Quotation Explorer - 'Act'

You do not need permission to be you. Just be your authentic, brilliant, one-soul-only self. You are a marvel. Act like it! - Toni Sorenson

Love is an attraction but not a reaction. - Debasish Mridha

A persuadable temper might sometimes be as much in favour of happiness as a very resolute character. - Jane Austen

Your value lies not in status or title, but in the roots of your character and depth of your compassion. - Mollie Marti

It is through strength of character, not luck, do we form the predictable path of our future. - Shannon L. Alder

Failure is defined by our reaction to it. - Oprah Winfrey

Writing a book with completely fictitious characters is like running a democracy, centered around a capital state. You constantly live with the fear & suspicion that one of the characters will start an uncontrollable rebellion. - Shomprakash Sinha Roy

The immediate reactions of the two superpower leaders when confronted with the gravest international crisis of their careers were much the same, shock, wounded pride, grim determination, and barely repressed fear. - Michael Dobbs

Acceptance is not submission; it is acknowledgment of the facts of a situation. Then deciding what you're going to do about it. - Kathleen Casey Theisen

True Islam taught me that it takes all of the religious, political, economic, psychological, and racial ingredients, or characteristics, to make the Human Family and the Human Society complete. - Malcolm X

Do according to your capability.Act according to your capacity.Go according to your curiosity.Be according to your possibility. - Debasish Mridha

Words only reveal half of your heart. Service defines the other half. Character is the combination of the two. - Shannon L. Alder

When the Lord makes it clear you're to follow Him in this new direction, focus fully on Him and refuse to be distracted by comparisons with others. - Charles R. Swindoll

The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth. - W. Somerset Maugham

oh, my God," I whispered. "But how did they get my photo?Alex tapped his mouth with his thumb. "That ...book with everyone's picture in it, that you have in high school.""Yearbook," I said. Was he trying to be funny? But of course he was right; that's exactly where it was from. - L.A. Weatherly

It is mathematics that offers the exact natural sciences a certain measure of security which, without mathematics, they could not attain. - Albert Einstein

Thus I draw from the absurd three consequences, which are myrevolt, my freedom, and my passion. By the mere activity ofconsciousness I transform into a rule of life what was an invitationto death—and I refuse suicide. - Albert Camus

We are faced with the fact, my friends, that tomorrow is today. Procrastination is still the thief of time. Over the bleached bones and jumbled residues of numerous civilizations are written the pathetic words ‘Too Late’. - Martin Luther King Jr.

You don't get to advertise all the good that your religion does without first scrupulously subtracting all the harm it does and considering seriously the question of whether some other religion, or no religion at all, does better. - Daniel C. Dennett

There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The potential of controlling and living a successful life according to your terms depends on how you think. Your perception is your world. You can create the life you want and in fact, you can even shape it the way you want it. - Dee Dee Artner

The love between a man and a woman acts like a mousetrap to lure a man towards a woman enticing him like a pure cheese, but is secretly tied with a strap. - Anuj Somany

Tact is the knack of keeping quiet at the right time; of being so agreeable yourself that no one can be disagreeable to you; of making inferiority feel like equality. A tactful man can pull the stinger from a bee without getting stung. - George Horace Lorimer

Well, I myself am a 100% atheist. And I am increasingly worried that the Israeli-Palestinian struggle, which dominates our entire life, is assuming a more and more religious character. - Uri Avnery

Call home at least once a week. It's a proven fact that we call home less the older we get. And that's wrong. It should be the other way around. As we get older, our parents get older. - Randy Pausch

In the heart of appeasement there's the fear of rejection, and in acts of fear there are mirrors of oppression. - Criss Jami

In most communities it is illegal to cry "fire" in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims? - Dwight D. Eisenhower

Competition and rivalry between the members of a group are the antithesis of the cooperation and team play needed in an effective management group. This is why team building is an empty abstraction for a group whose leader controls with power. - Thomas Gordon

The perfection preached in the Gospels never yet built up an empire. Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be forgiven him, indeed, they will be regarded as high qualities, if he can make of them the means to achieve great ends. - Charles de Gaulle

It is obvious that 'obscenity' is not a term capable of exact legal definition; in the practice of the Courts, it means 'anything that shocks the magistrate.' - Bertrand Russell

The wisest of the wicked schemes are actually foolish. - Steven Chopade

He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast. - Leonardo da Vinci

Facts and science without the presence of wisdom and reason are worth a little less than nothing, while wisdom and reason without the presence of facts and science are worth far more than people without wisdom and reason are capable to expect. - Hasse Jerner

Dare to dream big. Never fear to fail. Take actions with love. - Debasish Mridha

Behavior speaks… Before you even open your mouth, your actions have told me who you are and what you’re about. - Steve Maraboli

When you know better, you do better! - Sract R. Webb

Love should not have limits but you have to know that our actions have consequences. - Stephen D. Matthews

You can't write a sory until you've felt. Breathe it in. Walked with your characters. Talked with them. That's why you come here. To live your story. - Angelica Banks

Think you can live forever, act like today is your last day on earth. - JT Fields

In the same way a cluttered room becomes difficult to walk, a cluttered mind becomes difficult to think. Meditation is simply a daily housekeeping practice; therefore, put the thoughts away where they belong, take out the unwanted clutter, and relax in the space you created. - Jenna Alatari

Examine your heart and put away any distraction so you can worship God freely. - Jim George

Life is meaningless. It is our actions that add meaning to it. - Avinash Rao

DEINOTHERIUM, n. An extinct pachyderm that flourished when the Pterodactyl was in fashion. The latter was a native of Ireland, its name being pronounced Terry Dactyl or Peter O'Dactyl, as the man pronouncing it may chance to have heard it spoken or seen it printed. - Ambrose Bierce

Q. How soon do you expect Argentina to be returned to democratic government?A. We believe we are already within a democratic system. Some factors are still missing, like the expression of the people's will, but nevertheless we still think we are within a democracy. - Roberto Eduardo Viola

There is only one attraction, one law, one power and that is the power of love. - Debasish Mridha

I am not so sure I should like the facts of life, but I have got over the bitter disappointment I felt when I first heard about them,... - Dodie Smith

The website increases my excitement when I read, Hark, the pies are calling! My excitement is short-lived, however. I read the page again and realize that it is pipes that are calling, not pies as I had hoped. I am disappointed. I personally react better to the call of pies. - Aefa Mulholland

Character builds on characters. Very few recognised them as a character, others should look for it until they get one. - Vikram Roy

Practice yourself what you preach. - Titus Maccius Plautus

Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence. - John Adams

The light of love is the brightest, because it shines into those who contact it and purify their soul. It is also dangerous in the fact that when you come into contact with it just once, you can't truly live life if it is to leave. - Shannan Jacoby

Tenderness emerges from the fact that the two persons, longing, as all individuals do, to overcome the separateness and isolation to which we are all heir because we are individuals, can participate in a relationship that, for the moment, is not of two isolated selves but a union - Rollo May

I write so the endangered thoughts roaming naked and vulnerable through the misty jungles of my mind aren't slain by the guns of practical living. - Kim Krizan

We liked to believe there is an alternate world, a better world, populated entirely by characters created by the yearnings of humanity--governing and inspiring themselves with all the lucidity wit which we rendered them. - Miguel Syjuco

Indomitable will, purposeful action - Lailah Gifty Akita

In the morning, that moment, when I knew it was you. When I could feel you breathing and we opened our eyes at the exact same time. - Kate Chisman

I begin to feel this tension when things that doesn't worth attention are the things that attracts attention - Michael Bassey Johnson

You realize that you aren’t leaving the battle field behind but are actually taking it with you and it will be a part of you forever - Laura Sobiech

CURIOSITY, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed with curiosity is one of the most active and insatiable passions of the masculine soul. - Ambrose Bierce

Even if you be Mendacious.. I know deep in your heart.. you don't wish to be one.. its just, you r acting so 'cos u not letting your heart flow.. and you think your Mendacious actions will make situations convenient to me..!! - Abhijeet Sawant

Thoughts are the product of a machine we call the human mind. So manufacture some excellent thoughts. - Debasish Mridha M.D.

They're so broke that they've actually cut essential services. In many places, they've cut policemen, because, who the fuck needs them? Or firemen, son of a bitch, it's much more fun watching something burn down. - Lewis Black

Revere the unity of all-that-iscarry out your daily activities with compassion;if you do not limit your compassion,you yourself will not be limited. - Lao Tzu

A woman in love with another woman is revolution’s revolution: it is not an act of war. it is not an act of desperation. it is not an act of fear. it is - it always has been and it always, always will be - an act of love. - Anonymous

Writing is a solitary business. It’s just you and your characters and a blank page you need to fill. - Shannon Celebi

In fact, nothing is said that has not been said before. - Terence

What’s to become of us? We can’t go on like this.Yes, we can go on like this, said Cesare. We can go on exactly like this for the rest of our lives. - Penelope Fitzgerald

When our government is spoken of as some menacing, threatening, foreign entity, it ignores the fact that in our democracy, government is us. - Barack Obama

One rarely falls in love without being as much attracted to what is interestingly wrong with someone as what is objectively healthy. - Alain de Botton

I wish to approach truth as closely as is possible, and therefore I abstract everything until I arrive at the fundamental quality of objects. - Piet Mondrian

Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy. - Unknown

For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of a Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of a MaCaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros.

