Quotes - Samantha Freeman (Auckland, E7, New Zealand) Showing 1-12 of 12

#1

“Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.”
― Iris Murdoch, Existentialists and Mystics: Writings on Philosophy and Literature

tags: love, realization

1823 likes

#2

“Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.”
― Iris Murdoch

tags: humor, writing

257 likes

#3

“People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.”
― Iris Murdoch

tags: flowers, joy

279 likes

#4

“Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
― Marcel Proust

tags: gratitude, happiness

5521 likes

#5

“Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive.”
― Dalai Lama XIV, The Art of Happiness

tags: compassion, humanity, love, mankind

1551 likes

#6

“Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck.”
― Dalai Lama XIV

1091 likes

#7

“The way to change others' minds is with affection, and not anger.”
― Dalai Lama XIV

214 likes

#8

“Sleep is the best meditation.”
― Unknonwn

146 likes

#9

“The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.”
― Virginia Woolf

2333 likes

#10

“The better you feel about yourself, the less you feel the need to show off.”
― Robert Hand

tags: confidence, self, self-esteem, show-off

344 likes

#11

“Because of the self-confidence with which he had spoken, no one could tell whether what he said was very clever or very stupid.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Война и мир

tags: confidence

370 likes

#12

“Being different is a revolving door in your life where secure people enter and insecure exit.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: acceptance, attitude, beauty, beginnings, confidence, difference, different, future, insecure, insecurity, integrity, letting-go, moving-on, not-caring, personality, pride, proud, quality, self-acceptance, self-love, special, unique

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