Quotes of Ralph Ellison

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Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.

- Ralph Ellison

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“ Be supportive of others the way you would want them to be supportive of you. ”

- Ken Poirot

“ Caution not spirit, let it roam wild; for in that natural state dance embraces divine frequency. ”

- Shah Asad Rizvi

“ Let me take you from Miss to Mrs ”

- Ismaaciil C. Ubax

“ If ur laptop doesnt smell like fire then ur losing. ”

- Genereux Philip

“ Sometimes, as we're stumbling along in the dark, we hit something good. ”

- Susan Ee

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

- Max Ehrmann

“ Love isn't a feeling or emotion that changes timely, it's everlasting... ”

- Gandhi

“ Though lovers be lost love shall not. ”

- Dylan Thomas

“ It was like I’d met my life’s purpose. Like I’d been hurtling through the cosmos, blind, and without a destiny and he gave me one. He was fated to be the man who would break my heart at last. The heart I’d kept under scrutiny, sheltered, for this long, he tore through the heavy vaults and ripped it right out of my chest. From then on, there was no me, and no him. There was only us. ”

- Ellie Fox

“ We need hearts with restored empathy And homes with restored hope ”

- Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

“ My young sisters, we have such hope for you. We have such great expectations for you. Don't settle for less than what the Lord wants you to be... Give me a young woman who loves home and family, who reads and ponders the scriptures daily, who has a burning testimony of the Book of Mormon... Give me a young woman who is virtuous and who has maintained her personal purity, who will not settle for less than a temple marriage, and I will give you a young woman who will perform miracles for the Lord now and throughout eternity. ”

- Ezra

“ The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new. ”

- Socrates

“ Some people are not capable of loving you the way you need to be loved It might be wise to just wish them well and take care of yourself. ”

- Charles E Hudson

“ We cannot all do great things, but we can do small things with great love. ”

- Mother Teresa

“ Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes. ”

- Friedrich Nietzsche

“ Mythology is not a lie, mythology is poetry, it is metaphorical. It has been well said that mythology is the penultimate truthpenultimate because the ultimate cannot be put into words. It is beyond words. Beyond images, beyond that bounding rim of the Buddhist Wheel of Becoming. Mythology pitches the mind beyond that rim, to what can be known but not told. ”

- Joseph Campbell

“ Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone. ”

- Pablo Picasso

“ We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire. ”

- Francois De La Rochefoucauld

“ I know in my heart that man is good, that what is right will always eventually triumph, and there is purpose and worth to each and every life. ”

- Ronald Reagan

“ When love is real. You both will do whatever you can to build and construct a solid relationship. It will be hard work but it's possible, We all come with pros and cons. If it's real, it will never be over. ”

- Katherine Vargas

“ Your best creative assets do not occur unless you do a mental shift. You have to be in a positive frame of mind because inspiration is fleeting. I walk to work for inspiration and to clear my mind. ”

- Ron Ben Israel

“ Love shapes who you are in many ways. Its presence or absence in our youth impacts our adulthood, which impacts our future generations; the cycle has to be restarted somewhere. ”

- Hani Selim

“ There is more to sex appeal than just measurements. I don’t need a bedroom to prove my womanliness. I can convey just as much sex appeal, picking apples off a tree or standing in the rain. ”

- Audrey Hepburn

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

- Gandhi