Quotes of Stanley Kunitz

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Old myths, old gods, old heroes have never died. They are only sleeping at the bottom of our mind, waiting for our call. We have need for them. They represent the wisdom of our race.

- Stanley Kunitz

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“ In meetings philosophy might work, on the field practicality works. ”

- Amit Kalantri

“ She was right about something else too," Dimitri said after a long pause. My back was to him, but there was a strange quality to his voice that made me turn around. "What's that?" I asked. "That I do still love you." With that one sentence, everything in the universe changed. ”

- Richelle Mead

“ Love is not a feeling of happiness. Love is a willingness to sacrifice. ”

- Michael Novak

“ I don't think you should wait. I think you should speak now. ”

- Taylor Swift

“ Your dream should always be greater than your grievances ”

- Aadarsh Singh

“ 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

“ 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

“ I thought it (love) meant like you hold out your hand and someone takes it, holds it hard, and pulls you safe from the river. You talk. You tell him bits of yourself. You say here's where I hurt and you give it to him and he holds it and gives you where he hurts in return and you hold it and that's how you learn to love. ”

- Elizabeth George

“ 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

“ 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

“ Love is blind, they saybut isn't it more that love makes us see too much? Isn't it more that love floods our brain with sights and sounds, so that everything looks bigger, brighter, more lovely than ever before? ”

- Susan Fletcher

“ It is now how good you are, it’s how good you want to be. ”

- Unknown

“ Denna is a wild thing," I explained. "Like a hind or a summer storm. If a storm blows down your house, or breaks a tree, you don't say the storm was mean. It was cruel. It acted according to its nature and something unfortunately was hurt. The same is true of Denna. ”

- Patrick Rothfuss

“ Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. ”

- Mahatma Gandhi

“ If you are too busy to pray, you are busier than God wants you to be. ”

- Wanda E. Brunstetter

“ Love is beautiful as written in The Greatest Proposal Book ”

- Khuliso Mamathoni

“ 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

“ The only time we can effect an action is now. So learn from the past, have a vision for your future but act NOW. Today will soon be your past so don’t miss your present. ? ”

- Andrea McGibbon

“ Hmm…now that I think about it, housecats are often coddled and petted. You don’t pet me nearly enough. You must be a lax owner. How selfish of you to deprive your cat of attention. ”

- Colleen Houck

“ If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut. ”

- Albert Einstein

“ Some people are not capable of loving you the way you need to be loved It might be wise to just wish them well and take care of yourself. ”

- Charles E Hudson

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

- Leo Tolstoy

“ I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.. ”

- Thoreau

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

- Edmund Burke