Quotes of Michael Ondaatje

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The first sentence of every novel should be: ''Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very human.'' Meander if you want to get to town.

- Michael Ondaatje

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“ Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them. ”

- John Updike

“ 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

“ To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others. ”

- Anne Sophie Swetchine

“ There are many Mondays to go before I die. I may as well look forward to them. ”

- Trevor Carss

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

- Roy T. Bennett

“ You lose nothing when fighting for a cause ... In my mind the losers are those who don't have a cause they care about. ”

- Muhammad Ali

“ If you listen more, you will judge less; and when you judge less, you will appreciate differences; and you will be more happy. ”

- JOHN TASKINSOY

“ A bad attitude is like a flat tire, you can’t get very far until you change it. ”

- Unknown

“ It takes courage to be honest and to work, while others play, cheat, sponge like parasites or are idle. There is value in the work that you choose to do, and you are an innately valuable person. ”

- Zita Steele

“ May I share with you a formula that in my judgment will help you and help me to journey well through mortality... First, fill your mind with truth; second, fill your life with service; and third, fill your heart with love. ”

- Thomas S. Monson

“ Always go with the choice that scares you the most, because that’s the one that is going to help you grow. ”

- Unknown

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

“ Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them. ”

- Paul Hawken

“ If life gives you lemons, make lemonade. ”

- Unknown

“ Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame. ”

- Henry David Thoreau

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

- Franz Kafka

“ The human tendency is to resemble or imitate those we admire; the common result is the delusion, that to emulate another’s personality creates a pseudo persona, measurably dissimilar from our own. ”

- RJ Intindola

“ Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack. ”

- Mary Roberts Rinehart

“ Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and a richness to life that nothing else can bring. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ There's a very positive relationship between people's ability to accomplish any task and the time they're willing to spend on it. ”

- Joyce Brothers

“ Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option. ”

- Maya Angelou

“ There is a distinct, awful pain that comes with loving someone more than they love you. ”

- Steve Maraboli

“ I am convinced that one should tell one's spiritual director if one has a great desire for Communion, for Our Lord does not come from Heaven every day to stay in a golden ciborium; He comes to find another heaven, the heaven of our soul in which He loves to dwell. ”

- St. Therese of Lisieux

“ The gospel is this: We are more sinful and flawed in ourselves than we ever dared believe, yet at the very same time we are more loved and accepted in Jesus Christ than we ever dared hope. ”

- Timothy Keller

“ Your environment will eat your goals and plans for breakfast. ”

- Steve Pavlina