Quotes of Langston Hughes

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Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.

- Langston Hughes

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“ 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

“ Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. Your really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world. ”

- Lucille Ball

“ Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened. ”

- Dr. Seuss

“ Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself. ”

- Leo Buscaglia

“ Reading is life, Reading is knowledge, Reading Is Everything. ”

- Ezra Heft

“ After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same language even when they speak the same language? ”

- Russell Hoban

“ The only time a man can do the right thing is right now. ”

- John Verdon

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

- Taylor Swift

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

- Chesterton

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

- Steve Pavlina

“ To touch the soul of another human being is to walk on holy ground. ”

- Stephen Covey

“ Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove. O no, it is an everfixed mark That looks on tempests and is never shaken; It is the star to every wand'ring bark, Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken." (Sonnet 116) ”

- William Shakespeare

“ When love comes like that, all you can do is surrender, to lay down your arms and submit to the will of those who would love you. For in denying it, you face only regret. ”

- Michael Kilman

“ But if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires: To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To know the pain of too much tenderness. To be wounded by your own understanding of love; And to bleed willingly and joyfully. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving; To rest at noon hour and meditate love's ecstasy; To return home at eventide with gratitude; And then to sleep with a prayer for the beloved in your heart and a song of praise on your lips. ”

- Kahlil Gibran

“ Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great. ”

- Niccolo Machiavelli

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

- Gandhi

“ Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and a richness to life that nothing else can bring. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom. ”

- Thomas Jefferson

“ Confusion, obsession, and potential love walk handinhand. ”

- Ashli and Trisha Edwards

“ It's all a conundrum, isn't it— forgetting the mixed tape in the car... feeling forgotten when... so many people are thinking of us? Drinking when we should be eating... sleeping when we should be making love... thanking God above when we don't have enough? Each day is a mad rush to something irrelevant. We measure our pricelessness by our successes, which... still equals money. Life goes by so quick when each day is a mad rush to slow motion. We eat fast food so that we can go to bed on time, but, trust me, everyone wakes up too late. ”

- Heather Angelika Dooley

“ A failure is always in the passenger seat in his or her life. ”

- Stephen Richards

“ Love comforteth like sunshine after rain. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Always go with the choice that scares you the most, because that’s the one that is going to help you grow. ”

- Unknown

“ 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