Quotation Explorer - 'But'

You can slow it down but you can't change destiny. - Hafsa Shah

‎Mark it down: God loves you with an unearthly love. You can't win it by being winsome. You can't lose it by being a loser. But you can be blind enough to resist it - Max Lucado

But the world hinges on good fathers and those who would be the merchants of confidence. - Michelle Franklin

I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the Heart's affections and the truth of the Imagination. - John Keats

Happiness is not found in success, but it is found in the essence and byproduct of success. - Debasish Mridha

For many are called, but few are chosen. - Bible

The role of a writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say. - Anaïs Nin

I'm OK with being single, but I'm not OK when the time comes where I have to move my furniture around and to change the high ceiling light balls... - Hiroko Sakai

Her genius derives from the fact that she was capable of the deepest feeling but also of the most discerning and disciplined thought. - David Brooks

Sometimes when Anna is talking to Louise she sees words coming out of her mouth like fistfuls of stones. But she doesn't intend to spew stones; it's simply the only way Anna knows how to takl to her mother. - Jessica Anya Blau

I want to be famous but unknown! - Edgar Degas

I will say nothing against the course of my existence. But at bottom it has been nothing but pain and burden, and I can affirm that during the whole of my 75 years, I have not had four weeks of genuine well-being. It is but the perpetual rolling of a rock that must be raised up again forever. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I know it feels like you have all these options and when you make a decision, you lose a world of possibilities. But the reality is, until you make a decision, you have nothing at all. - Janet Fitch

People wrote me off but they did not realize that I was a writer. - Amit Abraham

It's rare that you see an artist in his 30s or 40s able to really contribute something amazing. - Steve Jobs

We may not know where we are or where we are going, but we have to go. - Debasish Mridha

Step out from behind the words. When you're a writer you can imagine that the words speak for you and are you, but they're not. You are this living breathing bad hair day kind of person. - Beth Kephart

Walter Pater said that all the arts aspire to the condition of music, but I’ve always felt that music aspires to the condition of words. - John Ashbery

What we should be asking is not whether we need a big government or small government, but how we can create a smarter and better government. - Barack Obama

Trust is easy to give but hard to keep also it's hard to achieve but easy to lose - Russ

You must give him time,' said her grandmother;'and you must be content not to be believed for a while. It is very hard to bear; but I have had to bear it, and shall have to bear it yet. I will take care of what Curdie thinks of you in the end. You must let him go now. - George MacDonald

There was a moment in my life when I really wanted to kill myself. And there was one other moment when I was close to that. . . . But even in my most jaded times, I had some hope. - Gerard Way

But one thing is needful: and Mary hath chosen that good part, which shall not be taken away from her. - Bible

Death is not in the nature of things; it is the nature of things. But what dies is the form. The matter is immortal. - John Fowles

Life has been dark but full of light; sad, but full of joy; disappointing, but full of hope; needy but full of plenty, sick but full of health. - Reverend Ada Slaton Bonds, Cumberland Presbyterian

I think it is good that books still exist, but they make me sleepy. - Frank Zappa

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

Do you think people have evolved too far, because I do; oh their ability to heal is indeed a wonder and I do praise them for that, but in many other things I think evolution has been a bit rushed, like getting to the bus stop before the wheel was invented. - conversations with a pigeon

Still, his apartment has that dreamlike qualityof feeling like home though I know it’s not. Not mine anymore — but how many people get to visit the past without hurting anything?To come back and drink the same coffeefrom the same never-quite-clean cup? - Jameson Fitzpatrick

There are many different forms of betrayal, but one hurts the most, Betraying Your Self. - Auliq Ice

God designed life to be enjoyed by all, but human being turned things around and made it to be endured. - Bamigboye Olurotimi

A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his client to plant vines. - Frank Lloyd Wright

Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck -- but, most of all, endurance. - James Baldwin

When you reach for the stars, you may not quite get them, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either. - Leo Burnett

Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip. - John Locke

We think that mercy is a sweeter and easier thing than justice, but it is not so; for justice takes us as we are, but mercy assaults us and batters at the gates of our heart, demanding that we be made new...Sometimes sorrow is easier than joy, and despair more comforting that hope. - Anthony Esolen

I could go crazy on a night like tonightWhen summer's beginning to give up her fightAnd every thought's a possiblilityAnd the voices are heard but nothing is seenWhy do you spend this time with meMaybe an equal mystery - Emily Saliers

A man should not be judged by his fame, power, or money, but rather by how much love he gives to others. - Sandranil Biswas

Your silence will never protect you,Indeed, Silence is the ultimate weapon of power, but It destroy us first.......... - sahil nazim

i don't know the ethics, but some times sex is at highest priority in a relationship. - Nikhil Yadav

She had been nothing but a beloved bauble passed from a mother to a son, a decoration of vanity, devoid of identity. - D. Morgenstern

I would put it this way. There are objects for which we have found uses. We use them, but almost certainly not the way the visitors use them. I am positive that in the vast majority of cases we are hammering nails with microscopes. - Arkady Strugatsky, Boris Strugatsky, Antonina W. Bouis (Translator)

Here's how you think about it: Together you constructed many things throughout your life. Then her body disappeared, but the constructions still remain. Human beings die: That's natural. But to accept her death is to lose all hope. - Michael Paterniti

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names. - John F. Kennedy

George Orwell famously described international sport as 'war minus the shooting'. But for all Orwell's greatness as a thinker, this was one of his least felicitous lines, analogous to 'murder minus the death' or 'life minus the breathing'. - Gideon Haigh

We wait, starving for moments of high magic to inspire us, but life is full of common enchantment waiting for our alchemists eyes to notice. - Jacob Nordby

The concept of portraying evil and then destroying it - I know this is considered mainstream, but I think it is rotten. This idea that whenever something evil happens someone particular can be blamed and punished for it, in life and in politics is hopeless. - Hayao Miyazaki

Tranquility is a Choice. So is Anxiety. The entire world around us may be in Turmoil. But if we want to be Peaceful within, WE CAN. - RVM

It is difficult to soar to your destiny carrying the burden of doubt, impossible to soar to your destiny carrying the burden of fear, but conceivable to soar to your destiny carried by the wings of faith. - Matshona Dhliwayo

You may pray to God to remove the hills on your way and fill every pothole on your path; but don’t be surprised if God gives you a shovel to do so! - Israelmore Ayivor

I cannot live to hear the news from England.But I do prophesy th' election lightsOn Fortinbras; he has my dying voice.So tell him, with th' occurents, more and less,Which have solicited - the rest is silence. - William Shakespeare

But miracles do happen, every shining now and then. If not now, if not now, tell me when. From "If Not Now - Carrie Newcomer

Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were. - David Rockefeller

I'm the world's least happy atheist. I miss having religious faith, but trying to have it seems like trying to be in love with someone that you're not in love with. - Lisa Williams

Writing might never be an easy act, but with TBL, writers don’t have to go at it alone. - Tethered by Letters

Follow reason, but don’t ignore that gut feeling. - Debasish Mridha

Thanksgiving is not only being aware of the abundance of good in the world but embracing it. - Richelle E. Goodrich

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

Your journey is completely yours. It is unique. Others may try to steal part of it, tell it in their words or shape it to suit them. Reality is no one can live it or own it but you. Take charge of your journey, it's yours and yours alone! - Kemi Sogunle

If you have money but not love you will somehow manage, but if you don't have both then you are in serious trouble. - Amit Kalantri

We are all mistaken sometimes; sometimes we do wrong things, things that have bad consequences. But it does not mean we are evil, or that we cannot be trusted ever afterward. - Alison Croggon

Cowards...cling to the hope that failure will never happen and may be sloppy in the face of danger - not because they don't acknowledge that it exists, but because they are just too afraid of it to look it in the eye. - Simon Sinek

The future of a country doesn't depend on its wealth but on its education. - Debasish Mridha

Sometime you will not feel proud, even you have conquered a country, but some time you will feel proud only standing beside your flag. - M.Rishad Sakhi

Competition is a painful thing, but it produces great results. - Jerry Flint

Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die. And it is youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow, and the triumphs that are aftermath of war. - Herbert Hoover

I'm the least confident person in so many ways. But I believed that if somebody gave me the chance to tell a story, I would tell a story [well enough] that the person who gave me the chance would get their money back. - Joss Whedon

In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, most Merciful. Praise be to AllahThe Cherisher and Sustainer of the Worlds: Most Gracious, Most Merciful; Master of the Day of Judgment. (First Chapter from the Quran, Al Fatiha, which every Muslim prayer contains and begins with, but in Arabic) - Our Creator

We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it. - Lyndon B. Johnson

Until recently I did not understand what happens when I’m by your side, but I realize this is love which makes me feel this way. - Auliq Ice

We can only reason from what is; we can reason on actualities, but not on possibilities.

