Quotes of John Ciardi

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Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal, with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope.

- John Ciardi

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“ Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes. ”

- Friedrich Nietzsche

“ May I share with you a formula that in my judgment will help you and help me to journey well through mortality... First, fill your mind with truth; second, fill your life with service; and third, fill your heart with love. ”

- Thomas S. Monson

“ Everyone's time is limited. What matters most is to focus on what matters most. ”

- Roy Bennett

“ Sometimes, change is what we need to retain our sanity. ”

- Life

“ Gratitude is not love. Don’t mix the two because they are not the same. ”

- Frank Matobo

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

- William Shakespeare

“ Be brave. Don't just live in your cave till your grave. ”

- RVM

“ Love is an endless mystery, because there is no reasonable cause that could explain it. ”

- Rabindranath Tagore

“ Don’t take the high ground and assume you already know what you’ll do. The truth is, when it comes to someone you love, you’ll find there isn’t anything you won’t do. ”

- Richelle Mead

“ There is a distinct, awful pain that comes with loving someone more than they love you. ”

- Steve Maraboli

“ Art is in the act, not the product. Products simply provide a means to continue the process, a loan of sorts from the buyer. Now the Art is in the hands of the buyer who transforms a simple act as a gift of time to the artist. I for one can not say which is more beautiful. ”

- Vic Stah Milien

“ To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love. But then one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer; not to love is to suffer; to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be happy one must love or love to suffer or suffer from too much happiness. ”

- Woody Allen

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

- Leo Buscaglia

“ When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself. ”

- Wayne Dyer

“ The only time we can effect an action is now. So learn from the past, have a vision for your future but act NOW. Today will soon be your past so don’t miss your present. ? ”

- Andrea McGibbon

“ Love is the beauty of the soul. ”

- Augustine of Hippo

“ There’s only so many variations on the basics of human relationships. To me, it’s all about the detail and how you tell the story. How you say, ‘I love you.’ ”

- K. Flay

“ Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly. ”

- Dalai Lama

“ And these aches in my heart create poetry! ”

- Avijeet Das

“ 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

“ Battered was my heart in the deep search, branded with cracks like slices of silver birch. An ignorant dream, a wish, just fool's gold that was the tale that love had sold. ”

- Sara Secora

“ Writing is the knitting of the soul ”

- Khaled Talib

“ After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same language even when they speak the same language? ”

- Russell Hoban

“ Love is like a brick. You can build a house, or you can sink a dead body. ”

- Lady Gaga

“ Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love. ”

- Mother Teresa