Living by Quotes

Quotes are remarkable, and so this blog is dedicated to quotes of all sorts, mostly ones I like. <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><>
"Quotations will tell the full measure of meaning, if you have enough of them."
~James Murray
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"A book of quotations... can never be complete." ~Robert M. Hamilton
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“I have my own particular sorrows, loves, delights; and you have yours. But sorrow, gladness, yearning, hope, love, belong to all of us, in all times and in all places. Music is the only means whereby we feel these emotions in their universality.”

—H.A. Overstreet

“Music is the poetry of the air.”

—Richter

“..Nothing compares, no worries or cares. Regrets or mistakes, they’re memories made. Who would have known how bittersweet this would taste?..”

—Adele, Someone Like You

“The most important things are the hardest to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them — words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they’re brought out. But it’s more than that, isn’t it? The most important things lie too close to wherever your secret heart is buried, like landmarks to a treasure your enemies would love to steal away. And you may make revelations that cost you dearly only to have people look at you in a funny way, not understanding what you’ve said at all, or why you thought it was so important that you almost cried while you were saying it. That’s the worst, I think. When the secret stays locked within not for want of a tellar but for want of an understanding ear.”

—Stephen King, Different Seasons

“Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn’t carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.”

—Stephen King

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Distance can ruin even the best of intentions.

But I suppose it depends on how you look at it.

Distance just adds a richness you would not otherwise get.

People come. People go. They will drift in and out of your life, almost like characters in a favorite book.

When you finally close the cover, the characters have told their stories and you start up again with another book, complete with new characters and adventures. Then you find yourself focusing on the new ones. Not the ones from the past.

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—Nicholas Sparks, The Rescue

“It’s funny, but have you ever noticed that the more special something is, the more people seem to take it for granted? It’s like they think it won’t ever change. Just like this house here. All it ever needed was a little attention, and it would never have ended up like this in the first place.”

—Nicholas Sparks, The Wedding

“Sometimes you have to be apart from people you love, but that doesn’t make you love them any less. Sometimes you love them more.”

—Nicholas Sparks, The Last Song

“The most beautiful people are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These people have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.”

—Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

“Some things are meant to happen, other things aren’t. If we spend too much time dwelling on what doesn’t happen, we won’t be able to enjoy what does.”
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