Quotes of Samuel Johnson

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There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.

- Samuel Johnson

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“ 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

“ Be Brave, Be Bold! Never allow fear to dictate your choices. Use your VOICE & trust in your abilities. ”

- Rosalie Bardo

“ And during, I realized that the labels didn’t matter, because when two people feel that sort of pull toward each other, it just works, and the only label that mattered was that I was in love. Totally, fully, ecstatically. ”

- Bill Konigsberg

“ 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

“ Though lovers be lost love shall not. ”

- Dylan Thomas

“ Buy a pup and your money will buy Love unflinching that cannot lie. ”

- Rudyard Kipling

“ Better to have, and not need, than to need, and not have. ”

- Franz Kafka

“ Don't let him take who you are. Make him fear who you'll become. ”

- Mary Weber

“ She was rain to a parched desert She was color to a gray sky She was the beautiful butterfly you longed to possess But I let her fly For fear of breaking her wings! ”

- Avijeet Das

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

- Honore de Balzac

“ 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

“ You have to be the bravest person in the world to go out every day, being yourself when no one likes who you are. ”

- Matthew

“ The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office. ”

- Robert Frost

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

- Confucius

“ Be brave. Don't just live in your cave till your grave. ”

- RVM

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

- Chuck Klosterman

“ The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. ”

- Émile Zola

“ I felt overwhelmed. I didn’t expect a first kiss to be so…life altering. In a few brief moments, the rule book of my universe had been rewritten. Suddenly I was a brand new person. I was as fragile as a newborn, but instead of the doctor placing me in my mother’s arms, he’d put me in Ren’s. What would Ren do with me? Would he draw me near, soothe me, and teach me about this new world or would he reject me and tell the doctor there must be some mistake. There was no way to know. What a breakable and delicate thing a heart was, no wonder I’d kept mine locked away. ”

- Colleen Houck

“ You see, when we set goals that feel safer and achievable, we are caving in to our own preconceived notions of what we are capable of. We’re not pushing past our comfort zone; we’re just settling for status quo. ”

- Ruth Soukup

“ Denna is a wild thing," I explained. "Like a hind or a summer storm. If a storm blows down your house, or breaks a tree, you don't say the storm was mean. It was cruel. It acted according to its nature and something unfortunately was hurt. The same is true of Denna. ”

- Patrick Rothfuss

“ When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself. ”

- Wayne Dyer

“ In the deepest hour of the night, confess to yourself that you would die if you were forbidden to write. And look deep into your heart where it spreads its roots, the answer, and ask yourself, must I write? ”

- Rainer Maria Rilke

“ That's a misconception, Lennie. The sky is everywhere, it begins at your feet. ”

- Jandy Nelson

“ And out of Tristan's heart there grew a hazel tree, and out of Iseult's a honeysuckle, and they arched together and clung and intertwined so that they could never be separated anymore. ”

- Rosemary Sutcliff

“ Love is not a feeling of happiness. Love is a willingness to sacrifice. ”

- Michael Novak