Quotes of Carolyn Kizer

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Our masks, always in peril of smearing or cracking, in need of continuous check in the mirror or silverware, keep us in thrall to ourselves, concerned with our surfaces.

- Carolyn Kizer

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“ I love you and it’s getting worse. ”

- Joseph E. Morris

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

- Frank Matobo

“ FORGET SWAG, I'VE GOT SHAKARA', ”

- Genereux Philip

“ The little unremembered acts of kindness and love are the best parts of a person’s life. ”

- William Wordsworth

“ Freedom comes from a sense of empowerment. ”

- Amy Leigh Mercree

“ Tucker strokes my hair. There's something so tender about the gesture. It might as well have been him whispering I love you. ”

- Cynthia Hand

“ I constantly challenge my athletes with workouts that take them to the upper edge of their ability. Like Brett's, my philosophy is that your biggest competitor is yourself. I will never ask the impossible. But I will come close. Those who answer with courage and selfbelief instead of fear and doubt are the ones who realize their dreams. ”

- Siri Lindley

“ Keep in mind that three months worth of sowing equals three months of reaping at harvest, Remember not to stop sowing your fields in all ways in life after the first three months as its easy to feel good and live off of the fields already sowed but like a meat grinder the stock will eventually run out ”

- James D Wilson

“ As an African elite, look within and ask, what can I do to change the present African narratives? What niche can I carve and do my uncompromising best to lift this continent? For my sake and for the sake of my children Jumoke Odepe ”

- Jumoke Odepe

“ Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love. ”

- Mother Teresa

“ Remember when your heart is empty, don’t fill it with lies and deception. ”

- RJ Intindola

“ There is more to sex appeal than just measurements. I don’t need a bedroom to prove my womanliness. I can convey just as much sex appeal, picking apples off a tree or standing in the rain. ”

- Audrey Hepburn

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

- Benjamin Franklin

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

- Khuliso Mamathoni

“ 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

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

- Wendell Berry

“ Tomorrow I will run more courageously, more outrageously. ”

- Talismanist Giebra

“ I know in my heart that man is good, that what is right will always eventually triumph, and there is purpose and worth to each and every life. ”

- Ronald Reagan

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

- Walt Whitman

“ After your first failure, the occurrence of a second failure closely depends on what you have learned from your past mistakes and whether or not you have drawn some valuable lessons. ”

- JOHN TASKINSOY

“ Anything that makes weak physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison. ”

- Swami Vivekananda

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

- W. E. B. Du Bois

“ Sometimes we may feel disheartened and demoralized but we must keep faith in ourselves. We may be going through a lot of ups and downs in our life. But we must realise that growth begins from chaos! ”

- Avijeet Das

“ Hmm…now that I think about it, housecats are often coddled and petted. You don’t pet me nearly enough. You must be a lax owner. How selfish of you to deprive your cat of attention. ”

- Colleen Houck