Quotes of Dave Barry

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To an adolescent, there is nothing in the world more embarrassing than a parent.

- Dave Barry

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“ I am not an optimist, but a great believer of hope. ”

- Nelson Mandela

“ Denna is a wild thing," I explained. "Like a hind or a summer storm. If a storm blows down your house, or breaks a tree, you don't say the storm was mean. It was cruel. It acted according to its nature and something unfortunately was hurt. The same is true of Denna. ”

- Patrick Rothfuss

“ Morning is when the wick is lit. A flame ignited, the day delighted with heat and light, we start the fight for something more than before. ”

- Jeb Dickerson

“ So many reasons to hate and still I choose to love anyway... ”

- Samiha Totanji

“ I know that the whole point—the only point—is to find the things that matter, and hold on to them, and fight for them, and refuse to let them go. ”

- Lauren Oliver

“ True love is not so much a matter of romance as it is a matter of anxious concern for the wellbeing of one's companion. ”

- Gordon B. Hinckley

“ There is the great lesson of 'Beauty and the Beast,' that a thing must be loved before it is lovable. ”

- Chesterton

“ I don't think you should wait. I think you should speak now. ”

- Taylor Swift

“ And these aches in my heart create poetry! ”

- Avijeet Das

“ Drunk and alone and hopelessly in love with the idea that someday somehow it might just get better. ”

- Stefanie Sybens

“ Love people who hate you. Pray for people who have wronged you. It won’t just change their life…it’ll change yours. ”

- Mandy Hale

“ My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it. ”

- Mark Twain

“ A successful marriage requires falling in love many times always with the same person. ”

- Mignon McLaughlin

“ We werent exactly lovers yet, But we were a little more then friends. We just kept meeting at the wrong time, but our connection never ends. ”

- Nikki Rowe

“ If you suddenly stumble upon the right door, you will not be able to recognize that it is right. ”

- Osho

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

- Roy T. Bennett

“ A failure is always in the passenger seat in his or her life. ”

- Stephen Richards

“ We always see our worst selves. Our most vulnerable selves. We need someone else to get close enough to tell us we’re wrong. Someone we trust. ”

- David Levithan

“ The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. ”

- Émile Zola

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

- Francis Shenstone

“ Give the ones you love wings to fly, roots to come back and reasons to stay. ”

- Dalai Lama XIV

“ Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything. ”

- Napoleon Hill

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

- Roy Bennett

“ Tucker strokes my hair. There's something so tender about the gesture. It might as well have been him whispering I love you. ”

- Cynthia Hand