Quotes of Mavis Gallant

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She had the loaded handbag of someone who camps out and seldom goes home, or who imagines life must be full of emergencies.

- Mavis Gallant

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“ Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove. O no, it is an everfixed mark That looks on tempests and is never shaken; It is the star to every wand'ring bark, Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken." (Sonnet 116) ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Her footprints are leaving green marks on the desert heart of mine ”

- Ismaaciil C. Ubax

“ You are everything I never knew I always wanted. ”

- Fools Rush In

“ 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

“ Relationships are like Rome difficult to start out, incredible during the prosperity of the 'golden age', and unbearable during the fall. Then, a new kingdom will come along and the whole process will repeat itself until you come across a kingdom like Egypt... that thrives, and continues to flourish. This kingdom will become your best friend, your soul mate, and your love. ”

- Helen Keller

“ 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

“ Sometimes the hardest one to see . . .is the one standing right before you. ”

- Lenora Porch

“ Morning is when the wick is lit. A flame ignited, the day delighted with heat and light, we start the fight for something more than before. ”

- Jeb Dickerson

“ When someone beats a rug, the blows are not against the rug, but against the dust in it. ”

- Gandhi

“ Being positive in life it does not mean everything is going the way you want it, but it also means that when things don’t go right or your way. Then you believe ,hope and pray that they will be right and go your way. Not only that but you are making plans, decisions ,effort and action in making sure they turn right and your way. ”

- De philosopher DJ Kyos

“ Love overcomes bitterness, overpowers sorrow, overwhelms anger, and overthrows hatred. Medicine heals the body, faith heals the heart, wisdom heals the mind, and love heals the soul. ”

- Matshona Dhliwayo

“ 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

“ Every day is your entire life. ”

- Mike Stagnitta

“ It’s not bragging if you can back it up. ”

- Muhammad Ali

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ Isn't it strange how we all start as strangers? Fall in love, share infinities, hurt each other, fall out of love to eventually end as the strangers we once were? ”

- Fiphie

“ There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them. ”

- Phyllis Bottome

“ For men, I think, love is a thing formed of equal parts lust and astonishment. The astonishment part women understand. The lust part they only think they understand. ”

- Stephen King

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

- Chesterton

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

- Augustine of Hippo

“ If you have kindness in your heart, you offer acts of kindness to touch the hearts of others wherever you go—whether they are random or planned. Kindness becomes a way of life. ”

- Roy T. Bennett

“ Now, I return to this young fellow. And the communication I have got to make is, that he has great expectations. ”

- Charles Dickens

“ Let me take you from Miss to Mrs ”

- Ismaaciil C. Ubax

“ With every rising of the sun, think of your life as just begun. ”

- Unknown