Quotes of Samuel Butler

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Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.

- Samuel Butler

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“ You are successful in my book if you do what you love for a living; you do not owe money to anyone; you have a place what you call home; you have a wife/husband, a girlfriend/boyfriend, or a partner who loves and respects you; and most importantly, you are surrounded by friends and loved ones who stand by you in good and bad days. ”

- JOHN TASKINSOY

“ Leaders in OVER their heads is the mere result of getting ahead of their intended SEASON. ”

- John Paul Warren

“ Confusion, obsession, and potential love walk handinhand. ”

- Ashli and Trisha Edwards

“ You are attracted to the love you didn't receive as a child ”

- Jodi Ann Quarrie

“ We cannot have a world where everyone is a victim. "I'm this way because my father made me this way. I'm this way because my husband made me this way." Yes, we are indeed formed by traumas that happen to us. But then you must take charge, you must take over, you are responsible. ”

- Camille Paglia

“ There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them. ”

- Phyllis Bottome

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

- Ovid

“ Being love rather than giving or taking love, is the only thing that provides stability. ”

- Ram Dass

“ Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall. ”

- Confucius

“ You left the same way you: with 6 duffle bags and your heart intact. ”

- Gandhi

“ Dream so big you get uncomfortable telling smallminded people. ”

- Praharsh Prasoon

“ 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

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

- Gandhi

“ The gospel is this: We are more sinful and flawed in ourselves than we ever dared believe, yet at the very same time we are more loved and accepted in Jesus Christ than we ever dared hope. ”

- Timothy Keller

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

- Tatiana Vedenska

“ Remember, darkness does not always equate to evil, just as light does not always bring good. ”

- P.C. Cast

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

- Gandhi

“ 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

“ There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see the toothache in his own humor. ”

- H. L. Mencken

“ Armed with positive thoughts, it becomes easier to focus on your goals, while the opposite also holds true. ”

- Stephen Richards

“ You need just the right amount of 'Fuck the world' and the right amount of belief in something...and you need the right amount of love. ”

- Gerard Way

“ A blooming relationship even if it’s someone else’s, makes me so happy and reinstates my faith in love... ”

- Nitya Prakash

“ Do the best, give the best and leave the rest to run after you! ”

- Garima Yonzon

“ A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. Ideas have endurance without death. ”

- John F. Kennedy

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

- Matshona Dhliwayo