love and life quotes for teenagers

God gave us all a penis and a brain, but only enough blood to run one at a time. ~Robin Williams



Those persons who are burning to display heroism may rest assured that the course of social evolution will offer them every opportunity. ~Havelock Ellis



History assures us that civilizations decay quite leisurely. ~Will and Ariel Durant, Lessons of History



No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, Chapter XX "The Minister in a Maze" No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter



For several moments both of us were the unconscious and cosmic toys of our own deception. ~"The Mission," Chapter 4



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The reward of a thing well done is to have done it. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays: Second Series, 1844



People do not die for us immediately, but remain bathed in a sort of aura of life which bears no relation to true immortality but through which they continue to occupy our thoughts in the same way as when they were alive. It is as though they were traveling abroad. ~Marcel Proust



To Crystal, hair was the most important thing on earth. She would never get married because you couldn't wear curlers in bed. ~Edna O'Brien



But words are things, and a small drop of ink, falling like dew, upon a thought, produces that which makes thousands, perhaps, millions, think. ~Lord Byron, Don Juan, 1819



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There's nothing wrong with me a little ice cream won't fix. ~Author Unknown



There are natures that go to the streams of life in great cities as the hart goes to the water brooks. ~Philip G. Hamerton



Often the surest way to convey misinformation is to tell the strict truth. ~Mark Twain, Following the Equator



To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. ~Agnes De Mille



Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked. ~Ralph Ellison, "Battle Royal"



Springtime is the land awakening. The March winds are the morning yawn. ~Quoted by Lewis Grizzard in Kathy Sue Loudermilk, I Love You



Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it. ~J.K. Rowling, "The Parting of the Ways," Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, 2000, spoken by the character Albus Dumbledore



A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not. ~Henry Fielding



It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others.... One ever feels his twoness, - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder. ~W.E.B. DuBois, The Souls of Black Folk, 1903