Quotes of John Updike

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What art offers is space – a certain breathing room for the spirit.

- John Updike

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“ 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 can never plan the future by the past. ”

- Edmund Burke

“ The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why ”

- Mark Twain

“ When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you. ”

- Plato

“ Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option. ”

- Maya Angelou

“ Most people never truly live because they never do what they truly love. ”

- Tanner Walling

“ Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. ”

- Unknown

“ The past can't hurt you anymore. Not unless you let it. They made you into a victim, Evey. They made you into a statistic. But, that's not the real you. That's not who you are inside. ”

- Alan Moore

“ Woman is a delicate creature with strong emotions who has been created by the Almighty God to shoulder responsibility for educating society and moving toward perfection. God created woman as symbol of His own beauty and to give solace to her partner and her family. ”

- Ali Ibn Abi Talib A.S

“ 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

“ You have to be the bravest person in the world to go out every day, being yourself when no one likes who you are. ”

- Matthew

“ A successful marriage requires falling in love many times always with the same person. ”

- Mignon McLaughlin

“ 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.

“ And these aches in my heart create poetry! ”

- Avijeet Das

“ Love is blind, they saybut isn't it more that love makes us see too much? Isn't it more that love floods our brain with sights and sounds, so that everything looks bigger, brighter, more lovely than ever before? ”

- Susan Fletcher

“ He made me feel the infinite number of feelings, In which I lost myself. ”

- Luffina Lourduraj

“ 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

“ Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know. ”

- Michel de Montaigne

“ If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there’d be peace. ”

- John Lennon

“ The path is paved with consistent, conscious mental and spiritual alertness and the gradual growth of goodness in our heart and clarity in our mind. We are awake. If we keep trying to understand, we will understand. If we keep telling ourselves that we are loved by Life and if we keep looking for evidence of that love, we will find it. ”

- Donna Goddard

“ It’s not bragging if you can back it up. ”

- Muhammad Ali

“ An early. morning walk is a blessing for the whole day. ”

- Henry David Thoreau

“ Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself. ”

- Leo Buscaglia

“ To lovers out there… We love and what when we cannot love anymore. We Leave. We don’t fight, abuse, Violet, Beat, Bruise, Emotional drained and blackmail, Rape, Kill, Poison, Hurt, distress, torment , lie about other person to destroy their reputation and to hurt them back. We leave the ones that hurt and that don’t appreciate us to find better ones that we will love and they will love us back ”

- De philosopher DJ Kyos

“ Buy a pup and your money will buy Love unflinching that cannot lie. ”

- Rudyard Kipling