Quotes of J. Paul Getty

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Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train - Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

- J. Paul Getty

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“ It was like I’d met my life’s purpose. Like I’d been hurtling through the cosmos, blind, and without a destiny and he gave me one. He was fated to be the man who would break my heart at last. The heart I’d kept under scrutiny, sheltered, for this long, he tore through the heavy vaults and ripped it right out of my chest. From then on, there was no me, and no him. There was only us. ”

- Ellie Fox

“ Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all. ”

- St. Augustine

“ What I stand for is what I stand on. ”

- Wendell Berry

“ Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love. ”

- Mother Teresa

“ As an African elite, look within and ask, what can I do to change the present African narratives? What niche can I carve and do my uncompromising best to lift this continent? For my sake and for the sake of my children Jumoke Odepe ”

- Jumoke Odepe

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

- Lauren Oliver

“ Keep away from small people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. ”

- Mark Twain

“ If ur laptop doesnt smell like fire then ur losing. ”

- Genereux Philip

“ When you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe, then you’ll be successful. ”

- Eric Thomas

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

- Mother Teresa

“ Glorious indeed is the world of God around us, but more glorious the world of God within us. ”

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

- Joseph E. Morris

“ We werent exactly lovers yet, But we were a little more then friends. We just kept meeting at the wrong time, but our connection never ends. ”

- Nikki Rowe

“ 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.

“ The purpose of life is not to be happy—but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you lived at all. ”

- Leo Rosten

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

- Henry David Thoreau

“ That's a misconception, Lennie. The sky is everywhere, it begins at your feet. ”

- Jandy Nelson

“ Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new. ”

- Ursula K. Le Guin

“ If life gives you lemons, make lemonade. ”

- Unknown

“ If you suddenly stumble upon the right door, you will not be able to recognize that it is right. ”

- Osho

“ Unrequited love’s a bore. ”

- Lorenz Hart

“ Mythology is not a lie, mythology is poetry, it is metaphorical. It has been well said that mythology is the penultimate truthpenultimate because the ultimate cannot be put into words. It is beyond words. Beyond images, beyond that bounding rim of the Buddhist Wheel of Becoming. Mythology pitches the mind beyond that rim, to what can be known but not told. ”

- Joseph Campbell

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

- Martin Luther King

“ To be human is to be broken and broken is its own kind of beautiful. ”

- robert m drake