Quotation Explorer - 'Ex'

Without the absolute truth, to know the truth value of our own existence is beyond our strengths/limits/possibilities. - Sorin Cerin

ADHERENT, n. A follower who has not yet obtained all that he expects to get. - Ambrose Bierce

#3530. That which does not appear to exist is to be regarded as if it did not exist.

#3547. A thing continues to exist as long as is usual with things of that nature.

The preparation of good food is merely another expression of art, one of the joys of civilized living… - Dione Lucas

Peace and love are just as contagious as anger and fear. Your mindset affects the people around you and perpetually changes the world. The question is - what kind of world are you creating? What new society are you thinking into existence? - Vironika Tugaleva

It is familiarity with life that makes time speed quickly. When every day is a step in the unknown, as for children, the days are long with gathering of experience . . . - George Gissing

Yes, content is king but excellence is his queen. ~ . - Onyi Anyado

Sex lies at the root of life, and we can never learn to reverence life until we know how to understand sex. - Havelock Ellis

Unless a man or woman has experienced the darkness of the soul he or she can know nothing of that transforming laughter without which no hint of the ultimate reality of the opposites can be faintly intuited.

It is with our judgments as with our watches; no two go just alike, yet each believes his own. - Alexander Pope

Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment. - George Santayana

Maimed, mad, and sexually different people were believed to possess supernatural powers by primal cultures' magico-religious thinking. For them, abnormality was the price a person had to pay for her or his extraordinary gift. - Gloria E. Anzaldúa

Everyone is a lonely victim of life's complexity. - Ted Dekker

Friendship is not a remedy for loneliness. Loneliness is part of our experience, and if we are looking for relief from loneliness in friendship, we are only going to frustrate the friendship. Friendship, camaraderie, intimacy, all those things, and loneliness lived together in the same experience. - Rich Mullins

Like most novelists, I like to do exactly the opposite of what I'm told. It's in my nature as a novelist. Novelists can't trust anything they haven't seen with their own eyes or touched with their own hands. (Jerusalem Prize acceptance speech, JERUSALEM POST, Feb. 15, 2009) - Haruki Murakami

AZRAEL:No pleasure, no rapture, no exquisite sin greater... than central air. - Kevin Smith

Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible. - Eugene Ionesco

Strategy without execution is hallucination. - Mike Roach

We can only forgive the world to the extent that we forgive ourselves for being in it. - Eric Micha'el Leventhal

Any belief worth embracing will stand up to the litmus test of scrutiny. If we have to qualify, rationalize, make exceptions for, or turn a blind eye to maintain a belief, then it may well be time to release that belief. - Laurie Buchanan, PhD

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time. - Jack London

Sex is an emotion in motion. - Mae West

Horizontal expansion loses the depth, though excessive depth that only provokes darkness is futile. Therefore a balance between depth and vastness is essential in learning - Priyavrat Thareja

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint. - Alexander Hamilton

All terrific but the people. THE PEOPLE. Everyone looks so exalted, or so wretched, or so spiffy, so funny, so splendid. If you are ever bored or blue, stand on the street corner for half an hour. - Maira Kalman

The world is divided into the ordinary and the extraordinary. The problem is deciding which is which. - Piero Scaruffi

Love is the will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth... Love is as love does. Love is an act of will -- namely, both an intention and an action. Will also implies choice. We do not have to love. We choose to love. - M. Scott Peck

Strive to follow your big dreams. If you fail, cherish the valuable experience gained during the process. There’s always a second time. - Yatin Patel

If my decision is wrong, at least I will have learned something new. There is always next time. - Sylvan Clarke

If you go in thinking that you're smarter than everyone else, you want in a learning very much. If you go in thinking, "I'd sure like to understand this better," you end up doing precisely that. - Alex Gibney

The extreme parts of time extremely forms all causes to the purpose of his speed. - William Shakespeare

Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it. - Richard Feynman

When our embarrassment level is exceeded by our desperation level, we are a good candidate for God's grace. - Peter Lord

When is bliss of the self (Samadhi) experienced? It is when one does not want anything, when all the tubers of one’s greed goes away, then the bliss of the self (Samadhi) is experienced. Give away, how much you give (your things to others), that much (happiness) will be yours ! - Dada Bhagwan

When it comes to politics, "the facts far exceed our curiosity.""...A few executives here and there read them. The rest of us ignore them for the good and sufficient reason that we have other things to do.... - Walter Lippmann

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

CALIFORNIA: From Latin 'calor', meaning "heat" (as in English 'calorie' or Spanish 'caliente'); and 'fornia', for "sexual intercourse" or "fornication." Hence: Tierra de California, "the land of hot sex."

I kiss her ghost, and sleep with the dust on her photograph, next to my bedside. - Anthony Liccione

It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do. There is no fun in doing nothing when you have nothing to do. Wasting time is merely an occupation then, and a most exhausting one. Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen. - Jerome K. Jerome

Argue not concerning God,…re-examine all that you have been told at church or school or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your soul… - Walt Whitman

My deservedness is more than your expectation. - Sushil pandey

Paulie smiled slightly at this, as profanity had always felt to him like a seal of understanding, a shortcut to extreme feeling that people used when they needed it most. - Kathleen Alcott

My question was:How did I go from merely seeing the dirty French Santa in a bar to being in his hotel room the next morning? And this presented me with an actual equation. How did one plus one equal old French Santa? - Augusten Burroughs

I had rather have a fool make me merry, than experience make me sad. - William Shakespeare

We need quiet time to examine our lives openly and honestly. . . spending quiet time alone gives your mind an opportunity to renew itself and create order.

We are not at the pinnacle of our power, of our existence. We have scrambled to the top of an ant-hill at the bottom of the world’s highest mountain. We have long way still to climb. - The Blue Mountain - G.R. Matthews

I can accept anything, except what seems to be the easiest for most people: the half-way, the almost, the just-about, the in-between. - Ayn Rand

There are always exquisite things and times to remind us of the original source of all beauty and love. - Jay Woodman

... the scriptures... when properly examined and rightly divided, do not portray Jesus as a poverty-stricken individual. On the contrary, Jesus is seen as a Man whose needs were met and who was regularly involved in meeting the needs of others. - Kenneth E. Hagin

Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness. - Eckhart Tolle

No m’lord. It wouldn’t be a secret army if we had seen it. My squire, who has not had the opportunity to be clearly informed about the presence of a secret army, has been ignorant of its existence. - Gary Edward Gedall

Admittedly, art is somewhat like spit. It does not repulse or even worry is while it is still inside of us, but once it exits our body, it becomes disgusting. - Ivan Brunetti

I have a dream: That everyone may experience a heaven on earth by their own whim. - Michael Brett Turner

The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur. - Vince Lombardi

The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction. - Jawaharlal Nehru

Love is not possession, it is acceptance of everything without intention. Fear is not possession, it is acceptance of everything without mention. The act of loving your fear, to nurture this insecurity for a greater purpose, is to accept the reality of ones expression. - James C. Emlund

You try to bring out the best in yourself so you can bring out the best in the person next to you. - Scott Van Pelt

Doing anything worthwhile will present challenges, but everyone who achieves their goal is an ordinary person who becomes extraordinary. - Joanne Van Leerdam

Importance of the random: keep brushing up against people, books, experiences we don't yet know what to do with. - Alain de Botton

Sometimes we focus too much on the lyrics that we forget to dance to the music. And sometimes we dance to the music and don't listen to the lyrics. Let the rhythm guide you. Let the lyrics inspire you. - Alexa Anderson

God put us here, on this carnival ride. We close our eyes never knowing where it'll take us next. - Carrie Underwood

There’s no question about freedom of speech when everyone thinks exactly the same and no one says anything out of the accepted norms. In this kind of climate, even the mildest questions sound like heresy, and the outcome is intolerance of other people’s beliefs, ideas, actions and freedoms. - Keith Harmon

My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a bonus."[The Science of Second-Guessing (New York Times Magazine Interview, December 12, 2004)] - Stephen Hawking

I almost think it is the ultimate destiny of science to exterminate the human race. - Thomas Love Peacock

I cannot call to mind a single instance where I have ever been irreverent, except toward the things which were sacred to other people. - Mark Twain

I found a word, and carefully placed it next to another. Soon I had a bridge and a life, like no other. - Tim Hollingworth

Is sex dirty? Only when it's being done right. - Woody Allen

What one has not experienced one will never understand in print.

