Quotes of Samuel Butler

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When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence.

- Samuel Butler

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“ Tragedy and adversary are the stones we sharpen our swords against so we can fight new battles. ”

- Sherrilyn Kenyon

“ To pay gratitude, sign of generosity. ”

- Shekhar Srivastava

“ You can never plan the future by the past. ”

- Edmund Burke

“ To being far away from everything and everyone Stefanie Sybens, Letters from the WhatWentBefore ”

- Stefanie Sybens

“ I was so blessed. The first person I gave my heart to was an angel who plucked the feathers off his wings and built a nest for it. ”

- Kamand Kojouri

“ Sometimes, as we're stumbling along in the dark, we hit something good. ”

- Susan Ee

“ A life lived in love will never be dull. ”

- Leo Buscaglia

“ 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

“ and then I look deep into your eyes and we melt into each other and enjoy that melting, like those things that belong together... (fragment from Passion beneath, chapter Passion) ”

- Claudia Pavel

“ All my problems bow before my stubbornness. ”

- Amit Kalantri

“ Take wrong turns. Talk to strangers. Open unmarked doors. And if you see a group of people in a field, go find out what they are doing. Do things without always knowing how they'll turn out. You're curious and smart and bored, and all you see is the choice between working hard and slacking off. There are so many adventures that you miss because you're waiting to think of a plan. To find them, look for tiny interesting choices. And remember that you are always making up the future as you go. ”

- Randall Munroe

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

- Matshona Dhliwayo

“ 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

“ I just...I just miss him. And I hate being so alone. ”

- Suzanne Collins

“ Isn't it strange how we all start as strangers? Fall in love, share infinities, hurt each other, fall out of love to eventually end as the strangers we once were? ”

- Fiphie

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

- Plato

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

- Unknown

“ To be human is to be broken and broken is its own kind of beautiful. ”

- robert m drake

“ Numbers by popular consensus don’t make a wrong thing right, and if you are misunderstood for being right, don’t be afraid because they are not yet in the right time zone. ”

- Erwin D. Maramat

“ A drop of water shall be returned with a burst of spring. ”

- Pat Cher

“ Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything. ”

- Napoleon Hill

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

- John Verdon

“ One word Frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love. ”

- Sophocles

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

- Thomas Jefferson