Quotation Explorer - 'And'

If you can't take a little bloody nose, maybe you ought to go back home, and crawl under your bed. It's not safe out here! It's wondrous...with treasures to satiate desires both subtle and gross; but it's not for the timid. - Q

Owning a book is a third of the goal. The others are actually reading it and applying it. - Israel Wayne

Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times worse than nothing. - Sydney Smith

The difference between a good man and a bad man is the choice of cause. - William James

The real direction of your vision is as important as your vision. Notwithstanding how large the goal post might be, the power behind your shots least matter as its direction, for it is more of the direction that will determine the goals you shall score and the final score in the end - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

You cannot rise beyond the external as well as internal reality unless you understand your own perception. - Roshan Sharma

The chip in your body, call it soul if you please, carries on its bad and good. And in this or next lifetime, your dues are paid in full. - Fakeer Ishavardas

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

I know it's possible to overcome even very big problems in life, to heal yourself and move on - Jodi Ann Bickley

I don't mind being around those who need help and want to be helped, but I don't like to be around those who are unhappy and negative all of time,because they drain you down. - Beta Metani'Marashi

Understanding is important for studying,knowledge is important for teaching,and wisdom is important for living. - Matshona Dhliwayo

Utility is when you have one telephone, luxury is when you have two, opulence is when you have three - and paradise is when you have none. - Doug Larson

To become acquainted with kindness one must be prepared to learn new things and feel new feelings. Kindness is more than a philosophy of the mind. It is a philosophy of the spirit. - Robert J. Furey

Run and the whole world runs with you. Hide and you hide alone.

In 1487 alone, two hundred heretics had-in one of the greatest euphemisms in the history of language-"relaxed," that is, burned at the stake. Dogs of God, Columbus, the Inquisition, and the Defeat of the Moors - James Reston Jr.

The host took care to produce one or another of these whenever the current subjects seemed about used up, so that the conversation gathered new life and at the same time steered clear of political arguments, which are hindersome to both ingestion and digestion. - Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

‎"With each experience we grow and become more aware of the inner beauty that lies within us. Ultimately we are truly our own leader. We lead the connection and flow of life that is our inheritance. - Rabbi Yossi

If a picture paints a thousand words, then a let a picture inspire a thousand words. - Nicholas Boyd Crutchley

That the military have the power to manipulate personal liberties while cocking a snook at justice and freedom in Balochistan is a fact. - Nilantha Ilangamuwa

Just deleting vandalism on the Chuck Norris page," Radar said. "For instance, while I do think that Chuck Norris specializes in the roundhouse kick, I don't think it's accurate to say, 'Chuck Norris's tears can cure cancer, but unfortunately he has never cried. - John Green

And I'm dying to know, is it killing you like it's killing me? And the story of us looks a lot like a tragedy now. - Taylor Swift

If you have ever prayed for something and received what you wanted, you engaged in Cosmic Ordering. - Stephen Richards

When you talk to a sympathetic mind about technology, gender, age, and experience disappear completely, and soon you’re one-on-one with the topic at hand. - Carmelo S. "Nino" Amarena

My grandma said to me, Lailah; ‘You laugh while sleeping - Lailah Gifty Akita

May the gift of gratitude and power of attention be with you always - Debasish Mridha

Creativity is as important now in education as literacy and we should treat it with the same status. - Ken Robinson

Count it the greatest sin to prefer life to honor, and for the sake of living to lose what makes life worth having. - Juvenal

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

Change and Mistakes are positive and negative terminals of cell called "Transformation". - Sukant Ratnakar

These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness, and worship without awareness. - Anthony de Mello

To be the salt, you also need to be the shaker. To shake the world. Shake the truth. Shake the people. Shake the word. Have it sprinkle, melt and preserve humanity. - Anthony Liccione

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

See him now, so boyish a body and an older head. (Bhutta) - M.K. Bhutta

Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln. - Bruce Barton

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

But I give best when I give from that deeper place; when I give simply, freely and generously, and sometimes for no particular reason. I give best when I give from my heart. - Steve Goodier

Know you will win and you will win! - Stephen Richards

I don't believe in colleges and universities. I believe in libraries because most students don't have any money. When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money. I couldn't go to college, so I went to the library three days a week for 10 years. - Ray Bradbury

A farm is an irregular patch of nettles bounded by short-term notes, containing a fool and his wife who didn't know enough to stay in the city.

Ordinary people are products of their environment and fit in. Artists transcend their environment and stand out. - Oliver Gaspirtz

If one night you see someone committing a sin, tomorrow do not look at him as a sinner. He may have repented during the night and you did not know. - Ali ibn Abi Talib

Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits. - Carl Sandburg

When you miss someone....it’s weird…your body doesn’t function normally..as it should. Because I miss you, and my heart…it’s not steady…my soul it sings numb. Fingers are cold…like you…your soul. - Coco J. Ginger

There were differences between memories and dreams. He had only dreams of things he had wanted to do, while Lespere had memories of things done and accomplished. And this knowledge began to pull Hollis apart, with a slow, quivering precision. - Ray Bradbury

Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Sometimes people are often confused between attitude and style. Nevermind, I'm Awesome. - Yugesh Ralli

I have graven it within the hills, and my vengeance upon the dust within the rock. - Edgar Allan Poe

Life is transient and ephemeral so dance in your own way. - Debasish Mridha

No one knows, and few conceive, the agony of mind that I have suffered from the time that I was made by circumstances, and not by my volition, a candidate for the Presidency till I was dismissed from that station by the failure of my election. - John Quincy Adams

Mistakes and failures are simply stepping stones on your journey to success. - Lorri Faye

All of fiction is truthful. What you create is your own truth and no one can take that away or change it. - Walter Dean Myers

An ancient sage held that in different ages, humans held the senses in different ratios, according to the media by which they communicated and expressed themselves. Hence before writing, the ear was the royal sense. After writing, the eye. - Karl Schroeder

The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Often, love is a tangled web of lies that only a broken heart would weave. Seldom is dishonesty the whole person, rather it's the pain. - Shannon L. Alder

I want my relationship with my future boyfriend to be built on trust, not in alcohol , not in the appearance , and in jealous eyes - zwaantje nacion

Rather a thousand times the county jail than to lie under this marble figure with wings and this granite pedestal bearing the words "pro patria." What do they mean anyway? - Edgar Lee Masters

What a sad life when one loves nothing and no one. - Marty Rubin

Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece, make friendship a fine art, drink deeply from good books – especially the Bible, build a shelter against a rainy day, give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day. - John Wooden

In the history of battles and wars, the massacres of civilians were the main reason of revolutions success. - M.F. Moonzajer

Think a thousand times when you get a bad though, but not once when you get a good one. - Dreamer

dont aom for success if u want it just do what u love n believe in and it wil come naturaly. - David Frost

If the novels are still being read in 50 years, no one is ever going to say: ‘What’s great about that sixth book is that he met his deadline!’ It will be about how the whole thing stands up. - George R.R. Martin

You are not here to verify,instruct yourself, or inform curiosityor carry report. You are here to kneelwhere prayer has been valid. And prayer is more than an order of words, the conscious occupation of the praying mind, or the sound of the voice praying. - T. S. Eliot

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

Remember that the evil which is now in the world will only get more powerful, and that it is not evil which conquers evil, but only love.

To see your-self you must first be yourself, to be your-self you must first know yourself, and to know your-self you must first love your-self more than anything in the world."- - Mark Miller

I learnt to test the size of my brain..by trying this simple thought ! Look out for the good things, not the faults.It takes a good deal bigger sized brain to find out what is not wrong with people and things than to fins out what is wrong!!! - Abha Maryada Banerjee

My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here;My heart's in the Highlands a-chasing the deer;A-chasing the wild-deer, and following the roe,My heart's in the Highlands wherever I go. - Robert Burns

Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor. - Friedrich Schiller

One moment I was sitting in your ship feeling very depressed, and the next moment I was standing here feeling utterly miserable. An Improbability Field I expect. - Douglas Adams

I stopped believing in Santa Claus when my mother took me to see him in a department store, and he asked for my autograph. - Shirley Temple

I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone. - Dwight D. Eisenhower

Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea. - Robert A. Heinlein

Wealth and greed are the roots of all evils - Ali R.A

Attorney served as chief executive officer for the National Student Leadership Conference (NSLC). He spends lots of dedicated hours in creating the programs for the college lectures in assisting the new young rising scholar and motivate them to attend university. - Chris Salamone

Try to learn something about everything and everything about something. - Thomas Henry Huxley

I was never ruined but twice: once when I lost a lawsuit, and once when I won one. - Voltaire

The fastest and easiest way to accomplish any task is to do it with minimum breaks and pauses. - Amit Kalantri

Humans are mostly kind only to their own-self, and their own. To another being, they're mostly indifferent, if not inhumane. - Fakeer Ishavardas

If love is like driving a car, then I must be the worst driver in the world. I missed all the signs and ended up lost. - Brian MacLearn

You can force the people to obey; you cannot force them to understand. - Confucius

Clever people enjoy saving gold and declares themselves as wealthy or very rich, but a wise person gives away and keep well away from it and declares themselves far richer than those people who saves it. - Darren Paul Thorn

people will focus on procedures and not notice anything that isn't just part of the procedures - Daniel Simons

The history of our race, and each individual's experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal. - Mark Twain

Life is a work of art, and what you see depends on your perspective. - Rosemarie Osmun

If you wish to stand and progress as you ought, hold yourself an exile and a pilgrim on the earth. - Thomas à Kempis

I started writing a story twenty years ago..yet remain unfinished until this time..'.couldn't not think how I end this story because it covers entirely pain, grief, and sorrow... If one story like this, how should it end...? - J.B. AC

I may not understand your situation but I understand hurt - Mk.

