Quotes of Ernest Becker

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For man, maximum excitement is the confrontation of death and the skillful defiance of it by watching others fed to it as he survives transfixed with rapture.

- Ernest Becker

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“ Unrequited love’s a bore. ”

- Lorenz Hart

“ Even when I'm dead, I'll swim through the Earth, like a mermaid of the soil, just to be next to your bones. ”

- Jeffrey McDaniel

“ Gratitude is not love. Don’t mix the two because they are not the same. ”

- Frank Matobo

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

- Mary Weber

“ In the waltz of the leaves in the air In the features of the playful clouds In the nostalgia carried by the wind In Paris alone, I save your love (fragment from Your presence “partout”, chapter Hope) ”

- Claudia Pavel

“ Tough times never last. Tough people do ”

- Robert Schuller

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

- Richard Carlson

“ Sometimes when I'm alone, I take the pearl from where it lives in my pocket and try to remember the boy with the bread, the strong arms that warded off nightmares on the train, the kisses in the arena. ”

- Suzanne Collins

“ Eventually you will come to understand that love heals everything, and love is all there is. ”

- Gary Zukav

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

- Chesterton

“ If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember that this whole thing was started with a dream and a mouse. ”

- Walt Disney

“ Tell me then, does love make one a fool or do only fools fall in love? ”

- Orhan Pamuk

“ I do love nothing in the world so well as you is not that strange? ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Nothing that is perfect can be taught ”

- Mike Stagnitta

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

- Rudyard Kipling

“ When people think they know you and put you in a box, keep growing and give them the box. ”

- Jackie Griffin

“ If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people. ”

- Confucius

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

- Plato

“ I was watching the first raindrops falling down on the porous ground. Each drop disappeared eagerly into the sand without any hesitations. The Earth, in turn, embraced it warmly like it has gotten back something precious that once belonged to it. I, somehow, thought that this particular image suited more our story than anything else ”

- Ismaaciil C. Ubax

“ I may not be where I want to be, but if I stop now, I'll NEVER get where I'm going! ”

- Laura Lynch

“ Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know. ”

- Michel de Montaigne

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

- Unknown

“ If you fuel your journey on the opinions of others, you are going to run out of gas. ”

- Steve Maraboli

“ Our great human adventure is the evolution of consciousness. We are in this life to enlarge the soul, liberate the spirit, and light up the brain. ”

- Tom Robbins

“ Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning. ”

- Albert Einstein