Quotes of Jacques Barzun

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I have always been – I think any student of history almost inevitably is – a cheerful pessimist.

- Jacques Barzun

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“ Love shapes who you are in many ways. Its presence or absence in our youth impacts our adulthood, which impacts our future generations; the cycle has to be restarted somewhere. ”

- Hani Selim

“ At one time or another we are all called to leave the safety of our homes, the certainty of what we know, the illusions of who we are. Not everyone will heed this call, of course. And those who do will risk losing themselves completely. But if we choose to ignore the invitation, we risk never knowing who we might have become. We risk dying without knowing what it is to live. ”

- Thomas Lloyd Qualls

“ If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it. ”

- Ernest Hemingway

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

- Roy T. Bennett

“ Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack. ”

- Mary Roberts Rinehart

“ I find it odd the greed of mankind. People only like you for as long as they perceive they can get what they want from you. Or for as long as they perceive you are who they want you to be. But I like people for all of their changing surprises, the thoughts in their heads, the warmth that changes to cold and the cold that changes to warmth... for being human. The rawness of being human delights me. ”

- C. JoyBell C.

“ Eyes not only see but reveal secrets that hidden within our very soul, as You and I stroll in this world in search for our true and better selves." Morco ”

- Jeff Morco

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

- Charlotte Bronte

“ Where there’s marriage without love, there will be love without marriage. ”

- Benjamin Franklin

“ Armed with positive thoughts, it becomes easier to focus on your goals, while the opposite also holds true. ”

- Stephen Richards

“ To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others. ”

- Anne Sophie Swetchine

“ 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

“ In the waltz of the leaves in the air In the features of the playful clouds In the nostalgia carried by the wind In Paris alone, I save your love (fragment from Your presence “partout”, chapter Hope) ”

- Claudia Pavel

“ You can never plan the future by the past. ”

- Edmund Burke

“ Keep your face always toward the sunshine and shadows will fall behind you. ”

- Walt Whitman

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

- Kayambila Mpulamasaka

“ Love brings to light a lover's noble and hidden qualitieshis rare and exceptional traits: it is thus liable to be deceptive of his normal qualities. ”

- Friedrich Nietzsche

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

- Confucius

“ Whether you know or not, you are the infinite potential of love, peace and joy ”

- Amit Ray

“ We always see our worst selves. Our most vulnerable selves. We need someone else to get close enough to tell us we’re wrong. Someone we trust. ”

- David Levithan

“ A heart, once stolen, can never be taken back. ”

- Marissa Meyer

“ You left the same way you: with 6 duffle bags and your heart intact. ”

- Gandhi

“ Love is beautiful as written in The Greatest Proposal Book ”

- Khuliso Mamathoni