Quotes of Arnold J. Toynbee

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America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair.

- Arnold J. Toynbee

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“ Many, many readers have written asking me wistfully about the nature of Sam and Grace's relationship, and I can assure you, that sort is absolutely real. Mutual, respectful, enduring love is completely attainable as long as you swear you won't settle for less. ”

- Maggie Stiefvater

“ I pray you, do not fall in love with me, for I am falser than vows made in wine. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ A failure is always in the passenger seat in his or her life. ”

- Stephen Richards

“ I thought it (love) meant like you hold out your hand and someone takes it, holds it hard, and pulls you safe from the river. You talk. You tell him bits of yourself. You say here's where I hurt and you give it to him and he holds it and gives you where he hurts in return and you hold it and that's how you learn to love. ”

- Elizabeth George

“ If you listen more, you will judge less; and when you judge less, you will appreciate differences; and you will be more happy. ”

- JOHN TASKINSOY

“ The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience. ”

- Emily Dickinson

“ Motorbike Poem by Malay Roy Choudhury I am on motorbike yezdi yamaha when flanked by horizon gallop backwards through sand blizzard tinsel clouds explode at my feet without helmet and speedsplit air at eighty in midsummer simoon each soundcart recedes onrushing lorries flee in a flash No time to brood but Yes accident expected anytime may even turn into a junkheap in a droughtnursed field. Translation of Bengali original 'Motor Cycle ”

- Malay Roychoudhury

“ Love yourself, whatever makes you different, and use it to make you stand out. Mine is my voice and the fact that I’m gay: well, the fact that I’m flamboyantly gay. ”

- Ross Mathews

“ It’s not bragging if you can back it up. ”

- Muhammad Ali

“ If you are too busy to pray, you are busier than God wants you to be. ”

- Wanda E. Brunstetter

“ Society will always be too fragile to accept us for all that makes us beautiful. ”

- robert m drake

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

- Steve Pavlina

“ The only love that I really believe in is a mother’s love for her children. ”

- Karl Lagerfeld

“ 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

“ True love is not so much a matter of romance as it is a matter of anxious concern for the wellbeing of one's companion. ”

- Gordon B. Hinckley

“ Drunk and alone and hopelessly in love with the idea that someday somehow it might just get better. ”

- Stefanie Sybens

“ Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world. ”

- Roy T. Bennett

“ The gospel is this: We are more sinful and flawed in ourselves than we ever dared believe, yet at the very same time we are more loved and accepted in Jesus Christ than we ever dared hope. ”

- Timothy Keller

“ Meditation is a way for nourishing and blossoming the divinity within you. ”

- Amit Ray

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

- Khuliso Mamathoni

“ Ethical veganism results in a profound revolution within the individual; a complete rejection of the paradigm of oppression and violence that she has been taught from childhood to accept as the natural order. It changes her life and the lives of those with whom she shares this vision of nonviolence. Ethical veganism is anything but passive; on the contrary, it is the active refusal to cooperate with injustice ”

- GaryLFrancione

“ A blooming relationship even if it’s someone else’s, makes me so happy and reinstates my faith in love... ”

- Nitya Prakash

“ Life is a sheet of blank papers and pen: “We write our life like one made in heaven.” Sadly though, some don’t have the pen with them: “It’s others doing the writing for them. ”

- Rodolfo Martin Vitangcol

“ Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic. ”

- Anais Nin