Quotes of H.L. Mencken

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The New Deal began, like the Salvation Army, by promising to save humanity. It ended, again like the Salvation Army, by running flop-houses and disturbing the peace.

- H.L. Mencken

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“ The sun shall always rise upon a new day and there shall always be a rose garden within me. Yes, there is a part of me that is broken, but my broken soil gives way to my wild roses. ”

- C. JoyBell C.

“ Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly. ”

- Dalai Lama

“ Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination. ”

- Voltaire

“ And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about. ”

- Haruki Murakami

“ A daily dose of daydreaming heals the heart, soothes the soul, and strengthens the imagination. ”

- Richelle E. Goodrich

“ Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself. ”

- Andrew Carnegie

“ Live a life of substance. The rest are mere fantasies. ”

- Pragnya Sahoo

“ It takes courage to be honest and to work, while others play, cheat, sponge like parasites or are idle. There is value in the work that you choose to do, and you are an innately valuable person. ”

- Zita Steele

“ 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

“ How would your life be different if…You stopped allowing other people to dilute or poison your day with their words or opinions? Let today be the day…You stand strong in the truth of your beauty and journey through your day without attachment to the validation of others ”

- Steve Maraboli

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

- Anwesha Mohanty ‘Anny’

“ True love is taking the risk that it won’t be a happily. ever. after. True love is joining hands with the man who loves you for who you are, and saying, “I’m not afraid to believe in you.” ”

- Cara Lockwood

“ Unless you love someone, nothing else makes sense. ”

- e.e. cummings

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

- Unknown

“ 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

“ 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

“ We cannot have a world where everyone is a victim. "I'm this way because my father made me this way. I'm this way because my husband made me this way." Yes, we are indeed formed by traumas that happen to us. But then you must take charge, you must take over, you are responsible. ”

- Camille Paglia

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

- Matshona Dhliwayo

“ Give the ones you love wings to fly, roots to come back and reasons to stay. ”

- Dalai Lama XIV

“ Before, I wanted to say: "I found love!" But now, I want to say: "I found a person. And he belongs to me and I belong to him. ”

- C. JoyBell C.

“ 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

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

- Mother Teresa

“ The human tendency is to resemble or imitate those we admire; the common result is the delusion, that to emulate another’s personality creates a pseudo persona, measurably dissimilar from our own. ”

- RJ Intindola

“ And out of Tristan's heart there grew a hazel tree, and out of Iseult's a honeysuckle, and they arched together and clung and intertwined so that they could never be separated anymore. ”

- Rosemary Sutcliff

“ Ethical veganism results in a profound revolution within the individual; a complete rejection of the paradigm of oppression and violence that she has been taught from childhood to accept as the natural order. It changes her life and the lives of those with whom she shares this vision of nonviolence. Ethical veganism is anything but passive; on the contrary, it is the active refusal to cooperate with injustice ”

- GaryLFrancione