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It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it's the parts that I do understand. - Mark Twain Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody. - Benjamin Franklin I think and think for months, for years. Ninety-nine times the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right. - Albert Einstein We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect. - Henry David Thoreau My words fly up, my thoughts remain below; Words without thoughts never to heaven go. - William Shakespeare If you would be loved, love and be lovable. - Benjamin Franklin

I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself.

- D. H. Lawrence | Animals Quotes

Art-speech is the only truth. An artist is usually a damned liar but his art, if it be art, will tell you the truth of his day. And that is all that matters. Away with eternal truth. The truth lives from day to day, and the marvelous Plato of yesterday is chiefly bosh today.

- D. H. Lawrence | Art and the Artist Quotes

The young Cambridge group, the group that stood for "freedom" and flannel trousers and flannel shirts open at the neck, and a well-bred sort of emotional anarchy, and a whispering, murmuring, sort of voice, and an ultra-sensitive sort of manner.

- D. H. Lawrence | England and the U.K. Quotes

Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.

- D. H. Lawrence | Life Quotes

When I read Shakespeare I am struck with wonder that such trivial people should muse and thunder in such lovely language.

- D. H. Lawrence | Literature Quotes

Never trust the teller. Trust the tale.

- D. H. Lawrence | Trust Quotes

Can you understand how cruelly I feel the lack of friends who will believe in me a bit?

- D. H. Lawrence | Friendship Quotes

While we live, let us live.

- D. H. Lawrence | One Day Quotes

One realm we have never conquered: the pure present.

- D. H. Lawrence | The Present Quotes

I got the blues thinking of the future, so I left off and made some marmalade. It's amazing how it cheers one up to shred oranges and scrub the floor.

- D. H. Lawrence | The Future Quotes

In the ancient recipe, the three antidotes for dullness or boredom are sleep, drink, and travel. It is rather feeble. From sleep you wake up, from drink you become sober, and from travel you come home again. And then where are you? No, the two sovereign remedies for dullness are love or a crusade.

- D. H. Lawrence | Boring Days Quotes

Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.

- D. H. Lawrence | Enthusiasm Quotes

It is our business to go as we are impelled.

- D. H. Lawrence | Instincts Quotes

The mind can assert anything, and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept.

- D. H. Lawrence | Instincts Quotes

What you intuitively desire, that is possible to you.

- D. H. Lawrence | Instincts Quotes

The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them.

- D. H. Lawrence | Courage Quotes

The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them.

- D. H. Lawrence | Courage Quotes

You have striven so hard, and so long, to compel life. Can't you now slowly change, and let life slowly drift into you ... let the invisible life steal into you and slowly possess you.

- D. H. Lawrence | Action Quotes

I got the blues thinking of the future, so I left off and made some marmalade. It's amazing how it cheers one up to shred oranges or scrub the floor.

- D. H. Lawrence | Self-Pity Quotes

I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough Without ever having felt sorry for itself.

- D. H. Lawrence | Self-Pity Quotes

Love is. the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

- D. H. Lawrence | Beginnings Quotes

I never knew how soothing trees are—many trees and patches of open sunlight, and tree presences; it is almost like having another being.

- D. H. Lawrence | Nature Quotes