Quotes of John Ciardi

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What has any poet to trust more than the feel of the thing? Theory concerns him only until he picks up his pen, and it begins to concern him again as soon as he lays it down.

- John Ciardi

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“ It’s not bragging if you can back it up. ”

- Muhammad Ali

“ The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplaceable being. ”

- Tom Robbins

“ The past can't hurt you anymore. Not unless you let it. They made you into a victim, Evey. They made you into a statistic. But, that's not the real you. That's not who you are inside. ”

- Alan Moore

“ All things are difficult before they are easy. ”

- Thomas Fuller

“ At one time or another we are all called to leave the safety of our homes, the certainty of what we know, the illusions of who we are. Not everyone will heed this call, of course. And those who do will risk losing themselves completely. But if we choose to ignore the invitation, we risk never knowing who we might have become. We risk dying without knowing what it is to live. ”

- Thomas Lloyd Qualls

“ and then I look deep into your eyes and we melt into each other and enjoy that melting, like those things that belong together... (fragment from Passion beneath, chapter Passion) ”

- Claudia Pavel

“ As a woman, you are always empowering others and helping people out of their situations. The time has come, and the time is now, for you to take charge of your own journey. It doesn’t matter how young or how old you are. It is time for you to freefall into giving yourself a chance at love, and the first person you should fall in love with is yourself. ”

- Charlena E. Jackson

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

- Andrew Carnegie

“ 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

“ The human tendency is to resemble or imitate those we admire; the common result is the delusion, that to emulate another’s personality creates a pseudo persona, measurably dissimilar from our own. ”

- RJ Intindola

“ The road to success is always under construction. ”

- Steve Maraboli

“ Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great. ”

- Niccolo Machiavelli

“ The beautiful thing about love is that you just need to plant it once and nurture it and it shall bloom into blossoms that would cover the valleys. ”

- Hermann J. Steinherr

“ We cannot have a world where everyone is a victim. "I'm this way because my father made me this way. I'm this way because my husband made me this way." Yes, we are indeed formed by traumas that happen to us. But then you must take charge, you must take over, you are responsible. ”

- Camille Paglia

“ Our own selfesteem is something we can actually twist in whatever way we want. ”

- Stephen Richards

“ There are four basic human needs; food, sleep, sex and revenge. ”

- Banksy

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

- St. Augustine

“ Sometimes the hardest one to see . . .is the one standing right before you. ”

- Lenora Porch

“ There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see the toothache in his own humor. ”

- H. L. Mencken

“ A drop of water shall be returned with a burst of spring. ”

- Pat Cher

“ An early. morning walk is a blessing for the whole day. ”

- Henry David Thoreau

“ The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new. ”

- Socrates

“ Sitting too long produces trees. ”

- Lorin MorganRichards

“ You left the same way you: with 6 duffle bags and your heart intact. ”

- Gandhi