Quotes of Richard Thompson

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Imagining playing the guitar is a slightly looser thing than playing it. You can hear more things sometimes. The fingers of your imagination aren't quite as hidebound as your real fingers.

- Richard Thompson

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“ Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure. ”

- George Edward Woodberry

“ The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new. ”

- Socrates

“ If you get tired, learn to rest, not to quit. ”

- Banksy

“ If you fuel your journey on the opinions of others, you are going to run out of gas. ”

- Steve Maraboli

“ 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.

“ When someone beats a rug, the blows are not against the rug, but against the dust in it. ”

- Gandhi

“ 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

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

- Sherrilyn Kenyon

“ 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

“ The price of your birthday outfits should go costlier with respect to the ages you lived. ”

- Anwesha Mohanty ‘Anny’

“ Unrequited love’s a bore. ”

- Lorenz Hart

“ Don't be afraid of the shadows, that only means there's a light nearby. ”

- Evanescence

“ 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

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

- Mother Teresa

“ Isn't it strange how we all start as strangers? Fall in love, share infinities, hurt each other, fall out of love to eventually end as the strangers we once were? ”

- Fiphie

“ I felt overwhelmed. I didn’t expect a first kiss to be so…life altering. In a few brief moments, the rule book of my universe had been rewritten. Suddenly I was a brand new person. I was as fragile as a newborn, but instead of the doctor placing me in my mother’s arms, he’d put me in Ren’s. What would Ren do with me? Would he draw me near, soothe me, and teach me about this new world or would he reject me and tell the doctor there must be some mistake. There was no way to know. What a breakable and delicate thing a heart was, no wonder I’d kept mine locked away. ”

- Colleen Houck

“ Close your eyes, take your time and listen. ”

- Maxime Lagacé

“ One rarely falls in love without being as much attracted to what is interestingly wrong with someone as what is objectively healthy. ”

- Alain de Botton

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

- Nelson Mandela

“ Love yourself, whatever makes you different, and use it to make you stand out. Mine is my voice and the fact that I’m gay: well, the fact that I’m flamboyantly gay. ”

- Ross Mathews

“ What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us. ”

- Helen Keller

“ Everyone's time is limited. What matters most is to focus on what matters most. ”

- Roy Bennett

“ Being love rather than giving or taking love, is the only thing that provides stability. ”

- Ram Dass

“ 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

“ Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose. ”

- Victor Frankl