Quotes of Henry Louis Mencken

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The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore.

- Henry Louis Mencken

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“ How many slams in an old screen door? Depends how loud you shut it. How many slices in a bread? Depends how thin you cut it. How much good inside a day? Depends how good you live 'em. How much love inside a friend? Depends how much you give 'em. ”

- Shel Silverstein

“ When things do not go your way, remember that every challenge — every adversity — contains within it the seeds of opportunity and growth. ”

- Roy T. Bennett

“ Visionary decisionmaking happens at the intersection of intuition and logic. ”

- Gandhi

“ Life is a series of pulls back and forth... A tension of opposites, like a pull on a rubber band. Most of us live somewhere in the middle. A wrestling match...Which side win? Love wins. Love always wins ”

- Mitch Albom

“ A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes. ”

- Robert Frost

“ The gospel is this: We are more sinful and flawed in ourselves than we ever dared believe, yet at the very same time we are more loved and accepted in Jesus Christ than we ever dared hope. ”

- Timothy Keller

“ Ethical veganism results in a profound revolution within the individual; a complete rejection of the paradigm of oppression and violence that she has been taught from childhood to accept as the natural order. It changes her life and the lives of those with whom she shares this vision of nonviolence. Ethical veganism is anything but passive; on the contrary, it is the active refusal to cooperate with injustice ”

- GaryLFrancione

“ The price of your birthday outfits should go costlier with respect to the ages you lived. ”

- Anwesha Mohanty ‘Anny’

“ And out of Tristan's heart there grew a hazel tree, and out of Iseult's a honeysuckle, and they arched together and clung and intertwined so that they could never be separated anymore. ”

- Rosemary Sutcliff

“ sometimes the unknown is better for all involved ”

- Azelene Williams

“ If our love isn't written in the stars, Why the very moment we truly locked eyes for the first time does one fly straight by. There's something to be said about twinsouls and meeting eye to eye, the soul ignites its fire for the very first time. ”

- Nikki Rowe

“ Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love. ”

- Mother Teresa

“ Sometimes, change is what we need to retain our sanity. ”

- Life

“ Tucker strokes my hair. There's something so tender about the gesture. It might as well have been him whispering I love you. ”

- Cynthia Hand

“ Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more. ”

- Erica Jong

“ If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it. ”

- Ernest Hemingway

“ Music is love, love is music, music is life, and I love my life. Thank you and good night. ”

- A. J. McLean

“ Give yourself permission to practice selfcare and to make time for your own dreams, goals, and priorities. ”

- Ruth Soukup

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

- William Shakespeare

“ Unless you love someone, nothing else makes sense. ”

- e.e. cummings

“ If you love something so much let it go. If it comes back it was meant to be; if it doesn't it never was ”

- Albert Schweitzer

“ Mythology is not a lie, mythology is poetry, it is metaphorical. It has been well said that mythology is the penultimate truthpenultimate because the ultimate cannot be put into words. It is beyond words. Beyond images, beyond that bounding rim of the Buddhist Wheel of Becoming. Mythology pitches the mind beyond that rim, to what can be known but not told. ”

- Joseph Campbell

“ Sometimes we may feel disheartened and demoralized but we must keep faith in ourselves. We may be going through a lot of ups and downs in our life. But we must realise that growth begins from chaos! ”

- Avijeet Das

“ Confidence is how we perceive the manifestation of truth in us. ”

- Mike Stagnitta