We appear to be saying something very important aboutsomething: and actually we are only saying something about our own feelings. - C.S. Lewis

We make a home for ourselves, every time we work on something: actors, writers, singers, building these little nests in our gypsy souls, in place of the ones we so seldom seem to make in our own lives. And then suddenly it's over, and we have to start again. - Alan Brennert

Who thinks to interview their own mother? As a self-fixated teen, I never imagined that she had an actual personal history. To my young eyes, she was Source of Cash Obsessed With De-Cluttering - Jancee Dunn

You cannot reach space without overcoming the attraction of gravity. - Debasish Mridha

The dance you take with passion and self belief While every step is in rhythm with the honor of your words and the integrity of your daily actions~bns - Bluenscottish

Love is not just a word that is spoken; it is an action that is taken and an emotion that awakens. - Raneem Kayyali

It's also helpful to realize that this very body that we have, that's sitting right here right now... with its aches and it pleasures... is exactly what we need to be fully human, fully awake, fully alive. - Pema Chodron

The fact is very few men live harmoniously, while most of us survive miraculously! - Ramana Pemmaraju

In ActualHuman Rights are"caring" for Humans left on the planet - Haider Ali

Truth is that we all need facts we cannot continue to eat only the food that is given to us. Sometimes we have to feed ourselves otherwise we set our self up for dependency on the wrong nutrition without realizing that we were being poisoned the whole time. - R. Lewis

Every act of goodness is born from our desire to be happy. - Udai Yadla

It may seem odd to say that the men who made the myths disliked the irrational and had a love for facts; but it is true, no matter how wildly fantastic some of the stories are... - Edith Hamilton

Character built out of restrictions and boundaries can be deceiving.Be aware! - Mehnaz Ansari

My cock actually sort of staggers like a punch-drunk boxer who doesn’t know when to stay down. - Alexis Hall

Never under-estimate your effort, no matter how little. Every effort, little or great is a step closer towards the actualisation of your dreams. - Chinonye J. Chidolue

The wise respond. The foolish react. The wise think & then act. The foolish act and then regret.-RVM - R.v.m.

The only thing between you and success is your thinking. Defeatist thoughts are the mother of inaction. - Iimani David

USA corporations are legally regulated by laws which their managers know are rarely enforced. This criminal activity is what the USA government calls: Deregulation. - Steven Magee

Men are rewarded or punished not for what they do but for how their acts are defined. That is why men are more interested in better justifying themselves than in better behaving themselves.

If we couldn't laugh at things that don't make sense, we couldn't react to a lot of life. - Bill Watterson

I treat winning and losing exactly the same. I see them both as necessary steps to get us where we are going. Big failures big lessons little failures little lessons. - Bob Proctor

A person's practical experience can attribute him or her to teach his or her fellow learners the value of real life responsibilities and its consequences. - Saaif Alam

Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become. - Jim Rohn

Justice, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder. Some see an innocent victim. Others will see evil incarnate getting exactly what's deserved. - Emily Thorne

It wasn't exactly love at first sight, but it was deeper than that. A sense of belonging to a place I never knew I wanted but somehow always needed. It was a home that carried a heartbeat. - Nikki Rowe

It is a rather lamentable fact that few can call upon courage with the expediency they can fear. - Gitty Daneshvari

Life is about the journey, not the destination. As long as we persevere in mindful thinking, beliefs and actions, our internal compass will point us towards true-self each step of the way. - Glenn A. Maltais

If we could stop thinking of 'meaning' and 'purpose' as artifacts of some divine creative act and see them instead as the yield of our own creative future, they become goals, intentions and processes very much in reach rather than the shadows of childlike, superstitious mythology. - Douglas Rushkoff

Engineers participate in the activities which make the resources of nature available in a form beneficial to man and provide systems which will perform optimally and economically. - L. M. K. Boelter

Only free men can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated. - Nelson Mandela

I don't care what people say about how I look or even their opinion on my relationship. But the moment you judge my character is when we have a problem. - Rachelle Friedman

Moths don't need to explain why they're attracted to the light. - Marty Rubin

Anyone that has character leaves a mark on another. Would you like to leave the world without making a ripple? - Nora Roberts

To enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on excellence of character. - Aristotle

You actually cannot sell the idea of freedom, democracy, diversity, as if it were a brand attribute and not reality -- not at the same time as you're bombing people, you can't. - Naomi Klein

But in practical affairs, particularly in politics, men are needed who combine human experience and interest in human relations with a knowledge of science and technology. - Max Born

Dreaming is good—especially if you dream when you are awake. Remember dreams will remain a dream if you don’t act on them. - Debasish Mridha

Dream while you are awake; act while you are asleep. - Debasish Mridha

Recently, my personal advisors have beeen telling me to go to America. Actually, people have been walking up to me in the street and telling me to sod off, but that's the same thing, isn't it?

I thought: hope cannot be said to exist, nor can it be said not to exist. It is just like roads across the earth. For actually the earth had no roads to begin with, but when many men pass one way, a road is made. - Lu Xun

Much of the joy in falling in love with fictional characters comes from being able to envision new stories from them. - The Atlantic Monthly

You can even tell where a person's family came from by looking at the type of bacterium he or she carries! - Jennifer Gardy

My short stories are like soft shadows I have set out in the world, faint footprints I have left. I remember exactly where I set down each and every one of them, and how I felt when I did. Short stories are like guideposts to my heart... - Haruki Murakami

Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the we disbelieve we call theories. - Felix Cohen

Passion is a deep love for sacred activity. - Lailah Gifty Akita

If you actually want something and are really passionate about it, you will get it no matter what. - Unknown Author 365

The characters in my novels are my own unrealised possibilities. That is why I am equally fond of them all and equally horrified by them. Each one has crossed a border that I myself have circumvented. - Milan Kundera

the glory of the protagonist is always paid for by a lot of secondary characters - Tony Hoagland

If you are lonely, you feel separated from everybody. If you are in solitude, you feel you are in contact with the entire universe. - Siren Waroe

While what I write is always largely consistent with the records that remain I freely admit that where historical fact proves a barrier to invention, I simply move a detail a little one way or another. - Sara Sheridan

Action cannot destroy ignorance, for it is not in conflict with ignorance. Knowledge alone destroys ignorance, as light destroys dense darkness. - Shankara

If you can actually count your money you are not really a rich man. - J. Paul Getty

Normally, in anything I do, I'm fairly miserable. I do it, and I get grumpy because there is a huge, vast gulf, this aching disparity, between the platonic ideal of the project that was living in my head, and the small, sad, wizened, shaking, squeaking thing that I actually produce. - Neil Gaiman

I find placebos uplifting and exhilarating. It means that taking action--no matter what the action is--might help you feel better. - A.J. Jacobs

Agent Smith, a lady is never late, everyone is simply early. I said back, paraphrasing something I saw on a 20/20 special. Well, a lady isn’t exactly what they are expecting. - Rumi Antoinette

I feel like these characters, these places, these beings and plots, and even these inanimate objects are counting on me for survival. It’s my responsibility to reveal them to the world, to show my readers the names of these things, to show them their histories and stories. - Nicholas Trandahl

...the student of prehistoric man...cannot reject [the Castenedolo skull] as false without doing injury to his sense of truth, and he cannot accept it as fact without shattering his accepted beliefs. - Arthur Keith

If we blind them to The Adversary —decrease their desire for The Desire— while at the same time encourage them to do anything else they desire with increasing freedom of choice, then eventually we snuff out desire while leaving demand in tact. - Geoffrey Wood

A moment of choice is a moment of truth. It's the testing point of our character and competence. - Stephen R. Covey

Words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outline and covering up all the details. - George Orwell

Imagine yourself doing what is best for you. Commit yourself to excellence. Transform yourself with dedication into excellence, from daily self-improvement and practice. Enjoy doing the process. - Mark F. LaMoure

Today, the theory of evolution is an accepted fact for everyone but a fundamentalist minority, whose objections are based not on reasoning but on doctrinaire adherence to religious principles. - James D. Watson

Our success depends on goal-oriented, focused actions, not on distractions. - Debasish Mridha

The exact location of your dream lies entangled in your childhood memories. - Vanshika Dhyani

Enjoyment is not a goal, it is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing activity. - Paul Goodman

The question why I don't shake hand with someone,A reason is Behind;Scumbags call it Attitude but they really don't know its actually the antimatter Waqas is composed of. - Waqas Bin Ehsan

Don't let the bonds of fear and doubt keep you from attempting the impossible. Each attempt will loosen the chains and you'll eventually break free, thus finding the 'impossible' was actually possible all along. - J.E.B. Spredemann

Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman. - Margaret Fuller

Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get them, get them right, or they will get you wrong. - Dr. Thomas Fuller

It is in fact not our dream that makes us happy, but chasing that dream! - Mehmet Murat ildan