I'm tough, ambitious and I know exactly what I want. - Madonna

The difference between greater people and greatest people is the "est" which stands for "extra mile". Extra steps give Extraordinary results; Extraordinary people do Extra things. - Israelmore Ayivor

Be you, love you. All ways, always. - Alexandra Elle

La tristesse se moque des gens qui croient que la victoire de l'amour existe - Lieve Duron

The exegetical foundations would appear to be weak, and one shouldn’t build huge theological edifices, no matter how splendid or consistent, on weak foundations. - Ben Witherington III

Pound it out, get it done, write every day. No excuses. Kerouac said you can’t wait for inspiration, you have to go after it with a club. Damn straight. You’ll sleep a lot better getting your word count in than another quick Twitter check or keeping up to date on the Kardashians. - Dan Alatorre

You have to pay for this view (onto which he looks while writing), so our expenses keep us pretty motivated to write. It's a vicious cycle. - Pat Conroy

Your life is a show and you're the star so don't let anyone walk on set and treat you like an extra. - Lucas Mascotto-Carbone

The sensation that allows you to experience the physical reality, when detached from the physical body allows you to realize life beyond the physical reality. - Roshan Sharma

Have no regrets in life because of the choices you make. Good or bad, they are a learning experience, to help you grow. The only regret in life, is to never make a choice at all. - James Hauenstein

Some fail to bear in mind that everyone is sentenced to death. Death is a treacherous virus that strikes randomly. The only truth is that nobody is going to make it out alive. We are all living on probation and our expiry date is indefinite. ( Living on probation ) - Erik Pevernagie

The simple record of three short years of active life has done more to regenerate and to soften mankind, than all the (investigations) disquisitions of philosophers and than all the exhortations of moralists. - William Edward Hartpole Lecky

The more you will able to trust yourself, the more joy and peace you will able to experience. - Debasish Mridha

The world will praise you one moment and defame you the next. So why should we care for praise or defamation? - Dada Bhagwan

In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration. - Ansel Adams

The thing about past love is that they exist, only in your fantasy as a fantasy. - Hafsa Shah

Good tells us that our agenda is the agenda of the person next to us. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

Love can be expressed in a myriad of different methods, but the most timeless and most treasured will always remain the classic love letter. - Auliq Ice

When you want to learn something, all the life experiences conspire in helping you to learn. - Utpal Vaishnav

So long as we exist, death is not with us; but when death comes, then we do not exist - Epicurus

I consider it an extremely dangerous doctrine, because the more likely we are to assume that the solution comes from the outside, the less likely we are to solve our problems ourselves. - Carl Sagan

And you asked why people always expected you to smile in photographs. And I told you it was because they hoped that in the future, there would be something to smile about - pleasefindthis

Adolescence is like a heavy rain. Even though you catch a cold from it, you still look forward to experiencing it once again.(From 'In Those Bygone Years, The Girl We All Went After' the novel) - Giddens Ko

It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done. - Samuel Smiles

There is a story I always tell my students...when I came for the 1st time to the US. I didn’t speak English (Only Spanish) & I saw on every door the word exit which in Spanish means Success = Exito. And then I said :No wonder Americans are winners ,every door they open leads to success - Pablo

It is not in the storm or in the strifeWe feel benumbed and wish to be nor more,But in the after-silence on the shoreWhen all is lost except a little life. - George Gordon Byron

Insanity is coasting through life in a miserable existence when you have a caged lion locked inside and the key to release it. - Morgan Freeman

Sexual role-play is the enactment of a highly imaginative and erotic psychodrama where the individual is given creative license to express the polar opposite qualities of their multifaceted personality; bringing a profound sense of psychological release and rejuvenation to those involved. - Miya Yamanouchi

If music be the food of love, play on; give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, the appetite may sicken, and so die. - William Shakespeare

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

Excuses are merely nails used to build a house of failure. - Habeeb Akande

Delayed, unexpressed appreciation is meaningless. The dead need no appreciation. The living do. - Srividya Srinivasan

Don't let yourself stagnate or reach a plateau. Keep learning, keep improving. Be open to change. Your ability to constantly raise the bar higher and set standards will help you evolve and take you to the next level. - Roopleen

An ordinary place turns into an extraordinary place when visited by a good music! Earthly place becomes celestial! - Mehmet Murat ildan

Don't just exist, live! - Nurudeen Ushawu

We enjoy warmth because we have been cold. We appreciate light because we have been in darkness. By the same token, we can experience joy because we have known sadness.

Gratitude is an excellent attitude which can lift you to a greater altitude if you put it on as a vesture. - S. E. Entsua-Mensah

Kindness is a currency that can cover a multitude of interpersonal debts. - George Alexiou

When you are in love nothing matters except the bliss of love. - Debasish Mridha

being genius does not necessarily means knowing it all or having the highest academic qualification but a persons ability to apply wisdom and common sense to common things in a distinctive manner and courageously exhibiting the latent deft to the admiration of the masses - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

To be a human being means to be lonely.To go on becoming a person means exploring new modes of resting in our loneliness. - Robert Hobson

As a leader, I am there to make the best decisions possible with the evidence at hand and to be able to justify that decision. If it goes wrong, we add to the evidence for making the next decision, but there is no reason for regretting failure, as failure is just the production of evidence. - Michael A. Wood Jr.

Never increase, beyond what is necessary, the number of entities required to explain anything. - William Ockham

Those that dare not to dream big are cowards, for they fear to expose the already great potentials embedded inside of them. - Auliq-Ice

Sometimes there is a microcosm and a macrocosm, and if you're dyslexic like me you can't tell the difference. - Bruce Bickford

I am choosing to flow with the current of life rather than lying in a tide pool experiencing the same things again and again. - Marilyn Barnicke Belleghem

Fear exists because we do not have faith. - Radhe Maa

The best sci-fi stories use the fantastical to remind us of the reality of who we are today, the hope of who we may become tomorrow, and the shame of who we were yesterday. - Julio Alexi Genao

Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel. - Bible

The artist must manage to make posterity believe that he never existed. - Gustave Flaubert

The strength of a woman far exceeds the brawn of a man. ~ - Lisa Antonio

To exploit living labour, capital must destroy dead labour which is still useful. Loving to suck warm young blood, it kills corpses. - Amadeo Bordiga

Perhaps it is the language that chooses the writers it needs, making use of them so that each might express a tiny part of what it is. - José Saramago

For none of us can ever express the exact measure of his needs or his thoughts or his sorrows; and human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars. - Gustave Flaubert

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread. - Alexander Pope

I exist as I am, that is enough. - Walt Whitman

Let us express love to lead and lead to love. - Debasish Mridha M.D.