One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork. - Edward Abbey

To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art. - François de La Rochefoucauld

It is still beautiful to hear the heart beatbut often the shadow seems more real than the body. - Tomas Tranströmer

The Bible talks primarily of two kinds of angels- Cherubim and Seraphim. But there is a third kind of angel. If you ever find yourself troubled, suffering or in despair, God may send you this third type of angel. These angels are called...'friends. - José N. Harris

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe. - Anatole France

We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex--but Congress can. - Cullen Hightower

Being with her can prove difficult, but life without her would be unbearable. - J.E. Johnson

We always fail to recognize when we are at fault, but we are always eager to blame others. - Debasish Mridha

All The Woulda-Coulda-ShouldasLayin' In The Sun,Talkin' 'Bout The ThingsThey Woulda-Coulda-Shoulda Done...But All Those Woulda-Coulda-ShouldasAll Ran Away And HidFrom One Little Did. - Shel Silverstein

The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. - Émile Zola

The music is not in the notes,but in the silence between. - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

It was the misfortune of poetry to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoyed it completely; and that the strong feelings which alone could estimate it truly were the very feelings which ought to taste it but sparingly. - Jane Austen

It's ok to be a fool once or twice but never let it be a third time. Be smart and pretend to be a fool and at the end of the hunt make sure you're the one that has the gun. - Surgeo Bell

The great thing about fantasy is that you can drag dreams and longings and hopes and fears and strivings out of your subconscious and call them 'magic' or 'dragons' or 'faeries' and get to know them better. But then I write the stuff. Obviously I'm prejudiced. - Robin McKinley

Happiness isn’t in the absence of problems but the strength to overcome. - Ane Krstevska

Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them. - Samuel Butler

You don't have to be stupid to be a Christian, ... but it probably helps. - Ambrose Bierce

Girl next to me at the baggage counter said she wrote her way to liberation. How did you handle first person narrative, I asked her. And said she knew the hole of depression, had been there. But I am out now, I escaped, I told her. 'You will fall into it again,' she said. Already I was sliding. - Kate Millett

We have enough space in our hearts, but we are afraid of allowing animals shit and mess around with our feelings. - Michael Bassey Johnson

The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it. - Albert Einstein

Magic and miracle they are nothing but manipulation of sight and heart. - M.F. Moonzajer

Pride is pride not because it hates being wrong, but because it loves being wrong: To hate being wrong is to change your opinion when you are proven wrong; whereas pride, even when proven wrong, decides to go on being wrong. - Criss Jami

Some wounds; never reflects on the skin, but kills us slowly from inside. - Durgesh Satpathy

The beauty of a face is transient, but the beauty of a heart is everlasting and magnificent. - Debasish Mridha

The heart is seldom wiser than the mind, but when it is, listen to it. - Matshona Dhliwayo

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool. - Sir Francis Bacon

But the truth was that he died from solitude, the enemy known but to few on this Earth, and whom only the simplest of us are fit to withstand. The brilliant Costaguanaro of the boulevards had died from solitude and want of faith in himself and others. - Joseph Conrad

I can't change the past, but that doesn't mean I can't learn from it. I can't the future, but that doesn't mean I can't be ready for it. - Kenneth de Guzman

It’s all right to tell a man to lift himself by his own bootstraps, but it is cruel jest to say to a bootless man that he ought to lift himself by his own bootstraps. - Martin Luther King Jr.

To lie for me is something rare, some people think that I lie because they don't understand me quite well. But sometimes like today I just predict an answer a part of the answer in math the other can be found with more thinking. - Deyth Banger

We live in a time when the words impossible and unsolvable are no longer part of the scientific community's vocabulary. Each day we move closer to trials that will not just minimize the symptoms of disease and injury but eliminate them. - Christopher Reeve

My shadow is tired walking with me; but I have yet to be bored walking with myself, all by myself... - Munia Khan

Everyone whirled around her, entranced by the stories in which they recognized themselves, but in the stories they were also more than themselves and it always felt at the end fulfilled, not meaningless and empty like life can sometimes feel. - Francesca Lia Block

He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger. - Confucius

The Sun would have wasted its life but for the evolution of life on earth. The one who gives should be grateful to the one who receives. - R.N. Prasher

Where can we find a worshiper who envy a sparrow or a swallow just because of their uninterrupted access to God's altar (Psalm 84:3). Our Genuineness in worship is not revealed by our physical presence in the church but by our desire of being in His Presence always and behold Him (Psalm 84:10). - Santosh Thankachan

Fifty years from now, I will not be remembered for how much money I earned, the type of home I lived in or the car I drove, but on whether I made a difference to someone's life. - Karon Waddell

I never set out to create a technique. I started out on the floor to find myself, to find what the body could do, and what would give me satisfaction - emotionally, dramatically and bodily. But I did not ever dream of establishing a technique. I still can't believe anything like that happened. - Martha Graham

Substitution is a true test of strength. The real performance of a player is seen not only during playing time but also and more especially when the player is substituted. - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

But Jesus, our Advocate, presents an effectual plea in behalf of all who by repentance and faith have committed the keeping of their souls to Him.He pleads their cause, and by the mighty arguments of Calvary vanquishes their accuser. - Ellen G. White

Believing everyone is dangerous, but believing nobody is more dangerous. - Abraham Lincoln

I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone. - H.L. Mencken

You could write the best book in the world but if nobody knows about it, it is nothing - Brandon Reece Taylor

This is not a dirty little secret which was discovered just yesterday. But, if you follow the Golden Rule, good things happen to you and those around you. - Michael A. Contés II

Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.

A person can drop dead even while singing. But that's no reason to stop singing. - Marty Rubin

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

My books have very few villains pretending to be righteous, but they are filled with good people who have pretended to be villains so well that they believe it themselves. This is how I like to view reality. - Kenneth Everett

People in this civilization are starving in the middle of plenty. This is a civilization that is going down, not because it hasn't got the knowledge that would save it, but because nobody will use the knowledge. - Idries Shah

I agree that sometimes it is difficult to choose between right and wrong, but not between right and stupid. - Amit Kalantri

the shadows may come and engulf your world, but if you look hard enough you'll always see that spark in the abyss leading you back to the light and the next adventure waiting to be had - B.B. Taylor

As Henry Moore carvedor modelled his sculpture every day,he strove to surpass Donatello4. and failed, but woke the next morningelated for another try. - Donald Hall

I don't throttle and smother people in my life.. Not because I don't have my own fair share of doubts and sometimes, yes, insecurities.. But I have a great deal of confidence in my instincts that I've chosen the right one to trust.. When I trust, I do so with my whole heart.. - Laarni Venus Marie Giango

To a writer, self-doubt is horrible. But what if you didn't have it, where would the challenge be? - Mekiah Johnson

I rather miss my wild girl; but if I get a strong, helpful, tender-hearted woman in her place, I shall feel quite satisfied. - Louisa May Alcott

If time and space, as sages say,Are things which cannot be,The sun which does not feel decayNo greater is than we.So why, Love, should we ever prayTo live a century?The butterfly that lives a dayHas lived eternity. - T.S. Eliot

Chemistry is great, but eventually your relationship moves out of the laboratory. - Tim Fargo

But pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty. - George Eliot

A magician reveals himself not only by the magic he presents but also by the respect and entertainment he gives to his audience. - Amit Kalantri

We have absolutely no control over what happens to us in life but what we have paramount control over is how we respond to those events. - Viktor E. Frankl

Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principle one was that they escaped teething. - Mark Twain

I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil. - Voltaire

Our life is but a wave in the ocean of consciousness. - Russell Eric Dobda

In the boundaryless forests, there’re dancers of nude.Yet in the confines of pasture, there’s promise of food.On which is your side?Ô, but tarry and bide,ere you decide,in both do confide. - Roman Payne

Time passes: yesterday has gone for ever but tomorrow never comes. Let's make the most of today. - Robert Ashby

If I throw out a boathook from the boat and catch hold of the shore and pull, do I pull the shore to me, or do I pull myself to the shore? Prayer is not pulling God to my will, but the aligning of my will to the will of God. - E. Stanley Jones

A thing of beauty is a joy for ever: Its loveliness increases; it will never Pass into nothingness; but still will keep A bower quiet for us, and a sleep Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing. - John Keats

There are hundreds of languages around the world, but a smile, speaks them all. - -

My friend, I am not what I seem. Seeming is but a garment I wear - a care-woven garment that protects me from thy questionings and thee from my negligence - Kahlil Gibran

Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic. - Frank Herbert

Childhood has its secrets and its mysteries; but who can tell or who can explain them! - Friedrich Max Müller

It feels good read but greater to write. - Lailah Gifty Akita

The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do. - B. F. Skinner

Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is. - Benjamin Franklin

We all fall sometime but it's those that get back up and try again that make the difference. - Gary Revel

You're the face in the mirror my favorite sinBut you want revenge from the Lord aboveSo the rain comes down heavy like my love - Chloe Chaidez

Simplicity may be simple, but like complexity it requires linguistic precision, and may therefore call for relatively obscure expressions at times. - John White

I know I should have been grateful because it was a very nice thing to do. But I wasn't grateful. I wasn't grateful at all. Don't get me wrong. I acted like I was. But I wasn't. To tell you the truth, I was starting to get mad. - Stephen Chbosky

We praise God, not because he needs our praise (for all glory resides in and on him), but in order to see him more clearly, enlarge our soul, and relieve our spirit. - Ron Brackin

Despite the restrictions, we are safe within (the Box). But – and here is the problem – once we identify something more, that awareness irrevocably changes our perceptions of the Box. - Heidi Reagan

If you are looking for love, you may not find it, but if you love every one for sure, they will return it. - Debasish Mridha

We’ve all made mistakes, we all have struggles, and we‘ve done things we don’t even want to remember. All these things are in the past, but you are here NOW with the power to shape your day and your future. - Ane Krstevska

That's all I wanted to do as a kid. Play a guitar properly and jump around. But too many people got in the way. - Syd Barrett

You can experience the same thing over and over again but how you feel about it will never be the same as the first. - Lik Hock Yap Ivan

Everything on earth has a purpose to fulfill, though it may look worthless, but time will tell if god did a mistake in creating them. - Michael Bassey Johnson

The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers. - Thomas Jefferson

We are born winners, but we are hypnotized by the society to succumb to mediocrity and moulded into self-victimization. It is for each one of us to regain our self-geniusness. - Vishwas Chavan

I liked New York when it was an up-and-down city for me, low streets and high buildings. But then, for me, it grew horizontal---monotonous.