What I can and cannot imagine is a psychological fact about me. It is not a deep metaphysical fact about the nature of the universe. - Patricia S. Churchland

Peace and satisfaction are the two most expensive things in life. You can never buy them, you can only generate them for yourself, and those around you. - Mehek Bassi

Even the most impassioned devotee of the ghost story would admit that the taste for it is slightly abnormal, a survival, perhaps, from adolescence, a disease of deficiency suffered by those whose lives and imaginations do not react satisfactorily to normal experience and require an extra thrill - L.P. Hartley

We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact. - Jean-Paul Sartre

Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better. - John Updike

Where wise actions are the fruit of life, wise discourse is the pollination. - Bryant McGill

I read the bible every day and the one thing I have noticed is that those characters that are closest to God seem to be the ones who question and wonder and think more than others. - J.W. Lord

Well you know boys, a nuclear reactor is a lot like women. You just have to read the manual and press the right button. - Matt Groening

By the very act of arguing, you awake the patient's reason; and once it is awake, who can foresee the result? - C.S. Lewis

WIDOW, n. A pathetic figure that the Christian world has agreed to take humorously, although Christ's tenderness towards widows was one of the most marked features of his character. - Ambrose Bierce

I understand that in our work - doesn't matter whether it's acting or writing - what's important isn't fame or glamour, none of the things I used to dream about, it's the ability to endure. - Chekhov Anton

Writers need faith, or else we can never trust the action of our words! - Leslie Austin

True beauty is a beautiful character shinning through. - TemitOpe Ibrahim

Fictional characters also evolve, the way human being do in real life. - Saumya Kaushik...

Faithfulness to the truth of history involves far more than research, however patient and scrupulous, into special facts. The narrator must seek to imbue himself with the life and spirit of the time. - Francis Parkman

There's a lot going on in Marquis' book, as the author smartly builds off a solid premise...A fresh concept and protagonist that breathe life into a conventional but exciting actioner."-- - Kirkus Reviews

Opposites attract only in non-living things like seen in a positively-charged cation and negatively-charged anion; but in a living beings, the attraction is ONLY seen in between the same/similar character, positive or negative, people. - Anuj Somany

A leader is a person who knows how to act when other people don’t. - Eraldo Banovac

Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage. - William S. Burroughs

The Lord is perfect and patient. He knows exact when to act. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Success steps: Think big. Act small. Then scale.Failure steps: Act big. Think small. Then shrink.Consider your next big thing a project. Get one. Get it right. No sense growing a broken system. - Richie Norton

Stop acting so small, you are as big as the universe!!!!!!!! - Stephen Richards

A man who is good from docility, and not from stern self-control, has no character. - Henry Hazlitt

Life is very nice, but it has no shape. The object of art is actually to give it some ..." Jean Anouilh, The Rehearsal - Kate Taylor

Love it when a compelling new character kicks open your mental door, tracks mud across your brain, and props their feet up on your cerebrum. - Don Roff

You can’t repair character flaws with positive social media posts - Bernard Kelvin Clive

Never let anything be a setback in your life, not even your thoughts, words nor actions. - Gugu Mona

If you wish to make Pythocles rich, do not add to his store of money, but subtract from his desires. - Epicurus

No one is born with a talent. Talent is something we create on our own with practice and dedication. - Airicka Phoenix

Man acts as though he were the sharper and the master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man. - Heidegger, Martin

Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it. -, author, civil rights activist, US congressman, mayor, and UN ambassador (b. 1932) - Andrew Young

The health sector continuously get’s pummeled by malicious actors and hackers because their cyber-kinetic security is being managed by Participation Trophy winning wimps! - James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology

The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief—call it what you will—than any book ever written; it has emptied more churches than all the counterattractions of cinema, motor bicycle and golf course. - A.A. Milne

To realize your potential you must look beyond the end of yourself, realizing that where you end is most likely where you actually begin. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

Love is multidimensional...Don't just say; DO.Don't just speak; ACT.Don't just promise; DELIVER. - Steve Maraboli

If you Looking for Perfection ,Perfect yourself by Looking Withinby isolating the Rule of Ego and Handing over the Reins of Karma Chariot to the Soul !No one can do The Perfect Act for You but your Soul in the Presence of The Supreme Soul ! - Ashok Khurana

Keep your relationship private but don't hide the fact you're in one. - Genereux Philip

A man with a good story is practically a king. - José Eduardo Agualusa

Gravity is a contributing factor in nearly 73 percent of all accidents involving falling objects. - Dave Barry

Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness. - Joseph Addison

What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite. - Bertrand Russell

You don't have to have a million followers to make an impact on one. - Faydra D. Fields

Be careful whom you choose to love. This decision will impact your future life and happiness in ways you cannot yet imagine. - Toni Coleman

I am far too often the author of terribly poor decisions. Yet I must rest in the unalterable fact that God says I am far better than what the sum total of those decisions would ever suggest. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

Those who take responsibility for their actions are the real winners in life. Winners meet life challenges and head on, knowing there are no gurantees, and give it all they've got, and never think it's too late, or too early to begin. - Anonymous

You can never really know where exactly people are looking at! At the place they are staring at? Or at their past? Or at their future? - Mehmet Murat ildan

Music eliminates my gravity. When I'm singing, I'm a ravenous pterodactyl. I'm alive and free and hungry, and I know who I am. But the flood is coming; it's weighing me down, making me prisoner to my loneliness and pain.-character Joanna (Broken) - J. Matthew Nespoli

I have within me all that I need; I am love and life in action. - Jodi Livon

Putting down the power right from the whistle would be ugly and brutal, but it would get the job done. He wanted to tell her that, but this was the thing with coaching: you had to step back at exactly the moment you ached to step forward. - Chris Cleave

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. - George Bernard Shaw

Facts are never as salient as feelings. - Glenn Hodges

Where is truth??Somewhere in the story... somewhere around the facts.- There should be a truth some kind of feature, if there isn't... it goes interesting how in the hell is build a story with a truth... It's pretty interesting journey! - Deyth Banger

Leaders console the world with their speeches, heroes console the world with their actions. - Amit Kalantri

Music... will help dissolve your perplexities and purify your character and sensibilities, and in time of care and sorrow, will keep a fountain of joy alive in you. - Dietrich Bonhoeffer

True happiness is when the love that is within us finds expression in external activities. - Mata Amritanandamayi

Every creative act, however small, enriches our species and the world around us. To find and nurture talent, is to be truly wealthy. - Stewart Stafford

All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called "Facts". They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain. - Thomas Hobbes

I'm a writer. I'm a Christian. I like sex. But I haven't had it. I believe in waiting until marriage. But that doesn't mean I want my characters to. - Michelle N. Onuorah

Your actions speak so loudly, I cannot hear what you are saying. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Unfortunately there is no vaccination to protect the soul from the menacing disease of social ignorance manifested by character-void homosapiens. - Tracey Bond

In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its taste, but in its effects. - J. William Fulbright

People who aren’t in that space will be like ‘So how was your trip?’ and you don’t even go into it. ‘I guess it was pretty good.’ And then you talk to other people who have been there and they know exactly why your eyes are glazed over. - Jimmy Chin

Problems arise when people act as if their "boulders" are daily loads, and refuse help, or as if their "daily loads" are boulders they shouldn't have to carry. The results of these two instances are either perpetual pain or irresponsibility. - Dr. Henry Cloud and Dr. John Townsend

There are things you do sometimes, actions that you take by obeying sudden impulses, without stopping for even a fraction of a second to think, and then you spend the rest of your life either lamenting it or thanking yourself for it. They are rare, unique, and perfect moments. - Irene Gonzalez Frei

Hope can be imagined as a domino effect, a chain reaction, each increment making the next increase more feasible... There are moments of fear and doubt that can deflate it. - Jerome Groopman

The act of praising and giving thanks to God brings untold blessing. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Why keep on enacting laws when we already have more than we can break.

