Quotes of Hortense Calisher

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A happy childhood can't be cured. Mine'll hang around my neck like a rainbow, that's all, instead of a noose.

- Hortense Calisher

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“ The New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't-it just keeps you from enjoying it. ”

- Cleveland Amory

“ Everyone's time is limited. What matters most is to focus on what matters most. ”

- Roy Bennett

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

- Pragnya Sahoo

“ Whether you know or not, you are the infinite potential of love, peace and joy ”

- Amit Ray

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

- Davin Ferrigon

“ I know in my heart that man is good, that what is right will always eventually triumph, and there is purpose and worth to each and every life. ”

- Ronald Reagan

“ A dream comes true through repeated actions. ”

- Lailah Gifty Akita

“ Anything under God's control is never out of control. ”

- Charles Swindoll

“ If you sow kindness, you will reap love. ”

- Matshona Dhliwayo

“ Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you. ”

- Chuck Klosterman

“ If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people. ”

- Confucius

“ The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience. ”

- Emily Dickinson

“ Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself. ”

- Leo Buscaglia

“ 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

“ Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes. ”

- Friedrich Nietzsche

“ Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option. ”

- Maya Angelou

“ 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

“ Battered was my heart in the deep search, branded with cracks like slices of silver birch. An ignorant dream, a wish, just fool's gold that was the tale that love had sold. ”

- Sara Secora

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

- Dalai Lama

“ There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them. ”

- Phyllis Bottome

“ Your love needs no explanation, and their sin does not deserve your revenge. ”

- Praharsh Prasoon

“ True love is not so much a matter of romance as it is a matter of anxious concern for the wellbeing of one's companion. ”

- Gordon B. Hinckley

“ I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward. ”

- Charlotte Bronte

“ Nothing is over for good! You either take with you memories, love, lesson or an experience. ”

- Somya Kedia

“ I held my heart back from positively accepting anything, since I was afraid of another fall, and in this condition of suspense I was being all the more killed. ”

- St. Augustine of Hippo