Quotes of Benjamin Lee Whorf

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We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native language. Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it.

- Benjamin Lee Whorf

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

- Confucius

“ True love is taking the risk that it won’t be a happily. ever. after. True love is joining hands with the man who loves you for who you are, and saying, “I’m not afraid to believe in you.” ”

- Cara Lockwood

“ Before, I wanted to say: "I found love!" But now, I want to say: "I found a person. And he belongs to me and I belong to him. ”

- C. JoyBell C.

“ A dream comes true through repeated actions. ”

- Lailah Gifty Akita

“ My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it. ”

- Mark Twain

“ If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it. ”

- Ernest Hemingway

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

- Davin Ferrigon

“ Perfect is annoying, boring, and impossible to sustain. Knowing how to translate conscientiousness into something beyond the fleeting satisfaction of “me” toward a “we” mindset is the best move you can make. ”

- Kristen Lee

“ An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it. ”

- William Bernbach

“ I know that the whole point—the only point—is to find the things that matter, and hold on to them, and fight for them, and refuse to let them go. ”

- Lauren Oliver

“ When love is pursued, fear is surrendered, and you gain the freedom to worship in spirit and in truth. ”

- Deborah Brodie

“ Fear lies. Save love. ”

- Arif Naseem

“ Always go with the choice that scares you the most, because that’s the one that is going to help you grow. ”

- Unknown

“ The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. ”

- Émile Zola

“ If you love me as you say you do,' she whispered, 'make it so that I am at peace. ”

- Leo Tolstoy

“ I do not write feelings, emotions I do not write after that day, about love anything I do not write my silence scream somewhere inside me there are my bloody wounds on paper words I do not write ”

- Mohammed Zaki Ansari

“ We always see our worst selves. Our most vulnerable selves. We need someone else to get close enough to tell us we’re wrong. Someone we trust. ”

- David Levithan

“ Accepting personal responsibility for your life frees you from outside influences – increases your selfesteem – boosts confidence in your ability to decisions – and ultimately leads to achieve success in life. ”

- Roy T. Bennett

“ Live every day like it’s your last. ”

- Unknown

“ As an African elite, look within and ask, what can I do to change the present African narratives? What niche can I carve and do my uncompromising best to lift this continent? For my sake and for the sake of my children Jumoke Odepe ”

- Jumoke Odepe

“ Though lovers be lost love shall not. ”

- Dylan Thomas

“ Denna is a wild thing," I explained. "Like a hind or a summer storm. If a storm blows down your house, or breaks a tree, you don't say the storm was mean. It was cruel. It acted according to its nature and something unfortunately was hurt. The same is true of Denna. ”

- Patrick Rothfuss

“ Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose. ”

- Victor Frankl

“ Life is a series of pulls back and forth... A tension of opposites, like a pull on a rubber band. Most of us live somewhere in the middle. A wrestling match...Which side win? Love wins. Love always wins ”

- Mitch Albom