Live your life as a novel with a daring, awesome main character; otherwise you’re just there for comic relief. - Alexandra Bunker

Unfortunately, fact checking has become a lost art - Gary Hopkins

Let a short Act of Parliament be passed, placing all street musicians outside the protection of the law, so that any citizen may assail them with stones, sticks, knives, pistols, or bombs without incurring any penalties. - George Bernard Shaw

I think boredom is the beginning of every authentic act. (...) Boredom opens up the space, for new engagements. Without boredom, no creativity. If you are not bored, you just stupidly enjoy the situation in which you are. - Slavoj Žižek

The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty. - Zig Ziglar

A leitura é só um pretexto para que nossos corpos fiquem colados, como uma escultura, fundidos de maneira que ao tentar separar um do outro, ou a obra permance intacta ou ela se perde por completo - Ben Oliveira

I act as the tongue of you,... tied in your mouth . . . . in mine it begins to be loosened. - Walt Whitman

I think it's incomparably sweet when someone writes something for you.. even if it doesn't rhyme or even if it isn't very amorous.. even two lines of hatred written for you acknowledges the fact that someone spent a little of his time thinking about you. - Sanhita Baruah

Let me also say I wanna make you sandwhiches,And soup,And peanut butter cookies,Though, the truth is peanutbutter is actually really bad for you 'cause they grow peanuts in old cotton fields to clean the toxins out of the soil,But hey, you like peanutbutter and I like you! - Andrea Gibson

I'm actually way more funny now, because I'm hungry... If comedy comes from pain, I should be funnier now than I ever was. - Seth Rogen

It is the doom of laziness and gluttony to be inactive without ease, and drowsy without tranquility. - Samuel Johnson

The fact that we're all different is the one thing we all have in common. - Justin Young

I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living in me and now I enjoy ever bit of my life and hope best for rest...something beyond lovelines from Love Vs Destiny... - Atul Purohit

Man is born a predestined idealist, for he is born to act. To act is to affirm the worth of an end, and to persist in affirming the worth of an end is to make an ideal. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

Lifting lives, 140 characters at a time. - Germany Kent

It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not care to know whether you are or are not. - Jean de la Bruyere

Who has the time to become politically active, or even politically aware, when one is struggling just to stay alive and feed one’s children? - Lois Tyson

The way I would choose to identify myself wouldn’t be gay. I’ve been attracted mostly to ‘shes’ but I’ve been with many people and I’m open to love wherever it can be. - Ezra Miller

Women: One of the most mysterious forces on the planet have had a very profound impact on men since millennia, for they are gifted with an alchemical agent - Discontinuity ~ Any one who encounters their presence gets disconnected with their past, a very life changing experience. - Ramana Pemmaraju

A good name, like good will, is attained by many actions and may be lost by one.

The wages of sin are death, but the benefits include dental, major medical, two week paid vacation, pension fund, and stock options. Actually, taken as a package, it's a rather attractive deal.

Fafhrd stopped, again wiped right hand on robe, and held it out. "Name's Fafhrd. Ef ay ef aitch ar dee."Again the Mouser shook it. "Gray Mouser," he said a touch defiantly, as if challenging anyone to laugh at the sobriquet. "Excuse me, but how exactly do you pronounce that? Faf-hrud?""Just Faf-erd. - Fritz Leiber

People who say they don't have time, in fact have no plans to do anything. - Chandan Sharma

When the actions of others no longer matter, then you will have succeeded within your own mind. - Jo De Raman

The most satisfactory definition of man from the scientific point of view is probably Man the Tool-maker. - Kenneth Oakley

We are all servants of some sort, and if the fact that we are faithful can be truthfully inscribed on our tombstones, nothing more need be added. - L.M. Montgomery

Film and novel characters are often stereotyped, but racial stereotyping in many novels or films creates & encourages labelling, discrimination & racism. ~ - Angelica Hopes

Despite our disapproval with what God allows us to endure, he still remains the same God that is not interested in our convenience, as much as our character. - Shannon L. Alder

Allow yourself to think only those thoughts that match your principles and can bear the bright light of day. Day by day, your choices, your thoughts, your actions fashion the person you become. Your integrity determines your destiny. - Heraclitus

We are the generation of Social Media, Our biggest Revolution is a Tweet of 141 Characters. - Sandra Chami Kassis

ACTUALLY, adv. Perhaps; possibly. - Ambrose Bierce

The West did not come to rule the world through its superiority of religion or ideas, but rather through its superior application of organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact, non-Westerners never do.

Leaders are not the ones with the right position or a proclaimed or given title, the actual leaders are the people who start acting, who step up, who do change, no matter in what way or how small! - Akilnathan Logeswaran

Life is a random sequence of actions and reactions of people’s preferences and decisions they take to achieve their preferences. - Vivek Thangaswamy

The things we truly need to say are best said through action. - Marty Rubin

The most difficult character in comedy is that of a fool, and he must be no simpleton who plays the part. - Miguel de Cervantes

Success corrupts character when a person loses the spirit of thankfulness. - Orrin Woodward

If you decide to do anything and follow throughwith actions with the same intensity as your decision, you willdefinitely end up with an excellent result. - Derric Yuh Ndim

A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives. - Jackie Robinson

Religion is the biggest drama, the man has ever written and the God is the best character, the man has ever played that people are still applauding for _Idiotneil - Neil Jain

When feels that someone puts you aside, sometimes thinks in an act of selfishnessbut always its really to have afraid of something worst. - frank jymz

To annoy or piss off are light offences. I'd say if you abuse the goodness of a novelist or a writer, the truth is, he or she can kill you multiple times or cannibalise you in many antagonist characters. - Angelica Hopes

Vietnam is a jungle. You had jungle warfare. Kuwait, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, you have sand. [There is no need to worry about a protracted war because] from a historical basis, Middle East conflicts do not last a long time. - Dan Quayle

Prove yourself and others wrong everyday by redefining who you THINK you are, through performing actions you would normally deem impossible or uncharacteristic of you. - Miya Yamanouchi

You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat. - Albert Einstein

The deceit in loving a woman sometimes, is that most women fall in love with assumed personality, but eventually live with their true character. - Auliq Ice

The crux of whole problem of the world is that most people take most often an opinion as a fact and a fact as an opinion; and this is all usually done out of self-vested interest only. - Anuj Somany

Lest you forget the strong develop and improve the weak get frantic digress and deviate - K. Abernathy Can You Action Past Your Devil's Advocate

A man who makes a plate or a shirt or a loaf of bread or anything our great great ancestors called a work of art, has no need to try to be sincere; all he can do is practice his craft to the best of his ability. But once he starts making useless things, how can he not be sincere? - René Daumal

Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character. - Oscar Levant

Nothing can be more notorious than the calumnies and invectives with which the wisest measures and most virtuous characters of The United States have been pursued and traduced [By American Newspapers] - Thurgood Marshall

There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted. - James Branch Cabell

You will find it a very good practice always to verify your references sir. - Martin Routh

All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible. - T. E. Lawrence

It is not possible to conceive gods inhabiting a land which is made hideous by the smoke and din of mill chimneys and factories and whose roadways are traversed by rushing engines dragging numerous cars crowded with men mostly who know not what they are after. - Mahatma Gandhi

You can pick out actors by the glazed look that comes into their eyes when the conversation wanders away from themselves.

Our character...is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be. - George Santayana

Words have to make sense; facts don't. That life makes no sense is the most beautiful fact of all. - Marty Rubin

So much barbarism, however, still remains in the transactions of most civilized nations, that almost all independent countries choose to assert their nationality by having, to their inconvenience and that of their neighbors, a peculiar currency of their own. - John Stuart Mill

If you think like a leader, act like a leader, inspire like a leader then you are a leader. - Debasish Mridha

The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world. - Marianne Williamson

The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg. - Thomas Jefferson

He was the perfect soldier: he went where you sent him, and stayed where you put him, and had no idea of his own to keep him from doing exactly what you told him. - Dashiell Hammett

I'm more interested in arousing enthusiasm in kids than in teaching the facts. The facts may change, but that enthusiasm for exploring the world will remain with them the rest of their lives. - Seymour Simon

Attract everyone! Smile like a flower. - Debasish Mridha M.D.

All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. - Frank Herbert

Who can protest and does not, is an accomplice in the act. - The Talmud

I was coming home from kindergarten--well they told me it was kindergarten. I found out later I had been working in a factory for ten years. It's good for a kid to know how to make gloves. - Ellen DeGeneres

Entrepreneurs don’t ask for permission. They act per a mission. - Ryan Lilly

More than commitment, dedication, character, discipline, patience, determination, perseverance and prayer, you need faith because you must first belief before you can witness a pragmatic change in your life. - Sesan Kareem

Chasing a person doesn’t give you value or build values in you. You earn your value by chasing morality and practicing dignity. - Shannon L. Alder

Life isn’t about being perfect; it’s about improving. It’s not about achieving more, acquiring more, or even about actually being more. It’s about becoming better…better than you were. - Toni Sorenson

Gone are the days when women were attracted by a man's hansomeness. Today, we are talking about cash, and your compromise to become a tiger in bed. - Michael Bassey Johnson

Personally, I believe Young Adult to be an arbitrary title that means the book "Can be enjoyed by anyone/Has a main character who’s not quite an adult/Isn’t really boring. - Shannon Hale

Come on guys, you cant fight like this forever""Actually," Simon said, raising his hand,"I can".Jace made a weird noise and I realized he was trying not to laugh-which by the way, wasn't working. - Cassandra Clare

Some of the greatest love affairs I've known have involved one actor - unassisted. - Wilson Mizner

That awkward moment when you realize someone was actually home the whole time you were singing on the tops of your lungs. - Kasey Collin P. Dumdum

Your good character and attitude should be your message to the world. - Bamigboye Olurotimi

We are not educated well enough to perform the necessary act of intelligently selecting our leaders. - Walter Cronkite

If true acts of worship must be sincere without expecting anything, it should not need to be able to offer the promise of anything - Handi Priyono

Wise men are wise yet their actions always seem otherwise to others who always think of the otherwise - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Your behavior is the testimony of your character. - Saru Singhal

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are. - John Wooden

We have, in fact, two kinds of morality side by side: one which we preach but do not practice, and another which we practice but seldom preach. - Bertrand Russell

Link: .....It’s the imperfections that give you character out here. - Joyce, T.S.

