Quotes of Alice James

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I make it a rule always to believe compliments implicitly for five minutes, and to simmer gently for twenty more.

- Alice James

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“ Unless you love someone, nothing else makes sense. ”

- e.e. cummings

“ Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It is never rude or selfish. It does not take offense and is not resentful. Love takes no pleasure in other people’s sins, but delights in the truth. It is always ready to excuse, to trust, to hope, and to endure whatever comes. ”

- Anonymous

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

- Pablo Picasso

“ It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not. ”

- Andre Gide

“ Education must not simply teach work – it must teach Life. ”

- W. E. B. Du Bois

“ A lot goes into everything but sometimes you have to sacrifice everything in order to achieve a lot. ”

- Kayambila Mpulamasaka

“ Your Dreams Matter. Like an athlete trains, so must the student of life. Train the mind, body and spirit, so you may achieve anything. Life is about sharing your dreams/purpose (gifts/passions/talents) with the world and helping others find their way. ”

- Elizabeth SalamancaBrosig

“ If you are happy with the person you are becoming, and you can understand that the journey is long and the processes are slow; you are on the right track no matter what your current situation is. ”

- Joshua Lynott

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

- Og Mandino

“ This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness. ”

- Dalai Lama

“ Many, many readers have written asking me wistfully about the nature of Sam and Grace's relationship, and I can assure you, that sort is absolutely real. Mutual, respectful, enduring love is completely attainable as long as you swear you won't settle for less. ”

- Maggie Stiefvater

“ For men, I think, love is a thing formed of equal parts lust and astonishment. The astonishment part women understand. The lust part they only think they understand. ”

- Stephen King

“ We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire. ”

- Francois De La Rochefoucauld

“ The superior man thinks only of virtue; the common man thinks only of comfort. ”

- Confucius

“ Your love needs no explanation, and their sin does not deserve your revenge. ”

- Praharsh Prasoon

“ The purpose of life is not to be happy—but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you lived at all. ”

- Leo Rosten

“ When someone beats a rug, the blows are not against the rug, but against the dust in it. ”

- Gandhi

“ Gratitude is not love. Don’t mix the two because they are not the same. ”

- Frank Matobo

“ 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

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

- Tanner Walling

“ All my problems bow before my stubbornness. ”

- Amit Kalantri

“ If I love you more than you love me, I’m as good as dead. Yet I can’t make myself take it back. I can’t just walk away from you, because every time you pass by me without smiling, without touching my hand, or at least making eye contact, it feels like I’m dying inside. ”

- Rachel Vincent

“ Finding the lesson behind every adversity will be the one important thing that helps get you through it. ”

- Roy T. Bennett

“ Confusion, obsession, and potential love walk handinhand. ”

- Ashli and Trisha Edwards