Quotes of W. Somerset Maugham

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Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.

- W. Somerset Maugham

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“ Take wrong turns. Talk to strangers. Open unmarked doors. And if you see a group of people in a field, go find out what they are doing. Do things without always knowing how they'll turn out. You're curious and smart and bored, and all you see is the choice between working hard and slacking off. There are so many adventures that you miss because you're waiting to think of a plan. To find them, look for tiny interesting choices. And remember that you are always making up the future as you go. ”

- Randall Munroe

“ When you love someone, you say their name different. Like it's safe inside your mouth. ”

- Jodi Picoult

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

- Gandhi

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

- Andrew Carnegie

“ It’s not bragging if you can back it up. ”

- Muhammad Ali

“ Tucker strokes my hair. There's something so tender about the gesture. It might as well have been him whispering I love you. ”

- Cynthia Hand

“ What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us. ”

- Helen Keller

“ 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

“ Yet there are moments when the walls of the mind grow thin; when nothing is unabsorbed, and I could fancy that we might blow so vast a bubble that the sun might set and rise in it and we might take the blue of midday and the black of midnight and be cast off and escape from here and now. ”

- Virginia Woolf

“ Unless you love someone, nothing else makes sense. ”

- e.e. cummings

“ Until you step into the unknown, you don’t know what you’re made of. ”

- Roy T. Bennett

“ Writing is the knitting of the soul ”

- Khaled Talib

“ My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right. ”

- Abraham Lincoln

“ Pet names are a persistant remnant of childhood, a reminder that life is not always so serious, so formal, so complicated. They are a reminder, too, that one is not all things to all people. ”

- Jhumpa Lahiri

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

- Eric Thomas

“ The superior man thinks only of virtue; the common man thinks only of comfort. ”

- Confucius

“ Nothing is over for good! You either take with you memories, love, lesson or an experience. ”

- Somya Kedia

“ We don’t really care for things that we get easily in life. Life always needs to be served hot. ”

- Subhasis Das

“ I know in my heart that man is good, that what is right will always eventually triumph, and there is purpose and worth to each and every life. ”

- Ronald Reagan

“ And, in the end… The love you take is equal to the love you make. ”

- Paul McCartney

“ Without term limits, some remain in office for decades; as a result, their power increases and they feel entitled, and ignore the people they represent; but do not be fooled that term limits would ultimately change representation, for it’s the ignorance of the populace who continue returning the same people to office. ”

- RJ Intindola

“ Some symbols reach to your primordial archives. ”

- Talismanist Giebra

“ Isn't it strange how we all start as strangers? Fall in love, share infinities, hurt each other, fall out of love to eventually end as the strangers we once were? ”

- Fiphie

“ How many slams in an old screen door? Depends how loud you shut it. How many slices in a bread? Depends how thin you cut it. How much good inside a day? Depends how good you live 'em. How much love inside a friend? Depends how much you give 'em. ”

- Shel Silverstein