God created everyone to love and to be loved; If you will not take care of people, just leave them as they came...DON'T SCRATCH THEM with your actions. - Israelmore Ayivor

People seldom change. Only their masks do. It is only our perception of them and the perception they have of themselves that actually change. - Shannon L. Alder

Think and feel yourself there! To achieve any aim in life, you need to project the end-result. Think of the elation, the satisfaction, the joy! Carrying the ecstatic feeling will bring the desired goal into view.

let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth. - Victoria Bando

Never believe someone cares for you because of other people's reactions. Sometimes you have to drown out the noise from the crowd, in order to figure out if there is a song playing between the two of you or simply annoying static that you thought was a tune. - Shannon L. Alder

Make no mistake. You are your most important critic and your conscience your most important judge of character. - Denis Waitley

Love makes people beautiful, beautiful in the fact that those who are stricken by love become blind. Not being able to see the evils and pain in the world, that's the part that makes people beautiful on the inside. - Shannan Jacoby

Nine-tenths of that which is attributed to sexuality is the work of our magnificent ability to imagine, which is no longer an instinct, but exactly the opposite: a creation. - José Ortega y Gasset

although the stress response was involuntary, the relaxation response required practice.[6] - Linda Lantieri

Laws of attraction could build a strong relationship among married couples or friends. - Saaif Alam

A person can't heal as long as they are deflecting and blaming. One must accept responsibility for their own actions and make the shift necessary for growth. - Sanjo Jendayi

Every thought, word, and action plants seeds in the garden of your life. Are you planting seeds of love, compassion, peace, or those of anger, resentment and dissatisfaction? Choose wisely and tend your garden well. - John Bruna

Only use the mind for practical ways in life. Use your deep inner body energy, observation and breath to glide through life. - Matthew Donnelly

Honesty is the recognition of the fact that the unreal is unreal and can have no value, that neither love nor fame nor cash is a value if obtained by fraud. - Ayn Rand

The characteristic common to God and man is apparently that: the desire and the ability to make things. - Dorothy Sayers

If your questioning whether something will work or not. Remember that life is an experiment. Don't over analyze just act with heart and passion and move forward in compassion. - Matthew Donnelly

Action w/o orchestration is burn out; orchestration w/o action is management; action with orchestration is leadership. - Orrin Woodward

It is our thoughts, actions and reactions that manifest our future. - George "GM64" Mercado

Aim to be the blue ribbon best. Have high standards and work to be exceptional. Develop yourself from practice to be a winner at what you do. - Mark F. LaMoure

Jesus lived a life of deep meditation. If thoughts and words were physical objects, meditation would be the act of holding, examining, taking apart, tasting, smelling, listening to, and savoring in order to study and become one. - amy litzelman

Knowing trees, I came to realize, understand and appreciate the act of patience. - Ogwo David Emenike

Interior decorating is a rock-hard science compared to psychology practiced by amateurs. - Antonin Scalia

Love is the most potent instrument of action than anything known to humanity. - Debasish Mridha

Boys are raw materials that women manufacture into products called men. - Matshona Dhliwayo

The fundamental fact about all of us is that we’re alive for a while but will die before long. This fact is the real root cause of all our anger and pain and despair. And you can either run from this fact or, by way of love, you can embrace it. - Jonathan Franzen

It is to these two discoveries by that we owe the exactness of modern astronomy. .... This double service assures to their discoverer the most distinguished place (after Hipparchus and Kepler) above the greatest astronomers of all ages and all countries. Jean-Baptiste Joseph Delambre - Bradley

There's often a great deception to an eye attraction and to validate HIS point, an invisible Almighty created the beauty in the women to seduce the men. - Anuj Somany

More often than not, a statist's argument against Anarchism boils down to an unwillingness to take control and responsibility for their own lives, actions, and communities. The sad truth is that the human animal has been domesticated to the point where it actually fears Liberty. - Dane Whalen

The fact that people are in positions does not justify the means that they are leaders. A leader can be blind and to know this, check his sense of vision. - Israelmore Ayivor

Take a daily action towards the achievement of your desired goals. - Lailah Gifty Akita

For example, it is only by work we extract gold from the soil. It takes work to discover the oil that is already deposited in the ground. It is work that turns a hill of coal into karats of diamond. - Sunday Adelaja

Some people confuse intensity for passion and challenge for attraction. - Donna Lynn Hope

To be a success, intensely focus on success oriented action not on roadblocks or obstacles. - Debasish Mridha

If you find an action hard, do not try it but master. - Mahin Choudhary

If more people recognized the difference between friendship and mere attraction, or how love must partake of both to prosper, I expect there'd be more happy people." "And a lot fewer poems and plays," I said, laughing as I splashed about in the scented water. - Sherwood Smith

Knowledge makes us stronger, but power is not supersede by it (knowledge). Vulnerable is power without knowledge. Impracticable is knowledge without power. - VIRGIL PROFEANU

When I was kidnapped, my parents snapped into action. They rented out my room. - Woody Allen

We can have facts without thinking but we cannot have thinking without facts. - John Dewey

The Christian life means putting off the character of the world and putting on the character of Christ. - Jim George

Character is the foundation stone upon which one must build to win respect. Just as no worthy building can be erected on a weak foundation, so no lasting reputation worthy of respect can be built on a weak character.

Real Fathers make a positive impact on their generation, and so give the next generation the advantage of a better nation to live in - Fela Durotoye

No matter how you feel you have to actlike you are very popular with yourself;very relaxed and purposefulvery unconfusedand notlike you are walking through the sunshinesingingin chains. - Tony Hoagland

Between ourselves, there is no such thing, abstractly, as a 'good' book. A book is 'good' only when it meets some human hunger or refutes some human error. - Christopher Morley

The object of poetic activity is essentially language: whatever his beliefs & convictions, the poet is more concerned with words than what these words designate. - Octavio Paz

Oh what a tangled web we weave, When first we practise to deceive! - Sir Walter Scott

While God, for the most part, allows this cosmos [creation] to work according to the laws of nature, there is never a time when He is not actively involved in every detail of life. - Charles R. Swindoll

The fact is, sometimes it's hard to walk in a single woman's shoes. That's why we need really special ones now and then to make the walk a little more fun. - Jenny Bicks

Every person who is really an artist desires to create inside of himself another, deeper, more interesting life than the one that actually surrounds him. - Konstantin Stanislavski

When you act with your heart, the universe conspires to help with your act. - Debasish Mridha

Emotion triggers action, good or otherwise - Pieter BF Swart

Politics is no exact science.

Anything you want can come true if you cast it in the form of a "golden goal" and apply EFT-Matrix Reimprinting to get clear and activate it "in the matrix". - Caryl Westmore

When your madness is creative and necessary, people will not notice the fact that you are crazy. - Michael Bassey Johnson

Focus on the denouement of the purpose of life and act on the narrative. - Debasish Mridha

Study after study has show that human behavior changes when we know we’re being watched. Under observation, we act less free, which means we effectively *are* less free. - Edward Snowden

By 30, we've almost completely replaced our actual childhood with a mythical one. - Marty Rubin

<<... People with 'a vision for betterment',cannot afford to have "hope", as "hope" is only usedfor the passification of the masses.~ People with 'vision', KNOW it is going to be betterbeCAUSE it is an inevitability, in fact....>>~ Ale3ia - Chevalieuse de Faeinoterre Helia

Essentially there are two actions in life: Performance and excuses. Make a decision as to which he will accept from yourself. - Steven Brown

Creating a family in this turbulent world is an act of faith, a wager that against all odds there will be a future, that love can last, that the heart can triumph against all adversities and even against the grinding wheel of time.

It is good to have a reason for every action you perform other than blaming others for your faults. - Auliq Ice

A choice made having devastating consequences for another is really not a choice. It is an act. - Beem Weeks

When you take action-think.When you fail-think.When you are in doubt-think.When you have lost your way-think.You are nothing but your thoughts. - Debasish Mridha

It is not in our interest, I suppose, to let South Sudan fall under the category of the burdened societies. We must be critical about our own actions if we want to move forward as a nation proud of its immense diversity. - Duop Chak Wuol

It's traditional for an heiress to be raised in a sheltered way. No one thinks that's true of me, but it actually was. - Paris Hilton

We cannot approach beauty. Its nature is like opaline doves'-neck lustres, hovering and evanescent. Herein it resembles the most excellent things, which all have this rainbow character, defying all attempts at appropriation and use. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Success is more than a desire; it's a behavior. Act accordingly. - Steve Maraboli

I long ago developed a very practical smile, which I call my "Noh smile" because it resembles a Noh mask whose features are frozen. Its advantage is that men can interpret it however they want; you can imagine how often I've relied on it. - Arthur Golden

She built her character with the adversity she had faced, so she could live the best of her life for the rest of life. - Nikki Rowe

We could have been the greatest love story ever told.If only you'd stayed in character. - Joseph Gordon-Levitt

By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fact, it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Stigma's power lies in silence. The silence that persists when discussion and action should be taking place. The silence one imposes on another for speaking up on a taboo subject, branding them with a label until they are rendered mute or preferably unheard. - M.B. Dallocchio