When a person asks a queer person why they like the things they do, you can't help but think that it's a little rude for them to be asking, because there is no answer, we were just born that way. Just like straight people, you were born the way you were born. So leave it. - Mekiah Johnson

People think they are not satisfied with what they have but in true sense they are not satisfied with what they are. - Amit Kalantri

I am sensible that to own an inclination for a man is to put one's self wholly in his power; but sure you have generosity enough not to abuse it. - Mary Pierrepont

Man is born free, but everywhere he is in chains. - Jean Jacques Rousseau

First it is necessary to stand on your own two feet. But the minute a man finds himself in that position, the next thing he should do is reach out his arms. - Kristin Hunter

Brothers? Oh, I hate brothers. My older brother just doesn't know when to die, and my younger brothers seem to do nothing but. - Oscar Wilde

God is not interested in your art, but your heart. - Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

She was an experimental child but compassionate with it. - Joe Cawley

Respect other people's feelings. It might mean nothing to you, but it could mean everything to them. - Roy T. Bennett

Dreaming is the day job of novelists, but sharing our dreams is a still more important task for us. We cannot be novelists without this sense of sharing something. - Haruki Murakami

What if you already are the person you wish you were but you just don't know it yet? - Debra Formo

You know it's funny when it rains it pours They got money for wars, but can't feed the poor. - Tupac Shakur

What is freedom to a nation, but freedom to the individuals in it? - Harriett Beecher-Stowe

Students of the heavens are separable into astronomers and astrologers as readily as are the minor domestic ruminants into sheep and goats, but the separation of philosophers into sages and cranks seems to be more sensitive to frames of reference. - Willard Van Orman Quine

It is in racists' best interest to maintain white supremacy at all costs. They will defend it with their lives, but ONLY after they've defended it with ours. - Darnell Lamont Walker

We choose a path, but not what's on it. - Marty Rubin

Art is nothing but the expression of our dream; the more we surrender to it the closer we get to the inner truth of things, our dream-life, the true life that scorns questions and does not see them. - Franz Marc

I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples. - Mother Teresa

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

Artists of today can be inspired by the past, but they have to apply present methods if they want a future in music. - Loren Weisman

I was just walking around saying We’re all gonna die! I never got over it. I went to class, I did what I had to do, but I was a gibbering idiot. It never went away. I never again felt the same way about life and death. - Anne Rice

It is not the Church name that matters, but a Christ like character from every Christian that makes a difference. - Gugu Mona

Two wrongs don't make a right, but neither does one. Revenge may seem petty by day, but on some nights she becomes Justice. - Ashly Lorenzana

I haven't the slightest idea what art is, but to be a painter is something of which you have to prove. - Wayne Thiebaud

Fear is destructive and defeating, but faith is constructive and creative. - Seth Adam Smith

They were from different generations, culture, nations. But even these things did not divide them so much as their separate conceptions of what it meant to be a woman. - Patricia Duncker

Not only is there no God, but try getting a plumber on weekends. - Woody Allen

Your position may be highly powerful, but you will be a hero only when you are highly respected. - Amit Kalantri

You have a right to feel the universe is willing to provide you with blessings, but not to the point that it cannot do without you. - Stephen Richards

An artist who conforms to conventional ideas is nothing but a mere charlatan. - Michael Bassey Johnson

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

Sure, I could tell you I am no longer a lesbian or that I am no longer attracted to women and am straight, or I could even tell you the moon is made of cheese. I could tell you many things, but the moon will still not be made of cheese, and I will still not be attracted to men. - Cristina Marrero

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your inspiration with others. - Robert Louis Stevenson

Remember that light becomes evident in darkness. We do not create light by avoiding those who are captives of darkness; but we become light by illuminating the night. Remember that always. - C. JoyBell C.

Leadership … is a collective and constantly redistributed function, and not the private property of the few or The One. - Harrison Owen

And he said unto them, This kind can come forth by nothing, but by Prayer and Fasting." -Mark 9:29 It seems like many times we miss the whole essence of Fasting and Prayer, perhaps because we have started becoming comfortable with "This Kind". - Santosh Thankachan

There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one. - Kazuo Ishiguro

WHAT CAN YOU SPEND BUT YOU CAN NEVER GET BACK????TIME!CHOOSE HOW YOU SPEND YOUR TIME AND WHO YOU SPEND IT WITH WISELY. - Qwana M. BabyGirl Reynolds-Frasier

She wasn't where she had been. She wasn't where she was going, but she was on her way. - Jodi Hills

Wind has no feet,but travels great distances,and has no hands,but carries great objects. - Matshona Dhliwayo

What is a strong woman? One whose very embrace can weaken the knees and soften the heart of the one she embraces, not by force, but by love which is the strongest force of all. - Toni Sorenson

I dont exist. But even if I do thats still none of your business - Mei Misaki

You may not be the smartest, or the fastest, or the most talented. But you CAN work the hardest. - Kevin J. Donaldson

All we cared about was dividends. Well, we can't do business that way today. We have learned that what's best for the countries we operate in is best for the company. Maybe we can't make the people love us, but we will make ourselves so useful to them that they will want us to stay. - Sam Zemurray

A writer's role was never just to tell stories, but to create a world to encompass and share with others. - Solange nicole

The soul of him who has education is whole and perfect and escapes the worst disease, but, if a man's education be neglected, he walks lamely through life and returns good for nothing to the world below. - Plato

There but for the grace of God go [I]. - John Bradford

What is chemistry in a relationship, Really? Chemistry can be spontaneous combustion that excites, incites, often harms. But not understood. Chemistry can also be that which is studied, intentional, and knows how to be repeated and improved upon. Do you have the right chemistry? - Lucille Anderson

Whenever you possess something, but lack the understanding of its value, there are some consequences you suffer. - Sunday Adelaja

Mistakes have been always the path of learning, but to close something because of mistakes and to start it again maybe it's good idea, maybe not! - Deyth Banger

Anger is never without Reason, but seldom with a good One. - Benjamin Franklin

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

Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them. - Leo Tolstoy

Failure is a great teacher; but never insist on hiring one for yourself. Learn vicariously from others' teachers. - Ashok Kallarakkal

Unique among the nations, America recognized the source of our character as being godly and eternal, not being civic and temporal. And because we have understood that our source is eternal, America has been different. We have no king but Jesus. - John Ashcroft

When faced with 2 choices, simply toss a coin. It works not because it settles the question for you. But because in that brief moment when the coin is in the air YOU SUDDENLY KNOW WHAT YOUR HOPING FOR. :) - wisdom quotes

The world is not ready for some people when they show up, but that shouldn't stop anyone. - Ashly Lorenzana

You never know when someone will come into your life and change things, for good or bad, let them in. They don’t have to always stay but, human interaction is the pinnacle of life’s lessons. - Ron Baratono

Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hard-working, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then--we elected them. - Lily Tomlin

But sadness was familiar; sadness was manageable. It didn't transform her, the way the raging anger did. She could remain herself and still feel this aching grief. - Aprilynne Pike

Curiosity is good, but creativity is greater. - Lailah Gifty Akita

People may say it is better to face problems in life but I say run if you believe you can run faster. - khoshdast

It is not the mountain that is our problem but the absence of knowledge on how to deal withthe mountain. - Sunday Adelaja

You can't take credit for your talents, but it matters that you use them. You can't really be blamed for your weaknesses, but it matters that you correct them. So pride and shame don't make a lot of sense, in the final analysis, but they weren't much fun anyway. - Sam Harris

...but what courage can withstand the ever-enduring and all-besetting terrors of a woman's tongue? - Washington Irving

If you remove Al Sharpton’s blackness, he disappears. He’s transparent. There’s nothing there because he bases his whole life on his blackness. Me, I’m a black man; but my blackness has submission to my Christianity. - Ken Hutcherson

Your heart can be broken, but your soul never bleeds. - Deborah Brodie

Kita terlalu berfokus pada hasil tapi tidak mencintai proses. Padahal tidak ada hasil tanpa di lalui oleh proses. Kita juga terlalu mengharapkan hasil yang besar tanpa mengapresiasi hasil-hasil yang kecil. Padahal hasil besar tersebut adalah kumpulan hasil-hasil yang kecil. - Alfisy0107

Cleverness is egocentric, dramatic, gives you an illusion of success. We are always running behind it and ultimately suffer. Whereas simplicity is spiritual, blissful, not dramatic, simple but joyful and gives inner peace. Which is our ultimate goal. - Debasish Mridha

Peace is not a place or destination but a perception.Peace is not in wealth or splendorBut in conviction.Peace is in friendship, love and unity.Peace is in care, tranquility and serenity. Peace is in compliment, appreciation and forgiveness. Peace is the source of smile, joy and happiness. - Debasish Mridha

When does God turn a want into a need? When you feel the same way almost every day. Your thoughts can be distracted for a short period of time, but your mind will always take you back to the one place that feels like home. - Shannon L. Alder

I didn't pretend to know Eli at all, but even so, I'd noticed that his manner was slightly hard to read. It was something in the way he talked that made it difficult to tell whether he was kidding or serious or what. This bothered me. Or intrigued me. Or both. - Sarah Dessen

If you keep your eye on the profit, you’re going to skimp on the product. But if you focus on making really great products, then the profits will follow. - Steve Jobs

I'm furious about the Women's Liberationists. They keep getting up on soapboxes and proclaiming that women are brighter than men. That's true, but it should be kept quiet or it ruins the whole racket.

