Anne Rice Quotes

You should be having more fun in high school, exploring things because you want to explore them and learning because you love learning-not worrying about competition.

I love nature and enjoy learning new skills.

Life took over 4 billion years to evolve into you, and you've about 70 more years to enjoy it. Don't just pursue happiness, catch it.

I do things that I actually love and understand.

The beauty of love, as far as I'm concerned, is it makes you better. It makes you stronger. It gives you direction. It gives you understanding of what life is and what we've been given.

You have to spend some energy and effort to see the beauty of math.

To know it is not as good as to love it, and to love it is not as good as to take delight in it.

To analyze the charms of flowers is like dissecting music; it is one of those things which it is far better to enjoy, than to attempt to fully understand.

There is one purpose to life and one only: to bear witness to and understand as much as possible of the complexity of the world- its beauty, its mysteries, its riddles.

It does no harm to the romance of the sunset to know a little bit about it.

In my search to find myself, I’d found so much more. I knew now why I wanted to live. I understood love. I had found it.

The goal of all life is to have a ball.

To understand the stars would spoil their appearance.

And now, what does it all matter? It matters more than anything else in the world. The whole dance, or drama, or pattern of this three-Personal life is to be played out in each one of us: or (putting it the other way round) each one of us has got to enter that pattern, take his place in that dance. There is no other way to the happiness for which we were made.

The variety of all things forms a pleasure.

One never learns to understand truly anything but what one loves.

Vulgar souls look hastily and superficially at the sea and accuse it of monotony; other more privileged beings could spend a lifetime admiring it and discovering new and changing phenomena that delight them. So it is with love.

...for the object of education is to teach us to love beauty.

The only basis for living is believing in life, loving it, and applying the whole force of one's intellect to know it better.

To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never to forget.

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

If I’d a knowed more, I would a loved more.

Only one who has learned much can fully appreciate his ignorance.

Learning from one's enemies is the best way to love them, for it puts one into a grateful mood toward them.

I want to do a good job. I'm just learning and I just want to have fun with it.