Quotes of Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Between two groups of men that want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds I see no remedy except force… It seems to me that every society rests on the death of men.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

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β€œ Spend the afternoon, you can't take it with you. ”

- Annie Dillard

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

- Socrates

β€œ A drop of water shall be returned with a burst of spring. ”

- Pat Cher

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

- Richard Crawshaw

β€œ It takes guts and humility to admit mistakes. Admitting we're wrong is courage, not weakness. ”

- Roy T. Bennett

β€œ And during, I realized that the labels didn’t matter, because when two people feel that sort of pull toward each other, it just works, and the only label that mattered was that I was in love. Totally, fully, ecstatically. ”

- Bill Konigsberg

β€œ Finding the lesson behind every adversity will be the one important thing that helps get you through it. ”

- Roy T. Bennett

β€œ Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through selfgratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. ”

- Helen Keller

β€œ Things end. People leave. And you know what? Life goes on. Besides, if bad things didn't happen, how would you be able to feel the good ones? ”

- Elizabeth Scott

β€œ Damn right you are. Tinley, you know I love you, and I want nothing but the best for you. But you are only as capable as you believe you are. I know you could do anything you want to in this world, but you have to want it and tell yourself you can actually do it. Stop second guessing yourself and let yourself live. Truly live. ”

- Alexandria Bishop

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

- Leo Buscaglia

β€œ A heart, once stolen, can never be taken back. ”

- Marissa Meyer

β€œ If you are happy with the person you are becoming, and you can understand that the journey is long and the processes are slow; you are on the right track no matter what your current situation is. ”

- Joshua Lynott

β€œ 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

β€œ If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut. ”

- Albert Einstein

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

- Taylor Swift

β€œ Drag your thoughts away from your troubles… by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it. ”

- Mark Twain

β€œ Being with you never felt wrong. It's the one thing I did right. You're the one thing I did right. ”

- Becca Fitzpatrick

β€œ I held my heart back from positively accepting anything, since I was afraid of another fall, and in this condition of suspense I was being all the more killed. ”

- St. Augustine of Hippo

β€œ Don't let him take who you are. Make him fear who you'll become. ”

- Mary Weber

β€œ Love is not a feeling of happiness. Love is a willingness to sacrifice. ”

- Michael Novak

β€œ You are everything I never knew I always wanted. ”

- Fools Rush In

β€œ I think romantic love evolved to enable you to focus your mating energy on just one individual at a time, thereby conserving mating time and energy. ”

- Helen Fisher

β€œ If we open ourselves up to our feelings, our intuition, and our spiritual centers, we become much closer to the mystery of the Universe. ”

- Patricia Lynn

β€œ We cannot all do great things, but we can do small things with great love. ”

- Mother Teresa