Quotes of Gerald Brenan

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We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure.

- Gerald Brenan

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“ If you don't run your own life, somebody else will. ”

- John Atkinson

“ I am convinced that one should tell one's spiritual director if one has a great desire for Communion, for Our Lord does not come from Heaven every day to stay in a golden ciborium; He comes to find another heaven, the heaven of our soul in which He loves to dwell. ”

- St. Therese of Lisieux

“ You know her well. People are harder to sum up when you know them well. ”

- Veronica Roth

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

- Mariyam Hasnain

“ Keep away from small people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. ”

- Mark Twain

“ My mama always used to tell me: ‘If you can’t find somethin’ to live for, you best find somethin’ to die for.’ ”

- Tupac Shakur

“ Anything that you learn becomes your wealth, a wealth that cannot be taken away from you; whether you learn it in a building called school or in the school of life. To learn something new is a timeless pleasure and a valuable treasure. And not all things that you learn are taught to you, but many things that you learn you realize you have taught yourself. ”

- C. JoyBell C.

“ Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes. ”

- Friedrich Nietzsche

“ That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much. ”

- Robert Louis Stevenson

“ Being with you never felt wrong. It's the one thing I did right. You're the one thing I did right. ”

- Becca Fitzpatrick

“ Don't be afraid of the shadows, that only means there's a light nearby. ”

- Evanescence

“ Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something. ”

- Rainbow Rowell

“ I don't think you should wait. I think you should speak now. ”

- Taylor Swift

“ So don't you worry your pretty little mind because people throw rocks at things that shine. [Ours] ”

- Taylor Swift

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

- Wendell Berry

“ Some symbols reach to your primordial archives. ”

- Talismanist Giebra

“ Love is blind, they saybut 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

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

- Napoleon Hill

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

- Rabindranath Tagore

“ Ladies, it’s harvest time!!! Take care of your crops, water them and weed them out. ”

- Charlena E. Jackson

“ 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

“ Love is the beauty of the soul. ”

- Augustine of Hippo

“ It’s not bragging if you can back it up. ”

- Muhammad Ali

“ If you love me as you say you do,' she whispered, 'make it so that I am at peace. ”

- Leo Tolstoy

“ We need hearts with restored empathy And homes with restored hope ”

- Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr