Quotes of Stevie Smith

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I don't think Auden liked my poetry very much, he's very Anglican.

- Stevie Smith

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

- John Atkinson

“ Pet names are a persistant remnant of childhood, a reminder that life is not always so serious, so formal, so complicated. They are a reminder, too, that one is not all things to all people. ”

- Jhumpa Lahiri

“ I am not an optimist, but a great believer of hope. ”

- Nelson Mandela

“ To pay gratitude, sign of generosity. ”

- Shekhar Srivastava

“ The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office. ”

- Robert Frost

“ We don’t really care for things that we get easily in life. Life always needs to be served hot. ”

- Subhasis Das

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

- Jodi Ann Quarrie

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

- Plato

“ How can I put the Auras back in the chest?” I asked, terror boiling inside my stomach. “You can’t. Not if those that were or will be struck by them won’t be eager to express their feelings and let you help them. You do not change people, dearie. It’s the people that change themselves. You’re the Guardian, but they’re the bearers,” the Oracle whispered. “I’m no Guardian. I’m doomed!” I said and I knew that this was true. ”

- Victoria Moschou

“ Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love. ”

- Mother Teresa

“ Better to have, and not need, than to need, and not have. ”

- Franz Kafka

“ I can only think about the past, but I can always design the future. ”

- Davin Ferrigon

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

- Socrates

“ Art is in the act, not the product. Products simply provide a means to continue the process, a loan of sorts from the buyer. Now the Art is in the hands of the buyer who transforms a simple act as a gift of time to the artist. I for one can not say which is more beautiful. ”

- Vic Stah Milien

“ Uncertainty will always be part of the taking charge process. ”

- Harold Geneen

“ And, in the end… The love you take is equal to the love you make. ”

- Paul McCartney

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

- Banksy

“ 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

“ Love is an endless mystery, because there is no reasonable cause that could explain it. ”

- Rabindranath Tagore

“ I was watching the first raindrops falling down on the porous ground. Each drop disappeared eagerly into the sand without any hesitations. The Earth, in turn, embraced it warmly like it has gotten back something precious that once belonged to it. I, somehow, thought that this particular image suited more our story than anything else ”

- Ismaaciil C. Ubax

“ Where wild souls meet wild lovers is where hurricanes are made. ”

- ventum

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

- Alexander Graham Bell

“ I love the Lord, for he heard my voice; he heard my cry for mercy. Because he turned his ear to me, I will call on him as long as I live. (Psalms 116:12 NIV) ”

- Anonymous

“ 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

“ The whole image is that eternal suffering awaits anyone who questions God's infinite love. That's the message we're brought up with, isn't it? Believe or die! Thank you, forgiving Lord, for all those options. ”

- Bill Hicks