Quotes of John Updike

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But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of his verse, the poet walks gagged through his own biography.

- John Updike

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“ I can only think about the past, but I can always design the future. ”

- Davin Ferrigon

“ Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic. ”

- Anais Nin

“ The sun shall always rise upon a new day and there shall always be a rose garden within me. Yes, there is a part of me that is broken, but my broken soil gives way to my wild roses. ”

- C. JoyBell C.

“ To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best. ”

- William M. Thackery

“ 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

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

- Matshona Dhliwayo

“ Stay strong, stay positive, and never give up. ”

- Roy T. Bennett

“ 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

“ It is our wounds that create in us a desire to reach for miracles. The fulfillment of such miracles depends on whether we let our wounds pull us down or lift us up towards our dreams. ”

- Jocelyn Soriano

“ True love is not so much a matter of romance as it is a matter of anxious concern for the wellbeing of one's companion. ”

- Gordon B. Hinckley

“ We will either find a way, or make one. ”

- Hannibal

“ Even when I'm dead, I'll swim through the Earth, like a mermaid of the soil, just to be next to your bones. ”

- Jeffrey McDaniel

“ Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world. ”

- Roy T. Bennett

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

- Unknown

“ There are times in life which proves life is wife and wife is life. ”

- Fahad Basheer

“ With love comes the risk of losing it. With love comes the risk of getting burnt with it. When love burns, it consumes even the soul. ”

- Jyoti Arora

“ Most people never truly live because they never do what they truly love. ”

- Tanner Walling

“ Do I care about pleasure? Yes. But I don't believe in happiness. ”

- Tatiana Vedenska

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

- Napoleon Hill

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

- Dr. Seuss

“ Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something. ”

- Rainbow Rowell

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

- Mignon McLaughlin

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

- Stephen Richards

“ Looks like to me we all begin and end in the same place. Perhaps we could love each other a little bit more along the way. ”

- Clyde Lee Dennis

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

- Osho