TIME' is something to invest but for failed people, it is a thing to be passed. - Samar Sudha

I don't know why but they you said it I started believing it. - Salman Naveed

The value of a person’s quote or post is not determined by the number of online LIKE vote that it has got, but by the trustworthiness of the people who come truly in its support. - Anuj Somany

This is an odd one. You have one country in the world where a word has a deeper meaning, it can really mess with design plans. ...But we have a difficult situation here so I guess we'll be looking at putting different sound chips in the dolls heading there [Britain]. - Todd McFarlane

It's like someone took the darkness of the universe and put it into your eyes... You became a slave to the monsters living in you. You were light, but now you allow it be seen. - Kenza Slaoui

You hate someone whom you really wish to love, but whom you cannot love. Perhaps he himself prevents you. That is a disguised form of love. - Sri Chinmoy

No doubt alcohol, tobacco, and so forth, are things that a saint must avoid, but sainthood is a thing that human beings must avoid. - George Orwell

Your words will either give you joy or give you sorrow, but if they were spoken without regret, they give you peace. - Shannon L. Alder

Beauty exists not in what is seen and remembered, but in what is felt and never forgotten. - Johnathan Jena

Praise in the beginning is agreeable enough; and we receive it as a favor; but when it comes in great quantities, we regard it only as a debt, which nothing but our merit could extort.

All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it. ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince - ilana Graf

We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar: that we cannot know enough people profoundly enough; that we need to know ourselves better; that we require knowledge, not just of self and others, but of the way things are. - Harold Bloom

But had I accepted the pickle juice, I would be drinking pickle juice right now. - Nicki Minaj

Man loves pleasure. But women desire purposeful commitment. - Lailah Gifty Akita

~We may encounter many defeats but we must NOT be defeated~ - Maya Angelou

When we are able to do something so easily, we regard such thing as simplicity; but simplicity is complexity. Withing the things which are simple lay the things which are complex and within the things which are complex, lay the things which are simple - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

I have no riches in life, but only family who loves me. - Alon Calinao Dy

Good night! Good night!Far flies the light;But still God's loveShall shine above,Making all bright,Good night! Good night! - Victor Hugo

Think like a Fox, but don't Behave like one! - Mohith Agadi

A fool believes that math adds up, but also believes that they can master luck. - Justin K. McFarlane Beau

I always thought that we would be that couple in the movies but not all movies have a happy ending - Anonymous

God conceals himself from the mind of man, but reveals himself to his heart. - African Proverb

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

Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting:The Soul that rises with us, our life's Star,Hath had elsewhere its setting,And cometh from afar:Not in entire forgetfulness,And not in utter nakedness,But trailing clouds of glory do we come - William Wordsworth

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

I may be a living legend, but that sure don't help when I've got to change a flat tire. - Roy Orbison

There is always a story behind what you like. Like what you like and be happy with what you like but don't ever forget to mind the real lessons from the story behind what you like. - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

A rose does not answer its enemies with words, but with beauty. - Matshona Dhliwayo

The chance of the bread falling with the buttered side down is directly proportional to the cost of the carpet. - Murphy's Law

The challenge is not finding and/or telling the truth , but finding a person who on telling the truth is willing to listen and/or accept it. - Anuj Somany

Insurgence and all forms of evil in a society doesn't describes her as a failure, but vividly shows a lack of love for one another. - Michael Bassey Johnson

I love you," she told him, and he knew that this was true, and she knew that he believed her; but when she said it she saw the chain around his ankle, a length of links that let him wander, but not far. She did not see the chain around her own ankle, because love is blind. - Sonya Hartnett

Seen in the light of evolution, biology is, perhaps, intellectually the most satisfying and inspiring science. Without that light it becomes a pile of sundry facts -- some of them interesting or curious but making no meaningful picture as a whole. - Theodosius Dobzhansky

I'm more interested in arousing enthusiasm in kids than in teaching the facts. The facts may change, but that enthusiasm for exploring the world will remain with them the rest of their lives. - Seymour Simon

With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion. - Steven Weinberg

If a writer is not an opponent of the government, he cannot be called as a writer, but just a disreputable lickspittle! - Mehmet Murat ildan

But what am I to do? I must have some drug, and reading isn't a strong enough drug now. By writing it all down (all? - no: one thought in a hundred) I believe I get a little outside it. That's how I'd defend it to H. But ten to one she'd see a hole in the defence. - C.S. Lewis

Life is like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters. - Seneca

I wanted to explore this idea that the bogey man in the closet is scary, but being a mother is scarier. - Joe Hill

A spirit is like a nucleus of an atom—invisible but infinite. - Debasish Mridha

We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure. - John Dryden

You can tell how popular a church is by who comes on Sunday morning.You can tell how popular the pastor or evangelist is by who comes on Sunday night.But you can tell how popular Jesus is by who comes to the prayer meeting. - minister from Australia or New Zealand...(Jim Cymbala)

Chess, I never thought that I will beat somebody on chess. I just thought that I'm too stupid to play chess, but it looks like the best in the class of math I beat him. He has in math as a result 5, I have 3 - Strange? I don't think so! - Deyth Banger

We are not subjects of an autocratic King, but are citizens of the country contributing to the advancement of our people who pay taxes out of their hard earned income. - Nilantha Ilangamuwa

It's a small world, but I wouldn't want to paint it. - Chic Murray (1919-1985).

We're fascinated by the words--but where we meet is in the silence behind them. - Ram Dass

The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget. - Thomas Szasz

DISARM ALL RAPISTSBut what will we doWith their legs? - Chocolate Waters

Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved,it would be much simpler, but much less magical - Trey Parker

Not every day is beautiful. But there is beauty in every day. - Lynda Cheldelin Fell

A person's true character lies somewhere until after you might have pressed the wrong button without knowing, then you'll realize that there are dogs in human form. - Michael Bassey Johnson

Try and fail, but never fail to try! - Jared Leto

Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.

A person can choose to stand against adversity, but most people will run from it before they come to terms with who they truly are, a wise person watches through adversity and follows the signs when it is their turn to stand. - Faith Brashear

I searched for my own heartand long after I had lost my wayin the days trailing past with their foliagein the aloof sky blue with distanceI thought I'd find my heartwhere I'd kept your eyes two brown butterfliesand I saw the swallows swoopand shadows starlings - Ingrid Jonker

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

The natural consequence of being connected to the depth, what I call the soul, or your essence, is the attribute of joy. - Tony Samara

The tragedy is not that we are alone, but that we cannot be. At times I would give anything in the world to no longer be connected by anything to this universe of men. - Albert Camus

Home does not have to be a place, but a feeling. Once one figures out how to find this feeling in multiple places they will always feel at home with them self. - Christian Latham

Not even a hand-stitched suit could hide a body gone ruinously to seed. I was tempted to offer some fashion advice, but I didn't think he'd welcome the news that this year, bellies are being worn inside the trousers - Val McDermid

What we get when we turn pro is we find our power. We find our will and our voice and we find our self-respect. We become who we always were but had, until then, been afraid to embrace and live out. - Steven Pressfield, Turning Pro

Take your victories, whatever they may be, cherish them, use them, but don't settle for them. - Mia Hamm

Everybody dies, but great souls ressurects in our memories. - Michael Bassey Johnson

Ego, Identity and Self - the 3 concepts of one's creation that defines them entirely. Have an Ego, for without one, there is nothing but self-doubt. Have an Identity, for without one, there is nothing but an empty shell. Understand your 'Self,' for if you don't, then who or what are you? - Lionel Suggs

Awakening to the people's nature for a person brings sadness and not happiness, for it is very much like glowing of a bulb from outside for others but inside own feeling the burning sensation. - Anuj Somany

Speaking the truth is the main attribute of a pure hearted person. - Eraldo Banovac

Nature suffers the most but never complains. Flowers never forget to bloom and beautify the world. - Debasish Mridha

