Quotes of John Updike

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- John Updike

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“ Where wild souls meet wild lovers is where hurricanes are made. ”

- ventum

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

- Mike Stagnitta

“ the saddest thing is to be a minute to someone, when you've made them your eternity. ”

- Sanober Khan

“ When we go into stillness we can hear our soul’s voice loud and clear. If we speak from our heart we share our soul’s melody with the world. ”

- Christina Goetz

“ We cannot all do great things, but we can do small things with great love. ”

- Mother Teresa

“ If you love me as you say you do,' she whispered, 'make it so that I am at peace. ”

- Leo Tolstoy

“ 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

“ I don't think you should wait. I think you should speak now. ”

- Taylor Swift

“ 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

“ Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure. ”

- George Edward Woodberry

“ Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic. ”

- Anais Nin

“ I only have so much willpower, Helen," he whispered. "And since you apparently sleep in the most ridiculously transparent tank top I've ever seen, I'm going to have to ask you to get under the covers before I do something stupid. ”

- Josephine Angelini

“ Accepting personal responsibility for your life frees you from outside influences – increases your selfesteem – boosts confidence in your ability to decisions – and ultimately leads to achieve success in life. ”

- Roy T. Bennett

“ Repentance is not at an end, Instead it’s the beginning of how it ends. ”

- Yeth Bisto

“ If every life is a river, then it's little wonder that we do not even notice the changes that occur until we are far out in the darkest sea. One day you look around and nothing is familiar, not even your own face. My name once meant daughter, grandaughter, friend, sister, beloved. Now those words mean only what their letters spell out; Star in the night sky. Truth in the darkness. I have crossed over to a place where I never thought I'd be. I am someone I would have never imagined. A secret. A dream. I am this, body and soul. Burn me. Drown me. Tell me lies. I will still be who I am. ”

- Alice Hoffman

“ One thing I learned out of all these years is nobody really riding wit you like they say n I’ll always keep my guard up cause of all the fuckery. ”

- Genereux Philip

“ Just because you fall once, doesn't mean you're fall at everything. Keep trying, hold on, and always trust yourself, because if you don't then who will?? ”

- Marilyn Monroe

“ If I had to live my life again, I’d make the same mistakes, only sooner. ”

- Tallulah Bankhead

“ True love is not so much a matter of romance as it is a matter of anxious concern for the wellbeing of one's companion. ”

- Gordon B. Hinckley

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

- Susan Ee

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

- Roy Bennett

“ Spend the afternoon, you can't take it with you. ”

- Annie Dillard

“ The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire, the size of your dream and how you handle disappointment along the way. ”

- Robert Kiyosaki

“ Nothing can bring a real sense of security into the home except true love. ”

- Billy Graham

“ The purpose of life is to love, the purpose of love is to live. ”

- Matshona Dhliwayo