Quotes of Chester Himes

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Martyrs are needed to create incidents. Incidents are needed to create revolutions. Revolutions are needed to create progress.

- Chester Himes

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“ My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right. ”

- Abraham Lincoln

“ 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

“ 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

“ Sometimes when I'm alone, I take the pearl from where it lives in my pocket and try to remember the boy with the bread, the strong arms that warded off nightmares on the train, the kisses in the arena. ”

- Suzanne Collins

“ Is there any positive energy like enthusiasm? ”

- Lailah Gifty Akita

“ sometimes the unknown is better for all involved ”

- Azelene Williams

“ You can't stop dreaming just because the night never seems to end. ”

- Curtis Tyrone Jones

“ I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet. ”

- Mahatma Gandhi

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

- Nelson Mandela

“ Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack. ”

- Mary Roberts Rinehart

“ Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know. ”

- Michel de Montaigne

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

- Unknown

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

- ventum

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

- Banksy

“ When we go into stillness we can hear our soul’s voice loud and clear. If we speak from our heart we share our soul’s melody with the world. ”

- Christina Goetz

“ When someone beats a rug, the blows are not against the rug, but against the dust in it. ”

- Gandhi

“ Keep your face always toward the sunshine and shadows will fall behind you. ”

- Walt Whitman

“ True Love is not something that will ever happen in an instant....because the summary of our lives is not in an instant. Love at First sight is just infatuation. True Love.....is like a fine wine. It has layers upon layers of depth and flavor, all of which gets better if it is aged and cared for correctly. True Love is the gradual deep understanding of your Spouse, and a spiritual empathy towards them. As they get older, and change, you eagerly continue to turn pages of your lives together, studying and empathizing with a person that you do not need to be defensive or suspicious of. ”

- sangeeta mann

“ A successful marriage requires falling in love many times always with the same person. ”

- Mignon McLaughlin

“ There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. ”

- Albert Einstein

“ If I had to live my life again, I’d make the same mistakes, only sooner. ”

- Tallulah Bankhead

“ Don’t marry him. Don’t be with him. Be with me. ”

- Jenny Han

“ Love is blind, they say–but isn’t it more that love makes us see too much? Isn’t it more that love floods our brain with sights and sounds, so that everything looks bigger, brighter, more lovely than ever before? ”

- Susan Fletcher Eve Green