More Quotes by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Never confuse activity with action.
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.
He looked at her the way all women want to be looked at by a man.
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.
They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.
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.
"A woman should be able to kiss a man beautifully and romantically without any desire to be either his wife or his mistress." ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
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.
The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want
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.
