Quotes of James Baldwin

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If one cannot risk oneself, then one is simply incapable of giving. And, after all, one can give freedom only be setting someone free.

- James Baldwin

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“ If we open ourselves up to our feelings, our intuition, and our spiritual centers, we become much closer to the mystery of the Universe. ”

- Patricia Lynn

“ Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose. ”

- Victor Frankl

“ 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

“ Stop hating yourself for everything you aren’t and start loving yourself for everything you already are. ”

- Unknown

“ Anything under God's control is never out of control. ”

- Charles Swindoll

“ Many, many readers have written asking me wistfully about the nature of Sam and Grace's relationship, and I can assure you, that sort is absolutely real. Mutual, respectful, enduring love is completely attainable as long as you swear you won't settle for less. ”

- Maggie Stiefvater

“ Every man is a boyfriend. But some people do not have the ability to become husbands. ”

- Sajal Ahmed

“ Never apologize for burning too brightly or collapsing into yourself every night. That is how galaxies are made. ”

- Tyler Kent White

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

- Jandy Nelson

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

- e.e. cummings

“ What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us. ”

- Helen Keller

“ We're staying together," he promised. "You're not getting away from me. Never again. ”

- Rick Riordan

“ Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone. ”

- Pablo Picasso

“ The purpose of life is to love, the purpose of love is to live. ”

- Matshona Dhliwayo

“ At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet. ”

- Plato

“ Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence. ”

- Ovid

“ There is nothing higher than love, and nothing lower than ignorance. ”

- Matshona Dhliwayo

“ My love for you does not recognize boundaries, distances, borders, or timezones! ”

- Avijeet Das

“ Each of us is an innkeeper who decides if there is room for Jesus! ”

- Neal A. Maxwell

“ A good idea always attracts other good ideas. ”

- Patrick Ness

“ Sometimes when I'm alone, I take the pearl from where it lives in my pocket and try to remember the boy with the bread, the strong arms that warded off nightmares on the train, the kisses in the arena. ”

- Suzanne Collins

“ When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you. ”

- Plato

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

- Ezra Heft

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

- Greg Behrendt