“Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful.”
Sophia Loren (1934) Italian actress
As quoted in The Subtlety of Emotions (2001) by Aaron Ben-Ze'ev, p. 204.
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“But when all was said the important thing was to love rather than to be loved.”
W. Somerset Maugham book Of Human Bondage
Source: Of Human Bondage (1915), Ch. 70
“I'd rather look forward and dream, than look backward and regret.”
James Van Praagh (1958) American psychic
Source: Unfinished Business: What the Dead Can Teach Us About Life
“I love acting. It is so much more real than life.”
Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray
“I would rather have regrets of excess than regrets of denial.”
Jeanette Winterson (1959) English writer
“Remember me and smile, for it's better to forget than to remember me and cry.”
Dr. Seuss (1904–1991) American children's writer and illustrator, co-founder of Beginner Books
“I'm at the point where going forward is easier than going back.”
Alice Hoffman (1952) Novelist, young-adult writer, children's writer
Source: Green Witch
“One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.”
Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath
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.”
Joseph Heller (1923–1999) American author
“She misses him more now than when he was away”
Melina Marchetta (1965) Australian teen writer
Source: The Piper's Son
“See no one loves you more than me… and no one ever will”
Lauryn Hill (1975) American singer, rapper, songwriter, record producer, actress
“Death is more universal than life. Everyone dies, but not everyone lives.”
Andrew Sachs (1930–2016) British actor
“Nothing more exhilarating… than saving yourself by the simple act of waking.”
Junot Díaz book The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Source: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
“A great deal of love given to a few is better than a little to many.”
Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) 3rd President of the United States of America
“There are occasions when it pays better to fight and be beaten than not to fight at all.”
George Orwell book Homage to Catalonia
Charles Dickens (1939)
Source: Homage to Catalonia
“I had no name for that particular hue of orange, other than unfortunate.”
Rachel Caine (1962) American writer
Source: Bitter Blood
“Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) English playwright and poet
