Quotation Explorer - 'Ain'

It is like a lighted torch whose flame can be distributed to ever so many other torches which people may bring along; and therewith they will cook food and dispel darkness, while the original torch itself remains burning ever the same. It is even so with the bliss of the Way.[Sutra of 42 Sections] - Gautama Buddha

A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice. - Thomas Paine

In seeking absolute truth we aim at the unattainable and must be content with broken portions. - William Osler

At the end of the day we’re all reactive personalities. We just don’t know it until we meet the right catalyst. - Michelle Painchaud

Destiny itself is like a wonderful wide tapestry in which every thread is guided by an unspeakable tender hand, placed beside another thread and held and carried by a hundred others. - Rainer Maria Rilke

Telling a woman that you will be unable to climax unless you are looking at her in a mirror is, in my experience, an excellent way to ensure the only place you will ever see her again is in depressing memories. - Stephen Moles

There were more than a dozen extinction level events before even the dinosaurs got theirs! - Captain America - The Avengers...The Age of Ultron

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

Fulfilling our destiny and realizing our potential all begins in our mind. That's why the devil tries to bombard our thinking. - Christine Caine

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

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

All life's training is just exactly what is needed for the true Life-work, still out of view but far away from none of us. Don't grudge me the learning of a new lesson. - Amy Carmichael

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

Those who say truth is stranger than fiction have wasted their time on poorly written fiction. - Mark Twain

For there is no greater pain, than to remember in present grief, past happinesses.

You aren't free until everything you obtain is free. - Jonathan D Chase

Relationships must be fostered as far as possible and maintained, and thus a morbid transference can be avoided. - Carl Jung, Cornwall Seminar, Pages 1-5.

it seems that man has learnednot to seenot to knowfor he's found the potof goldbut lost the rainbow... - Barry DeCarli

Your fear ain’t nothin but gum on the bottom of your shoe. The residue from some past experience is all it is. You can scrape the gum off or it can serve as a reminder of your testimony of survival. - Suzette Hinton

Love? Love…what is love? These emotions… are to confusing This pain… won't go away That kiss you gave me… That's what stole me away~omg i wrote this 4 years ago... XPi found it in a old post i made on a different site - Leticia Sanchez me

When you are in love, you are warm even in the rain.When you are in grief, you are cold even in the sun. - Matshona Dhliwayo

An odd thing about perception is that when we identify some new thing with one or more of our five senses, it is not really, immutably real -- it is a passing will o’ the wisp, an artifact of the senses and the translations of the brain until we get used to it and we give it a home in our hearts - Nigel Hey

People in general would rather die than forgive. It's that hard. If God said in plain language. "I'm giving you a choice, forgive or die," a lot of people would go ahead and order their coffin. - Sue Monk Kidd

This has been my vocation to make music of what remains. - Itzhak Perlman

Nature gave us pain as a messaging device to tell us that we are approaching, or that we have exceeded, our limits in some way. - Ray Dalio

If you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt. Once we cross the deepest part of hurt, it doesn’t hurt anymore. . You become part of the eternal journey of love commences again - Sandhya Jane

Homo voluntatis cannot explain why some things that can be done should not be done. - George Weigel

On marriage: You sort of stumble along and reconnect and lose each other and reconnect again. - Felicity Huffman

Education and Training For Life - David Dweck

Flowers bloom whenever their eyes meet each other's, and whenever they depend on each other. What does it matter if they wed in the snow or in the rain? They have each other to support and love, and that's all that should matter. - Kim Dong Hwa

People are complaining of having rags and not riches, but I find it a blessing just to have rags, to wipe away the dirt and dust that may come in the course of life. - Anthony Liccione

Big mouths and small brains make the strangest noises. - Orrin Woodward

Because if I let myself feel the pain and the anger, I think it might kill me. Or I might kill someone else. I know it's wrong to feel that way about God and I know its's wrong to not feel anything. I hate it. I don't hate God. I hate not loving Him. - Susan Beth Pfeffer

...if we gained only one incontestable truth every ten years from each of our philosophical writers the harvest we reaped would be sufficient. - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

And if one day there's distanceBetween your hand and mine,When our hands join once again,My heart and soul will shine. - Glyncora Murphy

The knowledge that makes us cherish innocence makes innocence unattainable. - Irving Howe

I am certain that a novelist is someone who attributes a different reality-value to the characters and events of his story than to those of 'real' life. A novelist is someone who confuses his own life with that of his characters. - Alain Robbe-Grillet

Art as the single superior counter-force against all will to negation of life, art as the anti-Christian, anti-Buddhist, anti-Nihilist par excellence. - Friedrich Nietzsche

Look not mournfully into the past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future, without fear. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

My love for you attains immortality whenever it is touched by the thought of death - Munia Khan

Housework won't kill you, but then again, why take the chance? - Phyllis Diller

The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why. - Mark Twain

I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow; but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing. - Agatha Christie

Emmy has embarked on her journey to enrich the world with smiles. They are free, healthy, and often, very contagious. - Emmy Swain

Sunsets.The illusion either above the horizon or below it. When day and night are linked in a way that cannot be one without the other, yet they cannot exist at the same time. - Ebelsain Villegas

We do not leave those whom we truly love. We only break the hearts of those whom we can tolerate their hurts and can move away from their pain" From "The Jasmine Tree: Love in the time of revolutions - Maha Khlaid

A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A DOE Unbearably lovely music is heard as the curtain rises, and we see the woods on a summer afternoon. A fawn dances on and nibbles slowly at some leaves. He drifts lazily through the soft foliage. Soon he starts coughing and drops dead. - Woody Allen

The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness, and relations of friendship or affection. - Bertrand Russell

What we call pleasure, and rightly so is the absence of all pain. - Cicero

I may no explain you much about myself but we both have one thing in common & its tears. - Srinivas Shenoy

Of all the inanimate objects, of all men's creations, books are the nearest to us for they contain our very thoughts, our ambitions, our indignations, our illusions, our fidelity to the truth, and our persistent leanings to error. But most of all they resemble us in their precious hold on life. - Joseph Conrad

Ego is the most important aspect of our life in the sense if we use it against the spaces between our hearts. - Mohsin Ali Shaukat

As ages passed we the people, were all blinded and misled in their ventures, by the heralds of the past. In the art of suppression apartheid and slavery were born and raised. In the final stage we established our earth as a drain of fuel and the religion of money made his appearance. - Nynke Visser

Consciousness is a magic of our brain and an illusion of our mind. - Debasish Mridha

They had reached a perfect moment of human love. They had created a moment of perfect understanding and accord. This highest moment would now remain as point of comparison to torment them later on when all natural imperfections would disintegrate it. - Anaïs Nin

Do not consider painful what is good for you. - Euripides

MADDIE: I know what it’s like to be ignored. I know what it’s like to feel like everyone in the world is against you. I know what it feels like to be on the outside and wanting desperately to be accepted. - Dixon, Ruby

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

Water is very soft and submissive, but not even the mighty mountain can resist it. - Debasish Mridha

Guard your heart against anger, bitterness, envy, jealousy….! - Lailah Gifty Akita

There is more experience on the field of justification than on the camp of training. Sometimes, you got to take actions to learn more. - Israelmore Ayivor

There are billions of people in this world that don’t believe or act exactly as we do. It is not our place to reject them, only accept them. Again, we don’t have to agree with everything they believe or do, but we do need to love and accept who they are. - Daniel Willey

Man starts over again everyday, in spite of all he knows, against all he knows. - Emil Cioran

You don’t have to wait for a storm to pass to paint your own rainbow. - Matshona Dhliwayo

Just as a snake sheds its skin, we must shed our past over and over again. - Gautama Buddha

Advertisements... contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper. - Thomas Jefferson

One thing the inventors can't seem to get the bugs out of is fresh paint. - Unknown

Once you are defiled, you can't get back your purity by any means, instead, you will only look for ways to be defiled over and over again. - Michael Bassey Johnson

Why do they always teach us that it's easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline to restrain ourselves? It's the hardest thing in the world--to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kind of courage. I mean, what we really want. - Ayn Rand

Everyone will not favor you or respect your beliefs, passion and purpose--so be it. But do not allow the views of others to hinder your quest. Remain steadfast. - Terry A. O'Neal

Live with the assumption that every day it will rain. If it does, you were right. If it doesn’t, you were fortunate. - Zack W. Van

Whatever you want to be in life, you're training for it right now. - Michael Anderson

There is one certain means by which I can be sure never to see my country's ruin -- I will die in the last ditch.

