Quotation Explorer - 'And'

My father moved out a week later. I hugged him at our front door and couldn't bear to watch him leave with so much luggage. - Alison Espach

Create life, that allow you to have a free flow from inside. This will happen when you improve your inner world and create life more out of understanding. - Roshan Sharma

He clung to the story as to a vow whose abandonment might bring down on his head all kinds of grief and misfortune. He felt very alone, on an interminable day full of evil omens, and the story, though resistant to some of his intentions, was at least a testimony to reality and coherence - José María Merino

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed. - Ernest Hemingway

My mother was an avid reader...She loved books about romance. Books that took place in faraway places and times. Stories with costumes... - Adriana Trigiani

I arise from dreams of thee,And a spirit in my feetHas led me- who knows how?To thy chamber-window, Sweet! - Percy Bysshe Shelley

You think I'm giving up. I'm not. I'm giving in. - Kamand Kojouri

I don't know what love is,But i know what true love is,It is when two people encourages each other to grow ,Who will let you go out the world and trust that you will come back. This is what true love is about. - Lyza Matociños

I am more and more convinced that our happiness depends more on how we meet the events in our lives, than on those events themselves. - Alexander Humboldt

Just because we’ve made poor or wrong choices in the past, does not limit us from making wise and good choices now. - Toni Sorenson

You think the thing, draw the picture and then it happens. - Stephen Richards

Domestic violence is frequently excused when alcohol and other substances are involved. - Asa Don Brown

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

Age appears best in four things: old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust and old authors to read. - Francis Bacon

What you make of yourself and your future is entirely up to you. - C.L. Grant

Do what gives you joy and you will enjoy what you do. - Debasish Mridha

You are the only problem you will ever have and you are the only solution. Change is inevitable, personal growth is always a personal decision. - Bob Proctor

Love is like slamming into a wall of concrete and asking to do it all again once the rubble is cleared. - Alexandra Toscano

Riches cover a multitude of woes. - Menander

Whenever people are certain they understand our peculiar situation here on this planet, it is because they have accepted a religious Faith or a secular Ideology (Ideologies are the modern form of Faiths) and just stopped thinking. - Robert Anton Wilson

You'll drive yourself crazy trying to control something that isn't yours to control. Let go. Free yourself. Allow your mind and energy to focus on something positive... to build something beautiful. - Steve Maraboli

Age is a bunch of bullshit, the wise parts, the inner soul, and the inner maturity is what we should really be focused on. - Mekiah Johnson

In the very center of your being, life begins in silence and in joy. - Debasish Mridha

People need to stand up for their wrongs, as they stand up for their rights. - Anthony Liccione

You become a man not when you reach a certain age, but when you reach a certain state of mind. - Habeeb Akande

I feel like there are more possibilities when I work with my hands. - Oded Ezer

If you read the Scriptures, you know thy Creator and thy soul. - Lailah Gifty Akita

You have unbounded, unlimited wealth and that if your love. Spend it as much as you can, as fast as you can, as often as you can. You will find that you are getting richer every day. - Debasish Mridha

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

How will you know the difficulties of being human, if you are always flying off to blue perfection? Where will you plant your grief seeds? Workers need ground to scrape and hoe, not the sky of unspecified desire. - Jalaluddin Rumi

When you being to awaken to your gifts, a first it can be alarming for the soul to reveal its truth. After some consideration and healthy boundaries the soul mellows and the action and revelation begins. Hold onto your seat, you are in for a wonderful wild ride. - Monika Zands

The best master is the one who raises many more masters and much more important than this, who creates masters even much better than himself! - Mehmet Murat ildan

PANTALOONS, n. A nether habiliment of the adult civilized male. The garment is tubular and unprovided with hinges at the points of flexion. Supposed to have been invented by a humorist. Called "trousers" by the enlightened and "pants" by the unworthy. - Ambrose Bierce

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

If you want to do something—you can do it! You just have to be focused and persistent. - Debasish Mridha

Compassion constitutes a radical form of criticism, for it announces that the hurt is to be taken seriously, that the hurt is not to be accepted as normal and natural but is an abnormal and unacceptable condition for humanness. - Walter Brueggemann

Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R&D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it. - Steve Jobs

I meet many a man, working ridiculous house for a wage that merely adds to their happiness, and if man can be so pre-occupied in waking for another's dream; than my experience has taught me one thing, the magic of our world exists in those who create alchemy from the dirt they have been shoved upon. - Nikki Rowe

If the ties that bind ever do come looseIf forever ever ends for youIf that ring gets a little too tightYou might as well read me my last rights. - The Band Perry

[Religious belief is] outmoded and ridiculous. [Belief in gods was a] worn out but once useful crutch in mankind's journey towards truth. We consider the time has come for that crutch to be abandoned. - Peter Atkins

The world is old and full of lessons. We will not lack for examples. We only have to look around carefully, earnestly, so we can learn and realize that success, to be genuine, must not be propelled by greed. - Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

The keys of happiness and success lie beyond your fear fences. Jump over the fences NOW - Mohammed Sekouty

Sometimes it feels like you've set off a spectacular lightning show in my heart, and I wonder if other people can see the flashes through my skin. - John Mark Green

The pressures of life and influence of society have caused many to become something and someone they are not. Remove the layers. Dig through the dust and debris. Find the genuine jewel - YOU. - Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.

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

You know you are on the right spiritual track when you realize that doing the right thing is not something you should do; rather, it is something you want to do. It is even something you have to do for your own peace, and the well-being of others. - Shannon L. Alder

You can try to please everyone and risk accomplishing nothing, or go for your dreams and risk pissing a few people off. - Lauren DeStefano

If everyone just accepted you the way you are, then, probably, you'd still be the way you were. So for anyone who didn't accept you at one point, just give 'em a smile in your heart and say, "Thank You"! - Ufuoma Apoki

Man is to himself the most wonderful object in nature; for he cannot conceive what the body is, still less what the mind is, and least of all how a body should be united to a mind. This is the consummation of his difficulties, and yet it is his very being. - Blaise Pascal

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

You are not here merely to making 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. - Woodrow Wilson

If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.

America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief; it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered. - Louis D. Brandeis

Anxiety does not take away stress; it just enhances it. If you accept changes with optimism and love, anxiety will melt away. - Debasish Mridha

There's a whole segment of the population with a mentality that bases good times on where they can go and what they can buy. - Jeff Foxworthy

Nonbelievers are not anti-religious, they are anti-fraud and anti-deception. - Steve Fowler

When you hear the right teaching about God your lives will be changed and then you can change the world. - Paul Silway

I heaved into being, came out of the stone, the bricks, and other elements, and took form. (Dark City Lights) - Jerrold Mundis

Reason and Faith are no more antithetical than the mind and the heart, for neither one exists or has meaning without the other". ~ [2012] - R. Alan Woods

The Deftmenes are mad and the Dumii are sane, thought Snibril, and that's just the same as being mad except that it's quieter. - Terry Pratchett

In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the rule. - Friedrich Nietzsche

I would rather live a life alone, than live a life based on lies, deceit and manipulation - Linda Simpson

The spiritual freedom we seek cannot be found by grasping at, retreating to, or protecting our perceived safe spaces. Our freedom lies in remaining open continuously, not only to Life's changes but also to the Divine Light within us and others. - Peter Santos

Child, you have to learn to see things in the right proportions. Learn to see great things great and small things small. - Corrie ten Boom

Oh, Lord, why was she doomed to adore a man steeped in blindness and utter stupidity? - V.S. Carnes

Be careful what you look for and expect in life, because you will either find it or create it. - Christopher Babson

Single is not a status, it is a word that describes a person who is strong enough to live and enjoy life without depending on others. - prixie

I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way. - Franklin P. Adams

The moon is the reflection of your heart and moonlight is the twinkle of your love. - Debasish Mridha

If a man is to shed the light of the sun upon other men, he must first of all have it within himself. - Romain Rolland

Introspection is not a privilege, you don't have to subscribe to it. On any occasion you can discover wisdom and oneself. - Unarine Ramaru

Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly. - Aldus Manutius

The very first few days when you actually start having symptoms of falling for someone special, are the days of heavenly bliss and unreasonable madness. - Abhijit Naskar

A writer is the one who loves to write . . . on and about anything . . . And this clears that I am a writer!! - Anamika Mishra

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

We go through life and don't pay attention to God even when he's yelling. Then there are the moments you never expect and can't avoid. It is at those times when you can hear him ever so clearly; even when he's whispering. - Benjamin J. Carey

Its crazy when people of high moral standards, feel its okay for an intimate friend to insult them in a jovial way, forgeting that even casual friends can do just the same in a jovial way. - Michael Bassey Johnson

