Quotes of Henry James

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Even when a thing's already nice there mostly is some other thing that would have been nicer - or as to which we wonder if it wouldn't.

- Henry James

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“ Don’t take the high ground and assume you already know what you’ll do. The truth is, when it comes to someone you love, you’ll find there isn’t anything you won’t do. ”

- Richelle Mead

“ There is nothing higher than love, and nothing lower than ignorance. ”

- Matshona Dhliwayo

“ I pray you, do not fall in love with me, for I am falser than vows made in wine. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward. ”

- Charlotte Bronte

“ 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

“ One word Frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love. ”

- Sophocles

“ Awake, my friend! Arise, my friend! Start walking my friend! And do not stop until you bring the change you wish to see in your society! ”

- Abhijit Naskar

“ One chooses who they decide to love but never determines who will love them back. The woman’s first two considerations are respect and financial security which centers on the core of personality traits; a man reveres persona of physical and sexuality; these two impostors have little relevance of character. ”

- RJ Intindola

“ If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there’d be peace. ”

- John Lennon

“ Bagiku ada sesuatu yang paling berharga dan hakiki dalam kehidupan: 'dapat mencintai, dapat iba hati, dapat merasai kedukaan'. Tanpa itu semua maka kita tidak lebih dari benda. Berbahagialah orang yang masih mempunyai rasa cinta, yang belum sampai kehilangan benda yang paling bernilai itu. Kalau kita telah kehilangan itu maka absurdlah hidup kita. ”

- Soe Hok Gie

“ That's a misconception, Lennie. The sky is everywhere, it begins at your feet. ”

- Jandy Nelson

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

- Banksy

“ Getting an idea should be like sitting down on a pin. It should make you jump up and do something. ”

- E. L. Simpson

“ It is that we are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so helplessly unhappy as when we have lost our loved object or its love. ”

- Sigmund Freud

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

- Ray Bradbury

“ Love is like a brick. You can build a house, or you can sink a dead body. ”

- Lady Gaga

“ When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself. ”

- Wayne Dyer

“ Your heart is a powerful force. Use it consciously. ”

- Amy Leigh Mercree

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

- George Edward Woodberry

“ The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience. ”

- Emily Dickinson

“ To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love. But then one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer; not to love is to suffer; to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be happy one must love or love to suffer or suffer from too much happiness. ”

- Woody Allen

“ If life gives you lemons, make lemonade. ”

- Unknown

“ For men, I think, love is a thing formed of equal parts lust and astonishment. The astonishment part women understand. The lust part they only think they understand. ”

- Stephen King