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

Our hearts are all prison walls when we hold people captive with chains of unforgiveness. - Ikechukwu Izuakor

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

Respect is earned, Honesty is appreciated. Trust is gained. Loyalty is returned. - Auliq Ice

[He was] a solemn, unsmiling, sanctimonious old iceberg who looked like he was waiting for a vacancy in the Trinity. - Mark Twain

He that blows the coals in quarrels that he has nothing to do with, has no right to complain if the sparks fly in his face. - Benjamin Franklin

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

The plain fact is that education is itself a form of propaganda - a deliberate scheme to outfit the pupil, not with the capacity to weigh ideas, but with a simple appetite for gulping ideas ready-made. The aim is to make 'good' citizens, which is to say, docile and uninquisitive citizens. - H.L. Mencken

Augustine taught that true freedom is not choice or lack of constraint, but being what you are meant to be. Humans were created in the image of God. True freedom, then, is not found in moving away from that image but only in living it out. - Augustine of Hippo

We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love. - R.D. Laing

But all remains unchanged. - Franz Kafka

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

And it did me no good to recall particular conversations (if indeed these were particular conversations I was remembering so vividly, rather than inventions of my uneasy brain). Remembering clarified nothing. - Emma Donoghue

This sweet-bitter scentIs still making me faintEnduring the painThat makes me insane.Trying to smile everydayTo hide the feelings I bearHide in bed and layPraying to ease the fear.The scent of perfumeIs the reason of my consciousnessIt wakens the inner loomAnd brings back the memories. - angie pandan

The facts about our past are powerless against the blood of Jesus and the Truth of His Word. - Joyce Meyer

I always take Scotch whiskey at night as a preventive of toothache. I have never had the toothache; and what is more, I never intend to have it. - Mark Twain

Whatever fate ordains, danger or hurt, or death predetermined, nothing can avert. - Theognis

When people complain me that, they suffer a lot my answer will be the same forget your past, live with present and don't wait for your future. - Piyush Paudyal

The arrangements that couples make in order to maintain civility in the midst of their journey to divorce are often most elaborate when the professed top priority is to protect a child. - John Irving

Ambling Indian nuggets of wisdom A lover of books can never be lonely! - Aina Rao

Yesterday's tomorrow brought us close....Tomorrow's yesterday pulled us apart again.Between yesterdays and tomorrows, a life lived !We blossomed and wilted, blossomed and wilted again ! - Deeba Salim Irfan

I read a lot of books. Here are the books I'm using for my 9/11 project. [Wright gestures to three six-foot-long shelves of books.] As I read them I highlight certain passages. Then I have an assistant write down each quote on an index card and note where it came from. - Lawrence Wright

In other hand of the enemy will arise the fortune hero. - Lena Hussain

The adult were once young.The young have not yet attained adulthood. - Lailah Gifty Akita

When your sky is covered with the clouds of sadness, smile like the sun and paint your own rainbow. - Debasish Mridha

You must possess Passion along with having a very strong no-fear spiritual belief in order to gain true success in life. - Darin E. Lee

An evil man is a saint of the future. See good in everything. Destroy the evil-finding quality. Develop the good-finding quality. Rise above good and evil. - Sivananda Saraswati

When pain brings you down, don't be silly, don't close your eyes and cry, you just might be in the best position to see the sun shine. - Alanis Morissette

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

To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it. - Voltaire

Good parents use the mistakes they did in the past when they were young to advice the children God gave to them to prevent them from repeating those mistakes again. However, bad parents always want to be seen as right and appear "angelic and saintly" as if they never had horrible youth days. - Israelmore Ayivor

Patience, my friend; Once again, I say, Patience. In an era 'plagued' with speed, doggedness of character and drudgery of persistence is the only guarantee to mastery. - Ufuoma Apoki

It's been long since thinking humanity has learnt that love is a majestic creation of the brain, yet that knowledge hasn't made love be deemed any less glorious. Then why should it threaten the religious believer to learn that divinity as well is a natural creation of the brain? - Abhijit Naskar

I’d never seen anything like it. First a trial, then a few murders, then dancing. Life goes on. Or, in this case, death continues. - Charlaine Harris

Keeping the door that leads to your heart ajar is destructive as univited guests would move in and trample on your feelings, leaving you in great pains, but closing it always is a sure way to spot out the destructive and innovative guests. - Michael Bassey Johnson

Swans sing before they die— 't were no bad thing Should certain persons die before they sing. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

Asking questions is what brains were born to do, at least when we were young children. For young children, quite literally, seeking explanations is as deeply rooted a drive as seeking food or water. - Alison Gopnik

The wall between writing and painting is just good grammar. Moderation in moderation. Fun is scary with a happy ending. Just love. If love doesn’t transform that which annoys you, it will be easier to tolerate. - Emily Thornton Calvo

I prefer liberty to chains of diamonds. - Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

To conquer fear is the best way to gain your self-confidence. - Roy Bennett

Fighting makes us feel alive, until it kills us. If it doesn’t kill us, the pain of sitting alone with ourselves, quietly, under constant assault by our own thoughts and memories of war can easily be enough to make us wish we’d died in battle instead. - Agnostic Zetetic

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

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

If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discover that they did not really desire the things they failed to obtain. - André Maurois

A friend is one to whom you can pour out the contents of your heart, chaff and grain alike. Knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away. - Unknown

There is no law against delaying action to weigh it in thought. - Unarine Ramaru

From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. - Franz Kafka

Familiarity breeds contempt - and children. - Mark Twain

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

I believed I was too sensitive and weak. To prove I wasn’t a victim anymore, I moved closer to painful experiences rather than away from them. Remaining in harm’s way and exposing myself to more pain kept me in the victim role rather than moving me out of it. - Christina Enevoldsen

The truth remains itself, even the human minds cannot see it. - Marieta Maglas

Jesus Christ has already come to suffer in the hands of men and He shall least entertain anyone who will disturb Him in eternal eternity in the Kingdom of God! If you want to join Him, ponder! - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

You will make it Liz, and no matter what happens down there, remember that I love you with everything I am, your life is my life, your pain is my pain, but my love is also your strength, and my faith your courage. - Léia Kiuski

There will always be people for and against you, and its pointless wasting time trying to win over some of the people who are against you. Spend time with people who are for you. Those realtionships are worth it. - Cathy Hopkins

God only knows the torment of the suffering soul and only he can take away the pain. - Timothy W. Tron

No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation. - Fran Lebowitz

It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary.

For those who believe executive branch officials will voluntarily interpret their surveillance authorities with restraint, I believe it is more likely that I will achieve my life-long dream of playing in the NBA. - Ron Wyden

One of the characteristics of modern political life is its professionalization, such that it attracts mainly the kind of people with so great an avidity for power and self-importance that they do not mind very much the humiliations of the public exposure to which they are inevitably subjected. - Theodore Dalrymple

When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting. - Saint Jerome

Attitude determines Altitude.Winners never quit.No venture, No gain. - Stella Oladiran

If someone takes it upon themself to compliment you, don’t explain to them why the compliment is misplaced or undeserving, say thank you and smile; that was the purpose. - Travis Culliton

I was so blinded by her talent that I didn't recognize the tremendous pain behind her work. She gave me hundreds of images, so many chances to see that she was in trouble. I failed her. - Nina LaCour

He was the sort of person who stood on mountaintops during thunderstorms in wet copper armour shouting 'All the Gods are bastards. - Sir Terry Pratchett

Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain. - Lily Tomlin

Finding a life partner is like choosing a bed. You need one as a friend either in times of health or sickness. Freshness or weariness. Happiness or sadness. And we can be certain that we've picked the right one without having to sleep with it first. - Isman H. Suryaman

Oh external worshiper, know that worship without heart is motions. Oh seeker of knowledge, know that knowledge without purification is a dangerous weapon of the ego. Oh activist, know that work without orientation of heart is fruitless. Oh lover, know that love without God is pain. - Yasmin Mogahed

LIGHTHOUSE, n. A tall building on the seashore in which the government maintains a lamp and the friend of a politician. - Ambrose Bierce

Eagle's flight of loneliness soars so high Around its sigh, no more alone the sky Other birds remain away, clouds pass byBetween shrouds of life and haze sun rays die - Munia Khan

Faith is believing beyond the power of reason, when they're all against you. To one who has faith, no explanation is possible. To one without faith, evidence is necessary. - Esteban Urayoán

She resents the chipped paint of the table and the dingy closet they call a dressing room. (Dark City Lights) - Annette Meyers

Liberty a word without which all other words are vain. - Robert G. Ingersoll

We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like? - Jean Cocteau

When in doubt, tell the truth. - Mark Twain

Smiling through confusion is courage.Smiling through tears is strength.Smiling through pain is power.Smiling through tragedy is greatness. - Matshona Dhliwayo

Love that causes you pain is better than hate that brings you pleasure. - Matshona Dhliwayo

I am like the water that runs over me, immune to permanence, recycling endlessly. I am water; I am life. The form may change, but the substance stays the same. Strike me down and I will rise again. Vincit qui patitur. - Rick Yancey

Equality before the law is probably forever unattainable. It is a noble ideal, but it can never be realized, for what men value in this world is not rights but privileges. - H.L. Mencken

Deal with the consequences of your actions, 'cause life ain't no video game.

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain! - Dolly Parton

The sinner is saved to be a saint by the Saviour. - Lailah Gifty Akita

It is not fit that I should give myself pain, for I have never intentionally given pain even to another. - Marcus Aurelius

Without reading many different books, you can never leave the port of ignorance and can never obtain the peaceful mind of knowing the truth! - Mehmet Murat ildan

The sky is a canvas, so paint your own life. - Jada Berglund

I want you to know how perfectyour body looks after a shower.Fresh.Covered in little dropsof water.Just like dewy grass aftera night of rainfall. - Sheri Rosa

Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity. - Unknown

Life's choices are wild and free, but sustaining and elevating, or destructive and debilitating. It's up to us to choose. - Mark Donnelly

His mind scolded him for his stupidity and urged him to forget her but his heart had no justifications for its stand. It remained unmoved, its solidarity unaffected, its arrogance still holding. - Faraaz Kazi

If there was one thing that made Captain Lord Jack Blackthorn smile more than holding a pretty woman in his arms, it was a winning hand at cards. To his dismay at the moment he had neither. - Jina Bacarr

Jiu Jitsu gives me an ideal to strive toward. Technical mastery lies on an infinite continuum and completion of this skill is impossible. Every time I train I have something that I can improve upon, and this will hold true for each and every training session that lies between me and my grave. - Chris Matakas

Every time a war ends, under a beautiful sun, on the face of a crying child; I see a rainbow of hope over the innocent teardrops. - Mehmet Murat ildan

To paint an image and to write a poem, is to reclaim the dignity and personal joy...it is an invitation for my creative contemplation of an opened mind...it is a storytelling venture on a blank page of paper and white canvases...it is reclaiming my life. - Isabella Koldras, Reclaiming my Life.

There's very little authentic study of the humanities remaining. My research assistant came to me two years ago saying she'd been in a seminar in which the teacher spent two hours saying that Walt Whitman was a racist. This isn't even good nonsense. It's insufferable. - Harold Bloom

His ego was as big as an elephant - Charmaine J. Forde

I define anarchist society as one where there is no legal possibility for coercive aggression against the person or property of any individual. - Murray N. Rothbard

you are trained for job but you are born to work.Exert then your energy in the right proportion on the most vital matters - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Hip Hop Generation captures the collective hopes and nightmares, ambitions and failures of those who would otherwise be described as post-this or post-that. - Jeff Chain in "Can't Stop Won't Stop A History of the Hip-Hop Generation "

The most extensive computation known has been conducted over the last billion years on a planet-wide scale: it is the evolution of life. The power of this computation is illustrated by the complexity and beauty of its crowning achievement, the human brain.

Who gives you pain? Your anger, pride, illusion and greed. Where is the fault of the nature in all this? - Dada Bhagwan

True freedom is when all the stories, all the insights, all the realizations, concepts, beliefs and positions dissolve. What remains is what you are; a vast, conscious, luminous space simply resting in itself, not knowing a thing, at the point where all things are possible. - Enza Vita

We are but one of many ideas against a greater imagination. - James C. Emlund

I’ve been married but I’m not anymore. And I still believe in love. - Nick Saint Clair

Don't fear the unknown for it may be the change you're looking for. And, once you've crossed that bridge be prepared to change once again for the only for sure in life is change. - Michael A. Contés II

the sculpting of the brain’s circuitry during this period of brain growth depends to a great degree on what a child experiences day-to-day. - Lisa Lantieri

The pain that's not making you stronger isn't worth it..!! - Aagam Shah

If a person offend you and you are in doubt as to whether it was intentional or not, do not resort to extreme measures. Simply watch your chance and hit him with a brick. - Mark Twain

When you are lonely for a while don't get restless, if you had born alone, you are going to die alone then for sometime you can certainly live alone. - Amit Kalantri

You see, the strangeness of my case is that now I no longer fear the invisible, I’m terrified by reality. - Jean Lorrain

The more you resist change, the more it will be painful for you to accept it. - Chanda Kaushik

I just want your voice aimed at me again. I want to absorb the direction of your eyes… - Jennifer Elisabeth

The story of life is quicker than the wink of an eye, the story of love is hello and goodbye...until we meet again - Jimi Hendrix

The war against the Canadian seal hunt is more than a protest. It is a crusade to bring harmony between the natural world and humanity. All of us who oppose it are dedicated to the protection of life and the abolition of cruelty. - Paul Watson

I wish to confound all these people, to create a work of art of a supernatural realism and of a spiritualist naturalism. I wish to prove... that nothing is explained in the mysteries which surround us. - Joris-Karl Huysmans

Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections. - George Eliot

PLATONIC, adj. Pertaining to the philosophy of Socrates. Platonic Love is a fool's name for the affection between a disability and a frost. - Ambrose Bierce

Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest of violence. - Francis Jeffrey

When you learn to love unconditionally and deeply, you gain the power of love. - Debasish Mridha

The concept of portraying evil and then destroying it - I know this is considered mainstream, but I think it is rotten. This idea that whenever something evil happens someone particular can be blamed and punished for it, in life and in politics is hopeless. - Hayao Miyazaki

Here's some words of wisdom sprayed painted on a wall in Berkeley:

Behind weight gain are the larger hurts and questions that have to be explored, probed, and understood before weight loss and maintenance is a possibility. It's a bigger issue than just calories in, calories out. - Ali Vincent

I read, and, in reading, lifted the Curtains of the Impossible that blind the mind, and looked out into the unknown. - William Hope Hodgson

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been. - Mark Twain

To some education is just a bore; to most education is food for the brain and enrichment for the present and future. - Ana Monnar

When a leader is at their limit the last thing they want to hear is that they need to change even more. Maintaining good rhythms of rest, exercise and fun create more energy for a leader to be willing and open for change. - Gary Rohrmayer

Be your own best friend and unlock the fountain of beauty. - Debasish Mridha

A wise man's question contains half the answer. - Solomon Ibn Gabirol

Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to enduring fact of mystery. - Henry Miller

One of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth. - Edward Bulwer-Lytton

God will walk beside us in hell if he wants us to remember the type of the people he needs us to help. Our suffering is our training for the hardest job he could ask us to do. - Shannon L. Alder

Irinistic motivation can help people attain academic success and possess themselves with great depth of knowledge. - Saaif Alam

Random line from BURNING DARKNESS: Fonda Raine stepped out of the back end of a month in hell a hardened warrior, ready to undertake the most important task of her life: kill Eric Aruda. - Jaime Rush

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. - Thomas Paine

Democracy works. Against us.

You can experience the same thing over and over again but how you feel about it will never be the same as the first. - Lik Hock Yap Ivan

Boys did not go to work on the railroad simply because their fathers did. What fetched them were sights and sounds of moving trains, and above all the whistle of a locomotive. I've heard of the call of the wild, the call of the law, the call of the church. There is also the call of the railroad. - Gary Krist

I want to leave all my friends and the sunlight for a small, rainy town. - The Harvard Lampoon

Reading is like diving into an ocean of an alternate world, away from your real world, where in spite of going though the pain and pleasure of the characters, you remain a witness, unscathed. - Anirudha Lakshminarasimhan

Human emotions have deep evolutionary roots, a fact that may explain their complexity and provide tools for clinical practice.The Nature of Emotions (2001) - Robert Plutchik

A knowledgeable manager can lend to the success of an organization "almost" as much as a poorly trained manager can damage it. - Mark W. Boyer

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

It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship. - Henry Ward Beecher

My mother’s dress bears the stains of her life:blueberries, blood, bleach, and breast milk;She cradles in her arms a lifetime of love and sorrow;Its brilliance nearly blinds me. - Brenda Sutton Rose

In history, truth should be held sacred, at whatever cost . . . especially against the narrow and futile patriotism, which, instead of pressing forward in pursuit of truth, takes pride in walking backwards to cover the slightest nakedness of our forefathers. - Col. Thomas Aspinwall

The simple fact is that neither an efficiently successful HOW nor a compelling persuasive WHY is sufficient on its own..without the other to bring about impactful sustainable improvement. - Robert M. Olsen

Last weekend a young man asked me how I remain so positive. It seems all the negativity in the world doesn’t affect you, he said. I had no more than a minute with the young man so I offered this: It’s all about where you choose to put your attention, and I choose to be happy. - Jason Mraz

I hate to complain...No one is without difficulties, whether in high or low life, and every person knows best where their own shoe pinches. - Abigail Adams

The world is a place of constant change. If we are open and ready to consider everything while remaining unbiased, we will be ready to accept these changes and utilize them to improve our lives. - Daniel Willey

It’s traumatizing to think that a best friend could become just a friend. That’s because there is virtually no difference between an acquaintance and a friend. But the gulf between a friend and a best friend is enormous and profound. - Mindy Kaling

When I need some striking inspiration about deep depression for my new painting, I just need to go to check my bank account... - Hiroko Sakai

A blooming flower pleads, oh thee! Look at me, to see the beauty, Kiss me like a bee, To feel the bliss, To taste the nectar of life And just to feel and be. Kiss me like a wave kisses the shore In an endless dancing sea, again and again, just to be. - Debasish Mridha

Rain is rain. - Lailah Gifty Akita

I do not believe anyone can be perfectly well, who has a brain and a heart - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

It is useless to close the gates against ideas; they overlap them.

A gift - be it a present, a kind word or a job done with care and love - explains itself!... and if receivin' it embarrasses you, it's because your 'thanks box' is warped. - Alice Childress

Some Women are the fire... and the right one will keep throwing sticks, to maintain their burning desires... K.K - Konstantinos Kyriakou.K.K

Baba always used to say that as we age, things change, we become more rigid, and then eventually, most of us, become forgiving again. He called it the cycle of life. - Yasmine El Rashidi

Prayer elevates and transforms you. Nourish your soul using this powerful communication tool every day, and you will never be the same again. - Pooja Ruprell

Fruitfulness may be a better measurement for success than productivity because it is based more in the evaluations of others as to the meaningful role we have played in their lives then in our own importance determined according to the amount of accomplishments we can list. - Karen Burton Mains

Life knows what you want, and gives you exactly the same thing, at the moment. You attract exactly what you want in the moment. You have to remain present in the moment. If you are already lost in yourself, you can never understand the ways of life. - Roshan Sharma

There comes a point in your life when you realize your hardest times are your best times, too—you will see the rainbow of your life. - Roy Bennett

With confident, courage and consistency, the dream is certain. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Democracy without respect for individual rights sucks. It's just ganging up against the weird kid, and I'm always the weird kid. - Penn Jillette

Maturity is when you stop complaining and making excuses, and start making changes. - Roy Bennett

Recreate your life, always, always. Remove the stones, plant rose bushes and make sweets. Begin again. - Cora Coralina

If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill always came together, who would escape hanging? - Mark Twain

It is so easy to differentiate between a lion and a wolf under a lion's clothing, as the former is often spotted alone whereas the latter remains seen often in a crowd. - Anuj Somany

Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining. - Jef Raskin

Beware the man of one book. - Saint Thomas Aquinas

A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be led by the nose. - Mark Twain

You will be more disappointed in life by the things that you do not do than by the things that you do. - Mark Twain

Apologize on you mistake in time-may you never get time again... - Debolina Bhawal

Wisdom is a dreadfully wonderful gift,giving you great insight but terrible pain that you learn from. - Royal Cromwell

EUCHARIST, n. A sacred feast of the religious sect of Theophagi. A dispute once unhappily arose among the members of this sect as to what it was that they ate. In this controversy some five hundred thousand have already been slain, and the question is still unsettled. - Ambrose Bierce

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

We keep our eyes tightly shut and complain that there are no lights. - Debasish Mridha

Good writing is a mirror of the mind where readers can see themselves again and again. - Debasish Mridha

Followers of Jesus do well to spend more time engaging him than explaining him. - Ron Brackin

Insecurities have the ability to shape and mold our minds to live with everything that’s bad; like crying on the inside, while smiling on the outside…thus creating pain…but, alas, I have the answer; forget about what you thought and enjoy (embrace) what you feel - Jeremy Aldana

If your pain is the same like somebody else, I think that this will be the best couple it will be. - Deyth Banger

There were always people like the pope. They serve a certain function, of course. They subsidize us. But, they don't create anything and they must never be allowed to stop the artist from creating. - Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

People are like stained glass windows; they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is light within.

Life is a train of moods like a string of beads; and as we pass through them they prove to be many colored lenses, which paint the world their own hue, and each shows us only what lies in its own focus. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Politics has never been for the thin-skinned or the faint of heart, and if you enter the arena , you should expect to get roughed up. Moreover, Democracy in a nation of more than 300 million people is inherently difficult. - Barack Obama

It was all a matter of timing," she says. "My train was late that day. The day I saw you drop your notebook. Had it been on schedule we never would have met. Maybe we were never meant to. It was a possibility, one of thousands, and not inevitable, the way some things are. - Erin Morgenstern

As we were told about others, so others will be told about us. that is "HISTORY". and the most painfull thing about it is that, it does not repeat itself. it comes onece in life and never again. - Hamzat haruna Ribah

I have sometimes thought of the final cause of dogs having such short lives and I am quite satisfied it is in compassion to the human race; for if we suffer so much in losing a dog after an acquaintance of ten or twelve years, what would it be if they were to live double that time? - Walter Scott

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

Sometimes I feel that what used to be once casual conversations between friends are now being substituted with forced conversations containing none of the warmth it possessed earlier. It's better to not have any conversation at all than have forced conversations. - Adhish Mazumder

They were like her rocks. Imperfect and surprising and maybe better in the long run than certainties. Chances, she thought, were life - Veronica Rossi

Rain is nature’s art; umbrella is man’s art. When you walk with your umbrella in a rainy day, you walk with a super art which is a combination of two different arts! - Mehmet Murat ildan

You do not need to be a mountain to feel strong. Be like a little flexible stream to have true power. - Debasish Mridha

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

Okay, now I know your yanking my chain. Pigs will fly before Blake would ask for our help." Rhoan"Better start ducking those flying piggies then, bro, because I'm totally serious." Riley - Keri Arthur

The only power which can illuminate you is your own mind! No other mind can lighten you if your mind insists to remain in the darkness! The fate of your fate is within you! - Mehmet Murat ildan

The art of life is to show your hand. There is no diplomacy like candor. You may lose by it now and then, but it will be a loss well gained if you do. Nothing is so boring as having to keep up a deception. - E. V. Lucas

To bring one's self to a frame of mind and to the proper energy to accomplish things that require plain hard work continuously is the one big battle that everyone has. When this battle is won for all time, then everything is easy.

He who doesn't look ahead remains behind. - Mexican Proverb

If you want to go to moksha (attain ultimate liberation), you will have to become simple and straightforward. Being obstinate won’t work there. You will have to remove all the tubers; become totally free from intellect (abudh). - Dada Bhagwan

Anyone that says his mind will be probably regarded a fool, but the true artist is not moved by the comments about the looks of his painting or remarks that are dreadfully sarcastic, but hearken now! That he who says what others want to hear hasn't said anything of his own. - Michael Bassey Johnson

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

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

God is a creation of human brain - Durgesh Satpathy

It's awkward how some people refuse to be humans regarding their behaviours! Isn't that against God's will for he created them as humans? And yet, they at night hold hands up and ask God for forgiveness and to grant them their wishes; when he created animals sinless. - Mustafa SULTAN

A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away. - George Eliot

Saya pasti takut. Kalo tidak takut pasti bukan saya. - Firman Zainur Rochim

If You Do Not Know, it is Useless to Explain, Because You Would Not Understand"__nickc - nick catricala

we love rain cause raining means cleaning sins - MK PRINCE

GOOD: is when those values that we rate desirable are pertainingBAD: is when those same values are wanting. - Jeff Tikari

To middle-class Americans who have paid a great deal for the last 12 years and from whom I ask a contribution tonight, I will say again... you're not going at it alone anymore - you're certainly not going first, and you're not going to pay more for less as you have too often in the past.

what you werewill not happen again.the tigers have found meand I do not care. - Charles Bukowski

Because if it is to spite her,' Biddy pursued, 'I should think -but you know best- that might be better and more independently done by caring nothing for her words. And if it is to gain her over, I should think -but you know best- she was not worth gaining over. - Charles Dickens

Time is often wasted by those who don't understand that time is worth more than money because when lost, money can be regained but time cannot. - Gugu Mona

The pain will always be in you — but you will not always be in pain. - Abby Norman

Success is not obtained overnight. It comes in installments; you get a little bit today, a little bit tomorrow until the whole package is given out. The day you procrastinate, you lose that day's success. - Israelmore Ayivor

Those who complain much get little, those who complain little get much. - Jeanette Coron

One only knows the sins of democracy against virtue when one is worthy enough to suffer from them. - Raheel Farooq

All blood runs red. - Phrase painted on the side of the plane flown by Eugene Bullard in World War I the first black comba

Sleep my friend and you will seeThat dream is my realityThey keep me locked up in this cageCan't they see it's why my brain says Rage - Metallica Welcome Home Sanitarium

All life is only a set of pictures in the brain, among which there is no difference betwixt those born of real things and those born of inward dreamings, and no cause to value the one above the other. - H.P. Lovecraft

Truth is more of a stranger than fiction. - Mark Twain

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

Stumbling up a hill strengthens you more than sprinting down a mountain. - Matshona Dhliwayo

The problem is that the people with the most ridiculous ideas are always the people who are most certain of them."(The Decider, July 21, 2007) - Bill Maher

You must remain. I must depart.Two autumns falling in the heart. - Buson

Our flag is red,white, and blue. But our nation is a rainbow-Red,Yellow,brown,black, and white-and we're all precious in God's sight.

The people who can most successfully lose weight and maintain a healthy life style are foodies. When it comes to healthy eating, people who know how to cook and make ingredients taste good have a distinct advantage over those who can't. - Edward Ugel

What are you staring at?""Rain drops on window glass is a sort of love-bite, is it not? - Jasleen Kaur Gumber

That time of year thou may'st in me behold, When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang Upon those boughs which shake against the cold,- Bare ruin'd choirs, where late the sweet birds sang. - William Shakespeare

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

Lack of commitment — is the main reason for failure among Christian leaders - Sunday Adelaja

Life is not trying to entertain us, it's trying to teach us. - Seth Adam Smith

Work on your goals, one step at a time. Remain focused and do not stop. You will be amazed how much you can accomplish over the years. In most things in life, it is not the speed but the consistency that matters. - Roopleen

The romanticism of struggle is over. What remains are the utterly naked facts. The cult of personality and its collapse. Rethinking of everything. The masks are off (the mask of religion, the mask of heroism…). - Sonallah Ibrahim

Ain’t I your man? he persisted.Yeah, Ellis, you’re my man. Her lips quaked as she said it. - Tracy Winegar

Without mountains, we might find ourselves relieved that we can avoid the pain of the ascent, but we will forever miss the thrill of the summit. And in such a terribly scandalous trade-off, it is the absence of pain that becomes the thief of life. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

The public doesn't want new music; the main thing it demands of a composer is that he be dead. - Arthur Honegger

To read a book for the first time is to make the acquaintance of a new friend; to read it a second time is to meet an old one. - Selwyn Champion

Problems arise when people act as if their "borlders" 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

Satan knows, if you are against YOURSELF you will never fulfill your destiny. :( - Joel Osteen

Don't patronize the chain bookstores. Every time I see some author scheduled to read and sign his books at a chain bookstore, I feel like telling him he's stabbing the independent bookstores in the back. - Lawrence Ferlinghetti

If I were you I'd put that away. See you're just wasted and thinking about the past again, darling you'll be okay. - Pierce the Veil

I never thought that I could still love again until i met you. Will you be just a dream? - Abegail O. Salazar

Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising. - Mark Twain

The Fine Arts are five in number: Painting, Music, Poetry, Sculpture, and Architecture--whereof the principle branch is Confectionery. - Marie-Antoine Carême

And like that, I said goodbye to my grandmother like we were two people who met in a coffee shop, shared a lifetime of stories and left wanting more, but knowing we’d meet there again. - Darnell Lamont Walker

If you love someone, you will forgive him or her all the wrongs. You can make it right and love again. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Pain is our salvation 'cos when it's dark enough, a star will reveal itself. - Sola Kosoko

Beauty is sometimes born of pain - Sheri L. Swift

Some people drink deeply from the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle. - Grant M. Bright

Find a job you enjoy doing, and you will never have to work a day in your life. - Mark Twain

So what if you're plain? Anyone can like a beautiful woman or a handsome man. That's easy. But power is the ability to inspire attraction without the obvious. - Donna Lynn Hope

Finn smiled and blew half her brain cells. You going to teach me how to have fun, Pru? he asked in that low, husky voice. - Jill Shalvis

The empath helps others by absorbing some of their pain, but who helps the empath? - Donna Lynn Hope

Mother and wife are saints,If they are not together - A G Maran

If you have any doubts that we live in a society controlled by men, try reading down the index of contributors to a volume of quotations, looking for women's names. - Elaine Gill

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

There comes a time when one suddenly discovers that there will never be a time for the coming of the perfect person, or believe that God sends people from heaven, so one finds a random fellow, either righteous or unrighteous, excellent or Impaired, and in no time become what God had ordained. - Michael Bassey Johnson

Wisdom is knowledge correctly applied. Therefore you should gain knowledge! - Sunday Adelaja

A writer who can't follow submission guidelines is like a pilot without a plane... ain't gonna get very far! - Jo Linsdell

There is no greater crime than a crime against humanity. There is no greater crime against humanity than usury. The greatest violence, and the greatest threat to humanity, is the growth of MONEY. - Compton Gage

No sustainable prosperity or security can be attained at the expense or marginalization of others. Indeed, in today’s world, humanity will either triumph or fail as a whole. - Nayef Al-Rodhan

There is no such thing as colossal failure. There is only colossal courage to attempt the impossible again and again until it becomes possible. - Toni Sorenson

On an even subtler dimension, clarity, intuitive knowledge and contentment are primarily determined by chemical and hormonal balances in the body and brain. Most of this is entirely manipulable through fairly simple physical exercises that anyone can do. - Darrell Calkins

Learning to endure times of disappointment, suffering, and sorrow is part of our on-the-job training. These experiences, while often difficult to bear at the time, are precisely the kinds of experiences that stretch our understanding, build our character, and increase our compassion for others. - Joseph B. Wirthlin

The rain fell like dead bullets. - Scott Nicholson

Making amends is not only saying the words but also being willing to listen to how your behavior caused another’s pain, and then the really hard part…changing behavior. - David W. Earle

I’m a blank canvas that I can paint however I desire. For the first time ever, I get to be the character in my own fantasy land. - E.K. Blair

Humor is mankind's greatest blessing. - Mark Twain

You are the greatest poem ever written.You are the greatest song ever sung.You are the greatest portrait ever painted.You are the greatest symphony ever composed.You are the greatest act ever performed.You are the greatest masterpiece ever created. - Matshona Dhliwayo

Man can destroy a mountain within a day, but a Man cannot build a mountain in a single day or the rest of his days - Cj Lacuesta

Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things. - Robert Louis Stevenson

I believe that feminism has become a political movement that seeks to obtain unlimited rights for woman without corresponding responsibilities via the suppression of feminism.Under my definition, helping oppressed women in other countries falls outside the scope of the movement's interests. - Mike Adams

Those who neglect the demands of life, they live in perpetual pain and regret. - Sunday Adelaja

The tags' chain stirs with the wind; and I sleepPaid, dead, and a soldier. Who fights for his own lifeLoses, loses: I have killed for my world, and am free. - Randall Jarrell

I am convinced that the jealous, the angry, the bitter and the egotistical are the first to race to the top of mountains. A confident person enjoys the journey, the people they meet along the way and sees life not as a competition. - Shannon L. Alder

In the middle of the mayhem, you came and sang a song of melancholy. You promised a wildfire, but instead choked the light that was struggling hard for survival. Eventually when all the light went off. You left, complaining about the darkness. - Akshay Vasu

COURT FOOL, n. The plaintiff. - Ambrose Bierce

He never looked back, the day he realized the power of presentations. - Aayush Jain

We must unceasingly ask for [perseverance] by making use of the means which God has taught us for obtaining it: prayer, fasting, almsgiving, frequenting the sacraments, association with good companions, and hearing and reading Holy Scripture. - Francis de Sales

I had rather that the human race, having a certain quality in their lives, should continue for only a few centuries than that, losing freedom, friendship, dignity, and mercy, and learning to be quite content without them, they should continue for millions of millennia. - C.S. Lewis

When we learn to read the story of Jesus and see it as the story of the love of God, doing for us what we could not do for ourselves--that insight produces, again and again, a sense of astonished gratitude which is very near the heart of authentic Christian experience. - N.T. Wright

Those who understand the complexities of human nature know that joy and pain, ugliness and beauty, love and hate, mercy and cruelty and other conflicting emotions often blend and cannot be separated from each other. - Isaac Bashevis Singer

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of who you are - Kurt Cobain

Next to a circus there ain't nothing that packs up and tears out faster than the Christmas spirit. - Kin Hubbard

so convincing were those dreams of being awake that he woke from them in a state of complete exhaustion, and had to go straight back to sleep again. - Joseph Heller

Where there's hope, there's life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again. We'll need to be brave to endure the many fears and hardships and the suffering yet to come. - Anne Frank

...I did what most kids do when their world feels destroyed. I tried to care less about what remained...It was untrue, of course. - Adam Haslett

A poor man in this world can be done to death in two main ways, by the absolute indifference of his fellows in peacetime or by their homicidal mania when there's a war. - Louis-Ferdinand Céline

I would have kept you safe,' he said.I closed my eyes, forcing the tears down my cheek to break against the dam of his fingers. 'I know. - Meagan Spooner

There is No Pleasure without Pain - A. Dragonblood

Just let go of the oars. Whenyou‘re no longer paddling against the Current, when you release your oars and relax into your ownnatural Well-Being, the Current, which is ever moving in the direction of that which you havebecome and all that you want, will carry you toward your desires. - Let Your Feelings Be Your Guide by Esther and Jerry Hicks

I want to believe that I'm not wrong. I want to believe that life isn't full of darkness. Even if storms come to pass, the sun will shine again. No matter how painful and hard the rain may beat down on me. - Natsuki Takaya

Success certainly isn’t achievement of popularity. Success in God’s kingdom is loving God, loving one another, and being faithful to what He’s called us to do. - Gabriel Wilson

Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion. - Mark Twain

The height of humanity should give birth to greater good. We should be in desperation of "CHANGE" but not in spawning evil, because by doing so, humanity remains shackled. - Henry Johnson Jr

Don’t try to make life fair, instead, be on the side where life is extra good. - Sarvesh Jain

Thank your customer for complaining and mean it. Most will never bother to complain. They'll just walk away. - Marilyn Suttle

Life is going on even if you are not on the train. - Debasish Mridha

A gentleman would have announced himself! I told him, pressing against the side of the tub. And a scoundrel would have joined you.-- Kit Marlowe to the witch Gillian (shortly before joining her in the tub!) - Karen Chance

Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error. - Thomas Jefferson

All we know is still infinitely less than all that remains unknown. - William Harvey

Without change there is no gain, but every change brings some pain. - Debasish Mridha

Yet there be certain times in a young man’s life, when, through great sorrow or sin, all the boy in him is burnt and seared away so that he passes at one step to the more sorrowful state of manhood - Rudyard Kipling

Never complain, condemn, or criticize; just show them how to do better. - Debasish Mridha

The vain man buys to impress, but the REAL man buys to fulfil a need. - Auliq-Ice

We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that a savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter. - Mark Twain

Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries,hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. - Stephen King

Against all odds, a seed rises from darkness and beautifies the universe. - Matshona Dhliwayo

God created war so that Americans would learn geography. - Mark Twain

Letting go of who you're supposed to be and discovering who you really are is a journey of many experiences, but certainty is not one of them. No matter how long you wait, it'll never feel safe enough. Plunge in anyway. - Vironika Tugaleva

If she's in pain now she doesn't show it; she just closes her eyes and surrenders, and that is worse than her screaming for help, somehow. - Veronica Roth

Striking a balance in life is tough, but trying to strike balance and remain fair in the face of imbalance and oppression is even tougher. - Aisha Mirza

I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead. - Mark Twain

With reasonable men I will reason; with humane men I will plea; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost. - William Lloyd Garrison

Virtual Reality is like mainlining television. - William Gibson

Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution. - William Shakespeare

I must warn you that the books I like are not necessarily the ones I think are the best. I like them for various reasons not always easy to explain. - Gabriel García Márquez

Attitude is the mind's paintbrush. It can color any situation. - Anonymous

The day you call someone "Mother" is the day their pain is hers to bear, your burden hers to carry. - Sunanda J. Chatterjee

Joy is a right and liberty of non other than me and you who struggled and fought for it and attained it at last. - Auliq Ice

Love is the soul's rainbow. - Matshona Dhliwayo

But sadness was familiar; sadness was manageable. It didn't transform her, the way the raging anger did. She could remain herself and still feel this aching grief. - Aprilynne Pike

The brain is full of lonely ideas, begging you to make some sense of them, to recognize them as interesting. The lazy brain just files them away in old pigeonholes, like a bureaucrat who wants an easy life. The lively brain picks and chooses and creates new works of art out of ideas. - Theodore Zeldin

Certain backward areas have advanced, and various devices always in some way connected with warfare and police espionage have developed, but experiment and invention have largely stopped. - George Orwell

Life ain't like books. Books got somebody writin' 'em and tryin' to entertain ya. Life is more like a set of Legos. Unless you take care of 'em, you lose a few pieces and you end up steppin' on 'em with bare feet. You gotta take care of your life. - Laura Moncur

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

You, man must write exactly as everything rushes into your head and AT ONCE. The pain of writing is just that... - Jack Kerouac

if due to ego you think:i shall not fight; this resolve of yours is vain. your own nature will compel you. - Anonymous

Let's unwrite these pages and replace them with our own words - Rise Against

Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. - Bernard M. Baruch

I must have a prodigious amount of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up! - Mark Twain

Reading every day keeps the brain dead sickness away. - Kristy Pellegrin

Literature is painting, architecture, and music. - Yevgeny Zamyatin

Failure Is Not Permanent, So Is The Success. So, Don't Look Down Upon People Who Are Failed While You're Succeeded. Table Can Turn Anytime. Be Gentle To Every Creation, It Ain't Cost A Thing.... - Muhammad Imran Hasan

I like working alone. I feel freer, less constrained. I know what I have to do and I try to do it. There are no superficial hangups. - Oliver

The great object of life is sensation- to feel that we exist, even though in pain. - George Gordon Byron

Your brain doesn't know what it cannot do until you tell it. - Ed Strachar

When I was in England I experimented with marijuana a time or two, I didn't like it, I didn't inhale it, and never tried it again. - Bill Clinton

When you're a team of one, you're always captain.

We are more sensitive to losses than to gains; the pleasure of winning is less than the pain of losing. - John A. Daly

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

Proof, once again, that reality was not objective, but always waiting to be reshaped and redefined by one's attitude. - Michel Faber

If we are to fight discrimination and injustice against women we must start from the home for if a woman cannot be safe in her own house then she cannot be expected to feel safe anywhere. - Aysha Taryam

How can you trust only yourself when your eyes can blind you, your ears deceive you, when you speak that which you don’t mean, and do that which you planned against? - Kyle Schmalenberg

Contemporary architects tend to impose modernity on something. There is a certain concern for history but it’s not very deep. I understand that time has changed, we have evolved. But I don’t want to forget the beginning. A lasting architecture has to have roots. - I. M. Pei

Praise and blame, gain and loss, pleasure and pain, fame and disripute, these are just the worldly winds of existence. - T. Scott McLeod

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea. - Walter Bagehot

My Ancestor Series of adventure-thrillers run like a raging river. I'm now in the editing process with my next thriller, "The Apothecary." Please go to my website for excerpts, synopses, and book trailers of all my works: . Marshall Chamberlain - http://www.gracepublisihing.org

You can choose to fight your journey every step of the way or you can embrace it, recognizing each stumble or setback as a opportunity to strengthen your character, finesse your craft, and deepen your passion. Oh this journey can be beautiful if you allow yourself to enjoy the rain! - Kierra C.T. Banks

The best Morning Prayer for endless peace would be, Today I will forgive everyone for their mistakes. Today I will love everyone without judging them. Today I will be kind to everyone even if they do not deserve it. Today I will be a fountain of peace to create waves of joy around me. - Debasish Mridha

The body is poisoned through the mouth, even so is the heart through the ear ... And even if we do mean no harm, the Evil One means a great deal, and he will use those idle words as a sharp weapon against some neighbor's heart. - Francis de Sales

Ignorance is toxic. If a man hands you a cup of coffee and pours in what he calls liquid sugar when the container clearly says poison, how bliss is your ignorance? - James Jean-Pierre

No fiction is worth reading except for entertainment. If it entertains and is clean, it is good literature, or its kind. If it forms the habit of reading, in people who might not read otherwise, it is the best literature. - Edgar Rice Burroughs

People that have been consistently hurt by others in life will only see the one time you hurt them and be blinded to all the good your heart has to offer. They look no further than what they want to see. Unfortunately, most of them remain a victim throughout their life. - Shannon L. Alder

The pure playfulness of certain wholly whimsical portions of (Charles) Cros’s work should not obscure the fact that at the center of some of his most beautiful poems a revolver is leveled straight at us. - André Breton

When we cannot see, we don't judge. Small wonder when we kiss, cry, laugh, make love, are in pain, pray and listen to music, we close our eyes. - Sabine Shah

A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature; and as a firm and unalterable experience has established these laws, the proof against a miracle, from the very nature of the fact, is as entire as any argument from experience as can be imagined. - David Hume

The problem with that analysis is that it is incorrect. - Herman Cain

I hope we once again have reminded people that man is not free unless government is limited. There's a clear cause and effect here that is as neat and predictable as a law of physics: As government expands, liberty contracts. - Ronald Reagan

We are certainly getting ahead; if I am Moses, then you are Joshua and will take possession of the promised land of psychiatry, which I shall only be able to glimpse from afar. - Sigmund Freud

Before creation I alone was, there was no other existence of the nature of cause and effect different from Me. After the creative cycle ends also, I alone exist. For, this universe is also Myself, and when everything is dissolved in its cause in Pralaya, what remains is only Myself. - Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa

If you need someone to explain morality to you, then you likely have little of it to draw from. - Auliq-Ice

Life is like a game if you fail try again until you master and accomplish, but remember if you accomplish it glorify God who created you and gives you strength. - Daniel Habil

You have two choices in life: you can dissolve into the mainstream or you can be distinct. To be distinct, you must be different. To be different, you must strive to be what no one else but you can be. - Alan Ashley-Pitt

For a true writer each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed. - Ernest Hemingway

Quitting smoking is easy, I've done it thousands of times. - Mark Twain

Washington once advised his adopted grandson that where there is no occasion for expressing an opinion, it is best to be silent. For there is nothing more certain than that it is at all times more easy to make enemies than friends. - Ron Chernow

There is no more lively sensation than that of pain; its impressions are certain and dependable, they never deceive as may those of the pleasure women perpetually feign and almost never experience. - Marquis de Sade

In order to attain extraordinary greatness, first you need to be drowned in the deepest fathoms of helplessness, misery and heartache. - Abhijit Naskar

God gave you brain so that you can give him rest. - Wheto Joseph Seyon

We obtained literature by our own efforts, it is a product of our own life, and that is why we love it so much and hold it so dear, why we pin our hopes on it. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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

The world is so constructed, that if you wish to enjoy its pleasures, you must also endure its pains. Whether you like it or not, you cannot have one without the other.

Whenever the literary German dives into a sentence, that is the last you are going to see of him until he emerges on the other side of his atlantic with his verb in his mouth. - Mark Twain

Be still sad heart and cease repining; Behind the clouds the sun is shining, Thy fate is the common fate of all, Into each life a little rain must fall, Some days must be dark and dreary.

Reasoning draws a conclusion, but does not make the conclusion certain, unless the mind discovers it by the path of experience. - Francis Bacon

The best laid schemes o' Mice an' Men, Gang aft agley, An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain, For promis'd joy! (The best laid schemes of Mice and Men oft go awry, And leave us nothing but grief and pain, For promised joy!) - Robert Burns

Nineteen twentieths of [mankind is] opaque and unenlightened. Intimacy with most people will make you acquainted with vices and errors and follies enough to make you despise them. - John Adams

If people were rain, I'd be a drizzle and she'd be a hurricane. - John Green

one may know how to gain victory, and know not how to use it - Pedro Calderón de la Barca

The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security. - Thomas Paine

Be nice, feel good; be mean, feel pain. - Maximus Freeman

There is such a thing as crazy-mother bonding. . . . It happens when one realizes the other also has had a crazy mother, and it is both painful and pleasurable. There are more crazy mothers than you might think. - Minrose Gwin

Thoughts might not be solid and always obtainable, but they become your reality when emotions are attached to them. Over time, they become your wants and form an attachment to your behavior. - Shannon L. Alder

As for everything else, so for mathematical theory: beauty can be perceived but not explained.

I will always be confident in the direction of my dreams because that's the life I wish to live. - Alfusainey jallow

A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says 'I was beaten', he does not say 'My men were beaten. - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Unified thinking without borders in apparent dimensions can only be strengthened when focused collectively 'internally'. - AainaA-Ridtz

It is impossible to travel faster than the speed of light, and certainly not desirable, as one's hat keeps blowing off. - Woody Allen

I write of the wish that comes true--for some reason, a terrifying thought. - James M. Cain

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

To truly fail in life is to never try. When you fall on your face, it is an opportunity for you to find the road again. It may remind you how hard the road is, but you will never forget its presence once you make contact. - H.L. Stephens

I stopped explaining myself when I realized other people only understand from their level of perception. - Anonymous

If you're running away from pain and people who cause it, then you'll never find eternal happiness. Face it and show them that you're not weak to runaway. - Shrestha Sapan

It is not solely or chiefly in virtue of the divine image that man effectively resembles God, but in virtue of his consciousness of being an image and the movement whereby the soul, passing in a way through itself, avails itself of the factual resemblance in order to attain to God. - Étienne Gilson

A man of purpose is a man on an assignment.Its important not to rely on earthly gained knowledge; tap to Heavenly Wisdom & Understanding - Kinoti J.C.

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

A friend isn't someone you use once and then throw away, a friend is someone you use over and over again. - Eliezer Yudkowsky

At our age, surely there are better things to sustain us, to sustain a marriage, than the brief flame of passion?" ..."You are mistaken, Ernest," she said at last. "There is only the passionate spark. Without it, two people living together may be lonelier than if they lived quite alone. - Helen Simonson

Always give away your pure love without expecting any love in return. The universe will fill your heart with an abundance of love, joy and happiness again and again. - Debasish Mridha

Gillard is as likeable as Rudd is charmless. She is self-deprecating; he is ludicrously vainglorious. She is a mistress of understatement; he is a ranter. - Germaine Greer

A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world. - Edmond de Goncourt

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

Mistakes and errors, destinations and journeys are all the same and are paid with pain. - Auliq Ice

Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind. - Plato

Marriage is a bargain, and somebody has to get the worst of the bargain. - Helen Rowland

If you remain in a positive spiral, you will always learn something new to reach your goals. - MR.Smith

She always says I'm the best friend that she's ever had... how do you hang up on someone who needs you that bad? ~From 'Laura' on The Nylon Curtain - Billy Joel

I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot. - Steve Martin

There is no law against composing music when one has no ideas whatsoever. The music of Wagner, therefore, is perfectly legal

O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains!

In an exhibition wherein paintings of nudes were commonplace, that of Madame Gautreau in her black evening dress was considered scandalously erotic. -from The Greater Journey - David McCullough

NW" is full of split selves, people alienated from the very things they thought defined them. Their nostalgia -- for old movies, old songs, buses they don't ride anymore -- is less a salve than a form of pain. - Christian Lorentzen

Justice requires that you should not place the burdens of one man on the shoulders of another man, even though he is better able to bear them. In plainer words, that you should not make one set of men pay for what is used by another set of men. - Auberon Herbert

Her brain is like a filing cabinet – everything neatly stored in categories. My brain is more like soup – everything all blended and mushed together. - Cat Clarke

There's only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I'll get married again. - Clint Eastwood

The most valuable function performed by the federal government is entertainment. - Dave Barry

When they were in school, Peter used to say that everything you do is a self-portrait. It might look like 'Saint George and the Dragon' or 'The Rape of the Sabine Women,' but the angle you use, the lighting, the composition, the technique, they're all you. You are every color and brushstroke. - Chuck Palahniuk

It is a total mystery how we evolved minds capable of piloting cars through wild maneuvers using a wrist to steep while shouting at a cell phone. The creationists are fools for focusing on animal evolution. Darwin explains nature! He has more difficulty explaining us. - David Brin

It was books that kept me from taking my own life after I thought I could never love anyone, never be loved by anyone again. - Will Harondale, Clockwork Prince

If I die, I will wait for you, do you understand? No matter how long. I will watch from beyond to make sure you live every year you have to its fullest, and then we’ll have so much to talk about when I see you again… (Bones) - Jeaniene Frost

Every challenge, every adversity, contains within it the seeds of opportunity and growth. - Roy Bennett

Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. - Mark Twain

The subsistence mentality of a person is a prison in which his personal joy is detained. If you want to live in joy, you don't live for yourself alone. Live for others too! - Israelmore Ayivor

Beware of fame; for when they come for you, they come not to give, but for to gain.Whoever is needed, wields the most power.Whoever is needy, seeks to wield that power. - Justin K. McFarlane Beau

Mothers train your children to only Speak Truth - Imran Khan

We can change the product of life we have by exactly doing the hardship and remain stable to make it possible. - Jammi Avila

The price we have paid for expecting to be so much more than our ancestors is a perpetual anxiety that we are far from being all we might be. - Alain de Botton

Many of us spend our whole lives running from feeling with the mistaken belief that you cannot bear the pain. But you have already borne the pain. What you have not done is feel all you are beyond the pain.

The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it

Manifest plainness,Embrace simplicity,Reduce selfishness,Have few desires. - Lao-tzu

The smallest drop of rain can project the most beautiful of visions, all we have to do is look a little deeper. - - T.L. Manning

Encouragement from any source is like a drop of rain upon a parched desert. Thanks to all the many others who rained on me when I needed it, and even when I foolishly thought I didn't.(acknowledgements in The P.U.R.E.) - Claire Gillian

For a moment David was tempted to think that perhaps there were no good people at all outside concentration camps, but then he reminded himself of the sailor and Angelo and the English people who might have been ignorant but were certainly not bad. - Anne Holm

It is noble to teach oneself, it is still nobler to teach others. - Mark Twain

Never give upNever lose hope.Always have faith,It allows you to cope.Trying times will pass,As they always do.Just have patience,Your dreams will come true.So put on a smile,You’ll live through your pain,Know it will pass,And strength you will gain. - Charlie Remiggio

To be a great success detect the problem, find the solutions, never complain, but never forget to compliment someone. - Debasish Mridha

We are like Humpty Dumpty and all these king's horses and all these king's men cannot put us back together again - Gale Forman

He was born an Englishman and remained one for years. - Brendan Behan

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

The way to fight fear is to do what you are afraid of. And the way to fight pain is to live with it, with an open heart. - Auliq Ice

If the modern Protestant churches must maintain her place of relevance in the society, we would need to review where we missed it and how we have diverted from the teachings of the Protestants. - Sunday Adelaja

The more the discomfort or the pain or loss, the better you are able to focus and change course of your life! - Stan The Man SA

To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power. Or the climbing, falling colors of a rainbow. - Maya Angelou

In the end, we must remember that no one can become what they need to be by remaining where the are. Until there is motion nothing can change. - GE Paulus

A lot of high-profile companies are recognizing the benefits of power napping. . . . It's like kindergarten all over again. - Stefanie Weisman

In a story, you must always listen for the voice you cannot hear, the one that has been ignored or silenced. In that crushed voice, there is a strain of truth, as a crushed grape yields a drop of wine. - Patricia Storace

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it. - Charles Caleb Colton

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

I guess this thing we call faith is a climb. I always wanted to think of it as a big slide straight into the arms of God who waits at the bottom to catch us. But instead, He's a God who's on top of things - & like any mountain you climb, the closer we get to Him, the steeper the terrain. - Lisa Samson

The process of awakening or enlightenment is nothing but to empty yourself from inside, and make you encounter with the real being, where you absolutely relax yourself and feel rejuvenated to experience life again. - Roshan Sharma

Angriness is one the powerful weapon to stand up again. - viral panchal

And the ultimate question remains, To live, is it a blessing or the punishment itself ? - Charlyn Khater

Always be like a water. Float in the times of pain or dance like waves along the wind which touches its surface. - Santosh Kalwar

When painting a bad picture about someone else, paint one of yourself also. You will stop painting." - - Jelani Daniel

A half-truth is the most cowardly of lies. - Mark Twain

Happiness is a perceptual reality, not an absolute certainty. - Debasish Mridha

When I look out on such a night as this, I feel as if there could be neither wickedness nor sorrow in the world; and there certainly would be less of both if the sublimity of Nature were more attended to, and people were carried more out of themselves by contemplating such a scene. - Jane Austen

I tear at the air with glass nailsthat have learned to scalemountains of mirrors. - Valentina Cano

The horse is by Nature a very lazy animal whose idea of heaven is an enormous field of lush grass in which he can graze undisturbed until his belly is full, and after a pleasant doze can start filling himself up all over again. - Captain Elwin Hartley Edwards

One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil. - Friedrich Nietzsche

When an artist paints a flower, she borrows the beauty from nature and adds fragrance from her own heart. - Debasish Mridha

Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death! - Patrick Henry

We understand death for the first time when he puts his hand upon one whom we love - Germaine de Staël

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

To be a vegetarian is to disagree - to disagree with the course of things today... starvation, cruelty - we must make a statement against these things. Vegetarianism is my statement. And I think it's a strong one. - Isaac Bashevis Singer

The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security for the minorities. - Lord Acton

The law of evolution is that the strongest survives!' 'Yes, and the strongest, in the existence of any social species, are those who are most social. In human terms, most ethical...There is no strength to be gained from hurting one another. Only weakness. - Ursula K. Le Guin

People try to use your past against you not realizing you were using it to propel you. - Kierra C.T. Banks

A false love, begins with the eye and soon spills from the eye in pain. Where a true love, begins with the eye, and settles in the heart. - Anthony Liccione

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence -- and then success is sure. - Mark Twain

Love looks not with thine eyes, but with thine mind, Therefore is win'd Cupid painted blind. - William Shakespeare

If you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own judgment of them. And it is in your power to wipe out that judgment now. - Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year; and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all; for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied. - Sir Walter Raleigh

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

I think that true horror is accomplished by slowly getting into your brain. The old way is much more scary. - Sergio Aragonés

Religion consists in a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain of. - Mark Twain

How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy. - Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

I have nothing against youI just learned not to trust youI know its a trial and errorBut shit, I thought I'm a solver - Mr. Pessimist

Move on, sky is not limit, wind can touch you, water can dip you, mother will care you, wife will nurture you and above all, oneday you will see your child following, up above the sky; you became a star, twinkling, watching and waiting to come back again, on earth. - Santosh Kalwar

All the faces on the photographs have changed,To not confuse it all, the names remain the same - Antimatter

Though we met at the same station,we were but passing trains;on parallel lines,destined to never meet. - Timothy Joshua

Nothing brings to life again a forgotten memory like a fragrance. - Christopher Poindexter

I advise all people that have had an interaction with the police to obtain a copy of the police report, as you may find a very different story in there to what actually occurred. - Steven Magee

Line in nature is not found;Unit and universe are round;In vain produced, all rays return;Evil will bless, and ice will burn. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Half the point in reading novels and seeing plays and films is to exercise the faculty of sympathy with our own kind, so often obliterated in the multifarious controls and compulsions of actual social existence. - Germaine Greer

Sometimes when we find love we pretend it away, or ignore it, or tell ourselves we're imagining it. Because it's the most painful kind of hope there is. By indifference . By death. - Leigh Bardugo

I feel like we have to deal with things, so we realize change! Change comes after pain and pain comes after truth. Truth is hurtful. - Sara Keddar

I fear not, I see not reason for fear. In the end we will be the victors. For though at times the flame of liberty may cease to shine, the ember will never expire. - Thomas Paine

Stand firm in your refusal to remain conscious during algebra. In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra. - Fran Lebowitz

When my dad was young he shot marbles. When I was young I played Marble Madness on my Nintendo Entertainment System. - Kevin James Breaux

In this abundant earth no doubtIs little room for things worn out:Disdain them, break them, throw them by!And if before the days grew roughWe once were lov'd, us'd -- well enough,I think, we've far'd, my heart and I. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Always grow with changes and not against them. - Debasish Mridha

To dream is to desire, to desire is to long for, to long for is to want, and to want you must work to attain all you dream of, desire, long for and want. - Imania Margria

Songs. Books. Poetry. Paintings. These things reveal truth. I believe lies and truth are tangled together. - Brenda Sutton Rose

The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry.

Scripture is one of many instruments to attain the Goal (experience of pure Soul). How can it be discarded? - Dada Bhagwan

Whereas cognitive constraints on negative emotions can reduce distress, freeing positive emotions from such constraints can enhance religious experience. - Gerald L. Clore

It is well to write love letters. There are certain things for which it is not easy to ask your mistress face to face, like money for instance.

Experience, n. The wisdom that enables us to recognize as an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced. - Ambrose Bierce

You see, the world is as big as an elephant or small as a grain of sand, depending on you. You can let it stomp you, gore you, swallow you up. Or you can let it slip into your shell and turn into a pearl. -- Benjamin East - Jonathan Freedman

Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me. I see paintings or drawings in the poorest cottages, in the dirtiest corners. And my mind is driven towards these things with an irresistible momentum. - Vincent Van Gogh

A ship with a hole underneath is doomed to sink! And ignorance is also a hole in the brain, a big hole! - Mehmet Murat ildan

...the player who looks least engaged may be the most committed member of the group. A cynic, after all, is a passionate person who does not want to be disappointed again. - Benjamin Zander