Quotes of Mika Waltari

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I was born and bred in a distant region that cosmographers call Finlandia, a beautiful and far-flung country unknown to most educated people.

- Mika Waltari

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“ Love is not a feeling of happiness. Love is a willingness to sacrifice. ”

- Michael Novak

“ 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

“ Buy a pup and your money will buy Love unflinching that cannot lie. ”

- Rudyard Kipling

“ If you are really broke. You can’t afford giving up. If you can afford giving up. Then that means you are not broke. ”

- De philosopher DJ Kyos

“ Tuhan kan nggak mungkin langsung sedekah ke orangorang, ya kalianlah sedekah duit kalau punya duit, sedekah ilmu, sedekah senyum. Masa sih kalau sudah gitu Tuhan gak bales cintamu? Tapi gak mungkin dia belaibelai langsung rambutmu, sentuh bibirmu. Maka Tuhan ciptakan “wakil”nya, yaitu pacarmu. Maka doalah, “Tuhan, semoga pacarku ini betulbetul orang yang kau pilihkan untukku. ”

- Sujiwo Tejo

“ Faith is to believe what you do not yet see; the reward for this faith is to see what you believe. ”

- Augustine of Hippo

“ Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love. ”

- Mother Teresa

“ An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it. ”

- William Bernbach

“ And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about. ”

- Haruki Murakami

“ Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all. ”

- St. Augustine

“ Leaders in OVER their heads is the mere result of getting ahead of their intended SEASON. ”

- John Paul Warren

“ What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us. ”

- Helen Keller

“ I love words.  I crave descriptions that overwhelm my imagination with vivid detail.  I dwell on phrases that make my heart thrum.  I cherish expressions that pierce my emotions and force the tears to spill over.   In essence, I long for a writer's soul sealed in ink on the page. ”

- Richelle E. Goodrich

“ Don't waste your love on somebody, who doesn't value it. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Visionary decisionmaking happens at the intersection of intuition and logic. ”

- Gandhi

“ I believe in love the verb, not the noun. ”

- Greg Behrendt

“ I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. A tree whose hungry mouth is pressed Against the earth's sweet flowing breast; A tree that looks at God all day And lifts her leafy arms to pray; A tree that may in summer wear A nest of robins in her hair; Upon whose bosom snow has lain; Who intimately lives with rain. Poems are made by fools like me, But only God can make a tree. ”

- Joyce Kilmer

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

- William Arthur Ward

“ We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them. ”

- Francois De La Rochefoucauld

“ If music be the food of love, play on. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ And these aches in my heart create poetry! ”

- Avijeet Das

“ I will be generous with my love today. I will sprinkle compliments and uplifting words everywhere I go. I will do this knowing that my words are like seeds and when they fall on fertile soil, a reflection of those seeds will grow into something greater. ”

- Steve Maraboli

“ Many, many readers have written asking me wistfully about the nature of Sam and Grace's relationship, and I can assure you, that sort is absolutely real. Mutual, respectful, enduring love is completely attainable as long as you swear you won't settle for less. ”

- Maggie Stiefvater

“ Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. ”

- Unknown

“ Because, if you could love someone, and keep loving them, without being loved back . . . then that love had to be real. It hurt too much to be anything else. ”

- Sarah Cross