Art is bad when ‘you see the intent and get put off.’ (Goethe) In Tolstoy one is unaware of the intent, and sees only the thing itself. from the book, On Retranslating A Russian Classic Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy - Joel Carmichael

Learn from the past, prepare for the future, and perform in the moment." (Moments: Making Your Life Count For What Matters Most, ) - Mike Van Hoozer

Water wrestles great opponents,but has no hands,and tramples great rivals,but has no feet.It slips through our fingers,but can swallow entire towns.Wind also slips through our fingers,but can swallow entire cities. - Matshona Dhliwayo

Nature is wilder and stranger than any of the fictions our imagination can create. - Marty Rubin

When our sympathy leads to friendship and our friendship leads to love; only few will understand that it is the end of our past. - M.F. Moonzajer

A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown. - Dennis Waitley

To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future. - Plutarch

Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple, and the simple thing is the right thing. - Oscar Wilde

Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories. - Felix Cohen

Don’t wait for a perfect person to love. Love a person and make him or her perfect with your power of love. - Debasish Mridha

And all I loved, I loved alone. - Edgar Allan Poe

He said I'm gonna buy a gun and start a war, if you can tell me something worth fighting for. Oh and I'm gonna buy this place, that's what I said.Blame it upon a rush of blood to the head - Chris Martin

It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things. - Leonardo da Vinci

If only my genitals didn't floatWhen I relaxed in the bathAnd we both looked down and we both agreedIt's stupid to be a man - Leonard Cohen

The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it. - George Santayana

History is no more fixed and dead than the future. The past is no further away than the last breath you took. - Robin Hobb

Close your eyes. Now see the world, not with your vision but with your feelings and passion. - Debasish Mridha

Women saying, 'I'm not a feminist' is my greatest pet peeve. Do you believe that women should be paid the same for doing the same jobs? Do you believe that women should be allowed to leave the house? Do you think that women and men both deserve equal rights? Great, then you're a feminist. - Lena Dunham

In search of love and music my whole life has beenIlluminationCorruptionAnd diving, diving, diving, diving down To pick up on every shiny thing - Joni Mitchell

Animals are my friends, and I don't eat my friends. - George Bernard Shaw

I try o make the here and now as heavenly as possible, in case there isn't one to ascend into when we're done. It's a kind of insurance.

There is more to living than not dying. - James Carstairs Cassandra Clare

He brought out the worst in me, and was the best thing that ever happened to me. - Coco J. Ginger

The bride's about to throw her bouquet," Mom told me the day after she turned 96. "Come on, June, get me up there!" (She stole the bouquet and kept it.) - Nora 102 1 2 A Lesson on Aging Well by June Shaw

Reason itself is fallible, and this fallibility must find a place in our logic. - Nicola Abbagnano

Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday.

When weight loss becomes a goal in your life, eating right and exercising are just two pieces of the puzzle. Figuring out why you've put on the extra weight is the hardest part. - Ali Vincent

When you dream with optimism and trust, it becomes a reality fast. - Debasish Mridha

And that's just the beginning. More and more, conventional wisdom says that the responsible thing is to make the unemployed suffer. And while the benefits from inflicting pain are an illusion, the pain itself will be all too real. - Paul Krugman

...you need to assess what you love right now and what is authntic to your way of living in this season of life. - Melissa Michaels

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

Where’s the trail to Cold Mountain?Cold Mountain? There’s no clear way.Ice, in summer, is still frozen.Bright sun shines through thick fog.You won’t get there following me.Your heart and mine are not the same.If your heart was like mine,You’d have made it, and be there! - Han Shan

Find magic in the little things, and the big things you always expected will start to show up. - Isa Zapata

Much of what I learned about forgiveness I learned by inhabiting the lives of my characters. Even villains act with reasonable intent. Mercy is easier with understanding. Still, it helps that on paper I can kill them off. - Joyce Rachelle

Yesterday I smiled, tomorrow never came and today is what I'm living. - Jill Telford

It takes courage to own up your actions that hurt others, to look Into the eye and to mean the sorry, To accept the mistake and not deny, all of this needs courage. - Mansi Soni

Surrealism is not a movement. It is a latent state of mind perceivable through the powers of dream and nightmare. - Salvador Dalí

Falling in love in a Christian way is to say,'I am excited about your future and I want to be part of getting you there. I'm signing up for the journey with you. Would you sign up for the journey to my true self with me? It's going to be hard but I want to get there. - Timothy J. Keller

Nobody knows the potential of a planet, a star, and a language we call life. - Guru G

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. - Barbara W. Tuchman

You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one. - James A. Froude

Despite our battered exterior and in spite of the festering scars and rank filth that overlays it, there is underneath it all the pristine likeness of God Himself. And we would be wise to cast an eye not on the marred exterior, but to be fixed on the glorious interior. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

With a library you are free, not confined by temporary political climates. It is the most democratic of institutions because no one - but no one at all - can tell you what to read and when and how. - Doris Lessing

The writer has no responsibility other than to jack off in bed alone and write a good page. - Charles Bukowski

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

One is to a human and other is to adopt humanity - Qasim Raza Qadri

If we don't make earnest moves toward real solutions, then each day we move one day closer to revolution and anarchy in this country. This is the sad, and yet potentially joyous, state of America. - Louis Farrakhan

You were my dream and I was just your fantasy. - Nikki Rowe

The poet, the artist, the sleuth - whoever sharpens our perception tends to be antisocial... he cannot go along with currents and trends. - Alfred North Whitehead

Growing up I sometimes imagined that for Christ's return perhaps He would appear as 'Black Jesus' to white people and 'White Jesus' to black people just to screw with the racists. - Criss Jami

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

The art of living... is neither careless drifting on the one hand nor fearful clinging to the past on the other. It consists in being sensitive to each moment, in regarding it as utterly new and unique, in having the mind open and wholly receptive. - Alan W. Watts

As one judge said to another judge: be just. And if you can’t be just, be arbitrary - William S. Burroughs

The strongest man in the world is he who stands alone. - Henrik Ibsen

An aunt is a safe haven for a child. Someone who will keep your secrets and is always on your side. - Sara Sheridan

To treat fiction as if it were a religious or moral sermon is about as far from the actuality of literature as it is possible to get and indeed it is, in my opinion, the purest form of intellectual barbarism. - Edward W. Said

Every mental act is composed of doubt and belief,but it is belief that is the positive, it is beliefthat sustains thought and holds the world together. - Søren Kierkegaard

Obedience to God will bring blessings to you and others. - Jim George

The wind and the waves will toss you about, but it'll all be worth it. - Marty Rubin

All the beauty of wisdom and knowledge resides in kindness. - Debasish Mridha

With warning hand I mark time's rapid flightFrom life's glad morning to its solemn nightYet through God's love, I also showThere's light above me by the shade below. - Ralph Greenleaf Whittier

We will continue to chase rainbows unless we recognize that they are rainbows and there is no pot of gold at the end of them. - Diane Ravitch

It is our privilege and our adventure to discover our own special light. - Evelyn Dunbar

There are two kinds of men who never amount to much: those who cannot do what they are told and those who can do nothing else. - Cyrus H. Curtis

Fantasy and drama appeal to us. They are socially acceptable and make you feel good about yourself. Moreover, you get rewarded for being cleverly ignorant. - Saurabh Sharma

If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed and color, we would find some other cause for prejudice by noon. - George Aiken

When you talk with people, one of the arguments they'll throw back at you is that the climate has always changed, and that is absolutely right. It's the rate of change that is the problem right now. It's changing so quickly that it exceeds the adaptive capacity of some species. - Michael Crimmins

The trouble with conservatives today is that most of their thinking is so naive. As for the liberals, their thinking is more sophisticated; but their function ought to be to provide new ideas, and they don't come up with any. - John F. Kennedy

Have an intrinsic sense of direction of life. Have a goal-oriented conviction and trust. - Debasish Mridha

In matters of the heart as well, a certain level of negativity and suspicion is universally recommended. You may try to project a thoroughly positive outlook in order to attract a potential boyfriend, but you are also advised to Google him. - Barbara Ehrenreich

A child is reliving millions of years of Evolution from a single cell to a XXI Century Human. This is the most amazing miracle I've ever encountered, and I am truly grateful to the Nature for letting me perform it - for letting me create a new life called Emily. - Sophia Newtown

When love is new, it's brighter than the sun and 30 times as great as the force of the atomic bomb dropped and felt from your heart, but to some people it will slowly fade but to me it will always be the same. - Auliq Ice

Anyone who has gumption knows what it is, and anyone who hasn't can never know what it is. So there is no need of defining it. - L. M. Montgomery

For Christians do not place their hope in their children, but rather their children are a sign of their hope . . . that God has not abandoned this world. - Stanley Hauerwas

Igniting your creative potentials opens you up to new learnings and insights. - Deborah Day

Her characters tend to err when they reject the grubby and complex circumstances of everyday life for abstract and radical notions. They thrive when they work within the rooted spot, the concrete habit, the particular reality of their town and family. - David Brooks

It's an enormous wall that's built between you and your dreams. And if every day, you just chip away... It may take ten years, but eventually you just might see some light. - Edward Burns

Immense wealth, and its lavish expenditure, fill the great house with all that can please the eye, or tempt the taste. Here, appetite, not food, is the great desideratum. - Frederick Douglass

Better to get up late and be wide awake than to get up early and be asleep all day. - Anonymous

Literature is the human activity that takes the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty. - Lionel Trilling

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

Sweet dreams, baby, he whispered into myhair, his arm giving me a squeeze. See you onthe other side.You too, Captain, I whispered...'Lauren and Tate, in Sweet Dreams - Kristen Ashley

It is never wrong to be right, and it is never right to be wrong - Ayacancer02

Epicurus's old questions are still unanswered: Is he (God) willing to prevent evil, but not able? then he is impotent. Is he able, but not willing? then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? then whence evil? - David Hume

It was as if hell itself had taken human form and come up from the abyss. - Brima Lamin & Chantale Wesley-Lamin, The Walk - Memoir of a Liberian Civil War Survivor, 2016

Create a world within the world and be happy inside it! Don’t forget, you are not condemned to live the world as is! - Mehmet Murat ildan

Comfort zone: simply means the routine of one’s daily life – it is a psychological state in which one feels familiar, safe, at ease, and secure. - Roy T. Bennett

God is not merely interestd in the freedom of brown men, yellow men, red men and black men.He is interested in the freedom of the whole human race. - Martin Luther King Jr.

To the wonders of all things, we fall and then we are reborn - Micheline Jean Louis

Only when the seeker is lost, the truth is there. Seek, and you will miss. Seek not, and you will find. The very seeking becomes a barrier to truth, to the ultimate experience. - Swami Dhyan Giten

Growth occurs when individuals confront problems, struggle to master them, and through that struggle develop new aspects of their skills, capacities, views about life. - Carl Rogers

I believe we have an obligation to read for pleasure, in private and in public places. If we read for pleasure, if others see us reading, then we learn, we exercise our imaginations. We show others that reading is a good thing."[The Guardian, 15 October 2013] - Neil Gaiman

Faith gives Courage to the heart and Energy to the mind to make the Impossible Possible. - RVM

Nur ein Idiot glaubt, aus eigenen Erfahrungen zu lernen. Ich ziehe es vor, aus den Erfahrungen anderer zu lernen, um von vorneherein eigene Fehler zu vermeiden. - Otto von Bismarck

The most essential and fundamental aspect of culture is the study of literature, since this is an education in how to picture and understand human situations. - Iris Murdoch

Don’t live in the past – you’ve already been there. And don’t live in the future, either. Tomorrow will be here soon enough. Live in this moment now – it is sacred and unrepeatable. This moment alone holds valuable gifts that should not be missed. - Steve Goodier

Your life will be simplified when you choose inaction when no action is required and choose action when action is required! - Mehmet Murat ildan

Aim to be the blue ribbon best. Develop yourself from practice, to become exceptional. Raise your standards and be the best. - Mark F. LaMoure

We all have the same 24/7. What we do with our time becomes our priority. Choose what you do with your time and do not lead a life by default - Patt Hollinger Pickett

By far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and human communities. - Socrates

They want to knowwho I write these poems for.Tell them it's for all loversbecause I don’t see a differencebetween our loveand their love. - Kamand Kojouri

Indolence is sweet, and its consequences bitter. - Voltaire

If you saw the size of the BLESSING YOU ARE BECOMING, you would understand the magnitude of the battle you are fighting! - Michele Jennae

You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand. - Woodrow Wilson

Options abound world over, Options to choose from and be the best. - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

I start with a tingle, a kind of feeling of the story I will write. Then come the characters, and they take over, they make the story. - Karen Blixen

Kindness is fate’s currency for good fortune. And like all currencies, it is without value when faked. - Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

ABRUPT, adj. Sudden, without ceremony, like the arrival of a cannon- shot and the departure of the soldier whose interests are most affected by it. Dr. Samuel Johnson beautifully said of another author's ideas that they were "concatenated without abruption." - Ambrose Bierce

The space reminded me of the small hay-bale clubhouses and scrap-wood tree forts that my brothers and I had made as kids - high up spaces where you could see things differently, where you could get your bearings. - Dee Williams

Canda dan Tawa adalah salah satu cara untuk membuat kita berfikir lebih jernih dari sebelumnya. - Mochamad Fathurizqon Mutiudin

Time changes events and people. - Sunday Adelaja

Future does not exist, live your day and build yours. - Ra'ad Ammari

The shadows have both been my refuge and my repulse. - Anthony Liccione

I don't know how it'll be between us Thiel. I don't know how we'll learn to trust each other again, and I know you're not well enough to help me with every matter I face. But I miss you and I'd like to try again. - Kristin Cashore

and if i asked you to name all the things that you love, how long would it take for you to name yourself? - Anonymous

You cannot pursue all your goals simultaneously or satisfy all your desires at once. And it's an emotional drain to think you can. Instead, you must focus on long-term fulfillment rather than short-term success and, at various points in your life, think carefully about your priorities. - Eric C. Sinoway

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

Who are you to judge the life I live?I know I'm not perfect-and I don't live to be-but before you start pointing fingers...make sure you hands are clean! - Bob Marley

I'm sickened by all religions. Religion has divided people. I don't think there's any difference between the pope wearing a large hat and parading around with a smoking purse and an African painting his face white and praying to a rock. - Howard Stern

We alays blame the outer world for our failures, unhappiness and frustration. It is time to realise that it is health, harmony and wealth of our inner world that determine the degree of our success, joy, peace and bliss. - Vishwas Chavan

The voice of the heart is much stronger than all the other sounds and words spoken without feelings - Ekamdeep Singh

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth . . . Then he said, "Let there be light." Which means he made the entire universe in the dark! How fucking good is that? He's brilliant. - Ricky Gervais

Great achievers are great thinkers and great thinkers, are great achievers. - Auliq-Ice

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

The medication given during mental-ill health makes you rather weaker in body, in soul and in spirit. - Lailah Gifty Akita

I find my solitude between people when they were many and I was alone. - Ali Rezavand Zayeri

There is nothing more powerful than truth. It is undeniable and should always be appreciated. The truth gives you unlimited freedom to be who you are and express how you feel. The truth offers you peace of mind which is something we all love. - Amaka Imani Nkosazana

Abhorrence towards bitter circumstances and attachment towards sweet ones is the nature of agnan (ignorance of the self). Bitter and sweet will not exist if agnan (ignorance of the self) leaves. - Dada Bhagwan

When you awaken and are self aware, you heal. When you heal, you heal the world - Eileen Anglin

I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life—and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do. - Georgia O'Keeffe

One thing that is clearer to me every day is how much we all have in common, and one of those commonalities is that we all think we are alone. - Liat Segal

Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted. - Martin Luther King Jr.

Christ is in me...Christ is my life, this is why i live the higher life...and the reason why i am more than a conqueror! - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

Your path is not my path. Should we meet at the crossroads and ye be a friend, tarry a while, drink some wine and let us laugh for a while. If ye be foe, continue on your merry way and may our paths never cross again. - Virginia Alison

Do what you love and love what you do, with excellence. - Onyi Anyado

Giving and receiving is the law of life. When we give with love and accept with deepest gratitude, our souls rejoice. - Debasish Mridha

I have no mercy or compassion in me for a society that will crush people, and then penalize them for not being able to stand up under the weight. - Malcolm X

When God's favour and Godly flavour is in you, your haters will taste wisdom and the only thing they can do is to regret ever tasting a sweet thing. - Israelmore Ayivor

The real tragedy of life is not the fear of darkness, but it is to conform and follow the darkness in spite of fear. - Debasish Mridha

I did not marry the first girl that I fell in love with, because there was a tremendous religious conflict, at the time. She was an atheist, and I was an agnostic. - Woody Allen

Empty yourself of past resentment, anger, and sadness to fill it with love and pure happiness. - Debasish Mridha

Begin each day with a positive thought and a grateful heart. - Roy Bennett

The pain of one human being to another cannot be translated through words and for that I am certain, it will never be truly experienced again. - Benjamin Meadows

Snuffy and the Bull is one of several short stories from a time in our history which has been woven into the quilt of America and found within the eclectic tapestry of our culture. - Regine' Ivory-Barlow

Fight for your dreams with all your strength, soul and spirit. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Houston, Tranquility Base here. The eagle has landed. - Neil Armstrong

The great thing about writing fiction is that you can do whatever the fuck you want, go as far as you are willing to go, and laugh at the people who take it seriously. - Richard P. Denney

For a scientist, this is a good way to live and die, maybe the ideal way for any of us - excitedly finding we were wrong and excitedly waiting for tomorrow to come so we can start over. - Norman Maclean

Do you know what happens when you play a country song backwards? You get your wife back, your dog back and your job back. - Richard Belzer

At the bottom of the mountain you have your scoffers and doubters, by midpoint you have your envious and haters, and when you reach to the top you have new friends and family you never met or thought existed. - Anthony Liccione

We shall know the truth and the truth shall free our souls. - Lailah Gifty Akita

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

Here is how you know if it is love or lust. Push them in front of a bus. If you jump in the way and save them it is love. - Teresa Mummert

Shift your consciousness to a higher consciousness to see the beauty and joy all around you. Immerse yourself in beauty and will see everyone will be eager to join you. - Debasish Mridha

Two and two continue to make four, in spite of the whine of the amateur for three, or the cry of the critic for five.

Having books standing on a shelf in a room is like having completely different worlds at the ready, waiting to be explored. - J.F Hermann

The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom. - Plato

In the summer, we write life’s summary with the slow waves of love flowing over the sandy beach. The slow breeze and the warm sun write our memories. - Debasish Mridha

Wherever you go, warm that place and people with love and kindness. - Debasish Mridha

A woman should never have a need to fear the man who holds her in his arms; neither his hands that touches her. - Ellen J. Barrier

In life, we must make choices; take chances on the choices we've made; and, we will see changes. - Jamaal K Thornhill

The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than about what others are saying, and we never listen when we are eager to speak.

I am no blank slate for love to write on.My heart has walls marred with cracks,bloodstains, and bullet holes;graffitied over by past lovers. - John Mark Green

Books are the compasses and telescopes and sextants and charts which other men have prepared to help us navigate the dangerous seas of human life. - Jesse Lee Bennett

There are seasons when to be still demands immeasurably higher strength than to act. - Margaret Bottome

What's the difference between the window manager and the computer club window manager? Well, one's supported software and the other isn't. Your guess is as good as mine.

I am as you say a "skeleton" and i have been for quite a while - SkullDuggery Pleasant

We wander along the world along many paths and maybe without knowing it we are walking now along one path towards success! - Stephen Richards

[W]ithout the League, you'd be nothing. - Katie Crouch and Grady Hendrix, The White Glove War

Be glad that I haven't take out the pen, the rubber and the pencil once taken... all will die. - Deyth Banger

Put your soul in the palm of my hand for me to look at, like a crystal jewel. I'll sketch it in words... - Yasunari Kawabata

The purpose of both, awareness and consciousness, is to lead us towards this path of Oneness. - Gian Kumar

Heat makes things expand; that is why life sometimes throws us into a fiery furnace. - Matshona Dhliwayo

I hope for peace on earth and for all beings to realise their inner potential. - Nikki Rowe

Uniconsciousness is the ultimate purpose and ultimate essence of a higher consciousness. The knowledge of the ultimate source of life and the ultimate source of non-judgmental love and consciousness can achieve higher consciousness. - Debasish Mridha

What's love if not the thing you'll do anything and everything to get back once lost? What's hate if not the thing you'll do anything and everything to get rid of once found? - Brian Celio

Do try The House by fresh new author, , it's funny, sad and very different, you'll love the characters and the stories. - Susannah Mansfield

Anyone who has got a book collection and a garden wants for nothing. - Cicero

And Sharkey says: Deep in the heart of darkest America. Home of the brave. He says: Listen to my heart beat. - Laurie Anderson

If there is a gain and loss in business, feedback control is my business. - Mussadiq Abdul Rahim

The Fall will always be yours and mine… - Jennifer Elisabeth

The difference between the one who remembers Allah and the one who doesn’t is like the living and the dead. - Habib Kadhim al-Saqqaf

Reading poetry is like undressing before a bath. You don't undress out of fear that your clothes will become wet. You undress because you want the water to touch you. You want to completely immerse yourself in the feeling of the water and to emerge anew. - Kamand Kojouri

But it’s still a big fight to get the work you’re really excited about onto shelves. And past that, convincing someone to pay you to do the work that you are most excited about is more than a trick, it’s a fucking scam of a magic trick. - Brandon S. Graham

Assassination is almost always unthinkable to moral, thinking men until after a holocaust has come and gone. - Caitlín R. Kiernan

There is so much good in the worst of us, And so much bad in the best of us, That it hardly behooves any of us To talk about the rest of us. - Edward Wallis Hoch

The respect + love for humanity that's why I travel.We are all special and gifted beings, no matter our religious differences. The message should be peace,love and prosperity. There should be no adversity but solidarity. - Henry Johnson Jr

This is biblical ethics. It has little to do with the middle-class ethics of avoiding a few things which are supposed to be wrong and doing a few things which are supposed to be right. Biblical ethics means standing in ultimate decisions for or against God. - Paul Tillich

There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception. - Aldous Huxley

An new idea is rarely born like Venus attended by graces. More commonly it's modeled of baling wire and acne. More commonly it wheezes and tips over. - Marge Piercy

I've found the best way to revise your own work is to pretend that somebody else wrote it and then to rip the living shit out of it. - Don Roff

Why do you believe in God?" the woman asked me in the busy corridor. I don't remember the answer I gave. It was probably too long and rattled in her ears. I wish I could go back and answer her again. "Because HE believes in me," I would say. Isn't that enough? - Donna VanLiere

Ageing shouldn't drain out your desires. With ageing one should do things which they have never explored or always wanted to do. - Premchand Shetty

Keeping Christ in Christmas" is like showing up at someone's house every year, insisting on a party they never planned and never agreed to. - Rebecca McKinsey

There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing awhile upon the roof, and then fly away. - Henry Ward Beecher

Extend your hand; open your heart; share your grace; share your love. - Debasish Mridha

A good book will pull you in from the beginning and take you on a journey you'll never forget. - Lauren Hammond

Do not fear adversity. Win it over. It will make you wiser and stronger. - Debasish Mridha

There’s a fine line between trying to be everything your mate wants you to be and wanting to be loved for who you are. - Brownell Landrum

Nana...how come being happy and making your dreams come true are two different things? Even now, I still don't know why... - Ai Yazawa

Downfall, failure and death cannot be far from any man who made counterfeit friends his ally and support. - Bamigboye Olurotimi

My writings are the window of my soul through which you can see me, feel me, and understand me. - Debasish Mridha

Innovation has beauty in it. The speed of innovations is getting faster and faster. Remember that ideas are the seeds of innovation. - Debasish Mridha

Parting is inevitably painful, even for a short time. It's like an amputation, I feel a limb is being torn off, without which I shall be unable to function. And yet, once it is done... life rushes back into the void, richer, more vivid and fuller than before. - Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Accept fate, and move on. Don't yield to the seductive pull of self-pity. Acting like a victim threatens your future. - Auliq Ice

