Quotes of W. Somerset Maugham

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Perfection has one grave defect. It is apt to be dull.

- W. Somerset Maugham

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“ Meditation is a way for nourishing and blossoming the divinity within you. ”

- Amit Ray

“ We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire. ”

- Francois De La Rochefoucauld

“ The only time a man can do the right thing is right now. ”

- John Verdon

“ Always go with the choice that scares you the most, because that’s the one that is going to help you grow. ”

- Unknown

“ A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes. ”

- Robert Frost

“ Mythology is not a lie, mythology is poetry, it is metaphorical. It has been well said that mythology is the penultimate truthpenultimate because the ultimate cannot be put into words. It is beyond words. Beyond images, beyond that bounding rim of the Buddhist Wheel of Becoming. Mythology pitches the mind beyond that rim, to what can be known but not told. ”

- Joseph Campbell

“ Sometimes you never realize how much you like someone, until you watch them liking someone else. ”

- Unknown

“ Never worry a bit in Life. Always be full of merriment. ”

- sharda sriram

“ Where wild souls meet wild lovers is where hurricanes are made. ”

- ventum

“ To the wellorganized mind, death is but the next great adventure. ”

- J.K. Rowling

“ If I love you more than you love me, I’m as good as dead. Yet I can’t make myself take it back. I can’t just walk away from you, because every time you pass by me without smiling, without touching my hand, or at least making eye contact, it feels like I’m dying inside. ”

- Rachel Vincent

“ When love is pursued, fear is surrendered, and you gain the freedom to worship in spirit and in truth. ”

- Deborah Brodie

“ You are attracted to the love you didn't receive as a child ”

- Jodi Ann Quarrie

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

- Mother Teresa

“ Willingness to show we are interested in our children’s needs takes the burden and worries off their minds. It shows compassion on our end, and it builds trust on their end. ”

- Charlena E. Jackson

“ Love alone could waken love. ”

- Pearl S. Buck

“ To be human is to be broken and broken is its own kind of beautiful. ”

- robert m drake

“ I love women, but I feel like you can’t trust some of them. Some of them are liars, you know? Like I was in the park and I met this girl, she was cute and she had a dog. And I went up to her, we started talking. She told me her dog’s name. Then I said, ‘Does he bite?’ She said, ‘No.’ And I said, ‘Oh yeah? Then how does he eat?’ Liar. ”

- Demetri Martin

“ If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it. ”

- Ernest Hemingway

“ 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

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

- RVM

“ 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

“ It was like I’d met my life’s purpose. Like I’d been hurtling through the cosmos, blind, and without a destiny and he gave me one. He was fated to be the man who would break my heart at last. The heart I’d kept under scrutiny, sheltered, for this long, he tore through the heavy vaults and ripped it right out of my chest. From then on, there was no me, and no him. There was only us. ”

- Ellie Fox