"Be careful what you set your heart upon……" — James A. Baldwin
"Be careful what you set your heart upon - for it will surely be yours."
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339 Quotes by James A. Baldwin
James A. Baldwin has 339 quotes on this site.
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Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is…
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Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.
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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay…
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I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is…
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People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on…
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Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
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I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the…
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Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?
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There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the…
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Moshing and broken glass just don't go together.
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A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you.
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Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.
— Marcus Aurelius
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Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
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Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is…
— James A. Baldwin
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At best, the renewal of broken relations is a nervous matter.
— Henry Adams
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Let no one who loves be unhappy, even love unreturned has its rainbow.
— James M. Barrie
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Love is the hardest habit to break, and the most difficult to satisfy.
— Drew Barrymore
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To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his…
— Jean Baudrillard
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Hearts will never be practical until they can be made unbreakable.
— L. Frank Baum
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The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that…
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