Quotes of Hubert Selby Jr.

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But to believe that getting stuff is the purpose and aim of life is madness.

- Hubert Selby Jr.

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“ Tomorrow I will run more courageously, more outrageously. ”

- Talismanist Giebra

“ A bad attitude is like a flat tire, you can’t get very far until you change it. ”

- Unknown

“ I hope she'll be a fool that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool. ”

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

“ Everything is easier said than done. Wanting something is easy. Saying something is easy. The challenge and the reward are in the doing. ”

- Steve Maraboli

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

- Mariyam Hasnain

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

- Og Mandino

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

- Roy T. Bennett

“ One thing I learned out of all these years is nobody really riding wit you like they say n I’ll always keep my guard up cause of all the fuckery. ”

- Genereux Philip

“ You are everything I never knew I always wanted. ”

- Fools Rush In

“ ?Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats. ”

- Voltaire

“ 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

“ Tragedy and adversary are the stones we sharpen our swords against so we can fight new battles. ”

- Sherrilyn Kenyon

“ Better to have, and not need, than to need, and not have. ”

- Franz Kafka

“ Be supportive of others the way you would want them to be supportive of you. ”

- Ken Poirot

“ Getting an idea should be like sitting down on a pin. It should make you jump up and do something. ”

- E. L. Simpson

“ Gratitude is not love. Don’t mix the two because they are not the same. ”

- Frank Matobo

“ It takes guts and humility to admit mistakes. Admitting we're wrong is courage, not weakness. ”

- Roy T. Bennett

“ If every life is a river, then it's little wonder that we do not even notice the changes that occur until we are far out in the darkest sea. One day you look around and nothing is familiar, not even your own face. My name once meant daughter, grandaughter, friend, sister, beloved. Now those words mean only what their letters spell out; Star in the night sky. Truth in the darkness. I have crossed over to a place where I never thought I'd be. I am someone I would have never imagined. A secret. A dream. I am this, body and soul. Burn me. Drown me. Tell me lies. I will still be who I am. ”

- Alice Hoffman

“ Maybe everyone can live beyond what they're capable of. ”

- Markus Zusak

“ When people think they know you and put you in a box, keep growing and give them the box. ”

- Jackie Griffin

“ I wonder if you have noticed a rather rummy thing about it viz. that it is everywhere. You can't get away from it. Love, I mean. Wherever you go, there it is, buzzing along in every class of life. Quite remarkable. ”

- P. G. Wodehouse

“ If life gives you lemons, make lemonade. ”

- Unknown

“ Battered was my heart in the deep search, branded with cracks like slices of silver birch. An ignorant dream, a wish, just fool's gold that was the tale that love had sold. ”

- Sara Secora