Quotes of Joyce Carol Oates

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. . . there is a wish in the heart of mankind to be distracted and confused. Truth is but one attraction, and not always the most powerful.

- Joyce Carol Oates

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“ It is easier to believe a lie than to claim parts of you that have been scattered and buried. Your willingness to search for what's been lost merely points to how immensely powerful you are. ”

- Kirstyn Lazur

“ Your memory feels like home to me. So whenever my mind wanders, it always finds it’s way back to you. ”

- Ranata Suzuki

“ Life is good! It is only our thoughts, choices and actions towards the situations we meet in life each moment of time that makes life look bad! The same bad situation in life that makes one person think badly inspires another to do a noble thing! The same good situation in life that makes one person feel so good to get into a bad situation inspires another person to create another good situation because of the good situation. It is all about thoughts, choices and actions! Life is good! Live it well! ”

- Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

“ Sometimes you never realize how much you like someone, until you watch them liking someone else. ”

- Unknown

“ Some symbols reach to your primordial archives. ”

- Talismanist Giebra

“ feeling upset? look up a lover ”

- Arif Naseem

“ Your past, including your failures, simply offers feedback that makes you wiser and stronger than before. ”

- Brittany Burgunder

“ Life is a game and true love is a trophy. ”

- Rufus Wainwright

“ the saddest thing is to be a minute to someone, when you've made them your eternity. ”

- Sanober Khan

“ Faith is taking the first step even when you can’t see the whole staircase. ”

- Martin Luther King

“ and then I look deep into your eyes and we melt into each other and enjoy that melting, like those things that belong together... (fragment from Passion beneath, chapter Passion) ”

- Claudia Pavel

“ 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

“ Music is love, love is music, music is life, and I love my life. Thank you and good night. ”

- A. J. McLean

“ 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

“ If I envision a just, fair future, I must behave justly and fairly today. ”

- Elena Aguilar

“ Ethical veganism results in a profound revolution within the individual; a complete rejection of the paradigm of oppression and violence that she has been taught from childhood to accept as the natural order. It changes her life and the lives of those with whom she shares this vision of nonviolence. Ethical veganism is anything but passive; on the contrary, it is the active refusal to cooperate with injustice ”

- GaryLFrancione

“ Where wild souls meet wild lovers is where hurricanes are made. ”

- ventum

“ Keep your face always toward the sunshine and shadows will fall behind you. ”

- Walt Whitman

“ In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can’t build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery and death. ”

- Anne Frank

“ Society will always be too fragile to accept us for all that makes us beautiful. ”

- robert m drake

“ Love is not a feeling of happiness. Love is a willingness to sacrifice. ”

- Michael Novak

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

- Ashli and Trisha Edwards

“ Everything is easier said than done. Wanting something is easy. Saying something is easy. The challenge and the reward are in the doing. ”

- Steve Maraboli

“ Because, if you could love someone, and keep loving them, without being loved back . . . then that love had to be real. It hurt too much to be anything else. ”

- Sarah Cross