Quotes of Michael Ondaatje

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The last three books are much more a case of a moment of history, what happened almost by accident or coincidence, like being in the same elevator or lifeboat.

- Michael Ondaatje

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“ Repentance is not at an end, Instead it’s the beginning of how it ends. ”

- Yeth Bisto

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

- Unknown

“ As powerful as your genetic combination is in determining the outcome of your life, your decisions are more powerful. You will ultimately look like your decisions. ”

- Kingsley Opuwari Manuel

“ Finding the lesson behind every adversity will be the one important thing that helps get you through it. ”

- Roy T. Bennett

“ Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great. ”

- Niccolo Machiavelli

“ Perfection does not exist you can always do better and you can always grow. ”

- Les Brown

“ When your only competition is becoming a better you, you will always win the game. ”

- Jackie Griffin

“ Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm. ”

- Winston Churchill

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

- Unknown

“ Society will always be too fragile to accept us for all that makes us beautiful. ”

- robert m drake

“ Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack. ”

- Mary Roberts Rinehart

“ There is the great lesson of 'Beauty and the Beast,' that a thing must be loved before it is lovable. ”

- Chesterton

“ Love comforteth like sunshine after rain. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Our great human adventure is the evolution of consciousness. We are in this life to enlarge the soul, liberate the spirit, and light up the brain. ”

- Tom Robbins

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

- Annie Dillard

“ If you get tired, learn to rest, not to quit. ”

- Banksy

“ The New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't-it just keeps you from enjoying it. ”

- Cleveland Amory

“ As a woman, you are always empowering others and helping people out of their situations. The time has come, and the time is now, for you to take charge of your own journey. It doesn’t matter how young or how old you are. It is time for you to freefall into giving yourself a chance at love, and the first person you should fall in love with is yourself. ”

- Charlena E. Jackson

“ I’ll hold you in my heart, till I can hold you in my arms. ”

- Unknown

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

- Franz Kafka

“ 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

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

- Eleesha

“ The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new. ”

- Socrates

“ Without term limits, some remain in office for decades; as a result, their power increases and they feel entitled, and ignore the people they represent; but do not be fooled that term limits would ultimately change representation, for it’s the ignorance of the populace who continue returning the same people to office. ”

- RJ Intindola

“ Choose being kind over being right, and you’ll be right every time. ”

- Richard Carlson