It's something that this country hasn't had to deal with. But there's going to be a whole new generation that doesn't know their father. It's almost selfish of us to die. They train us as warriors. But they don't teach us how to take the pain away. - Jim Sheeler

Success is transient. Failure makes us diligent. But yearning to succeed is constant. - Debasish Mridha

Faith and freedom is great, but it gets nowhere without faith in freedom. - A.E. Samaan

Be so strong that no one can ignore you. By blaming others you never win, but you do lose to your conscience again and again. - Debasish Mridha

The secret of happiness is not doing what we like but in liking what we do. - J.M. Coetzee

There isn't any questioning the fact that some people enter your life, at the exact point of need, want or desire - it's sometimes a coincendence and most times fate, but whatever it is, I am certain it came to make me smile. - Nikki Rowe

The best cure for a stick up your butt is a dog to play fetch with. - Ryan Lilly

Trust is the base for all relations. If it breaks, then it’s not easy to rejoin. It’s very easy to say ‘I don’t trust you’, but the pain these words cause is immense. - Faraaz Kazi

If you want to be clever, that's fine, but being wise is not about being right all the time, it is about acquiring understanding. - R.A.Delmonico

Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry. - Charles Baudelaire

Everywhere I looked, hope existed - but only as some kind of green shoot in the midst of struggle. It was a theological concept, not a spiritual practice. Hope, I began to realize, was not a state of life. It was at best a gift of life. - Joan D. Chittister

Being locked up is one thing, but to have no concept of confinement, to be ignorant of its terms and never understand that struggle is useless - that's what hell must be like. - David Sedaris

Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity. - Unknown

A fortunate few may find...their work to be a source of love, but it is also everyone’s right to find love elsewhere. - Miya Tokumitsu

God may not give us what we want but He surely blesses us with what we need. - Ashbeel Roy

But I was brought up on convent morals and paternal nationalism, I was getting bogged down in contradictions. - Simone de Beauvoir

As prayer without faith is but a beating of the air, so trust without prayer [is] but a presumptuous bravado. He that promises to give, and bids us trust His promises, commands us to pray, and expects obedience to his commands. He will give, but not without our asking. - Thomas Lye

What is birthday, but a celebration of death. - Aphole

It is nice to be important but it is more important to be nice - Fela Durotoye

Because of the past, so many people are living in the past! No one is free from the past, but we are free to choose to move from the past into the present or stay in the past, though we live in the present! - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

I got a good heart but my attitude gat people thinking I'm evil - Genereux Philip

The human spirit collapses not when it is deprived of food but when it is denied a dream.- , LifeBeyondNumbers - Andy Paula

Most people want to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch. - Robert Orben

Success comes to those who are aware of failure but are success conscious - Seyi Ayoola

But you want a placid pond, a glassy surface to reflect your own casual desires and nothing more. You will never fathom the depths of my savage ocean. - Sherri Gaillard

The future is not a result of choices among alternative paths offered by the present, but a place that is created - created first in the mind and will, created next in activity. - John Schaar

Life sure gives us serious lessons, but I refuse to sit down and take notes. I can pretty well do that walking! - Marie Abanga

We must also teach science not as the bare body of fact, but more as human endeavor in its historic context—in the context of the effects of scientific thought on every kind of thought. We must teach it as an intellectual pursuit rather than as a body of tricks. - Isidor Isaac Rabi

The test of an author is not to be found merely in the number of his phrases that pass current in the corner of newspapers...but in the number of passages that have really taken root in younger minds.

To Thales the primary question was not what do we know, but how do we know it. - Aristotle

There are other grounds for believing that gays and lesbians should be respected and protected from oppression: their right to privacy and freedom of actionand expression; the "victimless" nature of homosexual relations; and the many valuable contributions that gays and lesbians make to society. - Simon LeVay

We are told that people stay in love because of chemistry, or because they remain intrigued with each other, because of many kindnesses, because of luck. But part of it has got to be forgiveness and gratefulness. - Ellen Goodman

People are strange: They are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a major matter like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to notice. - Charles Bukowski

A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold. - Ogden Nash

The weight of God's love for humanity cannot be determined. But felt with a grateful heart. - David Nii Sowah Kobbina Adjei

Light's all very well, brothers, but it's not easy to live with. - Mikhail Zoshchenko

Loosers want it but only through the easy way. If action taking were like reading a story book, loosers would only love to open the picture pages - Israelmore Ayivor

For a moment David was tempted to think that perhaps there were no good people at all outside concentration camps, but then he reminded himself of the sailor and Angelo and the English people who might have been ignorant but were certainly not bad. - Anne Holm

I can always be distracted by love, but eventually I get horny for my creativity. - Gilda Radner

All philosophies, if you ride them, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others. - Samuel Butler

His heart was like a battered guitar; worn and scuffed from a life spentout on the road, but still capableof bringing forth beautiful music. - John Mark Green

Hate is not the opposite of love but indifference. Art is beautiful; the opposite of it is indifference, not ugliness. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life it is indifference, not death. - Ane Krstevska

But no one can rid himself of the preaching clergyman. He is the bore of the age, the old man whom we Sinbads cannot shake off, the nightmare that disturbs our Sunday's rest, the incubus that overloads our religion and makes God's service distasteful. - Trollope Anthony 1815-1882

Stuffed deer heads on walls are bad enough, but it’s worse when you see them wearing dark glasses, having streamers around their necks and a hat on their antlers. Because then you know they were enjoying themselves at a party when they were shot. - Ellen DeGeneres

The church trembled and the hail hammered the roof, but his words glided in the air, joyful and bright like the birds at the cliffs. They floated freely around one another without colliding and the wind carried them high up into heaven. - Fridik Erlings

You become better not by competing with someone else but by improving your awareness. - Debasish Mridha

We can't choose our blood, but we can choose those who run importance in our lives. - Alina Baker

In this world, people actually don't live a life for themselves but usually live a life for someone they love. - Vinayak

Creating back doors to hack in to secure devices will not only undermine consumer confidence in technology but most importantly empower cyber criminals and totalitarian regimes. - Arzak Khan

I was planning a death, not a burglary, but in many ways that just made it easier. Taking a life was, in my experience, a damned sight less complicated than taking jewels from a hidden strongbox. - Michael McClung

Knowledge is always there but wisdom is very rare. - Debasish Mridha

Indeed the dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution, is one of those pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into common places, but which all experience refutes. - John Stuart Mill

I wouldn't underrate the power of regret. It doesn't feel good... But it's hard to learn anything important without it. - Joe Hill

It may be that DMT makes us able to perceive what the physicist call "dark matter" - the 95 per cent of the universe's mass that is known to exist but that at present remains invisible to our senses and instruments. - Graham Hancock

A great sports car that goes from 0-60 in 3.9 seconds is just a fact. To the wrong audience, it’s irrelevant. But to the right audience, it’s a passion. - David Brier

Any foolish boy can stamp on a beetle, but all the professors in the world cannot make a beetle. - Arthur Schopenhauer

A butterfly has landed on a patch of milk parsley. Wings held vertically so it’s not going anywhere - for the time being. Once he would have leant across and seized it. Now he’ll let it fly. - Lucille Turner

We returned to our palaces, these Kingdoms, but no longer at ease here in the old dispensation, with an alien people clutching their gods. I should be glad of another death. - T.S. Eliot

Kita butuh Islam ramah bukan Islam marah - Abdurrahman Wahid

Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found. - James Russell Lowell

I am a humble but very earnest seeker after truth. - Mahatma Gandhi

The risk I took was calculated, but, man, am I bad at math! - Unknown

I don't mined being lied to, but what ever you do never betray me - pikmin100xx

Imagine how boring life would be if we were all the same. My idea of a perfect world is one in which we appreciate each other's differences; one in which we are all equal but definately not the same. - Barbra Streisand

Marketing is a fashionable term. The sales manager becomes a marketing vice president. But a gravedigger is still a gravedigger even when it is called a mortician - only the price of the burial goes up. - Peter Drucker

Do you think people love having jobs, Sylvia asks Peter in because they offer a condoned but false responsibility that masks, for at least eight hours a day, true responsibility? - David Bajo

Follow your heart; you will fall in love but not in ditch. - Debasish Mridha

You may be born thousands of years from now, but over the boundaries of time I am sending you my love and wishing you a joyful and wonderful life. - Debasish Mridha

If librarianship is the connecting of people to ideas – and I believe that is the truest definition of what we do – it is crucial to remember that we must keep and make available, not just good ideas and noble ideas, but bad ideas, silly ideas, and yes, even dangerous or wicked ideas. - Graceanne A. Decandido

Does not people's preoccupation these days with drugs, alcohol, medication and self deception prove that the truth not only hurts, but it is torture to bear? - James Turner

I wanna love you...but everything i did to you recall me of who i can become and it always keeps me away from you ... - shivangi lavaniya

Time will do his own drawing upon us but we will do our own drawing upon time as well! - Mehmet Murat ildan

So often I'm like, No, thanks, to all of that stuff, just give me the room to exist both in the shit and stars . . . We have to fight to be understood as being distinct and incongruent. But I think it is worth fighting for. - Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah

It doesn't matter if people doesn't know that you do a good thing nor the right thing. But he nor she must know your expression of love. - Olivia Sinaga

Knowing is important, but understanding is essential for wisdom. - Debasish Mridha M.D.

i know this is love "" but how can be you so sure "" can't you see I'm alone, suffering nd it really hurts , I'm dying everyday a little bit , tell me any other disease where u face all this nd it has no cure buddy , I'm trapped - jagvir ji

Meditation, practiced individually and as a family, helps with a different type of peace. It is not a calm absent of noise and confusion but a calm that persists in the very center of the noise and the chaos. Ten minutes daily can transform your life. - Ann Brasco

Too many people are endowed with a feeling of entitlement, but born without God-given empathy. - C. JoyBell C.

