Quotes of Samuel Smiles

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The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom.

- Samuel Smiles

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“ Perfect love casts out fear. Where there is love there are no demands, no expectations, no dependency. I do not demand that you make me happy; my happiness does not lie in you. If you were to leave me, I will not feel sorry for myself; I enjoy your company immensely, but I do not cling. ”

- Anthony de Mello

“ Sometimes what seems so right turns out wrong and what seems so wrong turns out right. What do I call this phenomenon? Life. ”

- Charles F. Glassman

“ The whole image is that eternal suffering awaits anyone who questions God's infinite love. That's the message we're brought up with, isn't it? Believe or die! Thank you, forgiving Lord, for all those options. ”

- Bill Hicks

“ I’ll hold you in my heart, till I can hold you in my arms. ”

- Unknown

“ Even when I'm dead, I'll swim through the Earth, like a mermaid of the soil, just to be next to your bones. ”

- Jeffrey McDaniel

“ When love comes like that, all you can do is surrender, to lay down your arms and submit to the will of those who would love you. For in denying it, you face only regret. ”

- Michael Kilman

“ My young sisters, we have such hope for you. We have such great expectations for you. Don't settle for less than what the Lord wants you to be... Give me a young woman who loves home and family, who reads and ponders the scriptures daily, who has a burning testimony of the Book of Mormon... Give me a young woman who is virtuous and who has maintained her personal purity, who will not settle for less than a temple marriage, and I will give you a young woman who will perform miracles for the Lord now and throughout eternity. ”

- Ezra

“ If you care about someone enough, you’ll always be there for them no matter what. ”

- Roy T. Bennett

“ To touch the soul of another human being is to walk on holy ground. ”

- Stephen Covey

“ It takes courage to be honest and to work, while others play, cheat, sponge like parasites or are idle. There is value in the work that you choose to do, and you are an innately valuable person. ”

- Zita Steele

“ In the waltz of the leaves in the air In the features of the playful clouds In the nostalgia carried by the wind In Paris alone, I save your love (fragment from Your presence “partout”, chapter Hope) ”

- Claudia Pavel

“ Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all. ”

- St. Augustine

“ 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

“ When things do not go your way, remember that every challenge — every adversity — contains within it the seeds of opportunity and growth. ”

- Roy T. Bennett

“ You need just the right amount of 'Fuck the world' and the right amount of belief in something...and you need the right amount of love. ”

- Gerard Way

“ We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them. ”

- Francois De La Rochefoucauld

“ Everyday of your life is a another lesson. If you learn the lesson well and apply it; whether positive or negative, you determine what happens in your tomorrow. ”

- David Kofi Awusi

“ Awake, my friend! Arise, my friend! Start walking my friend! And do not stop until you bring the change you wish to see in your society! ”

- Abhijit Naskar

“ Let me take you from Miss to Mrs ”

- Ismaaciil C. Ubax

“ Yet there are moments when the walls of the mind grow thin; when nothing is unabsorbed, and I could fancy that we might blow so vast a bubble that the sun might set and rise in it and we might take the blue of midday and the black of midnight and be cast off and escape from here and now. ”

- Virginia Woolf

“ The desires of man are frequently more influential than their rational thought. ”

- RJ Intindola

“ A blooming relationship even if it’s someone else’s, makes me so happy and reinstates my faith in love... ”

- Nitya Prakash

“ Hope is a waking dream. ”

- Aristotle

“ You are successful in my book if you do what you love for a living; you do not owe money to anyone; you have a place what you call home; you have a wife/husband, a girlfriend/boyfriend, or a partner who loves and respects you; and most importantly, you are surrounded by friends and loved ones who stand by you in good and bad days. ”

- JOHN TASKINSOY

“ 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