Look at him now, poor fellow. That's what a dose of reality does for you...Never touch the stuff myself, you understand. Find it gets in the way of the hallucinations. - Alan Moore

Love, love, love, love is all you can do, even in the face of bitterness, pain, anger, confusion, it's the only thing to keep you steady and stop you biting back. - Jay Woodman

I went to a convent in New York and was fired finally for my insistence that the Immaculate Conception was spontaneous combustion. - Dorothy Parker

There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit. - Alexander Pope

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return. - Maya Angelou

The greatest way to ensure your company’s failure is to appoint leaders who see a divide between themselves and the team; who are more fixated on their elevated role than on the act of leading. - Steve Maraboli

Life is sacred"? Who said so? God? Hey, if you read history, you realize that God is one of the leading causes of death! Has been for thousands of years! Hindus, Muslims, Jews, Christians; all taking turns killing each other because God told 'em it was a good idea. - George Carlin

That's what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing. - Simone de Beauvoir

I'm the warlock who's here to cure you. Didn't they tell you I was coming?""I know who you are, but..." Maia looked dazed. "You look so...so...shiny. - Cassandra Clare

It is better, I think, to grab at the stars than to sit flustered because you know you cannot reach them... At least he who reaches will get a good stretch, a good view, and perhaps even a low-hanging apple for his efforts.

If they couldn't stopped you from dreaming it, they can neither stop you from living it. DREAM, BELIEVE AND LIVE it. - Antwi Isaac - BORN2WIN.

When doing a job — any job — one must feel that he owns it, and act as though he will remain in that job forever. - Hyman G. Rickover

The most important lesson that I have learned is to trust God in every circumstance. Lots of times we go through different trials and following God's plan seems like it doesn't make sense at all. God is always in control and he will never leave us. - Allyson Felix

Start Change Ourselves to Better and Then the World - Jan Jansen

Be self-responsible. Avoid dependency on other people. Aim at being the most successful person you can be. Read about great, successful people. Learn to think great thoughts and work to become an excellent person. - Mark F. LaMoure

I write fiction not for my readers and not for myself. I write fiction for the sake of those odd heroic characters that are contained therein. They are counting on me as much as I am counting on them. - Nicholas Trandahl

You know your heart and soul are stapled to that manuscript, but what we see are the words on the paper - Teresa Nielsen Haydense

We should manage our fortunes as we do our health - enjoy it when good, be patient when it is bad, and never apply violent remedies except in an extreme necessity. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Our bodies are made of supernova dust, the epitome of ultimate destruction and shatter. And though we are whole, beings with bodies and souls, with cosmos in our eyes and black heart holes, we love as fiercely as the force of creation. - Hubert Martin

It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony. - Benjamin Britten

If you love yourself, you will be happy because you will always have your own company and attention - Mr Imbuya

The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it. - George Bernard Shaw

Embrace compassion without exception. - Janice Anderson

Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters. - Neil Gaiman

All strangers and beggars are from Zeus, and a gift, though small, is precious. - Homer

The history of my life is the history of the struggle between an overwhelming urge to write and a combination of circumstances bent on keeping me from it. - F. Scott Fitzgerald

I had an immense advantage over many others dealing with the problem inasmuch as I had no fixed ideas derived from long-established practice to control and bias my mind, and did not suffer from the general belief that whatever is, is right. - Henry Bessemer

sing the song and let people do the interpretation. It is your duty to sing the unsung songs and it is their duty to do the interpretation - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

We must resist impulses to attack people, their credibility or their nature, and focus only on sharing our own positive creations, contributions, ideas and solutions. - Bryant McGill

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power or our will. - Epictetus

I think there are writers who take a quieter approach to their work — one that is just about respectfully showing up for your vocation day after day, steadily doing your best, and letting go of the results. Not going to war against anyone else, or against their talents, or against themselves. - Elizabeth Gilbert

The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions. - Robert Lynd

Yes, we know you are a graduate with PhD. But when was the last time you chase after a book shop to buy and read a book at your own volition to obtain an information for your self-development? Knowledge doesn't chase people; people chase knowledge and information. - Israelmore Ayivor

Life is fragile and important; then it must end. - Matshona Dhliwayo

A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down. - Robert Benchley

When I sit down and write, I do it to relieve myself of the madness that burdens me so that new words can wrap me in newer, better, madness. - George Ivanovic

Do not judge a man by where he stands, but how he reached there. - Raheel Farooq

For if you do not wish to be ‘just a number’ then do not measure yourself accordingly. Bank statements and scales are instruments employed by society that confine you to a limited summation of yourself – born is the human void. - Nicole Bonomi

Wounded parents often unintentionally inflict pain and suffering on their children and these childhood wounds causes a laundry list of maladaptive behaviors commonly called codependency. These habits restrict people to love-limiting relationships causing much unhappiness and distress. - David W. Earle

I could say it was the nights when I was lonelyand you were the only one who'd talk.I could tell you that I like your sensitivity,when you know it's the way that you walk. - Elvis Costello

Perhaps you do not understand me because you do not love me.

Love is not patronizing and charity isn't about pity, it is about love. Charity and love are the same -- with charity you give love, so don't just give money but reach out your hand instead. - Mother Teresa

I do. I choose you, which is to choose him and the others and to say Everything I was ever told of love was so simple as to be untrue. Let me see for myself what you desire beside me. Let me look it in the face and kiss him. - Jameson Fitzpatrick

‎"Today's dirty hands are tomorrow's muddy water - Danielle Hylton-Outland

Her friends used to tell her it wasn't rape if the man was your husband. She didn't say anything, but inside she seethed; she wanted to take a knife to their faces. - F. H. Batacan

Just a little piece of peace can cultivate the land of Palestine, but inhuman human won't let it do that.... - Munia Khan

In you is the ability that will move you from nonentity and mediocrity to an entity of meteority. Take responsiblity now! - Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

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

To patch up a relationship, understanding is the needle, and love is the thread. - Matshona Dhliwayo

In this era where you can be anything you want to be, it is very alluring to miss the most important mark in life - fulfillment and meaning; Remember that, what you can do may not be necessarily what you are called to do - Bernard Kelvin Clive

Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.

You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics. - Charles Bukowski

Keep pouring love into the world and love will be poured back to you. - Matshona Dhliwayo

More and more I knew my budding world was ruined if he were free in it. As a specimen Mr. Wallace might be my pride. Glory to him in a jar. But free! Better to release the sweet moving tiger or the delicate snake, the monumental elephant. I was just a castaway to be devoured. - William H. Gass

When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it. - E.W. Howe

The number of those who have nothing to recommend them and of those in whom nothing but good can be found is probably equal - Murasaki Shikibu

I have learnt that trusting another takes a leap of faith; taking a risk and putting emotions on the line. This is in the hope that the other will accept and understand you. - Aisha Mirza

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

All excess is ill, but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous and bad. - William Penn

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

Seated here in contemplations lost, my thought discovers vaster space beyond, supernal silence and unfathomed peace - Giacomo Leopardi

Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.

The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible. - Bertrand Russell

The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going to make fun of you. - Woody Allen

Every technology will alienate you from some part of your life. That is its job. Your job is to notice. First notice the difference. And then, every time, choose. - Michael Harris

Be healthy and happy. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Take me to a land where love never ends. - Debasish Mridha

Yeah, my parents are crappy, but you hurt either of my sisters and I will spend my life finding ways to destroy you. - Patrick Ness

There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers. - William James

Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing. - Unknown

Children have such an innocent view of their world and surroundings; every thought is a garden full of wonder. - C.J. Heck

My grandma, Mrs Grace Ayorkor Acquah said 'Educating the child is everybody's business. - Lailah Gifty Akita

When you enjoy the little beauties in and around you, it costs you nothing. - Debasish Mridha

The word "good" has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man. - G.K. Chesterton

let yourself cry, OK? One of the worst feelings in the world is being unable to cry and eventually it…starts to make things darker. - J.A. Redmerski

Human Dignity has gleamed only now and then and here and there, in lonely splendor, throughout the ages, a hope of the better men, never an achievement of the majority. - James Thurber

Accept who are you and your uniqueness. Define your choices and believes. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Our actions let us walk and live. Our imaginations let us fly. So be action oriented and never forget to dream. - Debasish Mridha

Never feel sorry for being alive, find your purpose and embrace life. - Gift Gugu Mona

Be kind to yourself. Remember that when you abuse yourself, you will experience the anger, regret, and apathy of the bully as well as the depression, anxiety, and insecurity of the victim. Whatever you do, be kind to yourself. - Vironika Tugaleva

Basically there can be no categories such as 'religious' art and 'secular' art, because all true art is incarnational, and therefore 'religious. - Madeleine L'Engle

You win some, you lose some. And then there's that little-known third category.

Success makes me happy, but it doesn’t give me peace. Because I do believe that success is not enough for our cause. We are born to struggle and nothing must deceive us. - M.F. Moonzajer

The strength of a woman is not measured by the impact that all her hardships in life have had on her; but the strength of a woman is measured by the extent of her refusal to allow those hardships to dictate her and who she becomes. - C. JoyBell C.

Choose your pleasures for yourself, and do not let them be imposed upon you. - Lord Chesterfield

Consciousness is very personal like happiness, sadness, or awareness. You can only feel it and you cannot see it. It does not follow any quantum rules. It has no weight or dimension and does not occupy any space. Consciousness has no beginning and no end. - Debasish Mridha

Start here & go until you die, he said. What's so complicated about that? - Brian Andreas

A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman; but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist. - Louis Nizer

The best thing I’ve learned, and still believe, is that I don’t have to be perfect to start, I have to start... so I can begin learning and growing. - Farshad Asl

when you look up to the stars and there's that little shred of hope, that little ounce of desire, that your special someone is looking up the same time you are. - haylie baker

Each new day begins with a meditation, and ends with a purifying catharsis. - Kristian Goldmund Aumann

Living in the past kills your future. - Habeeb Akande

The shortest and surest way to live with honour in the world, is to be in reality what we would appear to be; and if we observe, we shall find, that all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice of them. - Socrates

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

Short stories are great start, but if they are true that's the best start so far in about 222 short stories I have viewed and I have already shared them in the book series Reddit Collection. - Deyth Banger

Yes - it was happiness she still wanted, and the glimpse she had caught of it made everything else of no account. One by one she had detached herself from the baser possibilities , and she saw that nothing now remained to her but the emptiness of renunciation. "The House of Mirth - Edith Wharton

What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it. - Herbert Simon

In matters of conscience, the law of majority has no place. - Mahatma Gandhi

i loved her, for she was beauty dressed in a selfless personality and the skin of unconditional love. A voice of truthful melody and eyes holding a vision so large, maybe, just maybe she was born to change the world. - Nikki Rowe

When I see Ann Coulter and Sean Hannity baying across the television screen, I find it hard to take them seriously. I assume that they must be saying what they do primarily to boost book sales or ratings, although I do wonder who would spend their precious evenings with such sourpusses. - Barack Obama

No matter how cold your proverbial winter, you can plant seeds of change in your life by changing your thoughts and actions. - Andra Brynnoeglein

Philosophy does not promise to secure anything external for man, otherwise it would be admitting something that lies beyond its proper subject-matter. For as the material of the carpenter is wood, and that of statuary bronze, so the subject-matter of the art of living is each person's own life. - Epictetus

If you are a boat and your lake is frozen, what can you do? You will wait for the spring! We are lucky that we are humans, we don’t have to wait for the spring; we can break the ice if necessary, we can use fire to open our way! Nothing can stop the mind if the mind decides to move to his target! - Mehmet Murat ildan

orgasm for women like coal( that takes lot of time to get heat) , and men like microwave..just push the button - Anshu

Growing up is such a barbarous business, full of inconvenience... and pimples. - J.M. Barrie

Usenet isn't a right. It's a right, a left, and a swift uppercut to the jaw. - Anonymous

Life,’ thought Septimus, ... ‘you could never trust the bastard. What it gives with one hand, it takes away with the other. - ML Stedman

The more you appreciate and celebrate life with joy, the more abundance will fill your life to enjoy. - Debasish Mridha

The church I had loved so much was not a good place for me to hear the sound of my own voice. There was room for my talent but no room for my voice. The preacher’s voice was too loud. Teachings rooted in fear and condemnation were too loud. I had to get in a space where I could hear. - Suzette Hinton

God isn't about making good things happen to you, or bad things happen to you. He's all about you making choices--exercising the gift of free will. God wants you to have good things and a good life, but He won't gift wrap them for you. You have to choose the actions that lead you to that life. - Jim Butcher

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of summoning difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified. - Samuel Johnson

I keenly desire to know God and to keep His ways. - Lailah Gifty Akita

A writer must be fearless. A writer has to be like a clawed animal."-The Carrie Diaries pg. 337 - Candace Bushnell

It is but knowledge, putting it into practice, circumspection, fear of God, and sincerity with Him, August and Majestic is He. - Ahmad ibn Zayn al-Habashi

To become the love of a poet is to become both a muse and an immortal all at the same time. - Jennifer Megan Varnadore

It feels good to read book. But it is grander to write a book. - Lailah Gifty Akita

To live a positive life, think positive and find beauty in every situation. - Debasish Mridha

The communication with God is very important, because the communication is one of our greatest needs, and God is the most important one we need. - Marieta Maglas

The good man is the teacher of the bad, And the bad is the material from which the good may learn. He who does not value the teacher, Or greatly care for the material, Is greatly deluded although he may be learned. Such is the essential mystery. - Lao-Tzu

Every Christian should be both conservative and radical; conservative in preserving the faith and radical in applying it. - John R.W. Stott

Many evolutionists today... continually promote the idea that 'Big Change = Small Change x Millions of Years'. This is logical fallacy... It is akin to saying "because a cow can jump over a fence, it it only a matter of time and practice for it to jump over the moon. - Dr. Donald Batten

I remember sitting and meditating beside a slow flowing river in India, and I got the feeling that this river could teach me all the secrets of the mystery of life. If we learn to surrender to a stone, a flower, to a man, to a woman, or a river, it becomes a door to the Whole. - Swami Dhyan Giten

We are living in a process of pursuit. But sometimes we get so focused on trying to get where we're going and we forget that this is life, too. We're living it right now. - Alison Sudol

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight. - Robertson Davies

for me, to say I yet to begin gives me reasons not to look back and see what I have done but ,to look ahead and see, understand and plan for what I am yet to do - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

At the core of your being, you are spiritual, limitless, and beautiful. To enjoy this you be mindful and openly love yourself. - Debasish Mridha

Life is not a spectator sport; it requires full pads and full participation. - Toni Sorenson

God writes love and speaks poetry. - Criss Jami

Love is a drug for me and I am addicted to it. - Debasish Mridha

We should not write so that it is possible for the reader to understand us, but so that it is impossible for him to misunderstand us. - Marcus Fabius Quintilianus

Moments of suffering are meant to empty us so that we may have the potential to tap into our truest depths. - Kamand Kojouri

I measure my friends not by being there with me when everything is going well, but embracing me when I'm criticized and when I endure tough times. - Terraine Francois

Facts or opinions which are to pass through the hands of so many, to be misconceived by folly in one, and ignorance in another, can hardly have much truth left. - Jane Austen

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

With love, when you let it go, life finds the ways and means to grow. - Debasish Mridha

Girls, watch out for the bad guys!...there are those capable of showering their resources on you just to dance on top of you, and finally destroy your good image and reputation. - Michael Bassey Johnson

If Congress refuse to listen to and grant what women ask, there is but one course left then to pursue. What is there left for women to do but to become the mothers of the future government? - Victoria Claflin Woodhull

People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim. - Ann Landers

When beholding the tranquil beauty and brilliancy of the ocean's skin, one forgets the tiger heart that pants beneath it; and would not willingly remember that this velvet paw but conceals a remorseless fang. - Herman Melville

Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without. - Edmund Burke

To fate and the strange way that it twists us all together. - Nora Roberts

The only difference between a caprice and a lifelong passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer. - Oscar Wilde

It is in providing outward display for things and pathways as they exist within the horizons of landscape that places enable memories to become inwardly inscribed and possessed: made one with the memorial self. The visibility without becomes part of the invisibility within. - Edward S. Casey

How do you know whether you're serious about your values? You fight for them when they're violated even if it costs you title, favor, friendship, and profit. - Assegid Habtewold

...somewhere, on some subterranean level, her darkness and his may have connected. - Haruki Murakami

Humans always love and hate each other for a reason; beauty or talent, hard working or wealth. If you want to be loved give them a reason. - M.F. Moonzajer

I've known rivers:I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins.My soul has grown deep like the rivers. - Langston Hughes

If you really want to make a friend, go to someone's house and eat with him... The people who give you their food give you their heart.

The more passions and desires one has, the more ways one has of being happy. - Charlotte-Catherine

The surest cure for selfishness is to continually practice random acts of kindness. - R.A.Delmonico

When you become complacent with someone lying, whether it is a close friend, the media, or your government, then you have essentially given them permission to continue to do so and most often at your expense. - Gary Hopkins

My life. My choice. Live life only once. So to hell with the world - Nirmala Pandey

A woman who focuses on worshiping God will consider carefully how she is dressed, because her heart will dictate her wardrobe and appearance. - Elizabeth George

When darkness falls upon you, turn your face to the sun and your shadows will fall behind you. - Daniel Wicomb

Man is the highest essence of man, hence with the categorical imperative to overthrow all relations in which man is a debased, enslaved, abandoned, despicable essence. - Karl Marx

Prayer is an acknowledgement of your dependence on God and His direction for your life. - Jim George

Love to live and live to love. - Debasish Mridha

Quiet Days, they look at you, and you will become one with the holy river - nature forms a symbiotic relationship - absolute infinity, truly found, in harmonious caressing arms. - Kristian Goldmund Aumann

The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist. - Eric Hoffer

One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty councils. The thing is to supply light and not heat. - Woodrow Wilson

PROVIDENTIAL, adj. Unexpectedly and conspicuously beneficial to the person so describing it. - Ambrose Bierce

He's not safe, but he's good (referring to Aslan, the Lion, in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe) - C.S. Lewis

I pity the people who don't like to read, because then they spend their whole lives stuck in this one world and dont get to discover any others. - Richard P. Denney

God’s eyes readily see beyond our actions, for our actions are simply fear and selfishness pretending to be us. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

Financial parasites: greedy people who live luxurious life at the expense and hard work of others." ~ , an excerpt from the book, Odyssey of a Heart, Home of a Soul - Angelica Hopes

Tentei não fazer nada na minha vida que envergonhasse a criança que fui.Quando me for deste mundo, partirão duas pessoas. Sairei de mão dada, com essa criança que fui. - José Saramago

World only has two things: Things you can eat and things you can no eat. - Hironobu Sakaguchi

Faith is a process of leaping into the abyss not on the basis of any certainty about where we shall land, but rather on the belief that we shall land. - Carter Heyward

We know enough to know that all of this is not quite right. And we know enough to know that settling for what’s not quite right is quite wrong. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

The future is always more dangerous than the present and the past - ABC

The trouble when people stop believing in God is not that they thereafter believe in nothing; it is that they thereafter believe in anything. In this century, 'anything' has included Hitler, Stalin and Mao, authors of the great genocidal madnesses of our time. - Charles Krauthammer

Mars One has the power to show people around the globe what is possible if we just all work on one goal. No human has left Earth’s orbit since 1972 and no one ever ploughed beyond the moon into deep space. It’s finally time to inspire the world and make the next giant leap for mankind. - Nico Marquardt

I can't picture in my mind three hundred and sixty thousand dollars... When I think of it, all I can see in my mind is a big nickel. - Harlan Ellison

There is nothing training cannot do. Nothing is above its reach. It can turn bad morals to good; it can destroy bad principles and recreate good ones; it can lift men to angelship. - Mark Twain

The happiest people are not always the richest, but they are always abundant with kindness and content with their richness - Debasish Mridha

We must empower our weak to be strong, and teach our strong to be compassionate. This will open a door to oneness. - Gary Hopkins

Depend on the Source, not the extensions (people) and you'll have the REAL life. - Steven Chopade

If my heart is set on pursuing real treasures, my mind must be fixed solely on the privilege of enjoying them and freed of the obsession of owning them. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

Islam teaches that one can only find peace in one's life by submitting to Almighty God (Allah) in heart, soul and deed. - Raad

Replace the word can’t with can. Know that you can, believe that you can, and know with ALL of your heart that you will. You will succeed in spite of any obstacles that may try to hinder you! There’s so much power in having a positive attitude, positive mindset, and positive outlook. - Stephanie Lahart

I dreamed a thousand new paths. . . I woke and walked my old one. - Chinese proverb

You know what? I'm an artist. I'm an artist and I'm gonna make art, arty art art! - Andy Biersack

Sisyphus, I. I cling to my rock, you don’t have to chain me. Stand back! I roll it up—up, up. And … down we go. I knew that would happen. See, I’m on my feet again. See, I’m starting to roll it up again. Don’t try to talk me out of it. Nothing, nothing could tear me away from this rock. - Susan Sontag

Color makes no difference; the peeps are gray, the seals are black, and the crabs yellow; but we don't care, and are all friends. It is very unkind to treat you so. - Louisa May Alcott

I imagined the sound of whips on black backs and the roar of the overseer over the cry of mothers being separated from their babies. I pulled on all the strength I had not to shot out every valuable leaded pane of glass in that stinking house. - Linda Leigh Hargrove

Christ in you is the hope of glory..." "Your life moves in the direction of your most dominant thought" "Love is never unsure" "Truth demands a response - Various

Is that not always the case? Given any two people in a relationship, one will always love more, the other less. Right? - Jill Alexander Essbaum

Connect and communicate to sacred strangers in daily life. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Keep calm and let your heart sing the song of kindness. - Debasish Mridha

Stepping onto a brand-new path is difficult, but not more difficult than remaining in a situation, which is not nurturing to the whole woman. - Maya Angelou

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

To have had fame, even very minor fame, and to have lost it, got older and maybe put on a little weight is a kind of living death. - David Nicholls

And he was. Suddenly. From not being to being conscious that he was. - Gioconda Belli

In the art of magic be quick of sleight and slow of climax. - Amit Kalantri

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

Nothing is built on stone; All is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone. - Jorge Luis Borges

Disappointments will come, rejection will come, and failures will come in the midst of the fulfilment of your dream. Don't give up, don't give in, try to push little harder; I know it won't be easy to give that push but keep pushing my friend be persistent and you'll see great results. - Euginia Herlihy

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

I'm cautious with the love word because I really know what it means. I've been there, done that and I know what the implications are. I also know that people say they love people when they don't, and it often results in tears and avoidance of bars, supermarkets, even whole towns in extreme cases. - Jessica Thompson

Think it the greatest impiety to prefer life to disgrace, and for the sake of life to lose the reason for living. - Juvenal

I will tell him that I've always thought he was a monster. And that I want to be his bride - Yangzee Choo

I have changed my mind, and changed the trimmings of my cap this morning; they are now such as you suggested. - Jane Austen

Life is so transient and ephemeral; we will not be here after a breath. So think better, think deeply, think with kindness, and write it with love so that it may live a little longer. - Debasish Mridha

Lea was on the floor of a stall hugging a toilet. When she heard the door close, she lifted her head and gave me a half smile of embarrassment.'Gracie, I've been chemically inconvenienced and I don't think I can ever leave this toilet. Take a picture of this so I'll never do it again. - christine zoldenz

I am a nyctophile, and I can't stop or help myself from falling in love for the darkest ends of your soul, rather than the light in your eyes. - Akshay Vasu

I pray, before I die, that I receive the power to believe in fairytales again, Oh' how I would love to laugh and know that God laughed with me. - Tonny K. Brown

You'll walk with me out on the wire, cuz baby, I'm just a scared and lonely rider, but I gotta know how it feels... I want to know love is wild, babe, I want to know love is real. - Bruce Springsteen

We are totally opposed to abortion under any circumstances. We are also opposed to abortifacient drugs and chemicals like the Pill and the IUD, and we are also opposed to all forms of birth control with the exception of natural family planning.

Simple, don't tell about something exist in an extinction and don't tell about something extinct in an existence. - Haris Yanuar

Once Trump got his hands around this promising idea, he basically strangled it. - Joe Nocera

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

The reason why great men meet with so little pity or attachment in adversity, would seem to be this: the friends of a great man were made by his fortune, his enemies by himself, and revenge is a much more punctual paymaster than gratitude.

Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof. - John Kenneth Galbraith

The universe will never force a mindset on you. You have complete free agency to choose fear and suffer unnecessarily if you want to. - Kimberly Giles

I oppose same-sex marriage and civil unions but I support domestic partnership between gay and lesbian couples. I have no problem with gay and lesbian couples adopting. I support equal benefits for same-sex couples such as hospital visitation rights - Mitt Romney

Once an angel said to the dreamer, "You will get whatever you want in your life in this world and from this world". - Newpostcard

Argue for your limitations and sure enough, they're yours. - Richard Bach

When imagination fails, compassion and humaneness dwindle and atrophy along with it. Unleavened by imagination, the variety and richness of life turn into flat abstractions; people become objects to be manipulated -- with the social consequences we know all too well. - Lloyd Alexander

If true acts of worship must be sincere without expecting anything, it should not need to be able to offer the promise of anything - Handi Priyono

Life's all about balance. To move on in life you have to strike a balance between your past, present, and your future; you may either be jerked off or left behind. - Richmond Akhigbe

Run your purpose on the toes of your feet before people can type your success stories with the fingers of their hands. - Israelmore Ayivor

Lies are like children. If you don't nurture them, they'll never be useful later. - Randy K. Milholland

One of these days, will become a this day. And that day, will be the preeminent of days to come. - Anthony Liccione

when there is no sound mind in the society people's thinking and their decisions, don’t always follow the natural flow of logic, because the society and the culture of the land has polluted the minds of ordinary people - Sunday Adelaja

A vibrant body, a radiant mind, a loving heart, and an honorable life. - Stefan Emunds

The moment you begin to see yourself as GOD sees you, it gives you permission, authority and the audacity to become what you see through His eyes. - TemitOpe Ibrahim

When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me. - W. Somerset Maugham

"My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind. - Albert Einstein

It is those who concentrate on but one thing at a time who advance in this world. The great man or woman is the one who never steps outside his or her specialty or foolishly dissipates his or her individuality. - Og Mandino

If we deny the thirst of love, we stand to lose the last known address of the stranger whithin us. - Sorin Cerin

Cutting out drama... Healthy mind and body choices... Intent followed by action... Keeping real friends and letting go of the pretends... Livin' clean for Twenty Seventeen! - Steve Maraboli

There are so many people out there that will tell you that you can't. What you've got to do is turn around and say "Watch me! - Ashley Purdy

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

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

Do not give little man big power and do not give big man little power! - Mehmet Murat ildan

To my words: There was once a wall between us. Now we walk together and greet the world. - A.D. Posey

A man of understanding has lost nothing, if he has himself. - Michel de Montaigne

Money isn't everythingBut, you can buy fake respect and temporary happiness with money - Sammy Toora

Every path we take in life, we make the decision to pursue a dream. We travel the path of our dreams on a mental path of a narrow bridge; we must stay focused on our goal and not fear, lest we lose our balance of purpose and fall. - Ellen J. Barrier

I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made -Psalm 139:14 - David

A bird will only eat from a hand it trusts. - Matshona Dhliwayo

Haven’t you seen and heard that every word I seed for you is a feeling, and every thought I bloom bears a meaning? Rivers of words, blending together for the same course, the action of my being: my universe, your beauty. - Soar

One must say; be in charge of your fucking feelings and keep your mouth shut. - M.F. Moonzajer

We, human beings , are strong because we are capable of change . - Sandesh Hukpachongbang

So here I am with this double life, one where my grammatically incorrect writing is a nice success with tens of thousands of readers, and another one where my carefully written books are read by a dozen people. - Christian A. Dumais

Pit race against race, religion against religion, prejudice against prejudice. Divide and conquer! We must not let that happen here. - Eleanor Roosevelt

Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state. - Thomas Jefferson

My tears were wiped away, my heart was strong, I saw the way of healing…I said, God help me now to preach the Word to all the dying around, and tell them how ‘tis Satan still defiles, and Jesus still delivers, for He is just the same today. - John Alexander Dowie

In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual. - Galileo Galilei

The test of a first-fate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise. - F. Scott Fitzgerald

As the wine matures in the wine bottle so doth the minds of men and woman through experience - Bradley Elis

Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change. - Wayne W. Dyer

I've been playing in the field of life on my own for a while now and it's fair to say I have gained myself along the way, I gotta admit though, after all this time I am damn well excited to fall insanely inLove with someone who knows how to take my breath away. - Nikki Rowe

It doesn't really matter if you are left behind the back, but what matters is your capacity to pull and push everyone by your way to get to the front. - Michael Bassey Johnson

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

It was very relaxing to be away from civilization, and this bothered me. I should not have found the loneliness so welcoming. - Stephenie Meyer

Poverty comes from the poverty of positive thoughts and creative ideas. - Debasish Mridha

As a Christian, our existence here on earth is but a sliver of the eternal pie. Our focus should be one the whole pie, and not the sliver. - Danny L. Deaubé

Here is my final point. About drugs, about alcohol, about pornography and smoking and everything else. What business is it of yours what I do, read, buy, see, say, think, who I fuck, what I take into my body - as long as I do not harm another human being on this planet? - Bill Hicks

I was thinking of how sometimes, trying to say the right thing to people, it's like some kind of brain surgery... - M.T Anderson

Not all doors open in the same direction and with the same effort! - Jasleen Kaur Gumber

You can't plan someone else's future, and I fully plan to become someone else. - Stevie Mikayne

I must stand up in search of the truth, if I don't I only roll with the flow of the lie and make it stronger.

Walk gently, and be brave. - Eleanor Brownn

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

Understanding is to knowledge what the flesh is to the body. Insight is to wisdom what life is to the soul. - Matshona Dhliwayo

There is a constant conflict between What you're and What I think YOU ARE! - Ramana Pemmaraju

For if people could see- if women especially could see- what is real and true and how the elegant possession of what is in each of our individual hearts is what matters more than anything. - Kris Radish Annie Freeman's Fabulous Traveling Funeral pg. 297

I believe there are few whose view of life has not been affected by the stern or kindly influences of their early childhood, which threw them in upon themselves in timidity and reserve, or drew them out in genial confidence and sympathy with their fellow creatures.

What is admirable about the fantastic is that there is no longer anything fantastic: there is only the real. - André Breton

Crammed among the stacks of books in his room, the author treated literature as if each book were a window in a city of unstable skyscrapers, and he was the window-washer tasked with the impossible job of cleaning them all. - From "Pageturner" in 365 Tomorrows - Joseph Patrick Pascale

To achieve in life is A hard story, you're starting to get the picture. It's hard work, and this is just the beginning. - Auliq Ice

The pain for her and the love for her was so entwined that neither would function without the other. - Ivy McClelland (me!)

Risk may bring pain, but risk also brings freedom and reward. - Shandel Slaten - Clarity Focusing On What Matters

The grass as bristly and stout as chives and me wondering when the ground will break and me wondering how anything fragile survives - Anne Sexton

Come into my world. I will show you the phenomenon that Stendhal experienced. I will help you feel the cascading arpeggios of Wagner's overture. I will dance to Doga’s waltzes with you. A day spent without appreciating the beauty surrounding us is a waste. Let me appreciate you - Kamand Kojouri

The idea that men are created free and equal is both true and misleading: men are created different; they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other.

The imagination is truly the enemy of bigotry and dogma. - Ursula K. Le Guin

Those who would renegotiate the boundaries between church and state must therefore answer a difficult question: why would we trade a system that has served us so well for one that has served others so poorly? - Sandra Day O'Connor

It's crazy. My life has been full of fun and adventure. but i love meeting people who make me feel like I've done nothing. - Darnell Lamont Walker

We feel happy when we accomplish something great, and our hearts filled with satisfaction about what we achieved - Abdulkareem Bkar

Their lips were too thin to ask forgiveness, and their minds too mean to understand love. - Jane Yolen

Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for and you will succeed. - Sydney Smith

I believe, and I say it is true Democratic feeling, that all the measures of the government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer. - William Henry Harrison

It is a brave man... who dares to look the devil in the face and tell him he is a devil. - James A. Garfield

Like life, revenge can be a messy business... And both would be much simpler if only our heads could figure out which way our hearts will go. But the heart has its reasons, of which reason cannot know. - Emily Thorne

To enhance your inner beauty, harmonize your mind and thoughts with nature through meditation. - Debasish Mridha

Everything opens a new door, a book opens a new door, facts open a new door. So choose your favourite thing and I promise it will open a door. - Deyth Banger

Correct me if I'm wrong, but hasn't the fine line between sanity and madness gotten finer? - George Price

Free will and choice implies that you are able to even re-write your record of memories. - Lionel Suggs

I believe i am hard as a stone, but even a stone breaks if you smash it real hard..... - Andy Flynn

With growing disbelief, Jess yet again felt herself slipping into the gap - that gap of perception between what is really happening to a person and what others think is happening. - Helen Oyeyemi

Desire lies dormant in our hearts; slowly it keeps getting stronger and ignites the will to succeed. - Balroop Singh

It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it's the parts that I do understand. - Mark Twain

Tu amor abrió un mundo entero que ninguna cantidad de libros o sabiduría jamás podría abrir. - Kamand Kojouri

I have not the least sympathy for these useless and destructive pastimes, football and politics. - César Aira

But I love you and I want you and I need you. Can’t you see that? This world has nothing to offer me if it doesn’t include you. - Jennifer Elisabeth

Concerning Personal Branding and Social Media; Understand that attention came be gained or gamed but trust must be earned - Bernard Kelvin Clive

We might feel we have achieved a lot. . just take a pause and look back. . We will see only darkness.... - Mahesh shekhar

