Quotes of Gerald Brenan

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Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself.

- Gerald Brenan

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“ Until you step into the unknown, you don’t know what you’re made of. ”

- Roy T. Bennett

“ 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

“ The difference between the love of a man and the love of a woman is that a man will always give reasons for loving, but a woman gives no reasons for loving. ”

- Fulton J. Sheen

“ The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience. ”

- Emily Dickinson

“ The purpose of life is not to be happy—but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you lived at all. ”

- Leo Rosten

“ Do the best, give the best and leave the rest to run after you! ”

- Garima Yonzon

“ Yet there are moments when the walls of the mind grow thin; when nothing is unabsorbed, and I could fancy that we might blow so vast a bubble that the sun might set and rise in it and we might take the blue of midday and the black of midnight and be cast off and escape from here and now. ”

- Virginia Woolf

“ We should have more reasons to smile than to cry. You will be surprised, even the saddest things could result in something to smile about. ”

- JOHN TASKINSOY

“ At the beginning, you need no support other than your pen and paper to write down the ideas that your brain is ready to supply you at any given time. ”

- Godspower Oparaugo

“ ?Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats. ”

- Voltaire

“ You are attracted to the love you didn't receive as a child ”

- Jodi Ann Quarrie

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

- Charles Dickens

“ She believed she could so she did. ”

- Unknown

“ All for one and one for all. ”

- Alexandre Dumas

“ Tucker strokes my hair. There's something so tender about the gesture. It might as well have been him whispering I love you. ”

- Cynthia Hand

“ She was rain to a parched desert She was color to a gray sky She was the beautiful butterfly you longed to possess But I let her fly For fear of breaking her wings! ”

- Avijeet Das

“ A lack of clarity could put the brakes on any journey to success. ”

- Steve Maraboli

“ Superhuman effort isn't worth a damn unless it achieves results. ”

- Ernest Shackleton

“ I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.. ”

- Thoreau

“ I will love you even when I am dust on the wind. ”

- Nalini Singh

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

- Chesterton

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

- Mignon McLaughlin

“ I may not be where I want to be, but if I stop now, I'll NEVER get where I'm going! ”

- Laura Lynch

“ The love we say we feel for another is, in most cases, just a selfish hunt for our own happiness. ”

- Tatjana Ostojic