Famous quotes by Authors

"It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory"

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Author

"I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library"

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Author

"His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours"

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Author

"Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind"

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Author

"Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness"

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Author

"Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you"

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Author

"After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others"

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Author

"Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero"

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Author

"Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you"

H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Author

"Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness"

H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Author

"The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today"

H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Author

"Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people's bad manners"

H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Author

"For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged"

Alice Walker, Author

"Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it"

Alice Walker, Author

"I try to teach my heart not to want things it can't have"

Alice Walker, Author

"Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence"

Alice Walker, Author

"Horses make a landscape look beautiful"

Alice Walker, Author

"Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week"

Alice Walker, Author

"A life without fame can be a good life, but fame without a life is no life at all"

Clive James, Author

"We do not exist for ourselves"

Thomas Merton, Author

"The first step toward finding God, Who is Truth, is to discover the truth about myself, and if I have been in error, this first step to truth is the discovery of my error"

Thomas Merton, Author

"The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them"

Thomas Merton, Author

"Perhaps I am stronger than I think"

Thomas Merton, Author

"Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience"

Thomas Merton, Author

"Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another"

Thomas Merton, Author

"Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life"

Thomas Merton, Author

"People living deeply have no fear of death"

Anais Nin, Author

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage"

Anais Nin, Author

"Any important disease whose causality is murky, and for which treatment is ineffectual, tends to be awash in significance"

Susan Sontag, Author

"What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine"

Susan Sontag, Author

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