A mother's love is instinctual, unconditional, and forever. - Revathi Sankaran

If you are not dead, then there is hope. get up and go conquer the world. - Fenley Douglas

It's a lazy Saturday afternoon, there's a couple lying naked in bed reading Encyclopediea Brittannica to each other, and arguing about whether the Andromeda Galaxy is more 'numinous' than the Ressurection. Do they know how to have a good time, or don't they? - Carl Sagan

Friendship with the world removes God’s protection and His covering from us. - Sunday Adelaja

The difference between insanity and genius is success. - Bruce Feirstein

Make good choices and always do your best. - Yvonne Capitelli

Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful. - Ann Landers

Many are busy looking for a life partner and they lose touch of their life's purpose. - Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

To be civilized, really, is to be aware of the others, their hopes, their gladnesses, their illusions about life. - Sherwood Anderson

I have more fear in me than I have faith, blood and soul. I fear the past and I fear the future and it makes my existence in the present moment violently fragile. - VaZaki Nada

People eat meat and think they will become strong as an ox, forgetting that the ox eats grass. - Pino Caruso

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

HAND, n. A singular instrument worn at the end of the human arm and commonly thrust into somebody's pocket. - Ambrose Bierce

One remembers horrors, I think, for the rest of one's life, but memories do not always remain so sharp, and with time, and new circumstance, do not affect us so powerfully. - Elizabeth Aston

Give second chances, third chances, but not a fourth, a fifth, a sixth and so on. Appreciate yourself and understand your worth – know it takes time for people to change, to become better. But know what you can take and what you deserve. - Dominic Riccitello

High walls and deep precipices on your path or hard rocks and big holes are not real obstacles! There is only one real obstacle on your path: Absence of self-confidence! - Mehmet Murat ildan

When life is good do not take it for granted as it will pass. Be mindful, be compassionate and nurture the circumstances that find you in this good time so it will last longer. When life falls apart always remember that this too will pass. Life will have its unexpected turns. - Ajahn Brahm

Beheading, burying and burning humans alive are extreme acts of cruelty. Such crimes against humanity must be investigated and the guilty parties brought to justice. May ALL victims rest in peace! - Widad Akreyi

Thanks to President Obama, I am able to get medical treatment in the USA for the long term effects of very high altitude sickness and unnatural electromagnetic radiation exposures. - Steven Magee

Once your baby arrives, the world is no more the same than you are. Because from our very bodies we add to the collective human destiny. Our deepest urge is always toward life, to wholeness and well being. - Claire Fontaine

Nowadays, a simple faulty brake light traffic stop, can get a black person killed. It's better to fix the broken light bulb, then having to face and cooperate with a senseless police officer. - Anthony Liccione

There is no creature so perfect in wisdom and knowledge but may learn something for time present, and to come, by times past. - John Robinson

Bring your dreams to reality. Believe in yourself. You know you have what it takes, to make your dreams come true. Start now and dedicate yourself to success. Shoot for the stars and make it happen. - Mark F. LaMoure

The time to prepare for life’s disappointments and hurts is in advance. - Billy Graham

If you truly love someone, then love them right in the places they feel most unsure and most vulnerable.And that';s how you help them love themselves. - Wordions

Reason is powerless when we express love with empathy and kindness. - Debasish Mridha

In the heart of appeasement there's the fear of rejection, and in acts of fear there are mirrors of oppression. - Criss Jami

Life becomes easier and more beautiful when we can see the good in other people. - Roy T. Bennett

When you feel that life has nothing to offer you, then offer your greatness for the humanity. You will have nothing to lose but you will win and change the humanity. - Debasish Mridha

Sometime I ride like demon and sometime my bike act like monster...Sometime I ride it for passion and sometime because I am happy and sometime because I am in another world and thinking about something serious. - Grim Reaper

When men reject reason, they have no means left for dealing with one another — except brute, physical force. - Ayn Rand

You know men. We have delicate egos.""I wouldn't describe Jace's ego as delicate.""No, Jace is sort of the antiaircraft artillery tank of male egos," Simon admitted. - Cassandra Clare

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant. - H.L. Mencken

Be joyful and beautiful like a flower and share your treasures with the universe. - Debasish Mridha

I was making pancakes the other day and a fly flew into the kitchen. And that's when I realized that a spatula is a lot like a fly swatter. And a crushed fly is a lot like a blueberry. And a roommate is a lot like a fly eater. - Demetri Martin

Relax, refresh and refocus. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Love finds beauty in the midst of ugliness and makes the journey of life worthwhile. - Debasish Mridha

You must learn the art of disappearance to protect yourself from the stupid! This art will save your time and your energy and it will keep your mind’s purity. And what is this art? It is to isolate yourself for a particular period of time from the society! - Mehmet Murat ildan

Identify the environment where we live and work is important to make us better. - Da Anunciação Marco

To learn that it's easier to be told by others what to think and believe than it is to think for yourself. - Neil deGrasse Tyson

Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter. - Benjamin Disraeli

Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization. - Bo Bennett

What used to be edgy (divorces) has become mainstream and what used to be mainstream (racism and sexism) has become shocking. - Sara Sheridan

She thought little of her ordeal. Cruelty was part of nature, like a winter frost; something to be survived and then forgotten (p.689) - Tim Willocks

For a moment, just be silent and feel the joy of life. - Debasish Mridha

It's sick and twisted and violent. Other than that it is totally G rated. - Elizabeth Cruickshank

Sickness and healing are in every heart; death and deliverance in every hand. - Orson Scott Card

Every morning you begin a new day, and it is the first day of the rest of your life. - Debasish Mridha

Fame is a vapor, popularity is an accident, riches take wings, those who cheer today may curse tomorrow and only one thing endures - character. - Harry Truman

Great men have great discipline. - Habeeb Akande

You're badly wounded.You're bleeding but not cut.You feel like dying but you're not.It’s a Love accident an emotional injury.You are not going to the hospital, aren't you?You don't need medicines and first aides, don't you?You just need to move on. Accept it, forgive and forget it. - Bradley B. Dalina

Thomas Edison’s last words were ‘It’s very beautiful over there’. I don’t know where there is, but I believe it’s somewhere, and I hope it’s beautiful - John Green

You only have to look at the Medusa straight on to see her. And she's not deadly. She's beautiful and she's laughing. - Hélène Cixous

The calla lilies are in bloom again. Such a strange flower—suitable to any occasion. I carried them on my wedding day, and now I place them here in memory of something that has died. - Katharine Hepburn

Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame. - Erica Jong

How to 'live' in a state of awe when life is mundane and ordinary? - Ann Voskamp

I don't know what's wrong with my television set. I was getting C-Span and the Home Shopping Network on the same station. I actually bought a congressman.

It is a sadness of growing older that we lose our ardent appreciation of what is new and different and difficult. - Elizabeth Aston

Speak when you are angry, and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret. - Laurence J. Peter

Whoever in prayer can say, "Our Father," acknowledges and should feel the brotherhood of the whole race of mankind.

The sin which makes you sad and repentant is more liked by Allah than the good deed which turns you arrogant.

Hardship is vanishing, but so is style, and the two are more closely connected than the present generation supposes. - E.M. Forster

The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, as if it was conceivable that the sun had been set afire merely to ripen men's apples and head their cabbages. - Cyrano de Bergerac

Some people see scars, and it is wounding they remember. To me they are proof of the fact that there is healing. - Linda Hogan

It's said that there's three sides to a story: yours, mine, and the truth. Check out God in Wingtip Shoes and The Prison Plumb Line to explore all three. - Yvonne J. Medley

Livvy and me together in an elevator for four hours..and we're good. To some eyes the fact that we're both alive could be viewed as a minor miracle. - Michael D. Beil

Talking to strangers is very panic fear, to be fearless and good communicator in long term try talking to strangers with courage like you already know them. - Amit Kalantri

Don't dim magic because there are non believers, let it shine out of you and they won't know how to look away. - Nikki Rowe

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

What actions are most excellent? To gladden the heart of human beings, to feed the hungry, to help the afflicted, to lighten the sorrow of the sorrowful, and to remove the sufferings of the injured.

