Quotes of Samuel Butler

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The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion.

- Samuel Butler

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“ A successful marriage requires falling in love many times always with the same person. ”

- Mignon McLaughlin

“ A heart filled with anger has no room for love. ”

- Joan Lunden

“ 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

“ Just when you think it can't get any worse, it can. And just when you think it can't get any better, it can. ”

- Nicholas Sparks

“ If you suddenly stumble upon the right door, you will not be able to recognize that it is right. ”

- Osho

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

- Harold Geneen

“ The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire, the size of your dream and how you handle disappointment along the way. ”

- Robert Kiyosaki

“ Everything is easier said than done. Wanting something is easy. Saying something is easy. The challenge and the reward are in the doing. ”

- Steve Maraboli

“ 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

“ Until you step into the unknown, you don’t know what you’re made of. ”

- Roy T. Bennett

“ That's a misconception, Lennie. The sky is everywhere, it begins at your feet. ”

- Jandy Nelson

“ Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything. ”

- Napoleon Hill

“ I am not an optimist, but a great believer of hope. ”

- Nelson Mandela

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

- Gary Zukav

“ If you sow kindness, you will reap love. ”

- Matshona Dhliwayo

“ You see, when we set goals that feel safer and achievable, we are caving in to our own preconceived notions of what we are capable of. We’re not pushing past our comfort zone; we’re just settling for status quo. ”

- Ruth Soukup

“ Our own selfesteem is something we can actually twist in whatever way we want. ”

- Stephen Richards

“ Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know. ”

- Michel de Montaigne

“ and then I look deep into your eyes and we melt into each other and enjoy that melting, like those things that belong together... (fragment from Passion beneath, chapter Passion) ”

- Claudia Pavel

“ 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

“ Sometimes the hardest one to see . . .is the one standing right before you. ”

- Lenora Porch

“ Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through selfgratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. ”

- Helen Keller

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

- Émile Zola

“ Perfection does not exist you can always do better and you can always grow. ”

- Les Brown