Quotes of Thom Gunn

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My thoughts are crowded with death and it draws so oddly on the sexual that I am confused to be attracted by, in effect, my own annihilation.

- Thom Gunn

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“ True love is not so much a matter of romance as it is a matter of anxious concern for the wellbeing of one's companion. ”

- Gordon B. Hinckley

“ It’s time to care; it’s time to take responsibility; it’s time to lead; it’s time for a change; it’s time to be true to our greatest self; it’s time to stop blaming others. ”

- Steve Maraboli

“ Give yourself permission to practice selfcare and to make time for your own dreams, goals, and priorities. ”

- Ruth Soukup

“ There is real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment ”

- Norman Vincent Peale

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

- Socrates

“ The only time we can effect an action is now. So learn from the past, have a vision for your future but act NOW. Today will soon be your past so don’t miss your present. ? ”

- Andrea McGibbon

“ There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them. ”

- Phyllis Bottome

“ When love is pursued, fear is surrendered, and you gain the freedom to worship in spirit and in truth. ”

- Deborah Brodie

“ To love oneself is the beginning of a life long romance. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ 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

“ The evolutionary algorithm of all life on earth is written in this universal language we call love. ”

- Wald Wassermann

“ Yet there are moments when the walls of the mind grow thin; when nothing is unabsorbed, and I could fancy that we might blow so vast a bubble that the sun might set and rise in it and we might take the blue of midday and the black of midnight and be cast off and escape from here and now. ”

- Virginia Woolf

“ The purpose of life is not to be happy—but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you lived at all. ”

- Leo Rosten

“ Money can buy you a fine dog, but only love can make him wag his tail. ”

- Ellen DeGeneres

“ I keep thinking about this river somewhere, with the water moving really fast. And these two people in the water, trying to hold onto each other, holding on as hard as they can, but in the end it’s just too much. The current’s too strong. They’ve got to let go, drift apart. ”

- Kazuo Ishiguro

“ Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. Your really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world. ”

- Lucille Ball

“ One rarely falls in love without being as much attracted to what is interestingly wrong with someone as what is objectively healthy. ”

- Alain de Botton

“ She believed she could so she did. ”

- Unknown

“ Close your eyes, take your time and listen. ”

- Maxime Lagacé

“ If I had to live my life again, I’d make the same mistakes, only sooner. ”

- Tallulah Bankhead

“ Willingness to show we are interested in our children’s needs takes the burden and worries off their minds. It shows compassion on our end, and it builds trust on their end. ”

- Charlena E. Jackson

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

- Franz Kafka

“ 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 road to success is always under construction. ”

- Steve Maraboli