If you fail to treat the current time you have wisely and with care, it’ll judge you tomorrow harshly since it came to you but you mistreated and abused it. - Assegid Habtewold

No person, relationship, or religion should complete you. They can enhance whatever is already there, but completion of the self comes from within, not from anything beyond that. - Pamela Morris

The greatest requirement placed on fallen humanity was not one of responsibility but one of relationship. (The Lonesome God) - Jonathan R. Walton

How you spend your time is more important than how you spend your money. Money mistakes can be corrected, but time is gone forever. - David Norris

Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too. - Richard M. Nixon

...and the day will come...Maybe not tomorrow maybe not next week but it will come nevertheless, when you awaken and realise, it just a foolishly beautiful dream... - Virginia Alison

Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same. - Pearl Buck

Most of the time when you laugh, it's because something is amiss - clumsy or wrong or sad - but when you laugh at a kitten, you laugh of pure joy. - Laura Amy Schlitz

He who imagines he can do without the world deceives himself much; but he who fancies the world cannot do without him is still more mistaken. - François de La Rochefoucauld

When we think carefully about the past, we get to know and understand not just what happened in the past but what really went into things that happened in the past. - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

There are lives I can imagine without children but none of them have the same laughter & noise. - Brian Andreas

Love is not about feeling safe and secure; it's about scaring the pressure out of yourself but pushing forward anyway, because you know it's worth it. - Auliq Ice

America's present need is not heroics, but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution, but restoration. - Warren G. Harding

[Drink] provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance. - William Shakespeare

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

Just as when we come into the world, when we die we are afraid of the unknown. But the fear is something from within us that has nothing to do with reality. Dying is like being born: just a change. - Isabel Allende

Occasionally he stumbled over the truth, but hastily picked himself up and hurried on as if nothing had happened. - Winston S. Churchill

There's no short-cut in life but with right knowledge, you can fast-track things to come to pass. - Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

But here, two thousand miles from home, there was a real shipwreck, a real hope. A choice big enough to change our lives forever. - Gordon Korman

The man who has received a benefit ought always to remember it, but he who has granted it ought to forget the fact at once. - Demosthenes

But as in ethics, evil is a consequence of good, so, in fact, out of joy is sorrow born. - Edgar Allan Poe

Be the lighthouse that bears the torment of the storm, but never forget to show the saving lights of life. - Debasish Mridha

Oh Tigger, where are your manners?""I don’t know, but I bet they’re having more fun than I am. - A.A. Milne

We rise, we fall.Life is a lesson.But, if not lived with the heart,holds no depth, no meaning.We must feel pain, to feel the joy, to feel the pain, and so on, so forth.It requires great courage.I try with all my mightto hold gratitude in the lesson.Thank you universe for showing mefor teaching me. - Akiroq Brost

I homeschool my children not to prepare them for tests but to prepare them for life. - Tamara L. Chilver

If you don't get any motivation from your team, there is nothing wrong with those you lead but your form of leadership. - Unarine Ramaru

This town of churches and dreams; this town I thought I would lose myself in, with its backward ways and winding roads leading to nowhere; but, I found myself instead. -Magic in the Backyard (excerpt from American Honey) - Kellie Elmore

The incurable sufferer is given very little opportunity to be proud of his suffering and to consider it ennobling rather than degrading" so that "he is not only unhappy, but also ashamed of being unhappy. - Viktor E. Frankl

It only takes one minute to find a really good book, but it can give you a lifetime of memories when you read a really good book that leaves you with lasting impression. - Nahisha McCoy

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others. - Robert Louis Stevenson

Hatred does not cease in this world by hating, but by not hating; this is an eternal truth. - Buddha

Ultimate Truth- "You are not born with success, but you've born to success - Sivaprakash Sidhu

Human beings can reach such desperate solitude that they may cross a boundary beyond which words cannot serve, and at such moments there is nothing left for them but to bark. - Anaïs Nin

Many people could say things in a cutting way, Nanny knew. But Granny Weatherwax could listen in a cutting way. She could make something sound stupid just by hearing it. - Terry Pratchett

There is no remedy for love but to love more."- - Henry David Thoreau

So, as a seventh grader,no, you weren't friends with people you didnt like. But sometimesyou also werent friends with people you did like, which was complicated, and which didnt make any sence if you tried to explain it. Sometimes things just changed. Thats where the sadness came in. - Lauren Myracle

You don’t need them. It’s that simple. But for some reason it’s complex. It’s difficult. It’s dangerous. We can’t seem to fathom it. - Dominic Riccitello

…love is by definition freeand if he choose to gowhen I would have him stayperhaps I'll die a bitbut I'd rather sothan taste his absent minded kissand lie uneasy in a masked embrace - Lenore Kandel

But how can the characters in a play guess the plot? We are not the playwright, we are not the producer, we are not even the audience. We are on the stage. To play well the scenes in which we are "on" concerns us much more than to guess about the scenes that follow it. - C.S. Lewis

Be loving but bold, be kind but not cold. - Debasish Mridha

A wise man looks upon men as he does on horses; all their comparisons of title, wealth, and place, he consider but as harness.

Let's assume that each person has an equal opportunity, not to become equal, but to become different. To realize whatever unique potential of body, mind and spirit he or she possesses. - John Fischer

It takes hundreds of nuts to hold a car together, but it takes only one of them to scatter it all over the highway. - Evan Esar

Its not the type of pencil but the artist's skill that matters. - Srinivas Shenoy

People come and people go, but it's rare that one makes enough of an impact in life, that others will read as history. - Auliq Ice

In life things get complicated, but it works out eventuallyIt always does - Essa Alam

I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't. - Jules Renard

People used to recordings believed every piece of music had a definitive sound, its emotional context trapped in amber, a butterfly pinned to a board; beautiful, but dead. Live music was just that. Alive. - Tanya Huff

When I am in nature, my heart dances with butterflies and sings along with flowers. - Debasish Mridha

The purpose of relationship is not to have another who might complete you, but to have another with whom you might share your completeness. - Neale Donald Walsch

All he had was nothing, but that was something, and now it had been taken away. - Terry Pratchett

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

I'm simpley one hell of a butler. - Sebastian Michealis

A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world. - John Locke

I don't have a girlfriend. But I do know a woman who'd be mad at me for saying that. - Mitch Hedberg

Pride is a human nature and it's good for people to be proud of themselves, achievements, etc. but too much of anything is not healthy. Humble is pride exhibited through humility, so be humble and prideful about being humble. - Uzoma Nnadi

I try to make the music give people a chance to become engrossed with what they hear enough to possibly experience things they've probably experienced on their own but don't normally let themselves go so as to feel them fully. - Oliver

What kind of people?"The dead kind. The still-walking-around kind. The reeking, stinking, rotting-from-the-inside-out kind. Toothy and grinning, nasty with the dark and the dust of abandoned strip mines. But none of that was the whole truth. They were more than that. - page 135 - Brenna Yovanoff

I'm a realist, but sometimes I find myself floating in fantasy. - Brittany Perloff

He thinks in secret, and it comes to pass: environment is but a looking glass. - James Allen

But it is clear that no political activity can be encouraged by saying that progress is natural and inevitable; that is not a reason for being active, but rather a reason for being lazy. - G.K. Chesterton

Replying to the tributes paid to him at a testimonial dinner, Herbert Bayard Swope said; "I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure. Try to please everybody."

When we can say "no" not only to things that are wrong and sinful, but also to things pleasant, profitable, and good which would hinder and clog our grand duties and our chief work, we shall understand more fully what life is worth, and how to make the most of it.

Material wealth do not last forever, but that which probably lasts forever is the wealth of intelligence and creativity. - Michael Bassey Johnson

A dream, a wild dream of removing ourselves from the cares and sorrows of this miserable world and creating a world of our own. A long shot, yes, but who’s to say it can’t happen? - Paul Austerter

There's a beginning to every story but there's never a story that begins the same. - B.K Laurel

The greatest victory comes not from winning against enemies but from winning over one’s self. - Debasish Mridha

But when nothing in your life happens in a positive frame, it is difficult to think positively and hope for the best. - Faraaz Kazi

Importance is not in ‘discharge’ (of karmas) that occurs; but it is in the contemplation (dhyan) within at that time in effect that is important. - Dada Bhagwan

Rejoice not at thine enemy's fall - but don't rush to pick him up either. - Jewish Proverb

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe... Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end. - H. L. Mencken

But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise. - William Shakespeare

Light shines but why do many souls desire to stay in darkness?. - Lailah Gifty Akita

It is ironic that we are particular about flushing out all the dirt through the Drain, but we continue to retain a lot of it in our Brain. - RVM

I am Not independent But I am dependent to Christ. - Dariush Youkhaneh

But the problem is to make the soul into a monster - Arthur Rimbaud

We are always swimming in the ocean of love, but most of the time, we just don't realize it. - Debasish Mridha

I never said I love you because I knew he would understand it differently. I loved him, and I still do, but it was as a chapter. It wasn’t as a fairytale ending. - Dominic Riccitello

The danger from computers is not that they will eventually get as smart as men, but that we will meanwhile agree to meet them halfway."

