“Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful.”
As quoted in The Subtlety of Emotions (2001) by Aaron Ben-Ze'ev, p. 204.
“Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful.”
As quoted in The Subtlety of Emotions (2001) by Aaron Ben-Ze'ev, p. 204.
“But when all was said the important thing was to love rather than to be loved.”
Source: Of Human Bondage (1915), Ch. 70
“I'd rather look forward and dream, than look backward and regret.”
Source: Unfinished Business: What the Dead Can Teach Us About Life
“I would rather have regrets of excess than regrets of denial.”
“Remember me and smile, for it's better to forget than to remember me and cry.”
“I'm at the point where going forward is easier than going back.”
Source: Green Witch
“One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.”
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), XIX Philosophical Maxims. Morals. Polemics and Speculations.
Variant: You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.
“There is no disappointment so numbing… as someone no better than you achieving more.”
“She misses him more now than when he was away”
Source: The Piper's Son
“See no one loves you more than me… and no one ever will”
“Death is more universal than life. Everyone dies, but not everyone lives.”
“Nothing more exhilarating… than saving yourself by the simple act of waking.”
Source: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
“A great deal of love given to a few is better than a little to many.”
“There are occasions when it pays better to fight and be beaten than not to fight at all.”
Charles Dickens (1939)
Source: Homage to Catalonia
“I had no name for that particular hue of orange, other than unfortunate.”
Source: Bitter Blood
“Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.”
“I spilled more times than a glass of milk on a roller coaster.”
Source: Uglies