Quotes of Vladimir Nabokov

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Literature and butterflies are the two sweetest passions known to man.

- Vladimir Nabokov

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

- Chesterton

“ 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

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

- Francis Shenstone

“ When love comes like that, all you can do is surrender, to lay down your arms and submit to the will of those who would love you. For in denying it, you face only regret. ”

- Michael Kilman

“ We will either find a way, or make one. ”

- Hannibal

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

- Winston Churchill

“ Stay strong, stay positive, and never give up. ”

- Roy T. Bennett

“ So don't you worry your pretty little mind because people throw rocks at things that shine. [Ours] ”

- Taylor Swift

“ If you are depressed, you are living in the past. If you are anxious, you are living in the future. If you are at peace, you are living in the present ”

- Lao tzu

“ We cannot all do great things, but we can do small things with great love. ”

- Mother Teresa

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

- Lauren Oliver

“ I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.. ”

- Thoreau

“ 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

“ Sometimes you never realize how much you like someone, until you watch them liking someone else. ”

- Unknown

“ Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great. ”

- Niccolo Machiavelli

“ Never run from the truth. It is always there; it never changes – save your energy. ”

- Steve Maraboli

“ To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love. But then one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer; not to love is to suffer; to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be happy one must love or love to suffer or suffer from too much happiness. ”

- Woody Allen

“ Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them. ”

- John Updike

“ Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more. ”

- Erica Jong

“ True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked. ”

- Erich Segal

“ Love is blind, they say–but 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 Eve Green

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

- Taylor Swift

“ Faith is taking the first step even when you can’t see the whole staircase. ”

- Martin Luther King

“ The only time a man can do the right thing is right now. ”

- John Verdon

“ The superior man thinks only of virtue; the common man thinks only of comfort. ”

- Confucius