Quotes of James A. Baldwin

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Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.

- James A. Baldwin

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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

“ It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not. ”

- Andre Gide

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

- Harold Geneen

“ 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.

“ Freedom comes from a sense of empowerment. ”

- Amy Leigh Mercree

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

- Albert Einstein

“ Life is tough, darling, but so are you. ”

- Stephanie Bennett Henry

“ Love isn't a feeling or emotion that changes timely, it's everlasting... ”

- Gandhi

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

- Rudyard Kipling

“ Love is blind, they saybut isn't it more that love makes us see too much? Isn't it more that love floods our brain with sights and sounds, so that everything looks bigger, brighter, more lovely than ever before? ”

- Susan Fletcher

“ Tell me then, does love make one a fool or do only fools fall in love? ”

- Orhan Pamuk

“ Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery. ”

- Charles Dickens

“ Life is a game and true love is a trophy. ”

- Rufus Wainwright

“ Tough times never last. Tough people do ”

- Robert Schuller

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

- Jodi Ann Quarrie

“ We are mathematical equations where your life is the sum of all choices you've made until now. The good news is you can change the equation so that you start making a difference in your life. ”

- Steve Maraboli

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

- Veronica Roth

“ A bad attitude is like a flat tire, you can’t get very far until you change it. ”

- Unknown

“ How can I put the Auras back in the chest?” I asked, terror boiling inside my stomach. “You can’t. Not if those that were or will be struck by them won’t be eager to express their feelings and let you help them. You do not change people, dearie. It’s the people that change themselves. You’re the Guardian, but they’re the bearers,” the Oracle whispered. “I’m no Guardian. I’m doomed!” I said and I knew that this was true. ”

- Victoria Moschou

“ The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplaceable being. ”

- Tom Robbins

“ Sometimes the best of gods gift's arrive by the shattering of all the window panes. ”

- Paulo Coelho

“ Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone. ”

- Pablo Picasso