Thought, if I may put it, is the man behind the possession, appearance, things we like, things we hate and the very epitome of life. - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

If all of our sins, bad habits, and poor choices were permanently inked into our skin like tattoos, we would all dress quite modestly. - Richelle E. Goodrich

But here is the thing about the stars and all of it's faults: We don't understand everything about it, but we still love it's beauty and wonder. We know of all the dangers, but we would still go there just because we wanted to touch the stars. - Shannon L. Alder

For what is life but a continuous, dynamic and fluid circle of discoveries that surrounds all peoples and has the power to change even the smallest of us. - Daniel Watts

Our task and challenge as human beings is to appreciate, in the same instant, both the infinite significance and absolute insignificance of life. - Eric Micha'el Leventhal

They say you just stand over there, he'll say thank you and you walk back off and that's what I thought was gonna happen, but in my head, I had for five or six years known that he was gonna call me over. - Ellen DeGeneres

The artist can not serve his struggle for freedom unless he subjectively assimilates the social content, unless he feels in his very nerves its meaning and drama and freely seeks to give his own inner world incarnation in his art. - Leon Trotsky

We are sorry for the inconvenience, but this is a revolution. - Subcomandante Marcos

Today I asked Chloe to be my girlfriend,and she agreed. I sank my teeth into her neck and drank from her jugular in the library at lunchtime. She's agreed to join me as a vampire and she's moving in next week.April Fool! - Tim Collins

When a book and a head collide and there is a hollow sound, is it always from the book? - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Emotions and feelings don't come out of the blue they're always triggered by memories good or bad. Males and females must process both. - Mayra Mejia

The world is a marketplace. We all are in business and what we areselling is our unique selves. - Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

When you focus on what you do not have, you will get what you do not have nothing. Focus on love, faith, and prosperity. - Debasish Mridha

And after that, I watched our house collapse in on itself and I spent some time lying in the rubble. Then I vanished completely. I wasn't here at all. Then you phoned. - Ali Smith

Let's nurture our spirits until they shine; and then let's strip down to our naked souls and dance through life until we drop little bits of light behind us that glow like fireflies in the night. - Cristen Rodgers

The more you create great music, the more it makes you eager to create more and more - sami abouzid

This is the responsibility we all owe to ourselves– that the purpose of our existence be to positively affect others with our gift and this does not begin when we feel we have become something. It begins when we decide to pick our gift and align it with it’s purpose. - Chinonye J. Chidolue

...gracious your form and your eyes as honey : desire is poured upon your lovely face Aphrodite has honored you exceedingly... - Sappho

Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important. - Eugene McCarthy

All you touch and all you see, is all your life will ever be.

Persistence, perseverance, and continuous improvement are the ingredients for forming a successful person. - Debasish Mridha

Always forget to complain, but never forget to appreciate and compliment. - Debasish Mridha

If something burns your soul with purpose and desire, it’s your duty to be reduced to ashes by it. Any other form of existence will be yet another dull book in the library of life. - Charles Bukowski

To promote peace, promote understanding. To promote understanding, promote love. - Debasish Mridha

Life and history have repeatedly taught us that values and virtues are far much stronger than the physical wealth we often see. For material wealth emanates from values and virtues. - Sunday Adelaja

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

In life, the first thing you must do is decide what you really want. Weigh the costs and the results. Are the results worthy of the costs? Then make up your mind completely and go after your goal with all your might. - Alfred A. Montapert

There are people whom one loves immediately and forever. Even to know they are alive in the world with one is quite enough. - Nancy Spain

One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't. - George Bernard Shaw

We all came from the same source and it's energy in form of light shining in every consciousness. - Dave Zebian

The battle for our lives, and the lives of our children, our husbands, our friends, our families, and our nation, is waged on our knees. - Stormie Omartian

The communists may not have done very well in the end, but I can't help thinking of capitalism as merely the go-to religion of the greedy and selfish. - Pansy Schneider-Horst

Be true to yourself-at the core of your leadership are your values and morals. - Artika Tyner

Yet high over the city our line of yellow windows must have contributed their share of human secrecy to the casual watcher in the darkening streets, and I was him too, looking up and wondering. - Scott F. Fitzgerald

God is not dead but alive and well and working on a much less ambitious project. - Anonymous

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

Mistakes are a combination of your choices and has nothing to do with your capacity. - Bidemi Mark-Mordi

Atheism is a lack of belief...what about the powers of darkness, and that of light, will you trace both to nothing? Then you must have created yourself. - Michael Bassey Johnson

Learning the Holocaust is not meant to scare you but to deepen your understanding about the world. - Sarah Enchanted

Never be afraid to offer a smile; sure the risk is that a few foolish people may misinterpret your kindness as weakness, but the sweet reward is that as you make new friends and encourage others, the foolish will learn the error of their ways because you did at least show them your teeth. - Johnnie Dent Jr.

Chimpanzees have given me so much. The long hours spent with them in the forest have enriched my life beyond measure. What I have learned from them has shaped my understanding of human behavior, of our place in nature. - Jane Goodall

Father God, we thank You for Your Marvelous, Creation! We are Fearfully and Wonderfully made. We give You praise, honor and glory! - Pazaria Smith

You are a leader when your actions encourage someone to reveal himself with hope, courage, confidence and trust. - Debasish Mridha

Until pains are endured, depressions surmounted, mockeries ignored and goliaths conquered, destiny might not be achieved - Ikechukwu Izuakor

You bothered yourself and changed the season. I was left behind with your awful sounds. - Cat Alonso

Our talents are living things, we give birth to them, nourish them till they grow and become immortal. - Michael Bassey Johnson

It is ashamed that history isolates things that are common to a large populace, but families don’t disperse generational history to prevent their descendants from falling in the same traps as they had. - Stephen and Tiffany Domena

Be entirely tolerant or not at all; follow the good path or the evil one. To stand at the crossroads requires more strength than you possess. - Heinrich Heine

I'm right and everybody else is wrong! See, now everyone's happy!

Love is...When two intelligent minds come togetherand stop working... - Dinesh Kumar Biran

God gave us 2 ears and 1 mouth to be used in that proportion - Anonymous

We have constructed an artifice, a Potemkin village of an ecosystem where we perpetrate the illusion that the things we consume have just fallen off the back of Santa’s sleigh, not been ripped from the earth. The illusion enables us to imagine that the only choices we have are between brands. - Robin Wall Kimmerer

I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions. - Dorothy Day

Furious activity is no substitute for understanding. - H. H. Williams

I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell. - Harry S Truman

As a people we practiced excess. Excess in everything - pleasure, gaud display, endless toil, and death. Vagrant children slept in the alleys. Ragpicking was a profession. A conspicuously self-satisfied class of new wealth and weak intellect was all aglitter in a setting of mass misery. - E.L. Doctrow

THE BIRD AND THE WATERA bird which has not heard of fresh waterDips his beak in salt-water year after year.(Anwar-i-Suhaili) - Idries Shah

I know where I come from, where I am now and where the wish to go. - Lailah Gifty Akita

If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write something worth reading or do things worth the writing. - Benjamin Franklin

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

nothing is lifelesswhen the moon writes its screedon the silvern sand silence-From the poem:"The Universe In Blossom - Munia Khan

How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success? - Elbert Hubbard

To be conservative at 20 is heartless and to be a liberal at 60 is plain idiocy. - Sir Winston Churchill

The important thing is to know when to laugh, or since laughing is somewhat undignified to smile. But the smile must be of the right kind must have understanding in it, and friendliness, and a good deal of patience. - Roderic Owen

In peace there's nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and humility. - William Shakespeare

An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind. - Mahatma Gandhi

The person who tolerates ‘exactly’ (with understanding) hands over his ‘case’ to nature. There is no need to punish anyone. Nature itself will punish him. - Dada Bhagwan

I don't know anymore, whether it's a curse or a blessing to see the beauty in the ugly. Growing up simply and getting old complexly. I now see reason behind sin, and love behind pain. - Hubert Martin

The Wit of Cheats, the Courage of a Whore,Are what ten thousand envy and adore:All, all look up, with reverential Awe,At crimes that 'scape, or triumph o'er the Law:While Truth, Worth, Wisdom, daily they decry-`'Nothing is sacred now but Villainy'- Epilogue to the Satires, Dialogue I - Alexander Pope

Love and knowledge have one thing in common; both live on giving and sharing, more you share more it will be and make impacts over impacts, influence one to another. Love will not get lesser by giving and same goes to knowledge too.. - Baris Gencel

When happiness is liked by me and others equally, what is so special about me that I should strive after happiness only for myself? - Śāntideva

Being hurt inevitably breeds feelings of hatred towards your attacker. But when we hurt others, we have to deal with their hatred for us, and our own feelings of guilt. Knowing what it feels like to be hurt is exactly why we try to be kind to others. That’s what makes us humans. - Masashi Kishimoto

Those who are clever, who have a Brain, never understand anything.

