Quotes of Virgil Thomson

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I seem to write an opera about every 20 years; if you live long enough you can write four operas. I finished my third in 1970.

- Virgil Thomson

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“ Mysteries of attraction could not always be explained through logic. Sometimes the fractures in two separate souls became the very hinges that held them together. ”

- Lisa Kleypas

“ True love is not so much a matter of romance as it is a matter of anxious concern for the wellbeing of one's companion. ”

- Gordon B. Hinckley

“ You left the same way you: with 6 duffle bags and your heart intact. ”

- Gandhi

“ Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself. ”

- Leo Buscaglia

“ Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more. ”

- Erica Jong

“ If you fuel your journey on the opinions of others, you are going to run out of gas. ”

- Steve Maraboli

“ feeling upset? look up a lover ”

- Arif Naseem

“ I love you and it’s getting worse. ”

- Joseph E. Morris

“ Faith is to believe what you do not yet see; the reward for this faith is to see what you believe. ”

- Augustine of Hippo

“ Unrequited love’s a bore. ”

- Lorenz Hart

“ Nothing is over for good! You either take with you memories, love, lesson or an experience. ”

- Somya Kedia

“ We don’t really care for things that we get easily in life. Life always needs to be served hot. ”

- Subhasis Das

“ To love oneself is the beginning of a life long romance. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ Keep in mind that three months worth of sowing equals three months of reaping at harvest, Remember not to stop sowing your fields in all ways in life after the first three months as its easy to feel good and live off of the fields already sowed but like a meat grinder the stock will eventually run out ”

- James D Wilson

“ A good idea always attracts other good ideas. ”

- Patrick Ness

“ You see, when we set goals that feel safer and achievable, we are caving in to our own preconceived notions of what we are capable of. We’re not pushing past our comfort zone; we’re just settling for status quo. ”

- Ruth Soukup

“ 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

“ Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ Where there’s marriage without love, there will be love without marriage. ”

- Benjamin Franklin

“ 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

“ Battered was my heart in the deep search, branded with cracks like slices of silver birch. An ignorant dream, a wish, just fool's gold that was the tale that love had sold. ”

- Sara Secora

“ Every second that passes is another grain of sand in your hourglass that is gone, forever lost in time. ”

- Nyki Mack

“ Rise as a human being live as a legend work as a Messiah and you shall see the bright glorious change all around you. ”

- Abhijit Naskar

“ It’s time to care; it’s time to take responsibility; it’s time to lead; it’s time for a change; it’s time to be true to our greatest self; it’s time to stop blaming others. ”

- Steve Maraboli