Quotes of H. L. Mencken

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Puritanism is the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.

- H. L. Mencken

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“ 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

“ Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes. ”

- Friedrich Nietzsche

“ Enmity builds walls; love builds bridges. Enlightenment is the highway to world peace. ”

- Matshona Dhliwayo

“ Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall. ”

- Confucius

“ Each of us is an innkeeper who decides if there is room for Jesus! ”

- Neal A. Maxwell

“ The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion. ”

- Alexander Graham Bell

“ The only time a man can do the right thing is right now. ”

- John Verdon

“ Anything I ever did for a person was out of love, nobody can ever finesse me. ”

- Genereux Philip

“ But if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires: To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To know the pain of too much tenderness. To be wounded by your own understanding of love; And to bleed willingly and joyfully. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving; To rest at noon hour and meditate love's ecstasy; To return home at eventide with gratitude; And then to sleep with a prayer for the beloved in your heart and a song of praise on your lips. ”

- Kahlil Gibran

“ Stop hating yourself for everything you aren’t and start loving yourself for everything you already are. ”

- Unknown

“ I do love nothing in the world so well as you is not that strange? ”

- William Shakespeare

“ 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

“ Often, we fabricate the people we love to make loving them more palatable; the fictionalized version of them reduces the awareness of truth. ”

- RJ Intindola

“ You see, when we set goals that feel safer and achievable, we are caving in to our own preconceived notions of what we are capable of. We’re not pushing past our comfort zone; we’re just settling for status quo. ”

- Ruth Soukup

“ Nothing can bring a real sense of security into the home except true love. ”

- Billy Graham

“ Living with a purpose in life is more fulfilling than living a rich lifestyle without a purpose. ”

- JOHN TASKINSOY

“ Meditation is a way for nourishing and blossoming the divinity within you. ”

- Amit Ray

“ FORGET SWAG, I'VE GOT SHAKARA', ”

- Genereux Philip

“ The one that’s different often has the odds stacked against them but usually ends up with the biggest rewards so it’s always worth it. ”

- TorronLee Dewar

“ ...most of the time, all you have is the moment, and the imperfect love of the people around you. ”

- Anne Lamott

“ The price of your birthday outfits should go costlier with respect to the ages you lived. ”

- Anwesha Mohanty ‘Anny’

“ Perfection does not exist you can always do better and you can always grow. ”

- Les Brown

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

- Nalini Singh

“ In the waltz of the leaves in the air In the features of the playful clouds In the nostalgia carried by the wind In Paris alone, I save your love (fragment from Your presence “partout”, chapter Hope) ”

- Claudia Pavel

“ I pray you, do not fall in love with me, for I am falser than vows made in wine. ”

- William Shakespeare