Quotes of Lucille Clifton

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People wish to be poets more than they wish to write poetry, and that's a mistake. One should wish to celebrate more than one wishes to be celebrated.

- Lucille Clifton

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“ Either you run the day, or the day runs you. ”

- Jim Rohn

“ Love is blind, they saybut isn't it more that love makes us see too much? Isn't it more that love floods our brain with sights and sounds, so that everything looks bigger, brighter, more lovely than ever before? ”

- Susan Fletcher

“ A good idea always attracts other good ideas. ”

- Patrick Ness

“ The art of existence is to find a sensation of spiritual expansion that makes you larger than existence itself. ”

- Talismanist Giebra

“ I never want to change so much that people can't recognize me. ”

- Taylor Swift

“ Eventually you will come to understand that love heals everything, and love is all there is. ”

- Gary Zukav

“ Perfect is annoying, boring, and impossible to sustain. Knowing how to translate conscientiousness into something beyond the fleeting satisfaction of “me” toward a “we” mindset is the best move you can make. ”

- Kristen Lee

“ 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

“ Everyone's time is limited. What matters most is to focus on what matters most. ”

- Roy Bennett

“ If ur laptop doesnt smell like fire then ur losing. ”

- Genereux Philip

“ 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

“ The more one judges, the less one loves. ”

- Honore de Balzac

“ Things end. People leave. And you know what? Life goes on. Besides, if bad things didn't happen, how would you be able to feel the good ones? ”

- Elizabeth Scott

“ Don’t marry him. Don’t be with him. Be with me. ”

- Jenny Han

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

- Ernest Hemingway

“ 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

“ Do I care about pleasure? Yes. But I don't believe in happiness. ”

- Tatiana Vedenska

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

- Orhan Pamuk

“ 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

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

- Stephen Richards

“ Mistakes are not bad; excuses are. ”

- Udai Yadla

“ When people think they know you and put you in a box, keep growing and give them the box. ”

- Jackie Griffin

“ Family where life begins & love never ends. ”

- Unknown

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

- Joan Lunden

“ The beautiful thing about love is that you just need to plant it once and nurture it and it shall bloom into blossoms that would cover the valleys. ”

- Hermann J. Steinherr