Quotes of Peter Abrahams

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With Shakespeare and poetry, a new world was born. New dreams, new desires, a self consciousness was born. I desired to know to know myself in terms of the new standards set by these books.

- Peter Abrahams

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“ A drop of water shall be returned with a burst of spring. ”

- Pat Cher

“ I guess that’s just part of loving people: You have to give things up. Sometimes you even have to give them up. ”

- Lauren Oliver

“ But if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires: To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To know the pain of too much tenderness. To be wounded by your own understanding of love; And to bleed willingly and joyfully. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving; To rest at noon hour and meditate love's ecstasy; To return home at eventide with gratitude; And then to sleep with a prayer for the beloved in your heart and a song of praise on your lips. ”

- Kahlil Gibran

“ Sometimes when I'm alone, I take the pearl from where it lives in my pocket and try to remember the boy with the bread, the strong arms that warded off nightmares on the train, the kisses in the arena. ”

- Suzanne Collins

“ A daily dose of daydreaming heals the heart, soothes the soul, and strengthens the imagination. ”

- Richelle E. Goodrich

“ Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery. ”

- Charles Dickens

“ What I stand for is what I stand on. ”

- Wendell Berry

“ Always go with the choice that scares you the most, because that’s the one that is going to help you grow. ”

- Unknown

“ So many reasons to hate and still I choose to love anyway... ”

- Samiha Totanji

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

- Neal A. Maxwell

“ ...most of the time, all you have is the moment, and the imperfect love of the people around you. ”

- Anne Lamott

“ We werent exactly lovers yet, But we were a little more then friends. We just kept meeting at the wrong time, but our connection never ends. ”

- Nikki Rowe

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

- Jodi Picoult

“ Let no one who loves be called unhappy. Even love unreturned has its rainbow. ”

- J. M. Barrie

“ There is nothing higher than love, and nothing lower than ignorance. ”

- Matshona Dhliwayo

“ You can't stop dreaming just because the night never seems to end. ”

- Curtis Tyrone Jones

“ Even when I'm dead, I'll swim through the Earth, like a mermaid of the soil, just to be next to your bones. ”

- Jeffrey McDaniel

“ Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. ”

- Helen Keller

“ If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people. ”

- Confucius

“ A failure is always in the passenger seat in his or her life. ”

- Stephen Richards

“ Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence. ”

- Ovid

“ Our own selfesteem is something we can actually twist in whatever way we want. ”

- Stephen Richards

“ Being love rather than giving or taking love, is the only thing that provides stability. ”

- Ram Dass