To act on the belief that we possess the knowledge and the power which enable us to shape the processes of society entirely to our liking, knowledge which in fact we do not possess, is likely to make us do much harm. - Friedrich Hayek

Exercise the writing muscle every day, even if it is only a letter, notes, a title list, a character sketch, a journal entry. Writers are like dancers, like athletes. Without that exercise, the muscles seize up. - Jane Yolen

It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry. - Albert Einstein

Creativity is an act of defiance. - Twyla Tharp

Religious devotion is for the individual. Character is for all. There is no loss if there is no devotion. Everything is lost if there is no character. - Periyar E.V. Ramasamy

When I first tried a sensory deprivation tank, people thought I had lost my mind. In fact, I had found it. - Ryan Lilly

If you are so worried of things that can be fixed that you can't fix them. Just remember we came to this world without refactions. - Pedro A. Pérez Raymond

The Cheesecake Factory is a great business model, but if you take your wife there for your 25th wedding anniversary, you might not reach your 26th. - Scott Adams

The environment acts more strongly upon the individual life the less fixed and strong this individual life may be. - Maria Montessori

A tactical retreat is not a bad response to a surprise assault, you know. First you survive. Then you choose your own ground. Then you counterattack. - Lois McMaster Bujold

In meetings philosophy might work,on the field practicality works. - Amit Kalantri

Life's temptations have the purpose of putting our spiritual integrity to the test. To yield to them, however, gives one a precarious and tormented satisfaction. But the worst temptations are those we give in to without getting anything in return except for the brutal discovery of our weakness. - Paolo Maurensig

Poetry is the science, the exact science, of feeling. - Marty Rubin

Visualize yourself at your best. Be determined to earn the title of being excellent. From working hard and practicing, one day you will earn its badge of honor. - Mark F. LaMoure

Love and knwoledge have one thing in common; both live on giving and sharing, more you share more it will be and make impacts over impacts, influence one to another. Love will not get lesser by giving, knowledge too.. - Baris Gencel

It is absurd to expect the inclinations and wishes of two human beings to coincide, through any long period of time. To oblige them to act and live together is to subject them to some inevitable potion of thwarting, bickering, and unhappiness. - William Godwin

Scientists are those who change facts - Farid F. Ibrahim

Few things a doctor does are more important than relieving pain. . . pain is soul destroying. No patient should have to endure intense pain unnecessarily. The quality of mercy is essential to the practice of medicine; here, of all places, it should not be strained. - Marcia Angell

Don't resist the urge to burn down the stronghold, kill off the main love interest or otherwise foul up the lives of your characters. - Patricia Hamill

The person you are sleeping with signifies the value upon which you have for yourself. You are attracted to who echoes your deepest thoughts of yourself - Bridget English

God isn't about making good things happen to you, or bad things happen to you. He's all about you making choices--exercising the gift of free will. God wants you to have good things and a good life, but He won't gift wrap them for you. You have to choose the actions that lead you to that life. - Jim Butcher

You can't write a story until you've felt it. Breathed it in. Walked with your characters. Talked with them. That's why you come here. To live your story. - Angela Banks

Love not only transform your mental and emotional character/attitude, it also shifts your physical being, which goes thru subtle changes also. Love is POWERFUL! God is love. - Pazaria Smith

As a sea level adapted human, I am more fearful about the radiation levels on top of high altitude mountains, mile high modern cities and inside jet aircraft than from nuclear reactors and bombs, as that is where I get the most radiation exposures in the modern world. - Steven Magee

Never be afraid to offer a smile; sure the risk is that a few foolish people may misinterpret your kindness as weakness, but the sweet reward is that as you make new friends and encourage others, the foolish have ignored the fact that you have already shown them your teeth. - Johnnie Dent Jr.

Monsters exist, but they are too few in number to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are the common men, the functionaries ready to believe and to act without asking questions. - Primo Levi

Lily, the next time you tell me you don't know what to do with family. Because you know exactly. It's about loyalty and kindness and unconditional love, and you are more than capable of all that. - Jill Shalvis

If the first words out of your mouth are to cry ‘political correctness!’, … chances are very, very high that you are in fact part of the problem. - N.K. Jemisin

Facts are stupid things. - Ronald Reagan

In conditions of great uncertainty people tend to predict the events that they want to happen actually will happen.

Be more concerned with character than reputation. Character is what you are, reputation is what people think you are. - John Wooden

Patience is power. Patience is not an absenc of action; rather it is timing, it waits on the right time to act, for the right priciples and in the right way - Fulton J. Sheen

Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste. - Lucille Ball

I can't believe it! Reading and writing actually paid off! - Matt Groening

Fantasy stories will always be popular, as there are always readers who are willing to escape, freely, to the worlds that the authors create, and spend time with the characters we give life to. - Jason Ellis

Time may be defined as " dimension governed by activity." Dimension diminishes with inactivity so does the value of time. - Moutasem Algharati

Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth. - Katherine Mansfield

I like the fact that kids are willing to be imaginative and go along with me when I'm telling strange tales. - Margaret Peterson Haddix

What if, as an act of worship, creating something meant healing and restoration took place instead of pain and frustration? - Michelle Dennis Evans

For the last 2 years I even have been making an attempt to downsize my makeup assortment. I appraise what is passed on to friends and family and what must been thrown away each few months. This has left Maine with a makeup assortment that i actually fancy victimization. I have - raman kundal

Strength of character means the ability to overcome resentment against others, to hide hurt feelings, and to forgive quickly. - Lawrence G. Lovasik

Science gives an exact photograph of the world, but it lacks an essential dimension of reality. - Alija Izetbegović

The simple record of three short years of active life has done more to regenerate and to soften mankind, than all the (investigations) disquisitions of philosophers and than all the exhortations of moralists. - William Edward Hartpole Lecky

With every step we take we have a choice to make. Our choices determine our actions. Our actions determine who we are. - Randall Marr

We are armed with language adequate to describe each leaf of the filed, but not to describe human character. - Henry David Thoreau

There are three characteristics of wisdom: knowledge, experience and patience. - Eraldo Banovac

When you experience something, it actually widens your understanding about everything. - Jayson Engay

Preventing a suicide is not necessarily a beneficent act if it forces the potential suicide to continue in a life of misery. - Gene Lester David Lester

It's not your end goal that gives life to your required actions, it's your required actions that give life to your end goal. - Anonymous

The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live-moreover, the only one. - Emil Cioran

An honest election, under democracy, is an act of innocence which does not take place more than once in the history of a given nation.

An active mind cannot exist in an inactive body. - George S. Patton Jr.

Always there is a bitch lies in every virgin heart, and a virgin always lies in the heart of a bitch. To be honest, there cannot ever be anyone who is one-man or one-woman human, in action or may be in thought! - Argha

Tasks don't have to be high-impact to be worthy of high effort. Most things we do in any given day are relatively low impact. The cumulative impact of thousands of low-impact test is huge. These tasks can be transposed into worship. - John Piper

Our repeated failure to fully act as we would wish must not discourage us. It is the sincere intention that is the essential thing, and this will in time release us from the bondage of habits which at present seem almost insuperable.

Living life is a courageous act. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Malicious or not, strong leaders always attracted followers - Richelle Mead

Meditation is an excellent habit and tool for transformation, however your ‘practice’ should eventually evolve into your natural primary state of being. - Gary Hopkins

He felt something trickle down his face and he wiped it away irritably. When he looked at the back of his hand, he found trails of red. He had never cried in his life; in fact, he could not cry with no tear ducts. But now, at last, he was. He was crying tears of blood. For her. - Phillip W. Simpson

THE 52ND is a unique entry in the YA and Paranormal genres. With a diverse cast of characters, thrilling mythology, and a potential series ahead, Dela knocks it out of the park with THE 52ND. - Indie Reader

You wanna respect???- I don't see you to show it... if you show it I will respect you as a character. - Deyth Banger

The greatest act of faith some days is to simply get up and face another day. - Amy Gatliff

It is a sad fact that 50 percent of marriages in this country end in divorce. But hey, the other half end in death. You could be one of the lucky ones!

Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, use that something to support their own existence. - Frank Zappa

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action comes, stop thinking and go in. - Napoléon Bonaparte

It's very healthy for a young girl to be deterred from promiscuity by fear of contracting a painful, incurable disease, or cervical cancer, or sterility, or the likelihood of giving birth to a dead, blind, or brain damaged baby (even ten years later when she may be happily married).

