Quotes of George MacDonald

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You can't live on amusement. It is the froth on water — an inch deep and then the mud.

- George MacDonald

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“ The purpose of life is to love, the purpose of love is to live. ”

- Matshona Dhliwayo

“ A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided. ”

- Anthony Robbins

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

- Veronica Roth

“ Isn't it strange how we all start as strangers? Fall in love, share infinities, hurt each other, fall out of love to eventually end as the strangers we once were? ”

- Fiphie

“ 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

“ 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

“ I find it odd the greed of mankind. People only like you for as long as they perceive they can get what they want from you. Or for as long as they perceive you are who they want you to be. But I like people for all of their changing surprises, the thoughts in their heads, the warmth that changes to cold and the cold that changes to warmth... for being human. The rawness of being human delights me. ”

- C. JoyBell C.

“ All my problems bow before my stubbornness. ”

- Amit Kalantri

“ When someone beats a rug, the blows are not against the rug, but against the dust in it. ”

- Gandhi

“ My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style. ”

- Maya Angelou

“ Perfect love casts out fear. Where there is love there are no demands, no expectations, no dependency. I do not demand that you make me happy; my happiness does not lie in you. If you were to leave me, I will not feel sorry for myself; I enjoy your company immensely, but I do not cling. ”

- Anthony de Mello

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

- Unknown

“ Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexations to the spirit. ”

- Max Ehrmann

“ You can't stop dreaming just because the night never seems to end. ”

- Curtis Tyrone Jones

“ Each of us is an innkeeper who decides if there is room for Jesus! ”

- Neal A. Maxwell

“ True love is not so much a matter of romance as it is a matter of anxious concern for the wellbeing of one's companion. ”

- Gordon B. Hinckley

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

- Trevor Carss

“ One rarely falls in love without being as much attracted to what is interestingly wrong with someone as what is objectively healthy. ”

- Alain de Botton

“ If you have kindness in your heart, you offer acts of kindness to touch the hearts of others wherever you go—whether they are random or planned. Kindness becomes a way of life. ”

- Roy T. Bennett

“ I guess that’s just part of loving people: You have to give things up. Sometimes you even have to give them up. ”

- Lauren Oliver

“ Pet names are a persistant remnant of childhood, a reminder that life is not always so serious, so formal, so complicated. They are a reminder, too, that one is not all things to all people. ”

- Jhumpa Lahiri

“ I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. A tree whose hungry mouth is pressed Against the earth's sweet flowing breast; A tree that looks at God all day And lifts her leafy arms to pray; A tree that may in summer wear A nest of robins in her hair; Upon whose bosom snow has lain; Who intimately lives with rain. Poems are made by fools like me, But only God can make a tree. ”

- Joyce Kilmer

“ Because, if you could love someone, and keep loving them, without being loved back . . . then that love had to be real. It hurt too much to be anything else. ”

- Sarah Cross