If people let government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny. - Thomas Jefferson

Let me go where love is abundant, peace is plentiful, and joy is in the air. - Debasish Mridha

Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home. - Edith Sitwell

be patient enough to identify the real reasons why you meet people, situations and moments in time or else you would be patient enough to analyze the real reasons why you missed people, situations and moments in time in regret or in wonder - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph. - Shirley Temple Black

Happiness is the inner perception of calmness, tranquility and joy. - Debasish Mridha

Pastor Face Your Business When people say this they mean that I must just stay behind the pulpit and preach - Sunday Adelaja

My mission in life is to be kind, compassionate, caring, sharing and loving in order to feel the deepest joy of life. - Debasish Mridha

There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue. Commit a crime and the earth is made of glass. Commit a crime, and it seems as if a coat of snow fell on the ground, such as reveals in the woods the track of every partridge, and fox, and squirrel. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. - Dale Carnegie

Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country. - Bertrand Russell

Greatness is in simplicity and in kindness, like Mother Theresa. - Debasish Mridha

If you read stories, you will learn the valuable lessons of life situations, survival and build strength. - Lailah Gifty Akita

An infinite question is often destroyed by finite answers. To define everything is to annihilate much that gives us laughter and joy. - Madeleine L'Engle

Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner. - Amy Bloom

Love does these three things effectively: multiplies joy, divides trouble, subtracts grief, and adds peace. - Matshona Dhliwayo

Ultimately, there is light and love and intelligence in this universe. And we are it, we carry that within us, its not just something out there, it is within us and this is what we are trying to re-connect with, our original light and love and intelligence. - Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo

All the same, a seductive voice from afar kept breaking into her conjugal peace: it was the voice of solitude. She closed her eyes and listened to the sound of a hunting horn coming from the depths of distant forests. There were paths in those forests... - Milan Kundera

We teach them proper principles and let them govern themselves.

Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. - Samuel Johnson

Respect yourself and the whole world will respect you. - Abhijit Naskar

I think music has the ability to inspire people and to change hearts, and the heart has the power to change the mind, and the mind has the power to change the world. - Serj Tankian

I have a transgressive spirit, and Pop is transgression's best friend. - Nuno Roque

Seek me not in your richness, O dear, search not amidst the words talkative. Find me in the moments of loneliness, in the silence of your mighty soul. Within the void of intimate being this is me, the majestic blue - the cessation of all; and here your are in the celestial path. - Preeth Nambiar

Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possiblity. - Oprah Winfrey

Annabelle, I'm going to kill you!" I cried, frowning at the mess. Then I glanced down the stairway and gasped.It looked like someone had beaten me to it. - Cleo Coyle

To ascend you must rise above, and I believe in the idea of keeping your feet in the clouds and your head in the stars. - Jennifer Sodini

If you keep people down so they dont become better than you, you gotta stay there to keep them down so you dont progress yourself.What kind of wahala (Suffering) is that ?Leave them to progress so you can expand. - Myles Munroe

What is most vile and despicable about money is that it even confers talent. And it will do so until the end of the world. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I do beseech you to direct your efforts more to preparing youth for the path and less to preparing the path for the youth. - Ben Lindsey

The goal is World and Inner Peace, Love, and Happiness for everyone. And a higher standard of living. No one can make it happen alone. But we can all think globally, act locally and try to act like a team. We don’t know unless we try to make this happen. - Saminu Kanti

Magicians and Mentalist predict the future because they create it. - Amit Kalantri

Give yourself permission 2 evolve. Become a philosopher; come up with your own interpretation of life and stop accepting someone else's as your truth. - Germany Kent

Children deprived of words become school dropouts; dropouts deprived of hope behave delinquently. Amateur censors blame delinquency on reading immoral books and magazines, when in fact, the inability to read anything is the basic trouble. - Peter S. Jennison

Jesus the very thought of TheeWith sweetness fills my breast;But sweeter far Thy face to see,And in Thy presence rest. - Bernard of Clairvaux

All that writers can do is keep trying to say what is deepest in their hearts. - Lloyd Alexander

A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day. - Andre Maurois

Don't think about how you look. Think about how you feel. For yourself and for others. Inside and outside. - Premchand Shetty

Doctor Who: You want weapons? We're in a library. Books are the best weapon in the world. This room's the greatest arsenal we could have. Arm yourself!(from Tooth and Claw in Season 2) - Russell T. Davies

How much living have you done?From it the patterns that you weaveAre imaged:Your own life is your totem pole,Your yard of cloth,Your living.How much loving have you done?How full and free your giving?For living is but lovingAnd loving only giving. - Georgia Douglas Johnson

If you know why you are here, if you have a reason – a purpose, you know why you are born – you know why you are alive and you will feel alive. Purpose is THE MOST IMPORTANT thing in the world to have. - Jellis Vaes

Having a relationship with people of questionable character is like playing with a razor blade on your skin, and pretending to observe that it is harmful to your body. - Michael Bassey Johnson

The whole problem with news on television comes down to this: all the words uttered in an hour of news coverage could be printed on page of a newspaper. And the world cannot be understood in one page.

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

Grace is the pleasure of God to magnify the worth of God by giving sinners the right and power to delight in God without obscuring the glory of God. - John Piper

Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation. - Jalaluddin Rumi

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that refledts it. - Edith Warton 18621937

How good bad music and bad reasons sound when one marches against an enemy! - Friedrich Nietzsche

I wasn’t finished with you, Pru, he said softly. I had plans.Oh boy. Maybe I had plans, too.Yeah? Closing the gap between them, one of his hands went to her hip, the other slid up her back to anchor her to him. Tell me. Tell me slowly and in great detail. - Jill Shalvis

The Wind that Blows, the Water that Flows, the Sun that Glows, are all proof that a Power exists. Believe and Experience the Universal Power. - RVM

Work like an angel, dress like a demon, live like a ghost, and dream like a human. - Rebecca McKinsey

You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us and the world will live as one. - John Lennon

It dawns on you one day... how precious your life is and how not okay it is for anyone, ever, to cause you any amount of suffering, ever. Then the next time you step out the door you look at everyone and you’re thinking, My life is precious and you’re not allowed to hurt me. - C. JoyBell C.

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers. - Charles William Eliot

All journeys begin in our minds and not on the road. - Debasish Mridha

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul, and sings the words without the tune, and never stops at all. - Emily Dickinson

Young men speak about the future because they have no past, and old men speak of the past because they have no future. - Boyd K. Packer

You get a confident: "Can Do Attitude," by practicing to be excellent. Since you earn success by being determined, higher willpower is also earned, too. Raise yourself to excellence by writing your goals and working hard on them. Drive yourself to success. - Mark F. LaMoure

Better light a candle than curse the darkness. - Confucius possibly

Books pull you to other worlds ... let them, and enjoy the adventure. - H.B. Bolton

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

A better world shall emerge based on faith and understanding. - General Douglas MacArthur

Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about. - Saskya Pandita

At home, Tommy tried to avoid looking too long at himself in the mirror, for his reflection stirred in him a feeling of great loneliness and a fear that this loneliness might be permanent. - Aryn Kyle

Bias rules our minds and causes us to overlook the obvious. From 'Fillossofee: Messages From a Grandfather', by - Robert Gately

Love has many names including compassion, caring, concern,friendship, kindness,goodwill, altruism and benevolence. - Independent Zen

Dream your own dreams, achieve your own goals. Your journey is your own and unique. - Roy Bennett

Before hurting an animal, feel her pain and see her tears. Then question your conscience. - Debasish Mridha

When you see people only as personalities, rather than souls with life missions to fulfill, you forever limit the growth and possibilities of what God has in store for another person. - Shannon L. Alder

There isn't a soul in this universe with the same gifts, strength, level of intelligence and as good as yourself! - Unarine Ramaru

If man be sensible and one fine morning, while he is lying in bed,counts at the tips of his fingers how many things in this life truly willgive him enjoyment, invariably he will find food is the first one. - Lin Yutang

But there was in the air that kind of distortion that bent you a little; it caused your usual self to grow slippery, to wander off and shop, to get blurry, bleed, bevel with possibility. - Lorrie Moore

To hell with you. To hell with you and to hell with the Internet. - Ray Bradbury

A kind word sends vibes of love, if we are perceptive, if we know how love permeates and proliferates with this little gesture of giving. - Balroop Singh

Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found. - Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Each player must accept the cards life deals him. But once they are in hand, he alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game. - Voltaire

Seeing a murder on television... can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some. - Alfred Hitchcock

A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one’s life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted. - George Santayana

To welcome the present with an open hand and heart, let your past go with appreciation. - Debasish Mridha

A book is a dream that you hold in your hands."(As quoted on , June 18, 2013) Neil Gaiman - BookRiot

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

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

(I) only write it now because I have grown to believe that there is no dangerous idea, which does not become less dangerous when written out in sincere and careful English. ("The Adoration of The Magi") - W.B. Yeats

Earthly goods deceive the human heart into believing that they give it security and freedom from worry. But in truth, they are what cause anxiety. - Dietrich Bonhoeffer

IMPRESSIONS Time brought a thousand impressions. Not one of them had I seen in the mirror of the imagination.(Anwar-i-Suhaili) - Idries Shah

When you can think of yesterday without regret and tomorrow without fear, you are near contentment.

