Quotes of W. Somerset Maugham

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Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it, and that is all.

- W. Somerset Maugham

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“ Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic. ”

- Anais Nin

“ Meditation is a way for nourishing and blossoming the divinity within you. ”

- Amit Ray

“ God does not ask about our ability, but our availability. ”

- Unknown

“ The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. ”

- Émile Zola

“ Love brings to light a lover's noble and hidden qualitieshis rare and exceptional traits: it is thus liable to be deceptive of his normal qualities. ”

- Friedrich Nietzsche

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

- Emily Dickinson

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

- Mignon McLaughlin

“ Love is a panacea for a wound that never stops weeping. ”

- Kilroy J. Oldster

“ Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexations to the spirit. ”

- Max Ehrmann

“ Perfect is annoying, boring, and impossible to sustain. Knowing how to translate conscientiousness into something beyond the fleeting satisfaction of “me” toward a “we” mindset is the best move you can make. ”

- Kristen Lee

“ Every risk bears with it the seeds of an opportunity: failure success, fall rise, and setback comeback. ”

- JOHN TASKINSOY

“ 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

“ Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more. ”

- Erica Jong

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

- Rabindranath Tagore

“ The key to success is not through achievement but through enthusiasm. ”

- Malcolm Forbes

“ Do you have to make me feel like there's nothing left of me? You can take everything I have, you can break everything I am, like I am made of glass, like I am made of paper.Go on and try to tear me down I will be rising from the ground like a Skyscraper... ”

- Demi Lovato

“ The little unremembered acts of kindness and love are the best parts of a person’s life. ”

- William Wordsworth

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

- Jenny Han

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

- Franz Kafka

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

- Cleveland Amory

“ To lovers out there… I have realized that even thou I can cook for myself . I can drive myself, and I can do lot of things for myself. It is always nice to be driven . I enjoyed food been coked by someone and its always nice when someone does the things for me. It is the same with Love. You can love yourself , but the best Love is when you get it from someone . When someone loves you back, even when you can love yourself. ”

- De philosopher DJ Kyos

“ The purpose of life is to love, the purpose of love is to live. ”

- Matshona Dhliwayo

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

- Roy Bennett