Quotes of W. E. B. Du Bois

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One ever feels his twoness-an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.

- W. E. B. Du Bois

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“ I guess that’s just part of loving people: You have to give things up. Sometimes you even have to give them up. ”

- Lauren Oliver

“ I held my heart back from positively accepting anything, since I was afraid of another fall, and in this condition of suspense I was being all the more killed. ”

- St. Augustine of Hippo

“ Love is not a feeling of happiness. Love is a willingness to sacrifice. ”

- Michael Novak

“ If you want a future that makes you happy, if you want a world that you’re excited about, get your ass out there and earn it. ”

- Tom Bilyeu

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

- Charlena E. Jackson

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

- Greg Behrendt

“ Don’t marry him. Don’t be with him. Be with me. ”

- Jenny Han

“ Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality. ”

- Earl Nightingale

“ Everyone's time is limited. What matters most is to focus on what matters most. ”

- Roy Bennett

“ Don't let him take who you are. Make him fear who you'll become. ”

- Mary Weber

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

- Ashli and Trisha Edwards

“ Those who complain about being constrained in their job and life should ask themselves one simple question. Are you constrained by chains or in your own mind? ”

- RJ Intindola

“ In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can’t build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery and death. ”

- Anne Frank

“ A life lived in love will never be dull. ”

- Leo Buscaglia

“ Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. Your really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world. ”

- Lucille Ball

“ Most people never truly live because they never do what they truly love. ”

- Tanner Walling

“ Life is a sheet of blank papers and pen: “We write our life like one made in heaven.” Sadly though, some don’t have the pen with them: “It’s others doing the writing for them. ”

- Rodolfo Martin Vitangcol

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

- Voltaire

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

- Amit Ray

“ I will love you even when I am dust on the wind. ”

- Nalini Singh

“ When love comes like that, all you can do is surrender, to lay down your arms and submit to the will of those who would love you. For in denying it, you face only regret. ”

- Michael Kilman

“ That's a misconception, Lennie. The sky is everywhere, it begins at your feet. ”

- Jandy Nelson

“ 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