Quotes of Jean Rhys

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One realized all sorts of things. The value of an illusion, for instance, and that the shadow can be more important than the substance.

- Jean Rhys

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

- Pragnya Sahoo

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

- Steve Pavlina

“ Take wrong turns. Talk to strangers. Open unmarked doors. And if you see a group of people in a field, go find out what they are doing. Do things without always knowing how they'll turn out. You're curious and smart and bored, and all you see is the choice between working hard and slacking off. There are so many adventures that you miss because you're waiting to think of a plan. To find them, look for tiny interesting choices. And remember that you are always making up the future as you go. ”

- Randall Munroe

“ Our own selfesteem is something we can actually twist in whatever way we want. ”

- Stephen Richards

“ Battered was my heart in the deep search, branded with cracks like slices of silver birch. An ignorant dream, a wish, just fool's gold that was the tale that love had sold. ”

- Sara Secora

“ Don’t marry him. Don’t be with him. Be with me. ”

- Jenny Han

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

- Walt Whitman

“ We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire. ”

- Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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

- Lauren Oliver

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

- Leo Tolstoy

“ Awake, my friend! Arise, my friend! Start walking my friend! And do not stop until you bring the change you wish to see in your society! ”

- Abhijit Naskar

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

- Stephen Covey

“ Love is a panacea for a wound that never stops weeping. ”

- Kilroy J. Oldster

“ After your first failure, the occurrence of a second failure closely depends on what you have learned from your past mistakes and whether or not you have drawn some valuable lessons. ”

- JOHN TASKINSOY

“ Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new. ”

- Ursula K. Le Guin

“ Pet names are a persistant remnant of childhood, a reminder that life is not always so serious, so formal, so complicated. They are a reminder, too, that one is not all things to all people. ”

- Jhumpa Lahiri

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

- William Shakespeare

“ Don't be afraid of the shadows, that only means there's a light nearby. ”

- Evanescence

“ Such is my relationship with God: on my gigantic canvass of life, I am the one throwing all of the brightlycolored paints, creating genuine splatters, authentic whirlpools of color, beautiful patterns, wonderful streaks and stains and wild accents; God is the one with the paintbrush who stands beside my canvass filling all the intricate and amazing details in between the whirlpools and the streaks! We're happy together! ”

- C. JoyBell C.

“ Repentance is not at an end, Instead it’s the beginning of how it ends. ”

- Yeth Bisto

“ Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence. ”

- Ovid

“ And out of Tristan's heart there grew a hazel tree, and out of Iseult's a honeysuckle, and they arched together and clung and intertwined so that they could never be separated anymore. ”

- Rosemary Sutcliff

“ Whether you know or not, you are the infinite potential of love, peace and joy ”

- Amit Ray