Maslow said sex is the primary need. Does that mean pornstars spend more money in books than anyone else? - Daniel Marques

All life on earth is inextricably bound together in a web of mutual interdependence. - Marjorie Spiegel

Extend your loving and kind hands towards others. In return you will find that the whole universe will be kind to you. - Debasish Mridha

Opportunities come unexpected, Grab it and once lost is lost forever. - Nitesh Kammar

I mean, I don't think you're supposed to have sex with people you don't love. I know, I know, I know. People do it all the time. But I really think you're supposed to be a little bit in love with them. At least a tiny bit. - Sherman Alexie

Personally, I think, so what? Money's just a thing and things change. That's what I've found. One minute something's really there, right next to you, and you can cuddle up to it. The next it just melts away, like a Hershey's kiss. - Frank Cottrell Boyce

Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions. - Evan Esar

Who is doing this? Who am I? What is all this? Who is the doer? Who is the nimit (instrumental doer) of this? If all these remain present ‘at a time’ exactly the way it is, then that is considered shuddha upayog (pure focused applied awareness of the Self, the Soul). - Dada Bhagwan

Using the power of decision gives you the capacity to get past any excuse to change any and every part of your life in an instant. - Anthony Robbins

It takes strong, sound leadership, that correspondingly rare commodity, which is afflicted with neither an excess of pity nor callousness, to stand against the insipid tide of superficiality that is sweeping the world. - Tim Macartney-Snape

To some extent a life of celibacy is a picture of how all of us are to live, containing our passions for God’s purposes. - Eric Metaxas

The indifference, callousness, and contempt that so many people exhibit toward animals is evil first because it results in great suffering towards animals, and second because it results in an incalculably great impoverishment of human spirit. - Ashley Montagu

A whore is a whore is a whore.Except when he's something else completely.From the writings of King Helios Dayspring, High Priest of the Temple of the Sun - Belinda McBride

I may no explain you much about myself but we both have one thing in common & its tears. - Srinivas Shenoy

Excellent people are those, who choose to separate themselves from mediocrity. - Mark F. LaMoure

The love I have for you far exceeds all love I have given - Christina Oldenburg

If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner. - OMAR N. BRADLEY

To be of good quality, you have to excuse yourself from the presence of shallow and callow minded individuals. - Michael Bassey Johnson

All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest good will exert upon events in the political field. - Albert Einstein

I told her that I loved her again and she said, Me too..#HeartbreakerEgg on Bex – Book 2 Having it - Jamie Scallion

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Unless government appropriately regulates oil developments and holds oil executives accountable, the public will not trust them to drill, baby, drill. And we must! - Sarah Palin

Even the self-assured truth-finders and self-proclaimed freedom-fighters reject Truth. As admirable as such endeavors may be, they still only really want it so long as it to some extent confirms what they had already presumed to be true. - Criss Jami

I think the reward for conformity is that everyone likes you except yourself. - Rita Mae Brown

Be inquisitive. Open your eyes, open your minds to things you don't necessarily know even exist. I think that's an important part of learning and growing. The more [you]'re willing to ask, the more [you]'re going to get out of it. - Jay Rinaldi

No one knows your body like you do. Listen to it. It will tell you what to eat, when to drink, how to sleep and which exercises you need to do. Let your own body be your most trusted personal trainer. - Toni Sorenson

Fury...sexual, Oedipal, political, magical, brutal....drives us to our finest heights and coarsest depths - Salman Rushdie

Experience the gift of life as its gods most precious gift of all with time as it passes in everywake of life there is experience to be gained and shared dvk - d vinod kumar

[Y]ou have to learn to intake, to imbibe, to nourish yourself and not be afraid of fullness. The fullness is like a tidal wave which then carries you, sweeps you into experience and into writing. - Anaïs Nin

When you give without expectations, your soul dances and sparkles with deep inner joy. - Debasish Mridha

Propaganda is the executive arm of the invisible government. - Edward L. Bernays

Amen,' I exclaim, accidentally spitting out a Raisinet. I pick up the chocolate with a Kleenex and stuff it in my purse. Ten bucks says a month from now I'll have forgotten about it and will finally have said heart attack when I assume a rat shat in there. - Jen Lancaster

The practice of radical forgiveness, the extension of compassion-this is grace. - Jiulio Consiglio

IN WORLD EVERYTHING COST,TIME IS THE THING WE LOST,IN LIFE NEVER FEEL EXHAUST,U CAN CHANGE DAMAGED FROST . - merlin8thomas

Knowledge can be borrowed but wisdom cannot because wisdom comes from experience. - Debasish Mridha

People have a hunger to experience the spectacular, but the Lord is supernatural. - Sherry K. White

Let go of certainty. The opposite isn't uncertainty. It's openness, curiosity and a willingness to embrace paradox, rather than choose up sides. The ultimate challenge is to accept ourselves exactly as we are, but never stop trying to learn and grow. - Tony Schwartz

Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse. - Thomas Szasz

The merging of characteristics between different species creates a very powerful language, one that I love to explore through my art, enabling me to tap into the unconscious. - Virginia Lee

Life's temptations have the purpose of putting our spiritual integrity to the test. To yield to them, however, gives one a precarious and tormented satisfaction. But the worst temptations are those we give in to without getting anything in return except for the brutal discovery of our weakness. - Paolo Maurensig

„E drept, explicaţiile nu au ce căuta într-o despărţire. Nu pot fi decât meschine. Adevărul nu e nicăieri. Oamenii inteligenţi simt asta. Fie spun că pleacă pentru un timp si nu se mai întorc niciodată, fie dispar pur si simplu. Ce să explici? La ce ajută? - Dan Lungu

You have a spark of anarchy in your spirit and that's not to be tolerated. Nothing wild or honest is tolerated her! It has to be extinguished... - Tennessee Williams

Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why. - James Joyce

An insult bestowed on your interior and exterior personality; for causes beyond control, kills you innumerably, till the last breath. - Aniruddha Sastikar

Am I afraid of ghosts? My life experience has taught me to be much more afraid of what a human is capable of in broad daylight than what a ghost is capable of at night. - Steve Maraboli

If you cannot see my worth, you then, in turn, are worthless to me - The Mexican Horse Thief

Life experience is the new work experience. - Richie Norton

Comedy should provoke! It should blast through prejudices, challenge preconceptions; comedy should always leave you different than when it found you. - Duckman (Jason Alexander)

Don't run around looking for someone who can sexually satisfy you, run around and look for the book which will intellectually satisfy you. - Michael Bassey Johnson

He utilizesform for a striking lecture;young poets shiverinexperience,but thaw over their own work,fertilize magic. - Kristen Henderson

We have to remember that what we observe is not nature in itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning.

THoughts have unique beauties, you will never be able to express it in words. - Debasish Mridha

Be like a branch of a tree; flex your body to face 'wind of sorrow'; flex little harder to dance in the 'wind of happiness'. - Santosh Kalwar

Love costs nothing except a moment of beautiful thought. - Debasish Mridha

Accumulated experience always alters perception of the past. - Siri Hustvedt

Don't anticipate for a promise, let it be an unexpected favour, this will increase your power of independence. - Michael Bassey Johnson

War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it. - Desiderius Erasmus

When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality. - Henry David Thoreau

Problems are not roadblocks, but exercise tools. - Debasish Mridha

people are too quick to give their hearts away, i mean, be fearless; run wild into their arms, but for goodness sake know your worth. A being of wisdom knows their heart is the breath of their existence and only a honorable love deserves to feel it at its purest form. - Nikki Rowe

Claiming that a person who views the Bible as nothing but a compendium of myths is thus denying the existence of a Creator is like claiming a person who rejects the junk science behind ‘man-made global warming’ is denying the existence of atmosphere. - Dave Champion

When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained. - Mark Twain

If you don't place yourself a second chance, then second is the only place you will be able to get. - Ella Exterkamp

If you need someone to explain morality to you, then you likely have little of it to draw from. - Auliq-Ice

