Quotes of Italo Calvino

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Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents.

- Italo Calvino

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“ She was rain to a parched desert She was color to a gray sky She was the beautiful butterfly you longed to possess But I let her fly For fear of breaking her wings! ”

- Avijeet Das

“ It’s only after you’ve stepped outside your comfort zone that you begin to change, grow, and transform. ”

- Roy T. Bennett

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

- Oscar Wilde

“ Sometimes, change is what we need to retain our sanity. ”

- Life

“ As a woman, you are always empowering others and helping people out of their situations. The time has come, and the time is now, for you to take charge of your own journey. It doesn’t matter how young or how old you are. It is time for you to freefall into giving yourself a chance at love, and the first person you should fall in love with is yourself. ”

- Charlena E. Jackson

“ Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination. ”

- Voltaire

“ Tell me then, does love make one a fool or do only fools fall in love? ”

- Orhan Pamuk

“ 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

“ 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

“ Until you step into the unknown, you don’t know what you’re made of. ”

- Roy T. Bennett

“ The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new. ”

- Socrates

“ It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not. ”

- Andre Gide

“ Being love rather than giving or taking love, is the only thing that provides stability. ”

- Ram Dass

“ Ethical veganism results in a profound revolution within the individual; a complete rejection of the paradigm of oppression and violence that she has been taught from childhood to accept as the natural order. It changes her life and the lives of those with whom she shares this vision of nonviolence. Ethical veganism is anything but passive; on the contrary, it is the active refusal to cooperate with injustice ”

- GaryLFrancione

“ One rarely falls in love without being as much attracted to what is interestingly wrong with someone as what is objectively healthy. ”

- Alain de Botton

“ I thought it (love) meant like you hold out your hand and someone takes it, holds it hard, and pulls you safe from the river. You talk. You tell him bits of yourself. You say here's where I hurt and you give it to him and he holds it and gives you where he hurts in return and you hold it and that's how you learn to love. ”

- Elizabeth George

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

- Markus Zusak

“ Sometimes the hardest one to see . . .is the one standing right before you. ”

- Lenora Porch

“ Confusion, obsession, and potential love walk handinhand. ”

- Ashli and Trisha Edwards

“ Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone. ”

- Pablo Picasso

“ FORGET SWAG, I'VE GOT SHAKARA', ”

- Genereux Philip

“ Those we love never truly leave us, Harry. There are things that death cannot touch. ”

- Jack Thorne

“ The path is paved with consistent, conscious mental and spiritual alertness and the gradual growth of goodness in our heart and clarity in our mind. We are awake. If we keep trying to understand, we will understand. If we keep telling ourselves that we are loved by Life and if we keep looking for evidence of that love, we will find it. ”

- Donna Goddard

“ I was watching the first raindrops falling down on the porous ground. Each drop disappeared eagerly into the sand without any hesitations. The Earth, in turn, embraced it warmly like it has gotten back something precious that once belonged to it. I, somehow, thought that this particular image suited more our story than anything else ”

- Ismaaciil C. Ubax