Quotation Explorer - 'Ain'

Acknowledging and being concious that you are being angry is a battle half won against anger. - ketan r shah

We who are like senseless children shrink from suffering, but love its causes. We hurt ourselves; our pain is self-inflicted! Why should others be the object of our anger? - Śāntideva

To be a Christian is to live dangerously, honestly, freely - to step in the name of love as if you may land on nothing, yet to keep on stepping because the something that sustains you no empire can give you and no empire can take away. - Cornel West

There are certain sacred things in my life that I would never talk about. Because they are clear in my head, I can walk freely around the opposite side. I keep them completely separate in my mind. - Heather Armstrong

If we say a little it is easy to add, but having said too much it is hard to withdraw and never can it be done so quickly as to hinder the harm of our success. - Saint Francis de Sales

My life closed twice before its' close- It yet remains to see If Immortality unveil A third event to me. So huge, so hopeless to concieve As these that twice befell. Parting is all we know of heaven, And all we need of hell. - Emily Dickinson

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

All I'm saying is that there is more to life than the main story. Check out the notes in the margins because maybe they're even more important. - Isabelle Rowan

If you are looking at anything from one point, from one angle, you can never attain wisdom because wisdom is to see all the things from every point, from every angle! - Mehmet Murat ildan

Don’t complain. Be a good person in this wrong world and transform it. - Debasish Mridha

And maybe the only reason we have to fall back down to grow again is the same cause for the sun to rise and sink: our stars need time to shine at night to heal, to heal. - Anonymous

Lawer: one who protects us against robbery by taking away the temptation. - H. L. Mencken

Madame Gherardi maintained that love, like most other blessings of civilisation, was a chimaera which we desire the more, the further removed we are from Nature. - W.G. Sebald

Put it down in capital letters: SELF-DEVELOPMENT IS A HIGHER DUTY THAN SELF-SACRIFICE. The thing that most retards and militates against women’s self development is self-sacrifice. - Elizabeth Cady Stanton

For me, Chanel is like music. There are certain notes and you have to make another tune with them - Karl Lagerfeld

Time is the sole resource you gain if spent and waste if not - VIRGIL PROFEANU

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

There's more than what the eye can see, the heart can love, and the brain can understand. - Louise Philippe Dulay

Loving you is like walking between rain drops. - B.J. Neblett

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

Getting all emotionally wrapped up in made-up people's lives gives me a chance to take a break from my own life [...]. - Arlaina Tibensky

There are always certain things which are certain and certain things which are uncertain for us to think about each day and when such are over, there shall always be something to think about - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Every night I share the pain of my heart with the Stars. - Tanmaya Guru

Rise and rise again until lambs become lions - Robin Hood

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment. - Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

As hard as we strive, man remains a perfect imperfect being. - Auliq-Ice

The black clouds and the white clouds,Black means rain White means no rainToday it was different,It rained despite of white clouds.And nobody got wet. - Bikash Chaurasiya

Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it. - Samuel Johnson

See, the problem is that God gives men a brain and a penis, and only enough blood to run one at a time. - Robin Williams

Tranquillity hides in small spaces, and when found needs to be treasured, because you know it's a phantom that will slip away again. - Diane Ackerman

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

There is no need to masturbate your brain, just to ejaculate your thoughts all over the place - Carroll Bryant

"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

Life is uncertain.Lord grant us gracious courage to face the uncertainty of life. - Lailah Gifty Akita

The law of nature is alternation for evermore. Each electrical state superinduces the opposite. The soul environs itself with friends, that it may enter into a grander self-acquaintance or solitude; and it goes alone for a season, that it may exalt its conversation or society. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Don`t complain, Don`t compromise. - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

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

This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave. - Elmer Davis

It is when we stop believing that religions have been handed down from above or else that they are entirely daft that matters become more interesting. - Alain de Boton

If at first you don't succeed, try, try, and try again. Then give up. There's no use being a damned fool about it.

Throughout her life, she held firm to her belief that even the smallest acts of kindness and generosity by the least of us can cause a ripple effect to change the world. , Human Again - Nina Wirk

Every single ounce of pain focused on the left part of the head. Feels like whole body except left part of head is in fucking numb state. - Shrestha Sapan

They embraced and parted. They never saw each other again. - Christopher Buckley

I'm very well acquainted too with matters mathematical, I understand equations, both the simple and quadratical, About binomial theorem I'm teeming with a lot of news-- With many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse.

My vision is to change the world and paint it with a brush that is powerful enough to make us one. - Morgan Chabane

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 told me once that too much good in a person's life will stunt their growth. You said pain is necessary, because in order for a person to succeed, they must first learn to conquer adversity. And that's what you do... you deliver adversity where you see fit. - Colleen Hoover

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

The trouble with born-again Christians is that they are an even bigger pain the second time around. - Herb Caen

The only way you can sustain a permanent change is to create a new way of thinking, acting, and being.

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

Certainty a strange Ferris wheel of a statement! - John Allen Paulos

Dealing with pain for surviving on this thirsty concrete - Kjiva

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

For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you. - Neil deGrasse Tyson

It is commonplace to talk as if the world "has" meaning, to ask what "is" the meaning of a phrase, a gesture, a painting, a contract. Yet when thought about, it is clear that events are devoid of meaning until someone assigns it to them. - Dean C. Barnlund

The rain to the wind said,You push and I'll pelt.'They so smote the garden bedThat the flowers actually knelt,And lay lodged--though not dead.I know how the flowers felt. - Robert Frost

We are just a certain quantity of cells, all of us! - Rossana Condoleo

Fear makes strangers of people who should be friends. - Shirley MacLaine

We're all a little broken, it's how we feed our brokenness that defines us; some you wouldn't believe ever broke and some you will see never grew through the break but one thing certain, everyone is a little broken, it's how we feed our brokenness that defines us. - Nikki Rowe

I love knowing that people now own a piece of a world that I created. - Ainsley Peace

If at first you don't succeed, try again.If you still don't succeed, blame someone else. - Jeffrey S. Trosin

SIREN, n. One of several musical prodigies famous for a vain attempt to dissuade Odysseus from a life on the ocean wave. Figuratively, any lady of splendid promise, dissembled purpose and disappointing performance. - Ambrose Bierce

May you transform your pain, anger, and hurt into wisdom, kindness, and love. - Leta B.

Whiteness of moonlight builds a house that is not there - Kathleen Raine

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

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

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

The great delusion of modernity, is that the laws of nature explain the universe for us. The laws of nature describe the universe, they describe the regularities. But they explain nothing. - Ludwig Wittgenstein

Tomorrow, said the voice of fear in her head. It always said tomorrow, whether it talked about going to the grocery store or starting a new painting. Tomorrow you'll be brave, fear whispered. Tomorrow you'll be normal. Just give me today. That was how fear stole whole lives away. - Dana Morton

As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron. - H.L. Mencken

The heart is a rare, unique treasure because it is strong and vulnerable at the same time. It is strong in its persistence to sustain life, yet it is vulnerable to both emotional and physical wounds. - Imania Margria

Relationship are like glasses, once it's broken it never be like before, as broken glass remain with the broken piece stains ever... - Debolina Bhawal

...you have to learn where your pain is. You have to burrow down and find the wound, and if the burden of it is too terrible to shoulder, you have to shout it out; you have to shout for help... And then finally, the way through grief is grieving. - Jane Hamilton

The problem is not the problem. The problem is your attitude about the problem - Captain Jack Sparrow

When people kill themselves, they think they're ending the pain, but all they're doing is passing it on to those they leave behind. - Jeannette Walls

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

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

A big group of daily friends or a white painted house with bills and mirrors, are not a necessity to me—but an intelligent conversation while sharing another coffee, is. - Charlotte Eriksson

Stop complaining. Plot your course and start your journey. Adjust your sail. Success is waiting to welcome you. - Debasish Mridha

The reason why some of us love when it rain is because it fills in the faults of our broken hearts and makes us feel complete, even if it is temporary. - Vanshicca Dhyani

And, therefore, indifference is always the friend of the enemy, for it benefits the aggressor -- never its victim, whose pain is magnified when he or she feels forgotten. - Elie Wiesel

One cannot always know what children are thinking. Children are hard to understand, especially when careful training has a custom them to obedience and experience has made them cautious in conversation with their teachers. - Catherine the Great

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

Think first. Think twice. Think again. Respect others. Respect yourself. Respect dreams. - Kevin James Breaux

It washed all over me and through me, into the floor and then it was gone. I never cried for my Da again after that, and God's presence has been with me ever since. - Adien MacRae, BETWEEN - Cyndi Tefft

NGOs have a complicated space in neoliberal politics. They are supposed to mop up the anger. Even when they are doing good work, they are supposed to maintain the status quo. They are the missionaries of the corporate world. - Arundhati Roy

I believe in living healthily and sustainably, and looking to nature for renewal and inspiration. - Jay Woodman

People vote their resentment, not their appreciation. The average man does not vote for anything, but against something. - William Bennet Munro

It is a waste of time to be angry about my disability. One has to get on with life and I haven't done badly. People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining. - Stephen Hawking

Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water. - Miguel de Cervantes

I'm enjoying two beautiful visions tonight. Watching you stand there against a marvelous background has to be the most intriguing sunset I have ever experienced. - K.S. Collier

Love makes you free without an asterisk mark. - Sarvesh Jain

Pain is not there to hurt you, but it is there to make you more aware and alert. - Debasish Mridha

I don't like to commit myself about Heaven and Hell, you see, I have friends in both places. - Mark Twain

If your mind can move mountainsand swallow gods,Why does it worry with helpless yesterdays and unborn tomorrows?If it can vomit starsand walk on split hairs,Why must it follow the samepath to despair?Everyone will tell you:'An orgasm here is just as good. - Kamand Kojouri

Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again. - Andre Gide

It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

The fact that Iam writing to youin Englishalready falsifies what Iwanted to tell you.My subject:how to explain to youthat I don't belong to Englishthough I belong nowhere else,if not herein English. - Gustavo Perez Firmat

Never forget the life experiences; Aloneness and companionship.Cold and warmth.Hard times and good times.Failure and success.Pain and healing.Planting and harvesting.Poverty and prosperity.Searching and finding.Sorrow and happiness.Tears and joy. - Lailah Gifty Akita

No original thought still exists. People are original, each one of them. The same ideas that others had before you are waiting for you to bring them back to life in a new way. The part of who you are that is left behind within these old ideas is what makes them original all over again. - Ashly Lorenzana

Whatever GOD creates, GOD sustains. - TemitOpe Ibrahim

How often do I stand in abject terror and raw trepidation before the impossible peaks that soar to impossible heights in front me, when God turns to me and calmly says what mountains? - Craig D. Lounsbrough

Everything is about disclosure.... chemistry... love.... reaction... you can't do anything.......A pain... a biatch... pain the ass... two women... what next? - Deyth Banger

A true leader is still a leader even when he takes up servants' duty, provided he maintains a human face and added integrity to his self-retained qualities. - Israelmore Ayivor

There are various wounds to describe our hurts;the deepest one is the most painful. - Munia Khan

When I think of Tao, I think of the artist Bob Ross and his famous painting techniques. I can hear him say, It’s your tree, you can make it look any way you want to. - Sheila Burke

When I was a child, my mom told me: 'If you want to be a soldier, you'll become a general. If you want to be a monk, you'll become pope' I wanted to be a painter, and I became Picasso.

Words cant explain everything.But silence never fails to mean something - Anonymous

Having been ripped open and drained by the crowd When I enter my home, Many homes seem to be waiting for me to give a shape to this life which is about to perish. - Suman Pokhrel

If you can get life outta love, you should die trying to get love outta life. - Shane Rainey

I'm above crawling on my knees for certain favors. What you cannot give me: I cannot beg for it. This is not arrogance or pride. This is having a clear understanding of my self worth.‪ - joseph ejiro

This pursuit of unavailable distant people has oedipal roots.… fearing the consequences, they make certain that they fail at the attempt.―Distancing, (p.115) - Kantor

An acquaintance had become a lover, might become a husband, but would retain all that she had noted in the acquaintance; and love must confirm an old relation rather than reveal a new one. - E.M. Forster

Only mountains can feel the frozen warmth of the sun through snow's gentle caress on their peaks - Munia Khan

I went to Maui to stay a week and remained five. I never spent so pleasant a month before, or bade any place goodbye so regretfully. I have not once thought of business, or care or human toil or trouble or sorrow or weariness, and the memory of it will remain with me always. - Mark Twain

After reading some of my stories, I once had a friend say to me, "I'd love to spend five minutes in your head to see what's going on in there." I warned them, "If you spent five seconds in my mind you'd probably run out screaming and never speak to me again. - Mark W. Boyer

With God, a mountain before me is soon to be a memory behind me. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

You have wakened not out of sleep, but into a prior dream, and that dream lies within another, and so on, to infinity, which is the number of grains of sand. The path that you are to take is endless, and you will die before you have truly awakened. - Jorge Luis Borges

There ain't no devil, only God when he's drunk. - Tom Waits

They have exiled me now from their society and I am pleased, because humanity does not exile except the one whose noble spirit rebels against despotism and oppression. He who does not prefer exile to slavery is not free by any measure of freedom, truth and duty.

Martial (the main character of LOCUS SOLUS) has a very interesting conception of literary beauty: the work must contain nothing real, no observations about the world or the mind, nothing but completely imaginary constructions. These are in themselves ideas from an extrahuman world. - Pierre Janet

When you have mental illness it's common to be shunned by your family or friends it wouldn't happen if they knew the pain you were in. - Stanley Victor Paskavich

After much prayer, careful study and reliance on the Holy Spirit, I have concluded this about Christ’s intercession for us. Jesus died on the cross to purchase peace with God for me – and He is in heaven now to maintain that peace, for me and in me. - David Wilkerson

I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened. - Mark Twain

We tend to teach mathematics as a long list of rules.You learn them in order and you have to obey them, because if you don't obey them you get a C-.This is not mathematics. Mathematics is the study if things that come out a certain way because there is no other way they could possibly be. - Jordan Ellenberg

Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages, or we remain mute. - J.G. Ballard

I love writing and can't imagine not being able to do it. I want an easy life and if it had been difficult doing it I wouldn't be doing it. I do admire writers who do it even though it costs them. - Iain M. Banks

Life is an adventurous ride in a train we call time. - Debasish Mridha

The universal brotherhood of man is our most precious possession. - Mark Twain

Beauty is wishing for loneliness without any regret and complains. - M.F. Moonzajer

My gad," one of them, warrant officer pilot, captain and M. C. in turn said to me once; "if you can treat a crate that way, why do you want to fly at all? - William Faulkner

Step outside for a while - calm your mind. It is better to hug a tree than to bang your head against a wall continually - Rasheed Ogunlaru

Rudeness, abruptness, gory tales of blood and thunder, and coarse language usually show up the greenhorn or counterfeit, and certainly the ill-bred. "The bravest are the tenderest; the gentlest are the daring. - Kenneth W. Estes

With a little heartache; Gone with the time, Are certain memories, Intricately designed.To call & narrate A story of blissful sunshine. - Somya Kedia

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

Exercise not only tones the muscles, but also refines the brain and revives the soul. - Michael Treanor

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

The fountain of youth resides in our memory. You will never outlive your shadow. - Lorin Morgan-Richards

Every beautiful thing in the world is rooted in some kind of pain. - Bryant McGill

Remind to yourself that it's okay not to be perfect - Ain Eineziz

We need conscious entertainment that engage and influence its consumer to rational thinking. - Unarine Ramaru

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

When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. - Jonathan Swift

Jesus girls! Wake up! If a guy wants to drain you of your energy, emotions, and life force he won’t sparkle in the sunshine, he’ll just marry you. - Nick Shamhart

I will not say, as the beggars at our door used to do, ‘I’ll never ask anything of Him again;’ but, on the contrary, ‘He shall hear oftener from me than ever,’ and I will love God the better, and love prayer the better, as long as I live. - Philip Henry

Greatness is great power, producing great effects. It is not enough that a man has great power in himself, he must shew it to all the world in a way that cannot be hid or gainsaid. - William Hazlitt

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

If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever. - Thomas Aquinas

Women are going to form a chain, a greater sisterhood than the world has ever known. - Nellie L. McClung

I violated the Noah rule: Predicting rain doesn't count; building arks does. - Warren Buffett

I am the Vampire Lestat. I'm immortal more or less. The light of the sun, the sustained heat of an intense fire-these things might destroy me. But then again, they might not. - Anne Rice

If we must tempt to Pleasure, how do we tempt to the least amount of Pleasure? Or better yet, tempt them to its opposite? But how to tempt them to pain. - Geoffrey Wood

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

Craving for the top of the mountain is a feeling to yearn for, an endurance we learn from. - Goitsemang Mvula

Growth is painful. Change is painful. But nothing is as painful as staying stuck somewhere you don't belong. - Mandy Hale

We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it and stop there lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove lid again and that is well but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore. - Mark Twain

The brain, as busy as it can be, is actually very lazy...It sees what it expects to see - James R. Doty

Patience, more than the ability to bear pains or endure waiting, is to be calm no matter what happens – constantly take action to turn it to positive growth opportunities – and have faith to believe that it will all work out in the end while you are waiting. - Roy T. Bennett

Silence is a way of saying: we do not have to entertain each other; we are okay as we are. - Martha Grimes

Mother Teresa didn't walk around complaining about her thighs -- she had shit to do. - Sarah Silverman

Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed: for prosperity doth best discover vice; but adversity doth best discover virtue. - Sir Francis Bacon

Be real. Be authentic. Be yourself, whatever the emotional cost. Pain goes away, while regret over a life lived trying to be a plastic version of yourself does not. - Vironika Tugaleva

Even one day lost in misery is a great loss, for the day will never come back again. You lose 24 hours of happiness, joy & bliss. Live each day in happiness. - RVM

Be happy by forgiving or forgetting or doing both, but we can gain no happiness by holding grudges. - Dinesh Kumar Radhakrishnan

As the most powerful people in history, we have climbed to the top of the world food chain, so to speak. Facing not one single enemy or predator who poses to us any danger of consequence, we've found the only prey left: ourselves. - Gavin de Becker

If a country can't save itself through the volunteer service of its own free people, then I say: Let the damned thing go down the drain! - Robert Heinlein

After the collapse of socialism, capitalism remained without a rival. This unusual situation unleashed its greedy and - above all - its suicidal power. The belief is now that everything - and everyone - is fair game. - Günter Grass

when you are about to give up just remember you have only two choices: stay in course or start all over again! - Manuel Corazzari

Acquaintances are always abundant; friends are always scarce! - Mehmet Murat ildan

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

I should be contentto look at a mountainfor what it isand not as a comment on my life. - David Ignatow

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

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

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

When we refuse to do what we are supposed to do at the right time, the consequence is that of pain and tragedy. - Sunday Adelaja

You rely too much on brain. The brain is the most overrated organ. - Woody Allen

It was in Spain that [my generation] learned that one can be right and yet be beaten, that force can vanquish spirit, that there are times when courage is not its own recompense. It is this, doubtless, which explains why so many, the world over, feel the Spanish drama as a personal tragedy. - Albert Camus

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

A leader does not develop leadership by gaining more followers. Great leaders make more leaders. - J.R. Rim

As a writer, the main skill you need is curiosity. As a reader, the main tool you need is open-mindedness. - Gloria D. Gonsalves

2AM where do i begin,Crying off my face again,The silent sound of lonliness,Wants to follow me to bed - Christina Perri

To a certain degree,We all seek, life’s purpose and meaning,love, peace and joy,and knowledge, wealth and power… - I. Alan Appt

If a thing which is believed by billions is against the reason and not supported by the science, it is a great honour not to be amongst those billions! - Mehmet Murat ildan

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

Oh, wearisome condition of humanity,Born under one law, to another bound;Vainly begot, and yet forbidden vanity,Created sick, commanded to be sound. - Fulke Greville

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

Let me tell you a few things about regret, my darling. There is no end to it. You cannot find the beginning of the chain that brought us from there to here. Should you regret the whole chain, and the air in between, or each link separately? - Janet Fitch

The dream vocabulary shaves meanings finer and closer than do the world's daytime dictionaries. - Mark Twain

I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie. - Edith Wharton

Mainfest your fate on a daily basis though intention in the non-physical world and action in the physical world. - Russell Eric Dobda

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

That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false. - Paul Valery

There are many fine ideals which are not realisable, and yet we do not refrain from teaching them. - Peretz Smolenskin

If the storm forgets to bring a rainbow, paint your own. - Matshona Dhliwayo

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

Who lies for you will lie against you. - Bosnian Proverb

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

Go, and never darken my towels again. - Groucho Marx

It extols death with the luminescent brilliance of a dying star. It is Genghis Khan bathed in sherbet ice cream. The mantis shrimp is the harbinger of blood-soaked rainbows. - The Oatmeal

Any tiniest feeling, which fills you with peace and joy can grow to the size of a mountain, when you act on it with no expectation, where and how it must take you. Enjoy the moment of harmony and know that you can trust your Self. - Raphael Zernoff

In order to have great happiness, you have to have great pain and unhappiness-otherwise how would you know when you're happy? - Leslie Caron

Sustainability before ambition. Okal Rel. - Lynda Williams

the sever pain and the great trials we go through teach us the real essence of great joy - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Wage of rage of revenge ain't worth it. What's the point of being enslaved by a slave? - Anonymous

There's no shame compared to being beautiful with nothing in your brain, an ugly devil with wits is much better that the former. - Michael Bassey Johnson

To see a man fearless in dangers. untainted with lusts, happy in adversity, composed in a tumult, and laughing at all those things which are generally either coveted or feared, all men must acknowledge that this can be from nothing else but a beam of divinity that influences a mortal body. - Seneca

We find beauty not in the thing itself but in the patterns of shadows, the light and the darkness, that one thing against another creates. - Jun'ichirō Tanizaki

It may be said without exaggeration that the mountains made the men; and the men in return fought with passionate courage and energy in defence of their beloved mountains, in whose fastnesses, indeed, they were well-nigh unconquerable. - John F. Baddeley

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

I am in a state of peaceful happiness - Charmaine J. Forde

Be alone and love it. Be lonely and hate it. The first will empower you; the later will destroy you. Become your own best friend and never be lonely again. - Doobie Shemer

Time will come and some people will be proud of themselves that they have never believed in any religion! This honour will be belonging to the clever people of the society only! For the others, merely the deep shame will remain! - Mehmet Murat ildan

I do not fear being hurt, nor am I ever sorry should such pain take hold of me. My real fear would be to never know the the joy of loving someone so deeply as to be that vulnerable… - Tonny K. Brown

Transferring my anger and pain onto paper turns it into something tangible, something that can be shredded or burned, or at the very least, sealed shut in a box. ~Call Me Tuesday - Leigh Byrne

Autocracy is based on the assumption that one man is wiser than a million men. Let's play that over again too. Who decides?

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

When we worship, we ascend, when we ascend we gain revelation from God. - Chuck D. Pierce

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

Carlyle said, "A lie cannot live"; it shows he did not know how to tell them. - Mark Twain

Chicken Soup: An ancient miracle drug containing equal parts of aureomycin, cocaine, interferon, and TLC. The only ailment chicken soup can't cure is neurotic dependence on one's mother.

Have you ever been hurt and the place tries to heal a bit, and you just pull the scar off of it over and over again. - Rosa Parks

I found awesome quotes here which are marvel, but the main problem is that from 10000000000000000000000000 people which is an endless result few of them read them. What happens with the other part?? To clever to read this? - Deyth Banger

Fail big. Fail better.Try again. Without looking for a shelter. - Debasish Mridha

The joy is in remembering; the pain is in knowing it was yesterday. - David Levithan

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

Life is a painting,dream and draw sketch of own's life. - Prashant Sonavane

When you are up against a wall, put down roots like a tree, until clarity comes from deeper sources to see over that wall and grow. - C.G. Jung

Die, die we all pass away, But don't wear a frown coz it's really okay,And you might try to hide, And you might try to pray,But we all end up remains of the day. - Danny Elfman - The Corpse Bride

Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long. - Robert Lynd

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

The idea that work competes with life ignores that life is actually the intersection and interaction of four major domains: work, home, community, and the private self. - Derric Yuh Ndim

I dont wanna see you again. B'coz U'r the one left me here... but, what to do... You are always just crossing... I cant love you, as u left me.. same time I cant hate you... b'coz.. one day you have to take me out from here..!! - Arafath Shanas

Better fare hard with good men than feast it with bad. - Thomas Paine

Who was it that hurt you, stole the light out of your eyes? Cut a hole in your heart and let the love drain dry? Who was so damn careless, to leave you with such scars? Where will you find healing? Right here, within my arms. - John Mark Green

Misunderstanding arising from ignorance breeds fear, and fear remains the greatest enemy of peace. - Lester B. Pearson

When i move through my pain, it clears the path for a new dawn, a new day. It is in these moments, i feel the sun rising on the horizon of hope, in my soul. - Jaeda DeWalt

It's not foresight or hindsight we need. We need sight, plain and simple. We need to see what is right in front of us. - Gordon Atkinson

There are three principal ways to lose money: wine, women, and engineers. While the first two are more pleasant, the third is by far the more certain.

...if that energy could have been channelled into anything more than noise, waste and pain it would have lighted up Indochina for a thousand years. - Michael Herr

If everyone is against you, but God is for you. It is more than enough to keep moving. - Lailah Gifty Akita

The vast majority of Americans, at all coordinates of the economic spectrum, consider themselves middle class; this is a deeply ingrained, distinctly American cognitive dissonance. - Ellen Cushing

We are such spendthrifts with our lives, the trick of living is to slip on and off the planet with the least fuss you can muster. I’m not running for sainthood. I just happen to think that in life we need to be a little like the farmer, who puts back into the soil what he takes out. - Paul Newman

segala yang ada di muka bumi sudah merupakan pembagian yang berlainan namun merupakan pasangan - Chandra

RECOUNT, n. In American politics, another throw of the dice, accorded to the player against whom they are loaded. - Ambrose Bierce

When the politicians complain that TV turns the proceedings into a circus, it should be made clear that the circus was already there, and that TV has merely demonstrated that not all the performers are well trained. - Edward R. Murrow

I don't understand why people think everything has to have meaning. While painting the Mona Lisa did Leonardo Da Vinci intend for it to have greater meaning than a work of art that he made? - Devin J. Monroe

It takes ,all at bottom from heart writing takes from root ,to spread likepieces of cloud ,then bind in such a thik Cloud ,pouring on earth to give entire life to start it again . - litymunshi

Anyway, it's a good thing we're human. We design business spreadsheets, paint programs, and word processing equipment. So that tells you where we're at as a species. What is the search for the next great compelling application but a search for the human identity? - Douglas Coupland

If you can quit, quit. If you can't quit, stop complaining - this is what you chose. - J.A. Konrath

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

Knowing is not enough. You must accept My blessings in order to attain a better life. You must embrace a higher level of consciousness. - Mary B. Morrison

At certain moments, words are nothing; it is thetone in which they are uttered. - Paul Bourget

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

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

Ethan: "Abstaining definitely doesn't work."Beth: "what do you suggest?"Ethan: "We're obviously going to have to make love often, but keep the encounters from getting too intense." He sounded perfectly serious, like he really believed what he was saying. - Lucy Monroe

The mighty question arises upon us, what is one's own real self? It certainly is not what we think we are and ought to be. - D.H. Lawrence

The dream giver [God] will remove mountains, He'll fill valleys, He'll straighten crocket ways for you to fulfil your dreams. And His timing is the best. - Euginia Herlihy

Anybody who watches three games of football in a row should be declared brain dead. - Erma Bombeck

He saw that it was an ironical thing for him to be running thus toward that which he had been at such pains to avoid. But he said, in substance, to himself that if the earth and the moon were about to clash, many people would doubtless plan to get upon the roofs to witness the collision.

By changing your perception, awareness, and actions you create yourself again and again. - Debasish Mridha

I dun knw things get trappedIn my mindThen itss smethin That I wanna find I dun get the answer Is there anyone listenin to me No one there to seeTo see the pain and the agony Inside ur beautiful heartTo see that u kissed the painAnd kicked everythin apart - B. Bhardwaz

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

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

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

In the shimmering ignorance of illiteracy of compassion and faith the stoic desire of loving without temporal gains rules the hearts and minds in deeds and care - meenakshi ahlawat

The kiss grew into so much more than anything that had come before, unfettered by a time that strived to contain passion, born from perceived loss and glorious gain. - Susan Catalano

Always keep your smile. That's how I explain my long life. - Jeanne Calment

Scientific literacy is an intellectual vaccine against the claims of charlatans who would exploit ignorance - Neil deGrasse Tyson

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

There is a certain part of all of us that lives outside of time. Perhaps we become aware of our age only at exceptional moments and most of the time we are ageless. - Milan Kundera

Do thou restrain the haughty spirit in thy breast, for better far is gentle courtesy. - Homer

Your words like wings gravity they defy.My heart like a leaf on the wind catchin' rides.We make too much sense to foolishly pass it by.So I'm taking a rainbow up to the 5th floor.Steppin' out to see that you're really worth more. - Group 1 Crew

You can comfort me with your words and your gifts but it can not comfort me with the pain you gave - Joyce Guo

Strength we think to be a virtue in government, but we do not find our defense against disintegration either in arbitrary or in very great power. Indeed, we are inclined to see in both these the symptoms of an already advanced decay - Michael Oakeshott

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

When you look back at the painful and difficult events of your life, you find that they were the times of your greatest personal growth. The challenges of our lives provide us the opportunity to develop our highest potentials. - John Bruna

Relationship tiesheart of two souls eager to fly freely soaring to sky featsin full-fledged wingsunrestrained passionsto a realm in whichboth remain invisible. - Rajesh Nanoo

Isn't it obvious in in today's world from people's preoccupation with self-medication, drug and alcohol use, rationalization and avoidance distraction that the truth doesn't just hurt, it's extremely painful. - James Turner

By simple mathematics giving is key to the world you seek to live in. If I take I alone gain. If I give or share then two at least are enriched. - Rasheed Ogunlaru

You become responsible forever, for what you have tamed. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Not getting a straight answer is a straight answer. - Sarvesh Jain

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

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

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

Do not just look, but you should also observe. - Ainun Annisa

I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections and the truth of imagination. What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth - whether it existed before or not. - John Keats

There is no pain greater than this; not the cut of a jagged-edged dagger nor the fire of a dragon's breath. Nothing burns in your heart like the emptiness of losing something, someone, before you truly have learned of its value.

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

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.

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

When a memory dies, the truth takes its place. Losing a memory is more painful than losing an arm. Because memories cannot be amputated. In familiarity, we find a sense of security. When this security leaves, the unfamiliar remains. - P. Wish

Whatever God's dream about man may be, it seems certain it cannot come true unless man cooperates. - Stella Terrill Mann

Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. - Mark Twain

The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live? I mean, is there something wrong with society that's making us so pressurized, that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it? - John Lennon

Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again. - Vincent Van Gogh

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

Death had marked his family with unbreakable black halos, until only two remained. - R.W. Patterson

Women, it is said, have a bad attitude toward sex. Women, it not said often enough, have a long-lived resentment against forced-sex and a longing for freedom. - Andrea Dworkin

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

Oh! It’s Friday again. Share the love that was missing during the week, In a worthy moment of peace and bliss. - S. O' Sade

Give up your relentless moralizing, the continual pinpricks which pierce the skin of your fellows. The distinction between good and evil is the sickness of the mind. Give up your morals, and the people will regain a love of their fellows.

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

We Neuroscientists have come a long way in proving that God is neither a Delusion nor an Almighty Being watching over life on Earth. God is the Event Horizon of Human Consciousness. I termed this state of attaining God, as 'Absolute Unity Qualia'. - Abhijit Naskar

When you grow up as a girl, the world tells you the things that you are supposed to be: emotional, loving, beautiful, wanted. And then when you are those things, the world tells you they are inferior: illogical, weak, vain, empty. - Stevie Nicks

Plough your fields, cast your seeds, the rains will come when they please. - Radhe Maa

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it. - Thomas Paine

While love shuts down areas of the brain associated with judgment and reasoning by contrast those consumed with hate have very active reasoning facilities. It takes logic to figure out how to attack your enemy. - Randall Parker

i'm in love with every creature on earth.. i don't want nobody to suffer, because i can feel the pain from all of them.. and i want to gave them love.. every creature on earth... - Anonymous

Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release. - Germaine Greer

You can't rely on how you look to sustain you, what sustains us, what is fundamentally beautiful is compassion; for yourself and for those around you. - Lupita Nyong'o

Knowledge may be power, but cake has great bargaining properties - Julia Seitz

You can't wear your brain out by overusing it. - Toni Sorenson

If peace cannot be maintained with honor, it is no longer peace. - John Russell

One has to decide to know the nature of the Soul. Will one not have to know that? Nothing is attained by just saying, ‘I am the Soul, I am the Soul.’ The Soul has to come in to one’s experience, until then the worldly problems will not go away, will they? - Dada Bhagwan

Where the human need for order meetsthe human tendency to mayhem, where civilization runs smack against its discontents, you find friction, and a great deal of general wear and tear. - Ian McEwan

I never heard sound and thrill of my painful heart until that very day she touched it. - Santosh Kalwar

i DO NOT WHY BUT i KEEP THINKING OF YOU, WHAT DID YOU EVER DO TO ME?I have tried na nikashindwa kukudelete from my system, IMEKATAA.i KNOW YOU HAVE TRIED TOO, IT LEAVES ME WONDERING WHAT IS THESE.It can only be explained by the gods. - Hanimoz Obey

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

Want to know something wonderful? Even when we at times are faithless Jesus remains faithful. - Raven

The reason many fail to joyfully proclaim Jesus Christ is because deep down they fail to joyfully adore Him - Steve Bainbridge

Always carry a notebook. And I mean always. The short-term memory only retains information for three minutes; unless it is committed to paper you can lose an idea for ever. - Will Self

Public libraries have been a mainstay of my life. They represent an individual's right to acquire knowledge; they are the sinews that bind civilized societies the world over. Without libraries, I would be a pauper, intellectually and spiritually. - James A. Michener

In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain. - Pliny the Elder

Reading is no substitute for action. - Colleen Wainwright

If your boundary training consists only of words, you are wasting your breath. But if you 'do' boundaries with your kids, they internalize the experiences, remember them, digest them, and make them part of how they see reality. - Henry Cloud

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

Starting out a new day gives hope for new adventures, villains and hero's to cross your path. Make the most of it. - Anastasia Bolinder

He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God. - Aeschylus

Why, when you have a mental disease, is it always considered an act of imagination? Why is it that every organ in your body can get sick and you get sympathy except the brain? - Ruby Wax

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

Certainly work is not always required of a man. There is such a thing as a sacred idleness - the cultivation of which is now fearfully neglected.

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

He who asserts belief with absolute certainty knows nothing of faith and makes himself into a fool. He who is wise, upon realizing they have done this, recants and searches themselves for further enlightenment. - Cristina Marrero

And the day inevitably comes when the scrapbook of summer, smeared with ice cream slurps and sweat stains, gives way to that new clean white notebook, spine unbroken, begging to be smudged with the enthusiasm of a number two pencil and a mind open to the possibilities. - Toni Sorenson

In life, you will always be faced with a series of God-ordained opportunities brilliantly disguised as problems and challenges. - Charles Udall

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

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

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

The most annoying pain is perceived when a man is living without a purpose. - Amit Kalantri

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

This life is ironic: for it takes pain to discover pleasure; it takes sadness to know happiness; it takes war to value peace; and it takes hatred to treasure love.[Culled from: "Amara & The Strange Elderly Woman"] - Emmanuel Aghado

The irony of seeking a shrink: they are successful in shrinking your brain but unfortunately they also make your wallet shrink. - Mico Monsalve

Fighting with the pain I made him my friend. - Tanmaya Guru

The Monster Ball is by nature a protest: A youth church experience to speak out and celebrate against all forms of discrimination + prejudice. - Lady Gaga

A painting shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy. - Amit Kalantri

Pats cīnies, palīdz, domā, spried un sver,Pats esi kungs, pats laimei – durvis ver! - Rainis

May the love in your heart overshadow any sorrows, and may you always know with a deep inner certainty, how loved you truly are. - Jodi Livon

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

You think your pains and heartbreaks are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who have ever been alive. - James Baldwin

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

When you do the right thing, you get the feeling of peace and serenity associated with it. Do it again and again. - Roy T. Bennett

There is no such thing as false or real hope. Hope is the brain's natural mood-stabilizer. And an illusory friend that gives hope and eases the struggle of one's daily life, is much better than all the living friends who just ain't bothered. - Abhijit Naskar

Rain makes me feel less alone. All rain is, is a cloud- falling apart, and pouring its shattered pieces down on top of you. It makes me feel good to know I'm not the only thing that falls apart . It makes me feel better to know other things in nature can shatter. - Lone Alaskan Gypsy

Copywriters, journalists, mainstream authors, ghostwriters, bloggers and advertising creatives have as much right to think of themselves as good writers as academics, poets, or literary novelists. - Sara Sheridan

Love must be learned and learned again; There is no end. - Katherine Anne Porter

It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. - Mark Twain

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 AM THE MASTER OF MY FATE AND THE CAPTAIN OF MY DESTINY. - Nelson Mandela

An imagination is a powerful tool. It can tint memories of the past, shade perceptions of the present, or paint a future so vivid that it can entice... or terrify, all depending upon how we conduct ourselves today. - Jim Davis

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

Only evil in this world is the one in your brain. - Raymond Tio

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

Perhaps what matters is not the human pain or joy at all but, rather, the play of shadow and light on a live body, the harmony of trifles assembled...in a unique and inimitable way. - Vladimir Nabokov

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

Plus d'un qui n'a pu liberer ses propres chaines a su pourtant en liberer son ami. - Friedrich Nietzsche

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

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

The spiritual path is an inward journey. On the spiritual path, the external life remains the same, but you begin the inward journey towards the truth. - Roshan Sharma

All your life you're yellow. Then one day you brush up against something blue, the barest touch, and voila, the rest of your life you're green. - Tess Callahan

Life is like a boxing match, it seems, society has not been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of crime - irak.ibrahim hussain didi

oh darling, The darkness is a gift, And when you realise this, You will never be defeatedAgain. - Nikki Rowe

You're not broken beyond repair there is hope. There is a God who knows all the pain you endure and will heal, protect and rejuvenate you. - Pauline Seaport

Gravity is no match against one who is determined to reach the stars. - Matshona Dhliwayo

Life is short as breathing!Forget Yesterday, Focus today to enjoy tomorrow!"The purpose of life is to live it, not destroy it. - Ebelsain Villegas

In crime books it's possible to chart forensic technology by how well it has to be explained to a reader. In mid-Victorian crime novels fingerprinting has to be explained because it's new. Nowadays it's part of our world and we can simply assume that knowledge if we write about it. - Sara Sheridan

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

The light at the end of the tunnel is just the light of an oncoming train. - Robert Lowell

That's what we storytellers do. We restore order with imagination. We instill hope again and again and again. - Kelly Marcel & Sue Smith

Everyone in the world was programmed by the place they were born, hemmed in by their beliefs, but you had to at least try to grow your own brain - Scott Westerfeld

With tact, exit from the world I’ve created, and we never have to speak of those good times again. - Darnell Lamont Walker

Ten men shouting will control ten thousand who choose to remain silent. - Joseph J. Haeggquist

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

Today is sacred - for it will never come again. What could be more important than living this day with attention and the intention to be of benefit, to the best of your ability, to all you encounter? - John Bruna

where some god pissed a rain of reason to make things grow only to die, - Charles Bukowski

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen. - Mark Twain

Why does the Air Force need expensive new bombers? Have the people we've been bombing over the years been complaining? - George Wallace

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

There is something perfect to be found in the imperfect: the law keeps balance through the juxtaposition of beauty, which gains perfection through nurtured imperfection. - Dejan Stojanovic

Should we put out the light? And then put out the light. But once put out thy light, I cannot give it vital breath again. It needs must wither. - Anne Rice

Pain that you fear becomes present if you dare. - Debasish Mridha

It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog. - Mark Twain

If someone wants a sheep, then that means that he exists. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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

A man never knows exactly how the child of his brain will strike other people. - William Howard Taft

When it comes to mental illness most of the diagnoses are similar or the same yet they can never display how we individually go through our pain. - Stanley Victor Paskavich

It may be that the fear contains information. Something can be interesting if you get to the other side of that fear. - Craig Ferguson

pain is pondering about past and wishing to relive those moments even after knowing it's impossible. - shivangi lavaniya

I've made him a monster by overloving. Lord knows, if hatred could make him human again. - Munia Khan

Your brain processes a thought while your mind creates and cultivates not only your thoughts, but also the knowledge and experiences you gain. - Toni Sorenson

I think that we are like stars. Something happens to burst us open; but when we burst open and think we are dying; we’re actually turning into a supernova. And then when we look at ourselves again, we see that we’re suddenly more beautiful than we ever were before! - C. JoyBell C.

Negative experiences repeat as long as they remain useful to you. - Tawny Lara

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

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

Living your life through Gratitude, is not one of comparing how you are better than someone else; or Gratitude only for what you own or obtain or achieve. Living your life through Gratitude, is seeing that the world would be missing something very valuable if you were not in it. - Sumner Davenport

Never complain; never forget to compliment. - Debasish Mridha

When I was young and I was forced to watch Disney films, I would fast forward the good guys, wasn't interested in princes and princesses, only by the villains. - Nuno Roque

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

Only by maintaining positive thoughts, by dispelling doubt and negativity, will you impress your desires upon the universe, making it bend to your will. - Stephen Richards

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

God sometimes moves mountains one pebble at a time. - Rebecca Barlow Jordan

Complaining is good for you as long as you're not complaining to the person you're complaining about. - Lynn Johnston

The fire and passion in a militiaman’s eyes has not been extinguished; the brightness and eagerness remain. I want to be around such men, for they are the only ones worth knowing. - Mike Klepper

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

I Believe When People Go To Hell, They Relive Their Worst Life Experience, Over And Over Again. - Chris Mentillo

Corporation, n. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility. - Ambrose Bierce

Perhaps God is not dead; perhaps God is himself mad. - R. D. Laing

Talking about abstract things is important. Having big, wild conversations about concepts like art, music, time travel, and dreams makes it much easier when you’ll eventually need to talk about things like anger, sadness, pain, and love. - Tom Burns

Your spiritual brain is wisdom. - Steven Chopade

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

The main thing about aliens is that they are alien. They feel no responsibility for fulfilling any of your expectations. (Dark City Lights) - Robert Silverberg

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

When we all are already Traveling In Meridian of Earth \↑/ .... then how it could be possible for us, going back to the previous Meridian without stopping next Meridians !! ... - \↑/ - Tanveer Hossain Mullick

When an author sleeps, her brain creates more stories for her pen. - Evelyn Smith

Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won. - Walt Whitman

When a dancer performs, melody transforms into a carriage, expressions turn into fuel and spirit experiences a journey to a world where passion attains fulfillment. - Shah Asad Rizvi

When you love another deeply, you gain strength. When you receive anothers deep love, you gain courage - Marina DeAngelo 2012 .

The best place in the world that will bring you peace is the place where you are born - Reynalyn Arendain

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

Those who use religion for their own benefit are detestable. We are against such a situation and will not allow it. Those who use religion in such a manner have fooled our people; it is against just such people that we have fought and will continue to fight. - Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

In the high country of the mind one has to become adjusted to the thinner air of uncertainty... - Robert M. Pirsig

The word of God is a fountain of life. - Lailah Gifty Akita

for sometime now I have believed that it is our own force, all our own force that is still too great for us. It is true that we do not know it; but is it not just that which is most our own of which we know the least? - Rainer Maria Rilke

I love you because no two snowflakes are alike, and it is possible, if you stand tippy-toe, to walk between the raindrops. - Nikki Giovanni

Awful first drafts are fine—Agree with this.If you don’t finish something, you’ll never get in the game. Just quell the voice in your head that says Are you kidding? No one is going to want to read this drivel and keep on going. You’re going to revise and revise and then revise again anyway. - Jamie Freveletti

Summer grasses,All that remainsOf soldiers' dreams - Bashō Matsuo

I shall never again admire a merely brave man. - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

It's very easy to feel someone's pain when you love them. - Salma Hayek

I always liked the unknown. Ironically I familiarized myself with the uncertainty of life. Life can change in any minute of the day. God can turn anything around in a speck of a moment. I know for a fact that everything changes. Nothing stays the same. This too shall pass. - Diana Rose Morcilla

Worshipping ‘Gnani Purush’ [the enlightened one] is equal to worshiping the Pure Soul and it is indeed same as the worship of absolute supreme Self (Parmatma). And it is the main cause for moksha [final liberation]. - Dada Bhagwan

Give a man your attentionLose hisIgnore a manGain his attention - K.C. Rhoads

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

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

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

We know that in some way, incomprehensible to us, his suffering satisfied the demands of justice, ransomed penitent souls from the pains and penalties of sin, and made mercy available to those who believe in his holy name. - Bruce R. McConkie

time does stop sometimes, you see everyone passing by, following their destiny and the destination it is leading, and you conclude its better where you are then moving again....often history repeats itself before it changes..... - Prashant

When the storm rips you to pieces, you have to decide how to put yourself back together again. - Bryant McGill

The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance... logic can be happily tossed out the window. - Stephen King

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

Remember...we don't see objects, we see light. [...] Light can do anything water can do--flow, wash, trickle. It can do anything an artist can do--paint, burnish, carve. Candlelight falls, licks a face. There is always light in a room. - Janet Fitch

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

To talk about God, except in the context of prayer, is to take His name in vain.One may, indeed, talk to a child about God, but this is on a par with telling him that he was brought to his mother by a stork. - Ferdinand Ebner

She always had that about her, the sparkle in her eye, she was unshakeable and what made her so admirable was; her ability to shine bright when no one knew of her pain. - Nikki Rowe

A little learning is a dangerous thing; drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: there shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking largely sobers us again. - Alexander Pope

I have spent most of my life worrying about things that have never happened - Mark Twain

Spiritual pain is when you can’t stand another moment not knowing the real truth, and when you finally do know you can’t let go. - Shannon L. Alder

Some people complain there are too many people on earth, Some people complain about secret societies, Some people accuse others of not being able to wake up early. Almost all people complain about something. - Dejan Stojanovic

Children’s and YA books are about being brave and kind, about learning wisdom and love, about that journey into and through maturity that we all keep starting, and starting again, no matter how old we get. I think that’s why so many adults read YA: we’re never done coming of age. - Betsy Cornwell

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

We need not take refuge in supernatural gods to explain our saints and sages and heroes and statesmen, as if to explain our disbelief that mere unaided human beings could be that good or wise. - Abraham H. Maslow

I was in love with loving. - Saint Augustine

Those leaders who fail, lack the capability to resonate their idea & thoughts - Aayush Jain

There is an intelligent healing process inside of you that knows how to absorb pain and transform it into wisdom. - Bryant McGill

In truth, to attain to interior peace, one must be willing to pass through the contrary to peace. - Swami Brahmananda

We are between the wild thoat of certainty and the mad zitidar of fact. - Edgar Rice Burroughs

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

I maybe such a pain in the ass,But in a good way.I give you pleasure at the same time! - Arzum Uzun

I still notice the burned house, mornings, when I walk along the beach. "Well, obviously I do not notice the house. What I notice is what remains of the house. One is still prone to think of a house as a house, however, even if there is not remarkably much left of it. - David Markson

A strange girl, all phosphorous and cantharides, burning with every desire! And burning with every vice! - Jean Lorrain

That there are men in all countries who get their living by war, and by keeping up the quarrels of Nations is as shocking as it is true... - Thomas Paine

He preferred to give in the light,because whenit was dark, he was afraid his giving would go unnoticed - Charmaine J Forde

There once were four sistersWho were exceptionally ordinary,But desired more than a maiden should desireRavaged by their shameful wantsTheir loving hearts never bloomedInstead four wicked bramblesGrew in their placeEach taintedWith poisonous magic - Elissa Sussman

It doesn’t matter how many times you leave, it will always hurt to come back and remember what you once had and who you once were. Then it will hurt just as much to leave again, and so it goes over and over again. Once you’ve started to leave, you will run your whole life. - Charlotte Eriksson

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invicible host against difficulties. - Helen Keller

When you lose someone untimely; all left is never ending guilt, fear, and pain. - Nikita Dudani

The best thing that can happen to anyone is for them to gain an education that is aligned to their purpose in life. - Oscar Bimpong

She held out a small voice recorder. 'By the way, could you describe exactly how you felt at the moment of impact? I'm writing this short story--''Put that away, Hazel,' hissed Mam. 'The poor boy is in pain.'Hazel persisted. 'Would that be a white-hot pain? Or more of a dull throbbing pain? - Eoin Colfer

Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting. So. . . get on your way. - Dr. Seuss

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.

When all else is lost, the future still remains. - Christian Bovee

The world is ruled by such dreams, dreams of impassioned hearts, and improvisations of warm lips, not by cold words linked in chains of iron sequence, --- not by logic. The heart with its passions, not the understanding with its reasoning, sways, in the long run, the actions of mankind. - William Kirby

Books and movies, they are not mere entertainment. They sustain me and help me cope with my real life. - Arlaina Tibensky

We all have the same pallet of emotional paints. It is how we pigment them on the canvas of life that dictates our artistry. - Ged Thompson Liverpool Poet

Thank you so much for everything, i will never ever forget you o last Sun of the year~I am little sad on your setting, but i have a hope,i have a believe that you will again rise tomorrow for me…i will wait for you…!"SEE YOU - zia

And may be between building and breaking we find our lives somewhere.Building dreams, each time, watching them break and then picking the broken pieces,building again with a new Hope more courage. ......And may be this effort is Life. - Wordions

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

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

As an instructor, my goal has always been to use Jiu Jitsu as a vehicle to help our students achieve their goals, whatever the case may be. I have yet to find a better vehicle for growth, and the moment I do I will certainly pursue it with the rivaled fervor that I approached Jiu Jitsu. - Chris Matakas

Prayer, to the patriarchs and prophets, was more than the recital of well-known and well-worn phrases. It was the outpouring of the heart. Beset by perils, persecutions, pain and privations, they naturally turned to God in their need, believing that He was able to redeem them out of their troubles. - Herbert Lockyer

If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal. - Norman Vincent Peale

If you win, you need not have to explain...If you lose, you should not be there to explain! - Adolf Hitler

Do you pray for the senators, Dr. Hale?' someone asked the chaplain. No, I look at the senators and I pray for the country. - Edward Everett Hale

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

Children should neither be seen nor heard from - ever again.

It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel. - Anatole France

What’s the point of living if you don’t live. - Cody McLain

Sometimes you can be touched by God, but not healed. Often when this happens, he is using your pain for a greater purpose. - Shannon L. Alder

It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense. - Mark Twain

It is easier to stay out than get out. - Mark Twain

Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern. - Bible

His Nana's prayers were moving toward his mother like little butterflies of thoughts wrapped in the most beautiful colors. Each prayer looked like a mini-rainbow. - H. L. Balcomb

Since I am suffering with type 2 bipolar disorder mainly on the depressive side of the bipolar disorder.I am not afraid nor am I disappointed with it; if this is what God Almighty want me to have; I will make sure that I will make good use of this disorder; and, be the best person that I can be. - Temitope Owosela

Rethink Your Mindset because...The view your brain builds and automatically adopts...of yourself, profoundly affects the way you think, feel and act-moment to moment, and the results you create. - Tony Dovale

If it's your greatest dream, you wouldn't give up so easily.. So do yourself a favour, find it again & start focusing on anything that will help you materialise it, it's not going to be a walk in the park, but it will help you sleep at night; 10 years from now. - Nikki Rowe

I'm not saying I'm gonna change the world, but I guarantee that I will spark the brain that will change the world. - Tupac Shakur

Shut up he explained. - Ring Lardner

That's why for you, you have the right to be cruel to me. No matter how much you make me worry or how much danger you put me in, just as much as you like. But these are not enough 'compensation.' Even if I have to sacrifice my left over life for you, I would not utter a word of complaint. - Matsuri Hino

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

Love me until Venus gasps with envy.Love me again until Eros swears celibacy. - Gloria D. Gonsalves

It doesn't matter how many friends I have because my best friend is God. And, he is a Super Friend. People come and people go, but God's love for you will remain the same. Embrace it, Cherish it, and Spread it everywhere you go. Let your light shine brightly for all the world to see. - Amaka Imani Nkosazana

Because one of the properties of music is to entertain and to, I don't mean this lightly, distract us from the things that pull us down. Music should be not only a source for political ideas but also a source of hope. - Dave Matthews

It doesn't matter how much money we have or how much we own here on Earth-we have to die and leave it all-that's the plain truth - Charmaine J Forde

While teachers often complain that their students seem to do very little thinking, teachers who simply follow the manual should understand that they are actually contributing to the problem. Students seldom learn to think under the tutelage of teachers who do not think either. - Donovan L. Graham

I said once that lies have no rights against truth. I was wrong. In daily life, it's the truth that's disenfranchised. What fits the popular narrative, what makes an observer happy with the consistency of events, is what is believed. - Adrian Lamo

Freedom had been hunted round the globe; reason was considered as rebellion; and the slavery of fear had made men afraid to think. But such is the irresistible nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing. - Thomas Paine

The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.

Human science is an uncertain guess.

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

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be obtained only by someone who is detached. - Simone Weil

Pain heals. Chicks dig scars. Glory lasts forever. - Vince McKewin

we are bound to make mistakes. We are bound to meet mistakes. We have regretted certain decisions we took yesterday today and we may regret some decisions of today tomorrow but not until we regret the regrets, we shall always have the regrets - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Some of us go full circle. Some of us blindly go nowhere. The circle doesn’t have to be very large to make a point, kick your ass and/or be entertaining. Remember that and stay light. Even the deaf know good music when they hear it. - Jason Mraz

Remain humble in your journey as an author and your audience will embrace you. Remain grateful for every publicity opportunity that comes your way, and the media will embrace you. - Linda F. Radke

Anne did think on the question with perfect decision, and said as much in replay as her own feelings could accomplish, or as his seemed able to bear, for he was too much affected to renew the subject - and when he spoke again, it was something totally different. - Jane Austen

There you stand like a duck in a thunderstorm again - aren't you ever going to understand?

According to the reality, I assume that we are not going to meet again. Yet, I do believe that we have met for a reason - Ahmed Alibage

Success nullifies. You then have to do it again, preferably differently - Karl Lagerfeld

Since we aim for a healthy life for all, we should teach young girls that their worth can't be validated by dating older rich men, because that is risky for their health. Until we change certain perceptions in society, we will keep fighting the same battles. - Gugu Mona

Cocaine is God's way of saying you make too much money.

I found myself in a sea in which the waves of joy and sorrow were clashing against each other. - Naguib Mahfouz

Knowing when you should weigh up your options, remain calm and not take everything at face value has certain benefitsEnding the day with with a peaceful soul is one... - Virginia Alison

What haunts me most about her eyes is the pain I put in them...In the corner of my dark soul, her passion is dark like a kohl.She is giving new meaning to these feelings...She is complete, she is whole. - Dinesh Kumar Biran

The world and the friends that lived in it are shadows: you alone remain real in this drowsing room. - Aldous Huxley

The superior man...does not set his mind either for anything, or against anything; what is right he will follow. - Confucius

The change starts when you start watching a video. You don't see it, you don't feel it but it starts at this moment, just by reading a complicated book or watching a film you again change... It's a fact! - Deyth Banger

Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals. - Mark Twain

The least strained and most natural ways of the soul are the most beautiful; the best occupations are the least forced. - Michel de Montaigne

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

Every major outward change must first begin in the mind .So for us to expect development in our nations, we must first bring development to the minds and understandings of our people. The change we quest for outwardly must first be attained inwardly. - Sunday Adelaja

Being faithful in the smallest things is the way to gain, maintain, and demonstrate the strength needed to accomplish something great. - Alex Harris

If pain must come may it come quickly for i have a life to live and i have to live it the best way possible. - Kharly

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

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

...Material goods have gained an increasing and finally inexorable power over the lives of men as at no previous period in history. - Max Weber

Insistence on one’s own opinion can never lead to attainment of Moksha [Ultimate Liberation]. Only those who are free of insistence will attain Liberation. - Dada Bhagwan

Ill love you with every little bit of everything that has ever consumed me and I will forever love you and forever find you in every life time and so on. Until the stars die out and the universe leaps but even then, my love will remain. - Robert M. Drake

The essence of real creativity is a certain playfulness, a flitting from idea to idea without getting bogged down by fixated demands. Of course, you don’t always get what you thought you were asking for. - Vernor Vinge

I lurched away from the table after a few hours feeling like Elvis in Vegas - fat, drugged, and completely out of it. - Anthony Bourdain

Self-serving-pride (swamaan) means to take precaution against being insulted. - Dada Bhagwan

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

One kind of good book should leave you asking: how did the author know that about me? - Alain de Botton

The difference between a trained mind and a free mind is that a trained mind will fail to see just how trained their mind is by tradition, while a free mind has discarded such limitations... - Lionel Suggs

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

Comedy is not the opposite of darkness, but its natural bedfellow. Pain makes laughter necessary; laughter makes pain tolerable. - Mindy Greenstein

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

The only comfort comes in thinking about how nice it was to know them, and how nice it was to brush against goodness for a season. - Gordon Atkinson

If any choose to maintain, as many do, that species were gradually brought to their maturity from humbler forms ... he is welcome to his hypothesis, but I have nothing to do with it.

Of all the purposes of education, I think the most useful is this: It prepares you to keep yourself entertained. It gives you a better chance of an interesting job. - Roger Ebert

When we try to contain reality, to define it, to write down its laws, we fail. We should recognise the universe its right to be unpredictable! - Rossana Condoleo Rossana Condoleo - www.rossanacondoleo.com

I do not believe that the present flowering of science is due in the least to a real appreciation of the beauty and intellectual discipline of the subject. It is due simply to the fact that power, wealth and prestige can only be obtained by the correct application of science. - Derek Barton

A good half of the art of living is resilience. - Alain de Botton

Begin -- to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished. - Ausonius

So Lightning says to Mud,What would happen if I struck your blood?And Mud says, Brother, It would hurt, And make me the motherOf every living thing.But, Fire Boy, you ain’t lifting my grass skirtUntil you burn me a ring. - Sherman Alexie

I always felt it wouldpass.I listened to the charges against meknowing some of them to be truebut certainly notimportant enoughto become the target ofviolence, envy,vengeance.I thought it would surelypass. - Charles Bukowski

Science transcends the personal domain of beliefs. You can see the grace of Science in every direction of the human universe. - Abhijit Naskar

Sometimes we do grip the concert in a human head, and so hold it that in a way we get a record of it into paint, but the vision and expressing of one day will not do for the next. - Robert Henri

When I write, I don't translate for white readers.... Dostoevski wrote for a Russian audience, but we're able to read him. If I'm specific, and I don't overexplain, then anyone can overhear me. - Toni Morrison

One must always rebel against fear and hate and affirm life. - Marty Rubin

Theories that diseases are caused by mental states and can be cured by will power, are always an index of how much is not understood about the physical terrain of a disease. - Susan Sontag

The best one can hope for is a government favorable to certain claims and demands from the Left. - Gilles Deleuze

Its funny when people recently change their attitude to gain entrance into your heart, which may only ignite your passion to close the door. - Michael Bassey Johnson

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

I’ve seen knives pierce the chest,Children dying in the roadCrawling things hooked and baited,Rapists bound and then castrated,Villains singed in public square.Yet none these sights did make me cringeLike when my Love cut all her hair. - Roman Payne

Today is the best day to begin your life again and plan the rest of your life. - Debasish Mridha