Quotes of John Ruskin

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It is far better to give work that is above a person, than to educate the person to be above their work.

- John Ruskin

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“ The superior man thinks only of virtue; the common man thinks only of comfort. ”

- Confucius

“ A bad attitude is like a flat tire, you can’t get very far until you change it. ”

- Unknown

“ Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new. ”

- Ursula K. Le Guin

“ She was right about something else too," Dimitri said after a long pause. My back was to him, but there was a strange quality to his voice that made me turn around. "What's that?" I asked. "That I do still love you." With that one sentence, everything in the universe changed. ”

- Richelle Mead

“ I believe in love the verb, not the noun. ”

- Greg Behrendt

“ Rise as a human being live as a legend work as a Messiah and you shall see the bright glorious change all around you. ”

- Abhijit Naskar

“ And, in the end… The love you take is equal to the love you make. ”

- Paul McCartney

“ The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience. ”

- Emily Dickinson

“ I was blind and heart broken and didn't want to do anything and Gus burst into my room and shouted, "I have wonderful news!" And I was like, "I don't really want to hear wonderful news right now," and Gus said, "This is wonderful news you want to hear," and I asked him, "Fine, what is it?" and he said, "You are going to live a good and long life filled with great and terrible moments that you cannot even imagine yet! ”

- John Green

“ 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

“ Willingness to show we are interested in our children’s needs takes the burden and worries off their minds. It shows compassion on our end, and it builds trust on their end. ”

- Charlena E. Jackson

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

- Plato

“ Being positive in life it does not mean everything is going the way you want it, but it also means that when things don’t go right or your way. Then you believe ,hope and pray that they will be right and go your way. Not only that but you are making plans, decisions ,effort and action in making sure they turn right and your way. ”

- De philosopher DJ Kyos

“ Don't waste your love on somebody, who doesn't value it. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Superhuman effort isn't worth a damn unless it achieves results. ”

- Ernest Shackleton

“ Battered was my heart in the deep search, branded with cracks like slices of silver birch. An ignorant dream, a wish, just fool's gold that was the tale that love had sold. ”

- Sara Secora

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

- Andre Gide

“ I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward. ”

- Charlotte Bronte

“ Better to have, and not need, than to need, and not have. ”

- Franz Kafka

“ 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

“ If every life is a river, then it's little wonder that we do not even notice the changes that occur until we are far out in the darkest sea. One day you look around and nothing is familiar, not even your own face. My name once meant daughter, grandaughter, friend, sister, beloved. Now those words mean only what their letters spell out; Star in the night sky. Truth in the darkness. I have crossed over to a place where I never thought I'd be. I am someone I would have never imagined. A secret. A dream. I am this, body and soul. Burn me. Drown me. Tell me lies. I will still be who I am. ”

- Alice Hoffman

“ I will be generous with my love today. I will sprinkle compliments and uplifting words everywhere I go. I will do this knowing that my words are like seeds and when they fall on fertile soil, a reflection of those seeds will grow into something greater. ”

- Steve Maraboli

“ If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there’d be peace. ”

- John Lennon

“ Time is persistent, and we need to make the best of it. ”

- Charlena E. Jackson

“ Every man is a boyfriend. But some people do not have the ability to become husbands. ”

- Sajal Ahmed