Quotes - Stephen A Bess (sbess) (Gaithersburg, MD) Showing 1-30 of 36

#1

“I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.”
― Anne Frank

tags: writing

3934 likes

#2

“Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.”
― Zora Neale Hurston

2461 likes

#3

“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: paraphrased, strength

34043 likes

#4

“Everything want to be loved. Us sing and dance and holler, just trying to be loved.”
― Alice Walker, The Color Purple

tags: love

336 likes

#5

“Words to me were magic. You could say a word and it could conjure up all kinds of images or feelings or a chilly sensation or whatever. It was amazing to me that words had this power.”
― Amy Tan

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#6

“Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Do not bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.”
― William Faulkner

tags: inspirational, perfectionism, personality, potential, self-improvement

1441 likes

#7

“when the mind is full, the room ceases to be empty”
― Wang Ping, Of Flesh & Spirit

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#8

“Thou hast made us for thyself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it finds its rest in thee.”
― Augustine of Hippo, Confessions

tags: christ, christianity, desire, god, heart, jesus, longing, peace, religion, rest, restlessness

2194 likes

#9

“Either America will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States.”
― W.E.B. DuBois

251 likes

#10

“By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.”
― Socrates

tags: marriage

1364 likes

#11

“Never, never, never give in!”
― Winston S. Churchill

tags: perseverance, wisdom

2187 likes

#12

“I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.”
― Abraham Lincoln

tags: perseverance, progress, thoughtful

1608 likes

#13

“The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.”
― Confucius, Confucius: The Analects

2584 likes

#14

“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
― George Orwell

tags: truth

8544 likes

#15

“Time is what we want most,but what we use worst.”
― William Penn

1239 likes

#16

“When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.”
― Jimi Hendrix

tags: love, misattributed, peace, william-gladstone

4598 likes

#17

“You cannot find peace by avoiding life.”
― Michael Cunningham, The Hours

tags: life, peace

10247 likes

#18

“Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens”
― Jimi Hendrix

tags: wisdom

3632 likes

#19

“You have lost your reason and taken the wrong path. You have taken lies for truth, and hideousness for beauty. You would marvel if, owing to strange events of some sorts, frogs and lizards suddenly grew on apple and orange trees instead of fruit, or if roses began to smell like a sweating horse; so I marvel at you who exchange heaven for earth. I don't want to understand you.”
― Anton Chekhov

tags: beauty, earth, heaven, life, reason, truth, understand, wisdom

471 likes

#20

“If ever my life can be of any use to you, come and claim it.”
― Anton Chekhov

274 likes

#21

“The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.”
― Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

tags: art, artists

974 likes

#22