Quotes of John Barth

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Like an ox-cart driver in monsoon season or the skipper of a grounded ship, one must sometimes go forward by going back.

- John Barth

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“ Each of us is an innkeeper who decides if there is room for Jesus! ”

- Neal A. Maxwell

“ Stop hating yourself for everything you aren’t and start loving yourself for everything you already are. ”

- Unknown

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

- Franz Kafka

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

- Swami Vivekananda

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

- Victor Frankl

“ Sometimes the best of gods gift's arrive by the shattering of all the window panes. ”

- Paulo Coelho

“ If you sow kindness, you will reap love. ”

- Matshona Dhliwayo

“ Armed with positive thoughts, it becomes easier to focus on your goals, while the opposite also holds true. ”

- Stephen Richards

“ We cannot all do great things, but we can do small things with great love. ”

- Mother Teresa

“ An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it. ”

- William Bernbach

“ Visionary decisionmaking happens at the intersection of intuition and logic. ”

- Gandhi

“ Don't worry when people only bring up your past. It's only because your present and future looks brighter and better than theirs ”

- Kimberking

“ The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplaceable being. ”

- Tom Robbins

“ I love women, but I feel like you can’t trust some of them. Some of them are liars, you know? Like I was in the park and I met this girl, she was cute and she had a dog. And I went up to her, we started talking. She told me her dog’s name. Then I said, ‘Does he bite?’ She said, ‘No.’ And I said, ‘Oh yeah? Then how does he eat?’ Liar. ”

- Demetri Martin

“ I can only think about the past, but I can always design the future. ”

- Davin Ferrigon

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

- Matshona Dhliwayo

“ Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure. ”

- George Edward Woodberry

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

- Samiha Totanji

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

- Rudyard Kipling

“ There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see the toothache in his own humor. ”

- H. L. Mencken

“ You left the same way you: with 6 duffle bags and your heart intact. ”

- Gandhi

“ The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new. ”

- Socrates