Quotes of Joyce Carol Oates

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It is only through disruptions and confusion that we grow, jarred out of ourselves by the collision of someone else's private world with our own.

- Joyce Carol Oates

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“ Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery. ”

- Charles Dickens

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

- Melissa Marr

“ When love is real. You both will do whatever you can to build and construct a solid relationship. It will be hard work but it's possible, We all come with pros and cons. If it's real, it will never be over. ”

- Katherine Vargas

“ Your best creative assets do not occur unless you do a mental shift. You have to be in a positive frame of mind because inspiration is fleeting. I walk to work for inspiration and to clear my mind. ”

- Ron Ben Israel

“ Love isn't a feeling or emotion that changes timely, it's everlasting... ”

- Gandhi

“ It takes guts and humility to admit mistakes. Admitting we're wrong is courage, not weakness. ”

- Roy T. Bennett

“ I love you and it’s getting worse. ”

- Joseph E. Morris

“ The art of existence is to find a sensation of spiritual expansion that makes you larger than existence itself. ”

- Talismanist Giebra

“ Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all. ”

- St. Augustine

“ Her smile was innocent and naive as if she didn’t know anything other than to love and be kind to others. ”

- Mariyam Hasnain

“ At one time or another we are all called to leave the safety of our homes, the certainty of what we know, the illusions of who we are. Not everyone will heed this call, of course. And those who do will risk losing themselves completely. But if we choose to ignore the invitation, we risk never knowing who we might have become. We risk dying without knowing what it is to live. ”

- Thomas Lloyd Qualls

“ Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexations to the spirit. ”

- Max Ehrmann

“ Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door. ”

- Kyle Chandler

“ Don't be afraid of the shadows, that only means there's a light nearby. ”

- Evanescence

“ Let no one who loves be called unhappy. Even love unreturned has its rainbow. ”

- J. M. Barrie

“ Willingness to show we are interested in our children’s needs takes the burden and worries off their minds. It shows compassion on our end, and it builds trust on their end. ”

- Charlena E. Jackson

“ Awake, my friend! Arise, my friend! Start walking my friend! And do not stop until you bring the change you wish to see in your society! ”

- Abhijit Naskar

“ If I had to live my life again, I’d make the same mistakes, only sooner. ”

- Tallulah Bankhead

“ The way you handle fear determines the results you have in life. If you are equipped with knowledge, you can overcome fear ”

- H. J. Chammas

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

- Lenora Porch

“ Give the ones you love wings to fly, roots to come back and reasons to stay. ”

- Dalai Lama XIV

“ Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes. ”

- Friedrich Nietzsche

“ Mysteries of attraction could not always be explained through logic. Sometimes the fractures in two separate souls became the very hinges that held them together. ”

- Lisa Kleypas

“ Though lovers be lost love shall not. ”

- Dylan Thomas

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

- Gandhi