Quotes of Leonard L. Levinson

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A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all - he's walking on them.

- Leonard L. Levinson

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

- E. L. Simpson

“ Everything is easier said than done. Wanting something is easy. Saying something is easy. The challenge and the reward are in the doing. ”

- Steve Maraboli

“ 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

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

- Matshona Dhliwayo

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

- Stephen Chbosky

“ I thought it (love) meant like you hold out your hand and someone takes it, holds it hard, and pulls you safe from the river. You talk. You tell him bits of yourself. You say here's where I hurt and you give it to him and he holds it and gives you where he hurts in return and you hold it and that's how you learn to love. ”

- Elizabeth George

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

“ Hmm…now that I think about it, housecats are often coddled and petted. You don’t pet me nearly enough. You must be a lax owner. How selfish of you to deprive your cat of attention. ”

- Colleen Houck

“ Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly. ”

- Dalai Lama

“ My mama always used to tell me: ‘If you can’t find somethin’ to live for, you best find somethin’ to die for.’ ”

- Tupac Shakur

“ I spend most nights at home falling in love with the idea of you. ”

- Michael Faudet

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

- Mignon McLaughlin

“ Denna is a wild thing," I explained. "Like a hind or a summer storm. If a storm blows down your house, or breaks a tree, you don't say the storm was mean. It was cruel. It acted according to its nature and something unfortunately was hurt. The same is true of Denna. ”

- Patrick Rothfuss

“ The human tendency is to resemble or imitate those we admire; the common result is the delusion, that to emulate another’s personality creates a pseudo persona, measurably dissimilar from our own. ”

- RJ Intindola

“ Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself. ”

- Andrew Carnegie

“ Many, many readers have written asking me wistfully about the nature of Sam and Grace's relationship, and I can assure you, that sort is absolutely real. Mutual, respectful, enduring love is completely attainable as long as you swear you won't settle for less. ”

- Maggie Stiefvater

“ Be brave. Don't just live in your cave till your grave. ”

- RVM

“ I just...I just miss him. And I hate being so alone. ”

- Suzanne Collins

“ My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right. ”

- Abraham Lincoln

“ 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

“ I hope she'll be a fool that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool. ”

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

“ We accept some black people, receive some white people, embrace some Asian people, and welcome some mixed people, but God commands us to love all people. ”

- Matshona Dhliwayo

“ Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame. ”

- Henry David Thoreau

“ Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery. ”

- Charles Dickens