When you journey inwardly exploring yourself, a sense of personal trust begins. - David W. Earle

When you become too special in life and death comes, you are only given an expensive burial, follow remembrance if too special, nothing more. Life just continue being expensive than you think with each generation. - Osasumwenfrank

We where not put on this earth to be ordinary, we where created to be extraordinary. - Frederick Owen

As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relationships with this best and truest friend of mankind that death's image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling. - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise. - Sigmund Freud

Hurry up! Do it – get it done. You got work to do. Don’t put this off and don’t take the long view. Life is today and tomorrow, and if you are lucky, may be next week. - Garrison Keillor

If you want to be outstanding, stop meeting expectations, start exceeding them - Saji Ijiyemi

If you aim to be the best then it's essential to evolve constantly, learn from past mistakes, look for new opportunities and have the flexibility to implement improved processes and solutions along the way. - Mark Gallagher

Sleepwalking is the perfect exorcise for lazy people - Benny Bellamacina

Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not of mere companionship. - Aristotle

Sex means nothing--just the moment of ecstasy, that flares and dies in minutes. - Philip Larkin

I repeat that sin, man's self-violation par excellence, was invented purely inorder to make science, culture, and every elevation and ennobling of man impossible; the priest rules by the invention of sin. - Friedrich Nietzsche

She [Bernice] didn’t like anything that had an adult theme, with only one exception, her collection of erotic female memorabilia. They were all antiques, fragments of other women’s sexuality that was somehow easier to deal with than her own. - K. Ford K.

You need to manage your expectations. You'll live longer. - The Unit

To succeed as a team is to hold all of the members accountable for their expertise. - Mitchell Caplan

As Ummon and the other Masters teach, it explains why the giraffe evolved a long neck but never why the other animals did not. It explains why humankind evolved to intelligence, but not why the tree near the front gate refused to. - Dan Simmons

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

La sinceridad recompensada es uno de los placeres más gratificantes que existen en esta vida - Albert Espinosa Todo lo que podríamos haber sido tú y yo si no fuéramos tú y yo

Virgo is the smell of nature, but in a sexy way. - Robert Black

Holding hands in love is underrated, while sex is overrated. Don't you think so? - Kiran Joshi

If words come upon our minds, we should express them in order to free ourselves from high anxiety. - Saaif Alam

Life isn't about having, it's about experiencing. - Richie Norton

Everyone has a hidden agenda. Except me! - Michael Crichton

We live in a world where unfortunately the distinction between true and false appears to become increasingly blurred by manipulation of facts, by exploitation of uncritical minds, and by the pollution of the language. - Arne Tiselius

the sculpting of the brain’s circuitry during this period of brain growth depends to a great degree on what a child experiences day-to-day. - Lisa Lantieri

La naturaleza aspira a recuperar el equilibrio primitivo. Aspira a la eternidad. - Svletana Alexievich

Let each man exercise the art he knows. - Aristophanes

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

The art of writing involves making as many cups of tea as you can in the time available for writing. Then adding extra time for writing... - Alan Dapre

If you believe that discrimination exists, it will.

With every experience, you alone are painting your own canvas, thought by thought, choice by choice. - Oprah Winfrey

It is funny that those who make the laws by which we are expected to live are usually the ones who have no regard for it. - Paul Bamikole

The sea is only the embodiment of asupernatural and wonderful existence.It is nothing but love and emotion;it is the ‘Living Infinite... - Jules Verne

Do not follow the crowd in doing wrong. . . do not pervert justice by siding with the crowd. - Exodus 23 2 NIVHoly Bible

I don't much like assuming the tone of a moralist. But the danger of baobabs is so little recognized, and the risks run by anyone who might get lost on an asteroid are so considerable, that for once I am making an exception to my habitual reserve. - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

We stand at a crossroads. Do we choose 'the will to power' or 'the will to humanity,' or perhaps a new configuration of both: the power of humanity? - Yasmine Sherif (The Case for Humanity: An Extraordinary Session)

The embryological record is almost always abbreviated in accordance with the tendency of nature (to be explained on the principle of survival of the fittest) to attain her needs by the easiest means. - Francis Maitland Balfour

Everything you've learned in school as "obvious" becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe. For example, there are no solids in the universe. There's not even a suggestion of a solid. There are no absolute continuums. There are no surfaces. There are no straight lines. - R. Buckminster Fuller

I'll walk where my own nature would be leading; it vexes me to choose another guide.

Your identity is no more than the memory of your mind, and the time you learn to consciously look into your memories of the past, the first time you realize that nowhere you exist in your mind. - Roshan Sharma

The four most expensive word in the English language are 'This time it's different. - John Templeton

We all have the muscle of creativity in our minds, but for it to consistently give great results it needs daily exercise. - Yusuf A. Leinge

Liberty exists as the moral fiber within the political tapestry of man. - Albert Thomas Bifarelli

And even though they had not had sex yet, he was a great lover, replacing sex with the science of bravery and inner strength. Meredith had always wanted a man with this kind of depth. - Keira D. Skye

To have little is to possess.To have plenty is to be perplexed. - Lao-tzu

A village explainer. Excellent if you were a village, but if you were not, not."(on Ezra Pound) - Gertrude Stein

Higher consciousness means your self consciousness ceases to exist; you become the ocean of life and a part of the universe. - Debasish Mridha

Sometimes I guess it just feels better to know that you have someone to help you when you can’t even help yourself. ~ Willow Mosby (Exposing ELE) - Rebecca Gober

Young age can be experience just once, but immaturity never leaves even we grown up?? - bheng927

The great enemy of communication, we find, is the illusion of it. We have talked enough; but we have not listened. And by not listening we have failed to concede the immense complexity of our society—and thus the great gaps between ourselves and those with whom we seek understanding. - William H. Whyte

We spend the first 12 months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next 12 months teaching them to sit down and shut up. - Phyllis Diller

Beyond a critical point within a finite space, freedom diminishes as numbers increase. ...The human question is not how many can possibly survive within the system, but what kind of existence is possible for those who do survive. - Frank Herbert

Somebody once said that beauty is the passport to success, but it's not a passport. It's a visa and it expires.

Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again. - Og Mandino

When you know what you want you will be excited about it and give every ounce of effort to making it come true. No excuse or fear will get in your way because peace is found in focus. - Shannon L. Alder

To observe life is not only to organize your internal and external life, but reach to the state, from where, without any effort, both your internal and external life, moves in synchronization. - Roshan Sharma

Earth teach me to forget myself as melted snow forgets its life. Earth teach me resignation as the leaves which die in the fall. Earth teach me courage as the tree which stands all alone. Earth teach me regeneration as the seed which rises in the spring. - William Alexander

What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self! - Nathaniel Hawthorne

Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down. - Charles F. Kettering

The Americans combine the notions of Christianity and of liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive the one without the other. - Alexis de Tocqueville

Being alone is better than sitting next to a lover and feeling lonely. - Richard Linklater

Exit, pursued by a bear. - William Shakespeare

Believe me, I know a lot about harm's way. It turns sharp left off the road to Shitsville when you're least expecting it. - Philip Kerr

Your purpose is why you you're living, your vision is how you're going to execute it. - Bob Proctor

Life is not made up of minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, or years, but of moments. You must experience each one before you can appreciate it. - Sarah Ban Breathnach

An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today. - Laurence J. Peter

Every kiss from you makes my heart explode with love. - Auliq Ice

Avoiding our pain is needlessly exhausting. Pain can not be killed. When we attempt to bury our pain, it rises up from the grave of our emotions, haunting us, until we acknowledge its presence. We can heal our pain when we allow it to move through us. - Jaeda DeWalt

The advices you tell your friends were from you're own experiences, and are actually what you need to apply to yourself. - Jyca Therese Lauron Livelo

Don't apologize for expressing passion.Don't back down when it comes to your integrity.Don't let anyone undermine your standards for the sake of ease.Be a character of excellence, NOT excuses. - Janna Cachola

Always give but never expect. Giving is happiness; disappointment is sadness. - Debasish Mridha

Teddy didn't really understand the attraction of the dark side for the young these days. Perhaps because they had never experienced it. They had been brought up without shadows and seemed determined to create their own. - Kate Atkinson

Sufism is experiential - Idries Shah

Love ~ Truth ~ Freedom are three words that mean the same, and none may exist without the other present. - Alexia Penteleόn de aRcturi

Our wisdom comes usually from our experience, and our experience comes largely from our experience.

