Quotes of Clifton Fadiman

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There are two kinds of writers - the great ones who can give you truths, and the lesser ones, who can only give you themselves.

- Clifton Fadiman

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“ Everyone's time is limited. What matters most is to focus on what matters most. ”

- Roy Bennett

“ In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can’t build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery and death. ”

- Anne Frank

“ Family where life begins & love never ends. ”

- Unknown

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

- Pablo Picasso

“ 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

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

- Max Ehrmann

“ In case you never get a second chance: don't be afraid!" "And what if you do get a second chance?" "You take it! ”

- C. JoyBell C.

“ Don't be afraid of the shadows, that only means there's a light nearby. ”

- Evanescence

“ Maybe everyone can live beyond what they're capable of. ”

- Markus Zusak

“ I felt overwhelmed. I didn’t expect a first kiss to be so…life altering. In a few brief moments, the rule book of my universe had been rewritten. Suddenly I was a brand new person. I was as fragile as a newborn, but instead of the doctor placing me in my mother’s arms, he’d put me in Ren’s. What would Ren do with me? Would he draw me near, soothe me, and teach me about this new world or would he reject me and tell the doctor there must be some mistake. There was no way to know. What a breakable and delicate thing a heart was, no wonder I’d kept mine locked away. ”

- Colleen Houck

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

- Steve Maraboli

“ Ethical veganism results in a profound revolution within the individual; a complete rejection of the paradigm of oppression and violence that she has been taught from childhood to accept as the natural order. It changes her life and the lives of those with whom she shares this vision of nonviolence. Ethical veganism is anything but passive; on the contrary, it is the active refusal to cooperate with injustice ”

- GaryLFrancione

“ A good idea always attracts other good ideas. ”

- Patrick Ness

“ Fake it 'till you make it. ”

- Gayle Forman

“ There’s only so many variations on the basics of human relationships. To me, it’s all about the detail and how you tell the story. How you say, ‘I love you.’ ”

- K. Flay

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

- Neal A. Maxwell

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

- Ernest Shackleton

“ He didn't realize that love as powerful as your mother's for you leaves its own mark. ”

- J.K. Rowling

“ I keep thinking about this river somewhere, with the water moving really fast. And these two people in the water, trying to hold onto each other, holding on as hard as they can, but in the end it’s just too much. The current’s too strong. They’ve got to let go, drift apart. ”

- Kazuo Ishiguro

“ My poetry has been engraved with your name And my heart is by your memory scarred ”

- Zubair Ahsan

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

- Talismanist Giebra

“ We are mathematical equations where your life is the sum of all choices you've made until now. The good news is you can change the equation so that you start making a difference in your life. ”

- Steve Maraboli

“ And these aches in my heart create poetry! ”

- Avijeet Das

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

- Unknown