Quotes of Robertson Davies

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Do not trust your memory; it is a net full of holes; the most beautiful prizes slip through it.

- Robertson Davies

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“ Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose. ”

- Victor Frankl

“ Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. ”

- Mahatma Gandhi

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

- W. E. B. Du Bois

“ 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

“ He made me feel the infinite number of feelings, In which I lost myself. ”

- Luffina Lourduraj

“ Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall. ”

- Confucius

“ Never apologize for burning too brightly or collapsing into yourself every night. That is how galaxies are made. ”

- Tyler Kent White

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

- Ovid

“ 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

“ Tell me then, does love make one a fool or do only fools fall in love? ”

- Orhan Pamuk

“ What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us. ”

- Helen Keller

“ Numbers by popular consensus don’t make a wrong thing right, and if you are misunderstood for being right, don’t be afraid because they are not yet in the right time zone. ”

- Erwin D. Maramat

“ I held my heart back from positively accepting anything, since I was afraid of another fall, and in this condition of suspense I was being all the more killed. ”

- St. Augustine of Hippo

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

- Roy T. Bennett

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

- Confucius

“ A heart filled with anger has no room for love. ”

- Joan Lunden

“ 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.

“ Superhuman effort isn't worth a damn unless it achieves results. ”

- Ernest Shackleton

“ The purpose of life is to love, the purpose of love is to live. ”

- Matshona Dhliwayo

“ If you suddenly stumble upon the right door, you will not be able to recognize that it is right. ”

- Osho

“ 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

“ Drunk and alone and hopelessly in love with the idea that someday somehow it might just get better. ”

- Stefanie Sybens

“ Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you. ”

- Chuck Klosterman

“ Fake it 'till you make it. ”

- Gayle Forman

“ When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you. ”

- Plato