Quotes of Jean Cocteau

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True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing.

- Jean Cocteau

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“ Be brave. Don't just live in your cave till your grave. ”

- RVM

“ A failure is always in the passenger seat in his or her life. ”

- Stephen Richards

“ To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best. ”

- William M. Thackery

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

- Sophocles

“ Visionary decisionmaking happens at the intersection of intuition and logic. ”

- Gandhi

“ To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others. ”

- Anne Sophie Swetchine

“ You must learn to let go. Release the stress. You were never in control anyway. ”

- Steve Maraboli

“ What I stand for is what I stand on. ”

- Wendell Berry

“ I guess that’s just part of loving people: You have to give things up. Sometimes you even have to give them up. ”

- Lauren Oliver

“ If you have kindness in your heart, you offer acts of kindness to touch the hearts of others wherever you go—whether they are random or planned. Kindness becomes a way of life. ”

- Roy T. Bennett

“ If you suddenly stumble upon the right door, you will not be able to recognize that it is right. ”

- Osho

“ Don't let him take who you are. Make him fear who you'll become. ”

- Mary Weber

“ 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

“ And during, I realized that the labels didn’t matter, because when two people feel that sort of pull toward each other, it just works, and the only label that mattered was that I was in love. Totally, fully, ecstatically. ”

- Bill Konigsberg

“ 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

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

- Nelson Mandela

“ 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

“ Maybe everyone can live beyond what they're capable of. ”

- Markus Zusak

“ 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

“ Her smile was innocent and naive as if she didn’t know anything other than to love and be kind to others. ”

- Mariyam Hasnain

“ In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can’t build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery and death. ”

- Anne Frank

“ To love oneself is the beginning of a life long romance. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ Your big opportunity may be right where you are now. ”

- Napoleon Hill

“ If you listen more, you will judge less; and when you judge less, you will appreciate differences; and you will be more happy. ”

- JOHN TASKINSOY