Quotation Explorer - 'Ain'

We must primarily become seekers of God instead of founders of works, for work will not sustain us through the traumas of incarnation. - Viv Grigg

We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. - US Declaration of Independence

The best is the deep quiet in which I live and grow against the world, and harvest what they cannot take from me by fire and sword. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

... one fire burns out another’s burning.One pain is lessened by another’s anguish. -Romeo & Juliet - William Shakespeare

A woman's flattery may inflate a man's head a little; but her criticism goes straight to his heart, and contracts it so that it can never again hold quite as much love for her. - Helen Rowland

When you divorce someone, you divorce their whole family. - Laine Moriarty

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

Intellect takes us along in the battle of life to a certain limit, but at the crucial moment it fails us. Faith transcends reason. It is when the horizon is the darkest and human reason is beaten down to the ground that faith shines brightest and comes to our rescue. - Mahatma Gandhi

If you make it plain you like people, it's hard for them to resist liking you back. - Lois McMaster Bujold

We have no right to express an opinion until we know all of the answers. - Kurt Cobain

Practice makes perfect, but nobody's perfect, so why practice? - Kurt Cobain

Without failing at one thing, there won't be an opportunity to try again, learn and grow. Life isn't static but dynamic. Learn to embrace whatever situation you may face and strive to overcome. Believe in yourself, knowing your best is yet to come. - Kemi Sogunle

Creation signifies, above all, emotion, and that not in literature or art alone. We all know the concentration and effort implied in scientific discovery. Genius has been defined as an infinite capacity for taking pains. - Henri Bergson

Kabhi tere shehar se guzarein toh parr lena inney,Maine hawaon pe apne kuch safarname likhe hain.. - Jasz Gill

Let your fuel be Education rather than Entertainment. - Dhaval Gajera

Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? no. Just as one can never learn how to paint. - Pablo Picasso

It is one of life's great ironies that most people's only connection to success is their attachment to the pain of not having achieved it. - Stephen Smoke

I push through physical pain. Life hurts. I enjoy the positives. - Carla J. Hanna

You were on the other side of the world, but I often woke with the scent of you surrounding me. I ached for you, Kells. No matter how much Kishan thrashed me, it couldn’t diminish the pain of losing you. I’d dream of you and reach out to touch you, but you were always just out of reach. - Colleen Houck

A heroine makes progress against an enemy who would manipulate her thoughts when she begins to probe his and see weakness. - Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago. - Horace Mann

Beware of following a train of thought. - Marty Rubin

It's only pain which leads us to achieve something special. - Anonymous

This guy and this guy and this guy… knew a lot of but couldn't find the words which could explain the "knowledge". - Deyth Banger

There is no restraining men's tongues or pens when charged with a little vanity. - George Washington

I live in the present due to the constraints of the Space-Time Continuum. - Hank Green

Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous. - Albert Einstein

Where there is even the subtlest desire, the ‘Eternal Thing’ cannot be attained. - Dada Bhagwan

I used to call myself a single-issue voter on the essential question of defending civilization against its terrorist enemies and their totalitarian protectors, and on that 'issue' I hope I can continue to expose and oppose any ambiguity. - Christopher Hitchens

If you read the bible from cover to cover you will want to start it all over again. You find something new each time. - Amanda Penland

If a story is w/out flaws or doubts, it is flattery or even brainwashing. You should read it as if drinking a glass of water. But be prepared - you would not remember its taste. - Vinko Vrbanic

From a biology point of view, the purpose of humanity is to ensure his survival by expanding his domain into the stars. - Osman Doluca

Sometimes I get the feeling the whole world is against me, but deep down I know that's not true. Some smaller countries are neutral. - Robert Orben

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. Against such things, there is no law.

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

Coachable people seek out those who speak truth to them, even if it is a painful truth, because it protects them and it makes them a better person and leader. - Gary Rohrmayer

Nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner. - Oscar Wilde

They ran to the museums for paintings. I ran to the roof for sunsets - Darnell Lamont Walker

All times are beautiful for those who maintain joy within them; but there is no happy or favorable time for those with disconsolate or orphaned souls. - Rosalía de Castro

There is no need for arms, physical violence, material constraints. Just a gaze. An inspecting gaze, a gaze that each individual under its weight will end by [internalising] to the point that they are their own overseer, each individual thus exercising surveillance over, and against themself. - Michel Foucault

I think as a result of my own personal experiences, that the accusations of fraud against mediums have been much exaggerated. - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

A man becomes God. This is the culture of life power of a human being. This is such a culture of unimaginable life power.The term God is the self -prejudiced word. This is used to explain the thing. But whatever happens is encircling a man. - Sri Jibankrishna or Diamond

The lonesome and desperate kids out there, that pain will translate to magic perhaps. - Tenacious D

In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season. - Bill Vaughan

One day, you muster the courage and let go of the fear. In a brief moment of insanity, you give wings to the stories you had wanted to tell; some you didn't even know were in you. In that instant, something about you changes. You are born again. - K.J. Kilton

I aintent dead - Terry Pratchett

If anyone tells you that something can't be done, they're correct, but it only pertains to them. - Rob Liano

Show me somebody who is always smiling, always cheerful, always optimistic, and I will show you somebody who hasn't the faintest idea what the heck is really going on. - Mike Royko

If you are to be, you must begin by assuming responsibility. - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Dimana lagi kita mencari inspirasi dan motivasi selain di dalam diri kita sendiri? - Alfisy0107

This ain't the heartbreak hotel even though I know it well.Those no shows should you tell in the way you hold yourself.Don't you fret should you get another cancellation, give me a chance and I'll make a permanent reservation.In your heart in your, I can tell you fit one more - The Wanted

The most courageous act in politics is to try to understand your opponent. - Alain de Botton

I hate ingratitude more in a man than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness, or any taint of vice whose strong corruption inhabits our frail blood. - William Shakespeare

Let your story grow. Let it surprise you, and it will certainly surprise your readers. - M. Kirin

When you trip over love, it is easy to get up. But when you fall in love, it is impossible to stand again. - Albert Einstein

Nothing will remain except space and time. - Debasish Mridha M.D.

The painter must give a completely free rein to any feeling or sensations he may have and reject nothing to which he is naturally drawn. - Lucian Freud

Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top. - Robert Burton

Quotes ain’t all that useful. Fact is, there’s more concise ways to express what you’re feelin’, like screams and moans. - M.C. Humphreys

Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it. - Thomas Paine

The world is a classroom - life is the teacher and the subjects are learned everyday from the successes, failures, changes twists, turns, surprises and contradictions - some brought about through choices and others pre-ordained by destiny. - Eugenie Laverne Mitchell

I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge? - Douglas Adams

The greater difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.

A mind that tastes the grief obtains a good chance to travel to the Land of Wisdom! - Mehmet Murat ildan

Let a smile be your umbrella, and you'll end up with a face full of rain. - George Carlin

Humanity has one strength that no one has: that is we may feel the feelings, pain, jealousy, failure, love, happiness of others and identify with them, and even see the world through their own eyes. - Orhan Pamuk

The more we have, the more we realize can be taken from us, and that’s when our lives border on insanity. We live in fear of losing what we think we possess. Once we let go and let God, then we gain a peace that surpasses understanding. - Toni Sorenson

To be alive simply means to have faith, one has faith that the air one breathes will sustain one, hence being alive without the other kind of faith will be counterproductive to the reason one is alive. - Auliq-Ice

It is good to be imperfect so that we retain our joy to work hard to rise to perfection! - Mehmet Murat ildan

When your pain gets tough, your game needs to get rough. - Janna Cachola

If America shows weakness and uncertainty, the world will drift toward tragedy. That will not happen on my watch. - George W. Bush

The reason people use a crucifix against vampires is because vampires are allergic to bullshit. - Richard Pryor

Foe unvanquished, I will not perish in the field; I will be born again to take up the halberd seven more times. - Kuribayashi Tadamichi

Maybe the only thing that lasts is our memories of each other... - Sylvain Reynard

I definitely believe marijuana helps with menstruation. Since I started smoking pot, my girlfriend’s period has become painless for me - Randy Kagan

To help someone, don’t criticize or complain. Find what he does better and compliment him. - Debasish Mridha

"Familiarity breeds contempt - and children. - Mark Twain

Marx hated weakness in men, and considered the making of moral judgements as the last resort of the weak. To say 'That is morally wrong' is implicitly to say ' I am powerless to stop that, so I will inveigh against it'. - Paul Robert Wolff

Adolescence is like a heavy rain. Even though you catch a cold from it, you still look forward to experiencing it once again.(From 'In Those Bygone Years, The Girl We All Went After' the novel) - Giddens Ko

