My Favorite Quotes That Have Magical Power
They make me think about life and I like it.
I hardly use quotes in my writings because I think writers shouldn’t use too many quotes to validate their thoughts. They have the right to be unique and unconventional. And sometimes, they must go against the stream to create truly amazing art. But don’t get me wrong! I love quotes. Because they carry the hard-earned knowledge and wisdom of many great thinkers. They help us understand ourselves better.
Though I don’t use quotes in my writings too often, I frequently read quotes from great minds. Actually, I have a doc file on my desktop full of my favorite quotes. I think these quotes have magical power. Every time I read them, I feel so good. Anyway, today I am going to share a few of my favorite quotes with you. I hope you will like them.
So, let’s read and think about the following quotes.
“A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.” ~ Franz Kafka
“Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.” ~ Albert Camus
“Only once in your life, I truly believe, you find someone who can completely turn your world around. You tell them things that you’ve never shared with another soul and they absorb everything you say and actually want to hear more. You share hopes for the future, dreams that will never come true, goals that were never achieved and the many disappointments life has thrown at you. When something wonderful happens, you can’t wait to tell them about it, knowing they will share in your excitement. They are not embarrassed to cry with you when you are hurting or laugh with you when you make a fool of yourself. Never do they hurt your feelings or make you feel like you are not good enough, but rather they build you up and show you the things about yourself that make you special and even beautiful. There is never any pressure, jealousy or competition but only a quiet calmness when they are around. You can be yourself and not worry about what they will think of you because they love you for who you are. The things that seem insignificant to most people such as a note, song or walk become invaluable treasures kept safe in your heart to cherish forever. Memories of your childhood come back and are so clear and vivid it’s like being young again. Colours seem brighter and more brilliant. Laughter seems part of daily life where before it was infrequent or didn’t exist at all. A phone call or two during the day helps to get you through a long day’s work and always brings a smile to your face. In their presence, there’s no need for continuous conversation, but you find you’re quite content in just having them nearby. Things that never interested you before become fascinating because you know they are important to this person who is so special to you. You think of this person on every occasion and in everything you do. Simple things bring them to mind like a pale blue sky, gentle wind or even a storm cloud on the horizon. You open your heart knowing that there’s a chance it may be broken one day and in opening your heart, you experience a love and joy that you never dreamed possible. You find that being vulnerable is the only way to allow your heart to feel true pleasure that’s so real it scares you. You find strength in knowing you have a true friend and possibly a soul mate who will remain loyal to the end. Life seems completely different, exciting and worthwhile. Your only hope and security is in knowing that they are a part of your life.” ~ Bob Marley
“A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one’s neighbor — such is my idea of happiness.” ~ Leo Tolstoy
“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.” ~ Oscar Wilde
“The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.” ~ Ernest Hemingway
“I was happy, I knew that. While experiencing happiness, we have difficulty in being conscious of it. Only when the happiness is past and we look back on it do we suddenly realize — sometimes with astonishment — how happy we had been.” ~ Nikos Kazantzakis
“Our existence has always and everywhere been tragic, but man has converted these numberless tragedies into works of art. I know of nothing more astonishing or more wonderful than this transformation.” ~ Maxim Gorky
“Shut your eyes and see.” ~ James Joyce
“You have everything but one thing: madness. A man needs a little madness or else — he never dares cut the rope and be free.” ~ Nikos Kazantzakis
“The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.” ~ Bob Marley
“Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.
You may give them your love but not your thoughts, For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams. You may strive to be like them but seek not to make them like you. For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday. You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth. The archer sees the make upon the path of the infinite, and He bends you with His might that His arrows may go swift and far. Let your bending in the archer’s hand be for gladness. For even as He loves the arrow that flies, so He also loves the bow that is stable.” ~ Kahlil Gibran
“Nothing can harm you as much as your own thoughts unguarded.” ~ Buddha
“The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.” ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
“Every reader, as he reads, is actually the reader of himself. The writer’s work is only a kind of optical instrument he provides the reader so he can discern what he might never have seen in himself without this book. The reader’s recognition in himself of what the book says is the proof of the book’s truth.” ~ Marcel Proust
“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.” ~ George Orwell
“The devil is not as black as he is painted.” ~ Dante Alighieri
“We live as we dream — alone….” ~ Joseph Conrad
“All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.” ~ Blaise Pascal
Thank you for reading.
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