Staying with detractors is like sleeping in a room located just behind the public toilet. You will never feel comfortable until you relocate. - Israelmore Ayivor

Since when did the community become our moral compass—our viability and ethics as writers determined so much by our team spirit? ... What if all this communing actually hurts the primary means by which I set out to participate and communicate—my writing itself? - Meghan Tifft

One's character is set at an early age, son. The choices you make now will affect you for the rest of your life." He was quiet for a minute then dropped the curtain and said, "I hate to see you swim out so far you can't swim back. - Wendelin Van Draanen

Order and reason, beauty and benevolence, are characteristics and conceptions which we find solely associated with the mind of man. - Karl Pearson

The power of a thing is not based on the power it actually possesses. Rather, it is much more about the power that we permit it to possess. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

Now and then women should do for themselves what men have already done—occasionally what men have not done—thereby establishing themselves as persons, and perhaps encouraging other women toward greater independence of thought and action. - Amelia Earhart

Anxiety, in short, is a conscious feeling. It can arise in a bottom-up way, driven by activity in defensive circuits or from higher processes that conceptualize worry, either about an uncertain future or about existence itself. - Joseph E. Ledoux

Truth exists: whatever a man not able to tell is actually a truth! - Thiruman Archunan

Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you are ready or not, to put this plan into action. - Napoleon Hill

A homely face does not guarantee a homely character. Appearance is the body, character is the spirit, and the soul bears the most vital qualities. - Michael Bassey Johnson

While it's true that I am guided in life by my feelings and emotions, that certainly does NOT mean that I trust them.Emotions are reactions to things based on all of a person's prior experiences and we forget sometimes just how limited those are. - Ashly Lorenzana

Evil is boring. Cynicism is pointless. Fear is a bad habit. Despair is lazy. Hopelessness is self-indulgent. On the other hand: Joy is fascinating. Love is an act of heroic genius. Pleasure is our birthright. Chronic ecstasy is a learnable skill. - Rob Brezsny

Successful men are defined by thier actions; Unsuccessful men are defined by actions not taken.

The IMPOSSIBLE is ONLY relevant to those who NEVER attempt it…otherwise it is ABSTACT and MEANINGLESS - John Paul Warren

Allowing people to contribute in your life is a leap of faith. And that comes gradually with self actualization and overcoming fears of uncertainty. - Deepak Chandra

As he stood in the darkness, his eyes glistened and that’s when I knew my light found its traction. - Dominic Riccitello

When the actions becomes frequent than the words, success becomes heavier than the dreams. Do more, say less. - Israelmore Ayivor

A true prophet would rather be believed false by many but actually true than believed true by many but actually false. - Criss Jami

We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.

Reality is constructed by our perception, and it does not actually exist without it. - Russell Eric Dobda

The more you know, the harder it is to take decisive action. Once you become informed, you start seeing complexities and shades of gray. You realize that nothing is as clear and simple as it first appears. Ultimately, knowledge is paralyzing. - Bill Watterson

FRACTURED FACTIONSMany cults are created by the uncontrollable egos of religious zealots - Kamil Ali

No gasp at a miracle that is truly miraculous because the magic lies in the fact that you knew it was there for you all along. - Toni Morrison

You can't live in your mind and expect those dreams to become real, without the work. Reality requires actions that might feel scary, but that is what is required if you want to find true love. Don't expect it to come and rescue you. You have to rescue yourself. - Shannon L. Alder

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. - Lord Acton

Any clod can have the facts, but having opinions is an art. - Charles McCabe

The externalization of memory [via the use of external symbolic storage systems] has altered the actual memory architecture within which humans think, which is changing the role of biological memory, the way in which the human brain deploys its resources, and the form of modern culture. - Merlin Donald

Have an intention, take action, and then learn on the way to success. - Debasish Mridha

Unexamined wallpaper is classroom practices and institutional policies that are so entrenched in school culture or a teacher's paradigm that their ability to affect student learning is never probed. - Richard Elmore

An action made by a unwitting man, shall not define, nor justify a common though and interpretation. - Even Engesland

When I watch my mind and stay with my body, out of that comes some course of action. - Charlotte Joko Beck

Women are better at acting then men. Why? Because we have to be. If successfully convincing someone bigger than you are of something he doesn't want to know is a survival skill, this is how women have survived through the millennia. - Meryl Streep

The couch and I were what I would describe as frenemies. I loved to hate it. It was too small for my frame. I had tried to tell my wife that fact when we bought it off of Craigslist, but she assured me that it went perfectly with our room decor and it was a good deal. - Anna M. Aquino

Kindness is love in action, not feeling emotions or thoughts of empathy only. Kindness is doing! - Shannon L. Alder

Learning is retarded in conditions of high anxiety and low acceptance. For most tasks, people have the intellectual knowledge to perform well; they just have a hard time acting on what they know. - Tim Gallwey

I couldn't tell fact from fiction, Or if the dream was true My only sure prediction In this world was you. I'd touch your features inchly. Beard love and dared the cost, The sented spiel reeled me unreal And I found my senses lost. - Maya Angelou

Destiny to some people is a preconceived notion as a design of blind faith, while in fact destiny is a constitution of endowed efforts in an attempt to steer toward a desired outcome. Create your destiny and reach for your dreams, you only live once. - Husam Wafaei

Once or twice I saw evidence that rats had been nesting among the books, rearranging them to make snug two and three-level homes for themselves and smearing dung on the covers to form the rude characters of their speech. - Gene Wolfe

The first two facts which a healthy boy or girl feels about sex are these: first that it is beautiful and then that it is dangerous. - G.K. Chesterton

The simple act of having a camera, not a cell phone, but a camera-camera, there’s a kind of a heightened perceptional awareness that occurs. Like, I could walk from here to the highway in two minutes, but if I had a camera, that walk could take me two hours. - Jerry N. Uelsmann

The biggest mistake that you will make in life is believing that governments act in the public interest. - Steven Magee

Human beings are nothing but intellectually organized closely interconnected interestingly and independently functioning trillions of atoms. We manipulate these atoms by our thoughts. At the same time, thoughts are the byproducts of complex interactions of these intelligent atoms. - Debasish Mridha

After all, it isn't the facts of one's environment, but one's attitude toward them, that determines whether one will be defeated or victorious. - David Hawkins

Nobel intentions have no real meaning to them if you don't do it solely for you. Do it to satisfy your soul, not theirs. Don't do it in hope that it earns you a reward at the end, instead let the reward be the beauty created as a result of your actions. - Kendal Rob

A man’s character is most evident by how he treats those who are not in a position either to retaliate or reciprocate. - Paul Eldridge

Well, I'm a painter, I was trained as a painter…I seem to have spent a little less time painting than I might've done…But it didn't transcend the feeling of playing at UFO and those sort of places with the lights and that, the fact that the group was getting bigger and bigger. - Syd Barrett

A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction. - Leo Tolstoy

For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. - Isaac Newton

When imagination fails, compassion and humaneness dwindle and atrophy along with it. Unleavened by imagination, the variety and richness of life turn into flat abstractions; people become objects to be manipulated -- with the social consequences we know all too well. - Lloyd Alexander

Success is never an accident; it is always a result of goal-oriented, diligent actions. - Debasish Mridha

Your actions are reflections of your thoughts. What are you thinking? - Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.

In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently. - Anthony Robbins

True faith rests upon the character of God and asks no further proof than the moral perfections of the One who cannot lie. - A.W. Tozer

Random words, heard by chance, turn to hard facts in the eyes of a man of imagination, if there's any fire burning in his heart. - Friedrich von Schiller

I think you actually get a kick out of being disappointed and under-achieving, because it's easier, isn't it? Failure and unhappiness is easier because you can make a joke out of it. - David Nicholls

The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist. - Eric Hoffer

Speak with honesty. Think with sincerity.Act with integrity. - A Course In Miracles

The hardest part is setting the camera on the tripod, or making the decision to bring the camera out of the car, or just raising the camera to your face, believing, by those actions, that whatever you find before you, whatever you find there, is going to be good. - Sally Mann

Science contributes to our culture in many ways, as a creative intellectual activity in its own right, as the light which has served to illuminate man's place in the universe, and as the source of understanding of man's own nature. - John F. Kennedy

It is possible to be a great novelist - that is, to render a veracious account of your times - and a bad writer - that is, an incompetent practitioner of applied linguistics. - Angela Carter

One word can lift a mind.One smile can soothe a heart.One touch can heal a soul.One act can change the world. - Matshona Dhliwayo

And I think more of a concern has been not within the campaign, the mistakes that were made, not being able to react to the circumstances that those mistakes created in a real positive and professional and helpful way for John McCain. - Sarah Palin

Our deeds are like children that are born to us; they live and act apart from our own will. Nay, children may be strangled, but deeds never: they have an indestructible life both in and out of our consciousness. - George Eliot

The creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act. - Marcel Duchamp

Do not build a castle around one act of kindness; do not build an empire around one act of cruelty. - Paul Bamikole

The single problem plaguing all students in all schools everywhere is the crisis of disconnection. Meaningful Student Involvement happens when the roles of students are actively re-aligned from being the passive recipients of schools to becoming active partners throughout the educational process. - Adam Fletcher

Anticipation is sometimes more exciting than actual events. - Ana Monnar

Thou shalt not use the 140 characters limit as an excuse for bad grammar and/or incorrect spelling. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I'm not going to limit myself just because people won't accept the fact that I can do something else. - Dolly Parton

By myself I am not large enough to call the whole man into activity; I want other lights than my own to show all his facets. - C.S. Lewis

Is not prayer the intensely personal struggle within each disciple, and among us collectively, to resist the despair and distractions that cause us to practice unbelief, to abandon or avoid the way of Jesus? - Ched Myers

To plan and talk is good but to plan and take action is even greater. - Euginia Herlihy

It’s our(As The Stars of the Sky Foundation, Inc.) passion and joy to read to children and improve literacy, as well as teach others about charity and the impact they can have in a child’s life. - Soraya Diase Coffelt

The more grateful we are, the more we practice this in our everyday lives, the more connected we become to the universe around us. - Stephen Richards

Yeshua was a feminist. A feminist is a person who is in favor of, and promotes, the equality of women with men, who advocates and practices treating women primarily as human persons (as men are so treated) and willingly contravenes social customs in so acting. - Leonard Swidler

Realize your true strength when people reject you. In actual fact, they do not reject you. They only show you your real strength - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Plainly it is not every error made by a witness which affects his credibility. In each case the trier of fact has to make an evaluation; taking into account such matters as the nature of the contradictions, their number and importance, and their bearing on other parts of the witness's evidence. - H.C. Nicholas

Abstract means literally to draw from or separate. In this sense every artist is abstract. - Richard Diebenkorn

I might have made a tactical error not going to a physician for 20 years. It was one of those phobias that didn't pay off.

