Quotes of James Baldwin

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You know, it's not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world does it to you long enough and effectively enough, you begin to do to yourself.

- James Baldwin

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“ If music be the food of love, play on. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Never worry a bit in Life. Always be full of merriment. ”

- sharda sriram

“ I do love nothing in the world so well as you is not that strange? ”

- William Shakespeare

“ A successful marriage requires falling in love many times always with the same person. ”

- Mignon McLaughlin

“ 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

“ When love comes like that, all you can do is surrender, to lay down your arms and submit to the will of those who would love you. For in denying it, you face only regret. ”

- Michael Kilman

“ Anything I ever did for a person was out of love, nobody can ever finesse me. ”

- Genereux Philip

“ The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire, the size of your dream and how you handle disappointment along the way. ”

- Robert Kiyosaki

“ I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet. ”

- Mahatma Gandhi

“ Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm. ”

- Winston Churchill

“ The purpose of life is not to be happy—but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you lived at all. ”

- Leo Rosten

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

- Talismanist Giebra

“ It is now how good you are, it’s how good you want to be. ”

- Unknown

“ Hope is a waking dream. ”

- Aristotle

“ The love we say we feel for another is, in most cases, just a selfish hunt for our own happiness. ”

- Tatjana Ostojic

“ God does not ask about our ability, but our availability. ”

- Unknown

“ Sometimes when I'm alone, I take the pearl from where it lives in my pocket and try to remember the boy with the bread, the strong arms that warded off nightmares on the train, the kisses in the arena. ”

- Suzanne Collins

“ You are like nobody since I love you. ”

- Pablo Neruda

“ I would die for you. But I won't live for you. ”

- Stephen Chbosky

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

- Charlotte Bronte

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

- Subhasis Das

“ At one time or another we are all called to leave the safety of our homes, the certainty of what we know, the illusions of who we are. Not everyone will heed this call, of course. And those who do will risk losing themselves completely. But if we choose to ignore the invitation, we risk never knowing who we might have become. We risk dying without knowing what it is to live. ”

- Thomas Lloyd Qualls

“ We always see our worst selves. Our most vulnerable selves. We need someone else to get close enough to tell us we’re wrong. Someone we trust. ”

- David Levithan