Best Quotes by Jean Toomer (Top 10)

  1. We learn the rope of life by untying its knots.
  2. Talk about it only enough to do it. Dream about it only enough to feel it. Think about it only enough to understand it. Contemplate it only enough to be it.
  3. We do not posses imagination enough to sense what we are missing.
  4. No eyes that have seen beauty ever lose their sight.
  5. Thank everyone who calls out your faults, your anger, your impatience, your egotism; do this consciously, voluntarily.
  6. Acceptance of prevailing standards often means we have no standards of our own.
  7. People mistake their limitations for high standards.
  8. Men are apt to idolize or fear that which they cannot understand, especially if it be a woman.
  9. We start with gifts. Merit comes from what we make of them.
  10. Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself according to necessity.

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