Quotes of Vladimir Nabokov

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My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.

- Vladimir Nabokov

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“ Numbers by popular consensus don’t make a wrong thing right, and if you are misunderstood for being right, don’t be afraid because they are not yet in the right time zone. ”

- Erwin D. Maramat

“ It is our wounds that create in us a desire to reach for miracles. The fulfillment of such miracles depends on whether we let our wounds pull us down or lift us up towards our dreams. ”

- Jocelyn Soriano

“ All worries are less with wine. ”

- Amit Kalantri

“ Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexations to the spirit. ”

- Max Ehrmann

“ I never want to change so much that people can't recognize me. ”

- Taylor Swift

“ Mysteries of attraction could not always be explained through logic. Sometimes the fractures in two separate souls became the very hinges that held them together. ”

- Lisa Kleypas

“ I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.. ”

- Thoreau

“ Is there any positive energy like enthusiasm? ”

- Lailah Gifty Akita

“ Take wrong turns. Talk to strangers. Open unmarked doors. And if you see a group of people in a field, go find out what they are doing. Do things without always knowing how they'll turn out. You're curious and smart and bored, and all you see is the choice between working hard and slacking off. There are so many adventures that you miss because you're waiting to think of a plan. To find them, look for tiny interesting choices. And remember that you are always making up the future as you go. ”

- Randall Munroe

“ 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

“ Bagiku ada sesuatu yang paling berharga dan hakiki dalam kehidupan: 'dapat mencintai, dapat iba hati, dapat merasai kedukaan'. Tanpa itu semua maka kita tidak lebih dari benda. Berbahagialah orang yang masih mempunyai rasa cinta, yang belum sampai kehilangan benda yang paling bernilai itu. Kalau kita telah kehilangan itu maka absurdlah hidup kita. ”

- Soe Hok Gie

“ Where there’s marriage without love, there will be love without marriage. ”

- Benjamin Franklin

“ The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplaceable being. ”

- Tom Robbins

“ Never run from the truth. It is always there; it never changes – save your energy. ”

- Steve Maraboli

“ Because, if you could love someone, and keep loving them, without being loved back . . . then that love had to be real. It hurt too much to be anything else. ”

- Sarah Cross

“ Meditation is a way for nourishing and blossoming the divinity within you. ”

- Amit Ray

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

- Roy T. Bennett

“ A daily dose of daydreaming heals the heart, soothes the soul, and strengthens the imagination. ”

- Richelle E. Goodrich

“ 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

“ Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure. ”

- George Edward Woodberry

“ I find it odd the greed of mankind. People only like you for as long as they perceive they can get what they want from you. Or for as long as they perceive you are who they want you to be. But I like people for all of their changing surprises, the thoughts in their heads, the warmth that changes to cold and the cold that changes to warmth... for being human. The rawness of being human delights me. ”

- C. JoyBell C.

“ Pet names are a persistant remnant of childhood, a reminder that life is not always so serious, so formal, so complicated. They are a reminder, too, that one is not all things to all people. ”

- Jhumpa Lahiri

“ Sometimes you never realize how much you like someone, until you watch them liking someone else. ”

- Unknown

“ Stop hating yourself for everything you aren’t and start loving yourself for everything you already are. ”

- Unknown