Archives for H category
1. The most wonderful of all things in life, I believe, is the discovery of another human being with whom one’s relationship has a glowing depth, beauty, and joy as the years increase. This inner progressiveness of love between two human beings is a most marvelous thing, it cannot be found by looking for it or by passionately wishing for it. It is a sort of Divine accident.
1. Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.
1. Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he’ll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
2. After a few years of marriage a man can look right at a woman without seeing her and a woman can see right through a man without looking at him.
—————————————–
Helen Rowland (1875-1950) was a very quotable American journalist and humorist.
More Quotations by Helen Rowland
1. A man is like a cat; chase him and he will run - sit still and ignore him and he’ll come purring at your feet.
2. Flirting is the gentle art of making a man feel pleased with himself.
3. Some women can be fooled all of the time, and all women can be fooled some of the time, but the same woman can’t be fooled by the same man in the same way more than half of the time.
1. A man loses his sense of direction after four drinks; a woman loses hers after four kisses.
2. To be in love is merely to be in a state of perpetual anesthesia: To mistake an ordinary young man for a Greek god or an ordinary young woman for a goddess.
3. Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
4. Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
—————————————–
Excerpt from Wikipedia: Henry Louis “H. L.” Mencken (September 12, 1880 – January 29, 1956), was an American journalist, essayist, magazine editor, satirist, acerbic critic of American life and culture, and a student of American English. Mencken, known as the “Sage of Baltimore“, is regarded as one of the most influential American writers and prose stylists of the first half of the 20th century.
Mencken is known for writing The American Language, a multi-volume study of how the English language is spoken in the United States, and for his satirical reporting on the Scopes trial, which he named the “Monkey” trial.
1. Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.
2. I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.
1. You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have really lived are the moments when you have done things in a spirit of love.
2. To love abundantly is to live abundantly, and to love forever is to live forever.
——————————————–
Excerpt from Wikipedia: Henry Drummond (17 August 1851 - 11 March 1897) was a Scottish evangelist, writer and lecturer.
More Quotes:
1. Happiness … consists in giving, and in serving others.
2. There is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving.
1. The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough is love.
————————————-
Excerpt from Wikipedia: Henry Valentine Miller (26 December 1891 – 7 June 1980) was an American novelist and painter. He was known for breaking with existing literary forms and developing a new sort of ‘novel’ that is a mixture of novel, autobiography, social criticism, philosophical reflection, surrealist free association, and mysticism, one that is distinctly always about and expressive of the real-life Henry Miller and yet is also fictional. His most characteristic works of this kind are Tropic of Cancer, Tropic of Capricorn and Black Spring. He also wrote travel memoirs and essays of literary criticism and analysis.
————————————
More Quotes
1. In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest.
2. Instead of asking ‘How much damage will the work in question bring about?’ why not ask ‘How much good? How much joy?’
3. No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore to us the belief in our own guidance.
1. True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.
———————————————
Excerpt from Wikipedia: Honoré de Balzac (French pronunciation: [ɔnɔʁe də balˈzak]) (20 May 1799 – 18 August 1850) was a French novelist and playwright. His magnum opus was a sequence of almost 100 novels and plays collectively entitled La Comédie humaine, which presents a panorama of French life in the years after the fall of Napoléon Bonaparte in 1815.
Due to his keen observation of detail and unfiltered representation of society, Balzac is regarded as one of the founders of realism in European literature. He is renowned for his multi-faceted characters; even his lesser characters are complex, morally ambiguous and fully human. Inanimate objects are imbued with character as well; the city of Paris, a backdrop for much of his writing, takes on many human qualities. His writing influenced many famous authors, including the novelists Marcel Proust, Émile Zola, Charles Dickens, Gustave Flaubert, Marie Corelli, Henry James, Jack Kerouac, and Italo Calvino as well as important philosophers such as Friedrich Engels. Many of Balzac’s works have been made into films, and they continue to inspire other writers.
An enthusiastic reader and independent thinker as a child, Balzac had trouble adapting himself to the teaching style of his grammar school. His willful nature caused trouble throughout his life, and frustrated his ambitions to succeed in the world of business. When he finished school, Balzac was apprenticed as a legal clerk, but he turned his back on law after wearying of its inhumanity and banal routine. Before and during his career as a writer, he attempted to be a publisher, printer, businessman, critic, and politician. He failed in all of these efforts. La Comédie Humaine reflects his real-life difficulties, and includes scenes from his own experience.
Balzac suffered from health problems throughout his life, possibly due to his intense writing schedule. His relationship with his family was often strained by financial and personal drama, and he lost more than one friend over critical reviews. In 1850, he married Ewelina Hańska, his longtime love; he died five months later.
1. If I know what love is, it is because of you.
2. At the first kiss I felt something melt inside me that hurt in an exquisite way. All my longings, all my dreams and sweet anguish, all the secrets that slept deep within me came awake, everything was transformed and enchanted, and everything made sense.
——————————————–
Excerpt from Wikipedia: Hermann Hesse (German pronunciation: [ˈhɛʀman ˈhɛsə]) (July 2, 1877 – August 9, 1962) was a German Swiss poet, novelist, and painter. In 1946 he received the Nobel Prize in Literature. His best-known works include Steppenwolf, Siddhartha, and The Glass Bead Game (also known as Magister Ludi) each of which explores an individual’s search for authenticity, self-knowledge and spirituality.
————————————
More Quotes
1. I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.
2. If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.
3. It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.
4. Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.
5. Meaning and reality were not hidden somewhere behind things, they were in them, in all of them.
6. One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time.
7. Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.
—————————————-
1. In true love the smallest distance is too great, and the greatest distance can be bridged.
1. There is no remedy for love but to love more.
Subscribe