Quotes of Alan Paton

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I have always found that actively loving saves one from a morbid preoccupation with the shortcomings of society.

- Alan Paton

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“ Every man is a boyfriend. But some people do not have the ability to become husbands. ”

- Sajal Ahmed

“ She was rain to a parched desert She was color to a gray sky She was the beautiful butterfly you longed to possess But I let her fly For fear of breaking her wings! ”

- Avijeet Das

“ Gratitude is not love. Don’t mix the two because they are not the same. ”

- Frank Matobo

“ The difference between the love of a man and the love of a woman is that a man will always give reasons for loving, but a woman gives no reasons for loving. ”

- Fulton J. Sheen

“ Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes. ”

- Friedrich Nietzsche

“ Education must not simply teach work – it must teach Life. ”

- W. E. B. Du Bois

“ But if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires: To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To know the pain of too much tenderness. To be wounded by your own understanding of love; And to bleed willingly and joyfully. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving; To rest at noon hour and meditate love's ecstasy; To return home at eventide with gratitude; And then to sleep with a prayer for the beloved in your heart and a song of praise on your lips. ”

- Kahlil Gibran

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

- Joseph E. Morris

“ Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame. ”

- Henry David Thoreau

“ And, in the end… The love you take is equal to the love you make. ”

- Paul McCartney

“ To lovers out there… We love and what when we cannot love anymore. We Leave. We don’t fight, abuse, Violet, Beat, Bruise, Emotional drained and blackmail, Rape, Kill, Poison, Hurt, distress, torment , lie about other person to destroy their reputation and to hurt them back. We leave the ones that hurt and that don’t appreciate us to find better ones that we will love and they will love us back ”

- De philosopher DJ Kyos

“ Your Dreams Matter. Like an athlete trains, so must the student of life. Train the mind, body and spirit, so you may achieve anything. Life is about sharing your dreams/purpose (gifts/passions/talents) with the world and helping others find their way. ”

- Elizabeth SalamancaBrosig

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

- Lauren Oliver

“ You have to be the bravest person in the world to go out every day, being yourself when no one likes who you are. ”

- Matthew

“ Nothing that is perfect can be taught ”

- Mike Stagnitta

“ Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning. ”

- Albert Einstein

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

- Tatiana Vedenska

“ I find it odd the greed of mankind. People only like you for as long as they perceive they can get what they want from you. Or for as long as they perceive you are who they want you to be. But I like people for all of their changing surprises, the thoughts in their heads, the warmth that changes to cold and the cold that changes to warmth... for being human. The rawness of being human delights me. ”

- C. JoyBell C.

“ ?Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats. ”

- Voltaire

“ We're staying together," he promised. "You're not getting away from me. Never again. ”

- Rick Riordan

“ There is a distinct, awful pain that comes with loving someone more than they love you. ”

- Steve Maraboli

“ There are four basic human needs; food, sleep, sex and revenge. ”

- Banksy

“ Yet there are moments when the walls of the mind grow thin; when nothing is unabsorbed, and I could fancy that we might blow so vast a bubble that the sun might set and rise in it and we might take the blue of midday and the black of midnight and be cast off and escape from here and now. ”

- Virginia Woolf

“ Tough times never last. Tough people do ”

- Robert Schuller