Before we can change the world, we have to change ourselves. We can do it by focusing, concentrating, meditating, and self-realizing. - Debasish Mridha

But if sedentary behavior makes us fat and physical activity prevents it, shouldn't the "exercise explosion" and the "new fitness revolution" have launched and epidemic of leanness rather than coinciding with an epidemic of obesity? - Gary Taubes

What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Charge less, but charge. Otherwise, you will not be taken seriously, and you do your fellow artists no favours if you undercut the market. - Elizabeth Aston

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all. - Oscar Wilde

The only thing worse than a Mexican Stand Off is a Peace Pact that Fails! - Stanley Victor Paskavich

The turmoil and dislocations confronting present-day society will not be solved until both the scientific and religious genius of the human race are fully utilized. - Baha'i International Community

Believe in the strength of your own resolve. - Sandra T. Huerta

Now your burnt ashes float to mingle with others And as I wait for another day I keep singing another song How did I go astray! - Lindiwe Mabuza

War can't bring peace in the world; only understanding and love can do that. - Debasish Mridha

I have rightfully no other business each day but to do God's work as a servant, constantly regarding His pleasure. May I have grace to live above every human motive, simply with God and to God. - Henry Martyn

The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant--and let the air out of the tires. - Dorothy Parker

Just do hard work you'll get success path. - Sushil pandey

The distance between who I am, and who I want to be is measure only, by my actions. - Anonymous

A musician's or artist's responsibility is a simple one, and that is, through your music to tell the truth, - Tom Morello

Hurl yourself at goals above your head and bear the lacerations that come when you slip and make a fool of yourself. Try always, as long as you have breath in your body, to take the hard way–and work, work, work to build yourself into a rich, continually evolving entity. - Sylvia Plath

Whatever confronts your faith can be a test but if it stands to oppose the content of your personality and the validity of your convictions then it's threat. - Kingsley Opuwari Manuel

I don't know," Jason said with a shrug. "Maybe it's too late for me. Maybe my heart is already too far good."With a smile she said softly, "It's never too late to be good. - Randall Arthur

I was much distressed by next door people who had twin babies and played the violin; but one of the twins died, and the other has eaten the fiddle - so all is peace.

My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity. - George Bernard Shaw

Moments fly, memories remain; and then memories fly, only memoirs remain and finally memoirs disappear, nothing remains! - Mehmet Murat ildan

It is not an easy thing to be a woman and love with the whole heart: which men do not understand -- having many loves, and delighting in danger and war. - M.M. Kaye

Who could follow Carson? Well, believe me, somebody can - and will. - Johnny Carson

I’ve realized the most effective writing and living are done when we are willing to be vulnerable. I think we spend most of our lives trying to cover up our insecurities. - Katie Kiesler

Your life and how you experience it is entirely your making. Only if this absolutely sinks in, will you make the necessary changes. - Sadghuru

I AM A FATHERLESS FATHER FOR MINE IS GONE,HIS DEATH A MYSTERY, HE IS HISTORY, AND THAT IS WHY I LOOK ONLY UPON YOU FOR YOUR JUST GUIDANCE MY FAITHFUL GOD. - Kgosietsile Martin Timothy

The places and people in the following stories have been represented accurately to the best of my ability; yet my writing is supposed to be a tale, and as in any historical novel, my own imagination has blended with fact to create poetical reality. - Eric Sloane

School means work and work means death. Let's all go take a nap. - Emma Shannon

Knowing that one thing you want is a great step. Sure, whether you prefer or not, you'll get offers, and many will seem just like that one thing you want. - Ufuoma Apoki

The definition of a philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black hat, which isn’t really there. And the definition of a theologian is he’s somebody who finds it. - Michael Ruse

God honors you when you take a stand for what is right. - Jim George

Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate. - Arnold Bennett

The choice is very obvious if you have to choose between the devil and the angel! If the choice is not obvious in your mind, then you have some badnesses inside you! - Mehmet Murat ildan

Those who want to live, let them fight, and those who do not want to fight in this world of eternal struggle do not deserve to live. - Adolf Hitler

I get up at seven yeah and I go to work at nine. I got no time for livin'. Yes I'm workin' all the time. It seems to me I could live my life a lot better than I think I am. I guess that's why they call me they call me the workin' man. - Rush

He loved her for being so beautiful, and he hated her for it. He loved how she put shiny stuff on her lips for him, and he also reviled her for it. He wanted her to walk home alone, and he wanted to run after her and grab her up before she could take another step. - Ann Brashares

The written word can make one pause and contemplate. It can make a reader sigh to dream or question a belief in considerable depth. But all of that is nothing if those words fail to touch the heart and make one feel. - Richelle E. Goodrich

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

Don't aim at success - the more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue... as the unintended side-effect of one's personal dedication to a course greater than oneself. - Viktor Frankl

Wouldn't it be better to die doing something interesting than to drop dead in an office and the last thing you see is someone you don't like? - Barbara Hillary

The feelings in love and the orgasm in sex are the supernatural powers inside every one of us. - M.F. Moonzajer

If I could repeat it,people passing by would be enlightened and go free. - Jalaluddin Rumi

- Why is depression the blues and not the grays? - Because racer!-Jarod Kintz and - Stefan D

The trick is finding a person whose flaws don't drive you crazy...you know...someone whose flaws you can live with...someone who can stand your flaws, too. - Marcia Lynn McClure

The difference between writers and readers is similar to the difference between expressionism and impressionism. Writers want to express themselves and readers want to be impressed. - Claire Amber

Stop Blaming. Take responsibility for your thoughts and your actions. - Dee Dee Artner

I have some bad news. Bjork cannot be here tonight. She was trying on her Oscar dress and Dick Cheney shot her. - Jon Stewart

For all who are amazed or annoyed by the diverse quotes, it is just a reflection how a human mind asynchronously changes the thought patterns, un-edited, raw and authentic! - Ramana Pemmaraju

For true liberation, you do not need to fight. You simply have to change your thoughts and drift away from conformity, comfort, security, and certainty of life and embrace and enjoy the possibilities and magnificence of the uncertainty of life. - Debasish Mridha

I am forever fettered to myself [...] and that's what I must try to live with. - Franz Kafka

The moment when you dream of someone deeply at night and in the morning you see that person staring and smiling at you.For me there is no word to express that feeling. - M.F. Moonzajer

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

Tis all in pieces, all coherence gone,All just supply, and all relation;Prince, subject, father, son, are things forgot,For every man alone thinks he hath gotTo be a phoenix, and that then can beNone of that kind, of which he is, but he. - John Donne

The mandate of God to man, believers and unbelievers alike is that they should manage the earth for God. - Sunday Adelaja

You must dare to disassociate yourself from those who would delay your journey... Leave, depart, if not physically, then mentally. Go your own way, quietly, undramatically, and venture toward trueness at last. - Vernon Howard

Every thought we process in our minds represents two things to the subconscious; A question that will open a Pandora's box is being asked & A request is being made. - Auliq-Ice

Realization is the direct seeing that this entity you have believed yourself to be has its roots in something infinitely vast and that this entity is not separate from that vastness, the source, the absolute. - Enza Vita

If patience came in cans my local supermarkets would all be sold out - Calandra Owens

Timeless principles never age, and truth is as young as the day it was spoken into existence. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

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

Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts. - Clare Booth Luce

Win hearts, and you have all men's hands and purses. - William Cecil Burleigh

I don't think Christians should use birth control. You consummate your marriage as often as you like and if you have babies, you have babies.

The Wolf trusts the universe... Because, she chose a form that made him feel comfortable... THE MOON... And not only because it listened to his howl… but it followed what he said in actions - Konstantinos Kyriakou.K.K

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin. - Dwight D. Eisenhower

Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him. - Mel Brooks

Food is everything we are. It's an extension of nationalist feeling, ethnic feeling, your personal history, your province, your region, your tribe, your grandma. It's inseparable from those from the get-go. - Anthony Bourdain

If you stand back far enough, anything and everything is nothing. - Will Adolphy

Catch your people doing something right and let them know you appreciate it.

There is one and only one social responsibility of business-to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits so long as it stays within the rules of the game, which is to say, engages in open and free competition without deception or fraud. - Milton Friedman

Dreams are rough copies of the waking soul Yet uncorrected of the higher will, So that men sometimes in their dreams confessAn unsuspected, or forgotten, self; -Since Dreaming, Madness, Passion, are akinIn missing each that salutory reinOf reason, and the grinding will of man. - Pedro Calderón de la Barca

It's so easy for some people to get naked. They think they're so promiscuous and avant-garde and rebellious... but year-round their souls are covered in winter clothing! My soul is promiscuous, now how's that for being a rebel without a cause? They are amateurs. - C. JoyBell C.

