Quotes of Maxine Hong Kingston

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The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

- Maxine Hong Kingston

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“ One chooses who they decide to love but never determines who will love them back. The woman’s first two considerations are respect and financial security which centers on the core of personality traits; a man reveres persona of physical and sexuality; these two impostors have little relevance of character. ”

- RJ Intindola

“ Your environment will eat your goals and plans for breakfast. ”

- Steve Pavlina

“ Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall. ”

- Confucius

“ Do you have to make me feel like there's nothing left of me? You can take everything I have, you can break everything I am, like I am made of glass, like I am made of paper.Go on and try to tear me down I will be rising from the ground like a Skyscraper... ”

- Demi Lovato

“ My love for you does not recognize boundaries, distances, borders, or timezones! ”

- Avijeet Das

“ When you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe, then you’ll be successful. ”

- Eric Thomas

“ Maybe everyone can live beyond what they're capable of. ”

- Markus Zusak

“ Love is blind, they saybut isn't it more that love makes us see too much? Isn't it more that love floods our brain with sights and sounds, so that everything looks bigger, brighter, more lovely than ever before? ”

- Susan Fletcher

“ Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all. ”

- St. Augustine

“ The difference between the love of a man and the love of a woman is that a man will always give reasons for loving, but a woman gives no reasons for loving. ”

- Fulton J. Sheen

“ Drunk and alone and hopelessly in love with the idea that someday somehow it might just get better. ”

- Stefanie Sybens

“ Let no one who loves be called unhappy. Even love unreturned has its rainbow. ”

- J. M. Barrie

“ ...most of the time, all you have is the moment, and the imperfect love of the people around you. ”

- Anne Lamott

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

- Plato

“ 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

“ As an African elite, look within and ask, what can I do to change the present African narratives? What niche can I carve and do my uncompromising best to lift this continent? For my sake and for the sake of my children Jumoke Odepe ”

- Jumoke Odepe

“ Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom. ”

- Thomas Jefferson

“ Remember, darkness does not always equate to evil, just as light does not always bring good. ”

- P.C. Cast

“ Love comforteth like sunshine after rain. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Legacy is greater than currency ”

- Gary Vaynerchuk

“ An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it. ”

- William Bernbach

“ Be supportive of others the way you would want them to be supportive of you. ”

- Ken Poirot

“ The only love that I really believe in is a mother’s love for her children. ”

- Karl Lagerfeld

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

- Richard Carlson