Quotes of John Barth

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Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.

- John Barth

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“ The purpose of life is not to be happy—but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you lived at all. ”

- Leo Rosten

“ Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself. ”

- Leo Buscaglia

“ The love we say we feel for another is, in most cases, just a selfish hunt for our own happiness. ”

- Tatjana Ostojic

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

- Henry David Thoreau

“ The road to success is always under construction. ”

- Steve Maraboli

“ Tucker strokes my hair. There's something so tender about the gesture. It might as well have been him whispering I love you. ”

- Cynthia Hand

“ Perfection does not exist you can always do better and you can always grow. ”

- Les Brown

“ Do the best, give the best and leave the rest to run after you! ”

- Garima Yonzon

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

- Niccolo Machiavelli

“ A good idea always attracts other good ideas. ”

- Patrick Ness

“ Choose being kind over being right, and you’ll be right every time. ”

- Richard Carlson

“ Keep away from small people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. ”

- Mark Twain

“ My mama always used to tell me: ‘If you can’t find somethin’ to live for, you best find somethin’ to die for.’ ”

- Tupac Shakur

“ When people think they know you and put you in a box, keep growing and give them the box. ”

- Jackie Griffin

“ All for one and one for all. ”

- Alexandre Dumas

“ Your past, including your failures, simply offers feedback that makes you wiser and stronger than before. ”

- Brittany Burgunder

“ There is nothing higher than love, and nothing lower than ignorance. ”

- Matshona Dhliwayo

“ In the waltz of the leaves in the air In the features of the playful clouds In the nostalgia carried by the wind In Paris alone, I save your love (fragment from Your presence “partout”, chapter Hope) ”

- Claudia Pavel

“ Pet names are a persistant remnant of childhood, a reminder that life is not always so serious, so formal, so complicated. They are a reminder, too, that one is not all things to all people. ”

- Jhumpa Lahiri

“ I never want to change so much that people can't recognize me. ”

- Taylor Swift

“ It is better to be respected than it is to be popular. Popularity ends on yearbook day, but respect lasts forever. ”

- John Bytheway

“ Sometimes what seems so right turns out wrong and what seems so wrong turns out right. What do I call this phenomenon? Life. ”

- Charles F. Glassman

“ Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you. ”

- Chuck Klosterman

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

- William Shakespeare