Quotes of Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Man is born a predestined idealist, for he is born to act. To act is to affirm the worth of an end, and to persist in affirming the worth of an end is to make an ideal.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

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“ Live every day like it’s your last. ”

- Unknown

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

- Gandhi

“ A heart, once stolen, can never be taken back. ”

- Marissa Meyer

“ Love is the beauty of the soul. ”

- Augustine of Hippo

“ Love is not a feeling of happiness. Love is a willingness to sacrifice. ”

- Michael Novak

“ Sometimes you never realize how much you like someone, until you watch them liking someone else. ”

- Unknown

“ 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

“ Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure. ”

- George Edward Woodberry

“ 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

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

- Charles Dickens

“ 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

“ 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

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

- Tatjana Ostojic

“ If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there’d be peace. ”

- John Lennon

“ You are successful in my book if you do what you love for a living; you do not owe money to anyone; you have a place what you call home; you have a wife/husband, a girlfriend/boyfriend, or a partner who loves and respects you; and most importantly, you are surrounded by friends and loved ones who stand by you in good and bad days. ”

- JOHN TASKINSOY

“ Life is a game and true love is a trophy. ”

- Rufus Wainwright

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

- Socrates

“ Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom. ”

- Thomas Jefferson

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

- Ranata Suzuki

“ Your past, including your failures, simply offers feedback that makes you wiser and stronger than before. ”

- Brittany Burgunder

“ Tough times never last. Tough people do ”

- Robert Schuller

“ Visionary decisionmaking happens at the intersection of intuition and logic. ”

- Gandhi

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

- Laura Lynch

“ At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet. ”

- Plato

“ If you get tired, learn to rest, not to quit. ”

- Banksy