Quotes of Walker Percy

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You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

- Walker Percy

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“ We should have more reasons to smile than to cry. You will be surprised, even the saddest things could result in something to smile about. ”

- JOHN TASKINSOY

“ 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

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

- Ovid

“ It takes writing a billion bad words before you get to the good ones. ”

- Ray Bradbury

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

- A. J. McLean

“ What you meet in another being is the projection of your own level of evolution. ”

- Ram Dass

“ Our own selfesteem is something we can actually twist in whatever way we want. ”

- Stephen Richards

“ Just because you fall once, doesn't mean you're fall at everything. Keep trying, hold on, and always trust yourself, because if you don't then who will?? ”

- Marilyn Monroe

“ Finding the lesson behind every adversity will be the one important thing that helps get you through it. ”

- Roy T. Bennett

“ And these aches in my heart create poetry! ”

- Avijeet Das

“ You know her well. People are harder to sum up when you know them well. ”

- Veronica Roth

“ If you get tired, learn to rest, not to quit. ”

- Banksy

“ I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. A tree whose hungry mouth is pressed Against the earth's sweet flowing breast; A tree that looks at God all day And lifts her leafy arms to pray; A tree that may in summer wear A nest of robins in her hair; Upon whose bosom snow has lain; Who intimately lives with rain. Poems are made by fools like me, But only God can make a tree. ”

- Joyce Kilmer

“ Love overcomes bitterness, overpowers sorrow, overwhelms anger, and overthrows hatred. Medicine heals the body, faith heals the heart, wisdom heals the mind, and love heals the soul. ”

- Matshona Dhliwayo

“ Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexations to the spirit. ”

- Max Ehrmann

“ If you suddenly stumble upon the right door, you will not be able to recognize that it is right. ”

- Osho

“ At the beginning, you need no support other than your pen and paper to write down the ideas that your brain is ready to supply you at any given time. ”

- Godspower Oparaugo

“ 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

“ Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, To the last syllable of recorded time; And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more. It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Never run from the truth. It is always there; it never changes – save your energy. ”

- Steve Maraboli

“ Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure. ”

- George Edward Woodberry

“ After your first failure, the occurrence of a second failure closely depends on what you have learned from your past mistakes and whether or not you have drawn some valuable lessons. ”

- JOHN TASKINSOY

“ 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

“ Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door. ”

- Kyle Chandler