They sought the pain they knew so well and called it love. - David W. Earle

Your spiritual brain is wisdom. - Steven Chopade

So, the world is fine. We don’t have to save the world—the world is big enough to look after itself. What we have to be concerned about, is whether or not the world we live in, will be capable of sustaining us in it. That’s what we need to think about. - Douglas Adams

Golf is a game in which you claim the privileges of age, and retain the playthings of childhood. - Samuel Johnson

If we fall, we don't need self-recrimination or blame or anger - we need a reawakening of our intention and a willingness to recommit, to be whole-hearted once again. - Sharon Salzberg

Don't compromise your integrity; whatever you gain won't be worth as much as what you lose. - Aaron Dennis

If you fail in life’s journey, just don’t complain. Make it a part of your journey. - Debasish Mridha

If ours is an examined faith, we should be unafraid to doubt. If doubt is eventually justified, we were believing what clearly was not worth believing. But if doubt is answered, our faith has grown stronger. It knows God more certainly and it can enjoy God more deeply. - Os Guinness

There is hope for the sinner to be made a saint. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it. - Bible

Sacrifice do with a lot of restriction,give when you can bear the pain If you are ready to give away (something valuable) to get at least a possibility to gain something else of value (such as self-respect, trust, love, freedom, prosperity), or to avoid an even greater loss,Sacrifice. - Uche Daniel Oluwaseun

‎"Well, It's just painful to see them without nothing to eat and at the same time no God. So let's share our food and our God. - Jestoni Revealed

Fashion changes, style remains.

Unless I am convinced by proofs from Scriptures or by plain and clear reasons and arguments, I can and will not retract, for it is neither safe nor wise to do anything against conscience. Here I stand. I can do no other. God help me. Amen. - Martin Luther

[...] nonstate conflicts kill far fewer people than conflicts that involve a government, perhaps a quarter as many. Again, this is not surprising, since goverments almost by definition are in the violence business. - Steven Pinker

A dam doesn't try to reason with the water. Its main purpose is to hold it still for a while. When I lecture my kids I'm doing much the same thing. I'm not trying to necessarily reason with them, just hold them still for a short while. - Spuds Crawford

Success is secondary to impact. Success is a list of what you win, gain and attain - it may pass it may remain. Impact is the test; the hearts, minds and lives you touch, enhance and forever change... - Rasheed Ogunlaru

People read books to escape the uncertainties of life. - Barbara Kingsolver

I paint paintings because I can't get the experience in any other way but there are many more experiences that are equally satisfying to me and equally inept at answering all my questions, but hover in exactitude in describing themselves and defying me to define their logic.

I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it. - Mark Twain

Never learn to do anything: if you don't learn, you'll always find someone else to do it for you. - Mark Twain

Maddie: Now it’s just me against the world, and it’s the loneliest feeling ever. - Dixon, Ruby

An animal in pain is the saddest thing on Earth. - Sanober Khan

It is called as ‘discharge’ (karma) when one has to do it compulsorily and against his wishes. - Dada Bhagwan

When sorrow's cup is filled up to the brim,the slightest touch of memory can cause tears to spill again. - John Mark Green

Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail. - Jean Cocteau

It's the hardest thing in the world to go on being aware of someone else's pain. - Pat Barker

Verily, a man teaching his child manners is better than giving one bushel of grain in alms.

Your deepest valleys lead you to your highest mountaintops. - Matshona Dhliwayo

Our eyes see only that which language can explain, but our hearts see that which is invisible and unexplainable. - Debasish Mridha

Please take note that any and all dragon petting will be at your own peril. We are not liable for any injuries sustained while petting. - Love The Stacks Bookstore

When you open your heart to someone, you're also exposing it to pain. - Lisa De Jong

Attempts to wake before our time are often punished, especially by those who love us most. Because they, bless them, are asleep. They think anyone who wakes up, or who, still asleep, realizes that what is taken to be real is a ‘dream’ is going crazy. - R.D. Laing

Stop smiling as if we'd been acquainted with you for ages!" #VeronicaLedyanova. #ItalianPassion - OlgaGOA

Pain to contain oneself is much more than the pain to achieve his passion. - Loknath

That’s been one of my mantras — focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains. [BusinessWeek, May 25 1998] - Steve Jobs

You can regain your inner peace with a daily prayer. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Herschel removed the speckled tent-roof from the world and exposed the immeasurable deeps of space, dim-flecked with fleets of colossal suns sailing their billion-leagued remoteness. - Mark Twain

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself alone. A man should keep his friendships in constant repair. - Samuel Johnson

Poetry is an art that uses words to paint vivid pictures of perceptions and emotions. - Debasish Mridha

And they certainly wouldn’t take you along to a murder. That would be irresponsible parenting. - Kelley Armstrong

Give me all your pain, I will give you all my love! - Preeth Nambiar

Half a brain is better than none. - Matshona Dhliwayo

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If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced. - Vincent Van Gogh

Anger swirled in him, a tempest readying her strike. And like a helpless vessel caught in her fury, he felt himself dashed against the rocks without mercy. - V.S. Carnes

So it is more useful to watch a man in times of peril, and in adversity to discern what kind of man he is; for then at last words of truth are drawn from the depths of his heart, and the mask is torn off, reality remains. - Titus Lucretius Carus

Just another day at the office. - Captain Price

Heaven is by favor; if it were by merit your dog would go in and you would stay out. Of all the creatures ever made (man) is the most detestable. Of the entire brood, he is the only one... that possesses malice. He is the only creature that inflicts pain for sport, knowing it to be pain. - Mark Twain

I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I loveIf you want me again look for me under your boot-soles.You will hardly know who I am or what I meanBut I shall be good health to you nonethelessAnd filter and fibre your blood. - Walt Whitman

Sometimes my life is in gray color but sometimes it is just like a rainbow. - Pēteris Bitāns

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts, therefore guard accordingly; and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue, and reasonable nature. - Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

The most important gifts we can give our children are confidence in their ability to remake themselves again and again and the tools with which to do that job - Anders Ericsson

Life teach you lessons and those lessons are very painful. - Adnan Khan

What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish. - W. H. Auden

I live in the present due to the constraints of the time-space continuum. - Hank Green

Everyone in the world is constantly fighting an internal battle. A battle between what the brain knows is right and what the heart knows it wants. - Oprah Winfrey

I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.David - Jeana Kendrick

The suicide committed by Sampson was partly determined by the craftiness of Delilah and partly decided by the disobedience of Sampson. Satan uses crafty means to set traps for us, but by our obedience of the laws of God, the traps remain functionless. - Israelmore Ayivor

Happiness is attained, not through self-interest, but through unconditional fidelity in endless love of eternal light. - Aaron Cohen

Politics [is] the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order. - Barry Goldwater

What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before. - Mark Twain

It is in racists' best interest to maintain white supremacy at all costs. They will defend it with their lives, but ONLY after they've defended it with ours. - Darnell Lamont Walker

God made man stronger but not necessarily more intelligent. He gave women intuition and femininity. And, used properly, that combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I’ve ever met. - Farrah Fawcett

I don't fancy colors of the face, I'm always attracted to colors of the brain. - Michael Bassey Johnson

It's odd that you can get so anesthetized by your own pain or your own problem that you don't quite fully share the hell of someone close to you. - Lady Bird Johnson

The voices in my head does not likes attitude of some people. I know how to defend myself, but I do not want to hurt their feelings for ease my pain. - Sammy Toora Powerlifter

After establishing anything as the absolute truth, its’ conclusion is reached. It doesn’t have to be established as the truth again. What is proven as the eternal established truth for past, present and future is known as the Principle [Siddhant]. - Dada Bhagwan

Pull back the curtain and jump down the rabbit hole. - Brad Jensen

A hero stands up to the villain in themselves. - Ricky Maye

Maybe God created the rain to remind us that life isn't always a sunny day. - Val Irvin Mabayo

Temptation is a strong weapon that Satan uses against the children of God - Sunday Adelaja

It is in the perfect union of two hearts that complete and total marriage consists. - Saint Bernard of Clairvaux

The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog. - Mark Twain

You don't get drown by falling into a river. You get drown by remaining there. Falling accidentally and rising immediately was what distinguished Thomas Edison and Abraham Lincoln from the rest. - Israelmore Ayivor

Economic and financial conversion is actually attainable, thanks to this principle of truth and honesty. - Sunday Adelaja

Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing. - H. L. Mencken

Nothing is more painful than the loneliness of being with someone who is never completely there. - Rick Yancey

You will find, that when you have someone to love, that the face is less important than the brain, and the body is less important than the heart. - Adrian Tan

Once I had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: "No good in a bed, but fine up against a wall. - Eleanor Roosevelt

It is enough if God approves of me and all are against me. - Lailah Gifty Akita

When a man has learned how to remain alone with his suffering, how to overcome his longing to flee, then he has little left to learn. - Albert Camus

I not only use all the brains that I have, but all I can borrow. - Woodrow Wilson

If you drink much from a bottle marked 'poison' it is certain to disagree with you sooner or later. - Lewis Carroll

There is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book. - Arthur Conan Doyle

It usually takes me two or three days to prepare an impromptu speech. - Mark Twain

I am beginning to understand," said the little prince. "There is a flower... I think that she has tamed me... - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

I know that story, when you start a fight, the main idea is one to survive, one to be the victim and one to be the killer. This explains why FBI, CSI and DIA and other departments are here! - Deyth Banger

Again, I lay awake, and I cried because of waste. - Morrissey

To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worthwhile. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter. - Aleister Crowley

Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again. - William Shakespeare

Don't make excuses for your mistakes.Don't try to please your enemies.Don't run from your responsibilities.Don't force your opinions on others.Don't complain about things you can change.Don't compare yourself to anyone.Don't let undeserving people into your life. - Matshona Dhliwayo

There is nothing more entertaining then leaving someone speechless. Yet, there is nothing sadder than realizing that person was incapable of retaining half of what you said, and will repeat the story all wrong to someone else. - Shannon L. Alder

How can a falling dove turn again into a flying dove once again? It really takes the eyes of someone who sees you for the beauty that you really are. And if there are no other eyes there to see you in that way, then you had better be those pair of eyes, for yourself, to see yourself with! - C. JoyBell C.

An individual who has in his mind that he can accomplish a certain task is far more likely to succeed than the individual that has it in his mind that he will fail. - Daniel Willey

When you are at Rome live in the Roman style; when you are elsewhere live as they live elsewhere. - Saint Ambrose

Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody. - Mark Twain

Kāda man dīvaina gaume- mīlu es tikai trīs. Tevi, kas bija un nāca, tevi, kas blakus nu stāv, tevi ,ko sirds un prāts meklē un kuras nav. - Imants Ziedonis

Men have sacrificed and crippled themselves physically and emotionally to feed, house, and protect women and children. None of their pain or achievement is registered in feminist rhetoric, which portrays men as oppressive and callous exploiters. - Camille Paglia

a wind has blown the rain away & the sky away & all the leaves away, & the trees stand. i think i, too, have known autumn too long. - E.E. Cummings

I don't mind being miserable as long as I'm painting well.

God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board - Mark Twain

Love can only be true and free when you are fully healed from painful past and any form of brokenness. - Kemi Sogunle

He broke my heart, and now it's raining, just to rub it in... - Alicia Keys

The more you try, so desperately, to prove a point to get someone's approval, the more fleeting that approval might be, causing a chain of depreciation of self-esteem. Sometimes, all you need do is truly love yourself and get only the approval and acceptance of the inner self. - Ufuoma Apoki

Books - the best antidote against the marsh-gas of boredom and vacuity - George Steiner

Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

We’re only instruments of love, flowing through heaps of pain hoping one day we’d hatch a passion of our own. - Robert M. Drake

We have spoken out against inhuman slaughters perpetrated by the Nazis and the Communists. But will we speak out also against the inhuman slaughter in Indonesia, where over 100,000 alleged Communists have been not perpetrators, but victims? - Robert F. Kennedy

Societies where there are worthy men and women of God, not necessarily preachers or religious men, but men that know the ways of God, they stand up against the collapse of equity in their land - Sunday Adelaja

If a certain activity, such as painting, becomes the habitual mode of expression, it may follow that taking up the painting materials and beginning work with them will act suggestively and so presently evoke a flight into the higher state. - Robert Henri

Shall I faint, now that I have poured out the spirit of my mind to the world, and treated many subjects with truth, with freedom, with power, because I have been followed with one cry of abuse ever since for not being a Government tool? - William Hazlitt

Art is the expression that the soul makes without having to explain itself, nor regard the criticism of others. - Reed Abbitt Moore

...for no man lives in the external truth among salts and acids, but in the warm, phantasmagoric chamber of his brain, with the painted windows and the storied wall. - Robert Louis Stevenson

You belong to everything andeverything belongs to you.You are in the beauty of a flower.You are also in the nourishing spring shower.Then why do you fear to change?You just lose your nameand your inner beauty remains the same. - Debasish Mridha

We can only climb the mountains because there’s a valley that makes the mountain a mountain. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principle one was that they escaped teething. - Mark Twain

The United States has become a place where entertainers and professional athletes are mistaken for people of importance.

The more you learn to forgive others; the more you gain the power of love. - Debasish Mridha

Tears have always been easier to shed than explain. - Marty Rubin

Messy" is a word we use to explain a conflict with an expectation we had. Eliminate the expectation, and you eliminate the "messy". - Steve Maraboli

Reading takes you places; it is all up to your imagination. The world (or in this case book) is your canvas, go paint it. - BOB

The people in our life is like the mountain and the river. Some people will stay as others will leave. Some will travel away and make their way back to you. - Touaxia Vang

To a man, a woman is fun to be with … until she gains weight. To a woman, a man is fun to live with … until he loses his job. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply ALL my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy. - Og Mandino

Democracy is the process to elect the Government of the Upper class or caste people, by the poor people and for the corporate people - Idiotneil - Neil Jain

Gratitude is the best food and fuel to start anything that you need to do - it will nourish and sustain you...and others too. Hankering will leave you hungry - or with with heart, head or belly ache - and tends to have or leave a sour or bitter taste too. - Rasheed Ogunlaru

A recurring problem needs nothing but a tactical head-on solution. The more you entertain your problems, the more your entertain unhappiness! - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

The odds against there being a bomb on a plane are a million to one, and against two bombs a million times a million to one. Next time you fly, cut the odds and take a bomb.

The headline reads, "Docs say patients make them prescribe useless antibiotics." This puts a physician in roughly the same predicament as a serial killer. The latter says, "Stop me before I kill again, while the former says, "Stop me before I prescribe again."

A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions (of which its author had quite probably never heard). It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness. - Edith Wharton

To live this life. To live it with wholeness and gratitude and trust. In the pain and the glory. In the mess and the grace. In the sacred and the desperation. This is the stuff of which real superheros are born. - Jeanette LeBlanc

Everything has been created twice once on a mental plain and once on a physical plain. - Bob Proctor

In life what you ASPIRE will TRANSPIRE—be it Loss or Gain, Sun or Rain, Joy or Pain. - RVM. - R.v.m.

Intuition is unconscious accumulated experience informing judgement in real time. - Alain de Botton

We read the weird tales in newspapers to crowd out the even weirder stuff inside us. - Alain de Botton

People are not rain or snow or autumn leaves; they do not look beautiful when they fall. - Naveed A. Khan

The task of the artist today is to defend feeling against the machine. - Marty Rubin

Woody Allen once said that ‘I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.’ This is certainly a very wise wish! Whoever grasped the triviality of anything besides the existence is a wise man indeed! There is no substitute for life! - Mehmet Murat ildan

Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind. - Albert Schweitzer

I consider my time too valuable to be spent in cultivating acquaintance with a person from whom neither pleasure nor improvement are to be expected. - Hanna Webster Foster

The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself. - Mark Twain

In microbiology the roles of mutation and selection in evolution are coming to be better understood through the use of bacterial cultures of mutant strains. - Edward Tatum

To have self confidence is great, but to maintain self confidence is even greater - G.S. Alag

There's a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go. - Tennessee Williams

If I were to begin life again, I would devote it to music. It is the only cheap and unpunished rapture upon earth. - Sydney Smith

After death, I will lose my opportunity to complain so I will accept everything with love. - Debasish Mridha

Time is standing still, but we are running away from it and complaining that time is slipping away from us. - Debasish Mridha

There is no art without artist, try to paint your future under God's control. - Bruce Mbanzabugabo

All the good things a man can do for a woman is against her religion - M.F. Moonzajer

The softest grass can break any stone in her quest to find the sun. Rise again, woman, RISE AGAIN! - Autumn Morning Star

Lucid Dreaming is the ability of a brain to download the information of a possible futuristic state of an event from a Parallel Universe. - Vishwanath S J

Should-haves are the devil’s greatest tool against our personal progress. He shouts in our ears that they are failures, while God calmly whispers they are lessons. - Richelle E. Goodrich

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of Autumn. - John Muir

Magic is not just for the entertainment, but to inspire people to be creative enough with their lives. - Amit Kalantri

But aside from a few migraines, you can't possibly imagine any OBEY drawbacks that CEASE REPRODUCTION could come with SUBMIT merging CONSUME your thoughts with EMBRACE YOUR CULLING experimental technology CONFORM TO SOCIAL ORDER from an STAY ASLEEP extremely powerful DIE corporation, wait what? - Andrew Hussie

You don't choose your life; it chooses you. There's no point in asking why life has reserved certain joys or griefs, you just accept them and carry on. We can't shoos our lives, but we can decide what to do with the joys and griefs we're given. - Paul Coelho

I have fallen behind time, and am too old to catch it again. Even the noise it makes a long way ahead confuses me. - Chareles Dickens

life weighs heavy upon my shoulders and patience starts wearing thin, it is divine hope and dreams which sustain me, pushing me forth against the wind. - Terry A. O'Neal

Once in a while i am struckall over again... by just how blue the sky appears .. on wind-played autumn mornings, blue enoughto bruise a heart. - Sanober Khan

The public is a ferocious beast -- one must either chain it up or flee from it. - Voltaire

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. - Aristotle

They can't see your painThey can't see your sadness They will smile if you smile to themThey will leave you if you frown to them - Hadi NourAllah

The misconception of something being a certainty sometimes gets to me until I remember we can change most things consciously. - Jay Woodman

But everything evened out eventually, didn’t it – every wave subsided, lapsed back into the ocean, returning, giving them time to put themselves back together again. He was her moon. He balanced out her tides. - Katie Neipris

There are two excellent challengers against darkness in this universe: Powerful lights and great ideas! - Mehmet Murat ildan

Whole worlds’ darkness is not enough to dark the blaze of a candle.. - Sarvesh Jain

Experience doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except "Carry bags underneath your eyes". A real experience comes by "Doing it , Learning from failures and again Doing it .... !" - - Satish Kumar Ankala

It was a haunting tune, unresigned, a cry of heartache for all in the world that fell apart. As ash rose black against the brilliant sky, Fire's fiddle cried out for the dead, and for the living who stay behind and say goodbye. - Kristin Cashore

If someone can enjoy marching to music in rank and file, I can feel only contempt for him; he has received his large brain by mistake, a spinal cord would have been enough. - Albert Einstein

Our hearts are light and gay because now its happening, we're starting, we're travelling again. - Martha Gellhorn

Not Hercules could have knock'd out his brains, for he had none. - William Shakespeare

You must not know too much or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and watercraft; a certain free-margin, and even vagueness - ignorance, credulity - helps your enjoyment of these things. - Walt Whitman

My star will just be one of the stars, for you. And so you will love to watch all the stars in the heavens...they will all be your friends."-the little prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

I'm a kindhearted but highly competitive pragmatist. When I seek to win something, I always make certain it's never at the expense of anything more serious than the inadequate efforts of others. - Jonathan Kieran

Don't complain that your life is boring. It is because you never did anything exciting. - Erika Woods

Nor deem the irrevocable PastAs wholly wasted, wholly vain, If, rising on its wrecks, at lastTo something nobler we attain. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Childhood is not from birth to a certain age and at a certain age. The child is grown, and puts away childish things. Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies. - Edna St. Vincent Millay

I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize at the time; I mean joy. - Ursula K. LeGuin

I want to love like a rain drop loves the earth. - Debasish Mridha

my problem is that my body acts before my brain thinks... it sometimes brings me huge trouble, or also huge success. recently, my body and brain got come to an agreement. it may be far better to live this gambling life than living in boring average ...they at least make my art more interesting - Hiroko Sakai

If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do. - Samuel Butler

Another year older, but am I wiser? Wisdom comes from learning and changing for the better. Sometimes we just go through life living the same day over and over and never gaining true wisdom. Let that never be me. - Richie Norton

If you say you're a unifier, you expect and usually get applause. I'm a divider. Politics is division by definition, if there was no disagreement there would be no politics. The illusion of unity isn't worth having, and is anyways unattainable. - Christopher Hitchens

Such is true joy’s absolute certainty,Its slow lit fuse that burns holesIn the shabby shroud of death forever. - Scott Hastie

Cut your big mountain into smaller hills, and then start to climb. Before you know it, you're done! - Miranda A. Uyeh

If there is a sin against life, it consist perhaps not so much in despairing of life as hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life. Albert Camus - Albert Camus

Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.) - Walt Whitman

When you're traveling, you are what you are, right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road. - William Least Heat-Moon

Not all are called to be artists in the specific sense of the term. Yet, as Genesis has it, all men and women are entrusted with the task of crafting their own life: in a certain sense, they are to make of it a work of art, a masterpiece. - Pope John Paul II

One who hates to be driven through suffering has no right to expect the pleasure, for pleasure may give joy but the pain gives meaning; Meaningless Joy is like anchor-less Ship sailing in a shoreless sea - Ajay Chandan

She smiled and her whole face lit up. Or maybe it was mine. All I know for certain is that smile lit up even my darkest days. - J. Sterling

It is no crime to be ignorant of economics, which is, after all, a specialized discipline and one that most people consider to be a ‘dismal science.’ But it is totally irresponsible to have a loud and vociferous opinion on economic subjects while remaining in this state of ignorance. - Murray N. Rothbard

I love the smell of rain and growing things. - Serina Hernandez

today's my life and i feel that " Every question have an answer but sometime that answer again becomes a question.... - vicky vora

As we have seen there is some kind of continuity in any case since every experience affects for better or worse the attitudes which help decide the quality of further experiences, by setting up certain preference and aversion, and making it easier or harder to act for this or that end. - John Dewey

If knock the door once and it remains lock, do not turn away. With persistent knocks, the door will be open. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Our brains are either our greatest assets or our greatest liabilities. - Robert T. Kiyosaki

She was gracious and yet fading, like an old statue in a garden, that symbolizes the weather through which it has endured, and is not so much the work of man as the work of wind and rain and the herd of the seasons, and though formed in men's image is a figure of doom. - Djuna Barnes

Many people feel like they were born into the wrong family. Nevertheless, adults must take responsiblity for the pain of the past and create a productive life in the present. - James P. Krehbiel

So far as I am able to judge, nothing has been left undone, either by man or nature, to make India the most extraordinary country that the sun visits on his rounds. Nothing seems to have been forgotten, nothing overlooked. - Mark Twain

I live not in dreams but in contemplation of a reality that is perhaps the future. - Rainer Maria Rilke

And the victim must have been broken and must remain so, so that the externalization of evil is possible. The victim who refuses to assume this role contradicts society's simplistic view. Nobody wants to see it. People would have to take a look at themselves. - Natascha Kampusch

To oppose something is to maintain it... You must go somewhere else; you must have another goal; then you walk a different road. - Ursula K. Le Guin

I did not want to set my world alight, to watch it burn because of the sister I had come to love too much. - Sarah Swainson

In the still of the night, when you are serenely falling asleep and an epiphany suddenly hits you. Roll your ass off that bed and start typing because that fleeting moment will never pass by you again...You can sleep when your dead!!! - Racheal Lachman

Pray don't talk to me about the weather, Mr. Worthing. Whenever people talk to me about the weather, I always feel quite certain that they mean something else. And that makes me quite nervous. - Oscar Wilde

I'm a good enough person to forgive you, and you should be a good enough person to not do it again. - Annette Thomas

If you want the rainbow, you have to put up with the rain.

Sadness is a part of life; Love is the heart of life; But facing pain and to come out strong is the real art of life - Wrushank Sorte

In all tests of character, when two viewpoints are pitted against one another, in the final analysis the thing that will strike you the most, is not who was right or wrong, strong or weak, wise or foolish.... but who would go to the greatest lengths in considering the other's perspective. - Mike Dooley

The belief that there are other life forms in the universe is a matter of faith. There is not a single shred of evidence for any other life forms, and in forty years of searching, none has been discovered. There is absolutely no evidentiary reason to maintain this belief. - Michael Crichton

The main reason to love is not to find pleasure but to fill our hearts with love. - Debasish Mridha

To prepare for the mountains develop mind, body, will and spirit as strong as a sword, soft as a pillow and fluid as water. - Jeffrey Rasley

My wilderness training was 4 years and 10 months of solitude, search and study. - Lailah Gifty Akita

There comes a time in a man's life when he hears the call of the sea. If the man has a brain in his head, he will hang up the phone immediately. - Dave Barry

if that can't be your let that be remain for you but please keep your ego with you - romance bam

While the bible is GOD because the word of GOD is GOD, please understand that GOD cannot be contained in the bible. To believe otherwise is to make an infinite GOD finite. - TemitOpe Ibrahim

Even now I remember those pictures, like pictures in a storybook one loved as a child. Radiant meadows, mountains vaporous in the trembling distance; leaves ankle-deep on a gusty autumn road; bonfires and fog in the valleys; cellos, dark window-panes, snow. - Donna Tartt

Pretend you are dancing or singing a picture. A worker or painter should enjoy his work, else the observer will not enjoy it. - Robert Henri

To me, making a tape is like writing a letter – there's a lot of erasing and rethinking and starting again, and I wanted it to be a good one. - Nick Hornby

The ending can only start with the beginning and end with self estrangement, as to become once again his own/old self. This is why every man is a continuous ending. - Sorin Cerin

When you walk alone, when everybody is against you, if you are sure with your ideas, walk strongly and proudly as if there is an army of angels by your side! ~ - Mehmet Murat ildan

Pain will humble ones soul,my pain was necessary as it humbled me beyond my limitations,I do not rush what is meant to be slow,patience". - Patience Kudzu

A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death. - Albert Einstein

There are only 3 sports, Bullfighting, Motor Racing and Mountain climbing. All the rest are games.

