Quotation Explorer - 'Ain'

But to mean it when I say that I want my life to count for His glory is to drive a stake through the heart of self - a painful and determined dying to me that must be a part of every day I live. - Louie Giglio

Where the ‘charging’ (of karma) stops, there lies the symptoms (signs) of attaining moksha. - Dada Bhagwan

Quoyle experienced moments in all colors, uttered brilliancies, paid attention to the rich sound of waves counting stones, he laughed and wept, noticed sunsets, heard music in rain, said I do. - Annie Proulx

Spend more time alone learning keep doing that and don't allow your mind to focus on worthless complaints. In a nutshell, there is no such thing you can't solve it, it's a time for your brain need to invent a solution. - Nazim Ambalath

Sometimes our freedom comes in the way we accept things over which we have no control, things which may cause us great pain and even death. - Madeleine L'Engle

sometime life is full of joy,and sometime life is full of pain and tears but we have to defeat it - Meena Khan

Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart. - Martin Luther King Jr.

A sense of having been decoyed by some world-old conspiracy into this bondage of body and soul filled her with despair. If marriage was the slow life-long acquittal of a debt contracted in ignorance, then marriage was a crime against human nature. - Edith Wharton

Power is something that is out of term. - Lena Hussain

when you are a child you unconsciously adopt certain beliefs. Yet, there comesthe necessity to upgrade these beliefs as you grow older. - Derric Yuh Ndim

I'm a born-again atheist. - Gore Vidal

To use violence against a peaceful man is the greatest immorality and the biggest rot ever! - Mehmet Murat ildan

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

If the divine creator has taken pains to give us delicious and exquisite things to eat, the least we can do is prepare them well and serve them with ceremony. - Fernand Point

Tomorrow, you promise yourself, things will be different, yet, tomorrow is too often a repetition of today. And you disappoint yourself again and again. - James T. McCay

It occurs to me that I am America.I am talking to myself again. - Allen Ginsberg

The problem with spiritual procrastination is the uncertain time of the deadline. - Kevin Thoman

The lonely tree keeps on searching for its solitude to end.....Why does the tree keep growing even when left alone, does it still want to survive, even when it knows it will remain in solitude 'till the last day...? - Nina LG

We have to teach the young that no one is out to do them any favours, even NGOs are formed for some motives, either to steal or to promote a particular person's image or that of an organisation etc.If you must get anything out of anyone, you must come with a bargaining chip. - Magnus Nwagu Amudi

I want to gain 1,500 or 2,000 yards, whichever comes first.

I had never seen such sorrow; it appalled me. And I was even more appalled by her attempts to overcome it, because they so plainly, pathetically failed and in failing opened up a view of the world I had only begun to suspect, where wounds did not heal, and things did not work out for the best - Tobias Wolff

Some people are as angry as they seem to be only because it's the safest place to hide from more pain. - Ashly Lorenzana

Arabella dangled her legs out of the bedroom window and closed her eyes. She felt a butterfly brush against her knee, rubbed her skin against the mortar and bricks, drank in the warmth of the morning sunshine on her face, her arms her feet. - Puline Fisk

The finest piece of mechanism in all the universe is the brain of man. The wise person develops his brain, and opens his mind to the genius and spirit of the world's great ideas. He will feel inspired with the purest and noblest thoughts that have ever animated the spirit of humanity. - Alfred A. Montapert

But all art is sensual and poetry particularly so. It is directly, that is, of the senses, and since the senses do not exist without an object for their employment all art is necessarily objective. It doesn't declaim or explain, it presents. - William Carlos Williams

He had a certain frankness and generosity, qualities indeed which turn to a man's ruin, unless tempered with discretion. - Cornelius Tacitus

The skin of her face,parched by the monotonous dietof salty rain,with tremendous effortgave wayto a smile. - Anna Jae

Let go of consistency, let go of certainty. Learn to live with the waves of change and uncertainty. - Debasish Mridha

It's considered good sportsmanship not to pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling. - Mark Twain

Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours. - Mark Twain

Realize that if you have time to whine and complain about something then you have the time to do something about it.

The significance of a man is not in what he attains, but rather what he longs to attain. - Kahlil Gibran

You and I, my son, are that "below." That was true in 1776. It is true today. There is no them without you, and without the right to break you they must necessarily fall from the mountain, lose their divinity, and tumble out of the Dream. - Ta-Nehisi Coates

A good name is seldom regained. When character is gone, all is gone, and one of the richest jewels of life is lost. - J. Hawes

Sculpture is what you bump into when you back up to see a painting. - Barnett Newman

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

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

I am being a minister of light and a destroyer of ignorance and I shall never keep quiet until this horrendous mountain is pulled down in my country, in the church of Christ and in my continent. - Sunday Adelaja

This would go a lot easier if you'd stop screaming in pain,' Zoe told the muscular man lying beneath her. - Jaime Rush

Forging fake smiles to hide painful truths doesn't take away the hurt, but sometimes safeguards our emotions from those adamant not to understand. - Aisha Mirza

The universe will reward you for taking risks on its behalf. - Shakti Gawain

I've had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened. - Mark Twain

When you pray for a rainbow you pray for rain too. - Matshona Dhliwayo

Mormons invented themselves just as other religious and ethnic groups invented themselves. But Mormons did so in such a singularly impressive way that we will probably always remain baffled as to how exactly it happened. - Laurence Moore

Man has his being in truth--if he sacrifices truth he sacrifices himself. Whoever betrays truth betrays himself. It is not a question of lying--but of acting against one's conviction. - Novalis

Let wisdom take a sit before you, otherwise, remain standing. - Gaberiel, Oris Smith

Knowledge alone is not born to a researcher without the presence of something else such as fear, uncertainity or hesitation, however, if this knowledge is accompanied by religion then it becomes a reason for your faith to deepen and become stronger. - Abdollah Marzoug

Always be positive, enjoy the music of rain on a rainy day. - Debasish Mridha

Warm summer sun, shine brightly here, Warm Southern wind, blow softly here, Green sod above, lie light, lie light, Good night, dear heart; good night, good night. - Mark Twain

Something good about love: if you fall in it, you will not feel any pain. - Debasish Mridha

Okay, time to play doctor.Her entire body quivered, sending yes please vibes to her brain. Luckily her mouth intercepted them. Sure, if I can be the doctor.His mouth curved. I’m willing to take turns, but me first. - Jill Shalvis

The definition of tragedy is when people do not communicate yet struggle to conceal the pain. - Ken Poirot

When the business people get done with the arts, all that’s left will be entertainment. - Daniel R. Thorne

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

So as a prince is forced to know how to act like a beast, he must learn from the fox and the lion; becouse the lion is defenceless against traps and the fox is defenceless against wolves. Therefore one must be a fox in order to recognise traps and lion to frighten off wolves.

For the modern consciousness, the artist (replacing the saint) is the exemplary sufferer. And among artists, the writer, the man of words, is the person to whom we look to be able best to express his suffering. - Susan Sontag

Every disability conceals a vocation, if only we can find it, which will 'turn the necessity to glorious gain. - C.S. Lewis

Writers have two main problems. One is writer's block, when the words won't come at all and the other is logorrhea, when the words come so fast that they can hardly get to the wastebasket in time.

Love and compassion are the creating and sustaining elements of humanity, without them humanity will be inhumane. - Debasish Mridha

[For the genuine believer] There are moments in life when God's pursuit of us seems like that of a persistent mosquito, constantly buzzing around our heads and causing us pain, and we are utterly powerless to shake him off. - Ian M. Duguid

What you feel is making sense could really be dramatized nonsense. So think again. - Debasish Mridha

There can be no law of nature, no science,No aberrant infliction of human willThat unchained the soul cannot conquer,Simply sweep away, should it chose to. - Scott Hastie

Embrace pain. Channel it properly to grow stronger and more resilient. Turn negatives into positives. Change your perspective. Love yourself - Independent Zen

The freedom to choose...means the freedom to make mistakes, to falter and fail, to come face-to-face with your own flaws and limitations and fears and secrets, to live with the terrible uncertainty that necessarily attends the construction of a self. - Caroline Knapp

The pain we cause will haunt our memories and eat at our souls. I do not seek forgiveness, only the emptiness of death. - Harley King

We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for honest men to live in. - Thomas Paine

When pain is intense, you are at a climax. You can then see the light of transcendence. - Debasish Mridha

Midnight sail and moonlight. I remember sunset, and gentle breeze. Leaving the city lights behind, and gazing at the moon. Mountains of clouds. Waves slapping our boat. It was easy to forget that love has no direction, or need for compass. Let it guide you to its destination. ~ , 2016 - Fidelis O Mkparu

And much like the despairity of the woman who can never bear children, my dreams can never bear fruit. They are the mountains I can never climb.The hurdles I can never leap.The seas I can never cross. The skies I can never look up to.Yet, I adopt them. Unblemished.Guilt-free. - Chirag Tulsiani

Courtship is driven by hormones; marriage is sustained by humility and self-sacrifice. - Ron Brackin

The truth has not so much set us free as it has ripped away a carefully constructed facade, leaving us naked to begin again. - Lisa Unger

It isn't discomfort, or dis-ease as he put it. It's this aching, throbbing, god-awful incurable pain - and it's known as life. When will the doctors learn: It isn't death that's the disease. - Wendy Law-Yone

I had every reason to quit, but you were the reason I wanted it all again. - Karen A. Baquiran

No matter how scary the road ahead may seem, never be afraid to chase your dreams. - Melaina Rayne

Broken GlassI watched herBeardlessWith little ego,FightingOn top ofThe ceiling,Like CinderellaIn high heelsLooking forHer glass slippersNo ties required!! - Charmaine J Forde

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

Unless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless. - Audre Lorde

God uses broken things. It takes broken soil to produce a crop, broken clouds to give rain, broken grain to give bread, broken bread to give strength. It is the broken alabaster box that gives forth perfume. It is Peter, weeping bitterly, who returns to greater power than ever. - Vance Havner

It's better to burn out than to fade away. - Kurt Cobain

With Money we bought the House, with Love we made it our Home! - Barkha Chainani

I get a fine warm feeling when I'm doing well, but that pleasure is pretty much negated by the pain of getting started each day. Let's face it, writing is hell. - William Styron

The greatness comes not when things go always good for you. But the greatness comes when you're really tested, when you take some knocks, some disappointments, when sadness comes. Because only if you've been in the deepest valley can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain. - Richard M. Nixon

Enjoy the tiny unexplainable second. You can learn whatever you want. - Jerril Thomas Abraham

I can’t do small talk really, and that’s fine. I've got old friends and family that love me, thank God. I’m grateful for what a city gives you access to, but I do feel that I’m only here until I figure out how to get out again. - Laura Marling

When my children complain that I'm forgetful, I remind them that DAD is just ADD spelled sideways. - Harvey Stanbrough

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

Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity. - Frank Leahy

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

Reading is no substitute for action. - Colleen Wainwright

Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both

...and then she realized: they WERE all alike! - Anne Taintor

the great mountain when seen from a distance shall always seem closer to us but to get to it, and to climb to its apex to get the best view, we may need to take and experience the real walk with resilience and tenacity. - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Our failures make us who we are; they build our character, we are defined by what we do with them, and how we respond to adversity. Without failure there is no growth, no striving for better, no adjusting, or dusting yourself off to try again. - J.W. Lord

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

I shall never have a bath again," I said. "Just dont have one too often," my grandmother said. "Once a month is quite enough for a sensible child." It was at times like these that I loved my grandmother more than ever. - Roald Dahl

Health is the great blessing of God. - Muhammad Zain

Religion is a defense against the experience of God. - Carl Jung

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

I'm against a homogenized society, because I want the cream to rise. - Robert Frost

Nothing awakens the conscience like a lot of money. - P. Sainath

Let go of your pain and heal your wounds. - Lailah Gifty Akita

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

It's sad to see the world live in ignorance full of pain only enjoyed luxuriously by the few stupid greedy ones. - Auliq Ice

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

Nature already uses the language of mathematics, so why not work with the environment instead of against it. We need to start mimicking the mathematical logic that occurs in the landscape, identify existing systems, and out of those concepts create new ones. - Yafreisy Carrero

I will still be the girl with dreams, even the dreams come true - Ainun Annisa

It was horrible of a young girl to let herself be talked about; however unfounded the charges against her, she must be to blame for their having been made. - Edith Wharton

Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do. - Saint Thomas Aquinas

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

He who flees will fight again...

Strong faith doesn’t give up; it maintainsthe confession. You can change any hopeless situation with your faith-filled confessions. - Brighton Sbusiso Mabuya

All POOR wish to become RICH,BUT all RICH wish the POOR remain POOR. - shaikh mustafa

Only the insane is absolutely certain. - Robert Anton Wilson

America is not a mere body of traders; it is a body of free men. Our greatness-built upon freedom-is moral, not material. we have a great ardor for gain; but we have a deep passion for the rights of man. - Woodrow Wilson

And now you are and I am and we're a mystery which will never happen again. - E.E. Cummings

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

Writers are alphabet artists. The blank page becomes their canvas as they paint pictures with words. - Barbara Case Speers

Brains are like toddlers. They are wonderful and should be treasured, but that doesn’t mean you should trust them to take care of you in an avalanche or process serotonin effectively. - Jenny Lawson

Falling in love you remain a child; rising in love you mature. By and by love becomes not a relationship, it becomes a state of your being. Not that you are in love - now you are love. - Osho

Some experimenters have reported that an angry face pops out of a crowd of happy faces, but a single happy face does not stand out in an angry crowd. The brains of humans and other animals contain a mechanism that is designed to give priority to bad news. - Daniel Kahneman

Time is a terrible thing because it can erase both joys and pains. - Gosho Aoyama

If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supporting you; but if not, you have infinite power against you.

He who is dying of hunger must be fed rather than taught. - Saint Thomas Aquinas

Pain is an illusion, an illusion that really really hurts! - Check 'Grin' Hardwing

If you have a sharp brain, then you are an artist. - mohammad rishad sakhi

The pain of being alone is completely out of this world, isn't it? I don't know why, but I understand your feelings so much, it actually hurts. - Masashi Kishimoto

Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood. I had, as I now think vainly, flattered myself that, without very much bloodshed, it might be done. - John Brown

Never let your education interfere with your learning. - Mark Twain

If anybody tries to penetrate the past with the knife of the present will always act in vain. The past is invulnerable. Such attempts can only cause the present or the future to bleed." - Gregor Brand - Simon Schwartz

When people write you off, just start again as if you don't belong to this world and see miracle happening! - Ramana Pemmaraju

He talked about the future with such certainty, he might have been talking about the past. - Michael Dobbs

Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. - Thomas Paine

Until divinity decides to reveal the future to human kind, the sum of all human wisdom is contained in these two words: Wait and Hope. - Alexandre Dumas

We inhereit from our ancestors gifts so often taken for granted... Each of us contains within... this inheritance of soul. We are links between the ages, containing past and present expectations, sacred memories and future promise. - Edward Sellner

Life is full of disparate details arbitrarily joined together by dreams, pain and yearning. I do not long for sense, but I call for emotion and imagination amidst this chaos. - Juhani Peltonen

People are so busy polishing their past, that they forget to paint their future. - Himanshu Vassanpal

Brushing the clouds away from my eyes, I see clarity in the raindrop and beauty in the first ray of morning sun...Life is strange and wondrous... - Virginia Alison

A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. - Leopold Stokowski

I must fling myself down and writhe; I must strive with every piece of force I possess; I bruise and batter myself against the floor, the walls; I strain and sob and exhaust myself, and begin again, and exhaust myself again; but do I feel pain? Never. How can I feel pain? There is no place for it. - Harry Houdini

I swooned again – I had that moment of falling in love with reading again. - Christos Tsiolkas

This is pretty much what journals are all about, at least to me. I knew as I wrote them that even though they provided an excellent place for brain (and heart, and psyche) dump, they were mainly a map of me. - Colleen Wainwright

Sesungguhnya malam lah sahabat terbaik, sebab dia selalu ada disaat yang lain terlelap. - yunus susilo

Meaning grows in the mind, but the shape and form of the act remains. - Ralph Ellison

If you are humble you will never have to struggle against positive change. - Paul Bamikole

If you hear that everybody is buying a certain stock, ask who is selling. - Anonymous

We have the power to move mountain, if we have faith that the mountain can be moved. - Compton Gage

Soul mates don’t finally meet somewhere at a certain place at a certain time, they’re in each other, all along. - T L Swan

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

Everything has changed. . . except the way we think. The aim [of education] must be the training of independently acting and thinking individuals, who, however, see in the service of community their highest life problems - Albert Einstein

In the conditions of modern life the rule is absolute, the race which does not value trained intelligence is doomed. - Alfred North Whitehead

In this world, whenever there is light, there are also shadows. As long as the concept of winners exist, there must also be losers. The selfish desire of wanting to maintain peace causes wars and hatred is born to protect love. - Masashi Kishimoto

The truth is always an abyss. One must — as in a swimming pool — dare to dive from the quivering springboard of trivial everyday experience and sink into the depths, in order to later rise again — laughing and fighting for breath — to the now doubly illuminated surface of things. - Franz Kafka

Never lose sight of this important truth, that no one can be truly great until he has gained a knowledge of himself, a knowledge which can only be acquired by occasional retirement. - Johann Georg von Zimmermann

Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love. - Jane Austen

I am so busy being kind today that I have no time to complain. - Debasish Mridha

The great trouble with religion - any religion - is that a religionist, having accepted certain propositions by faith, cannot thereafter judge those propositions by evidence. One may bask at the warm fire of faith or choose to live in the bleak uncertainty of reason - but one cannot have both. - Robert A. Heinlein

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter. - Mark Twain

You'll never find a rainbow if you're looking down - Charlie Chaplin

When a writer tries to explain too much, he's out of time before he begins. - Isaac Bashevis Singer

Beyond Islam and unbelief there is a desert plain. For us, there is a passion in the midst of that expanse. The knower who reaches there will prostrate, there is neither Islam nor unbelief, nor any 'where' in that place. - Jalaluddin Rumi

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

I love him in ways that I can’t explain to other people. They don’t understand… it’s not their fault. - Jennifer Elisabeth

Manusia Indonesia tidak jera ditangkap sebagai koruptor, tetapi berpikir besok harus lebih matang strategi korupsinya. Mereka melakukan hal-hal melebihi saran setan dan ajaran iblis, pada saat yang sama bersikap melebihi Tuhan dan Nabi - Emha Ainun Nadjib

I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way. - Mark Twain

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander. - Abraham Lincoln

Don't do what you want. Do what you don't want. Do what you're trained not to want. Do the things that scare you the most. - Chuck Palahniuk

For me, it's always a little sad getting out of bed. Every morning after I get up, I always gaze longingly at my bed and lament, 'You were wonderful last night. I didn't want it to end. I can't wait to see you again. - Jim Gaffigan

Joy of harvest belongs only to those who endure the pain of sowing. - Sunday Adelaja

No matter what kind of circumstances come together, if one’s stillness is not shaken and his goal does not change; he is known to have attained religion. - Dada Bhagwan

Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them. - Blaise Pascal

Here are my strong reservations about the wave of computer networks. They isolate us from one another and cheapen the meaning of actual experience. They work against literacy and creativity. They undercut our schools and libraries. - Clifford Stoll

When you lose a friend or a lover, those who remain in your life gain (more of your attention). - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind. - Miguel de Cervantes.

with a fresh breath comes a vision aheadmight be today, tomorrow or or further and beyondwarm up to that event, it may be that ride one only hopes formuch like water at times may pass between thru the fingersgrasp firm to retain, cherish the light and look beyond and above... - levi paul taylor

What is the purpose of writing? For me personally, it is really to explain the mystery of life, and the mystery of life includes, of course, the personal, the political, the forces that make us what we are while there's another force from inside battling to make us something else. - Nadine Gordimer

I want to live not for selfish gain, but for selfless devotion. - Tanner Di Bella

Being friendless taught me how to be a friend. Funny how that works. - Colleen Wainwright

Fear of living onNatives getting restless nowMutiny in the airGot some death to doMirror stares back hardKill, it's such a friendly wordSeems the only wayFor reaching out again. - Metallica Welcome Home Sanitarium

From the systems point of view, it is evident that one of the main obstacles to organizational change is the — largely unconscious — embrace by business leaders of the mechanistic approach to management. - Fritjof Capra

People that don’t move will never notice the chains they carry. - Shannon L. Alder

implementation of thoughts is attainedby few and so is success - shivangi lavaniya

The best education consists in immunizing people against systematic attempts at education. - Paul Karl Feyerabend

Don't stand in traffic and complain about all the cars. - Andreas Codispoti

If they were there for you when you had nothing, they are the ones worth having now. If they only notice you because of what you have gained, are they worth having at all? - Donna Lynn Hope

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

Making decisions about whether to keep and how to organize objects requires categorization skills, confidence in one's ability to remember, and sustained attention. To maintain order, one also needs the ability to efficiently assess the value or utility of an object.

Dovie'andi se tovya sagain! - Robert Jordan

Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world. - C.S. Lewis

You were standing in the wake of devastation And you were waiting on the edge of the unknown And with the cataclysm raining down Insides crying "Save me now" You were there, impossibly alone - Linkin Park

‎"But when I fell in love with black, it contained all color. It wasn’t a negation of color. It was an acceptance. Because black encompasses all colors. Black is the most aristocratic color of all.... You can be quiet and it contains the whole thing." Happy birthday to (1899-1988)! - Louise Nevelson

That’s the dream of sex, isn’t it? That you will be liberated from the prison of the body by the body itself, at long last desired, its strange tongue understood. - Olivia Laing

She smashes her knuckles into winterAs autumn's wind fades into blackShe is the saint of all the sinners,the one whose fallen through the cracks...(iViva la Gloria!) - Green Day

Rosie loved Tom. Rosie had always loved Tom and, although she was unable to measure "always" in terms of years and months, this made perfect sense to her. Their love was not constrained by the mortal bonds of time; it was eternal, ageless and ancient beyond all recollection and record. - Tanya Bullock

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

Art makes murder into the supreme image of Beauty and in doing so sets free the vengeful God. (referring to Jean Lorrain's LE VICE ERRANT) - Jennifer Birkett

The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting. - Milan Kundera

I dream, I test my dreams against my beliefs, I dare to take risks, and I execute my vision to make those dreams come true. - Walt Disney

Life is difficult and painful, but if you keep moving forward the final destination makes all of the pain worth it. - Seth Adam Smith

When indeed does the temporal suffering oppress a man most terribly? Is it not when it seems to him that it has no significance, that it neither secures nor gains anything for him? Is it not when the suffering, as the impatient man expresses it, is without meaning or purpose? - Søren Kierkegaard

And as light as the rain seems, it still rains down on you. - Claudia Rankine

If you can remain aware of your awareness, that is the present state of mind. - Roshan Sharma

Only one thing remained reachable, close and secure amid all losses: language. Yes, language. In spite of everything, it remained secure against loss. - Paul Celan

We shouldn't be fearful of failure because is not a monster as we think it is. It's just a training ground for those who are really striving for excellence in life. - Euginia Herlihy

When life is forgiving enough to bless you with a minute, a second, of happiness, there's nothing to do but savor the moment, however odd or unexpected or foolish the source might be.Because who knows when those moments will grace us again. - Rebecca Harris - If It Kills Me

Peace and trust take years to build and seconds to shatter. - Mahogany SilverRain

Conventional names define a person's past: ancestry, ethnicity, nationality, religion. I am not who I was ten years ago and certainly not who I will be in twenty years - FM-2030

Then we got into a labyrinth, and, when we thought we were at the end,came out again at the beginning, having still to see as much as ever. - Plato

Having a dream, living that dream, losing that dream, dreaming again and then having that dream come true again is one of the greatest feelings ever because I`m stronger. - Aaron Carter

The mind cannot live in nature, only against nature, only as its counterpart. - Hermann Hesse

Have patience with everything unresolved in you heart and try to love the questions themselves. It is possible to live and not know. - Rainer Maria Rilke

The two brothers who sought to get their only family back, to feel her warmth, one lost his last family member and the other could never feel warmth again.The one who wanted her baby back lost chance of having one again,And the one who had a vision to see his country change became blind. - Hiromu Arakawa

You Hang on to your pain like it means something; like it's worth something. Well, let me tell you, it's not worth shit, so let it go. Infinite Possibilities and all you can do is whine.""Well, what am I supposed to do?""What do you think? You can do anything, you lucky bastard; You're alive! - Nancy Oliver

If you're unloved then find out and destroy all the barriers that you have created against love. - Debasish Mridha

A vision without action is called a daydream; but then again, action without a vision is called a nightmare. - Jim Sorensen

But search the land of living men, Wher wilst thou find their like again.

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

It's not my brain that's writing the book, it's these hands of mine. - Madeleine L'Engle

Unaweza kusaliti nchi kwa sababu za kiitikadi, kisiasa, matatizo ya akili, au pesa. Ukifanya hivyo na ukabainika; utawajibika kwa adhabu ya kifo, au maisha. - Enock Maregesi

Many call it the 1000 yard stare and can't realize the pain when PTSD takes us there - Stanley Victor Paskavich

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

There's no secret on how to attain a greater height, just keep climbing the ladder, don't look at the dreadful distance, lock up that negative thoughts today, and fulfil your dreams. - Michael Bassey Johnson

I figure, sometimes, bad things happen to us so we can achieve a higher purpose and attain greater happiness and fulfillment in life. - Omoakhuana Anthonia

Let it be a small gain or big gain never do lesser than one's ability, let it be a pain or a pleasure never accept more than one's share. - Amit Kalantri

She knew the way of things. She knew ifyou weren't always stepping lightly as a bird the wholeworld came apart to crush you. Like a house of cards.Like a bottle against stones. Like a wrist pinned hardbeneath a hand with the hot breath smell of want andwine. . . . - Patrick Rothfuss

It’s not about getting over things, it’s about making room for them. It’s about painting the picture with contrast. - Brianna Wiest

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

For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream. - Vincent Van Gogh

My art is an act of creation and destruction, with all the sorrow and joy these engender as well as all the shadow and light these contain. - Kathryn V. White

Sometimes, to remain silent is to lie, since silence can be interpreted as assent. - Miguel de Unamuno

Science/horror/Non-Fiction/Technology/Music/Games/Space... these are the subjects of future. The other again will develop but not with such speed like these here. - Deyth Banger

Illusion (moha) is to take a beating and then forget, to take another beating and then forget again. - Dada Bhagwan

The coolly logical part of her brain noted almost sardonically that Edilio had a superpower after all: being Edilio. - Michael Grant

Put your sunglasses on, because you ain't going home till the morning comes. - Frank Sinatra

If he aint tellin his boys about you, you aint the one. - Genereux Philip

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

What manner of mind considers this holy estate [pregnancy] which women are privileged by the Almighty to attain as a slur upon the social conscience? - Grantly Dick-Read

I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage - Friedrich Nietzsche

Here's champagne for our real friends, and real pain for our sham friends. - Mardy Grothe

The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco. - Mark Twain

We are wise when we learn from one another. We are strong when we contain our impulses. We are honored when we honor others.

Know your purpose and you can climb any mountain. - Sascha Bosio

I thought if only we could go onand meet again, shy as strangers. - Lisel Mueller

Language is the source of misunderstandings. - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Move towards your dreams inch by inch or suffer the pain of regret. - Matthew Donnelly

You never push a noun against a verb without trying to blow up something. - H.L. Mencken

I hated these visits, because I kept feeling the visitors measuring my fat and stringy hair against what I had been and what they wanted me to be, and I knew they went away utterly confounded. - Sylvia Plath

REFLECTION, n. An action of the mind whereby we obtain a clearer view of our relation to the things of yesterday and are able to avoid the perils that we shall not again encounter. - Ambrose Bierce

Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain. - Richard M. Nixon

A goal without a plan is just a wish. - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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

Talent is an art of gaining admiration! - Mehmet Murat ildan

Ambition built n the pain of others has no nobility or substance - rassool jibraeel snyman

Calligraphy of geeseagainst the sky-the moon seals it. - Yosa Buson

The victim mindset will have you dancing with the devil, then complaining that you're in hell. - Steve Maraboli

Faith is your anchor and sustainer in the new season. Faith that the one who called us is faithful. Faith helps you see in the dark. And when you feel like you can't see, Faith steadies your heart to trust what you know. What is true. - T.D. Jakes

You are brighter than the sunlight and bolder than a rainbow. You are the reason spring was created in the first place. - Toni Sorenson

Be thankful for every mountain, because it's the mountain top that will give you best view of the world. - Gugu Mona

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

It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor. - Neil Gaiman

Our main purpose of life is to be happy. Happiness is in simplicity, and the most amazing things about life is that it is so simple. - Debasish Mridha

Please DO waste art materials. Use paper. Empty paint jars. Deplete pens. if it's teaching you stuff, it's not being wasted. - Danny Gregory

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

One gains more from a fast than a feast. - Matshona Dhliwayo

Humor is just another defense against the universe. - Mel Brooks

If you Love Happy Life,Save EARTH from getting more dirty & abused.I will be GREEN again … Tree's inner voice - krvishal

You will NEVER Accomplish until you tried AGAIN. - Raajesh Pillai

Gaining control over your health and well-being is one of those times in your life that you get to be completely selfish and not feel bad about it. If you want to meet your goals, you have to make it about you. You have to make it work for you and you alone. Anything less is a setup for failure.

If love becomes too painful, then it's time to let that love go and save yourself. You have to keep this in mind because you'll be able to find another love but not another self. - Robert Tew

I'm very pleased with each advancing year. It stems back to when I was forty. I was a bit upset about reaching that milestone, but an older friend consoled me. 'Don't complain about growing old - many, many people do not have that privilege.' - Earl Warren

Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing - peace is the measure. - George Melton

Well, I would - if they realized that we - again if - if we led them back to that stalemate only because that our retaliatory power, our seconds, or strike at them after our first strike, would be so destructive that they couldn't afford it, that would hold them off. - Ronald Reagan

In the end,The treasure of life is missed by those who hold on and gained by those who let go. - Lao Tzu

True freedom is a freedom with clear boundaries. True freedom understands the real essence of do’s and don’ts. A freedom without restrictions that brings comfort is a freedom in chains. - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

I was starting to hate my sixteenth birthday. A poufy white dress and a cake with roses made out of pink icing and awkward dancing with boys in awkward suits was starting to sound like a great alternative. Seriously. Sign my up, I wouldn't even complain. - Alyxandria Harvey

Like a kiss, the pain which envelops us will leave and in it's place there will be an empty pit. - Colten Charles Baker

Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass. - John Steinbeck

Look in Kego’s defense he was only Nine and a half when he took command of the ship and she had been put way off course by her captain and you lot would all be dead if it wasn’t for him.Jenny Smith In The Navigator by - Steve Merrick

The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something and what it saw in a plain way. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion--all in one. - John Ruskin

The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all. - H. L. Mencken

Adapt to your surrounding but remain flexible for growing. - Ashley Porter

Everything hurts right now and nothing is helping because as the pain is getting worse — so is the love. - Jennifer Elisabeth

The trouble with eating Italian is that 5 or 6 days later, you're hungry again. - George Miller

If you can't ignore imperfections, then your imaginary ideal soulmate will always remain pending till you grow old and die. - Michael Bassey Johnson

Sustainable life is Victory. - Elizabeth Salalmanca-Brosig

We can say that Muad'Dib learned rapidly because his first training was in how to learn. And the first lesson of all was the basic trust that he could learn. - Frank Herbert

A vontade fala, ainda quando a natureza se cala. - Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a critic for life. - Henry Van Dyke

I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best - Frida Kahlo

True education does not fill our minds with facts but teach us how to think to gain wisdom. - Debasish Mridha

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

What we gain in the world, we lose in the world, forgotten in death. We must rather fancy what we brought into the world, for therein lives our story, our legend. - Palle Oswald

You are correct in saying that desires often come from things we cannot easily gain - mine, being that of your love. By all accounts, I do wish I could steal it. But I am not that sort of man. I will wait. Forever and a day...I will wait. - Renee Vincent

A painting is a universal language which everyone can read, understand, and interpret in his own way through the power of imagination. - Debasish Mridha

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

Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners. - Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

rindu adalah badai yang mengkaramkan perahu hingga tiada yang terapung di lautan hati selain dia yang dirindu - Riza Rahmi

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

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

Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof. - Ashley Montague

God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that I will never die. - Bill Watterson

When you take a stand against injustice inflicted upon innocent people, there will be those who will hate you for it. - Ellen J. Barrier

Making fun of born-again Christians is like hunting dairy cows with a high powered rifle and scope. - P.J. O'Rourke

There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun - Pablo Picasso

Love ain't nothing but sex misspelled. - Harlan Ellison

Man's main task is to give birth to himself. - Erich Fromm

I go with the flow but I write against it. - Tamara Jasmine Burrell

Sacred cows make the best hamburger. - Mark Twain

My sun sets to rise again. - Robert Browning

Please, hate me if you have to, never speak to me again, but don't settle for someone you don't love because I hurt you - Katherine Allred

Oh, I'm starting to cry again. That's what happens when you think about life being fair. And I can't explain why it isn't . . . I don't think it's something anybody knows. - L.J. Smith

You can invoke neither time nor space nor matter not energy nor the laws of nature to explain the origin of the universe. General relativity points to the need for a cause that transcends those domains. ~Stephen C. Meyer, PHD~ - Lee Strobel

Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected. - Chuck Jones

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

Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty. - Oscar Wilde

It is in vain to expect our prayers to be heard. - Aesop

I held my breath tightly against the shivers coursing through my body. Darkness ate away the edges of my vision and numbness stole away my fingers. I kept holding though. Watching the last bubble of precious air escape my lips. Then it became all black. But I never let go. - Hubert Martin

I left that church with rich and royal hatred of the priest as a person, and a loathing for the church as an institution, and I vowed that I would never go inside a church again.[, describing his teenage reaction to a hellfire lecture by a priest] - Eugene V. Debs

In a certain sense the past is far more real, or at any rate more stable, more resilient than the present. The present slips and vanishes like sand between the fingers, acquiring material weight, only in its recollection. - Andrei Tarkovsky

We all have a grain of god in us. We do get opportunities to realize it, when moments in life demand selfless deeds of compassion from us. But we often squander them. - Ashok Kallarakkal

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. - William Shakespeare

In this remarkable time for the world, I refuse to believe it's time to stop believing in the possibilities of our remarkable country. I refuse to accept the downsizing of the American Dream. I refuse to bet against American entrepreneurial spirit and American ingenuity. - John Kerry

All you ever were was a little bit of the universe, thinking to itself. - Iain M. Banks

Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future and time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present all time is unredeemable.

To obtain wealth beyond measure, seek to make more friends than money. - Richelle E. Goodrich

To avoid the pain of loss, give up attachment. - Debasish Mridha

There's gon' be some stuff you gon' seethat's gon' make it hard to smile in the future.But through whatever you see,through all the rain and the pain,you gotta keep your sense of humor.You gotta be able to smile through all this bullshit.Remember that. - Tupac Shakur

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

If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well. - Martin Luther King Jr.

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

One of the most difficult things in the world is to convince a woman that even a bargain costs money. - E.W. Howe

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

Did you make a mistake today? Did you do or say something that you’re ashamed of? Congratulations. You are officially human. Love yourself, especially when you’re aching with shame or regret. Make your amends, learn the lesson, and love your wondrous human self. - Margaret Moss Painter

Time laughs in the distance as I cling to the belief memories of you will fade. - Raine Cooper

Everyone understands the pain that accompanies death,but genuine pain doesn't live in the spirit,nor in the air, nor in our lives,nor on these terraces of billowing smoke.The genuine pain that keeps everything awakeis a tiny, infinite burnon the innocent eyes of other systems. - Federico García Lorca

Be not the slave of your own past - plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so you shall come back with new self-respect, with new power, and with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Just like the devil is against God. I think the so called love is against success. Tryna slow people's lives. - Cyc Jouzy

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

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

24 hours a day, ain't enough anymore! But give some a Century a day and procrastination would still be their undoing. - Nike Thaddeus

On the canvas of life we often go off colour, but as long as there are special people to add the right shades.. Life goes on to be a rainbow. - Pravinee Hurbungs

And the pine trees that smell so wonderfully of spicy power. Shall I never see a mountain pine again? Really that would be no misfortune. To forgo something: that also has its fragrance and its power. - Robert Walser

It's not in the interests of the self-serving government to educate the masses to the point where they are smart enough to see through the bullshit - because then people will be too smart to vote for them again. - Christina Engela

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

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

There are ghosts of yourself scattered everywhere,Whispers of a moment suspended in time,Where every life that you've brushed up againstNow lives with a piece of you trapped in their mind. - Erin Hanson

Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - either by themselves or by others. - Mark Twain

The mind-is not the heart.I may yet live, as I know others live,To wish in vain to let go with the mind-Of cares, at night, to sleep; but nothing tells meThat I need learn to let go with the heart. - Robert Frost

If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain. - Emily Dickinson

My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them. - Walter Landor

Travel is fatal to narrowmindedness, prejudice and bigotry. - Mark Twain

I don't believe in pessimism. If something doesn't come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it's going to rain, it will. - Clint Eastwood

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

When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong--or absolutely right. - Albert Guinon

What sense is there in pain at all—however we contrive it for ourselves as we cast about for ways to bind up the wound between us and God? - Anne Carson

When you are angry, do not speak, but close your eyes. You can regain your inner peace with a word of prayer. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Suffering can bend & break us. But it can also break us open to become the persons God intended us to be. It depends on what we do with the pain. If we offer it back to God, He will use it to do great things in us & through us, because suffering is fertile... it an grow new life. - John Green

Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer. - Rainer Maria Rilke

No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong is what is against it. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

The single thing all women need in the world is inspiration, and inspiration comes from storytelling. - Zainab Salbi

Don’t complain about difficult situations. They contain in them the motivation to succeed. - Chinonye J. Chidolue

If there is anyone who owes everything to Bach, it is certainly God. - Emil Cioran

Being insulted again and again it doesn't mean that you haven't self respect. It means that you value someone most. - Abhishek Rai

It's interesting how pain can change a person, eh? How it makes a man abandon his pride and forsake himself. - Kichiku Neko

Loving you is loosing my soul,I was in a lost battle, Death at my door,A dog in a backyard feels for my pain,Beer in a broken bottle wet paint and rain. - Table No. 21

There are mystically in our faces certain characters which carry in them the motto of our souls, wherein he that cannot read A, B, C may read our natures. - Thomas Browne

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

Certain emotions bridge the years and link unlikely places. - V.S. Naipaul

Necessity never made a good bargain. - Benjamin Franklin

I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one. - Mark Twain

What is the body complex (pudgal)? It is influx and outflow (puran-galan); it is credit and debit. And if you attain knowledge of the Soul, the Self, then you will attain Moksha (liberation). - Dada Bhagwan

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

At the end of the day, all I have to cherish are human relationships. Your worldly wealth you can't take away with you, your life has been lived. It is the friends you have made, your family ties, which sustain your spirit with a certain warmth and comfort.-LKY at 80: 80 quotes from a life (2003) - LKY on LIFE

I'm restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again. - Anaïs Nin

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

The Piper's playing again, and there's a full orchestra.' There was a long silence as Andrew deciphered the cryptic statement. 'A FULL orchestra? - D.J. Stutley

I look into your eyes and I’m sure that some divine artist dipped her brush in the same soul and used it to paint us both. - Cristen Rodgers

...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

My favorite thing to do is watch her sleep, when she’s at total ease, not stressing about her imperfections — imperfections I find perfect. - Nancee Cain

You will certainly not be able to take the lead in all things yourself, for to one man a god has given deeds of war, and to another the dance, to another lyre and song, and in another wide-sounding Zeus puts a good mind. - Homer

You can't attack the giants in your life, if you are not aiming to strike and hit the target. You can't run a race in vain, if you have no plans to win or finish it. Start, strive and aim high...never give up. Your best is yet to come! - Kemi Sogunle

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

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

We have to distrust each other. It's our only defense against betrayal. - Tennessee Williams

First you must face your own reality in the present, here and now! If you fail to do that, if you do not obtain first-hand experience from it, there will be no deep, far-reaching changes in you. - Frank Wanderer

Feels pain when the love of one hand clapping but more painful when the person you love turns out never happy living with you.Sakit rasanya bila cinta bertepuk sebelah tangan tapi lebih sakit bila orang yang kamu cintai ternyata tak pernah bahagia hidup bersamamu - M.Rivai

The difference between hope and despair is a different way of telling stories from the same facts. - Alain de Botton

Life is full of joy and beauty. Look around and notice it. Notice the little butterfly, a little baby with a smile, and the white rose in the garden. Notice a drop of dew on a green leaf in the morning sun. Touch the wind, smell the rain, and feel the joy. Live your life with beauty and joy. - Debasish Mridha

It matters not what my brain knows, but what my heart feels. - Raneem Kayyali

Libertarianism holds that the only proper role of violence is to defend person and property against violence, that any use of violence that goes beyond such just defense is itself aggressive, unjust, and criminal - Murray N. Rothbard

You're the certainty of my uncertainty. Your significance defines the love and connection I have for you and I wanna thank you because you help me grow to become my full self and contribute meaningfully to this world we're both in. - Jayson Engay

For certain people after 50, litigation takes the place of sex. - Gore Vidal

Trust more in God. Believe that He who created you will maintain you.

I miss you so much! And while this hole in my heart will never be filled again, I find comfort knowing that you are nestled within the loving embrace of God… and that I was blessed to know you… even if only for a little while. - Steve Maraboli

In this world of dreams, drifting off still more; and once again speaking and dreaming of dreams. Just let it be. - Ryokan

Democracy is not freedom. Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to eat for lunch. Freedom comes from the recognition of certain rights which may not be taken, not even by a 99% vote. - Marvin Simkin

And sometimes you realize the value of the rain by knowing how unreliable and vanishing the rainbow is. - Nur Bedeir

We must beware of trying to build a society in which nobody counts for anything except a politician or an official, a society where enterprise gains no reward and thrift no privileges. - Sir Winston Churchill

When engaged in eating, the brain should be the servant of the stomach. - Agatha Christie

You can not have empty or neutral mind, as long as you work the mind will contain dreams, if you stop working it will contain regrets. - Amit Kalantri

I hear many people share with me that they just 'have to do this thing' before they can relax and slow down.The truth is that taking the time to be still and reflective actually increases productivity and gives more joy to what you're doing when it's time to take action again. - Maria Erving

Embrace the pain to inherit the gain. - Habeeb Akande

If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle. - Sun-Tzu

We cannot destroy kindred: Our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break. - Marie de Rabutin-Chantal

All struggles against oppression in the modern woeld begin by redefining what had previously been consideered private, non-public and non-political issues as matters of public concern, as issues of justice, as sites of power. - Şeyla Benhabib

Let your discomfort and pain push you into something new. - Sunday Adelaja

Do not allow consumerism to dictate your spiritual practice. You need nothing more than your focused attention to gain enlightenment. - Gary Hopkins

I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. ... These two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death. - George Carlin

Hate will cause you to "catch a case". Release yourself from your own personal jail before you are put in the real one for life! It ain't worth it!! - Anita R. Sneed-Carter

Time alone is the gift of self-entertainment - and that is the font of creativity - Lin-Manuel Miranda

How do I recognize a real saint? Whom I shall see within me whether it is in dreams or trances or meditations, He will be the Saint to me. Because God is the only Saint in this world. He is within our bodies. When He will manifest within my body in the form of a person, he will be saint to me. - Jibankrishna

I miss you so much. Maybe if I say your name over and over again, it will eventually feel wrong to me. Like a word you write too many times suddenly doesn't look right anymore. I will try that. - Kate McGahan

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

Nothing is so strong as gentleness. Nothing so gentle as real strength. - Saint Francis de Sales

My brain has a mind of its own. - Kiara Maharaj

It is not that I believe that there are too many idiots in this world, just that lightning isn't distributed right. - Mark Twain

But in the expression of the countenance, which was beaming all over with smiles, there still lurked (incomprehensible anomaly!) that fitful stain of melancholy which will ever be found inseparable from the perfection of the beautiful. - Edgar Allan Poe

He may take long walksin the raining darkalmost aimlesslyto a spot of soaked grassin a neighbor’s open field.He’s decided this is the placefor you and him to meet again. - Kristen Henderson

In life you find pleasure. In life you find pain. Pain and pleasure is an example of the duality in life. Enjoy them both, they are part of the ride. The key is to not turn the pain into something else - regret. - J.R. Rim

I think insecurity underscores most human behavior. Because we're insecure, we want to be able to explain and control everything in order to protect ourselves. - Marty Rubin

Hu-man, Hu-mility, Hu-manity, is a title of nobility of the Perfected One, one who has knowledge of its self, and living its essence - AainaA-Ridtz

We owe a deep debt of gratitude to Adam, the first great benefactor of the human race: he brought death into the world. - Mark Twain

There's so much knowledge to be had that specialists cling to their specialties as a shield against having to know anything about anything else. They avoid being drowned. - Isaac Asimov

God will certainly care for all His creation. - Lailah Gifty Akita

I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion'. - Muhammad Ali

At Learning's fountain it is sweet to drink, But 'tis a nobler privilege to think. - John Godfrey Saxe

The room was full with voices, loud music and beautiful people milling about everywhere. But all I noticed was her; beautiful, elegant and sitting alone in a quiet corner trying to remain unseen, to blend in, to become invisible, as if she actually thought such a thing were possible. - Tonny K. Brown

"Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"

Yes, even in your mouse moods you only play with the idea of not being." She cleared her throat again. "Biology, you see. It’s because of biology that we want to live and not to die. And it is because of biology that we come to a time when we want to die and not to live. - Aiden Chambers

There are certain themes of which the interest is all-absorbing, but which are too entirely horrible for the purposes of legitimate fiction. - Edgar Allan Poe

Women are complicated and messy and we are certainly not perfect, but we are funny and challenging and kind, and I wouldn't change a thing - Melissa McCarthy

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

I should’ve died with my parents… than live in this world, I say, my voice is faintHe asks, Why choose to die if you can live this world? He chuckled.I gave him a faint smile and say, A world so hateful, some would rather die, than be who they are. - Alyanna Mallari

Life is like our heart, the people are the nerve's and society is the brain - Romeo Jr Baguyo

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

Of course we get hurt in love. We have this immense need to immerse violence into love. As if a love that doesn't devastate is less of a verb.As if a rain that doesn't drown wouldn't make the trees grow. - Akif Kichloo

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. - Mark Twain

A brief note on the legend of Pandora's Box: Ever wondered why bundled in with all the torrents, and suffering of man kind the Gods put hope down there at the bottom, answer because in certain circumstances hope can be the worst torment of them all. - Tom Holt

Dream and act HUGE my friends; for to do less is to deny who you are. And live with BOLD conviction – as you move forcefully into the certainty of your great success! - Christopher Babson

I don't believe in intuition. When you get sudden flashes of perception, it is just the brain working faster than usual. But you've been getting ready to know it for a long time, and when it comes, you feel you've known it always. - Katherine Anne Porter

There is nothing so annoying as to have two people talking when you're busy interrupting. - Mark Twain

Some people dance with singing rain; some people get wet with misery and pain. - Debasish Mridha

One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community. - Albert Einstein

The man who gives up accomplishes nothing and is only a hindrance. The man who does not give up can move mountains.

In storms look for rainbows; in sunshine prepare for storms. - Matshona Dhliwayo

I don't think anyone could really know her, just as the peak of her struggle blooms, she again appearered to have held it all together when the whole world; would have thought, she'd fall Apart. - Nikki Rowe

...our ability to achieve our dreams and fulfill our destiny is directly influenced by our thinking. How we think determines our responses, our ability to relate to others, our level of commitment, our priorities, and the dreams we will pursue. - Christine Caine

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

When our Journey of life is like a Train with Some Stops but Always can reach to a destination which can make ourselves and others happy, then we are on the good way. - Jan Jansen

Sometimes you might miss that person, sometimes you'll feel like running back to them... sometimes you'll suffer from unbearable pain but sometimes you have to forget what you feel. And simply remember what you deserve, smile and move on! - Nehali Lalwani

The only journey is the one within. - Rainer Maria Rilke

notable people do notable things for they take notice of the unnoticed.They think beyond our thinking. They look beyond what we all look. They try, fail, and try again.They dare unrelentingly. They don't die with their purpose. They die on their purpose. Though they die, their purpose ever lives. - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people and on how many occasions they have genuinely and profoundly shared some experience with another. - W.H. Auden

In the deep places he gives thought to music great and terrible; and the echo of that music runs through all the veins of the world in sorrow and in joy; for if joyful is the fountain that rises in the sun, its springs are in the wells of sorrow unfathomed at the foundations of the Earth. - J.R.R. Tolkien

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

The more you try to protect yourself from love, the more pain you bring to yourself and those that love you - April Mae Monterrosa

For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? Gospel of Mark ~ Mark 8:36 - Jesus Christ

Responsibility to yourself means refusing to let others do your thinking, talking, and naming for you; it means learning to respect and use your own brains and instincts; hence, grappling with hard work. - Adrienne Rich

By the usual reckoning, the worst books make the best films. - Iain M. Banks

Everything I do is going to contain the message that men who are going to be comfortable with powerful women are going to be more powerful men - Joss Whedon

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

The praise that comes from love does not make us vain, but more humble. - James M. Barrie

Twilight, again. Another ending. No matter how perfect the day is, it always has to end. - Stephenie Meyer

Solutions to mankind’s problems are easy and obvious. They remain unsolved because those who could solve them – don’t want to. - Francis Mont

Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. - Helen Keller

The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty. - Seneca

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

Distance lends enchantment to the view. - Mark Twain

It's better to be the hero of your own story than to become the villain of someone else's. - Chris Colfer

Horror on earth is real and it is every day. It is like a flower or like the sun; it cannot be contained.

Once who is beautiful at the age of five, will also be beautiful at the age of 25 and 75. Its only the attraction that fades out with time, charm and beauty always remain there. - Megh Bhatnagar

Anything that appears and disappears cannot actually be you because it is being observed by you. By removing the attention from these things and noticing what remains, you are left only with what is permanent — the truth of who you are. - Enza Vita

There is something about loss and pain that opens the doors of wisdom in your heart, doors that would have remained locked for a whole lifetime. - Lyrical Treasure

My understanding of magic is fairly straightforward. Hit enemies with a sword until they’re dead. If they rise again, hit them again. Repeat as necessary. It worked against Set. - Rick Riordan

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

Is it too bold to point out that there is nothing in the ten commandmentsabout protecting children against cruelty?Nothing against rape and nothing against slavery,and nothing agains genocide.Could this be because these crimesare positively recommendedin the rest of the bible? - A.J. Beirens

As change is a constant – as our houses, our money, our friends, our things and even our lovers can always disappear - the one thing that we will always remain the closest to, will be our minds and our bodies. - lauren klarfeld

Don't go a-hunting for a moose where there ain't no moose to hunt. - Richard E McCallum

Skip your fancy talk, Captain Lord Blackthorn. If I do your bidding, and I’m still discussing that with the Almighty, it will only be to save my arse. Katie O'Reilly to Captain Lord Jack Blackthorn in "Titanic Rhapsody - Jina Bacarr

I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won't. - Mark Twain

Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. - Mark Twain

Yes, please leave us, the mere presence of beings like yourselves is intensely painful to us. - Gene L. Coon

In the planning stage of a book, don't plan the ending. It has to be earned by all that will go before it. - Rose Tremain

Do not cast away an honest man for a villain's accusation. - William Shakespeare

To so many people, the Lord is in danger of being no more than a patron saint of our systematic theology instead of the Christ Who is our life. - W. Ian Thomas

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

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

Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet. - Bob Dylan

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

She began sobbing again. I’m not ready to die. - TC Avey

Why do born-again people so often make you wish they'd never been born the first time? - Katharine Whitehorn

What? No defense? Any student of mine must be able to defend his ideas against an attack. No matter how you spend your life, your wit will defend you more often than a sword. Keep it sharp! - Patrick Rothfuss

Their gazes locked and held for a long beat, like maybe he was taking her pulse from across the room, absorbing the fact that she was drenched and breathless. The corners of his mouth twitched. She’d amused him again. - Jill Shalvis

When we want to see someone in a certain way, we find a way, but when we don't we have to wake up and see who they truly are and not what our pain or anger chooses to believe. - Shannon L. Alder

The largest part of what we call 'personality' is determined by how we've opted to defend ourselves against anxiety and sadness". - Alain de Botton

This document describes the usage and input syntax of the Unix Vax-11 assembler As. As is designed for assembling code produced by the "C" compiler; certain concessions have been made to handle code written directly by people, but in general little sympathy has been extended.

A workout is a pair act, do it with heart and mind and gain in your life. - Nazim Ambalath

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

An idea is an amazing creation of the human mind, which comes either asa result of one's continuous endeavors for solving a certain problem or justas a spark that lights up the considered problem. - Eraldo Banovac

Certainly all virtues are very dear to God, but humility pleases Him above all the others, and it seems that He can refuse it nothing. - Francis de Sales

Speechless and very nearly panting, she fell back against the wall with a thump, knowing that if she lived to be ninety, she would still carry the searing mark of that kiss on her soul."At last," he murmured. "A way to shut you up." Christovao Santos (Chris), Sanctuary - Sharon K. Garner

So remember those who win the gameLose the love they sought to gainIn debitures of quality and dubious integrityTheir small-town eyes will gape at youIn dull surprise when payment dueExceeds accounts received at seventeen - Janis Ian

What's the difference between rain and grain? Only a g, though they both grow in the land, and they don't land but fall. What a difference a g makes! - Ana Claudia Antunes

The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

FYI, women think glasses are a sign of brains, and also, they're sexy. - Jill Shavis

Every strict progression of an uncertain event is cease of movement in time and a birth of new space. - Vishwanath S J

I did it partly because it was worth it, but mostly because I shall never have to do it again. - Mark Twain

I remembered a definition of chivalry I'd heard once: a man protecting a woman against every man but himself. - James Anderson

Science, like nothing else among the institutions of mankind, grows like a weed every year. Art is subject to arbitrary fashion, religion is inwardly focused and driven only to sustain itself, law shuttles between freeing us and enslaving us. - Kary Mullis

Forgiveness is not an event. It is a series of decisions made over and over again. - Karen Salmansohn

How you react when your back is against the wall will determine if you see what's actually over the wall. - Onyi Anyado

Spread love, joy and compassion because the world needs it, for hatred and pain need no escort; they know how to survive without it. - Radhika Mundra

The following Discourse [on art, by Sir Joshua Reynolds] is particularly Interesting to Blockheads as it endeavours to prove that There is No such thing as Inspiration & that any Man of a plain Understanding may by Thieving from Others become a Mich Angelo. - William Blake

A woman is so selfish that in order to safeguard her vested-interest and secure high position, she may even poison with words the minds of her children against her own man or anyone as close one. - Anuj Somany

Somewhere along the way, I discovered that in the physical act of cooking, especially something complex or plain old hard to handle, dwelled unsuspected reservoirs of arousal both gastronomic and sexual. - Julie Powell

But pain's like water. It finds a way to push through any seal. There's no way to stop it. Sometimes you have to let yourself sink inside of it before you can learn how to swim to the surface. - Katie Kacvinsky

Never trust the captain who has never taken any education from the School of Storms! - Mehmet Murat ildan

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

One's doing well if age improves even slightly one's capacity to hold on to that vital truism: "This too shall pass. - Alain de Botton

Sex was the main component of her thoughts now. But love - and her desperate longing for it - had vanished from her heart like a migraine after a painkiller. - Augustine Sam

I should wish to see a world in which education aimed at mental freedom rather than imprisoning the minds of the young in a rigid armor of dogma calculated to protect them though life against the shafts of impartial evidence. - Bertrand Russell

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 shall look at you out of the corner of my eye, and you will say nothing. Words are the source of misunderstandings. - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance. - Saint Jerome

Develop a vision, not a goal. Visions are much more powerful. 98% of what’s going on in your brain is subconscious. Developing a vision requires the use of more of your brain than just developing a thought, which suggests we are tapping into subconscious brain power. - Josh Bezoni

Never pray for just a beautiful and sexy partner, but pray for that who fear God. That he/she will not sin against his God. - Nana cwame Aboagye

They're simply seeking an interlude from emotional pain and searing mental agony, a sleep from which they'll awaken to discover they're the person they always wanted to be. - Gillibran Brown

There is an hour of the afternoon when the plain is on the verge of saying something. It never says, or perhaps it says it infinitely, or perhaps we do not understand it, or we understand it and it is untranslatable as music. - Jorge Luis Borges

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

Men let women down. Over and over again. I'ts what they're programmed to do. - Liz Jensen

The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it he knows too little. - Mark Twain

Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry. - Mark Twain

Just like the falling rainbow Just like the stars in the sky Life should never feel small.

I define joy as a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace - a connection to what matters. - Oprah Winfrey

The pain of problems is a call to find solutions rather than a reason for unhappiness and inaction, so it's silly, pointless, and harmful to be upset at the problems and choices that come at you (though it’s understandable). - Ray Dalio

A fascist is one whose lust for money or power is combined with such an intensity of intolerance toward those of other races, parties, classes, religions, cultures, regions or nations as to make him ruthless in his use of deceit or violence to attain his ends. - Henry A. Wallace

Don't let the sun go down upon your anger; forgive each other, help each other, and begin again tomorrow. - Louisa May Alcott

Some people seem like a bright light during your darkest moment.. A beautiful refuge… but it’s a trap… there is only more pain there. Now that I think about it… I imagine that’s what bugs feel like when they fly into the zapper. - Steve Maraboli

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

I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn’t know. - Mark Twain

Women often forget that the man she is complaining about is a creation of a mother like her. - Debasish Mridha

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

Let it rain on some days,Let yourself shiver on some cold nights, So when it's Spring you'll know why it was all worth going through. - Sanhita Baruah

We wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. - Compton Gage

The most powerful control we can ever attain, is to be in control of ourselves. - Chris Page

"What is it the Bible teaches us? - rapine, cruelty, and murder. What is it the Testament teaches us? - to believe that the Almighty committed debauchery with a woman engaged to be married, and the belief of this debauchery is called faith. - Thomas Paine

Lift up your heads, ye people,lift up your faces, too,open your mouths to sing His praise,and the rain will fall on you. - Aimee Semple McPherson

I have known the joy and pain of friendship. I have served and been served. I have made some good enemies for which I am not a bit sorry. I have loved unselfishly, and I have fondled hatred with the red-hot tongs of Hell. That's living. - Zora Neale Hurston

The power of the Will in a man, is favoured by the Heavens. The man who sets his Heart and Word onto something, and says "I will" no matter what obstacle is placed in his way— joins the ranks of the demi-gods. All else remain in mortality and are soon forgotten. - C. JoyBell C.

The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking. - John Kenneth Galbraith

Mia: I was sixteen when I first realized my mom was more concerned about my appearance than I was… I’ll be talking to my mom and realize she hasn’t heard a word because she’s studying my face to see if the foundation I’m using is a good match for my skin tone. - Mia Fontaine

Your steady rain of words soaked me to the skin - John Geddes

A douchebag has an image to maintain. He is not real. He is the kind of guy who will change his last name into something cooler and more impressive. - Cory Duchesne

Apathy is, too often, a result of overexposure to stressful, highly emotional situations. To rekindle empathy, sometimes we need some space. It's okay to walk away so that you can feel love for someone again. Sometimes for a moment. Sometimes forever. - Vironika Tugaleva

Choice is an illusion, what we eat is again illusion, nothing matters when it's illusion... so how did you survive??? - Deyth Banger

Politicians are like little cats: They are never serious; they always mess up the things; they are fainthearted and spoilt. And when they look at the mirror, they see a tiger there, till the hammer of reality break that mirror very harshly! - Mehmet Murat ildan

It is the duty of youths to war against indiscipline and corruption because they are the leaders of tomorrow. - Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

Lying isn't something you should be proud of, but be grateful if you've gained a talent for doing it correctly. - Kate C. Conner

A man does not have to be an angel to be a saint. - Albert Schweitzer

Even in civilized mankind faint traces of monogamous instincts can be perceived. - Bertrand Russell

That a man can take pleasure in marching in formation to the strains of a band is enough to make me despise him. He has only been given his big brain by mistake; a backbone was all he needed.

Atheism and agnosticism signify the rejection of certain images and concepts of God or of truth, which are historically conditioned and therefore inadequate. Atheism is a challenge to religion to purifiy its images and concepts and come nearer to the truth of divine mystery. - Bede Griffiths

To understand love, use the heart, not the brain.To understand the mind, use the love, not the brain. - Debasish Mridha

Find the problems—not to complain—but to solve. - Debasish Mridha

If you knew you were going to lose your memorybut you could choose five things you’d never forget, what would they be—a certain face, a taste, a scent,a touch; how deepin this, the middle of your life? - Kristen Henderson

Skepticism is the agent of reason against organized irrationalism--and is therefore one of the keys to human social and civic decency. - Stephen Jay Gould

The fact is that my native land is a prey to barbarism, that in it men's only God is their belly, that they live only for the present, and that the richer a man is the holier he is held to be. - Saint Jerome

You will never know the purest love you can give a person, until the day you hurt because they hurt. You genuinely want them to succeed in life and be free from all the chains that keep them from being happy, whether you are in their life or not. - Shannon L. Alder

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

To explain the unknown by the known is a logical procedure; to explain the known by the unknown is a form of theological lunacy.

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

The damage was permanent; there would always be scars. But even the angriest scars faded over time until it was difficult to see them written on the skin at all, and the only thing that remained was the memory of how painful it had been. - Jodi Picoult

Loneliness sometimes gives me a quantity of creativeness - you're drinking another glass of wine and you're feeling even worse. Art doesn't work without pain; art also exists for compensating pain. - Till Lindemann

If God brings people to build your relationship, it's up to you to maintain that relationship! - Bruce Mbanzabugabo

If you aren't in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty, or back to pain and regret. - Jim Carrey

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. The pains of power are real; its pleasures imaginary.

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

We don not think, in the holy places; we think in bed, afterwards, when the glare, and the the noise, and the confusion are gone, and in fancy we revisit alone, the solemn monuments of the past, and summon the phantom pageants of an age that has passed away. - Mark Twain