Talkers are no good doers; be assur'd we come to use our hands and not our tongues. - William Shakespeare

In a woman's lifetime, She will kiss a couple of clowns before she gets to the King. - Andrea L'Artiste

[On school uniforms] Don't these schools do enough damage making all these kids think alike, now they have to make them look alike too? It's not a new idea, either. I first saw it in old newsreels from the 1930s, but it was hard to understand because the narration was in German. - George Carlin

When many voices are speaking at once, listen to the one most quiet and gentle. That’s the one worth listening to. ~ Miranda* ~ - Miranda Linda Weisz

Make a commitment to serve the needs of the ‘least of these’ and give voice to the voiceless. - Artika Tyner

My urge to write is an urge not to self-expressionism but to self-transcendence. My work is both bigger and smaller than I am. - Susan Sontag

I have learnt through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmuted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmuted into a power which can move the world. - Mahatma Gandhi

Usually, we believe that our pain is a misfortune that needs to be fixed, but in fact, all pain (physical, mental, and emotional) is a necessary step towards becoming conscious. - Mada Eliza Dalian

I am more than the person I was, I am more than who I am, and I am excited about who I have yet become. - Dave Shepp

There comes a point when you can only sweep so much under the rug, 'til you feel lumps under your feet and your path seems to become less ccomfortable". - Stuart J. Scesney

Weak people pretend they're perfect. Courageous people acknowledge and confront their weaknesses. - Karim Camara

Here now in his triumph where all things falter, Stretched out on the spoils that his own hand spread,As a god self-slain on his own strange altar, Death lies dead. - Algernon Charles Swinburne

A hat should be taken off when you greet a lady and left off for the rest of your life. Nothing looks more stupid than a hat. - P. J. O'Rourke

He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife. - Douglas Adams

If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down. - Ray Bradbury

A wise man can say a foolish thing at any time, anywhere, and to anybody. - Michael Bassey Johnson

True love is very silent, very personal, very non-demanding, and nonjudgmental. - Debasish Mridha

All men have their frailties; and whoever looks for a friend without imperfections, will never find what he seeks. - Cyrus the Great

Someone was waving a large pink-and-white sign that read, "Don't Worry, Be Happy." I was trying, and so were at least thirty thousand other bodies, with varying degrees of post-Aquarian patience, to see the Who for the first time in a year. - Ellen Willis

Books open your mind, broaden your mind, and strengthen you as nothing else can. - William Feather

If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside. - Robert X. Cringely

No man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause, because his interest would certainly bias his judgment, and, not improbably, corrupt his integrity. With equal, nay with greater reason, a body of men are unfit to be both judges and parties at the same time. - James Madison

When the tendencies (vruti) that were wandering around since time immemorial come within & enter into the Self’s (Soul’s) abode; it is known as freedom from all wanderings (nivruti). - Dada Bhagwan

I didn't want to kiss you goodbye — that was the trouble — I wanted to kiss you good night — and there's a lot of difference. - Ernest Hemingway

Love blinds me so deep and dark, I see the world full of innocence, thoughts filled with affection, time brimming with hope and future flowing with my dreams. - Harshada Pathare

What you have in hand may be of less essence to knowing and using what you have in hand - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

To live without an aim is to wander in a wilderness. - Radhe Maa

There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination.

Men must be decided on what they will not do, and then they are able to act with vigor in what they ought to do. - Mencius

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

We must conduct research and then accept the results. If they don't stand up to experimentation, Buddha's own words must be rejected. - Dalai Lama XIV

Stupid people will mistake your confidence for arrogance. - Habeeb Akande

You can never hurt anyone without hurting yourself. Never hurt an innocent, loving, and kind animal. - Debasish Mridha

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

Everything you want lies on the other side of learning to trust yourself. Take a chance. Have faith. You already know who you are, what you want, and where you want to go. - Vironika Tugaleva

I only know two pieces; one is 'Clair de Lune' and the other one isn't. - Victor Borge

Why people become writers??It's logical, they don't have what to do and they are bored and they want to show people a new world. So they create it!Why people watch films??Because they want to feel the taste of the reality!Everything is logical, think before you ask! - Deyth Banger

Achievement seems to be connectedwith action. Successful men andwomen keep moving. They makemistakes, but they don't quit. - Conrad Hilton

To do what you love and are passionate about is a dream come true, My life is consumed by music and entertainment— and it’s the best life I could ever hope for. - Blake Lewis

In my relationship, she is my woman and I am her man. This designation is not one of ownership, but of passion. It is a loving and passionate expression that reflects the truth that out of over seven billion people in the world, she is my ONE. - Steve Maraboli

The future is up for grabs. It belongs to any and all who will take the risk and accept the responsibility of consciously creating the future they want. - Robert Anton Wilson

With all our words and ideas we only trivialize life. - Marty Rubin

Sometimes... Reason and Love are met with a violent ignorance that even what's right gets lost. Our heart bleeds, but when does the blood shed end and the healing begin? - Solange nicole

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

Define your mantras, your adages, and bear down repetitively -- over and over and over! - David R. Wommack

Discourse on virtue and they pass by in droves. Whistle and dance the shimmy, and you've got an audience.

Love: I guess It is some kind of magic, It has a power to make us better... But there is the thing magic can sometimes be an illusion and nothing else. - Rati Tsiteladze

The sacrifice ‘of’ self for the greater good is the greatest calling imaginable, and it is the bedrock of the greatest nations. The sacrifice ‘for’ self is the most pathetic calling imaginable, and it is the quicksand within which nations perish. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

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

A man wakes up and for a few moments he experiences everything exactly as it is. Jon wrote: A man wakes up and is lucid. It doesn’t last long, though, he thought, that kind of lucidity. If it did you wouldn’t be able to stand it, it would kill you. - Ullmann, Linn

There are things that you might forget, but you might not clearly forget. Time is the only coin you have to buy the things you want to remember, and to pay for the things you want to leave behind. - Aileene Mhar Jabarani

Your need for acceptance can make you invisible in this world. Don't let anything stand in the way of the light that shines through this form. Risk being seen in all of your glory. - Jim Carrey

The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers. - Lewis Thomas

Religion is a candle inside a multicolored lantern. Everyone looks through a particular color, but the candle is always there.

A leader is someone who steps back from the entire system and tries to build a more collaborative, more innovative system that will work over the long term.

Daily meditation promotes self confidence, peace of mind and strong faith in God. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Be afraid of a gentleman when he is hungry, and of a mean person when his stomach is full.

Brothers and sisters, if your spouse doesn’t feel good about something, show respect for those feelings. When you take the easy way out by saying and doing nothing, you may be enabling destructive behavior. - Larry R. Lawrence

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

Hope is faith holding out its hand in the dark. - George Iles

I am The Dragon And I have come! - Kehinde Sonola

And these are the sametype of people who killthe innocent andjustify it by sayingThey’ve gone to bewith Jesus nowBut we won’t talkabout how theycrucified Him, too - Phil Volatile

The brightest crowns that are worn in heaven have been tried, and smelted, and polished, and glorified through the furnace of tribulation. - Edward Chapin

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing. - Elbert Hubbard

When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with. - John Scalzi

Choices are made in brief seconds and paid for in the time that remains. - Paolo Giordano

I am writing something very simple that will change you and change the world. - Debasish Mridha

we’re all a grab bag of good and eveil, and by and large can’t tell which is which - Madeleine L'Engle

Most great works of the imagination were meant to make you feel like a stranger in your own home. The best fiction always forced us to question what we took for granted. It questioned traditions and expectations when they seemed to immutable. - Azar Nafisi

When you have a chance to forgive, think of all you'll gain and forget all you've lost. - Saim .A. Cheeda