Quotes of Samuel Butler

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People are lucky and unlucky… according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.

- Samuel Butler

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“ It is easier to believe a lie than to claim parts of you that have been scattered and buried. Your willingness to search for what's been lost merely points to how immensely powerful you are. ”

- Kirstyn Lazur

“ 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

“ 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

“ Gratitude is not love. Don’t mix the two because they are not the same. ”

- Frank Matobo

“ When you love someone, you say their name different. Like it's safe inside your mouth. ”

- Jodi Picoult

“ There is real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment ”

- Norman Vincent Peale

“ Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexations to the spirit. ”

- Max Ehrmann

“ If you love me as you say you do,' she whispered, 'make it so that I am at peace. ”

- Leo Tolstoy

“ 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

“ After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same language even when they speak the same language? ”

- Russell Hoban

“ If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut. ”

- Albert Einstein

“ 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

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

- Kilroy J. Oldster

“ Confidence is how we perceive the manifestation of truth in us. ”

- Mike Stagnitta

“ Mistakes are not bad; excuses are. ”

- Udai Yadla

“ And out of Tristan's heart there grew a hazel tree, and out of Iseult's a honeysuckle, and they arched together and clung and intertwined so that they could never be separated anymore. ”

- Rosemary Sutcliff

“ God's plans for you are always good and purposeful. ”

- Jackie Griffin

“ Live your life, no matter what that life is. ”

- Corey Taylor

“ 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

“ If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it. ”

- Ernest Hemingway

“ If I envision a just, fair future, I must behave justly and fairly today. ”

- Elena Aguilar

“ Anything that you learn becomes your wealth, a wealth that cannot be taken away from you; whether you learn it in a building called school or in the school of life. To learn something new is a timeless pleasure and a valuable treasure. And not all things that you learn are taught to you, but many things that you learn you realize you have taught yourself. ”

- C. JoyBell C.

“ My sister will die over and over again for the rest of my life. Grief is forever. It doesn't go away; it becomes a part of you, step for step, breath for breath. I will never stop grieving Bailey because I will never stop loving her. That's just how it is. Grief and love are conjoined, you don't get one without the other. All I can do is love her, and love the world, emulate her by living with daring and spirit and joy. ”

- Jandy Nelson