I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others--young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life. F. Scott Fitzgerald More Quotes by F. Scott Fitzgerald More Quotes From F. Scott Fitzgerald She was beautiful, but not like those girls in the magazines. She was beautiful, for the way she thought. She was beautiful, for the sparkle in her eyes when she talked about something she loved. She was beautiful, for her ability to make other people smile, even if she was sad. No, she wasn't beautiful for something as temporary as her looks. She was beautiful, deep down to her soul. She is beautiful. F. Scott Fitzgerald girl beautiful beauty 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. F. Scott Fitzgerald starting-over buttons too-late 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. F. Scott Fitzgerald mind heart people 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. F. Scott Fitzgerald buttons views people And in the end, we were all just humans...Drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness. F. Scott Fitzgerald drunk ends ideas You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known—and even that is an understatement. F. Scott Fitzgerald wedding beautiful love 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. F. Scott Fitzgerald regret lost past The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want F. Scott Fitzgerald eye want world ...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. F. Scott Fitzgerald positive-attitude positive-thinking philosophy Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat. F. Scott Fitzgerald moving-on motivational inspirational You have a place in my heart no one else ever could have. F. Scott Fitzgerald my-heart heart There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice. F. Scott Fitzgerald inspirational love life 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. F. Scott Fitzgerald lonely reading book Before you criticize others, remember, they may not have had the same opportunities in life as you have had F. Scott Fitzgerald may opportunity remember Her philosophy is carpe diem for herself and laissez faire for others. F. Scott Fitzgerald laissez-faire-capitalism carpe-diem philosophy Intelligence is measured by a person's ability to see validity within both sides of contradicting arguments. F. Scott Fitzgerald contradicting argument sides 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. F. Scott Fitzgerald happiness inspirational life 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. F. Scott Fitzgerald lonely loneliness life I never blame failure - there are too many complicated situations in life - but I am absolutely merciless toward lack of effort. F. Scott Fitzgerald situations-in-life blame effort Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, makes them soft where we are hard, and cynical where we are trustful, in a way that, unless you were born rich, it is very difficult to understand. They think, deep in their hearts, that they are better than we are because we had to discover the compensations and refuges of life for ourselves. Even when they enter deep into our world or sink below us, they still think that they are better than we are. They are different. F. Scott Fitzgerald our-world heart thinking
