More Quotes by 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.
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.
So we'll just let things take their course, and never be sorry.
You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known—and even that is an understatement.
I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect. And it's these things I'd believe in, even if the whole world indulged in wild suspicions that she wasn't all she should be. I love her and it is the beginning of everything.
The ability to hold two competing thoughts in one's mind and still be able to function is the mark of a superior mind
Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people's lives.
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.
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.
Intelligence is measured by a person's ability to see validity within both sides of contradicting arguments.
