Quotes of Jean Cocteau

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Tact is knowing how far to go too far.

- Jean Cocteau

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“ Let no one who loves be called unhappy. Even love unreturned has its rainbow. ”

- J. M. Barrie

“ I held my heart back from positively accepting anything, since I was afraid of another fall, and in this condition of suspense I was being all the more killed. ”

- St. Augustine of Hippo

“ In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can’t build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery and death. ”

- Anne Frank

“ I may not be where I want to be, but if I stop now, I'll NEVER get where I'm going! ”

- Laura Lynch

“ It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not. ”

- Andre Gide

“ When your only competition is becoming a better you, you will always win the game. ”

- Jackie Griffin

“ One word Frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love. ”

- Sophocles

“ When you love someone, you say their name different. Like it's safe inside your mouth. ”

- Jodi Picoult

“ Morning is when the wick is lit. A flame ignited, the day delighted with heat and light, we start the fight for something more than before. ”

- Jeb Dickerson

“ What you meet in another being is the projection of your own level of evolution. ”

- Ram Dass

“ Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. Your really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world. ”

- Lucille Ball

“ 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

“ Sometimes the best of gods gift's arrive by the shattering of all the window panes. ”

- Paulo Coelho

“ This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness. ”

- Dalai Lama

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

- Chuck Klosterman

“ Hope is a waking dream. ”

- Aristotle

“ If you are depressed, you are living in the past. If you are anxious, you are living in the future. If you are at peace, you are living in the present ”

- Lao tzu

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

- Wendell Berry

“ Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ Is there any positive energy like enthusiasm? ”

- Lailah Gifty Akita

“ Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door. ”

- Kyle Chandler

“ The love we say we feel for another is, in most cases, just a selfish hunt for our own happiness. ”

- Tatjana Ostojic

“ Writing is the knitting of the soul ”

- Khaled Talib

“ Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them. ”

- Paul Hawken