The best Quotes by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

Happiness Patience & Endurance Butterflies

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.

Words Poetry Writing

All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.

Love Courage

Easy reading is damn hard writing.

Writing Reading

Our Creator would never have made such lovely days and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them, above and beyond all thought, unless we were meant to be immortal.

Enjoying Creation Immortality

There is no season when such pleasant and sunny spots may be lighted on, and produce so pleasant an effect on the feelings, as now in October.

October

I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house.

Autumn & Fall

We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.

Enjoying

Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.

Friendship

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You're gonna like Massachusetts. It's very patriotic - perfect for a fresh start.

Georgia Miller in Ginny & Georgia - Season 1 Episode 1

Massachusetts

I'm lucky to have been raised in the most beautiful place - Amherst, Massachusetts, state of my heart. I'm more patriotic to Massachusetts than to almost any place.

Uma Thurman

Massachusetts

I will work my heart out to earn the trust of the people of Massachusetts.

Elizabeth Warren

Massachusetts

The man in the White House is not the cause of what is broken, he is just the latest and most extreme symptom of what's gone wrong in America. A product of a rigged system that props up the rich and powerful and kicks dirt on everyone else.

Elizabeth Warren (as Senator of Massachusetts) - February 9, 2019

Massachusetts

I went to Massachusetts to make a difference. I didn't go there to begin a political career running time and time again. I made a difference. I put in place the things I wanted to do.

Mitt Romney

Massachusetts

Only a liberal senator from Massachusetts would say that a 49 percent increase in funding for education was not enough.

George W. Bush

Massachusetts

Thanks New Hampshire...
You're the reason 49 other states have to buy signs saying "Buckle up, its the State Law".

New Hampshire

They say money can't buy happiness, but it can buy a flight to New Hampshire - and that's pretty much the same thing.

New Hampshire

Poetry, she thought, wasn't written to be analyzed, it was meant to inspire without reason, to touch without understanding.

Nicholas Sparks in The Notebook

Writing Poems

A living poem had always been the words that came to mind when he tried to describe her to others.

Nicholas Sparks in The Notebook

Writing Poems Inspiration

Writing is something you do alone. Its a profession for introverts who want to tell you a story but don't want to make eye contact while doing it.

John Green

Writing Introvertierte Sprüche

I know a man who gave up smoking, drinking, sex, and rich food. He was healthy right up to the day he killed himself.

Johnny Carson

Alcohol Enjoying Sex Smoking Funny Quotes

He who postpones the hour of living is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.

Horace

Life Enjoying Rivers

In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Sid Caesar (American comedian and Jazz musician)

Enjoying Objectives

When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life.
When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up.
I wrote down "happy". They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life.

John Lennon

Happiness

That's the best revenge of all: happiness. Nothing drives people crazier than seeing someone have a good f*cking life.

Chuck Palahniuk

Happiness Revenge

You don't build a great castle just all at once.

Baker Mayfield

Patience & Endurance

Castle: "Do I look like a killer to you?"
Beckett: "Yes. You kill my patience."

Kate Beckett in Castle

Patience & Endurance

I don't believe in fate. I believe we have more control than we think and that every action has a reaction. After all, the most minor event, even a butterfly flapping its wings, can change everything.

J.D. in Scrubs - Season 3 Episode 16

Butterflies

It has been said that something as small as the flutter of a butterfly's wing can ultimately cause a typhoon halfway around the world.

The Butterfly Effect

Small Things Butterflies

Words are, in my not so humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic, capable of both inflicting injury and remedying it.

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Words Magic

Where words are scarse, they are seldome spent in vaine.

William Shakespeare in Richard II

Words

Poetry is a way of looking at the world for the first time.

W. S. Merwin

Poetry

For poetry, more than any other art, except music, has a compelling hold upon the spiritual side of life.

Lizette Woodworth Reese

Poetry Spirituality

It takes much more courage to be in love than it does for war.

Helsinki in Money Heist - Season 4 Episode 5

Love

You say you love rain, but you use an umbrella to walk under it. You say you love sun, but you seek shade when it is shining. You say you love wind, but when it comes, you close your window. So that's why I'm scared when you say you love me.

Bob Marley

Love

Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Courage Light

True courage is about knowing not when to take a life, but when to spare one.

Gandalf in The Hobbit - An Unexpected Journey

Courage

If you only ever read one book in your life I highly recommend... keeping your f*cking mouth shut.

Banksy in Cut It Out

Reading

I feel so extraordinarily happy and free when I read that I'm convinced it could make everything else in my life bearable.

Deborah Feldmann in Unorthodox

Reading

Every person is a special thought of God, not only humanity as a whole.

Paul de Lagarde

Creation

Even Kings and emperors with heaps of wealth and vast dominion cannot compare with an ant filled with the love of God.

Guru Nanak

Creation Kings Ants

Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.

Emily Dickinson

Grief & Condolence Day of the Dead Immortality

The key to immortality? Not dying!

Master Yi, the Wuju Bladesman in League of Legends

Immortality

October is a symphony of permanence and change.

October

October is crisp days and cold nights, a time to curl up around the dancing flames and sink into a good book.

October

There is a time in the last few days of summer when the ripeness of autumn fills the air.

Rudolfo Anaya

Autumn & Fall

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