Quotes of Dame Rebecca West

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If the whole human race lay in one grave, the epitaph on its headstone might well be: "It seemed a good idea at the time.".

- Dame Rebecca West

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“ Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm. ”

- Winston Churchill

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

- Steve Pavlina

“ The purpose of life is not to be happy—but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you lived at all. ”

- Leo Rosten

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

- Talismanist Giebra

“ Willingness to show we are interested in our children’s needs takes the burden and worries off their minds. It shows compassion on our end, and it builds trust on their end. ”

- Charlena E. Jackson

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

- Yeth Bisto

“ You left the same way you: with 6 duffle bags and your heart intact. ”

- Gandhi

“ I think romantic love evolved to enable you to focus your mating energy on just one individual at a time, thereby conserving mating time and energy. ”

- Helen Fisher

“ Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that. ”

- Martin Luther King Jr.

“ Repetition is the mother of skill. (might be someone else who wrote it). ”

- Anthony Robbins

“ Mythology is not a lie, mythology is poetry, it is metaphorical. It has been well said that mythology is the penultimate truthpenultimate because the ultimate cannot be put into words. It is beyond words. Beyond images, beyond that bounding rim of the Buddhist Wheel of Becoming. Mythology pitches the mind beyond that rim, to what can be known but not told. ”

- Joseph Campbell

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

- John Lennon

“ The true miracle lies in our eagerness to allow, appreciate, and honor the uniqueness, and freedom of each sentient being to sing the song of their heart. ”

- Amit Ray

“ Do I care about pleasure? Yes. But I don't believe in happiness. ”

- Tatiana Vedenska

“ An early. morning walk is a blessing for the whole day. ”

- Henry David Thoreau

“ If you really want to do something, you'll find a way. If you don't, you'll find an excuse. ”

- Jim Rohn

“ When you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe, then you’ll be successful. ”

- Eric Thomas

“ I keep thinking about this river somewhere, with the water moving really fast. And these two people in the water, trying to hold onto each other, holding on as hard as they can, but in the end it’s just too much. The current’s too strong. They’ve got to let go, drift apart. ”

- Kazuo Ishiguro

“ 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

“ You are attracted to the love you didn't receive as a child ”

- Jodi Ann Quarrie

“ Love comforteth like sunshine after rain. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ There are no trips to your past that are free ”

- Michalopoulos Angelos

“ Fake it 'till you make it. ”

- Gayle Forman