Not your appearance, but your humility and power of love define your beauty. - Debasish Mridha

To eliminate the inner turmoil we must focus our attention inward and act with loving kindness to ourselves—and each other. - Michelle Cruz-Rosado

Life shines where the light shines and our mind is our greatest light that can brighten our lives! - Mehmet Murat ildan

Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other. - Ann Landers

Being a messenger of love is all about caring for every person in your orbit unconditionally and ceaselessly. The harder the other person makes it for you, the more love you need to send their way. - Pooja Ruprell

Human race don't go extinct but only if we treat each other as a human regardless of gender, color, class, and ethnicity. - Mohith Agadi

A whole tree of lightning stood in the sky. She kept looking out the window, suffused with the warmth from the fire and with the pity and beauty and power of her death. The thunder rolled. - Eudora Welty

You change society by changing the wind. Change the wind, transform the debate, recast the discussion, alter the context in which political discussions are being made, and you will change the outcomes... You will be surprised at how fast the politicians adjust to the change in the wind. - Jim Wallis

In order to improve our life for good always remember that regardless of what anyone else says and does, we are ultimately responsible for our own actions. This is the only way to experience victory, joy, and satisfaction every day of our lives. - Donald Pillai

Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt. - Friedrich Nietzsche

Fate had a cruel sense of humor. It had been all his fault, anyway, whatever Mick or Gillia told him. Careless preoccupation and utter stupidity. Boyhood ignorance and negligence. He was only getting what he deserved, over and over again, for the rest of his life. If only in his dreams. - V.S. Carnes

We could love and not be suckers. We could dream and not be losers. It was such a beautiful time. Everything was possible because we didn't know anything yet. - Hilary Winston

I want to find a voracious, small-minded predator and name it after the IRS. - Robert Bakker

Memories is all that you have, which help you survive the storms and struggles of your daily life after you lose someone! - Nikita Dudani

Life's greatest tragedy is not that it will someday end, but that most only live to follow directions and sometimes we end up totally lost. - Alex Gaskarth

On every level of life, from housework to heights of prayer, in all judgment and efforts to get things done, hurry and impatience are sure marks of the amateur. - Evelyn Underhill

A sense of the divine presence and indwelling bears the soul towards heaven as upon the wings of eagles. - Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Attractive souls are different than beautiful souls. Attractive souls take care of their outward appearance for appearance sake. Beautiful souls care for themselves inwardly and outwardly, so they can be of value to themselves and to others. - Toni Sorenson

I can see death and more death, till we are black and swollen with death. - David Herbet

Up here on the Ice each of us is singular, isolate, I as cut off from those like me, from my society, and its rules, as he from his. - Ursula K. Le Guin

The king's might is greater than human, and his arm is very long. - Herodotus

A man paints with his brains and not with his hands. - Michelangelo Buonarroti

You endure what is supposedly unbearable, and before you know it, you would have done the impossible by bearing the unbearable. - Donovan

Aim for what u want and the year will all make a sense. - Cecelia Ahern

The future begins when we tear down the walls that keep us in the past. We must be thankful for those who walked through the pain and helped us to see the way out. - J. Loren Norris

The least I can do is speak out for the hundreds of chimpanzees who, right now, sit hunched, miserable and without hope, staring out with dead eyes from their metal prisons. They cannot speak for themselves. - Jane Goodall

There are no words in that fleeting moment between hope and the knowledge. There is no way to express how a heart can burst and break at the same time, how the sun can cut through the darkness but will case shadows everywhere. - Marieke Nijkamp

Negativity is a debilitating disease. It is a slow and painful way to experience life. It attacks the immune system, creates anxiety, and can lead to loneliness and depression. Finding your inner harmony is the quickest way to alleviate the methodical destruction of this dark energy - Gary Hopkins

Five senses; an incurably abstract intellect; a haphazardly selective memory; a set of preconceptions and assumptions so numerous that I can never examine more than minority of them - never become conscious of them all. How much of total reality can such an apparatus let through? - C. S. Lewis

If people become ecstatic the whole society will have to change, because this society is based on misery. If people are blissful you cannot lead them to war -- to Vietnam, or to Egypt, or to Israel. No. Someone who is blissful will just laugh and say: This is nonsense!

Proverbs 16:3 'Commit to the LORD whatever you do, and He will establish your plans.' A great reminder when planning out the school year. - Tamara L. Chilver

The best adventures in life is in the present. Seize the present and make it great adventure. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Women are always being tested...but ultimately, each of us has to define who we are individually and then do the very best job we can to grow into it. - Hillary Rodham Clinton

Go to church to learn about forgiveness; come back to become a forgiver! Go to church and learn about kindness; come back to become a kind person! If things go like that, you will be a true image of Christ after going to church only 10 times on 10 Sundays! - Israelmore Ayivor

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

Nothing: a landscape, a glass of wine, a little loveless love, and the vague sadness caused by our understanding nothing and having lost the little we're given. - Álvaro de Campos

The mind has a thousand eyes. And the heart but one; Yet the life of a whole life dies When love is done.

Next to theology I give to music the highest place and honor. And we see how David and all the saints have wrought their godly thoughts into verse, rhyme, and song.

Those who will not reason are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.

And there was a beautiful view But nobody could see. Cause everybody on the island Was saying: Look at me! Look at me! - Laurie Anderson

If a person starts somewhere understanding God's plan, then HE will either immediately change it or instantly challenge him/her. - Anuj Somany

Quiet the mind, and the soul will speak. - Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati

Puck shook her head ruefully. "We haven't even solved the first problem, and I'm worrying about the next one. I must be an idiot.""No," Hush said, wiggling an impossible finger at her. "Only kindness. Very much kindness. - Annette Curtis Klause

There is nothing wrong and nothing right. Our teachings and thoughts make it so. - Debasish Mridha

No sight better expresses the politics of aid, the dynamics of the West and the developing countries, than the image of children, happy or in need. - Zia Haider Rahman

Your present is your future's memory. Live it, Love it, Enjoy it and make it worth remembering..--ald'z <3 - aldrin alex

Creativity and artistic endeavors have a mission that goes far beyond just making music for the sake of music - Herbie Hancock

You want to go to a place where you never lose anything and you keep gaining many things? Go to the Land Of Literature where you gain new paths, new ideas, new lives, new goals, and new souls! - Mehmet Murat ildan

To find joy in life, it is our responsibility and duty to love and serve others. - Debasish Mridha

We cannot perceive what we are not vibrationally a part of. We cannot be affected by an experience of evil, when we are focused on peace, harmony and love. - Raphael Zernoff

An Eastern poet, Ali Ben Abu Taleb, writes with sad truth, —"He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare,And he who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

A non government sites has been launched by Kumar and I am the founder of the jobinos.in websites. I collect latest various Govt jobs vacancy opening news from Newspaper,Magazines,Govt employment Agency and other third party sources, this would be by online or off line. - Rajeev

God reveals future events through dreams, vision and the sacred voice. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Literature matters because it is how humanity, with all its losses and joys, can become a work of art. - Lisa C. Taylor

Are ALL men bad?Oh, all of them, my dear, all of them, without any exception. And they never grow any better. Men become old, but they never become good.. - Oscar Wilde

It is a Blessed thing that in every age someone has had the individuality enough to stand by his own convictions - Robert Ingersoll

Soyons fermes, purs et fidèles ; au bout de nos peines, il y a la plus grande gloire du monde, celle des hommes qui n'ont pas cédé. [Let us be firm, pure and faithful; at the end of our sorrow, there is the greatest glory of the world, that of the men who did not give in.] - Charles de Gaulle

If you are a student you should always get a good nights sleep unless you have come to the good part of your book, and then you should stay up all night and let your schoolwork fall by the wayside, a phrase which means 'flunk'. - Lemony Snicket

Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I love my career. It is a career. A difficult one that takes many hours and total dedication to my craft. It is also what I was born to do--tell stories and entertain. - Michelle M. Pillow

He is Running and Shouting and teasing around ,people know that he is just a vamp on the ground. people no more fear him . But the one sitting silent with no sigh of talky move,people simply fear him because no one knows what destruction he can bring to one in the this bushy grass of violence. - yash hoskere

There is a waterfall in every dream. Cool and crystal clear, it falls gently on the sleeper, cleansing the mind and soothing the soul. - Virginia Alison

I don’t know what would I have done without you in this difficult time for me and indeed, you are right, things happen for a reason and even mistakes help us to be better. - Auliq Ice

What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal. - Albert Pine

No arsenal ... is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. - Ronald Reagan