The Universe contains three things that cannot be destroyed; Being, Awareness and LOVE - Deepak Chopra

Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain. - John Locke

I want a chance to do it all again. To do it… right. - Joe Abercrombie

The umbrella won't stop the rain, but it will help you to get out during rainfall. As well as confidence is not going to guarantee your success, but it will give you the opportunity to achieve it. - Eyden I.

Humour sustains us during failure; more so after success, when we're prone to fail that much more, daring abyss, pumped up with success. - Fakeer Ishavardas

You can't be creative without criticism. If your life is without critics then maybe you are painting your life's masterpiece with only a broken brown crayon. - Shannon L. Alder

To achieve any success we have to endure some pain. - Debasish Mridha

Life is pain, anyone who says differently is selling something. - William Goldman

It turned out that when my younger self thought of taking wing, she wanted only to let her spirit soar. Books are the plane, the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home. - Anna Quindlen

Touch the earth, love the earth, honour the earth, her plains, her valleys, her hills, and her seas; rest your spirit in her solitary places. - Ernest Dimnet

Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love. - Leo Buscaglia

Be the silent watcher of your thoughts and behavior. You are beneath the thinker. You are the stillness beneath the mental noise. You are the love and joy beneath the pain. - Eckhart Tolle

The last we heard of him was a picture postcard from Mazatlan, on the Pacific coast of Mexico, containing a message of two words: "Hello - Goodbye!" and no address. - Tennessee Williams

Random thought fills the streambed, cascading with care and spilling over the flood plain until bifurcation forces it to arc and fork into a single, determined stream. - Lorii Myers

The soul is not a bird, is not a tree, but a restraining wire of light wrapped around the other we most desire. We can't even give them away, these souls, their encumbrances not ours alone. - Candice Favilla

The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators. - Thomas Babington Macaulay

There are three things which the superior man guards against. In youth...lust. When he is strong...quarrelsomeness. When he is old...covetousness. - Confucius

The amount of violations of human rights in a country is always an inverse function of the amount of complaints about human rights violations heard from there. The greater the number of complaints being aired, the better protected are human rights in that country. - Daniel Patrick Moynihan

When deep inside you feel frustrated and depressed, scream the silence, scream it so loud that you never hear it again. - Tushar Chauhan

Information transforms and command the keys to uncommon destiny in life.ight information, whether social spiritual or physical remains the hub of every outstanding accomplishment on earth today. - Prince Akwarandu

I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this. - Emo Philips

I will once again keep my eyes open to the changes so that I won't miss even a single spec of chance. Life is possible, believe it, LIFE'S POSSIBLE! - Mphezulu Xetho Dainamyk

most of us, as we undergo the growing up process, do not get what we want or even what we should. We get what we have, and no more, and we find out how to make what we have work for us. - Lilith Saintcrow

The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated. - Mark Twain

I don't believe that consciousness is generated by the brain. I believe that the brain is more of a reciever of consciousness. - Graham Hancock

beauty pertains with everyone. It's just the perception that defines the differences. - shivangi lavaniya

The lights flickered, the pain went away, and her mother was holding her, singing ‘Sleep sweet sleep’. (The Children of Ankh series) - Kim Cormack

Only those who are brainwashed and foolsbelieve in the existence of a god.Those who are indifferent just pretend. - A.J. Beirens

power is obtainable respect is earned loyalty is priceless and revenge is sweet these are the lessons we learn in life - blanco vandam

I never vote for anyone; I always vote against.

On Paper*some call it poetrybut it is just painon paper_____________________ (c) 2015"The Poetic Assassin - rassool jibraeel snyman

If Paul Revere had been a modern day citizen, he wouldn't have ridden down Main Street. He would have tweeted. - Alec Ross

You feel your strength in the experience of pain. - Jim Morrison

See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda. - George W. Bush

Only tears can hear the sound of pain when warm blood reddens discolored stain - Munia Khan

Success is not attained by chance, you have to work in order to get it. - Auliq Ice

God begins to paint the clouds in the eastern sky when the mountains butterflies come flying home - Srinidhi.R

Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown, that terror becomes the known. - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Asia is an entertainment, Europe is a dream, America is an imprisonment and Rest is a nightmare. - Santosh Kalwar

Irrigation of the land with seawater desalinated by fusion power is ancient. It's called rain. - Michael McClary

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt. - Abraham Lincoln

(Referring to the piano's natural shape) Isn't it a shame when those big fat opera singers lean against the pianos and bend them? - Victor Borge

To react, is to be A slave to someone else's actions. Sometimes, A warrior is faced with the decision to strike pre-emptively, trusting his intuition, wisdom and years of training - Soke Behzad Ahmadi

Pain in the wilderness is an investment in pleasure in the Promised Land. - Matshona Dhliwayo

I don't think the real America is in New York or on the Pacific Coast; personally, I like the Middle West much better, places like North and South Dakota, Minneapolis and Saint Paul. There, I think, are the true Americans - Charlie Chaplin

burnt by the sunof your mouth, I’m unable to speak or paint you with words - John Geddes

Desires are done by the ‘Pudgal’ (non-self mind-body-complex), so how can they be suppressed? If You (the Self) are the one doing the desiring, then why don’t you stop it? But that doesn’t happen therefore, desire is a matter pertaining to the Pudgal (non-self mind-body-complex). - Dada Bhagwan

My brain tends to take the scenic route. Things come to the forefront of my mind sooner or later, it just takes time. - Richelle E. Goodrich

I prefer that these reserves be spent in arguing whether Mary conceived without sin, whether Christ was God or man, rather than discussing whether my power is of divine origin and if, in short, I am deserving of it. Heresy, then, is tolerable as long as it is not employed directly against power. - Carlos Fuentes

Never again!" commanded his will. "Again! Tomorrow!" begged his heart. - Hermann Hesse

Endeavour to appreciate life while you experience it, for some will never experience life again, because they are six feet inside the grave. - Auliq Ice

The secret to happiness is complaining very little. - Nikki Rowe

Some people say the rain with no purpose and others say with memories and wishes - Tagor Manroo

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go.... - Dr. Seuss

But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain. - William Shakespeare

Asking storytellers to be genuine is like, asking a chain smoker to quit smoking . Habit of lying isn't easy to fix. Pretend as believing is like selling cigarettes. What else we could do, if we want them to be in our lives... - Heshan Udunuwara

Truth or dare...truth ain't fair. Marshal Robert Quantrell - Belle Starr: Dead Man's Hand (work in progress) - Belinda McBride

Apparently, my hopes, dreams and aspirations were no match against my poor spelling, punctuation and grammar. - Red Red Rover

That's the thing about being a former fat camp champ: when asked if I'd change my past if I could, I always answer no. The pain of being an overweight kid, the humiliation, make you think twice before ever cutting anyone else down. - Stephanie Klein

It had been agreed between them that lighted candles at wayside inns, in strange countries amid mountain scenery, gave the evening meal a peculiar poetry. - Henry James

We divided ourselves among caste, creed, culture and countries but what is undivided remains most valuable: a mere smile and the love. - Santosh Kalwar

I’ve traveled this road for many decades and I still don’t know how to go. I am a wanderer, traversing mountains of time. There is no fault, only fault lines that tremor and quake, barring me, no warning. Aftershocks. -Broken Places - Rachel Thompson

Say all you have to say in the fewest possible words, or your reader will be sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words or he will certainly misunderstand them. - John Ruskin

One of history’s most useful tasks is to bring home to us how keenly, honestly and painfully, past generations pursued aims that now seem to us wrong or disgraceful. - John Carey

Flowers are fragile and ephemeral...Even if you meant to protect them with a surrounding fence from wind and rain, they would die without sunlight...and a spindly fence has no power against a strong wind. - Haibara Ai - Gosho Aoyama

Think the tree that bears nutrition:though the fruits are picked, the plant maintains fruition.So give all the love you have.Do not hold any in reserve.What is given is not lost; it shall return. - Kamand Kojouri

Nobody will outwork, out-train or out-will me ! - Andre Bramble

You may not stop getting older, but you can paint your world with the vibrant colors of love to keep feeling younger. - Debasish Mridha

Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it. - Winston S. Churchill

Ninja mom's understand that training time is never wasted time. - Anna M. Aquino

You have to stand guard over the development and maintenance of Islamic democracy, Islamic social justice and the equality of manhood in your own native soil. - Muhammad Ali Jinnah

