Quotes of Maxine Hong Kingston

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In a time of destruction, create something.

- Maxine Hong Kingston

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“ 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

“ Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know. ”

- Michel de Montaigne

“ Life is a sheet of blank papers and pen: “We write our life like one made in heaven.” Sadly though, some don’t have the pen with them: “It’s others doing the writing for them. ”

- Rodolfo Martin Vitangcol

“ She was rain to a parched desert She was color to a gray sky She was the beautiful butterfly you longed to possess But I let her fly For fear of breaking her wings! ”

- Avijeet Das

“ In meetings philosophy might work, on the field practicality works. ”

- Amit Kalantri

“ You can’t go back and make a new start, but you can start right now and make a brand new ending. ”

- James R. Sherman

“ We accept some black people, receive some white people, embrace some Asian people, and welcome some mixed people, but God commands us to love all people. ”

- Matshona Dhliwayo

“ Love is beautiful as written in The Greatest Proposal Book ”

- Khuliso Mamathoni

“ It is that we are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so helplessly unhappy as when we have lost our loved object or its love. ”

- Sigmund Freud

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

- Socrates

“ If music be the food of love, play on. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Be supportive of others the way you would want them to be supportive of you. ”

- Ken Poirot

“ As powerful as your genetic combination is in determining the outcome of your life, your decisions are more powerful. You will ultimately look like your decisions. ”

- Kingsley Opuwari Manuel

“ A lack of clarity could put the brakes on any journey to success. ”

- Steve Maraboli

“ She was right about something else too," Dimitri said after a long pause. My back was to him, but there was a strange quality to his voice that made me turn around. "What's that?" I asked. "That I do still love you." With that one sentence, everything in the universe changed. ”

- Richelle Mead

“ I love words.  I crave descriptions that overwhelm my imagination with vivid detail.  I dwell on phrases that make my heart thrum.  I cherish expressions that pierce my emotions and force the tears to spill over.   In essence, I long for a writer's soul sealed in ink on the page. ”

- Richelle E. Goodrich

“ One word Frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love. ”

- Sophocles

“ To pay gratitude, sign of generosity. ”

- Shekhar Srivastava

“ It’s time to care; it’s time to take responsibility; it’s time to lead; it’s time for a change; it’s time to be true to our greatest self; it’s time to stop blaming others. ”

- Steve Maraboli

“ Nothing is over for good! You either take with you memories, love, lesson or an experience. ”

- Somya Kedia

“ Sometimes the best of gods gift's arrive by the shattering of all the window panes. ”

- Paulo Coelho

“ It takes courage to be honest and to work, while others play, cheat, sponge like parasites or are idle. There is value in the work that you choose to do, and you are an innately valuable person. ”

- Zita Steele

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

- Anne Sophie Swetchine

“ We're staying together," he promised. "You're not getting away from me. Never again. ”

- Rick Riordan