It is sad that while science moves ahead in exciting new areas of research, fine-tuning our knowledge of how life originated and evolved, creationists remain mired in medieval debates about angels on the head of a pin and animals in the belly of an Ark.

Pathology can indeed cause experiences of the Kingdom of God, but not all God experiences are caused by pathology. - Abhijit Naskar

In the United States today, there is a pervasive tendency to treat children as adults, and adults as children. The options of children are thus steadily expanded, while those of adults are progressively constricted. The result is unruly children and childish adults. - Thomas Szasz

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

If you have to explain it, you've told the wrong people. - Iimani David

Lead by example, not by instruction. - Jared Matthew Kessler

We all are manufacturers in a way - making good, making trouble or making excuses. - H. V. Adolt

Better to step out of your comfort zone, enjoy new experiences & not know what's coming your way, than stick to routines & be bored with the same end results. - April Mae Monterrosa

For the next century, no elf is to be banished to the human world. No more Star Wars, no more Harry Potter, no more Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, and no more body-doubling for Tom Cruise. Elves shouldn't be treated like shit. We're not Mexicans. - Adam Millard, the Human Santapede

•• Arrogance and pride were the reasons Shaytaan was expelled from paradise. Do not let it be the reason you don't enter paradise.!! - Mana'hil

Every experience has a pattern and sometimes it teaches us through the spirit of patience captured, that there are no coincidences in life. - Deejay Kapil

Globally, millions of married men and women engage the servicesof sex workers each year. Despite growing health concerns aboutthe increased risk of STDs and HIV AIDS this trade continues toblossom, leading to the premature termination of several lives andthe dissolution of several marriages. - Oche Otorkpa

Music itself has taught me never to underestimate a mistake, for, in the midst of all, it’s often in that mistake where the realm of the unexpected creation is hidden. - Anna Jae

Those who expect to be both ignorant and free, expect what never was and never will be. - Thomas Jefferson

For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing. - H. L. Mencken

Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everyone else. - William Shakespeare

If you look through all the different cultures. Right from the earliest, earliest days with the animistic religions, we have sought to have some kind of explanation for our life, for our being, that is outside of our humanity. - Jane Goodall

Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp Or what's a heaven for? - Robert Browning

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything. - Katherine Hepburn

Real Fathers make a positive impact on their generation, and so give the next generation the advantage of a better nation to live in - Fela Durotoye

In the external reality, an action is required for the manifestation, but in the internal reality, all you need is your presence. Just with the inner presence, things begin to unfold. - Roshan Sharma

The only expenditure, and all its outworkings, for which God can be held to be responsible is that which He directs. - Amy Carmichael

If you take all the experience and judgment of men over fifty out of the world, there wouldn't be enough left to run it. - Henry Ford

Love without pain is like the earth without rain.It wouldn't be the same, it would die to quickly and people would be helpless - Alex Guidroz

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get--only with what you are expecting to give--which is everything. - Katharine Hepburn

I have suffered through enough illnesses, trauma and heartbreak to finally understand that life will keep moving forward inexorably, if terribly at times. I am starting to realize that it can be delightful too, if I let it. My love is not diminished if I let go of sorrow. I almost believe that. - Jenny Qi

Ordinary life is pretty complex stuff. - Harvey Pekar

Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand. - George Orwell

Sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll is easy. True christianity…that's rebellion. - Alice Cooper

We experience ourselves our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. - Albert Einstein

Sin bravely...We will never have all the facts to make a perfect judgement, but with the aid of basic experience we must leap bravely into the future. - Russell R. McIntyre

I almost think there is no wisdom comparable to that of exchanging what is called the realities of life for dreams - Hugh Walpole

Right is of no sex, Truth is of no color, God is the Father of us all, and we are all Brethren - Frederick Douglass

I am Chandubhai’ is an illusion itself and from that are karmas charged. When does ‘charging’ of new karmas stop? When one attains the exact awareness of ‘who I am?’. - Dada Bhagwan

I have experienced deep despair, mental-ill health and attempt of suicide. - Lailah Gifty Akita

A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels about what is being photographed in the deepest sense and is thereby a true expression of what one feels about life in its entirety. - Ansel Adams

Valentine’s Day is an extraordinary moment for recalling the lasting power of a true love. - M.F. Moonzajer

When you begin a new story, your job is to envision, to try to glimpse stuff that doesn't as yet exist. That's what writing is, going out to meet the ghosts of the future. Not out of the past, not the ones that are dead and buried. Ghosts of the future, those who don't exist yet. - Cédric Klapisch (screenplay writer); spoken by Xavier Rousseau in Casse-tête Chinois (Chinese Puzzle

My early and invincible love of reading--I would not exchange for the treasures of India. - Edward Gibbon

The English word 'creativity' is derived from the Roman-Latin creo - to create. It is inextricably linked to the Western notion of a creator - a divine intervention and violent disrupter. - Thorsten J. Pattberg

Darling: the popular form of address used in speaking to a person of the opposite sex whose name you cannot at the moment recall

In an era where Existence is incontestable, Truth is subjective, and Reality is perceived, fiction must mediate between the three. - Henry Martin

Success is not about what you have; instead, it is about who you are becoming. -Farshad Asl No Excuses Mindset - -Farshad Asl “No Excuses Mindset”

There is more experience on the field of justification than on the camp of training. Sometimes, you got to take actions to learn more. - Israelmore Ayivor

If we really are spiritual beings living a physical existence, then we have incredible power. - Sue Fitzmaurice

One day of happiness is worth more than a lifetime of sorrow .... Under ordinary circumstances, jealousy is a suspicion to the person who excites it and degrading to the person who indulges it. - Victor Hugo

Listen closely. Even the trees exhale sweet love songs that roll off their boughs and echo out to all of creation. Love is always in the air. - Cristen Rodgers

I had drunk much wine and afterward coffee and Strega and I explained, winefully, how we did not do the things we wanted to do; we never did such things. - Ernest Hemingway

DESTINY, n. A tyrant's authority for crime and fool's excuse for failure. - Ambrose Bierce

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Never pity yourself. Be a hard master to yourself - and be lenient to everybody else. - Henry Ward Beecher

Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice may operate. - Anthony Burgess

The beauties of the North seemed to be intensified by the loss we had experienced there, and they drew us back to them. - David Almond

If you are unable to find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it? - Dōgen

Although we look at ourselves as One, in the real world we always experience ourselves as TWO. - Joey Lawsin

I do not believe the expenditure of $2.50 for a book entitles the purchaser to the personal friendship of the author. - Evelyn Waugh

I don’t believe one reads to escape reality. A person reads to confirm a reality he knows is there, but which he has not experienced. - Lawrence Durrell

The best lessons I’ve been taught is that you should definitely have a plan. Try to imagine yourself six months in advance, and always save your money. Because there are always going to be unintended expenses that are going to come up. Surprises always happen. - K. Guillory

Humility is the greatest shaper of souls and crafter of character, for it wipes away all the grandiose things that we spend so much of our lives pretending to be, so that we can spend all of our lives being the exceptional person that we were actually created to be. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

The seductive power of sex and money is nothing compared to that of words. - Marty Rubin

Gentlemen are a dying breed.Do your part to help out by supporting them sexually. - Alessandra Torre

Fear no one except the One. - Habeeb Akande

When we desire and hope for excellence and take action we become what we desire. - Debasish Mridha

your brown eyes are beautiful.don’t believe the hype. - Alexandra Elle

If you want to discover your true purpose for existing, all you have to do is look deeply into the things that bring you joy. - Toni Sorenson

There is a saying in Tibetan, 'Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.'No matter what sort of difficulties, how painful experience is, if we lose our hope, that's our real disaster. - Dalai Lama XIV

[To a first-term congressman who wanted wanted excused from voting with the party to satisfy his biggest contributors:] Son, if you can't take their money, drink their whiskey, screw their women, and then vote against 'em, you don't deserve to be here.