I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the stern fact, the sad self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

When you help people, don't wait around to hear them say, "Thank you." A lot of times we do good things, but in the back of our mind we're hoping to get some appreciation. But if you make your intentions pure, and you expect only from Allah, He will take more care of you than you could ever imagine. - Nouman Ali Khan

Fatigue had started to set in...and now my eyes showed it as I struggled to keep them open. - Jennifer Starzec

I believe that God is in me as the sun is in the colour and fragrance of a flower - the Light in my darkness, the Voice in my silence. - Helen Keller

Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. - Howard Thurman

Compassionate love may be strong. It sobs, it burns, then it wipes away its tears – and it does nothing. - Alexander Herzen

Face it," Gary told her kindly. "You'll never catch up. You just do as much as you can and take the punishments without saying anything. Sometimes I wonder if that isn't what they're really trying to teach us--to take plenty and keep our mouths shut. - Tamora Pierce

It must be remembered that the forty hour work week until age sixty five was designed by governments and corporations and not the medical profession. - Steven Magee

While death and darkness girdle meI grope for immortality. - Lionel Pigot Johnson

Those million mistakes you did may not make you cry, but the ones you dint try might make you to. - Pradeepa Pandiyan

People make moves like the Pawn.(Let's go in the real world, look how they walk, from one up two max blocks they can take... so far it's sounds like the moves of pawn. People can be the king and the queen...) - Deyth Banger

Not everything can stand the test of time, but a story can. - A.D. Posey

Don't shun oppositions. They are there to position you well. Opposition is the great valley between great men and they that give up because of the arduous journey they may have to take through the valley. Don't shun oppositions; Position yourself with oppositions! - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Teachers and women have one important thing in common; every man and woman that is born into this world is shaped by a teacher or a woman - Vusi JCK Maseko

Life is a magnificent and magical game. To win, play with utmost care and profound love. - Debasish Mridha

It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper. - Rod Serling

I think that freshness and that innocence is something that is missing from a lot of female singers. I'm certainly not denying that I'm young, but I'm not fluff. - Jessica Simpson

The thing that breaks the heart of God and makes him to cry out of frustration for his men and their whereabouts is when equity has been squeezed out of the public square - Sunday Adelaja

I love you more than the sun and the stars that i taught how to shine... You are mine, and you shine for me too I love you yesterday and today And tomorrow, I'll say it again..... I love you more...... - Matthew West

it [In Memoriam] expressed exactly the nature of her own shock and sorrow, the very structure and slow process of pain, and the transformations and transmutations of grief, like rot in the earth-mould, like roots and other blind things moving in the grave. - A.S. Byatt

The heart of Christ is not only the heart of a man but has in it also the tenderness and gentleness of a woman. Jesus was not a man in the rigid sense of manhood as distinct from womanhood, but, as the Son of Man, the complete Head of Humanity. - A.B. Simpson

Says, Rahula! Rahula! Face of Glory! Universe chawed and swallowed! - Jack Kerouac

The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting. - Charles Bukowski

At the side of Enjolras, who represented the logic of revolution, was Combeferre, representing its philosophy. The difference between logic and philosophy is that one can decide upon war, whereas the other can only be fulfilled by peace. - Victor Hugo

We must stand firm between two kinds of madness: the belief that we can do anything; and the belief that we can do nothing. - Alain

With high hope and optimism, start swimming with time. - Debasish Mridha

NEWSPAPER: What great paper is the Earth; what a typeface is the Day; what ink is the Night! – Everyone prints, everyone reads; no one understands. - Xavier Forneret

Whatever you dream be aware that it is just a dream.Yet, since there are infinite parallel universes, whatever you dream must be real somewhere in the multiverse.And if it is real, no matter where, then it is not a dream anymore. - Franco Santoro

Negative feedback may be fun, but it is far less brave than endorsing something unproven and providing room to grow. - Ed Catmull

There were happy days, with watermelon, and sad days of whiskey. - Lewis Nordan

Successful people have no fear of failure. But unsuccessful people do. Successful people have the resilience to face up to failure—learn the lessons and adapt from it. - Roy T. Bennett

Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality. - George Santayana

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

I was 17 years old when I was killed by a vampire"-Ruby Kennedy from My Handsome Vampire. - Vianka Van Bokkem

And when Peace here does house He comes with work to do, he does not come to coo,He comes to brood and sit. - Gerard Manley Hopkins

We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect. - Anaïs Nin

Over time, I realized I wasn't necessarily seeing people or things at their best or worst; instead, I was simply seeing things as they were.There didn't seem to be a moral high road to take in most situations, and "What's the right thing to do?" wasn't an easy question. - Dee Williams

Life is what you make it and faith is what brings it to reality. -CF - Carline Francois

Never keep yourself alone. Keep talking to yourself. And you'll start feeling better. - Prerak Trivedi

The boy was still looking at him. "Your family?" he asked.Salva shook his head."Me, too, " the boy said. He sighed, and Salva heard that sigh all the way to his heart. - Linda Sue Park

An activity originally intended to be performed by low-status, clerical – and more often than not, female – computer programming was gradually and deliberately transformed into a high-status, scientific, and masculine discipline. - Nathan L. Ensmenger

€7,500, first-class, everything—and all that for 40 minutes selling them some old stuff. - Slavoj Žižek

People are going to break promises, and they will have every right to till the point you realize that you don't change plans based on someone else's words. - Sanhita Baruah

Love is the immeasurable and the immeasurable is love. - Marty Rubin

May our eyes focus rightly on Christ ... before the need to please others, before church, and before the busyness of Christian life. Those things will surely have their place, but they will be most valuable if put in their proper position. - Traci LaRussa

Don’t try to fly if you are worry about landing on the earth. - Ali Rezavand Zayeri

When you depersonalize abrasive behavior and see it as a call for help you become a catalyst for the best kind of change. - Marilyn Suttle

A smile is a flower of a loving and caring heart. Smile with love. - Debasish Mridha

Everything is good as it comes from the hands of the Maker of the world, but degenerates once it gets into the hands of man - Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Grief is like the ocean; it comes on waves ebbing and flowing. Sometimes the water is calm, and sometimes it is overwhelming. All we can do is learn to swim. - Vicki Harrison

My Dad is everywhere and he is nowhere. My world tilts on a different axis, orbiting the sun of my own family- but still, I feel his warmth. - Elisabeth Egan

A smile is only complete when the face and the whole body is in one accord - Temitayo A

Enlightenment is the AWARENESS that ALL is ONE and ONE is ALL. Ignorance is the illusion of separateness. - Manprit Kaur

Sometimes the laughter in mothering is the recognition of the ironies and absurdities. Sometime, though, it's just pure, unthinking delight. - Barbara Schapiro

The capacity for passion is both cruel and divine. - George Sand

If I could bottle and patent logic, I'd give it away. - Andrea L'Artiste

Her heart broke. Because of sorrow. Because of guilt. Because of repressed dreams, visions and fantasies. Because almost nothing in her life had gone as she'd hoped. - Jonas Jonasson

Life is fucking confusing. I don't know anything, and neither do you. - Chuck Klosterman

I realized that the "thing" and the "concept" were substituted for feeling and understood the falsity of the world of will and idea - Kazimir Malevich

Hear others, and you will be heard.Understand others, and you will be understood.Help others, and you be will be helped.Love others, and you will be loved. - Matshona Dhliwayo

I really think I write about everyday life. I don't think I'm quite as odd as others say I am. Life is intrinsically, well, boring and dangerous at the same time. At any given moment the floor may open up. Of course, it almost never does; that's what makes it so boring. - Edward Gorey

Failures and fears are the part of the journey we call life. Don't let them stop you or derail you from your chosen path. - Debasish Mridha

Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice. It is the protection of a fundamental human right, the right to dignity and a decent life."[ Live 8 Concert, Mary Fitzgerald Square, Johannesburg, South Africa, 2 July 2005] - Nelson Mandela

The world we are is a secret prison and the secret prison is power. - Saminu Kanti

If you want to dance the dance then you better learn the steps, the world has enough pretenders. If you want to practice sex then you better find a partner, and to love you must surrender. - Carroll Bryant

If you weren't built for this life, you'd be dead by now. i think the problem is people don't share enough of their pain with the world, so they never know who else is in pain, too, and what others are going through. we're never really alone in anything. - Darnell Lamont Walker

Leave people to their opinions and judgments. They cannot harm you; it is their understanding that is faulty, not yours. - Leon Brown

gimme thousands of choices of joy and glory. gimme dreaming promises that lift up my intention.I won't take one of them at all cos I've chosen my own and it's you - neo wasiman