Quotes of Ambrose Bierce

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JEWS-HARP, n. An unmusical instrument, played by holding it fast with the teeth and trying to brush it away with the finger.

- Ambrose Bierce

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

- Gary Zukav

“ The purpose of life is not to be happy—but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you lived at all. ”

- Leo Rosten

“ Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through selfgratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. ”

- Helen Keller

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

- Michel de Montaigne

“ When you know my love, my love will warm you. ”

- Ruby Dee

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

- Franz Kafka

“ I thought it (love) meant like you hold out your hand and someone takes it, holds it hard, and pulls you safe from the river. You talk. You tell him bits of yourself. You say here's where I hurt and you give it to him and he holds it and gives you where he hurts in return and you hold it and that's how you learn to love. ”

- Elizabeth George

“ The human tendency is to resemble or imitate those we admire; the common result is the delusion, that to emulate another’s personality creates a pseudo persona, measurably dissimilar from our own. ”

- RJ Intindola

“ When your only competition is becoming a better you, you will always win the game. ”

- Jackie Griffin

“ All worries are less with wine. ”

- Amit Kalantri

“ The past can't hurt you anymore. Not unless you let it. They made you into a victim, Evey. They made you into a statistic. But, that's not the real you. That's not who you are inside. ”

- Alan Moore

“ But if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires: To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To know the pain of too much tenderness. To be wounded by your own understanding of love; And to bleed willingly and joyfully. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving; To rest at noon hour and meditate love's ecstasy; To return home at eventide with gratitude; And then to sleep with a prayer for the beloved in your heart and a song of praise on your lips. ”

- Kahlil Gibran

“ Sometimes, as we're stumbling along in the dark, we hit something good. ”

- Susan Ee

“ We always see our worst selves. Our most vulnerable selves. We need someone else to get close enough to tell us we’re wrong. Someone we trust. ”

- David Levithan

“ Anyone who stops learning is old, whether twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing you can do is keep your mind young. ”

- Mark Twain

“ 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

“ Love thy neighbor — and if he happens to be tall, debonair and devastating, it will be that much easier. ”

- Mae West

“ Love cannot be hidden. It even shines in the darkest places." ~ Carla Olson Gade, The Shadow Catcher's Daughter ”

- Carla Olson Gade

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

- Tom Robbins

“ There is a distinct, awful pain that comes with loving someone more than they love you. ”

- Steve Maraboli

“ The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink. ”

- T.S. Eliot

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

- Steve Maraboli

“ If you have kindness in your heart, you offer acts of kindness to touch the hearts of others wherever you go—whether they are random or planned. Kindness becomes a way of life. ”

- Roy T. Bennett