Quotes of Anita Brookner

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The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just.

- Anita Brookner

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“ A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes. ”

- Robert Frost

“ Love alone could waken love. ”

- Pearl S. Buck

“ Tough times never last. Tough people do ”

- Robert Schuller

“ I just...I just miss him. And I hate being so alone. ”

- Suzanne Collins

“ She believed she could so she did. ”

- Unknown

“ It takes writing a billion bad words before you get to the good ones. ”

- Ray Bradbury

“ It is time to stop a young woman from being manipulated to break her ass and tear herself down to the core in order to build a man up. Once she builds him up, more than half the time he leaves her to figure out the millionpiece puzzle of life. Wow! It never amazes me how men forget who was there for them when they didn’t have a damn thing to their name. It’s a timeout for that! ”

- Charlena E. Jackson

“ 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

“ An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it. ”

- William Bernbach

“ Is there any positive energy like enthusiasm? ”

- Lailah Gifty Akita

“ The little unremembered acts of kindness and love are the best parts of a person’s life. ”

- William Wordsworth

“ But if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires: To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To know the pain of too much tenderness. To be wounded by your own understanding of love; And to bleed willingly and joyfully. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving; To rest at noon hour and meditate love's ecstasy; To return home at eventide with gratitude; And then to sleep with a prayer for the beloved in your heart and a song of praise on your lips. ”

- Kahlil Gibran

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

- Talismanist Giebra

“ No,' Nora said, almost in a whisper. 'It's because ' she looked carefully for the words 'you didn't stare at me. I saw you blush, and you immediately lowered your eyes. And I should have been embarrassed, ashamed... but I, I just felt safe, and I stood there unafraid.' She closed her eyes, taking in all the feelings of gratitude she had for that moment. 'That's when I knew I could trust you in a way that I didn't know was possible. ”

- Hani Selim

“ ?Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats. ”

- Voltaire

“ What I stand for is what I stand on. ”

- Wendell Berry

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

- Rosamund Hodge

“ A lack of clarity could put the brakes on any journey to success. ”

- Steve Maraboli

“ In school we learn that mistakes are bad, and we are punished for making them. Yet, if you look at the way humans are designed to learn, we learn by making mistakes. We learn to walk by falling down. If we never fell down, we would never walk. ”

- Robert T. Kiyosaki

“ Live every day like it’s your last. ”

- Unknown

“ The evolutionary algorithm of all life on earth is written in this universal language we call love. ”

- Wald Wassermann

“ Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It is never rude or selfish. It does not take offense and is not resentful. Love takes no pleasure in other people’s sins, but delights in the truth. It is always ready to excuse, to trust, to hope, and to endure whatever comes. ”

- Anonymous

“ There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them. ”

- Phyllis Bottome

“ Your heart is a powerful force. Use it consciously. ”

- Amy Leigh Mercree