Quotes of Lisa Alther

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I wrote for twelve years and collected 250 rejection slips before getting any fiction published, so I guess outside reinforcement isn't all that important to me.

- Lisa Alther

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“ Be supportive of others the way you would want them to be supportive of you. ”

- Ken Poirot

“ There is the great lesson of 'Beauty and the Beast,' that a thing must be loved before it is lovable. ”

- Chesterton

“ The only time we can effect an action is now. So learn from the past, have a vision for your future but act NOW. Today will soon be your past so don’t miss your present. ? ”

- Andrea McGibbon

“ But if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires: To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To know the pain of too much tenderness. To be wounded by your own understanding of love; And to bleed willingly and joyfully. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving; To rest at noon hour and meditate love's ecstasy; To return home at eventide with gratitude; And then to sleep with a prayer for the beloved in your heart and a song of praise on your lips. ”

- Kahlil Gibran

“ Tomorrow I will run more courageously, more outrageously. ”

- Talismanist Giebra

“ 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

“ Do you ever put your arms out and just spin and spin and spin? Well, that’s what love is like. Everything inside of you tells you to stop before you fall, but you just keep going. ”

- Practical Magic

“ We werent exactly lovers yet, But we were a little more then friends. We just kept meeting at the wrong time, but our connection never ends. ”

- Nikki Rowe

“ 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

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

- E. L. Simpson

“ Do you have to make me feel like there's nothing left of me? You can take everything I have, you can break everything I am, like I am made of glass, like I am made of paper.Go on and try to tear me down I will be rising from the ground like a Skyscraper... ”

- Demi Lovato

“ If ur laptop doesnt smell like fire then ur losing. ”

- Genereux Philip

“ I am not an optimist, but a great believer of hope. ”

- Nelson Mandela

“ All things are difficult before they are easy. ”

- Thomas Fuller

“ Drag your thoughts away from your troubles… by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it. ”

- Mark Twain

“ If you are depressed, you are living in the past. If you are anxious, you are living in the future. If you are at peace, you are living in the present ”

- Lao tzu

“ Some people are not capable of loving you the way you need to be loved It might be wise to just wish them well and take care of yourself. ”

- Charles E Hudson

“ I wonder if you have noticed a rather rummy thing about it viz. that it is everywhere. You can't get away from it. Love, I mean. Wherever you go, there it is, buzzing along in every class of life. Quite remarkable. ”

- P. G. Wodehouse

“ In meetings philosophy might work, on the field practicality works. ”

- Amit Kalantri

“ I can't make someone stay, but I can make me stay with someone. A successful relationship needs a constant decision to remain committed. ”

- Jeffrey Alcuizar Igot

“ Love is a panacea for a wound that never stops weeping. ”

- Kilroy J. Oldster

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

- Stephen Richards

“ Drunk and alone and hopelessly in love with the idea that someday somehow it might just get better. ”

- Stefanie Sybens

“ To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best. ”

- William M. Thackery

“ Our great human adventure is the evolution of consciousness. We are in this life to enlarge the soul, liberate the spirit, and light up the brain. ”

- Tom Robbins