Quotes of H. L. Mencken

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Opera in English, is about as sensible as baseball in Italian.

- H. L. Mencken

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“ Keep away from small people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. ”

- Mark Twain

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

- Phyllis Bottome

“ Education must not simply teach work – it must teach Life. ”

- W. E. B. Du Bois

“ Live your life, no matter what that life is. ”

- Corey Taylor

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

- Roy T. Bennett

“ My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style. ”

- Maya Angelou

“ When people think they know you and put you in a box, keep growing and give them the box. ”

- Jackie Griffin

“ When you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe, then you’ll be successful. ”

- Eric Thomas

“ I keep thinking about this river somewhere, with the water moving really fast. And these two people in the water, trying to hold onto each other, holding on as hard as they can, but in the end it’s just too much. The current’s too strong. They’ve got to let go, drift apart. ”

- Kazuo Ishiguro

“ I marinate my life in gratitude, creativity and love. What about you? ”

- Francis Shenstone

“ What if it becomes less about how we look and more about how much we care? What if it becomes less about how much money we earn and more about how much we share our good fortune? Imagine a world where who we are in our hearts is the ultimate status symbol. ”

- Amy Leigh Mercree

“ The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink. ”

- T.S. Eliot

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

- William Shakespeare

“ An early. morning walk is a blessing for the whole day. ”

- Henry David Thoreau

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

- Plato

“ If you sow kindness, you will reap love. ”

- Matshona Dhliwayo

“ The only shortcut I have found to life is to sharpen my teeth on the bones of the wise. ”

- Vic Stah Milien

“ 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

“ 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

“ Your environment will eat your goals and plans for breakfast. ”

- Steve Pavlina

“ Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through selfgratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. ”

- Helen Keller

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

- Tallulah Bankhead

“ Ladies, it’s harvest time!!! Take care of your crops, water them and weed them out. ”

- Charlena E. Jackson

“ Live a life of substance. The rest are mere fantasies. ”

- Pragnya Sahoo