QUOTES BY F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
For what it's worth, it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're proud of and if you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start over.
To be kind is more important than to be right. Many times, what people need is not a brilliant mind that speaks but a special heart that listens.
I hope you make the best of it. And I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life you're proud of. If you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.
You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known—and even that is an understatement.
And in the end, we were all just humans...Drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness.
Suddenly she realized that what she was regretting was not the lost past but the lost future, not what had not been but what would never be.
The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want
...the test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise. This philosophy fitted on to my early adult life, when I saw the improbable, the implausible, often the "impossible," come true.
Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
You have a place in my heart no one else ever could have.
That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.
There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice.
Before you criticize others, remember, they may not have had the same opportunities in life as you have had
Things are sweeter when they're lost. I know--because once I wanted something and got it. It was the only thing I ever wanted badly, Dot, and when I got it it turned to dust in my hand.
Her philosophy is carpe diem for herself and laissez faire for others.
You seem to take things so personally, hating people and worshipping them--always thinking people are so important--especially yourselves. You just ask to be kicked around. I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it--on the inside.
He smiled understandingly-much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. It faced--or seemed to face--the whole eternal world for an instant, and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor. It understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself, and assured you that it had precisely the impression of you that, at your best, you hoped to convey.
Intelligence is measured by a person's ability to see validity within both sides of contradicting arguments.
Actually that’s my secret — I can’t even talk about you to anybody because I don’t want any more people to know how wonderful you are.
I’m not sure what I’ll do, but— well, I want to go places and see people. I want my mind to grow. I want to live where things happen on a big scale.
The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.
You are mysterious, I love you. You’re beautiful, intelligent, and virtuous, and that’s the rarest known combination.
It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.
She was feeling the pressure of the world outside and she wanted to see him and feel his presence beside her and be reassured that she was doing the right thing after all.