The long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead. Economists set themselves too easy, too useless a task if in tempestuous seasons they can only tell us that when the storm is past the ocean is flat again. - John Maynard Keynes

If any man ceases to attack me, I never remember the past against him. - Abraham Lincoln

It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching. - Saint Francis of Assisi

But you can catch yourself entertaining habitually certain ideas and setting others aside; and that, I think, is where our personal destinies are largely decided. - Alfred North Whitehead

What’s that supposed to mean, ‘a passin’ hunger?’ I ATE my fuckin’ girlfriend! An’ we ain’t talkin’ little fuckin’ love bites or a bit of a chew—I went wild kingdom on her ass! It was like a pig pickin’ after fuckin’ Lent-FUCK! - E.V. Iverson

If you hear a voice within you say "you cannot paint," then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

Once you have flown, your eyes will ever gaze skyward. For once you have been there ... There you will go again! - Leonardo Da Vinci

Everyone tells us to be one in a million... What they don't tell us is that being one in a million also means being one against a million. - Saahil Prem

[ memorial at Paine Hall][He turned] the strait-laced Boston of sixty years ago [into] the enlightened Hub of today, . . . to 'destroy bigotry and uproot the evils of superstition. - Josiah P. Mendum

Fish for a man, he'll eat for a day, don't teach him to de-bone that fish, You may not have to worry about him tomorrow! - V. Pain

When you hate something, you chain yourself to it. - Steve Maraboli

Pain in life is inevitable. - Sunday Adelaja

O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet. - Saint Augustine

Don’t set a goal to avoid pain or escape suffering; set a goal to live in joy and bliss to make this world joyful and blissful. - Debasish Mridha

A big thing will remain a big thing until a bigger thing will occur. - TPK

Until you learn to think global,your fort shall remain your local domain. - Auliq-Ice

The living limit is not ascertained by wealth one has - Duncan Tallam

I just realized that there's going to be a lot of painful times in life, so I better learn to deal with it the right way. - Trey Parker and Matt Stone

understanding why you are not reaching your goals is as equally as important as setting the path to obtain them. - Eric Zaccone

Your current body is the only body that can take you to your new body—so be kind to it. - Elaine Moran

Learning to read is probably the most difficult and revolutionary thing that happens to the human brain and if you don't believe that, watch an illiterate adult try to do it. - John Steinbeck

The knowledge we gain from textbooks can never measure to the wisdom we gain through experience. - Anika de Souza

Her belly ruptures full of parasites, Her eyes sink back in her skull Her butchered wrists, dangle From the edge of the bathtubHer children cuddle against her Desperate for love she cannot give - Wrath James White

A threat is basically a means for establishing a bargaining position by inducing fear in the subject. When a threat is used, it should always be implied that the subject himself is to blame by using words such as "You leave me no other choice but to..."

Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with. - Mark Twain

Familiarity breeds contempt and children. - Mark Twain

Public Utility Commission (PUC), Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and Federal Communications Commission (FCC) complaints are rarely upheld. It is estimated that less than 5% of complaints are successful and that the actual number may be below 1% in some cases. - Steven Magee

If I were to complain about complainers. Am I a culprit comparable conveyor? Let go of the anger. It’s crimping my colossal contentment. - JT Sanz

Words have the greatest power to inflict everlasting pain. Words have the greatest power to heal the soul. - Aneta Cruz

The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears.

Women complain about premenstrual syndrome, but I think of it as the only time of the month that I can be myself. - Roseanne Barr

When you ain't got nothin', you got nothin' to lose. - Bob Dylan

If only we were not that seedling of Creation,Of Earth and its generations,If only we had remained simple Clay or Ember,Or something in between,Then we would not have to see This World, its Lord, and its Hell, twice over. - Adonis

the main thing is to make history not to write it - Otto von Bismarck

Patriotism is nothing but just a fight against materialism. More a person can do, more patriotic he or she is. - Anuj Somany

The rich and powerful always seem to prefer the tops of buildings. Hasn't anyone ever explained to them that higher just means you have farther to fall? -- Anita Blake - Laurell K. Hamilton

What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly... it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as Freedom should not be highly rated. - Thomas Paine

Continued pain is a signal to the body that there's something wrong, not right.Lucy ScarboroughNancy Werlin - Nancy Werlin (Author)

Darkness is a natural fear, one that takes the things you love most, the most valuable innocence, and turns them against you. The struggle is to see past the illusions, and see the light in your fear. - Various

Never complain, never explain. Resist the temptation to defend yourself or make excuses. - Brian Tracy

Tears are my joy to hide my pain;like thunder hides the sound of rain. - Munia Khan

The poet Mallarmé listened to the painter Degas complaining about his inability to write poems even though he was full of ideas. My dear Degas, Mallarmé responded, poems are not made out of ideas. They’re made out of words. - Stéphane Mallarmé

Unlimited knowledge, limited time. - Tanveer Hossain Mullick

Trees, though they are cut and lopped, grow up again quickly, but if men are destroyed, it is not easy to get them again. - Pericles

The aquariums of the imagination contain only dead fish. - Marty Rubin

Relationship doesn’t remain, We resonate on different flames, I could cut you down again, If you were like all other men, If you were like all other men, I know that I could shut you down again - Amy Winehouse

Death cannot be struggled against, brother. It ever arrives, defiant of every hiding place, of every frantic attempt to escape. Death is every mortal's shadow, his true shadow, and time is its servant, spinning that shadow slowly round, until what stretched before one now stretched before him. - Steven Erikson

There is a saying in Tibetan, 'Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.'No matter what sort of difficulties, how painful experience is, if we lose our hope, that's our real disaster. - Dalai Lama XIV

No matter what you write, no matter how meticulous and painstaking the creation process, someone is going to laugh, scorn, and dissect your work with criticism while another quietly falls in love with it. - Richelle E. Goodrich

Abortion is not allowedbecause apparently it is against the law of god.Yes, that butter-wouldn't-melt deitywho ordered babies to be slaughtered,killed all the first-born in EgyptAnd caused an entire human race to drown.From: "Gesels van een imaginaire god"(Scourges of an imaginary god) - A.J. Beirens

The connoisseur of painting gives only bad advice to the painter. For that reason I have given up trying to judge myself. - Pablo Picasso

The Soul is neither a Jain nor a Vaishnav. The Soul is Vitarag (free from attachment). This is the religion of the Vitarag (the enlightened ones). - Dada Bhagwan

I was so tired of this ceaseless, day-to-day tug-of-war between my hormones and my head, my vanity and my virtue. I felt very much as though I were caught in the middle of some dreadful battle in which taking a side of my own would mean certain misery in either case. - Emily Tomko

wherever you go,wherever you live, still the stars up there will remain the same, as they were when we were together. - Jaymin Panchasara

Positive words left unsaid are like sachets of currency notes burnt in vain. Positive deeds left undone are like deep wells filled with soil to the brim. Do the undone, say the unsaid and turn the unturned. - Israelmore Ayivor

And I don’t even like you, but the pain of life without you is biting. - Coco J. Ginger

God has not created the earth for your entertainment, He has created the earth to take your help to increase the beauty of the universe. - Tanmaya Guru

They camped that night on the foreplain at the foot of a talus slope and the murder that had been reckoned upon took place. - Cormac McCarthy

Modern Man is the victim of the very instruments he values most. Every gain in power, every mastery of natural forces, every scientific addition to knowledge, has proved potentially dangerous, because it has not been accompanied by equal gains in self-understanding and self-discipline. - Lewis Mumford

I understood that it was time to quit postponing the embracing of my own potential. There was nothing more I needed to do to be worthy enough – and any other excuse I could muster to explain why I couldn’t step up right away – was simply that… an excuse. - Janet Louise Stephenson

Let me not fear defeat or death,Let me not fear being forgotten,Let my defiance sustain my soul,Let it remain with me ever after.Poem: Prayer to the God of Rebellion, in ‘Chameleon Lights - Ayushman Jamwal

We must cease once and for all to describe the effects of power in negative terms, it ‘excludes’, it ‘represses’... in fact power produces, it produces reality, it produces domains of objects and rituals of truth. - Michel Foucault

God through Prophet Hosea is explaining to us reasons for destructions, calamities, failures and devastations among the people of God. That reason is not seen in demonic activities nor is it seen in prevailing economic situations of the land - Sunday Adelaja

All too often, we mask truth in artifice, concealing ourselves for fear of losing the ones we love or prolonging a deception for those we wish to expose. We hide behind that which brings us comfort from pain and sadness or use it to repel a truth too devastating to accept. - Emily Thorne

The world has two faces :The day or the bright moment whenwe naturally stay alive (awake).The night or the dark moment whenwe naturally remain dead (sleep). - Rohan Nath

Every society which allows violence against animals secretly becomes a violent society. - Debasish Mridha

