Quotes of Walker Percy

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You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

- Walker Percy

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“ At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet. ”

- Plato

“ If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people. ”

- Confucius

“ 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

“ I pray you, do not fall in love with me, for I am falser than vows made in wine. ”

- William Shakespeare

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

- Franz Kafka

“ Keep your face always toward the sunshine and shadows will fall behind you. ”

- Walt Whitman

“ In the deepest hour of the night, confess to yourself that you would die if you were forbidden to write. And look deep into your heart where it spreads its roots, the answer, and ask yourself, must I write? ”

- Rainer Maria Rilke

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

- Steve Pavlina

“ Often, we fabricate the people we love to make loving them more palatable; the fictionalized version of them reduces the awareness of truth. ”

- RJ Intindola

“ The art of existence is to find a sensation of spiritual expansion that makes you larger than existence itself. ”

- Talismanist Giebra

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

- Steve Maraboli

“ Unless you love someone, nothing else makes sense. ”

- e.e. cummings

“ But if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires: To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To know the pain of too much tenderness. To be wounded by your own understanding of love; And to bleed willingly and joyfully. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving; To rest at noon hour and meditate love's ecstasy; To return home at eventide with gratitude; And then to sleep with a prayer for the beloved in your heart and a song of praise on your lips. ”

- Kahlil Gibran

“ If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it. ”

- William Arthur Ward

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

- robert m drake

“ There’s only so many variations on the basics of human relationships. To me, it’s all about the detail and how you tell the story. How you say, ‘I love you.’ ”

- K. Flay

“ Sometimes you never realize how much you like someone, until you watch them liking someone else. ”

- Unknown

“ If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there’d be peace. ”

- John Lennon

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

- Paulo Coelho

“ In case you never get a second chance: don't be afraid!" "And what if you do get a second chance?" "You take it! ”

- C. JoyBell C.

“ It takes guts and humility to admit mistakes. Admitting we're wrong is courage, not weakness. ”

- Roy T. Bennett

“ Being love rather than giving or taking love, is the only thing that provides stability. ”

- Ram Dass

“ I marinate my life in gratitude, creativity and love. What about you? ”

- Francis Shenstone

“ I was watching the first raindrops falling down on the porous ground. Each drop disappeared eagerly into the sand without any hesitations. The Earth, in turn, embraced it warmly like it has gotten back something precious that once belonged to it. I, somehow, thought that this particular image suited more our story than anything else ”

- Ismaaciil C. Ubax