Quotes of Umberto Eco

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The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.

- Umberto Eco

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“ To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love. But then one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer; not to love is to suffer; to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be happy one must love or love to suffer or suffer from too much happiness. ”

- Woody Allen

“ Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame. ”

- Henry David Thoreau

“ Anyone who stops learning is old, whether twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing you can do is keep your mind young. ”

- Mark Twain

“ I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet. ”

- Mahatma Gandhi

“ If we open ourselves up to our feelings, our intuition, and our spiritual centers, we become much closer to the mystery of the Universe. ”

- Patricia Lynn

“ 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

“ Tough times never last. Tough people do ”

- Robert Schuller

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

- Alexander Graham Bell

“ I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward. ”

- Charlotte Bronte

“ God's plans for you are always good and purposeful. ”

- Jackie Griffin

“ Confidence is how we perceive the manifestation of truth in us. ”

- Mike Stagnitta

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

- Ray Bradbury

“ When things do not go your way, remember that every challenge — every adversity — contains within it the seeds of opportunity and growth. ”

- Roy T. Bennett

“ Anything under God's control is never out of control. ”

- Charles Swindoll

“ Do you have to make me feel like there's nothing left of me? You can take everything I have, you can break everything I am, like I am made of glass, like I am made of paper.Go on and try to tear me down I will be rising from the ground like a Skyscraper... ”

- Demi Lovato

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

- Roy T. Bennett

“ Find the things that matter, and hold on to them, and fight for them, and refuse to let them go. ”

- Lauren Oliver

“ Never run from the truth. It is always there; it never changes – save your energy. ”

- Steve Maraboli

“ Ladies, it’s harvest time!!! Take care of your crops, water them and weed them out. ”

- Charlena E. Jackson

“ Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door. ”

- Kyle Chandler

“ Dream so big you get uncomfortable telling smallminded people. ”

- Praharsh Prasoon

“ Don’t marry him. Don’t be with him. Be with me. ”

- Jenny Han

“ You need just the right amount of 'Fuck the world' and the right amount of belief in something...and you need the right amount of love. ”

- Gerard Way

“ There will be tough workouts when the athlete has to really dig deep, believe, and not give up when the pain seems too much. The athlete can respond in one of two ways: Yield to the pain and selfdoubt or decide that fear will not determine his or her potential. It's hard (and usually uncomfortable) work breaking through old barriers and selfdefeating thought patterns to see meaningful progress, and fear is an absolutely natural response, but you can't let it become a limiter. ”

- Siri Lindley

“ Perfect is annoying, boring, and impossible to sustain. Knowing how to translate conscientiousness into something beyond the fleeting satisfaction of “me” toward a “we” mindset is the best move you can make. ”

- Kristen Lee