I was trying to keep God's pain at arms length. - Mike Weaver

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present. - Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful. - Eleanor Roosevelt

Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain. - C.G. Jung

I've said it before and I'll say it again: Never trust anyone who tells you how people come to trust them. - Katherine Boo

Metaphorically, Tom said, if you take knowledge as light, and ignorance as dark, there does sometimes seem to be a real presence to the dark -- to ignorance. Something more tactile and muscley than just lack of knowledge. A sort of will to ignorance. It would explain some politicians. - Elizabeth Moon

There are some things we can never assign to oblivion, memories we can never rub away. They remain with us forever, like a touchstone. - Haruki Murakami

People who reach the top of the tree are only those who haven't got the qualifications to detain them at the bottom. - Peter Ustinov

The general rule of law is, that the noblest of human productions -- knowledge, truths ascertained, conceptions, and ideas -- become, after voluntary communication to others, free as the air to common use."~ - Louis D. Brandeis

But that's the thing, how you feel about the place that's home. About its sky, its air, its smell, the color of the light, the way the rain falls (or doesn't), whether it hot or cold. - Laura McBride

I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another. - Thomas Jefferson

If one felt successful, there'd be so little incentive to be successful. - Alain de Botton

The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things. - Rainer Maria Rilke

We ain't what we oughta be. We ain't what we want to be. We ain't what we gonna be. But, thank God, we ain't what we was. - Martin Luther King Jr.

Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits. - Samuel Butler

the flesh covers the bone and they put a mind in there and sometimes a soul, and the women break vases against the walls and the men drink too much and nobody finds the one but keep looking crawling in and out of beds. flesh covers the bone and the flesh searches for more than flesh. - Charles Bukowski

Your Brain is most Precious FACTORY in the World Because, It MANUFACTURES Thoughts - Fahad Rashiq

When the president during the campaign said he was against nation building, I didn't realize he meant our nation. - Al Franken

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend; A wise enemy is worth more. - Jean De la Fontaine

Loneliness is not the enemy of your joy as long as you know how you should always destroy the pensive mood that remains with you like a friend who never stands up for you when you’re forced to bend - Munia Khan

I am not one of those who in expressing opinions confine themselves to facts. - Mark Twain

[Science fiction is] out in the mainstream now. You can tell by the way mainstream literary authors pillage SF while denying they're writing it! - Terry Pratchett

The source of all humor is not laughter, but sorrow. - Mark Twain

The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter. - Mark Twain

Only one absolute certainty is possible to man, namely that at any given moment the feeling which he has exists. - Thomas H. Huxley

It is precisely by binding things together that traditional visions perpetuate themselves and the prejudgments contained within them; and it is by insisting on prising things apart that we have liberated ourselves from them - Ernest Gellner

The refreshing pleasure from the first view of nature, after the pain of illness, and the confinement of a sick-chamber, is above the conceptions, as well as the descriptions, of those in health. - Ann Radcliffe

To pretend is to do nothing more than imagine life as something wonderful so that we don’t have to incur the pain that it takes to actually make life wonderful. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

Language, she said, was just our way to explain away the wonder and glory of the world. To deconstruct. To dismiss. She said people can't deal with how beautiful the world really is. How it can't be explained and understood. - Chuck Palahniuk

All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it. ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince - ilana Graf

Reaching the top of a high mountain is just a personal victory. But for a victory to be important for the society, it has to be useful for the humanity! - Mehmet Murat ildan

If you were to destroy in mankind the belief in immortality, not only love but every living force maintaining the life of the world would at once be dried up. Moreover, nothing then would be immoral, everything would be permissible, even cannibalism.

Keep your expectations high, Not because you are better than anyone else, but because you have experienced enough pain; to realise, you won't settle anymore. - Nikki Rowe

Practice hard,Train hard,work hard and Play harder. - Alcurtis Turner

When someone comes to you for some help it means Allah has chosen you for gaining some good deeds its upon us how we look at it..... - Adil Adam Memon

Rain is Nature's way of telling us to go slowly because the roads will soon be wet. - Hermester Barrington

Respect should be found in your own heart and never demanded, sacraficed, begged for or negotiated. If you have to explain why you deserve it then you never had it. - Shannon L. Alder

Oh sweetheart, do you really think if youseal it up, that the pain's gonna go away? - Alice Sebold

I am sore wounded but not slainI will lay me down and bleed a whileAnd then rise up to fight again - John Dryden

The effect of a concept-driven revolution is to explain old things in new ways. The effect of a tool-driven revolution is to discover new things that have to be explained. - Frank Watson Dyson

Oh, friend, forget not, when you fain would noteIn me a beauty that was never mine,How first you knew me in a book I wrote,How first you loved me for a written line.... - Edna St. Vincent Millay

There is nothing as strong as tenderness, And nothing as tender as true strength. - Saint Francis de Sales

We lose everything because everything remains except us. And therefore any form of posterity may be an affront, and perhaps any memory, as well. - Javier Marías

Don't run I never liked fast food - Rachel Caine

That's typically what writers do; we just sit around complaining most of the time. And the better things are going, the more they complain. - Markus Zusak

Joy is the fountain of youth. - Amy Leigh Mercree

Only amateurs say that they write for their own amusement. Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging, mountain-climbing, treadmill and childbirth. Writing may be interesting, absorbing, exhilarating, racking, relieving. But amusing? Never! - Edna Ferber

Dance like you're stamping on a human face forever, love like you've been in a serious car crash that minced the front of your brain, stab like no one can arrest you, and live like there's no such thing as God. - Warren Ellis

The brain is like a muscle; books are the diet and writing is the workout. - Stewart Stafford

A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain. - Robert Frost

Here, illuminated at last,Nestles the ruddy glint of spiritual certainty;Sweet moments of passion and healing,Of sensual release. - Scott Hastie

Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge. - Mark Twain

Careful practical work is the best expression of our freedom and safeguard of our sanity. In a healthy society, such work is the means most consistently available for people to practice holiness of life, to imitate God's enabling and sustaining care for the world. - Ellen F. Davis

Beauty is nothing without brains & heart. - Karen Salmansohn

Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it. - Mark Twain

I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality. - Frida Kahlo

It’s not words, but years we should be editing. Remember: time spent on bad art is a form of redundancy, doing the same thing twice is a form of tautology, and wasting precious moments complaining about life is a form of pleonasm. We should all learn to live our lives concisely. - Anthony Marais

He who indulges habitually in the intoxicating pleasures of imagination, for the very reason that he reaps a greater pleasure than others, must resign himself to a keener pain, a more intolerable and utter prostration. - Robert Louis Stevenson

Karma can be seen as a curse or a gift a curse because it keeps us attached to this world and a gift because it creates links with our loved ones it’s like a chain that binds us all together. - Abdullah Fort

Every person has felt pain,some deeper than others,some pain inmeasurable It is a choice to reframe that pain as power to create change~bns - Bluenscottish

I always believed that If I’m not carrying at least a slight poetically painful crack in my heart I’ve been cheated by nature. - Annie Ali

Merely having an open mind is nothing. The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid. - G.K. Chesterton

Have you failed today? If not, you might not be trying hard enough. Failure is a part of growth, a stepping stone towards success. In its own right it is a small victory and should be celebrated as such. So I ask you again, have you failed today? - Shane E. Bryan

You are the Poem I dreamed of writing, the Masterpiece I longed to paint. You are the shining Star I reached for in my ever hopeful quest for life fulfilled. Yes, I am Blessed. - Oksana Rus

Don't you think saying goodbye to your child will make your death more painful?""Wouldn't it be great if it did?" I said. Lucy and I both felt that life wasn't about avoiding suffering. - Paul Kalanithi

There is not such thing as false or real hope. Hope is the brain's natural mood stabilizer. And an illusory friend that gives hope and eases the struggle of one's daily life, is much better than all the living friends who just ain't bothered. - Abhijit Naskar

When twilight drops her curtain down And pins it with a star Remember that you have a friend Though she may wander far. - L.M. Montgomery

Even when everything's going your way you can still be sad. Or anxious. Or uncomfortably numb. Because you can't always control your brain or your emotions even when things are perfect. - Jenny Lawson

A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity. - Germaine Greer

Faith moves mountains. Religion strip-mines them. - J.M. Williams

LIBERTY, n. One of Imagination's most precious possessions. The rising People, hot and out of breath, Roared around the palace: "Liberty or death!" "If death will do," the King said, "let me reign; You'll have, I'm sure, no reason to complain." Martha Braymance - Ambrose Bierce

Resolved, to study the Scriptures so steadily, constantly and frequently, as that I may find, and plainly perceive myself to grow in the knowledge of the same. - Jonathan Edwards

