Quotes of Benjamin Jowett

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My dear child, you must believe in God despite what the clergy tells you.

- Benjamin Jowett

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

- Martin Luther King

“ There is the great lesson of 'Beauty and the Beast,' that a thing must be loved before it is lovable. ”

- Chesterton

“ Money can buy you a fine dog, but only love can make him wag his tail. ”

- Ellen DeGeneres

“ Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell. ”

- Joan Crawford

“ It is that we are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so helplessly unhappy as when we have lost our loved object or its love. ”

- Sigmund Freud

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

- Melissa Marr

“ Mythology is not a lie, mythology is poetry, it is metaphorical. It has been well said that mythology is the penultimate truthpenultimate because the ultimate cannot be put into words. It is beyond words. Beyond images, beyond that bounding rim of the Buddhist Wheel of Becoming. Mythology pitches the mind beyond that rim, to what can be known but not told. ”

- Joseph Campbell

“ A lack of clarity could put the brakes on any journey to success. ”

- Steve Maraboli

“ To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others. ”

- Anne Sophie Swetchine

“ I spend most nights at home falling in love with the idea of you. ”

- Michael Faudet

“ Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love. ”

- Mother Teresa

“ 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

“ Unless you love someone, nothing else makes sense. ”

- e.e. cummings

“ Visionary decisionmaking happens at the intersection of intuition and logic. ”

- Gandhi

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

- Wendell Berry

“ Every risk bears with it the seeds of an opportunity: failure success, fall rise, and setback comeback. ”

- JOHN TASKINSOY

“ Just because you fall once, doesn't mean you're fall at everything. Keep trying, hold on, and always trust yourself, because if you don't then who will?? ”

- Marilyn Monroe

“ 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

“ Love all, trust a few. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ You lose nothing when fighting for a cause ... In my mind the losers are those who don't have a cause they care about. ”

- Muhammad Ali

“ Your heart is a powerful force. Use it consciously. ”

- Amy Leigh Mercree

“ May I share with you a formula that in my judgment will help you and help me to journey well through mortality... First, fill your mind with truth; second, fill your life with service; and third, fill your heart with love. ”

- Thomas S. Monson

“ Fear lies. Save love. ”

- Arif Naseem

“ When things do not go your way, remember that every challenge — every adversity — contains within it the seeds of opportunity and growth. ”

- Roy T. Bennett

“ Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes. ”

- Friedrich Nietzsche