Whitney Otto famous quotes

Once you love, you cannot take it back, cannot undo it. What you felt may have changed, shifted slightly, yet still remains love.
-- Whitney Otto

#Love You #May #Changed

Why are old lovers able to become friends? Two reasons. They never truly loved each other, or they love each other still.
-- Whitney Otto

#Love #Friendship #Two

Among the things she said: "Women seem to possess all the natural gifts essential to a good portraitist ... such as personality, patience and intuition. The sitter ought to be the predominating factor in a successful portrait. Men portraitist are apt to forget this; they are inclined to lose the sitter in a maze of technique luxuriating in the cleverness and beauty of their own medium."
-- Whitney Otto

#Successful #Men #Personality

The worst dream of the night, when you are parted from someone you love and you do not know exactly where he is, but you know that he is in the presence of danger. You are tormented by a desire to keep the one you love safe.
-- Whitney Otto

#Dream #Fear #Night

She eventually forgave him, because she understood him.
-- Whitney Otto

#Forgiveness #Understood

The best men tell you the truth because they think you can take it; the worst men either try to preserve you in some innocent state with their false protection, or are 'brutally honest.' When someone tells, lets you think for yourself, experience your own emotions, he is treating you as a true equal, a friend...And the best men cook for you.
-- Whitney Otto

#Honesty #Men #Thinking

I don’t want to lose you. I’m in love with you Blaire. I’ve never wanted anything or anyone the way I want you. I can’t imagine my world now without you in it.

But Ash, I can't continue to want you from a distance. To love you and not have you. I'd end up in jail if anyone tried to touch you and God forbid you tried to date someone.

The best way to be loved, is to love yourself.

I'm very organized - and the best thing - when you love your work, you don't mind putting in 15 hour days. It's joyful.

Conformity may give you a quiet life; it may even bring you to a University Chair. But all change in history, all advance, comes from the nonconformists. If there had been no trouble-makers, no Dissenters, we should still be living in caves.

You will be courteous to your elders who have explored to the point from which you may advance; and helpful to your juniors who will progress farther by reason of your labors.

Abu Sa'id al-Kharraz said I have never known Allah May He be exalted except through the coincidence in Him of the opposites. 'He is the First and the Last, the Apparent and the Hidden.'

The discovery of dance has changed my life in unimaginable ways.

It's frightening when things you love appear suddenly changed from what you have always known.

I'm okay. Nobody's bothering me. Everyone's very kind, and very polite. I don't feel like my whole life changed.