Quotes of H. L. Mencken

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Life is a constant oscillation between the sharp horns of dilemmas.

- H. L. Mencken

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“ You can never plan the future by the past. ”

- Edmund Burke

“ Uncertainty will always be part of the taking charge process. ”

- Harold Geneen

“ 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

“ Faith is taking the first step even when you can’t see the whole staircase. ”

- Martin Luther King

“ Do I care about pleasure? Yes. But I don't believe in happiness. ”

- Tatiana Vedenska

“ I know that the whole point—the only point—is to find the things that matter, and hold on to them, and fight for them, and refuse to let them go. ”

- Lauren Oliver

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

- Ken Poirot

“ Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option. ”

- Maya Angelou

“ I believe in love the verb, not the noun. ”

- Greg Behrendt

“ I keep thinking about this river somewhere, with the water moving really fast. And these two people in the water, trying to hold onto each other, holding on as hard as they can, but in the end it’s just too much. The current’s too strong. They’ve got to let go, drift apart. ”

- Kazuo Ishiguro

“ Now, I return to this young fellow. And the communication I have got to make is, that he has great expectations. ”

- Charles Dickens

“ Love is like a brick. You can build a house, or you can sink a dead body. ”

- Lady Gaga

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

- Evanescence

“ 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

“ To lovers out there… I have realized that even thou I can cook for myself . I can drive myself, and I can do lot of things for myself. It is always nice to be driven . I enjoyed food been coked by someone and its always nice when someone does the things for me. It is the same with Love. You can love yourself , but the best Love is when you get it from someone . When someone loves you back, even when you can love yourself. ”

- De philosopher DJ Kyos

“ There is real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment ”

- Norman Vincent Peale

“ We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them. ”

- Francois De La Rochefoucauld

“ Your environment will eat your goals and plans for breakfast. ”

- Steve Pavlina

“ Be Brave, Be Bold! Never allow fear to dictate your choices. Use your VOICE & trust in your abilities. ”

- Rosalie Bardo

“ Sometimes love means letting go when you want to hold on tighter. ”

- Melissa Marr

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

- George Edward Woodberry

“ To love oneself is the beginning of a life long romance. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ If you love me as you say you do,' she whispered, 'make it so that I am at peace. ”

- Leo Tolstoy

“ 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

“ The beautiful thing about love is that you just need to plant it once and nurture it and it shall bloom into blossoms that would cover the valleys. ”

- Hermann J. Steinherr