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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.

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
Heart, People, Mind

Dishonesty in a woman is a thing you never blame deeply.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Dishonesty, Blame, Great Gatsby Love
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.40, e-artnow

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

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
Beauty, Beautiful, Girl

The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Eye, World, Want
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.3094, e-artnow

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
Views, People, Buttons
"Fictional character: Benjamin Button". "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button", www.imdb.com. 2008.

You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known—and even that is an understatement.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Love, Beautiful, Wedding

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Inspirational, Motivational, Moving On

And in the end, we were all just humans...Drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ideas, Drunk, Ends

Intelligence is measured by a person's ability to see validity within both sides of contradicting arguments.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Sides, Argument, Contradicting

How different it all was from what you'd planned.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Different
F. Scott Fitzgerald, Book House (2016). “F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Complete Novels (Book House)”, p.733, Book House

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, Past, Lost
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.1469, e-artnow

Before you criticize others, remember, they may not have had the same opportunities in life as you have had

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Opportunity, May, Remember

You have a place in my heart no one else ever could have.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Heart, My Heart
F. Scott Fitzgerald, Matthew J. Bruccoli (1995). “The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald: A New Collection”, p.51, Simon and Schuster

...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
Philosophy, Positive Thinking, Positive Attitude
"The Crack-Up" (1936)

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
Inspirational, Life, Happiness

Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Fall, Autumn, Positivity
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2016). “(The Great Gatsby)”, p.70, F. Scott Fitzgerald

It's never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Buttons, Too Late, Want
"Fictional character: Benjamin Button". "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button", 2008.

Don't forget who you are and where you come from.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Where You Come, Forget, Who You Are
F. Scott Fitzgerald “The Diamond as Big as the Ritz (Unabridged): A Tale of the Jazz Age by the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”, e-artnow

It is not merely enough to have the ability to be persistant, you must also have the ability to start over.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Starting Over, Enough, Ability

One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Hope, Able, Determined
"Fitzgerald: My Lost City: Personal Essays, 1920-1940".

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, Effort, Blame
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.3237, e-artnow

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
Life, Lonely, Loneliness

Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Witty, Mistake, Inspiration
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “4 Books by F. Scott Fitzgerald”, p.989, eBookIt.com

What people are ashamed of usually makes a good story.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Writing, People, Stories
F. Scott Fitzgerald, Matthew J. Bruccoli (1993). “Fitzgerald: The Love of the Last Tycoon: A Western”, p.99, Cambridge University Press

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