Sunflowers hellos from gate to gate. The hour at the square. Candy, art, books, look. A warmth given. Beauties with rain forest hair Walk by the clock tower. Sunlight of neon, the keys inside their eyes. No storms. Traffic sounds, salt air. Salt that moves the thirst and destroys all the fears. - Gwen Calvo

Americans need accurate information in order to consider Social Security reform. Too bad the media can't be counted upon to provide it - Herman Cain

Don't believe everything you think! - Melody Haines

And if not for the caterpillars and butterflies, who will I talk to? You'll be far away. And as for larger creatures, I'm not afraid. I have my thorns...to protect me. - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Sometimes people come to heal your pain and end up by giving you bit more of that - Paul karan

Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality. - Bertrand Russell

Being poor in the Spirit means you are humble, gentle, meek, God-fearing,kind and exhibit the fruits of the Spirit but being Spiritually poor is lacking in every thing that pertains to life and godliness. - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

Every time I see you I fall in love all over again. - Tomas Modi

I can weave words together and create magic,it's like knitting and crocheting words with pen and paper, some call it Poetry. - Charmaine J. Forde

Love doesn't always show us the sad and the sorrowful part of it, it only shows us the happy circle a gain and a gain. - Auliq Ice

The skies are haunted by that which it were madness to know; and strange abominations pass evermore between earth and moon and athwart the galaxies. Unnamable things have come to us in alien horror and will come again. - Clark Ashton Smith

For me, writing is just as much a choice as breathing. I can quit anytime I want, but not starting again would prove fatal. - Pamela Morris

Ol, ol you have learnt something new, didn't you??So you are saying it again and again with smile like we are an idiots, but my question is did you understand it? Do you know what did you said, so you big peace of shit say something more to impress us, because this doesn't impress us. - Deyth Banger

Forgiving other people does not mean that they will get away with what they did to you, it means that You are set free from the pain they have caused you. Forgiveness is the hardest lesson we are here to learn to master, but it is possible with time and patience. - Jeanette Coron

What an unilateral life, when from the material of a renunciation, we must fashion something we love. - Rainer Maria Rilke

We sometimes have to experience pain for us to have a story to tell. - Kemi Sogunle

It's not that pink is intrinsically bad, but it is such a tiny slice of the rainbow, and, though it may celebrate girlhood in one way, it also repeatedly and firmly fuses girl's identity to appearance. - Peggy Orenstein

All pain, pleasure and self-limitation either originate in theconscious mind or is accepted uncritically from an outside source. - Derric Yuh Ndim

All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him. - Buddha

Corporate planning cycles are a classic example of generals fighting the last war over again instead of preparing for what might lie ahead. - Jay Samit

Bored with the same type of misery over and over and over again. - Greg Behrendt

I was certain of the uncertainty thatlied ahead which made you A risk,A mystery,And the most annihilating thing I have ever known. - akhil shah

I don't focus on what I'm up against. I focus on my goals and I try to ignore the rest. - Venus Williams

Sometimes I think it is a great mistake to have matter that can think and feel. It complains so. By the same token, though, I suppose that boulders and mountains and moons could be accused of being a little too phlegmatic. - Kurt Vonnegut

Never reason from what you do not know. If you do, you will soon believe what is utterly against reason.

What makes something special is not just what you have to gain, but what you feel there is to lose. - Andre Agassi

She was certain this trip would be a landslide of regret, anger and resentment, crumbling around a day of sadness. - Shannyn Leah, Lakeshore Secrets

Sober Minds give the world a chance. True Love brings you Hope. Blind Faith moves mountains. And the main savior from despair is Laughter. - Lara Biyuts

Basic steps when giving:-Don't give to receive-Don't give to impress-No cameras-Include your heart - Charmaine J. Forde

Labākais veikals ir godīgums. - Rainis

In politics, if you're explaining, you're loosing. - Rick Perlstein

If God meant for people to fly, He would have given them brains. - Robert A. Heinlein

To feel loved again feels good, but to know they don't love you make things worse. - Ishmael Emmanuel Balfour

Tut, Tut, looks like rain - A.A. Milne

Be careful what you choose to experience, because you never remain the same person as earlier. Something intrinsically changes you forever! - Ramana Pemmaraju

You can't go home again - Thomas Wolfe

How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words! - Samuel Adams

Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass... It's about learning how to dance in the rain.- - Vivian Greene

I always have to dream up there against the stars. If I don't dream I will make it, I won't even get close. - Henry J. Kaiser

A well-informed mind is the best security against the contagion of folly and of vice. The vacant mind is ever on the watch for relief, and ready to plunge into error, to escape from the languor of idleness. - Ann Radcliffe

Don't say the old lady screamed. Bring her on and let her scream. - Mark Twain

Some were made with skill and intelligenceSome with passion and charmBut they, they were raw, and strived to remain so… - Pearl Pandya

A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimension. - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Remain assiduously stubborn with your positive thinking, sooner or later the world around you will give up and let you have your way - Carl Henegan

Many a promising career has been wrecked by marrying the wrong sort of woman. The right sort of woman can distinguish between Creative Lassitude and plain shiftlessness. - Robertson Davies

Feeling LOW? Go on mountains. - Prajakta Mhadnak

Every morning trying to wake you up gives me the best view explaining me, why I wouldn't change anything from you - BILL KOSTARAS

Some books are so familiar, reading them is like being home again. - Louisa May Alcott

I do not laugh; I do not cry;I'm sweating out the will to die.My past is sliding down the drain;I soon will be myself again. - Theodore Roethke

We are always too busy for our children; we never give them the time or interest they deserve. We lavish gifts upon them; but the most precious gift, our personal association, which means so much to them, we give grudgingly. - Mark Twain

There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit. - Alexander Pope

If you weren't built for this life, you'd be dead by now. i think the problem is people don't share enough of their pain with the world, so they never know who else is in pain, too, and what others are going through. we're never really alone in anything. - Darnell Lamont Walker

Thank God I've wasted my youth already. I don't want to do that again. - Greg Deane

New Orleans food is as delicious as the less criminal forms of sin. - Mark Twain

We often forget to draw a new picture because we are so busy criticizing other paintings. - Debasish Mridha

Never explain--your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway. - Elbert Hubbard

Religious suffering is, at one and the same time, the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people. - Karl Marx

For, in his opinion, to study nature was a form of worship. - Iain Pears

May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in the palm of his hand.

To attain to enlightenment is to attain to all. When you are not, you become the whole. - Swami Dhyan Giten

Mistakes are the growing pains of wisdom. - William Jordan

The book: an umbrella against ignorance - André Letria

An unpopular rule is never long maintained. - Seneca

In my imagination, the Editor meditated in a mountain-cave, espoused the rules of grammar, and frowned upon speculative fiction. - Josh Malerman

No, I'm not going to explain it. If you can't figure it out, you didn't want to know anyway... :-)

The same refinement which brings us new pleasures, exposes us to new pains. - Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Proverbs 22:7 "The rich rule over the poor and the borrower is slave to the lender."Galatians 5:1 "do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery. - The Holy Bible

And you finally get there, you reach a point where you refuse to feel anymore pain and the desire to chase happiness out weighs any choice that gives you reason to question where you're headed. - Nikki Rowe

We betray all that is beautiful in us by trying to explain it. - Marty Rubin

Courtesy, not control, that was His means. Just as He requested the stars to sing and they leapt into bright being, so request was to be their rule over bird and beast, seas and trees, mountains and moons and all the dancing distances between the heavenlies filled with the unending song of Creation. - Geoffrey Wood

When in pain and sorrow, you ask why God allows bad things to happen to good people, remember God allowed His Son, the best of us, to suffer the most so that Christ would have the ability to heal us. - Leslie G Nelson

Silence will speakIf given an ear;Stillness is the movementOf our atmosphere;Circles have sidesWhen we draw the line;Death is sleepIn limited time. - Alaina Odessa

I am prepared to meet anyone, but whether anyone is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter. - Mark Twain

But that woman is an encyclopedia!Of all vices, ancient and modern, and terribly interesting to leaf through! - Jean Lorrain

I wonder how appropriate it is to try to 'argue someone into the kingdom.' Many apologists hotly deny any such charge, but I don't believe them. The tenor of almost all apologetics literature makes it plain that this is their intent. - Robert M. Price

Just the sight of one another, just the sight of our smiles was enough to fill our hearts with the joy of seeing each other again. - Sawada Tsunayoshi

Ever Tried. Ever Failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better. - Samuel Beckett

On the morning in question, she wore white shorts and a pink T-shirt that featured a green dragon breathing a fire of orange glitter. It is difficult to explain how awesome I found this T-shirt at the time. - John Green

The powers that be are ordained of God, - Bible

Real optimism is aware of problems but recognizes the solutions, knows about difficulties, but believes they can be overcome, sees the negatives but accentuates the positives, is exposed to the worst but exceeds the best, has reason to complain but chooses to smile. - William A. Warden