Each failure to sell will increase your chances for success at your next attempt. - Og Mandino

Life is full of surprises and and serendipity. Being open to unexpected turns in the road is an important part of success. If you try to plan every step, you may miss those wonderful twists and turns. Just find your next adventure-do it well, enjoy it-and then, not now, think about what comes next. - Condoleeza Rice

I know many versions of truth that explain one fact. - Toba Beta

I think only an idiot can be an atheist. We must admit that there exists an incomprehensible power or force with limitless foresight and knowledge that started the whole universe going in the first place. - Christian B. Anfinsen

☺☺ When a man gets you 99, he starts to think, he may only have another 10 years of sexy lovemaking left... Still Smiling At 99. ☺☺ - Michael Levy

Dance resides within us all. Some find it when joy conquers sorrow, others express it through celebration of movements; and then there are those... whose existence is dance, - Shah Asad Rizvi

It's only natural to feel lonely after the enjoyable moments pass. But as you experience new joys those feelings of sorrow will start to fade. - Mizu Sahara

Be true to the writer within you; tell the story you're dying to tell in exactly the way you wish to tell it, and don't trust anyone who tries to sway you otherwise. - Richelle E. Goodrich

Leave behind the passive dreaming of a rose-tinted future. The energy of happiness exists in living today with roots sunk firmly in reality's soil. - Daisaku Ikeda

Change helps you to be flexible. - Sunday Adelaja

People have many cruel expectations from writers. People expect novelists to live on a hill with three kids and a spouse, people expect children's story writers to never have sex, and people expect all great poets to be dead. And these are all very difficult expectations to fulfill, I think. - C. JoyBell C.

We know what we should do. Age is no excuse. Do we go to others for permission or for discipline? - Donna Lynn Hope

To all the true lovers: Your unconditional love is the reason why flowers bloom.To all the beloveds: You are the reason why universe came into existence. - Saurabh Sharma

However ordinary each of us may seem, we are all in some way special, and can do things that are extraordinary, perhaps until then…even thought impossible. - Roger Bannister

Humans are pattern-seeking story-telling animals, and we are quite adept at telling stories about patterns, whether they exist or not. - Michael Shermer

The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.

The ‘Gnani’ is in the form of an instrument to attain the goal (Experience of Pure Soul). The goal is the scientific form of Soul (vignan swarup atma). - Dada Bhagwan

Asking me why don't I think Gods exist, is one thing. But asking me why don't I "Believe" Jesus is real, is you pushing your luck. - Andrea L'Artiste

Being different is a revolving door in your life where secure people enter and insecure exit. - Shannon L. Alder

maybe in some cases, people see us fall and crack, see us as a failure. We gotta live with it, i live by our own code we shouldn't be ashamed if we fall, for every fall we get up and pick up ourselves a larger chance we win the next time because we learned. - jinnuljr.

It is important to be Intuitive at this time and allow the natural course to show you the way to the next step. - Auliq Ice

The crucial point in life is: are we living our 'own' life or simply a life for 'other' people. Are we not playing a role on behalf of some social groups and masquerading for fear of being excluded? ( "Quest for the real moment" ) - Erik Pevernagie

You start off with a little spark, and it's whether or not you nurture that spark. You have to expand it and work on it - Ed Sheeran

We cannot approach beauty. Its nature is like opaline doves'-neck lustres, hovering and evanescent. Herein it resembles the most excellent things, which all have this rainbow character, defying all attempts at appropriation and use. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

No excuses will lead to no regrets which will give you no limits to your potential. - James Gordon

A witch always exercises their body and mind. - Knisztina

The entrepreneur is essentially a visualizer and an actualizer. He can visualize something, and when visualizes it he sees exactly how to make it happen.

The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous. - Shana Alexander

Loss of virtue in a female is irretrievable; that one false step involves her in endless ruin; that her reputation is no less brittle than it is beautiful; and that she cannot be too much guarded in her behaviour towards the undeserving of the other sex. - Jane Austen

It is not what happens to us that causes our pain and suffering, it is our thinking pattern and perception of our experiences that create our reality and contribute to our well-being or suffering - Renee Cefalu

We can not hear or see everything, but a experience let us understanding it. - Jan Jansen

Writing is a disease of the mind, which is expressed through a pen. - Debasish Mridha

An excellent mother knows she has the beautiful life, and she is a big time programmer. - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

We can learn so much looking outside our core field of expertise. - Sara Sheridan

Errors, failures, They are just experiences that will obligate you to evolve. - Roberto Llamas

When wisdom gives way to whimsy and ethics fall to excitement, it is highly likely that the ground beneath me will ‘give way’ and it is I who will ‘fall. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

When all that's left mediocrity and each day just bleeds into the next. - Andy Carrington

I myself am convinced that the theory of evolution, especially to the extent to which it has been applied, will be one of the greatest jokes in the history books of the future. Posterity will marvel that so very flimsy and dubious an hypothesis could be accepted with the incredible credulity it has. - Malcolm Muggeridge

There's nothing in this universe that can't be explained, eventually. - House M.D.

We regarded each other across an expanse wider than the universe, within a space thinner than a razor's edge. - Rick Yancey

There are only so many times that you can utter ‘It does not hurt’ before it begins to hurt even more than the hurt. You become enlightened of the feeling of feeling hurt, which is worse, I am certain, than the existent hurt. - Jonathan Safran Foer

What do I know about sex? I'm a married man. - Tom Clancy

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

You're not here just to make a living but for appreciating and expressing gratitude for the abundance and beauty of life that you are enjoying. - Debasish Mridha

That was the day that I promised I'd never sing of love that does not exist. but darling, You are the only exception - Hayley Williams

Sex is more exciting on the screen and between the pages than between the sheets - Andy Warhol

The whole thing was like a divorce. When we divided everything up, Courtney got my dignity, and I got the heartache. - Alex Flinn

Though the life is very difficult and at times quite tragic, we must nonetheless be happy for being existed, for being the miracle very itself! - Mehmet Murat ildan

You shouldn’t expect a positive outcome when you have a negative thought process. Only positive thoughts can create positive results. - Debasish Mridha

Joy and happiness are the treasures of life and it comes when we appreciate and express gratitude for the abundance of our life. - Debasish Mridha

No use to shout at them to pay attention. If the situations, the materials, the problems before the child do not interest him, his attention will slip off to what does interest him, and no amount of exhortation of threats will bring it back.

