Quotes of Roy Blount Jr.

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Studying literature at Harvard is like learning about women at the Mayo clinic.

- Roy Blount Jr.

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“ After your first failure, the occurrence of a second failure closely depends on what you have learned from your past mistakes and whether or not you have drawn some valuable lessons. ”

- JOHN TASKINSOY

“ There is the great lesson of 'Beauty and the Beast,' that a thing must be loved before it is lovable. ”

- Chesterton

“ We cannot face up to what lies ahead, without facing up to what lies within. ”

- Eleesha

“ I constantly challenge my athletes with workouts that take them to the upper edge of their ability. Like Brett's, my philosophy is that your biggest competitor is yourself. I will never ask the impossible. But I will come close. Those who answer with courage and selfbelief instead of fear and doubt are the ones who realize their dreams. ”

- Siri Lindley

“ Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes. ”

- Friedrich Nietzsche

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

- Anne Sophie Swetchine

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

- Leo Buscaglia

“ Love alone could waken love. ”

- Pearl S. Buck

“ Leaders in OVER their heads is the mere result of getting ahead of their intended SEASON. ”

- John Paul Warren

“ Denna is a wild thing," I explained. "Like a hind or a summer storm. If a storm blows down your house, or breaks a tree, you don't say the storm was mean. It was cruel. It acted according to its nature and something unfortunately was hurt. The same is true of Denna. ”

- Patrick Rothfuss

“ Buy a pup and your money will buy Love unflinching that cannot lie. ”

- Rudyard Kipling

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

- William M. Thackery

“ When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you. ”

- Plato

“ One thing I learned out of all these years is nobody really riding wit you like they say n I’ll always keep my guard up cause of all the fuckery. ”

- Genereux Philip

“ Things end. People leave. And you know what? Life goes on. Besides, if bad things didn't happen, how would you be able to feel the good ones? ”

- Elizabeth Scott

“ Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence. ”

- Ovid

“ Either you run the day, or the day runs you. ”

- Jim Rohn

“ For men, I think, love is a thing formed of equal parts lust and astonishment. The astonishment part women understand. The lust part they only think they understand. ”

- Stephen King

“ Choose being kind over being right, and you’ll be right every time. ”

- Richard Carlson

“ Tough times never last. Tough people do ”

- Robert Schuller

“ I felt overwhelmed. I didn’t expect a first kiss to be so…life altering. In a few brief moments, the rule book of my universe had been rewritten. Suddenly I was a brand new person. I was as fragile as a newborn, but instead of the doctor placing me in my mother’s arms, he’d put me in Ren’s. What would Ren do with me? Would he draw me near, soothe me, and teach me about this new world or would he reject me and tell the doctor there must be some mistake. There was no way to know. What a breakable and delicate thing a heart was, no wonder I’d kept mine locked away. ”

- Colleen Houck

“ The way you handle fear determines the results you have in life. If you are equipped with knowledge, you can overcome fear ”

- H. J. Chammas

“ At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet. ”

- Plato