Quotes of S. I. Hayakawa

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Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, and what happens when he says, I am a failure.

- S. I. Hayakawa

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“ Freedom comes from a sense of empowerment. ”

- Amy Leigh Mercree

“ The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplaceable being. ”

- Tom Robbins

“ Nothing can bring a real sense of security into the home except true love. ”

- Billy Graham

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

- Tatjana Ostojic

“ Life is good! It is only our thoughts, choices and actions towards the situations we meet in life each moment of time that makes life look bad! The same bad situation in life that makes one person think badly inspires another to do a noble thing! The same good situation in life that makes one person feel so good to get into a bad situation inspires another person to create another good situation because of the good situation. It is all about thoughts, choices and actions! Life is good! Live it well! ”

- Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

“ When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself. ”

- Wayne Dyer

“ Eventually you will come to understand that love heals everything, and love is all there is. ”

- Gary Zukav

“ As a woman, you are always empowering others and helping people out of their situations. The time has come, and the time is now, for you to take charge of your own journey. It doesn’t matter how young or how old you are. It is time for you to freefall into giving yourself a chance at love, and the first person you should fall in love with is yourself. ”

- Charlena E. Jackson

“ Let me take you from Miss to Mrs ”

- Ismaaciil C. Ubax

“ An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it. ”

- William Bernbach

“ I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. A tree whose hungry mouth is pressed Against the earth's sweet flowing breast; A tree that looks at God all day And lifts her leafy arms to pray; A tree that may in summer wear A nest of robins in her hair; Upon whose bosom snow has lain; Who intimately lives with rain. Poems are made by fools like me, But only God can make a tree. ”

- Joyce Kilmer

“ Never apologize for burning too brightly or collapsing into yourself every night. That is how galaxies are made. ”

- Tyler Kent White

“ 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

“ Society will always be too fragile to accept us for all that makes us beautiful. ”

- robert m drake

“ Finding the lesson behind every adversity will be the one important thing that helps get you through it. ”

- Roy T. Bennett

“ Time is persistent, and we need to make the best of it. ”

- Charlena E. Jackson

“ That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ Pet names are a persistant remnant of childhood, a reminder that life is not always so serious, so formal, so complicated. They are a reminder, too, that one is not all things to all people. ”

- Jhumpa Lahiri

“ 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

“ If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it. ”

- Ernest Hemingway

“ The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. ”

- Émile Zola

“ You can't stop dreaming just because the night never seems to end. ”

- Curtis Tyrone Jones

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

- St. Augustine

“ Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack. ”

- Mary Roberts Rinehart

“ 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