Quotes of Jean Cocteau

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I have lost my seven best friends, which is to say God has had mercy on me seven times without realizing it. He lent a friendship, took it from me, sent me another.

- Jean Cocteau

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“ I think romantic love evolved to enable you to focus your mating energy on just one individual at a time, thereby conserving mating time and energy. ”

- Helen Fisher

“ Be Brave, Be Bold! Never allow fear to dictate your choices. Use your VOICE & trust in your abilities. ”

- Rosalie Bardo

“ Do you have to make me feel like there's nothing left of me? You can take everything I have, you can break everything I am, like I am made of glass, like I am made of paper.Go on and try to tear me down I will be rising from the ground like a Skyscraper... ”

- Demi Lovato

“ Your Dreams Matter. Like an athlete trains, so must the student of life. Train the mind, body and spirit, so you may achieve anything. Life is about sharing your dreams/purpose (gifts/passions/talents) with the world and helping others find their way. ”

- Elizabeth SalamancaBrosig

“ If I love you more than you love me, I’m as good as dead. Yet I can’t make myself take it back. I can’t just walk away from you, because every time you pass by me without smiling, without touching my hand, or at least making eye contact, it feels like I’m dying inside. ”

- Rachel Vincent

“ I do love nothing in the world so well as you is not that strange? ”

- William Shakespeare

“ What you meet in another being is the projection of your own level of evolution. ”

- Ram Dass

“ Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love. ”

- Mother Teresa

“ This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness. ”

- Dalai Lama

“ If you love something so much let it go. If it comes back it was meant to be; if it doesn't it never was ”

- Albert Schweitzer

“ Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself. ”

- Andrew Carnegie

“ The New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't-it just keeps you from enjoying it. ”

- Cleveland Amory

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

- Osho

“ Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure. ”

- George Edward Woodberry

“ And out of Tristan's heart there grew a hazel tree, and out of Iseult's a honeysuckle, and they arched together and clung and intertwined so that they could never be separated anymore. ”

- Rosemary Sutcliff

“ There is real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment ”

- Norman Vincent Peale

“ Though lovers be lost love shall not. ”

- Dylan Thomas

“ You must learn to let go. Release the stress. You were never in control anyway. ”

- Steve Maraboli

“ 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

“ Tell me then, does love make one a fool or do only fools fall in love? ”

- Orhan Pamuk

“ Don't waste your love on somebody, who doesn't value it. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet. ”

- Mahatma Gandhi

“ There will be tough workouts when the athlete has to really dig deep, believe, and not give up when the pain seems too much. The athlete can respond in one of two ways: Yield to the pain and selfdoubt or decide that fear will not determine his or her potential. It's hard (and usually uncomfortable) work breaking through old barriers and selfdefeating thought patterns to see meaningful progress, and fear is an absolutely natural response, but you can't let it become a limiter. ”

- Siri Lindley

“ A life lived in love will never be dull. ”

- Leo Buscaglia

“ The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new. ”

- Socrates