Quotes of W. Somerset Maugham

somelinesforyou_159507695186.jpg

The rain fell alike upon the just and upon the unjust, and for nothing was there a why and a wherefore.

- W. Somerset Maugham

Make your own quote image here

Note* For better image experience, you need to upload a desktop layout image, it means horizontal layout, not vertical layout.

“ Love alone could waken love. ”

- Pearl S. Buck

“ Bagiku ada sesuatu yang paling berharga dan hakiki dalam kehidupan: 'dapat mencintai, dapat iba hati, dapat merasai kedukaan'. Tanpa itu semua maka kita tidak lebih dari benda. Berbahagialah orang yang masih mempunyai rasa cinta, yang belum sampai kehilangan benda yang paling bernilai itu. Kalau kita telah kehilangan itu maka absurdlah hidup kita. ”

- Soe Hok Gie

“ Anyone who stops learning is old, whether twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing you can do is keep your mind young. ”

- Mark Twain

“ I am not an optimist, but a great believer of hope. ”

- Nelson Mandela

“ Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall. ”

- Confucius

“ You are successful in my book if you do what you love for a living; you do not owe money to anyone; you have a place what you call home; you have a wife/husband, a girlfriend/boyfriend, or a partner who loves and respects you; and most importantly, you are surrounded by friends and loved ones who stand by you in good and bad days. ”

- JOHN TASKINSOY

“ Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something. ”

- Rainbow Rowell

“ At one time or another we are all called to leave the safety of our homes, the certainty of what we know, the illusions of who we are. Not everyone will heed this call, of course. And those who do will risk losing themselves completely. But if we choose to ignore the invitation, we risk never knowing who we might have become. We risk dying without knowing what it is to live. ”

- Thomas Lloyd Qualls

“ Looks like to me we all begin and end in the same place. Perhaps we could love each other a little bit more along the way. ”

- Clyde Lee Dennis

“ Do not let your negative thoughts have power over you because those thoughts will end up controlling your life. No one can live a positive life with a negative mind. ”

- Roy T. Bennett

“ We cannot face up to what lies ahead, without facing up to what lies within. ”

- Eleesha

“ Don’t take the high ground and assume you already know what you’ll do. The truth is, when it comes to someone you love, you’ll find there isn’t anything you won’t do. ”

- Richelle Mead

“ Every day is your entire life. ”

- Mike Stagnitta

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

- Tatiana Vedenska

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

- W. E. B. Du Bois

“ Anything I ever did for a person was out of love, nobody can ever finesse me. ”

- Genereux Philip

“ Sitting too long produces trees. ”

- Lorin MorganRichards

“ The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. ”

- Émile Zola

“ Pet names are a persistant remnant of childhood, a reminder that life is not always so serious, so formal, so complicated. They are a reminder, too, that one is not all things to all people. ”

- Jhumpa Lahiri

“ Love all, trust a few. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ So many reasons to hate and still I choose to love anyway... ”

- Samiha Totanji

“ It’s only after you’ve stepped outside your comfort zone that you begin to change, grow, and transform. ”

- Roy T. Bennett

“ 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

“ There are no trips to your past that are free ”

- Michalopoulos Angelos

“ A drop of water shall be returned with a burst of spring. ”

- Pat Cher