Quotes of Cicely Tyson

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Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch, what make you go beyond the norm.

- Cicely Tyson

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“ Sometimes, as we're stumbling along in the dark, we hit something good. ”

- Susan Ee

“ It's all a conundrum, isn't it— forgetting the mixed tape in the car... feeling forgotten when... so many people are thinking of us? Drinking when we should be eating... sleeping when we should be making love... thanking God above when we don't have enough? Each day is a mad rush to something irrelevant. We measure our pricelessness by our successes, which... still equals money. Life goes by so quick when each day is a mad rush to slow motion. We eat fast food so that we can go to bed on time, but, trust me, everyone wakes up too late. ”

- Heather Angelika Dooley

“ Battered was my heart in the deep search, branded with cracks like slices of silver birch. An ignorant dream, a wish, just fool's gold that was the tale that love had sold. ”

- Sara Secora

“ You are attracted to the love you didn't receive as a child ”

- Jodi Ann Quarrie

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

- Wendell Berry

“ Changing a Habit is Never Difficult. Difficult is to Address Your Unwillingness to do it ”

- Vineet Raj Kapoor

“ Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new. ”

- Ursula K. Le Guin

“ If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it. ”

- Ernest Hemingway

“ There is real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment ”

- Norman Vincent Peale

“ Nothing that is perfect can be taught ”

- Mike Stagnitta

“ We don’t really care for things that we get easily in life. Life always needs to be served hot. ”

- Subhasis Das

“ If you really want to do something, you'll find a way. If you don't, you'll find an excuse. ”

- Jim Rohn

“ The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion. ”

- Alexander Graham Bell

“ Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery. ”

- Charles Dickens

“ Close your eyes, take your time and listen. ”

- Maxime Lagacé

“ 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

“ Love is like a gold mine, The deeper you dig in your heart, the more love you receive. ”

- Bzam

“ Until you step into the unknown, you don’t know what you’re made of. ”

- Roy T. Bennett

“ Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone. ”

- Pablo Picasso

“ 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 know that the whole point—the only point—is to find the things that matter, and hold on to them, and fight for them, and refuse to let them go. ”

- Lauren Oliver

“ Tragedy and adversary are the stones we sharpen our swords against so we can fight new battles. ”

- Sherrilyn Kenyon

“ Sometimes the hardest one to see . . .is the one standing right before you. ”

- Lenora Porch