Quotes of Lewis H. Lapham

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I never can pass by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York without thinking of it not as a gallery of living portraits but as a cemetery of tax-deductible wealth.

- Lewis H. Lapham

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

- Pragnya Sahoo

“ The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience. ”

- Emily Dickinson

“ Choose being kind over being right, and you’ll be right every time. ”

- Richard Carlson

“ Find the things that matter, and hold on to them, and fight for them, and refuse to let them go. ”

- Lauren Oliver

“ 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

“ We cannot face up to what lies ahead, without facing up to what lies within. ”

- Eleesha

“ A drop of water shall be returned with a burst of spring. ”

- Pat Cher

“ The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why ”

- Mark Twain

“ Superhuman effort isn't worth a damn unless it achieves results. ”

- Ernest Shackleton

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

- George Edward Woodberry

“ A dream comes true through repeated actions. ”

- Lailah Gifty Akita

“ The beautiful thing about love is that you just need to plant it once and nurture it and it shall bloom into blossoms that would cover the valleys. ”

- Hermann J. Steinherr

“ There will be tough workouts when the athlete has to really dig deep, believe, and not give up when the pain seems too much. The athlete can respond in one of two ways: Yield to the pain and selfdoubt or decide that fear will not determine his or her potential. It's hard (and usually uncomfortable) work breaking through old barriers and selfdefeating thought patterns to see meaningful progress, and fear is an absolutely natural response, but you can't let it become a limiter. ”

- Siri Lindley

“ Her footprints are leaving green marks on the desert heart of mine ”

- Ismaaciil C. Ubax

“ If you love something so much let it go. If it comes back it was meant to be; if it doesn't it never was ”

- Albert Schweitzer

“ If you love me as you say you do,' she whispered, 'make it so that I am at peace. ”

- Leo Tolstoy

“ Before, I wanted to say: "I found love!" But now, I want to say: "I found a person. And he belongs to me and I belong to him. ”

- C. JoyBell C.

“ I only have so much willpower, Helen," he whispered. "And since you apparently sleep in the most ridiculously transparent tank top I've ever seen, I'm going to have to ask you to get under the covers before I do something stupid. ”

- Josephine Angelini

“ When people think they know you and put you in a box, keep growing and give them the box. ”

- Jackie Griffin

“ Just when you think it can't get any worse, it can. And just when you think it can't get any better, it can. ”

- Nicholas Sparks

“ Anything under God's control is never out of control. ”

- Charles Swindoll

“ Nothing that is perfect can be taught ”

- Mike Stagnitta

“ The love we say we feel for another is, in most cases, just a selfish hunt for our own happiness. ”

- Tatjana Ostojic

“ Love brings to light a lover's noble and hidden qualitieshis rare and exceptional traits: it is thus liable to be deceptive of his normal qualities. ”

- Friedrich Nietzsche

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

- Paulo Coelho