Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDExperience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDIt 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.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDLife is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDI won’t kiss you. It might get to be a habit and I can’t get rid of habits.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDYou really ought to read more books – you know, those things that look like blocks but come apart on one side.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDAt eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDLife starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDTo 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.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDThe reason one writes isn’t the fact he wants to say something. He writes because he has something to say.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDWell, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people’s lives. Yet from this fog his affection emerged–the best contacts are when one knows the obstacles and still wants to preserve a relation.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDI never blame failure – there are too many complicated situations in life – but I am absolutely merciless toward lack of effort.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDNever confuse activity with action.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDTo 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.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDActually 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.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDI want to tell you about your heart— you’ve probably been neglecting your heart—and you don’t know.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDNo matter how low you go, there’s always an unexplored basement.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD