Quotation Explorer - 'An'

Just about ANY personality trait or skill can be learned: simply find it in someone you know and copy it. Then watch what happens. - Steve Goodier

If lightning is the anger of the gods, then the gods are concerned mostly about trees. - Lao Tzu

A fool is someone whose arrogance is only surpassed by his ignorance. - Orrin Woodward

Time makes the ordinary extraordinary and the extraordinary ordinary. - Kevin Focke

Don't be afraid if life brings more dark to your dream,because a star can't shine without dark. - Saravanan

Unless you realize yourself beyond the identity of the mind, you cannot become free from life. - Roshan Sharma

You are educated. Yourcertification is in yourdegree. You may think ofit as the ticket to the goodlife. Let me ask you to think of analternative. Think of it as yourticket to change the world. - Tom Brokaw

Love is the innermost energy, innermost fire which wants to come out always and spread all over. - Debasish Mridha

I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want. - Andy Warhol

Leaving town I sat next to a senseless and beautiful boywho asked where I live.His unwashed hair or the way his eyes were just eyes…the soul is a tiring thing. You can have it.I don’t know what you mean’s what I told him.It’s more simple than that. I’m just passing through. - Alex Dimitrov

You can see ugliness or you can see beauty in the same thing - It just indicates your state of mind ~ - Ramana Pemmaraju

The world does not speak. Only we do. The world can, once we have programmed ourselves with a language, cause us to hold beliefs. But it cannot propose a language for us to speak. Only other human beings can do that. - Richard M. Rorty

Dreams are but interludes that fancy makes... Sometimes forgotten things, long cast behind Rush forward in the brain, and come to mind. - John Dryden

Authenticity matters little, though--our willingness to accept legends depends far more upon their expression of concepts we want to believe than upon their plausibility. - David P. Mikkelson

Over intellect will make you a genius, over emotions will make you a lunatic. - Amit Kalantri

Always accept good advices from others, they will help you out if you are facing any complications in life - Saaif Alam

When we learn to speak, we learn to translate. - Octavio Paz

Let tears flow of their own accord: their flowing is not inconsistent with inward peace and harmony. - Seneca

The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown. - Carl Jung

It's like: never relax, never take that breath, never stop to get that drink of water. You know you can always smell roses when you're running with them in your hand. - Garth Brooks

Let us dance in the rain to enjoy the rainbows and to get lost in the beauty of nature. - Debasish Mridha

When we want a man to do something for us, we are asking for his investment and commitment- however big/small....Show our commitment first by doing something to add value to the relationship. Something he perceives as value. - Renee Wade

You have to accept the situation to be able to change it. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Here at lastWe shall be free;the Almighty hath not builtHere for his envy, will not drive us hence:Here we may reign secure, and in my choiceTo reign is worth ambition though in Hell:Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven. - John Milton

The pride of youth is in strength and beauty, the pride of old age is in discretion. - Democritus

It's important to have your private enjoyments because sometimes that's all we have. - Kay Ryan

Never blame anyone in life. The good people give you happiness. The worst people give you a lesson. The best people give you memories. - Ziad K. Abdelnour

Human kind is already perfect, Technology is getting stronger but we are getting weaker - Pak Ho

One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar. - Henry Miller

One idea lights a thousand candles. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

If Fran Lebowitz and Ian Fleming had blessed the world with a love child it would have been author J. Fields Jr. - Edward Medina

...the passage of time, which transformed the volatile present into that finished, unalterable painting called the past, a canvas man always executed blindly, with erratic brushstrokes that only made sense when one stepped far enough away from it to be able to admire it as a whole. -pg. 19 - Félix J. Palma

He never gave up. And he does that for us - Steven Spielberg

He has 'le coeur comme un artichaud'. Eddy fumbled for her high school French. 'A heart like an artichoke?' 'Oui. He has a leaf for everyone, but makes a meal for no one. - Poppy Z. Brite

Oh! Polly thought. Why aren't all girls locked up by law the year they turn fifteen? They do such stupid things! - Diana Wynne Jones

Sticks and stones may break my bones but your words were always the hardest. - Dominic Riccitello

The elevator to success broke a long time ago, the problem is too many people are too lazy to take the stairs. - Jacob Maldonado

A kind thought, word, or action creates infinite ripples of caring, consideration, and peace. - Amy Leigh Mercree

Forgiveness is the highest form of a gift of kindness and it brings freedom from the prison of hatred and revenge. - Debasish Mridha

The public library is where place and possibility meet. - Stuart Dybek

Bring light to the ignorant, but more light to the educated, for the vanity of education makes modern humans more ignorant than the ignorant. - Abhijit Naskar

The objective for each individual when you are pulled over by an officer of the law is to - Survive the Stop! - Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.

I do not put much stock in "believing in God." The grammar of "belief" invites a far too rationalistic account of what it means to be a Christian. "Belief" implies propositions about which you get to make up your mind before you know the work they are meant to do. - Stanley Hauerwas

As illusory attachment (moha) spread, one sunk deeper and deeper into the pit. - Dada Bhagwan

I can't believe in something that doesn't believe in me!-Salvation - Five Finger Death Punch

The whole drift of my education goes to persuade me that the world of our present consciousness is only one out of many worlds of consciousness that exist. - William James

I can only meditate when I am walking, when I stop I cease to think; my mind only works with my legs. - Rousseau Jean-Jacques 1712-1778

Open the beauty of your heart and smile like a flower. - Debasish Mridha

If the brain was simple enough to be understood - we would be too simple to understand it! - Minsky M.A.

I am hopelessly in love with a memory. An echo from another time, another place. - Michel Foucault

Lust is the difference between loving someone and being in love with someone. - Teresa Mummert

Emilio, I am getting rusty and old, I cannot follow the highbrow theory developed by Oppenheimer's pupils any more. I went to their seminar and was depressed by my inability to understand them. Only the last sentence cheered me up. It was: "And this is Fermi's theory of beta decay. - Enrico Fermi

I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, 'Where's the self-help section?' She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose. - George Carlin

I had rather be right than be President. - Henry Clay

Vision is purpose, and when your purpose is clear so are your life choices. Vision creates faith and faith creates willpower. With faith there is no anxiety, no doubt-just absolute confidence.

Intelligence is an accident of evolution, and not necessarily an advantage. - Isaac Asimov

Some pains are physical, and some pains are mental, but the one that's both is dental. - Ogden Nash

I rather now strive to reach rather than wait to receive! - Jonathan Anthony Burkett

No - the stars are close and dear and I have joined the brotherhood of the worlds. And everything's holy - everything, even me. - John Steinbeck

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. - Martin Luther King Jr.

To change the reality, change the perception but not the reality. - Debasish Mridha

Get pleasure out of life...as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure. - Sol Hurok

People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times. - Isaac Bashevis Singer

Sometimes I can't figure designers out. It's as if they flunked human anatomy. - Erma Bombeck

I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation of man is through love and in love. - Viktor Frankl

O sovereign mistress of true melancholy. - William Shakespeare

When religious people take the stance that they don’t owe anyone that is hurting closure or answers then God is not winning. Conflict continues because of lack of communication, fear and indifference. - Shannon L. Alder

Success to me is being happy, truly fulfilled, being proud of myself, and doing different things all the time. - Leighton Meester

One’s skill is never complete, one’s knowledge is forever lacking, one’s taste is invariably altered, one’s opinion ever subject to controversy. There is a complete and constant urge towards improvement. - Andrew Loomis

There's magic in stories, magic in hope, and magic in coming together. I have learnt from people's stories, been inspired by their hope, and been strengthened by their coming together. - Sharad Vivek Sagar

You’ve never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive. - Jean Cocteau

One of rarest things that a man ever does is to do the best he can. - Josh Billings

Within us is Energy which when channelized, spirals into Inspiration. - - RVM

Let us dance in the sun, wearing wild flowers in our hair... - Susan Polis Schutz

I conceive the essential task of religion to be "to develop the consciences, the ideals, and the aspirations of mankind". - Robert Millikan

Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan - a Mount Rushmore of incompetence.

Human excellence means nothing unless it works with the consent of God. - Euripides

Time is just something that we assign. You know, past, present, it's just all arbitrary. Most Native Americans, they don't think of time as linear; in time, out of time, I never have enough time, circular time, the Stevens wheel. All moments are happening all the time. - Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

Truth is a pathless land. - Krishnamurti

People live for two reasons. There are those who live for the Soul; such people are very rare. All others live for money. All day is spent for money, money, money! - Dada Bhagwan

What life means has individual answers for each of us. - Jay Woodman

The Irish are a fair people - they never speak well of one another. - Samuel Johnson

Better no law than laws not enforced. - Italian Proverb

The power to change your life lies in the simplest of steps. - Steve Maraboli

Accessibility to information never been so advanced and easy in entire human history as it is now and we have no excuse for ignorance. - Baris Gencel

Music touches us emotionally, where words alone can't. - Johnny Depp

Uninformed, America may succumb to bad ideas and leaders. In succumbing, we fail to fulfill our destiny. Well informed, America rises as far as the good ideas and leaders it proactively chooses. In so rising, we fulfill our destiny and offer to the world vacuum its last best hope. () - Scott L. Vanatter

In passing, we should note this curious mark of our own age: the only absolute allowed is the absolute insistence that there is no absolute. - Francis A. Schaeffer

Don't ask me what it means; ask me what it felt. - Jill Telford

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

Justice, love, truth, peace and harmony, a serene unity with science and the laws of the universe. - Luther Burbank

The signature of our eyes, in other words, the way we look never changes even at the age of hundred! - Mehmet Murat ildan

Support and encouragement are found in the most unlikely places. - Raquel Cepeda

One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time and in others' minds. - Alfred Kazin

There is no such existence of Atma or Soul separately. That is a doctrine. In Vedas they are saying God’s light and then and there they are saying ‘He is the best man.’ So why do you call this best man as Atma? - Sri Jibankrishna or Diamond

What a person want in life ?1. Simple, steady life.2. Self satisfaction and craziness from work and life he live.3. Luxury/Royal life.Choice is yours, in which way you want to live. - kurbhatt

Fed by plants, fed up with the world - Evan Baldonado

Don’t swear at your past; you couldn’t existed without it! It is the only path to reach today and tomorrow! Remember that past is a great teacher who thought us all we know now! - Mehmet Murat ildan

It is better to seek the glory of God than human beings. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Writers begin with a grain of sand, and then create a beach. - Robert Black

Stop, breathe, look aroundand embrace the miracle of each day,the miracle of life. - Jeffrey A. White

Love is pure, perfect, precise, and precious. - Debasish Mridha

Maj. Burns: "What kind of idiot do you think I am?" Cpl. O'Reily: "You'd know that better than me, sir.

The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship. - Sir Francis Bacon

Self-care is not selfish. You cannot serve from an empty vessel. - Eleanor Brownn

The causal, abstract, binary, holistic, and reductionist functions of the human brain all help you to process the enormous amount of information coming into our brain from the external world every day. - Abhijit Naskar

Poichè il destino e gli eventi li avevano tenuti per tanto tempo separati, occorrevva che qualche cosa di lieve e come indifferente corresse avanti ad aprire le porte dell'anima a parole più gravi, suggerite da più gravi pensieri. - Nathaniel Hawthorne

Philosophy, in its simplest form, is the exploration of the beauty and ugliness of life. - Debasish Mridha

look, tiny - i’m trying to be on my best behavior, but you have to understand - i’m always standing on the edge of something bad. and sometimes someone like you can make me look the other way, so that i don’t know how close i am to falling over. but i always end up turning my head. always. - David Levithan

People are looking for chimes and resonances. Chimes leave echoes, and that's what rhyme is. Poetry is about leaving an echo imprint in somebody else's head, in the dark snow of their mind. - Diana Georgeff

We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - gunpowder and romantic love. - Andre Maurois

All your life you live so close to truth it becomes a permanent blur in the corner of your eye. And when something nudges it into outline, it's like being ambushed by a grotesque. - Tom Stoppard

In an era of global abundance, our world has the resources to reduce dramatically the massive divides that persist between rich and poor, if only those resources can be unleashed in the service of all peoples.

I remember making that vow, the one not to forget. Not to remember what happened, but to remember who I was and how I felt. - Neil Gaiman

Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy. - Norman Schwarzkopf

Work hard AND smart. - Mike Rowe

The easiest way to be inscrutable is to be completely straightforward and honest. Then no one will be able to figure out what you’re up to. - George Hammond

You, too, can determine what you want. You can decide on your major objectives, targets, aims and destination.

Grace is a power that comes in and transforms a moment into something better - Caroline Myss

You can start now and create a great future. - Lailah Gifty Akita

The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous. - Carl Sagan

Acceptance, Breathtaking performance, clarity in vision, beyond imagination thinking are the factors to success. - Sourav Adhikari

A writer’s primary goal is to make sense. The bookstore’s is to make cents. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Change is not something you do. Change is something you allow. - Vironika Tugaleva

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

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea. - Sir Francis Bacon

Great minds have purpose, others have wishes. Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortunes; but great minds rise above them. - Washington Irving

I love her so damned much." Manny heard himself say. That’s my heart right there. That’s my woman. - J.R. Ward

Now a soft kiss - Aye, by that kiss, I vow an endless bliss. - John Keats

I care not for the body which may rot. Yet, for the transgression of the spirit, of moral ethics, of life, liberty and the soul itself, I must and shall cross the line of battle or lose the very reason not to. - The Great Pacifist

my unexpected trip to the light may have been cancelled, but here I was, still paying the cost of the return ticket - Teri Garey

The one who pulls the puppet strings knows fairytales can heal. - Sally Odgers

A soul`s ugliness can be much more ambitious than her beauty. - Michalopoulos Angelos

All that counts in life is intention. - Andrea Bocelli

If you're too busy looking back at the past, you won't be able to see and enjoy the future! - Dawn M. Plass

I know the moment you died,Jesus' face was smiling on you,Welcoming you into His glorious city of gold. I know you are enjoying the incredible light and peace of His presence right now - Lisa Bedrick

To make things 'perfectly clear' is reactionary and stupefying. The real is not perfectly clear. - Avital Ronell

Not too many people know how life could be best used, it is a millennial dilemma, that has troubled souls of men for many, many generations. - Sunday Adelaja

I propose getting rid of conventional armaments and replacing them with reasonably priced hydrogen bombs that would be distributed equally throughout the world.

Life is like a boxing match, keep on throwing those punches and one of them will land.Kevin Lane - The Shawshank Prevention - Ken Scott

As she laughed I was aware of becoming involved in her laughter and being part of it, until her teeth were only accidental stars with a talent for squad-drill. - T.S. Eliot

Promise a lot and give even more.

Don’t try to make everyone happy; you can’t. The only ones who try are clowns. - Matshona Dhliwayo

They said they respect me, which means, their judgment is crazy. - Morrissey

In a country where even humans are treated brutally, animals must be in a totally desperate condition! - Mehmet Murat ildan

Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable. - Sydney Smith

Be sure that your praise songs are numbered higher than your sorrowful dirges and your utmost hope, firmer than your woeful regrets. Be positive. - Israelmore Ayivor

One could never pay too high a price for any sensation. - Oscar Wilde

At a time India was known as golden bird because of its huge amount of gold assets. Let's make India once again the same golden bird full of innovation and technology. - Prakhar Srivastav

If you look inside, that which is said to be 'hard to find;' you may find that it was plainer to see than ever dreamed!! - Mary Kate

The mark of an immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of a mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.

Saying his name stabbed my heart, like someone had ripped through my carefully stitched up world and exposed the infected, pulsing red tissue that I thought was healing. - Colleen Houck

And when long years and seasons wheeling brought around that point of time ordained for him to make his passage homeward, trials and dangers, even so, attended him even in Ithaca, near those he loved. - Homer

The greatest of all the accomplishments of 20th century science has been the discovery of human ignorance - Lewis Thomas

Religious discrimination is not like racial discrimination. One you choose for yourself, the other God chose for you. - Habeeb Akande

You are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as a judge of the highest matters. - Plato

Darkness well ahead is better than darkness close by, because you can find a way to avoid the former! Search the horizons to see the storms ahead. - Mehmet Murat ildan

A carpenter is hired- a roof repaired, a porch built. Everything that can be fixed. June, July, August. Everyday we hear their laughter. I think of the painting by van Gogh, the man in the chair. Everything wrong, and nowhere to go. His hands over his eyes. - Mary Oliver

Include and grow. Include and expand. - Osho

The knowledge that we consider knowledge proves itself in action. What we now mean by knowledge is information in action, information focused on results. - Peter F. Drucker

...and in the long run, disease is more humane than war or starvation. My, isn't that gloomy?

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

In Hollywood, an equitable divorce settlement means each party getting fifty percent of publicity.

A few said they'd be horses. Most said they'd be some sort of cat. My friend said she'd like to come back as a porcupine. I don't like crowds, she said. - Brian Andreas

We cannot prepare our fate, but we can stir it up. - Munia Khan

Oh, but it's our tears that make us human, Isabel. - Meissner Susan

Folks who never do any more than they are paid for, never get paid more than they do. - Elbert Hubbard

Master your mind and you'll master the world around you. - Stephan Labossiere

To some women, a job plays the role of a man. To most women, a man plays the role of a job. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. - Plato

We do not believe if we do not live and work according to our belief. - Heidi Wills

I am sad, like the hot dust on the streetsAnd the music of fresh fallen leavesCaught in a sliding summer breeze. - Scott Hastie

It does not much matter that an individual loses two or three hundred pounds in buying a bad picture, but it is to be regretted that a nation should lose two or three hundred thousand in raising a ridiculous building. - John Ruskin

Write truthfully, write from the heart, and your words will live. - A.D. Posey

CHANGE: Don’t just talk about it, go out there and do it. Don’t just meditate about it, go out there and create it. Don’t just pray about it go out there and take action; participate in the answering of your own prayer. If you want change, get out there and live it. - - Steve Maraboli

INJUSTICE, n. A burden which of all those that we load upon others and carry ourselves is lightest in the hands and heaviest upon the back. - Ambrose Bierce

In some of our life projects we just never sit down to ask ourselves where we need to be going with it and so our 'ship of the project' wanders at the dictates of the waves rather than directed by the motor of our purpose - Gbenga APAMPA

You can't always control what happens to you but you can master how you react to it. - Nikki Rowe

[...] I know how to inflame a cunt. I shoot hot bolts into you, Tania. I make your ovaries incandescent. - Henry Miller

Spanish rain,A maiden’s dress,Apothecary pillsAnd ancient thrills;Melancholy killsA girl’s caress. - Roman Payne

I haven't the slightest idea how to change people, but I still keep a long list of prospective candidates just in case I should ever figure it out. - David Sedaris

Come unto these yellow sands, And then take hands: Courtsied when you have, and kiss'd The wild waves whist. - William Shakespeare

1. During civil disturbance adopt such an attitude that people do not attach any importance to you - they neither burden you with complicated affairs, nor try to derive any advantage out of you.

Just living is not enough, said the Butterfly. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.

Sometimes what's right isn't as important as what's profitable. - Trey Parker and Matt Stone

It could not be happening because this sort of thing did not happen. Any contradictory evidence could be safely ignored. - Terry Pratchett

A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing. - Clive James

The opposite of war isnt peace its creation - Jonathan Larson

The attention span of a computer is only as long as its electrical cord.

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

My friend is my friend, even if he wears rag, even if he wasn't born with a silver spoon, even if nobody wants to be his friend, i will hurt his critics by remaining his friend. - Michael Bassey Johnson

We are alive and in the world and that is beautiful and everything. - Marty Rubin

From our solitudewe shall create,forge songs ,pour in the reflectionof the stars and refresh the mindabout the silk-ridden roads that wait for them who have forgotten to feel. - Tara Estacaan

Infinite is a meaningless word: except – it states / The mind is capable of performing / an endless process of addition. - Louis Zukofsky

physics can be taught , love cant , learn it while you can , earn it when ever possible . - ganeshsaidheeraj

"I may lose land...but I never lose a minute." - Napoleon Bonaparte

Normal people are just freaks who are afraid to be themselves in public. - Anonymous

Lovers are like kids; they don’t stop until they get what they want. - M.F. Moonzajer

The absence of the will to live is, alas, not sufficient to make one want to die. - Michel Houellebecq

Whomever you truly are... honor that person. No dream was ever realized by disappearing into the shadows of self-deceit and doubt. - Jaeda DeWalt

The more confident and appreciative of who you are, the less hold depression has over you. - Omoakhuana Anthonia

Do You want to be a Starfish? - Dillinger Cobb

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

He - and if there is a God, I am convinced he is a he, because no woman could or would ever fuck things up this badly. - George Carlin

Why don't these translation books just include general phrases that could be applied in a variety of situations like, "Say nothing unless it's in English"? - Joe Cawley

I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw some things back. - Maya Angelou

If you’re truly friends, then you don’t just offer a little whisp of your love. You unzip your chest, reach in and pull your heart out and says, It’s all yours—please keep it beating. - Toni Sorenson

I remember growing up, saying you’re an artist it sounds pretentious but now it’s one of the only dignified things that you can call yourself. - Marilyn Manson

The commendable efforts of preachers to Europe is that people began to understand that wealth and success is not a matter of luck. - Sunday Adelaja

Take me to the land of lovers where flowers bloom with love, birds sing with love, and hearts long for hearts. - Debasish Mridha

To have sinned and wake up the next day is truly a miracle, repent. - Okisha Jackson

I turned to the window. A single raindrop fell against it, and seeing my reflection in the glass, I suddenly knew why Finn’s eyes were familiar.They were exactly like mine. - Pamela Nicole

Jesus preached to crowds of thousands and hundreds of thousands of people, in order to make only twelve of them into His disciples, He took time to work with each person individually - Pastor Adelaja Sunday

If you feel you have to open a particular door, open it, otherwise all your life that door will haunt your mind! - Mehmet Murat ildan

... it is important to realize that any lock can be picked with a big enough hammer.

Well, there are times when one would like to hang the whole human race and finish the farce. - Mark Twain

The question our century puts before us is: is it possible to regain the lost dimension, the encounter with the Holy, the dimension which cuts through the world of subjectivity and objectivity and goes down to that which is not world but is the Mystery of the Ground of Being. - Paul Tillich

And for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor. - Thomas Jefferson

On that search for happiness we did nothing with all those other emotions that made us human. - Darnell Lamont Walker

If a railroad is bent, the train shall turn over; if a man’s character is bent, he shall turn over just like that train. - Mehmet Murat ildan

The sketch hunter moves through life as he finds it, not passing negligently the things he loves, but stopping to know them, and to note them down in the shorthand of his sketchbook. - Robert Henri

WE MUST ALL EAT OR ELSE WE WILL PUT SAND IN YOUR FOOD. - Job Amupanda

If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite. - William Blake

The meaning of Sannyas is not well defined. Its meaning is not static; it is redefined after short periods of time in the life of a Sannyasi. - Harshit Walia

The web is a dangerous place for a mind begging to slack off and be distracted by nonsense. - Michelle M. Pillow

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

A limited vision will only see that there is a choice between reliving the past, staying with the present or embracing the future. A spiritual person of faith doesn't make choices based on time frames. We choose based on what will bring us the most growth. - Shannon L. Alder

- and the mocking realization that money was just colorful crumpled paper, hardly different from a candy wrapper, the market itself little more than a casino. - Paul Theroux

When you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully: the church, which belongs to God, and the public library, which belongs to you. The public library is a great equaliser. - Keith Richards

If wisdom is a place, you should be the wisest one to live there.. - Munia Khan

Our Euripides the human,With his droppings of warm tears,and his touchings of things common Till they rose to meet the spheres. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I only know everything if you ask the right questions. - Doc Coleman

Constant and determined effort breaks down all resistence and sweeps away all obstacles.

We need faith and the mind of the Lord Jesus to recognize something of lasting value in even our most ordinary tasks. - Philip Yancey

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

It's not selfish to love yourself, take care of yourself, and make your happiness a priority. It's necessary. - Mandy Hale

I'm beginning to think of hope as a dangerous, terrifying thing. - Tahereh Mafi

The key to finding happiness in this life is realizing that the only way to overcome is to transcend; to find happiness in the simple pleasures, to master the art of just being. - Brianna Wiest

BOTANY, n. The science of vegetables -- those that are not good to eat, as well as those that are. It deals largely with their flowers, which are commonly badly designed, inartistic in color, and ill- smelling. - Ambrose Bierce

Life is a battle; face it.Life is a jungle; explore it.Life is a puzzle; study it.Life is a mystery; solve it.Life is a game; beat it.Life is an opponent; defeat it.Life is a treasure; cherish it. - Matshona Dhliwayo

Most people are not so stupid to be not able to differentiate eventually between the right and the wrong individual , but it is only the foolish person who continues to misguide oneself solely as if s/he has not been caught as who s/he is as true character. - Anuj Somany

I have often wondered if the irrational fear some men have of women that incites them to subjugate and oppress the female species begins in the adage: "I brought you into this world, I can take you out! - Annastacia Dickerson

You can only trust your emotions as you can lie to yourself with your brain but not your heart. - Carl White

I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don't. - W. Somerset Maugham

I think it would be worse to expect nothing than to be disappointed. - L. M. Montgomery

Agony is not something that happens to you.To agonize is a choice. - Alan Cohen

I think about dying every day, because I can't stop thinking about living. - Libba Bray

To be able to put oneself in another’s position, to be able to see and to feel as another person does, this is the rare gift of an earnest spiritual seeker. - Amma

Friendship...is not something you learn in school,but if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship you really haven't learned anything. - Oscar Wilde

I have more wisdom than any books ever written in history of times, any scripture ever written which you rhyme but this is not my purpose. - Santosh Kalwar

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily. - Napoleon Bonaparte

A vacation frequently means that the family goes away for a rest, accompanied by mother, who sees that the others get it.

One who loves lives a thousand years in one day; one who hates only lives one day in a thousand years. - Matshona Dhliwayo

Education is the guardian genius of democracy. It is the only dictator that free men recognize, and the only ruler that free men require. - Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar

A smile is the dance of your soul. - Debasish Mridha

The future depends on what you do today. - Mahatma Gandhi

I am a citizen-at-large, of everywhere and nowhere, so sometimes I get pretty homesick. - Rich Benjamin

Knowledge is abundant but wisdom is rare. Knowledge might be dangerous but wisdom is fair. - Debasish Mridha

How many husbands have I had? You mean apart from my own? - Zsa Zsa Gabor

A man cannot impart the true feeling of things to others unless he himself has experienced what he is trying to tell of. - Jack Kerouac

Don't canonize me too soon. I'm perfectly capable of fathering a child. - Francis of Assisi

When the young womanleans over the sky,about to water the flowers as well as the weeds,her white front splits openuntil her milk runs. - Günter Grass

Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe. - Alan W. Watts

It doesn't need to be happy so to be interesting, there are outside sad stories which are also interesting... if you know what's about overall..., know the ending... don't you want to understand why??? By going deeper and deeper!? - Deyth Banger

Two friends... let's put them place... they have never been in jail, give them a knife some reasonable conflicts some doubts and watch the effect. - Deyth Banger

MotherHushed and sacred silencefills the dawning skyI ponder in this momentof our journey which is nigh... - Muse

You don't mince words.""Just garlic. - Joan Bauer

Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. - Walt Disney

A woman's life can really be a succession of lives, each revolving around some emotionally compelling situation or challenge, and each marked off by some intense experience. - Wallis Duchess of Windsor

Aim at the sun, and you may not reach it; but your arrow will fly far higher than if aimed at an object on a level with yourself. - Joel Hawes

It’s only after you’ve stepped outside your comfort zone that you begin to change, grow, and transform. - Roy T. Bennett

It was death by a thousand cuts - Unknown

The impact of music is so great that you'll leave your book and start dancing. - Michael Bassey Johnson

By its definition, sound is interactive. It is you connecting with the frequency of something greater or richer through hearing. Likewise, when your sound goes out, you can no longer hear the sound of your voice. And if you cannot hear your voice, you don’t know who you are. - Suzette Hinton

Before my term has ended, we shall have to test anew whether a nation organized and governed such as ours can endure. The outcome is by no means certain. - John F. Kennedy

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

Anything that was created today were once an unknown insecurity far beyond the next chapter of your life! - Vishwanath S J

Mind the ground, oh yes check the land before you build that mansion. It is only a fallacy to build a great mansion on a waterlogged land without first attending to the land. You shall only sleep in a mansion with problems! Mind the ground! - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Growing up is childish. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

APHORISM, n. Predigested wisdom. The flabby wine-skin of his brain Yields to some pathologic strain, And voids from its unstored abysm The driblet of an aphorism. "The Mad Philosopher," 1697 - Ambrose Bierce

We want to develop the nationWe want to develop the stateWe want to develop the society,But very few of us wants let the neighbor grow.Then how could the world will grow. - Jovieal James

The mind thinks thoughts that we don't plan. It's not as if we say, 'At 9:10 I'm going to be filled with self-hatred. - Sharon Salzberg

Both the cockroach and the bird would get along very well without us, although the cockroach would miss us most. - Joseph Wood Krutch

Saturday 12 July 1823 [Halifax]Could not sleep last night. Dozing, hot & disturbed ... a violent longing for a female companion came over me. Never remember feeling it so painfully before ... It was absolute pain to me. - Anne Lister

...and all the people said 'What a shame that he's dead, but wasn't he a most peculiar man? - Paul Simon

From the totalitarian point of view, history is something to be created rather than learned. - George Orwell

It is much more easy to have sympathy with suffering than it is to have sympathy with thought. - Oscar Wilde

Somehow, I did not finger you for a treasure-hunter.Oh, but I am, without shame. Her name is Titianni Aziz. - V.S. Carnes

Ima onih sećanja koja ne želite pustiti jer vas vraćaju u najsjajnije trenutke vašeg života a opet, ima i onih koja vas vraćaju u najmračnije i ta ne žele pustiti vas. - S.J. Abbo

When man manages his intellect and steadies his mind, He discovers the all-pervading Self. - Gian Kumar

Are you scared? I understand. The first time I saw my reflection in the mirror, even I was frightened by how BIG my reflection was. - Atsushi Ohkubo

All sky full of color, stars & mirage , i gaze , i gaze & i gaze . - Ankit Samrat

Sex is the most fun you can have without laughing. - Woody Allen

Truth is so obscure in these times and falsehood so established that unless one loves the truth, he cannot know it. - Blaise Pascal

I guess All that glitters really isn't gold....Sometimes it's just 'paint'. - Andrea L'Artiste

Reality is the place we need to live, but our imaginations harbor the greatest places to visit! - Giuseppe Bianco

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

Let others lead small lives, but not you.. Let others argue over small things, but not you.. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you.. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you. - Jim Rohn

Life is meant to be enjoyed, not endured.

We only have to dance to the rhythm of life. - Lailah Gifty Akita

REPARATION, n. Satisfaction that is made for a wrong and deducted from the satisfaction felt in committing it. - Ambrose Bierce

Giving someone gifts cannot equate to spending quality time with them. Never replace time with things. Time is precious and once lost cannot be regained. Make every moment count...you never know when your time will be up. - Kemi Sogunle

If an artist wants to use his mind for creative work, cutting oneself off from society is a necessary thing - Glenn Gould

Gather up all your scattered dreams and build the life you love. - Moosa Rahat

When you have higher thoughts, rid yourself of anything that threatens to lower them. - Matshona Dhliwayo

The true Renaissance person is endowed with panoramic attention.... The habit of noticing the ensemble of everything and its constituent parts is a matter of will, not of innate aptitude. It involves the conscious noticing of things and the gaps that separate and connect them. - Christy Wampole

Happy the man who, like Ulysses, has made a fine voyage, or has won the Golden Fleece, and then returns, experienced and knowledgeable, to spend the rest of his life among his family!

The difference between a dream and a fantasy is action. - Orrin Woodward

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

A bad habit never disappears miraculously; it's an undo-it-yourself project. - Abigail Van Buren

I might’ve found a way to cure them. Crystal said in a jumble of words. Cure them? Permanently? Yes sir. He thought about this a moment before speaking, You’ve got two weeks, can you do it by then? That’s plenty of time sir, thank you. - Julia Barkey

Words are never insufficient to describe any situation. It is the talent to use the words which is the insufficient one! - Mehmet Murat ildan

People are simply incapable of prolonged, sustained goodness. - Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

Kako će Kur'an omekšati tvoje srce ako, učeći ga, iščekuješ kraj sure? - الحسن البصري

Nice mix of Tory MPs saying this issue shouldn't be used for petty political pointscoring, & Tory MPs trying to score petty political points. - Andy Zaltzman

Promise me that if you become a Christian you'll become a Presbyterian.

Ujasusi ni kitu cha muhimu kwa maendeleo ya nchi yoyote. Watu wanaoshughulika na ujasusi wanapaswa kuwa makini mno kwani kazi yao ni nyeti sana kulinganisha na kazi za watu wengine. Kosa dogo la kiusalama linaweza kubadili mwelekeo wa historia ya nchi. - Enock Maregesi

For many people, a western lifestyle equates to living in a toxic home, working a toxic job, eating toxic food, being sick from your thirties onward and eventually dying from preventable disease. - Steven Magee

Time is going really faster than you think. That second just passed now, get up, pack the bag, get lost… - Jerril Thomas Abraham

The best gift, you can give me is a book. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Today I will find something beautiful.Delicate pink blossoms on a cherry tree.The dove resting near the lemon buds.Sunbeams smiling from sky to earth.Smiling on me."Creating" in BREATHE IN - Eileen Granfors

More than any other product of human scientific culture scientific knowledge is the collective property of all mankind. - Konrad Lorenz

Relationship is about forgiveness and compromise. It is about balance where one person complements each other. - Nicholas Sparks

Everything that is going to kill you is extremely appetizing. - Doug Stanhope

Silence is peace, silence is quiet, silence is calming, silence is what you can be. - Jessica Kissner

My own experience and development deepen every day my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy. - George Eliot

The financial markets are not to be trusted. They expect to be given free reign to make huge profits while the sun is shining, but hasten to the shelter of the state when the skies darken. - Peter Stalker

Do not be satisfied by just getting what you need, strive and work harder to get what you want. - Auliq Ice

There's nothing we fear more than our own Reflection. We scream at the monsters within us, hidden deep within our hearts. We run and hide from the terrors all around us- the different mirrors that we see. - Solange nicole

[A]lways get to the dialogue as soon as possible. I always feel the thing to go for is speed. Nothing puts the reader off more than a big slab of prose at the start."(Interview, The Paris Review, Issue 64, Winter 1975) - P.G. Wodehouse

The book smelled dusty and old but also carried a sweet tang, a hint of something inviting. She opened to the first page and started to read, pronouncing the words in a reverent whisper. - Shannon Hale

what's the saying? All is donkey balls in love and war?-Dan Garrett - Leah Rae Miller

I am madness maddened! That wild madness that's only calm to comprehend itself! - Herman Melville

Every poem is a coat of arms. It must be deciphered. How much blood, how many tears in exchange for these axes, these muzzles, these unicorns, these torches, these towers, these martlets, these seedlings of stars and these fields of blue! - Jean Cocteau

Some women don't care what you can do for them. They care about what you could make of them in the inside. - Shannon L. Alder

If you want peace in your life, you have to stop declaring war. - Shannon L. Alder

Unto those who have,it shall,uncannily, be given.Unto those who have not,it shall,uncannily,be taken away. - Patrick Hamilton

And if an increasingly pluralistic America ever decides to commission a new motto, I’m open for business, because I’ve got a better one than E pluribus unum. Tu dormis, tu perdis . . . You snooze, you lose. - Paul Beatty

To hope under the most extreme circumstances is an act of defiance that permits a person to live his life on his own terms. It is part of the human spirit to endure and give a miracle a chance to happen. - Jerome Groopman

A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will not. - Johann Gottlieb Fichte

I’m tired of ignorance held up as inspiration, where vicious anti-intellectualism is considered a positive trait, and where uninformed opinion is displayed as fact. - Philip Plait

He longed for the little cabin and the sun-kissed sea - for the cool interior of the well-built house, and for the never-ending wonders of the many books. - Edgar Rice Burroughs

Fortune favors the one who wanted to chang his life. - Pintu shaw

To be able to bear provocation is an argument of great reason, and to forgive it of a great mind.

Happiness is an inside job - William Arthur Ward

Very few spiritual or religious masters know that the student is sometimes a teacher because they haven't acquired such level. - Daniel Marques

Music is a world within itself, with a language we all understand. - Stevie Wonder

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

What an artist perishes with me!

I like this place, and willingly would waste my time in it. - William Shakespeare

Earth can live longer then the humanity or the humanity can live longer than the earth! Both are possible! - Mehmet Murat ildan

This I can declare: things that are in heaven are more real than things that are in the world. - Emanuel Swedenborg

nothing can block your light. what's for you will be yours even when shade is thrown - Alexandra Elle

It’s not more time you need. It’s more quality use of the time you already have. - Alan Cohen

Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom. - Don DeLillo

There are two levers for moving man -- interest and fear. - Napoléon Bonaparte

Waiting for God to give you want He has ALREADY decided for you and waiting for someone to decide on you--is NOT the same. - Adrianne D. Pless

Power concedes nothing without a demand. - Frederick Douglass

Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence. - Elihu Burritt

Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within. - Miguel de Cervantes

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving. - Albert Einstein

Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind. - Nathaniel Hawthorne

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open. - George Bernard Shaw

I think there is a puritanical wind that is blowing. I have never seen such a lack of separation between church and state in America, I don’t believe in God, but if I did I would say that sex is a Godgiven right. Otherwise it’s the end of our species. - Kevin Bacon

When you are grateful, fear disappears and abundance appears. - Anthony Robbins

Any community's arm of force - military, police, security - needs people in it who can do necessary evil, and yet not be made evil by it. To do only the necessary and no more. To constantly question the assumptions, to stop the slide into atrocity. - Lois McMaster Bujold

Self-observation helps us to refocus within, to balance ourselves and to be in the present moment.... - Jacqueline Ripstein

The human mind and what we've achieved with it is remarkable. But it does not come close to what we can do, be, see and heal with our hearts - Rasheed Ogunlaru

Give humanity a mask and he will tell you is life, take that mask away and he will tell you another's. - _Encry

Peace is the byproduct of understanding in conjunction with the ability to agree or disagree in harmony - Lamont Renzo Bracy

An advanced human rights friendly Constitution is fine and well - but what good is it if it is not put into practice? The government says it cherishes the principles in the SA Constitution, and yet acts in a manner which cannot be reconciled with that very Constitution. - Christina Engela

Fair is foul, and foul is fair. - William Shakespeare

If a fear cannot be articulated, it can't be conquered. - Stephen King

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

I'd shut it down and give the money back to the shareholders.

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

I believe books should be like a prime rib steak ~ good and thick. - E.A. Bucchianeri

Quello che dovremmo capire è che noi siamo tutta la storia, non solo quel personaggio. - Alessandro Baricco

A woman in love is her most lovely. A relationship end does not change that unless she lets it. - Suzette R. Hinton

To be rich, focus on your wealth. - Deyth Banger

Isn't it funny? You hear a phone ring and it could be anybody. But a ringing phone has to be answered, doesn't it? (Phone Booth ; The Caller) - Deyth Banger

A beautiful smile is the prettiest ornament that you can find. Happiness is the prettiest color for your imaginative mind. - Debasish Mridha

When others cannot find something to hold onto … we can reach out and be their anchor in that moment. - Aaron Woodall

People think that those who commit suicide are against life—they are not. They are too lusty for life, they have great lust for life; and because life is not fulfilling their lust, in anger, in despair, they destroy themselves. - Osho

If you want to give a message to the world, let it be simple, as simple as the life of a shepherd! - Mehmet Murat ildan

My perfect day is sitting in a room with some blank paper. That's heaven. That's gold and anything else is just a waste of time. - Cormac McCarthy

The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me. - George Bernard Shaw

Friends are family members we have a choice over. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past. - Lewis Mumford

"When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone. "It means just what I choose it to mean - neither more or less." "The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make words mean so many different things." "The question is," said Humpty Dumpty, "which is to be master - that's all." - Lewis Carroll

Love is the only boat we can ride in to reach the island of happiness. - Debasish Mridha

To err is human, but to err on the side of compassion is humane. - Karl Schmidtt

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

Alexander received more bravery of mind by the pattern of Achilles, than by hearing the definition of fortitude. - Sir Philip Sidney

There's nothing sooner dry than women's tears. - John Webster

Plant the seed of desire in the field of imagination to grow the harvest of invention. - Debasish Mridha

Find your ‘why’. Give your life meaning. - Pooja Ruprell

The boring thing with taking a walk with someone is that your thoughts are then dictated by the subject or subjects of your conversation; and that is made worse by the fact that most sane people are terrified of silence whenever they are with or near someone. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Government should be a place where people can come together, and no one gets left behind. No one…gets left behind. An instrument of good. - Aaron Sorkin

True love is boundless like the ocean and, swelling within one, spreads itself out and, crossing all boundaries and frontiers, envelops the whole world. - Mahatma Gandhi

The music has teased and tickled me in an empty space that the most vacuous. - Dina Zettira Putri

ME, pro. The objectionable case of I. The personal pronoun in English has three cases, the dominative, the objectionable and the oppressive. Each is all three. - Ambrose Bierce

When I left, they were stuck with the burden of finding someone else to blame for their life... Pointing their anger everywhere, but never looking in the mirror... Continuing the cycle that led to their misery. - Steve Maraboli

Making God a man is the consolation prize that our forefathers gave themselves for not being the ones who were each blessed with a vagina. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I can't explain why your name seems so familiar to me, or why it feels like I've heard your voice a thousand times before, but I can explain this ~ your the type of chaos Id bleed for. - Nikki Rowe

Difficult times are pregnant with glory moments just waiting to be birthed in the lives of those willing to labor through the pain. - Sharon Jaynes

If words allow themselves to be handled, it is with the help of infinite carefulness. One has to welcome them, listen to the, before asking any service of them. Words are living things closely involved with human life. - Paul Nougé

I have become very aware how under-represented are the stories of the underprivileged and undervalued. Our records are, in general, very male and if not always the material of the rich, certainly (for obvious reasons) the material of the literate. - Sara Sheridan

When you need to borrow money the Mob seems like a better deal I think. 'You don't pay me back I break both yer legs.' Is that all? You won't take my house or wreck my credit rating? Fine where do I sign. Legs? Fine. You don't even have to sign anything. - Craig Ferguson

I laughed under my breath, and it sounded bitter. Listen to me. What am I talking about, worth it? Is any experience or bit of beauty worth the cost of my life? I know nothing but safety and self-preservation at all costs.And yet, he said softly, you’re risking everything to help me. - Kate Avery Ellison

If you have good friends, no matter how much life is sucking , they can make you laugh. - P.C. Cast

realize what you are not doing and dare to do what you are not doing. What distinctive thing are you not doing? - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

How we remember, what we remember and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality. - Christina Baldwin

Nothing in this life will bring true meaning and happiness apart from God. - Jim George

I’m looking to make a miracle - Dana Reinhardt

How do you choose your books?' my friends had asked. Less than a week into my project, I can now tell them the beginning of the truth. I don't always choose the books, I'll say. Sometimes the books choose me. - Sara Nelson

Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do. - Elizabeth Bowen

It cost nothing to think bigger than you are, BUT cost a fortune to think less of yourself. - Olawale Daniel

If we can spend more time uprooting vices and rooting virtues, our world will be safer and better. - Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

True evil is always petty and often incompetent. - Claire Chilton

The act of reading will enrich your life.Become a lifelong learner and a reader. - Lailah Gifty Akita

She'd always had a hankering for sitting quietly in dark, confined spaces. - Robert Beatty

Today's society is wanting in such a way that Honor, Integrity, Trust, Compassion, Empathy are left for the homeless and their pets. - Solange nicole

The greatest gift you can ever give another person is your own happiness - Esther Hicks

All of creation expands and evolves. - Jay Woodman

I am charting a course that will become a seed which may fall to the ground and die. But out of it shall arise many seeds and trees that shall become a plantation of light, which would usher in a new dawn of Gods righteousness to the church, Nigeria, and to Africa. - Sunday Adelaja

The best portions of a good man's life, his little, nameless acts of kindness and love. - William Wordsworth

Fear is an assassin; if you let it in your life, it will kill your dreams. - Matshona Dhliwayo

They had an ugly look to one as prone to disgust and fear as the changes of a few hours had made me. - Charles Dickens

PEDIGREE, n. The known part of the route from an arboreal ancestor with a swim bladder to an urban descendant with a cigarette. - Ambrose Bierce

Your skin reminds me of everything beautiful I've ever loved... how the moon gets jealous at how you mock her crescent figure with the shape of your mouth... echo of unborn galaxies bounce forth through your vocal chords... - Brandi L. Bates

Your inner light is greater than the darkness.May your light shine brightly in every path you travel. - Lailah GiftyAkita

The moon is the lighthouse of love, and as changing as a woman's mind. - Debasish Mridha

Pursuit of truth, not success, is the ultimate purpose of an illuminated life. - Debasish Mridha

Pressure is something you feel when you don't know what the hell you're doing. - Peyton Manning

A gem is not polished without rubbing, nor a man perfected without trials. - Chinese Proverb

What you can't do, you can't know. - Marty Rubin

Greatness is more than potential. It is the execution of that potential. Beyond the raw talent. You need the appropriate training. You need the discipline. You need the inspiration. You need the drive. - Eric A. Burns

We must be willing to fall flat on our faces. Fearlessly putting ourselves out there is simply a required part of the process. At the very least, it results in the gift of humility and, at best, the triumph of our human spirit. - Jill Badonsky

Happiness only real when shared. - Christopher McCandless

You give but little when you give of your posessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give. - Kahlil Gibran

It is much better to live in poverty and graduate to the middle class, than it is to live as a king and be demoted to the middle class. - Mustafa Said

Every Christian can become a rich person. - Sunday Adelaja

I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music. - Joan Miró

Without grace, we can do no good deed. - Lailah Gifty Akita

You’ll have days of complete lack of faith in your abilities. But you have to keep coming back. That’s when you know you’re a writer – when you take the failures and appear at the desk again, over and over again. - Markus Zusak

It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry. - H. L. Mencken

I have to save the world tomorrow, and I don't even know what I'm going to wear yet.--Rachel Morgan - Kim Harrison

Anything done without character can only end in catastrophe. - Bidemi Mark-Mordi

If a man fights with truth, in time, he will be victorious. If he fights with lies, after he is exposed; in time, he will be left alone. - Tonny K. Brown

Trust remains the coin of the realm in politics. A President who is trusted, by the people, by the congress, by the press, by foreign countries, is a President who can get a lot of good things done. - David Gergen

It's surprising what you can accomplish when no one is concerned about who gets the credit. - Ronald Reagan

Winning is an inside job. A person who achieves victory is the one that first wins his or her internal battles. - Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

You are the most magnificent flower. Your beauty is immeasurable and incredible. The universe created you with all of her love and power to see herself in you. - Debasish Mridha

To achieve the impossible dream, try going to sleep. - Joan Klempner

Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember. - Oscar Levant

We live in an age of equivocal competency: if you want, you can be a competent dictator, a competent self-promoter, a competent terrorist. Just because you can do something well does not mean you should be doing it. - Clifford Cohen

Life is difficult, easy, and wonderful. As you think, it is as such. - Debasish Mridha

To lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time. - John Lubbock

One shouldn't forget his goal ever, whether he has to lose his personality on way to get it. Because to recognize aim and to achieve it, is the real life. - M.H. Rakib

A patient man is one who can put up with himself.

The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.

If you choose to walk through the fire, why do you complain it's hot? - Anthony Liccione

If only one person can do it, you cannot do it, if two people can do it, you can do it too. - M.F. Moonzajer

I don’t want to write a book which will bring me fame for just an hour. I will try to write something which may not be very popular but it may last forever. - Debasish Mridha

No man was ever so much deceived by another as by himself.

What do you mean? Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good on this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on? - J. R. R. Tolkien

There is absolutely no substitute for the best. Good food cannot be made of inferior ingredients masked with high flavor. It is true thrift to use the best ingredients available and to waste nothing. - James Beard

True Prayer is the work of relationship, where He moves them from mere information about Him to a one-on-one experience with Him, so that now when they talk about knowing God, they mean more than, I understand what you’re saying about God, but also, It fits my experience of Him. - Geoffrey Wood

O Liberty! What crimes are committed in thy name! - Madame Roland

I cannot choose but adhere to the word of God, which has possession of my conscience; nor can I possibly, nor will I even make any recantation, since it is neither safe nor honest to act contrary to conscience! Here I stand; I cannot do otherwise, so help me God! Amen. - Martin Luther

Friends usually bring out better versions of each other. People feel unguarded and fluid with their close friends. - David Brooks

In the hearts and minds of the people, the grapes of wrath were growing heavy for the vintage. - John Steinbeck

So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity. - William Shakespeare

I am beautiful soul with beautiful mind and beautiful body. - Lailah Gifty Akita

The land's fruitfulness is the "natural" consequence of covenant faithfulness enacted on both sides, Israel's and God's. A productive land is a gift something like a child to a healthy marriage; in each case, thriving results from and witnesses to long-sustained faithfulness between two partners. - Ellen F. Davis

Be your best proponent, ally, and advocate. - Asa Don Brown

We change with time by how we view the future and reflect the past - Ronnie Cornelisz

An ID number is only there to 'identify' human beings. Use it to assume people’s intellect or wisdom at your own risk. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Yes is how you get your first job, and your next job, and your spouse, and even your kids. Even if it's a bit edgy, a bit out of your comfort zone, saying yes means that you will do something new, meet someone new and make a difference. - Eric Schmidt

You've got your phenomenon on one hand. Concrete and knowable. On the other hand you've got the incomprehensible. You call it God, but to me, God or no, it remains just that, the unknowable. - Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

I said 'I was imagining you as a little boy, and as a teenager, and as an old man.'He said: 'I was looking at you and thinking how young you look, and how old at the same time. - Gwendoline Riley

True leadership can only be achieved when one looks within oneself and commits to authenticity. It gives us the courage to stand at the front and influence others to willingly follow; it gives us the courage to learn, inspire, demand the best and shape the future. - Sameh Elsayed

Pebbles that bring you joy are better than diamonds that bring you sorrow. - Matshona Dhliwayo

You can't wander around and think the wandering will call them back. - David Levithan

Our spiritual history is the history of God-ventriloquists! The truth is that the voice of God is the voice of cunning Man, the ventriloquist's voice! - Mehmet Murat ildan

FAITH, is all i have, and all i need, - boyka togar s

No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous. - Henry Adams

A cord that remains, always. in many ways... - Santosh Avvannavar

It is only because of their stupidity that they are able to be so sure of themselves. - Franz Kafka

Magic is the fifth fundamental force and is even more mysterious than gravity, which is really saying something. - Jasper Fforde

We all have our own road to walk. Whether rocky, curving, straight or smooth, what good is a lonely road? It’s when we run and intersect with other roads that defines our road. When road meets road do we get direction, and choices to cross into another life. - Anthony Liccione

You can develop your talents to the highest level. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Unsuccessful people think the end justifies the means. Successful people understand that the means justifies the end; if the means isn't available, the end can wait. Successful people simply cut their coat according to their size, then grow by increasing their size. - Asuni LadyZeal

Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart. - Corrie ten Boom

If you fail to believe you will procrastinate or become idealustic about how awesome you are at working hard and managing your time, you never develop a strategy for outmaneuvering your own weakness. - David McRaney

Evil draws its power from indecision and concern for what other people think. - Pope Benedict XVI

I'd rather identify with a past of infinite growth, than a past which hinders it. - Michelle Cruz-Rosado

Science makes people reach selflessly for truth and objectivity; it teaches people to accept reality, with wonder and admiration, not to mention the deep awe and joy that the natural order of things brings to the true scientist. - Lise Meitner

When days seem like years and years feel like days. - Robert Brown Fulford

It frightens me, the awful truth, of how sweet life can be... - Bob Dylan

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

The phrase timing is everything is never more true than in your walk with God—HIS timing is everything. - Stormie Omartian

Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness in another. - Eustace Budgell

When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run. - Abraham Lincoln

If age imparted wisdom, there wouldn't be any old fools.

Flowers are words even a baby can understand. - Quentin Crisp

For me, words are a form of action, capable of influencing change. - Ingrid Bengis

It isn't kind to cultivate a friendship just so one will have an audience. - Lawana Blackwell

Don't ever let others impose their self-limiting beliefs on to you. They don't have the courage and spirit that you do. - Miya Yamanouchi

Children are not the people of tomorrow, but are people of today. They have a right to be taken seriously, and to be treated with tenderness and respect. They should be allowed to grow into whoever they were meant to be. 'The unknown person' inside of them is our hope for the future. - Janusz Korczak

Sales can never be done with 'good' skills or 'good' communication or 'thorough' product knowledge.. It can only be done with PASSION and U gotta be a people loving person, to be alive in sales... - honeya

Turning and turning in the widening gyreThe falcon cannot hear the falconer;Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world - W.B. Yeats

I never cut my neighbor's throat;My neighbor's gold I never stole;I never spoiled his house and land;But God have mercy on my soul!For I am haunted night and dayBy all the deeds I have not done;O unattempted loveliness!O costly valor never won! - Marguerite Ogden Bigelow Wilkinson

We have been so busy perfecting the means of travel that we have forgotten where we wanted to go. - Arthur M. Young

Doctors don't know everything really. They understand matter, not spirit. And you and I live in spirit. - William Saroyan

Our goodness, our badness all develop from social experience, the company we keep, the things we're taught when we're young. We start with a clean slate. It's everyone else who fucks us up. - S. Walden

The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason. - Benjamin Franklin

The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn’t said. - Peter Drucker

Power does not corrupt; it merely elevates the degree in which something is done that has already been pursued. - Felix O. Hartmann

Every hour of every day spent with him, the slow slope of falling for this boy in more than just a carnal fashion has been like slowly pulling the strings on some great tapestry. Every day the weave becomes tighter, the picture clearer, everything more complete. - A.L. Davroe

Stop being self-conscious when you write.You are the expert about the world you are creating,no one else. So be bold and write on. - Nirav Sanchaniya

The Church is the Body of Christ, and as such it is both heavenly and earthly. The Church is the communion of saints, and it includes as members both angels and shepherds - cherubim and seraphim, and you, and me. - Scott Hahn

man can not live on chocolate .... but women can - Hannah

Nor Fame I slight, nor her favors call; She comes unlook'd for, if she comes at all. - Alexander Pope

Efficiency was just a measurement of how fast money moved from the poor to the rich. We prefer the opposite of efficiency, which is to say, justice. - Kim Stanley Robinson

Having an eye for beauty isn't the same thing as a weakness...except possibly when it comes to you. - Suzanne Collins

THERE is no frigate like a book/ To take us lands away... - Emily Dickinson

I personally believe in the power of second chances. - Terry McAuliffe

I question the moral integrity of anyone who says they have no regrets. - Michel Templet

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

I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious. - Vince Lombardi

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

Funny thing about the darkness... It can be defeated by the dimmest shimmer of light!So on your darkest days let even a little bit of light in - Summerlyn Guthrie

To smile pleasantly is to own the moment fully.To think pleasantly is to enjoy the moment fully. - Debasish Mridha

He who has not looked on Sorrow will never see Joy - Kahlil Gibran

He suffered," added Athos softly. "But not like you." He brought his mouth closer. "No one suffers as beautifully as you." There it was, in the corner of Holland's mouth, the crease of his eye. Anger. Pain. Defiance. Athos smiled, victorious. - V.E. Schwab

If you are not willing to learn, no one can help you. If you are determined to learn, no one can stop you. - Zig Ziglar

Winning or losing achieves the same result--change. - Shannon L. Alder

Choosing the right people to surround you, and letting go of the wrong ones, takes courage.Be courageous! - Tony Curl

In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool. - Philip Dormer Stanhope

One day you'll be like me" is a waste to say. Instead you should "Someday you'll be better than me. - ParadoxReader

We can’t answer King’s assassination with violence. That would be the worst tribute we could pay him. - Sammy Davis Jr.

A pause gives you breathing spaceso listen to the whispersof the real youwaiting to happen. - Tara Estacaan

We immediately become more effective when we decide to change ourselves rather than asking things to change for us. - Stephen Covey

Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. - Bible

Nothing can be delicious when you are holding your breath. - Anne Lamott

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

Life is a wave of love in the ocean of humanity. - Debasish Mridha

I have made a lot of mistakes falling in love, and regrettedmost of them, but never the potatoes that went with them. - Nora Ephron

The capacity of passion is both cruel and divine - George Sand

MILLENNIUM, n. The period of a thousand years when the lid is to be screwed down, with all reformers on the under side. - Ambrose Bierce

This time I felt my own face redden. Talking with this woman was like sitting still for a series of slaps, delivered arhythmically so you couldn't know when the next one was coming. - Elizabeth Kostova

How would this world be if there was not God? The answer is simple: it would become itself God. - Sorin Cerin

Uno se siente feliz cuando ves feliz a la persona que amas. - David Cotos

Senator John Kyle claiming that over 90 percent of what Planned Parenthood does is abortion.: Over 90 percent, that is unbelievable...in that it is not true. Only 3 percent of what Planned Parenthood does is abortion. Kyle just rounded it up to the nearest 90. - Stephen Colbert

The most successful businesses have leaders that see the correlation between customer service and sales… not as separate departments, but as complimentary components for growth. - Steve Maraboli

Our frustration is greater when we have much and want more than when we have nothing and want some. We are less dissatisfied when we lack many things than when we seem to lack but one thing. - Eric Hoffer

While I wholeheartedly believe in choosing to approach every challenge with a great attitude, I don't mean that we should abandon authenticity and live in fantasyland. - Charles R. Swindoll

That was the thing to remember about all monsters, They love to frightenpeople, but the minute you stare them down, they turn tail and run. - Jeannette Walls

I feel like a stranger in my own world. - Kim Pape

Work until you hear someone from far far away saying شكلو حرامي من فين له الفولس دي كلها ! - Eyad Ayman Kaifi

Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order. - Anatole France

I believe that what woman resents is not so much giving herself in pieces as giving herself purposelessly. - Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Never fall for a person's image and status as the may serve as a false representation of character. Watch closely the character and you"ll know who a person really is. - Kemi Sogunle

God may not give that instant dollar bill your seeking, but it's in the little change He brings, that will add to a dollar. - Anthony Liccione

I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist. - William Golding

Life will astound you when you give something a shot after being shot down. - Julieanne O'Conner

When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another. - Helen Keller

May the Lord deliver us from every danger. - Lailah Gifty Akita

If any morality or ethics does not include kindness as their fundamental ingredient, then they are just an absurdity. - Debasish Mridha

Every game is winnable if you change your mind about what the prize should be and your perspective about the players at the table. - Shannon L. Alder

Even "meant to be" takes work. - Donna Lynn Hope

To realize the importance the imagination could have in friendship, to understand its immense power for bringing us together in a way. - Stuart Miller

Natives who beat drums to drive off evil spirits are objects of scorn to smart Americans who blow horns to break up traffic jams.

All hardships are seeds of growth. Your life will blossom when the lesson is complete. But remember, you were ALWAYS beautiful from beginning to full bloom. - Karen A. Baquiran

Look back on Time, with kindly eyes -He doubtless did his best -How softly sinks that trembling sunIn Human Nature's West - - Emily Dickinson

There are more fools in the world than there are people. - Heinrich Heine

Originality is not writing the story that has never been told, but writing the stories only you can tell. - M. Kirin

Guys will NEVER understand what it is like to be a girl and all the pain we have to deal with therefore they should shut up about things they don't understand. Likewise girls will NEVER know what it is like to be a guy and all the pressure they deal with, so shut up girls as well. - Megan Wilson

My goal is not to have everlasting fame, it is simply to write the stories that are asking me to write them and to share them with the people that want to hear them. - Elizabeth Hernandez

God Only Knows the Issue. - Deborah Heiligman

How much fame, money, and power does a woman have to achieve on her own before you can punch her in the face?

When I turn down the volume, it's amazing how much I can actually hear. - John Waire

... I told him I was so happy that I had nothing else to pray for. 'Why,'says I, I've got prayers to sell. - Sandra Dallas

I always ask myself one question: what is human? What does it mean to be human? Maybe people will consider my new films brutal again. But this violence is just a reflection of what they really are, of what is in each one of us to certain degree. - Kim Ki-duk

Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create. - Maria Montessori

So süß klingt allen Menschen das Wort Freiheit, dass selbst Keckheit und Frechheit überall Anklang finden, weil sie mit der Freiheit einige Ähnlichkeiten haben. - Francesco Petrarca

Be careful not to laugh at the Phoenix when she goes up in flames, or you'll be left in the dust when she grows her new wings and flies swiftly away. - Cristen Rodgers

The penalty of success is to be bored by people who used to snub you. - Nancy Astor

Knowledge and wisdom comes from interaction-- not from inaction. - Debasish Mridha

One tells as few lies as possible only by telling as few lies as possible and not by having the least possible opportunity to do so. - Franz Kafka

Speculation is a dangerous thing without any evidence to back it up. - Jane Casey

You have the power to mold your life how ever you want. To shape it and reshape it. - Jim Rohn

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

It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him. - Abraham Lincoln

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well. - Aristotle

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

We cannot leave our children disconnected from opportunities that are designed specially for them. - Sharad Vivek Sagar

940Home is not where you live but where they understand you. - Christian Morgenstern

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

My great-grandmother once told me that "being young ain't shit; everybody gets a chance to do that. What you should be trying to do is get old, like me. - Mrs. Beatrice Sturgis-White

I'm that person everyone replaces after a while. - Danae Brunet

There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say--unless you insist on saying it. - Anonymous

If you get a reputation as an early riser, you can sleep till noon. - Irish Proverb

One of the advantages of being a captain is being able to ask for advice without necessarily having to take it.

The arts are the servant; wisdom its master. - Seneca

If heaven was hot and hell was chilly, tell me, why would you go to heaven? - Michael Bassey Johnson

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will. - Vince Lombardi Jr.

To be beautiful is a good thing, for which we should thank Nature—to be attractive, morally, rather than physically, is, however, a thing for which we should thank Nature even more, if she be good enough to have endowed us with that lasting quality. - Duchess

There are thousands of trees in the forest of followers, and me, well, I'm just one. - Rebecca Moll, The Beauty of Digging Deep

Painless poverty is better than embittered wealth.

He, in a few minutes ravished this fair creature, or at least would have ravished her, if she had not, by a timely compliance, prevented him. - Henry Fielding

Heart can't feel pain or sufferings when it is in love. - Debasish Mridha

I don't think I've ever dared to write down what I see in the ruins of me, or tell in any detail the scars and all their secrets. - Ashly Lorenzana

On the surface, humans appear to hate conflict, but in reality, they seek it. - Nagaru Tanigawa

To win the peace, fight with your love and understanding. - Debasish Mridha

There is only one calamity: ignorance. And there is only one solution: enlightenment. - SadhguruJV

Oh, give us the man who sings at his work. - Thomas Carlyle

That's the secret of entertaining. You make your guests feel welcome and at home. If you do that honestly, the rest takes care of itself. - Barbara Hall

You don't know. You just don't know. You may think you know, but you don't know. And you never will.

With success, if you don't plan and just take each day as it comes, there will come failure. - Auliq Ice

Even music can't compete with the canyons and waterfalls. - Marty Rubin

I am a complicated person with a simple life and I am the reason for everything that ever happened to me. - Charlotte Eriksson

Mathematics and poetry are the two ways to drink the beauty of truth. - Amit Ray

There are people who, the more you do for them, the less they will do for themseselves. - Jane Austen

Believe that you are the best at what you do. And work hard on your abilities, to make it true. - Ellen J. Barrier

Brew it local; make it global; take it to the very far. - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

When you start with an insult and end with a compliment, most people only remember where you started. - Faydra D. Fields

Take a giant drink of natures endless stream let it spout from your mouth in words so serene. - Stanley Victor Paskavich

I think it only makes sense to seek out and identify structures of authority, hierarchy, and domination in every aspect of life, and to challenge them; unless a justification for them can be given, they are illegitimate, and should be dismantled, to increase the scope of human freedom. - Noam Chomsky

There are few things worse than mistaking an enemy for a friend. - Wayne Gerard Trotman

They tell us the greatest love story is how water fell in love with fire. Or how satan fell in love with God. But the greatest love story to me is how I didn’t notice myself falling, when I fell in love with you - Kamand Kojouri

It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom. - Aristotle

When a whole nation is roaring Patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and purity of its heart. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Believing without questioning is an insult to the human conscience. - Abhijit Naskar

New Year's Eve, where auld acquaintance be forgot. Unless, of course, those tests come back positive. - Jay Leno

No man runs the race until he sees the dream. - Fred C. White

I think music is what language once aspired to be. Music allows us to face God on our own terms because it reaches beyond life. - Simon Van Booy

Each day is an opportunity to build the defenses of peace in the minds of people. - Widad Akreyi

In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior. - Sir Francis Bacon

Loneliness is everything it's cracked up to be. - Alan Alda

Her hands crept around his neck, tangling in his hair to keep him closer, even though she knew that beautiful boys with expiration dates couldn't be held, only borrowed for a time. - Martina Boone

We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made. - Albert Einstein

Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise -- bureaucrats. - Alvin Toffler

What could we accomplish if we knew we could not fail? - Eleanor Roosevelt

To get someone's attentionsay three words with compassion.Say "I love you", more than me,like the river loves the sea. - Debasish Mridha

Baldrick: Have you got a plan, my lord?Blackadder: Yes I have, and it's so cunning you can brush your teeth with it! - Richard Curtis

He who lies artistically, treads closer to the truth than ever he knows. - Fritz Leiber

Communication works best when we combine appropriateness with authenticity, finding that sweet spot where opinions are not brutally honest but delicately honest. - Sheryl Sandberg

what was there when nothing began, what will be there when everything ends? - varun bhat

If we would answer the question of the existence of the Evil then we would not be sinners, we could make something else responsible. - Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in 70 or 80 years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. - Doris Lessing

Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune. - Thomas Fuller

I was terrified that tomorrow the truth would start. - Sonali Deraniyagala

Your mind is a magic pot, from which you pick the things, and manifest life out of it. If you don’t tell your mind, your priorities, it will be easier for your mind, to pick anything, to serve you with your life. - Roshan Sharma

You are creating your future with the thoughts, words and choices you are making in the present. - Jeanette Coron

You know you're old when you're watching Karate Kid and you realize you're more attracted to Mr. Miagi than Ralph Macchio. - Hayley Linfield

The phrase, "American Dream", a lifestyle approach that doesn't require God's power, just ours, was coined in 1931 by James T. Adams. - Gary Patton

I knew I'd been living in Berkeley too long when I saw a sign that said 'Free firewood" and my first thought was "Who was Firewood and what did he do?'

Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time. - Albert Camus

To focus solely on endings is to trade conclusions for the very beginnings that created them. And if this cycle should persist, we will likewise miss the beginning that will follow this ending. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

You are a full of beautiful madness, an unreasonable reason, but you make sense in all things senseless. - s.w.collins

Cause and effect is the basis of my education, leading me to an essence far more profound than any rule of societal conditioning. - Ka Chinery

I'm always in Awe of God's Greatness, His M. O. (Method of Operation), His timing, His Might and His Power. He's God all by Himself!!! Abba, I love You. - Pazaria Smith

Religion does not belong to God; it belongs to the human reaction against mortality! - Mehmet Murat ildan