Quotes of Olaf Stapledon

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That strange blend of the commercial traveller, the missionary and the barbarian conqueror, which was the American abroad.

- Olaf Stapledon

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“ Tomorrow I will run more courageously, more outrageously. ”

- Talismanist Giebra

“ If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut. ”

- Albert Einstein

“ If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it. ”

- William Arthur Ward

“ 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

“ Life is a sheet of blank papers and pen: “We write our life like one made in heaven.” Sadly though, some don’t have the pen with them: “It’s others doing the writing for them. ”

- Rodolfo Martin Vitangcol

“ There are no trips to your past that are free ”

- Michalopoulos Angelos

“ We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire. ”

- Francois De La Rochefoucauld

“ Even when I'm dead, I'll swim through the Earth, like a mermaid of the soil, just to be next to your bones. ”

- Jeffrey McDaniel

“ We always see our worst selves. Our most vulnerable selves. We need someone else to get close enough to tell us we’re wrong. Someone we trust. ”

- David Levithan

“ Do I care about pleasure? Yes. But I don't believe in happiness. ”

- Tatiana Vedenska

“ 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

“ You know her well. People are harder to sum up when you know them well. ”

- Veronica Roth

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

- Amit Kalantri

“ Superhuman effort isn't worth a damn unless it achieves results. ”

- Ernest Shackleton

“ Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything. ”

- Napoleon Hill

“ The superior man thinks only of virtue; the common man thinks only of comfort. ”

- Confucius

“ Life is tough, darling, but so are you. ”

- Stephanie Bennett Henry

“ I held my heart back from positively accepting anything, since I was afraid of another fall, and in this condition of suspense I was being all the more killed. ”

- St. Augustine of Hippo

“ Our children will be counted, and justice will be served. Our babies deserve a fair chance at life. We are our children’s groundbreakers; therefore, we cannot give up. We might run out of breath but we must have the willpower when moving forward to fight for our children’s voices to be heard. Bullying is not accepted ”

- Charlena E. Jackson

“ The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. ”

- Émile Zola

“ At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet. ”

- Plato

“ Armed with positive thoughts, it becomes easier to focus on your goals, while the opposite also holds true. ”

- Stephen Richards

“ I will love you even when I am dust on the wind. ”

- Nalini Singh

“ My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it. ”

- Mark Twain

“ When you know my love, my love will warm you. ”

- Ruby Dee