A novel is a hearty meal, but poems are the Belgian chocolates of the bookshelf. You can pick one and linger over it. Savour the aroma, the taste, the melting texture, the sweet craving it leaves behind! Or you can scoff down as many as you can eat. It’s up to you. - Vicky Arthurs

Life writes the poetry, but it will always call for witnesses and scribes alike to tattoo its echoes upon the ghosts of trees. - Ged Thompson ~Poet

Our problem right now is that we're so specialized that if the lights go out, there are a huge number of people who are not going to know what to do. But within every dystopia there's a little utopia. - Margaret Atwood

We are all searching for love, some at the bottom of a bottle, some at the casino, some in the eyes of a new lover. The more we search outside ourselves, we more desperate we become. We suffer not because love's unavailable, but because we are not looking in the right place. - Vironika Tugaleva

Meat may taste good, but the guilt of eating it tastes far worse. - Evan Baldonado

Beauty often depends on not how you look but on who you are. - Debasish Mridha

Jean-Baptiste Say may have coined the term 'entrepreneur' but he totally missed the opportunity to put it on a t-shirt and sell it. - Ryan Lilly

It will all stop someday, but not for billions of years. Many billions. Even the stars run down, you know. Entropy must increase. - Isaac Asimov

Points of views that are expressed on Twitter don’t intend to offend, but rather defend and open the conversation up to everyone so that no one has to pretend. - Germany Kent

A weed is but an unloved flower. - Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Numberless are the world's wonders, but noneMore wonderful than man. - Sophocles

We are afraid of losing what we have, whether it's our life or our possessions and property. But this fear evaporates when we understand that our life stories and the history of the world were written by the same hand. - Paulo Coelho

Discouragement is not the absence of adequacy but the absence of courage. - Neal A. Maxwell

I loved you, I trusted you, but you lied to me, deceived my heart and poisoned my life.Now I'm corrupt, I hurt people all in rage of you, but I can't help it.I'm nothing to you now, never was, but your acting still made it hurt. So thanks to you, I hate you too, but my heart will always cry. - blank text

A little philosophy inclineth men's minds toward atheism, but depth of philosophy bringeth men's minds about again to religion. - Sir Francis Bacon

(Her husband's departure ...) had picked Mildred up by the hair and dropped her down at the doorstep of insanity.From "Butterfly on F street - Edward P. Jones

The names of entities that have the power to constrain us change with time. Convention and authority are replaced by infirmity. But my attitude toward them has not changed. Has not changed. - Cormac McCarthy

Relationships of trust depend on our willingness to look not only to our own interests, but also the interests of others.

I think my degrees in Theology and Psychology qualified me for nothing, but probably prepared me for everything. - Brooke Bida

I live on shameless flattery...and vodka...but the two usually go hand in hand. - Vicktor Alexander

The fault lies with us, and only us. It's not fate, not genetics, not bad luck, and it's definitely not Mom and Dad. Ultimately it's us and our choices...but the most powerful spectacular thing is that the solution rests with us as well. - Louise Penny

Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years. - Henry Ward Beecher

It doesn't matter that Cathy was what I have called a monster. Perhaps we can't understand Cathy, but on the other hand we are capable of many things in all directions, of great virtues and great sins. And who in his mind has not probed the black water? - John Steinbeck

But to go to school in a summer morn,O! It drives all joy away;Under a cruel eye outworn,The little ones spend the dayIn sighing and dismay. - William Blake

Imagination should be used, not to escape reality but to create it. - Colin Wilson

In the universe, nothing is either beautiful or ugly, but our perception and thinking makes it so. - Debasish Mridha

It is not the class you come from, but that with which you carry yourself that matters most. - Carl W. Brand

Real love, true love is not like the shooting star that makes you go, "ooh, aah". Real, true love is like the constancy of the sun that comes up slowly every morning - sometimes too hot; sometimes hidden behind the clouds, but always there. Therefore, often take for granted. - Lucille Anderson

Maybe we weren't at the Last Supper, but we're certainly going to be at the next one. - Bella Abzug

People forget how fast you did a job -- but they remember how well you did it.

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

I like being a woman in a man's world. After all, men can't wear dresses, but we can wear the pants. - Whitney Houston

The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings. - Frank Lloyd Wright

An external motive can never Inspire you. It will only Motivate you to move, but you will soon stop. Seek Inspiration!- - RVM

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've got nothing to do today but smile. - Paul Simon

The best game ever played was in Monday 3/21/2016, 2 games were played for 40 minutes class sport and in both I win and I and my friend we were going on the 3 game, but unfortunately we didn't finished it. But from here it can be see that I'm the winner! - Deyth Banger

The greatest tragedy is not death but a life without love - Robin Dabhi

Because if it is to spite her,' Biddy pursued, 'I should think -but you know best- that might be better and more independently done by caring nothing for her words. And if it is to gain her over, I should think -but you know best- she was not worth gaining over. - Charles Dickens

gratitudenoun \ˈgra-tə-ˌtüd, -ˌtyüd\ 1. The word thrown in your face by people who covet what you want and believe that your lack of contentment is a sin. Often, these people believe success is what you have already and obtaining anything else is optional, but not required. - Shannon L. Alder

If you wait for a cake to be given to you so you will be happy- then you will be happy when someone gives you a cake. But if you buy a cake (or bake one) for yourself so you will be happy, you have found the way of happiness. - C. JoyBell C.

It is not the beauty of nature, but it is our dream-filled actions that create our futures. - Debasish Mridha

I know I could be Anything,But i rather Be Myself. - Look Im A Cat

I can tell you I love you as many times as you can stand to hear it, but all it does is remind us that love is not enough. Not even close. - Mark Andrus

America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up. - Oscar Wilde

Everyone isn't going to embrace your value, but that doesn't mean you need to go and change your price. - Stephan Labossiere

When people hurt you over and over, think of them like sandpaper. They may scratch and hurt you a bit, but in the end you end up polished and they end up useless. - Andy Biersack

The practice of cultivating altruism has a beneficial effect not only from the religious point of view but also from the mundane point of view, not only for long term spiritual development but even in terms of immediate rewards. - Dalai Lama XIV

The only difference between a human and animal is that a Human can worship God but Animal can't. Fulfill the purpose for which actually you have taken birth. - Aakash Sharma

The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars. - Jack Kerouac

The fact that you have access to the microphone doesn't mean you know everything. There are others listening to you, who know more things than you do, but do not have access to the platform to say it. - Israelmore Ayivor

You learn something valuable from all of the significant events and people, but you never touch your true potential until you challenge yourself to go beyond imposed limitations. - Roy T. Bennett

People live their lives bound by what they accept as correct and true. That’s how they define Reality. But what does it mean to be correct or true? Merely vague concepts… Their Reality may all be a mirage. Can we consider them to simply be living in their own world, shaped by their beliefs? - Masashi Kishimoto

Then, people expect women to be that easy to understand, and women are mad at themselves for not being that simple- When in actuality, women ARE complicated. Women are multifaceted. Not because women are crazy . But because people are crazy, and women happen to be people. - Tavi Gevinson

Reproductive freedom is critical to a whole range of issues. If we can’t take charge of this most personal aspect of our lives, we can’t take care of anything. It should not be seen as a privilege or as a benefit, but a fundamental human right. - Faye Wattleton

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

I'm a cactus but I will only offer you flowers. - Huseyn Raza

When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them. - Rodney Dangerfield

No one is without problems in the universe, but people differ how they see, feel and treat it" - Mohamed Osman Abbasheikh

Peace is not found by seeking it but in simply letting it be. - Janni Styles

What can you expect from a stupid government? Anything good? Anything useful, anything clever? Anything just? No! You can expect nothing but stupidity, nothing but mistakes, nothing but injustices and tragedies! All a stupid government can do is to produce wrecks and debris! - Mehmet Murat ildan

Whoever in discussion adduces authority uses not intellect but memory. - Leonardo da Vinci

Maybe some type of pain is inevitable, but still, that doesn’t mean that you should always let it control your emotions. - Mircea Popister

Many surround themselves with luminaries, but in so doing they dull their own sparkle. If you want to shine bright, look to the heavens and see how the brightest star always stands apart from those lesser shining stars. - Stephen Richards

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

At one point in my life I was a disappointment. I have popped pills, drugs, cheated, lied, and killed. But, at this moment in my life, I am very successful because not one of those things describes my character. - Stacy Snapp-Killian aka StacyK

We travel not just to see the beauty of new places but to see our own beauty in a new environment. - Debasish Mridha

Pure Soul and circumstances; there are only these two; but the disturbance of egoism does not allow it to be at peace. - Dada Bhagwan

