Susan Deeb > Susan's Quotes

“The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image.”
― Thomas Merton, The Way of Chuang Tzu

“And then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will yes.”
― James Joyce

“Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let’s not forget this.”
― Dave Eggers

“Aging is not 'lost youth' but a new stage of opportunity and strength.”
― Betty Friedan

“I’ve known people that the world has thrown everything at to discourage them...to break their spirit. And yet something about them retains a dignity. They face life and don’t ask quarters.”
― Horton Foote

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
― Maya Angelou

“The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.”
― William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

“And thus the heart will break, yet brokenly live on.”
― George Gordon Byron

“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“In secret we met -
In silence I grieve,
That thy heart could forget,
Thy spirit deceive.
If I should meet thee
After long years,
How should I greet thee? -
With silence and tears”
― Lord Byron

“I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free.”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“...you can hate a place with all your heart and soul and still be homesick for it.”
― Joseph Mitchell

“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.”
― Carl Gustav Jung

“Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, but only saps today of its strength.”
― A.J. Cronin

“من أنتِ أيتها القريبة من قلبى، البعيدة عن ناظرى، الفاصلة بينى وبينى، الموثقة حاضرى بأزمنة بعيدة منسية؟”
― جبران خليل جبران, عرائس المروج