Quotes of Vladimir Nabokov

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The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.

- Vladimir Nabokov

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“ Do it big, do it right, and do it with style. ”

- Fried Astaire

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

- Gandhi

“ 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

“ There are times in life which proves life is wife and wife is life. ”

- Fahad Basheer

“ When you become the image of your own imagination, it's the most powerful thing you could ever do. ”

- RuPaul

“ My love for you does not recognize boundaries, distances, borders, or timezones! ”

- Avijeet Das

“ The key to success is not through achievement but through enthusiasm. ”

- Malcolm Forbes

“ Love comforteth like sunshine after rain. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Choose being kind over being right, and you’ll be right every time. ”

- Richard Carlson

“ That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much. ”

- Robert Louis Stevenson

“ Fake it 'till you make it. ”

- Gayle Forman

“ There will be tough workouts when the athlete has to really dig deep, believe, and not give up when the pain seems too much. The athlete can respond in one of two ways: Yield to the pain and selfdoubt or decide that fear will not determine his or her potential. It's hard (and usually uncomfortable) work breaking through old barriers and selfdefeating thought patterns to see meaningful progress, and fear is an absolutely natural response, but you can't let it become a limiter. ”

- Siri Lindley

“ Your memory feels like home to me. So whenever my mind wanders, it always finds it’s way back to you. ”

- Ranata Suzuki

“ That's a misconception, Lennie. The sky is everywhere, it begins at your feet. ”

- Jandy Nelson

“ It takes writing a billion bad words before you get to the good ones. ”

- Ray Bradbury

“ There are no trips to your past that are free ”

- Michalopoulos Angelos

“ Life is a sheet of blank papers and pen: “We write our life like one made in heaven.” Sadly though, some don’t have the pen with them: “It’s others doing the writing for them. ”

- Rodolfo Martin Vitangcol

“ Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them. ”

- Paul Hawken

“ There is a distinct, awful pain that comes with loving someone more than they love you. ”

- Steve Maraboli

“ Sometimes what seems so right turns out wrong and what seems so wrong turns out right. What do I call this phenomenon? Life. ”

- Charles F. Glassman

“ Well, now If little by little you stop loving me I shall stop loving you Little by little If suddenly you forget me Do not look for me For I shall already have forgotten you If you think it long and mad the wind of banners that passes through my life And you decide to leave me at the shore of the heart where I have roots Remember That on that day, at that hour, I shall lift my arms And my roots will set off to seek another land ”

- Pablo Neruda

“ As an African elite, look within and ask, what can I do to change the present African narratives? What niche can I carve and do my uncompromising best to lift this continent? For my sake and for the sake of my children Jumoke Odepe ”

- Jumoke Odepe

“ If you don't run your own life, somebody else will. ”

- John Atkinson

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- John Green