I'm sorry. I just meant that all this is new to me. I get lost sometimes." I give her my most honest expression. - Katie Crouch and Grady Hendrix, The White Glove War

Our happiness should not depend on external things; it is the expression of internal attitudes. - Debasish Mridha

Don't hyperbolize when things don't flow according to your plan. Things could change when you least expect it. And it is crucial to be flexible at all times. - Aireen C. Pontillo

You are perceptual beings with different vantage points and - it does not matter how much information is given - you cannot see beyond the vibrational limits of where you are standing. You cannot live or see or experience outside of your own individual beliefs. - Abraham Hicks

My activism does not need proof to be real. It exists in the work of my bones against weight in the morning. - Amandla Stenberg

Big obstacles shrink when you confront them; small obstacles expand when you dodge them. - Matshona Dhliwayo

No one would have guessed that the jagged pieces of our soul fit the puzzle in this box. We were considered the left over remnants that had no place, except the picture we wanted to create together. - Shannon L. Alder

People who are adept in healthy self-expression exercise front-end consideration before speaking. - Laurie Buchanan, PhD

If you are confident, you have the courage for existence. - Lailah Gifty Akita

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

Because women live creatively, they rarely experience the need to depict or write about that which to them is a primary experience and which men know only at a second remove. Women create naturally, men create artificially.

All treaties between great states cease to be binding when they come in conflict with the struggle of existence. - Otto von Bismarck

Time and suffering are inseperable. In life, as in physics, both are the common denominator of all experiences. - Christopher Dutton

To be sure, the dog is loyal. But why, on that account, should we take him as an example? He is loyal to men, not to other dogs. - Karl Kraus

It is not our external actions that attract others, but it is the actions of our imaginations, visualizations, and subconscious minds that attract others. - Debasish Mridha

I really should talk to him. He's had a near-death experience!"We all have. It's called living."(Hogfather) - Terry Pratchett

Normalization takes place not because there is Western-ideology that normalizes third-world texts in any special way (other than the usual play with exoticism) but because this academic seeks to domesticate everything, even Marx. - Aijaz Ahmad

When we find out an Idea, by whose Intervention we discover the Connexion of two others, this is a Revelation from God to us, by the voice of Reason. - John Locke

To fall in love is a legendary action that doesn't need any explanation. - Auliq Ice

I like to say, but saying is too much." We understand not the same. - Gilbert Alexandre

The room had lost its morning light, the glow of expectation and potential. The daylight was now gray, and the new day was already used, a little soiled by mistaken thoughts and makeshift undertakings. - Tove Jansson

You are more likely to find three TVs inside a randomly selected house than you are to find a single book that is or was not read to pass an exam, to please God, or to be a better cook. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Language is the expression of ideas by means of speech-sounds combined into words. Words are combined into sentences, this combination answering to that of ideas into thoughts. - Henry Sweet

Walking out with the people, I didn't know which was more exciting, the air race, the parachute jump that failed, or the cunt. - Charles Bukowski

It is the manner of death that reveals the importance of a man. Ordinary people are murdered while extraordinary people are assassinated. - Ashwin Sanghi

Irrational expectations are at the root of most human suffering. - Stefan Molyneux

The common culture of permits - that is, the assumption that only that which is not explicitly permitted is not forbidden - usually draws the laws of one's own possibilities far more narrowly than necessary and prematurely avoids real or imaginary conflict. - Ursula Hofbauer, Friedemann Derschmidt

You can never appreciate the scent of a flower by another's description. Some things are left to experience. Journey of self. - Truth Devour

I work hard to stay cynical enough! I keep my expectations of our culture and our leaders low, low, low, and I do it so I don't have to be let down. And yet again I am lowballed by the brokenness of the American cultural machine. - Vinnie Tesla

The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue. - Leonardo da Vinci

If you want to be educated and wise, you must open your heart, expand your mind, be accepting and ready to change. - Debasish Mridha

ADDER, n. A species of snake. So called from its habit of adding funeral outlays to the other expenses of living. - Ambrose Bierce

We have the power of the pen to write the next chapter, and the privilege to author the page in whatever fashion we choose. Yet, seldom do we understand the power of the pen and the privilege of the page. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

Quality speaks by itself. Rightly communicated it creates Joy. Like an Infant needs no words to express to her mother. Any success of communication enhances beauty of both, which too needs no words to endorse. - Priyavrat Thareja

All I knew was that in a way I couldn't explain, his hug matched his stare. - Juliana Mae

Takes long,Stings hard,Benefit's large.That's your experience in life. :) - Babu Rajan

KISS, n. A word invented by the poets as a rhyme for "bliss." It is supposed to signify, in a general way, some kind of rite or ceremony appertaining to a good understanding; but the manner of its performance is unknown to this lexicographer. - Ambrose Bierce

If a man says he is Christian, yet he has no problems knocking you up, having premarital sex or living in sin with you, then you have to ask yourself, What version of Christ does he believe in? - Shannon L. Alder

Man cannot be homophobic without having concerned himself with another’s sex life. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Love springs from the inside. It is the immortal surge of passion, excitement, energy, power, strength, prosperity, recognition, respect, desire, determination, enthusiasm, confidence, courage, and vitality, that nourishes, extends and protects. It possesses an external objective - life. - Ogwo David Emenike

And the person who says that the only way to please them is to restrict options for others is, if you ask me, the one who deserves it least. And that’s my opinion, expressed as politely as possible. - David Gaider

To improve quality of life, to evolve into a better version of ourselves, to pause in recognition of blessings with only our name on the tag, to dance in graitutde, to embrance with abandon, to give without receiving, to seek the face of God ... all this and more is why we exisit. - Toni Sorenson

The marriage seemed to flourish on Father’s extended absences. Ragtime - E.L. Doctorow

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. - Francis Bacon

For [a product] to surprise me, it must be satisfying expectations I didn't know I had. No focus group is going to discover those. Only a great designer can. - Paul Graham

If a woman were elected president, would our nation expect her husband to be the official White House host? - Venita Ellick

The Six Steps to Success: 1) Define Success 2) Devise a Plan 3) Execute and Overcome Adversity 4) Measure Results with Key Metrics 5) Revise the Plan 6) Work Hard - Ken Poirot

Choosing to love, in spite of all its complexities, is the only freedom there is. - Chriscinthia Blount

Something in me whispered that I needed to stop thinking, that I should above all not go too farwith thinking. But that never worked; I always thought things through to the end, to their mostextreme consequence. - Herman Koch

Mrs. MacAndrew shared the common opinion of her sex that a man is always a brute to leave a woman who is attached to him, but that a woman is much to blame if he does. - W. Somerset Maugham

Memory is to experience what betrayal is to love. - Marty Rubin

Betrayal is advancing myself at the expense of the one who I committed myself to advance. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

Because you have my heart, Virgilia Wessex. Softly, almost achingly. Every black ounce of it. Scars and all. - V.S. Carnes

When one is in town one amuses oneself. When one is in the country one amuses other people. It is excessively boring. - Oscar Wilde

Friends I would like to challenge you to do an experiment, in the privacy of your studies. Everywhere you see the name Jesus in the Bible, replace it with the word light and see what that does to you. - Sunday Adelaja

Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the mext moment - Oprah Winfrey

As I inched sluggishly along the treadmill of the Maycomb County School system, I could not help receiving the impression that I was being cheated out of something. Out of what I knew not, yet I did not believe that twelve years of unrelieved boredom was exactly what the state had in mind for me. - Harper Lee

Experience God, don't raise a wall of dogmas between you and Him. - Stefan Emunds

In a democratic society freedom of expression and information are protected and government lack of concern in protecting them is a serious issue. - Arzak Khan

We all want to be happier, more financially secure and to experience more rewarding relationships. We all dream of making something more of our lives. A mountain trail is a terrific place to make our biggest, boldest, brightest dreams come true. - Toni Sorenson

When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to suffer the experience of total loss. It was more than that. It was the period in which we suffered more total losses than in all the rest of our life put together. - John Berger