The plain fact is that education is itself a form of propaganda - a deliberate scheme to outfit the pupil, not with the capacity to weigh ideas, but with a simple appetite for gulping ideas ready-made. The aim is to make 'good' citizens, which is to say, docile and uninquisitive citizens. - H.L. Mencken

We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose. - Charles Baudelaire

Everywhere man blames nature and fate, yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and passions, his mistakes and weaknesses. - Democritus

A mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be lighted. - Plutarch

YOU CAN TRUST YOUR LOVE ONE, BUT NOT EVERYONE AROUND THEM. - Marlon Roxas

Readers love fantasy, but we need horror. Smart horror. Truthful horror. Horror that helps us make sense of a cruelly senseless world. - Brian K. Vaughan

In order to become great we must allows others to become great before us, and not be envious of their greatness but rather rejoice in it. So that when we become great, there will be others who shall rejoice in ours. - George Mercado

The vast majority of us imagine ourselves as like literature people or math people. But the truth is that the massive processor known as the human brain is neither a literature organ or a math organ. It is both and more. - John Green

The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action. - John Dewey

God pays, but not weekly wages. - Polish Proverb

When you blame others, what you are really saying is what is inside of you can’t be fixed, so you have no control of your own happiness. Therefore, you have made the conscience choice to give focus and fuel to a bad situation that will take you nowhere and give you nothing, but ignorance and pain. - Shannon L. Alder

true giving lies not in receiving but in giving - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Now we have so many methods of communication: Land phone, Fax, Pager, Mobile phone, Texting, E mail, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram...and the list keeps growing.......But Communication itself has not improved! - Ankala V Subbarao

It is deep winter with shivering cold air, but my heart is dancing with joy and spring flowers. - Debasish Mridha

The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime. - Mignon McLaughlin

A real man does not beg forgiveness but earn it. - M.F. Moonzajer

What we touch with our fingers is false. What we feel through our perceptions is real. What we see through our eyes is an illusion, but what we see through our heart is real. - Debasish Mridha

If men could learn from history, what lessons it might teach us. But passion and party blind our eyes, and the light which experience gives us is a lantern on the stern, which shines only on the waves behind us. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I AM IGNORANT of absolute truth. But I am humble before my ignorance and therein lies my honor and my reward. - Kahlil Gibran

The best way to deal with your past is not to avoid thinking about it or trying to forget it, but to accept it happened, forgive yourself and move on. - Karon Waddell

By some tear in the wish fabric, or the casting of a prayer, or the falling of some lonely star, the enchanted garden was not lost to me, but lost in me. - Ansul Noor

Me too. Do you want to meet me at the golf course after you get off work tomorrow? Then we can see each other all afternoon.""That sounds good."Which it did. But even if she'd said "Do you want to meet me at the surface of the sun?" I'd still have agreed to it. - Mindi Scott

Think wrongly if you please, but in all cases think for yourself. - Doris Lessing

Never ever play with the feelings of others. If you think you have played with the feelings of another and have won, you better think again — you might of won the game but you surely may have lost that person forever. - Angie karan

Little Joe was still behind him. Eli could feel it. He wanted to look back, but he couldn’t. The tears were too close. If he were Fancy, he’d turn around and kick and buck and moo and do just about anything to keep his calf near. But Eli wasn’t Fancy; he was a farmer. - Sandra Neil Wallace

I'm not judging people, I'm judging their actions. It's the same type of distinction that I try to apply to myself, to judge, but not be judgmental. - Jeff Melvoin

We care about moral issues, nobility, decency, happiness, goodness—the issues that matter in the real world, but which can only be addressed, in their purity, in fiction. - Orson Scott Card

You can't teach a child what to dream, but you can teach them how to dream. #imagination - K. Lamb

When Albert Einstein told you to hide your source, he wasn't giving you a deliberate advice to conceal the root in which you're growing, but was to conceal the root from the eyes of people that will dare to uproot it. - Michael Bassey Johnson

But I assure you, a government that is willing to put their own children in danger, their own future, just to see their potential, is twisted. We do not grab babies, newborns, and throw them out of windows just to see if they sprout wings. - S. Elizabeth Dover

We are unique not by comparison but by compassion (the moral of my book The Cheetah and the Snail) - Shriram

Everybody's a self-made man; but only the successful ones are ever willing to admit it.

Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, Is the immediate jewel of their souls: Who steals my purse steals trash; 'tis something, nothing; 'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands; But he that filches from me my good name Robs me of that which not enriches him And makes me poor indeed. - William Shakespeare

He conquered with his weapons, but was conquered by his vices.

But the witness of the substitutionary atonement of Jesus is that God's most difficult promise has been kept. - Sheila Walsh

I have people I call friends; but how many will be there till the end?When death comes knocking at my door; will there be someone there I can call my friend? - Jordan Hoechlin

The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love. - W. Somerset Maugham

the ultimate aim of government is not to rule, or restrain by fear, nor to exact obedience, but to free every man from fear that he may live in all possible security... In fact the true aim of government is liberty. - Baruch Spinoza

Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself. If thou find anything questionable there, use the commentary of a severe friend rather than the gloss of a sweet lipped flatterer; there is more profit in a distasteful truth than in deceitful sweetness. - Francis Quarles

I'm now a bit anti-Jewish since my last visit to the synagogue, but my atheism does not necessarily reject religion. - Jack Steinberger

Happiness is a shadow. If you chase it, it moves further away. But if you turn to make others happy, it will follow you. Make others Happy and be Happy.- - RVM

But bid life seize the present? It lives less in the present Than in the future always, And less in both together Than in the past. The present Is too much for the senses, Too crowding, too confusing— Too present to imagine. - Robert Frost

For God loved the world so much that he gave his one and only Son [Stalin], so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life. God sent his Son into the world not to judge the world, but to save the world through him. - Austin 3:16

Just when the butterfly thought the world was over, it became a butterfly. - Anonymous

Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition. - Jacques Barzun

One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels. - Gustave Flaubert

A poor but confident man is as hard to find as a rich but shy man. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

It is with true love as with ghosts. Every one talks of it but few have seen it. - François de La Rochefoucauld

Vulnerability always comes with risks, but its rewards are deep. - Aisha Mirza

Here is the world, sound as a nut, perfect, not the smallest piece of chaos left, never a stitch nor an end, not a mark of haste, or botching, or second thought; but the theory of the world is a thing of shreds and patches. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

But this was different, as if some creature had risen from a corner of my cell and taken over every part of me. It swallowed meaning. I hadn't thought suffering would be like this, so ordinary, so dull, and so endless. - Robyn Cadwallader

No matter how strong you claim your self, but there is always a weak point, where you break & shatter like a glass.!! - Ridhdhesh Jivawala

The language of love is not words but feelings. - Debasish Mridha

Tell the truth about any situation & you are delivered from lack of progress, but become hypocritical or lying, and you may be in bondage for life. - Auliq-Ice

A butterfly does not return to a caterpillar after it is mature. We must learn to grow and evolve into a stronger, wiser and better version of ourselves. Life occurs in stages and taking a step at a time is key to learning and growing. - Kemi Sogunle

Change occurs slowly. Very often a legal change might take place but the cultural shift required to really accept its spirit lingers in the wings for decades. - Sara Sheridan

The purpose of reading is not to pass some final judgement on the text, but to engage with what it has to offer to me now. - Tim Parks

Don’t be afraid of change. Change happens for a reason. Roll with it. It won’t be easy, but it will be worth it. - Wilfred James Dolor

True education will shape your life, but if you ignore education you will be punished by your life. - Debasish Mridha

Prakruti [the relative self, innate nature] has opinions and may store them but we should stay in an opinion-free state. ‘We’ are separate and the relative self is separate from us. ‘We’ should play our part as a separate entity. We shouldn’t get involved with those problems. - Dada Bhagwan

The truth is not for all men but only for those who seek it. - Ayn Rand

The question why I don't shake hand with someone,A reason is Behind;Scumbags call it Attitude but they really don't know its actually the antimatter Waqas is composed of. - Waqas Bin Ehsan

Free people, remember this maxim: We may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.

I believe it to be true that dreams are the true interpreters of our inclinations; but there is art required to sort and understand them. - Michel de Montaigne

You are damaged and broken and unhinged. But so are shooting stars and comets. - Nikita Gill

And the fox said to the little prince: men have forgotten this truth, but you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed. - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

I choose not to fight against but to stand for. Not to go against but to go for. - O. Stephen Peart

What the sense feels, what the spirit perceives, is never an end in itself. But sense and spirit would like to persuade you that they are the end of all things: they are as vain as that. - Nietszche

It's not what we eat but what we digest that makes us strong; not what we gain but what we save that makes us rich; not what we read but remember that makes us learned; and not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity.

We are not good because of the good we do but we are good and so we do good. - Newton Gatambia

God gave you the sea, but you still have to fish for yourself. - Matshona Dhliwayo

Victory & failure are second things but at least you tried that's more important..!! - Ridhdhesh Jivawala

I often think of you all, one cannot do what one wants in life. The more you feel attached to a spot, the more ruthlessly you are compelled to leave it, but the memories remain, and one remembers - as in a looking glass, darkly - one's absent friends. - Vincent Van Gogh