Quotes of J.R.R. Tolkien

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It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.

- J.R.R. Tolkien

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“ 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

“ In love, trust is a tonic and suspicion is a poison. ”

- Abhijit Naskar

“ 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

“ Things end. People leave. And you know what? Life goes on. Besides, if bad things didn't happen, how would you be able to feel the good ones? ”

- Elizabeth Scott

“ Tough times never last. Tough people do ”

- Robert Schuller

“ Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom. ”

- Thomas Jefferson

“ Society will always be too fragile to accept us for all that makes us beautiful. ”

- robert m drake

“ Everyone's time is limited. What matters most is to focus on what matters most. ”

- Roy Bennett

“ Live a life of substance. The rest are mere fantasies. ”

- Pragnya Sahoo

“ 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

“ Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning. ”

- Albert Einstein

“ 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

“ Being with you never felt wrong. It's the one thing I did right. You're the one thing I did right. ”

- Becca Fitzpatrick

“ If we open ourselves up to our feelings, our intuition, and our spiritual centers, we become much closer to the mystery of the Universe. ”

- Patricia Lynn

“ When your only competition is becoming a better you, you will always win the game. ”

- Jackie Griffin

“ Confidence is how we perceive the manifestation of truth in us. ”

- Mike Stagnitta

“ Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world. ”

- Roy T. Bennett

“ Until you step into the unknown, you don’t know what you’re made of. ”

- Roy T. Bennett

“ I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.. ”

- Thoreau

“ Love cannot be hidden. It even shines in the darkest places." ~ Carla Olson Gade, The Shadow Catcher's Daughter ”

- Carla Olson Gade

“ Writing is the knitting of the soul ”

- Khaled Talib

“ To touch the soul of another human being is to walk on holy ground. ”

- Stephen Covey

“ If every life is a river, then it's little wonder that we do not even notice the changes that occur until we are far out in the darkest sea. One day you look around and nothing is familiar, not even your own face. My name once meant daughter, grandaughter, friend, sister, beloved. Now those words mean only what their letters spell out; Star in the night sky. Truth in the darkness. I have crossed over to a place where I never thought I'd be. I am someone I would have never imagined. A secret. A dream. I am this, body and soul. Burn me. Drown me. Tell me lies. I will still be who I am. ”

- Alice Hoffman

“ A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. Ideas have endurance without death. ”

- John F. Kennedy