Quotes of Charles de Lint

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Stone walls confine a tinker; cold iron binds a witch; but a musician's music can never be fettered, for it lives first in her heart and mind.

- Charles de Lint

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“ I was watching the first raindrops falling down on the porous ground. Each drop disappeared eagerly into the sand without any hesitations. The Earth, in turn, embraced it warmly like it has gotten back something precious that once belonged to it. I, somehow, thought that this particular image suited more our story than anything else ”

- Ismaaciil C. Ubax

“ Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you. ”

- Chuck Klosterman

“ Don't worry when people only bring up your past. It's only because your present and future looks brighter and better than theirs ”

- Kimberking

“ The human tendency is to resemble or imitate those we admire; the common result is the delusion, that to emulate another’s personality creates a pseudo persona, measurably dissimilar from our own. ”

- RJ Intindola

“ There are times in life which proves life is wife and wife is life. ”

- Fahad Basheer

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

- Maya Angelou

“ It takes courage to be honest and to work, while others play, cheat, sponge like parasites or are idle. There is value in the work that you choose to do, and you are an innately valuable person. ”

- Zita Steele

“ When you love someone, you say their name different. Like it's safe inside your mouth. ”

- Jodi Picoult

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

- Og Mandino

“ All things are difficult before they are easy. ”

- Thomas Fuller

“ I think romantic love evolved to enable you to focus your mating energy on just one individual at a time, thereby conserving mating time and energy. ”

- Helen Fisher

“ Better to have, and not need, than to need, and not have. ”

- Franz Kafka

“ Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world. ”

- Roy T. Bennett

“ Relationships are like Rome difficult to start out, incredible during the prosperity of the 'golden age', and unbearable during the fall. Then, a new kingdom will come along and the whole process will repeat itself until you come across a kingdom like Egypt... that thrives, and continues to flourish. This kingdom will become your best friend, your soul mate, and your love. ”

- Helen Keller

“ Glorious indeed is the world of God around us, but more glorious the world of God within us. ”

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“ Denna is a wild thing," I explained. "Like a hind or a summer storm. If a storm blows down your house, or breaks a tree, you don't say the storm was mean. It was cruel. It acted according to its nature and something unfortunately was hurt. The same is true of Denna. ”

- Patrick Rothfuss

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

- Norman Vincent Peale

“ If you are really broke. You can’t afford giving up. If you can afford giving up. Then that means you are not broke. ”

- De philosopher DJ Kyos

“ I miss everything about you Can’t believe that I still want you And after all the things we’ve been through. ”

- Colbie Caillat

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

- Markus Zusak

“ Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic. ”

- Anais Nin

“ Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, To the last syllable of recorded time; And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more. It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about. ”

- Haruki Murakami