God doesn't act like the Church. No, instead, the Church must act like God. - Kim Clement

ADMINISTRATION, n. An ingenious abstraction in politics, designed to receive the kicks and cuffs due to the premier or president. A man of straw, proof against bad-egging and dead-catting. - Ambrose Bierce

The character to follow thru on commitments made to others is built by following thru on commitments made to self. - Orrin Woodward

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite. - G. K. Chesterton

The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by his fantasy.

Beauty' is a currency system like the gold standard. Like any economy, it is determined by politics, and in the modern age in the West is is the last, best belief system that keeps male dominance intact. - Naomi Wolf

The line that we chart into our future is often more a circle that brings us back to our past. And it might be that there is some hidden intent in charting circles in that we can feel like we’re moving when we actually have no intent of doing so. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

‎"The more we spend our time 'practicing the presence' of Jesus, the more we become like Him"~ - R. Alan Woods

With every part you act, there must be a little of yourself in it. If there isn't, it's not acting. It's lying. - Johnny Depp

Emancipation was a proclamation, but not a fact. - Lyndon B. Johnson

Strength is Life, Weakness is Death.Expansion is Life, Contraction is Death.Love is Life, Hatred is Death. - Swami Vivekananda

Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity. - Albert Camus

To keep any great nation up to a high standard of civilization there must be enough superior characters to hold the balance of power, but the very moment the balance of power gets into the hands of second-rate men and women, a decline of that nation is inevitable. - Christian D. Larson

How many men do you personally know whom you would typically classify as Kind, Gentle and Loving...I'm guessing the list is not very long. Now think of the women whose lives are characterized by those same virtues. I'm going to go with, that list is probably much longer. - Dennis James

It should be our care not so much to live a long life as a satisfactory one. - Seneca

Where you are no is the reflection of your lifelong thoughts and actions. - Debasish Mridha

OFFENSIVE, adj. Generating disagreeable emotions or sensations, as the advance of an army against its enemy. "Were the enemy's tactics offensive?" the king asked. "I should say so!" replied the unsuccessful general. "The blackguard wouldn't come out of his works!" - Ambrose Bierce

Ninja mom's understand that life is a balancing act, and in order to keep the balance they have to learn to enjoy the moment! - Anna M. Aquino

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies. - Oscar Wilde

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect. - Bruce Lee

Friendship is like a glass ornament, once it is broken it can rarely be put back together exactly the same way. - Charles Kingsley

I think my thinking with my heartI act with my thinking from my heartbut I'm just a human being with a heart and not a rational thinker - Kristian Goldmund Aumann

HIPPOGRIFF, n. An animal (now extinct) which was half horse and half griffin. The griffin was itself a compound creature, half lion and half eagle. The hippogriff was actually, therefore, a one-quarter eagle, which is two dollars and fifty cents in gold. The study of zoology is full of surprises. - Ambrose Bierce

Hope combined with action is the only thing that will bring you contentment. - Shannon L. Alder

If people in the media cannot decide whether they are in the business of reporting news or manufacturing propaganda, it is all the more important that the public understand that difference, and choose their news sources accordingly. - Thomas Sowell

The more I read, {the Bible] the more Paul sounds like a stroke victim, who never taught a thing that Jesus taught, and only quotes him once, in Acts, wrongly, and the 12 are constantly chastising him for his teachings. - Glenn Hefley

There is no branch of mathematics, however abstract, which may not some day be applied to phenomena of the real world. - Nicholas Lobachevsky

Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable. - Mark Twain

Have the best course for all your actions. - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

First of all is the fact that I have some rather good turns of phrase. I don't say that pridefully ... it's just that when a line I forgot about smacks me in the face and says, "Look at me! Aren't I lovely?" I have to notice. - Rachel Heffington

A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts. - Colette

I write because, as wonderful as life is - and it is truly wonderful - it isn't enough. It does not, for example, contain dragons. I find this unsatisfactory. So I read. And I write. - Laini Taylor

I'm gonna go put my earplugs in and practice piano for hours until my fingers bleed. I practice the piano with the focus of Helen Keller—and nothing can distract me from the scent of the music.- and Jarod Kintz - Karen Quan

The tragic irony in all of this is that when we focus so strongly on our need to get better, we actually get worse. - Tullian Tchividjian

I don't mean to step on anyone's toes, and I don't mean to seem arrogant, but if you want to be foreverly remembered as anything great you have to live your life alone, hated, ignored, and character assassinated, and if you believe this to be true than you truely are a hater. - B.L. Kennison

Write your dreams in journal,note book, card or on a cork. When you pen down your dreams, an a inner strength and divine power is activated for your to work towards the fulfillment of your dreams. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Christmas, as a practicing Catholic child, was seen as a reward for lots and lots and lots of church. - Jenny Colgan

Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors who when their turn comes, will manufacture professors. - Simone Weil

Any titles, money, or privilege you inherit are actually hindrances. They delude you into believing you are owed respect. - Robert Greene

In the course of our journey leading to Consciousness, our objective should not be creating a positive character, and thus a pleasant scenario, but finding the Existence behind every scenario. - Frank Wanderer

A person's character is but half formed till after wedlock. - Charles Simmons

At any moment, you know, your manufactured cool could blow. - Nicole Blackman

To understand Darwin's work, you have to distinguish between his theory of descent and his theory of natural selection. THe full name of the first is the theory of descent with modification. Some call it the fact of evolution, and some call it the doctrine of evolution. - Lee Spetner

A practice of giving [it] your best, means you don't just have to hope for it. - T.F. Hodge

Your good deeds is an act of love. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Between Practicality and Spirituality lies Rationality!And when the lessons 'appear', the 'intensity and clarity' can be jaw dropping ! - Abha Maryada Banerjee

Life is not about the people who act true to your face, It's about the people who remain true behind your back. - Moosa Rahat

Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them. - Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

Pride rises above and against the knowledge of God, acting as if He is unworthy to be retained in our thoughts. - James MacDonald

The fact differentiates the fake. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Nothing will be attained from actions of hundreds of thousands of lives. Moksha (liberation) is attained through ‘absolute humility’ (param vinaya). The ‘gates of understanding’ are opened with ‘absolute humility’. ‘Absolute humility’ arises only when the ego is dissolved. - Dada Bhagwan

Questions that pertain to the foundations of mathematics, although treated by many in recent times, still lack a satisfactory solution. Ambiguity of language is philosophy's main source of problems. That is why it is of the utmost importance to examine attentively the very words we use. - Giuseppe Peano

You've been given the innate power to shape your life...but you cannot just speak change, you have to LIVE change. Intent paired with action builds the bridge to success. You can't just want it; you have to do it, live it...BE it! Success isn't something you have, it's something you DO! - Steve Maraboli

Be a poet in action as well as in words. - Marty Rubin

The good news is that every morning we have the choice; not to be controlled by circumstances nor our past but by purposely designing our day, hence our lives better. Not to react to life but to respond with love. - Bernard Kelvin Clive

nothing is as dangerous as a man who knows exactly what he is capable of - Herman Ntladi

Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had. - Friedrich Nietzsche

Conflict and character are the heart of good fiction, and good mystery has both of those in spades. - Diana Gabaldon

Words are a great influence in actions, feelings, and simply just the meaning behind it. - Yi

How you correct your mistakes will define your character and commitment to a higher power. - Shannon L. Alder

Like the fragrance of a flower, our actions reveal the beauty of your life. - Debasish Mridha

A revolution does not have to eat its children. In fact, it is those who are in power who could very well initiate revolutions. Let us not be old-fashioned and think only of armed uprisings of minorities as revolutions. Any movement that seeks to overhaul established attitudes is a revolution. - F. Sionil José

Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts. - Henri-Frédéric Amiel

People are like vines that grow upwards to the Sun in the heavens. Our ascent is inspired by seeking a deep connection with the divine. When we are attracted to others, we are attracted to a spark of the divine that is a reflection of our true being. - Ambika Devi