Quotes of Georgia Douglas Johnson

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I battered the cordons around me And cradled my wings on the breeze, Then soared to the uttermost reaches With rapture, with power, with ease!

- Georgia Douglas Johnson

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“ I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me. ”

- Abraham Lincoln

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

- Markus Zusak

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

- Yeth Bisto

“ You lose nothing when fighting for a cause ... In my mind the losers are those who don't have a cause they care about. ”

- Muhammad Ali

“ Tomorrow I will run more courageously, more outrageously. ”

- Talismanist Giebra

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

- Matshona Dhliwayo

“ Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them. ”

- John Updike

“ Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. ”

- Mahatma Gandhi

“ It's all a conundrum, isn't it— forgetting the mixed tape in the car... feeling forgotten when... so many people are thinking of us? Drinking when we should be eating... sleeping when we should be making love... thanking God above when we don't have enough? Each day is a mad rush to something irrelevant. We measure our pricelessness by our successes, which... still equals money. Life goes by so quick when each day is a mad rush to slow motion. We eat fast food so that we can go to bed on time, but, trust me, everyone wakes up too late. ”

- Heather Angelika Dooley

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

- Phyllis Bottome

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

- Annie Dillard

“ My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it. ”

- Mark Twain

“ 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

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

- Sanober Khan

“ But if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires: To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To know the pain of too much tenderness. To be wounded by your own understanding of love; And to bleed willingly and joyfully. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving; To rest at noon hour and meditate love's ecstasy; To return home at eventide with gratitude; And then to sleep with a prayer for the beloved in your heart and a song of praise on your lips. ”

- Kahlil Gibran

“ I pray you, do not fall in love with me, for I am falser than vows made in wine. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself. ”

- Andrew Carnegie

“ Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts. ”

- Richard Crawshaw

“ No,' Nora said, almost in a whisper. 'It's because ' she looked carefully for the words 'you didn't stare at me. I saw you blush, and you immediately lowered your eyes. And I should have been embarrassed, ashamed... but I, I just felt safe, and I stood there unafraid.' She closed her eyes, taking in all the feelings of gratitude she had for that moment. 'That's when I knew I could trust you in a way that I didn't know was possible. ”

- Hani Selim

“ In school we learn that mistakes are bad, and we are punished for making them. Yet, if you look at the way humans are designed to learn, we learn by making mistakes. We learn to walk by falling down. If we never fell down, we would never walk. ”

- Robert T. Kiyosaki

“ About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won't like you at all. ”

- Rita Mae Brown

“ And these aches in my heart create poetry! ”

- Avijeet Das

“ And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about. ”

- Haruki Murakami

“ I would die for you. But I won't live for you. ”

- Stephen Chbosky