Quotes of Lionel Trilling

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We are at heart so profoundly anarchistic that the only form of state we can imagine living in is Utopian; and so cynical that the only Utopia we can believe in is authoritarian.

- Lionel Trilling

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“ Everything is easier said than done. Wanting something is easy. Saying something is easy. The challenge and the reward are in the doing. ”

- Steve Maraboli

“ An early. morning walk is a blessing for the whole day. ”

- Henry David Thoreau

“ Love is the beauty of the soul. ”

- Augustine of Hippo

“ A life lived in love will never be dull. ”

- Leo Buscaglia

“ You can’t go back and make a new start, but you can start right now and make a brand new ending. ”

- James R. Sherman

“ ...most of the time, all you have is the moment, and the imperfect love of the people around you. ”

- Anne Lamott

“ Stay strong, stay positive, and never give up. ”

- Roy T. Bennett

“ I was blind and heart broken and didn't want to do anything and Gus burst into my room and shouted, "I have wonderful news!" And I was like, "I don't really want to hear wonderful news right now," and Gus said, "This is wonderful news you want to hear," and I asked him, "Fine, what is it?" and he said, "You are going to live a good and long life filled with great and terrible moments that you cannot even imagine yet! ”

- John Green

“ Reading is life, Reading is knowledge, Reading Is Everything. ”

- Ezra Heft

“ Confusion, obsession, and potential love walk handinhand. ”

- Ashli and Trisha Edwards

“ Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all. ”

- St. Augustine

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

- Jenny Han

“ I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet. ”

- Mahatma Gandhi

“ A blooming relationship even if it’s someone else’s, makes me so happy and reinstates my faith in love... ”

- Nitya Prakash

“ So many reasons to hate and still I choose to love anyway... ”

- Samiha Totanji

“ 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

“ Is there any positive energy like enthusiasm? ”

- Lailah Gifty Akita

“ Fear lies. Save love. ”

- Arif Naseem

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

- Benjamin Franklin

“ 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

“ I guess that’s just part of loving people: You have to give things up. Sometimes you even have to give them up. ”

- Lauren Oliver

“ Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove. O no, it is an everfixed mark That looks on tempests and is never shaken; It is the star to every wand'ring bark, Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken." (Sonnet 116) ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Take wrong turns. Talk to strangers. Open unmarked doors. And if you see a group of people in a field, go find out what they are doing. Do things without always knowing how they'll turn out. You're curious and smart and bored, and all you see is the choice between working hard and slacking off. There are so many adventures that you miss because you're waiting to think of a plan. To find them, look for tiny interesting choices. And remember that you are always making up the future as you go. ”

- Randall Munroe

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

- Confucius

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

- Osho