Quotes of Edith Wharton

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Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one.

- Edith Wharton

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“ My sister will die over and over again for the rest of my life. Grief is forever. It doesn't go away; it becomes a part of you, step for step, breath for breath. I will never stop grieving Bailey because I will never stop loving her. That's just how it is. Grief and love are conjoined, you don't get one without the other. All I can do is love her, and love the world, emulate her by living with daring and spirit and joy. ”

- Jandy Nelson

“ 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

“ Finding the lesson behind every adversity will be the one important thing that helps get you through it. ”

- Roy T. Bennett

“ Your best creative assets do not occur unless you do a mental shift. You have to be in a positive frame of mind because inspiration is fleeting. I walk to work for inspiration and to clear my mind. ”

- Ron Ben Israel

“ You can never plan the future by the past. ”

- Edmund Burke

“ How would your life be different if…You stopped allowing other people to dilute or poison your day with their words or opinions? Let today be the day…You stand strong in the truth of your beauty and journey through your day without attachment to the validation of others ”

- Steve Maraboli

“ 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

“ When someone beats a rug, the blows are not against the rug, but against the dust in it. ”

- Gandhi

“ Love is beautiful as written in The Greatest Proposal Book ”

- Khuliso Mamathoni

“ For men, I think, love is a thing formed of equal parts lust and astonishment. The astonishment part women understand. The lust part they only think they understand. ”

- Stephen King

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

- George Edward Woodberry

“ Uncertainty will always be part of the taking charge process. ”

- Harold Geneen

“ Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexations to the spirit. ”

- Max Ehrmann

“ When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you. ”

- Plato

“ I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet. ”

- Mahatma Gandhi

“ There is nothing higher than love, and nothing lower than ignorance. ”

- Matshona Dhliwayo

“ At the beginning, you need no support other than your pen and paper to write down the ideas that your brain is ready to supply you at any given time. ”

- Godspower Oparaugo

“ You know her well. People are harder to sum up when you know them well. ”

- Veronica Roth

“ Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination. ”

- Voltaire

“ I love you and it’s getting worse. ”

- Joseph E. Morris

“ Sometimes what seems so right turns out wrong and what seems so wrong turns out right. What do I call this phenomenon? Life. ”

- Charles F. Glassman