? Isn’t it more that love floods our brain with sights and sounds, so that everything looks bigger, brighter, more lovely than ever before? ”

- Susan Fletcher Eve Green

“ The purpose of life is not to be happy—but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you lived at all. ”

- Leo Rosten

“ Where you go, I shall go; where you die, I shall die, and there will I be buried. ”

- Rosamund Hodge

“ A life lived in love will never be dull. ”

- Leo Buscaglia