Quotes of Joyce Carol Oates

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It's where we go, and what we do when we get there, that tells us who we are.

- Joyce Carol Oates

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“ 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

“ All for one and one for all. ”

- Alexandre Dumas

“ Eyes not only see but reveal secrets that hidden within our very soul, as You and I stroll in this world in search for our true and better selves." Morco ”

- Jeff Morco

“ That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much. ”

- Robert Louis Stevenson

“ To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others. ”

- Anne Sophie Swetchine

“ Never apologize for burning too brightly or collapsing into yourself every night. That is how galaxies are made. ”

- Tyler Kent White

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

- Confucius

“ Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. ”

- Helen Keller

“ My sister will die over and over again for the rest of my life. Grief is forever. It doesn't go away; it becomes a part of you, step for step, breath for breath. I will never stop grieving Bailey because I will never stop loving her. That's just how it is. Grief and love are conjoined, you don't get one without the other. All I can do is love her, and love the world, emulate her by living with daring and spirit and joy. ”

- Jandy Nelson

“ Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, To the last syllable of recorded time; And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more. It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Anything I ever did for a person was out of love, nobody can ever finesse me. ”

- Genereux Philip

“ Faith is taking the first step even when you can’t see the whole staircase. ”

- Martin Luther King

“ Don't waste your love on somebody, who doesn't value it. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best. ”

- William M. Thackery

“ The road to success is always under construction. ”

- Steve Maraboli

“ The key to success is not through achievement but through enthusiasm. ”

- Malcolm Forbes

“ We werent exactly lovers yet, But we were a little more then friends. We just kept meeting at the wrong time, but our connection never ends. ”

- Nikki Rowe

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

- Gary Zukav

“ My poetry has been engraved with your name And my heart is by your memory scarred ”

- Zubair Ahsan

“ Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame. ”

- Henry David Thoreau

“ I think romantic love evolved to enable you to focus your mating energy on just one individual at a time, thereby conserving mating time and energy. ”

- Helen Fisher

“ 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

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

- Eric Thomas

“ Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination. ”

- Voltaire

“ There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them. ”

- Phyllis Bottome