Quotes of W. H. Auden

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Narcissus does not fall in love with his reflection because it is beautiful, but because it is his. If it were his beauty that enthralled him, he would be set free in a few years by its fading.

- W. H. Auden

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“ If you really want to do something, you'll find a way. If you don't, you'll find an excuse. ”

- Jim Rohn

“ Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you. ”

- Chuck Klosterman

“ Live a life of substance. The rest are mere fantasies. ”

- Pragnya Sahoo

“ Don't let him take who you are. Make him fear who you'll become. ”

- Mary Weber

“ If you don't run your own life, somebody else will. ”

- John Atkinson

“ I love the Lord, for he heard my voice; he heard my cry for mercy. Because he turned his ear to me, I will call on him as long as I live. (Psalms 116:12 NIV) ”

- Anonymous

“ Those who ignore the rise of evil and depravity in a democracy, grant tacit license of acceptance and draw harm upon the vulnerable. When someone has altered our course without consent, we must engage to restore our path. ”

- RJ Intindola

“ Her smile was innocent and naive as if she didn’t know anything other than to love and be kind to others. ”

- Mariyam Hasnain

“ Sometimes, as we're stumbling along in the dark, we hit something good. ”

- Susan Ee

“ I was blind and heart broken and didn't want to do anything and Gus burst into my room and shouted, "I have wonderful news!" And I was like, "I don't really want to hear wonderful news right now," and Gus said, "This is wonderful news you want to hear," and I asked him, "Fine, what is it?" and he said, "You are going to live a good and long life filled with great and terrible moments that you cannot even imagine yet! ”

- John Green

“ If life gives you lemons, make lemonade. ”

- Unknown

“ Every risk bears with it the seeds of an opportunity: failure success, fall rise, and setback comeback. ”

- JOHN TASKINSOY

“ Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself. ”

- Leo Buscaglia

“ A heart filled with anger has no room for love. ”

- Joan Lunden

“ A lack of clarity could put the brakes on any journey to success. ”

- Steve Maraboli

“ I love words.  I crave descriptions that overwhelm my imagination with vivid detail.  I dwell on phrases that make my heart thrum.  I cherish expressions that pierce my emotions and force the tears to spill over.   In essence, I long for a writer's soul sealed in ink on the page. ”

- Richelle E. Goodrich

“ 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

“ There's a very positive relationship between people's ability to accomplish any task and the time they're willing to spend on it. ”

- Joyce Brothers

“ Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself. ”

- Andrew Carnegie

“ Love all, trust a few. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ We need hearts with restored empathy And homes with restored hope ”

- Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

“ Denna is a wild thing," I explained. "Like a hind or a summer storm. If a storm blows down your house, or breaks a tree, you don't say the storm was mean. It was cruel. It acted according to its nature and something unfortunately was hurt. The same is true of Denna. ”

- Patrick Rothfuss

“ 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

“ Sometimes, change is what we need to retain our sanity. ”

- Life

“ 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