O bliss of the collector, bliss of the man of leisure! Of no one has less been expected and no one has had a greater sense of well-being than... a collector. Ownership is the most intimate relationship one can have to objects. No t that they come alive in him; it is he who comes alive in them. - Walter Benjamin

There is no me. I do not exist. There used to be a me, but I had it surgically removed - Peter Sellers

We need heroes who'll inspire us so that maybe next time we'll dig a little deeper and find our best self. - Madam Secretary

God had conceived humans’ heterosexuals; until they start making initiatives. - M.F. Moonzajer

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents. - Sir Winston Churchill

Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself, the most comforting words of all; this, too, shall pass. - Ann Landers

Afterward, there was some debate as to whether we'd actually "done it properly," which gives you some idea of the awesome skill and artful dexterity of my lovemaking technique. - David Nicholls

You must know, the day your star exploded into my universe, you altered it all. You exposed my light and my dark, settled into my existence and there you will be and glow in the matter of my heart, long after light is only a memory. You have changed things for always. - Jennifer DeLucy

Writers whose thoughts are expressed with clarity and precision are assumed by readers to be superficial. Where the meaning is obscured, then readers give more attention and consider the fruit of their labour more valuable - Friedrich Nietzsche

People are so busy lengthening their lives with exercise they don't have time to live them.

We must be willing to expand the heart in order to be able to expand our thinking. - Molly Friedenfeld

to express our dream about life in words is not easy but to show it with an example will surprise a lot of people and give them a shock. - Jan Jansen

Few men realize that their life, the very essence of their character, their capabilities and their audacities, are only the expression of their belief in the safety of their surroundings. - Joseph Conrad

Principles have no real force except when one is well fed. - Mark Twain

Remind thyself, in the darkest moments, that every failure is only a step toward success, every detection of what is false directs you toward what is true, every trial exhausts some tempting form of error, and every adversity will only hide, for a time, your path to peace and fulfillment. - Og Mandino

Most people avoid thinking if they can, some of us are addicted to thinking, but Von Neumann actually enjoyed thinking, maybe even to the exclusion of everything else. - Edward Teller

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

The idea that one can go to the fossil record and expect to empirically recover an ancestor-descendant sequence, be it of species, genera, families, or whatever, has been, and continues to be, a pernicious illusion. - Gareth J. Nelson

The threat of frustration of a biological urge does not cause conflict and anxiety unless that urge is identified with some value essential to the existence of the personality. - Rollo May

There will always be one or two things bothering the person next to you. And if that person happens to be looking heavenward, it’s because it helps us to remind ourselves that God is bigger than our problems. - Joyce Rachelle

Writing cannot express all words, words cannot encompass all ideas. - Confucius

Sometimes it is best for men not to attempt to interfere with destiny. Our prayers can be answered in ways which we do not expect and do not welcome. - Wilbur Smith

I could not say I believe. I know! I have had the experience of being gripped by something that is stronger than myself, something that people call God. - Carl Jung

Talent finds its models, methods, and ends in society, exists for exhibition, and goes to the soul only for power to work. Genius is its own end, and draws its means and the style of its architecture from within. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

What happened to romance? sappy soppy longhand love letters. - Alex Flinn

The petty economies of the rich are just as amazing as the silly extravagances of the poor. - William Feather

What is the meaning of a cactus flower? It exists, that's all. - Marty Rubin

In a way it was worth it, she thought, except that it was such a total waste. - Diana Wynne Jones

Just write it,Because it is the next best thing of the world. - Newpostcard

The home is the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose, and that is to support the ultimate career. - C.S. Lewis

His thoughts were hemmed in. One can only draw curved lines on the terrestrial sphere which, as they extend, forever meet with themselves. At such intersections we always encounter what we have already seen. - Raymond Queneau

KINDNESS, n. A brief preface to ten volumes of exaction. - Ambrose Bierce

Jenny replied to this with a bitterness which might have surprized a judicious person, who had observed the tranquillity with which she bore all the affronts to her chastity; but her patience was perhaps tired out, for this is a virtue which is very apt to be fatigued by exercise. - Henry Fielding

Everything under heaven is in utter chaos; the situation is excellent. - Mao Tse-tung

Wind is on fire" - beautiful words. What causes the fire, what enhances it, and what finally extinguishes it by itself or by bringing in rainclouds, gets identified with it. Do breath and life have the same relationship with each other! - R. N. Prasher

[The public school system is] usually a twelve year sentence of mind control.Crushing creativity, smashing individualism, encouraging collectivism andcompromise, destroying the exercise of intellectual inquiry, twisting itinstead into meek subservience to authority. - Walter Karp

Peace does not dwell in outward things but within the soul; we may preserve it in the midst of the bitterest pain, if our will remains firm and submissive. Peace in this life springs from acquiescence to, not an exemption from, suffering. - François Fénelon

Simplicity is complex. It's never simple to keep things simple. Simple solutions require the most advanced thinking. - Richie Norton

Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at de sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground. - Zora Neale Hurston

Age is a timeless beauty. At each mile in my life journey, I am a distinctive blend of what I've experienced and the unique talents I was given to share with others. - Jeanne McElvaney

Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it. - Lloyd Alexander

Your past experiences will flavour your future ones, that is human nature. - Deborah Cater

But I'd be in big trouble if Karma was going to finally be my judge. I'd be in deep shit. It doesn't excuse my mistakes, but I'm holding out for Grace. I'm holding out that Jesus took my sins onto the Cross, because I know who I am, and I hope I don't have to depend on my own religiosity. - Michka Assayas

Appreciation and enjoyment of the creatures are the hallmark of God's dominion and therefore the standard by which our own attempt to exercise dominion must be judged. - Ellen F. Davis

And indeed if you think you're a genius at something what you achieve is very much according to your expectations; if you think you're no good, you're not going to get anywhere. - Diana Wynne Jones

When flash of hope scans through your dreams. When news of goodness skims the surface of your expectations and bravery abates, break not, keep pressing less the dreams of your fingers suffer extinction. - Darmie Orem

Drawing is the art of being able to leave an accurate record of the experience of what one isn't, of what one doesn't know. A great drawer is either confirming beautifully what is commonplaceor probing authoritatively the unknown.::: ::: - Brett Whiteley

Freedom of expression and freedom of the press are the very cornerstones of any democratic society. I firmly believe that it is the very right to question the status quo that allows a society to develop and prosper.

It is only within the context of having properly developed your mind that you will be able to truly enjoy the achievement of your material values, including that of a more muscular body. - Mike Mentzer

What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care. - William Blake

If a messiah exhorts you to kill people of another belief system, get this idiot non-prophet out of your stupid system. - Fakeer Ishavardas

One of the strengths of the belief in Antinous was its appeal to the most sensitive and inward of mystical natures as well as to the exuberant, joyous and ecstatic sides of human experience. - Royston Lambert

Leave some room in your theology for God to be bigger than you can explain - Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove

S'il n'existait pas Dieu il faudrait l'inventer." (If God did not exist he would have to be invented.) - Voltaire

The one who protects the body-complex (pudgal) is not the 'enlightened one' (Gnani). A Gnani is the protector of only the Soul and it’s natural attributes. - Dada Bhagwan

I want excitement; and I don’t care what form it takes or what I pay for it, so long as it makes my heart beat. - F. Scott Fitzgerald

Give away everything—even your heart, soul, and mind. Nothing is yours. Keep your experiences and your memories. Those are yours and they make you who you are. - Debasish Mridha

Of all America’s natural resources, its richest is an inexhaustible vein of irony. - Markham Shaw Pyle

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. - Robert Orben

The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism. - Robert Frost

Love is better experienced than discussed. - Matshona Dhliwayo

Failure is something you experience on your way to success - unless you're a skydiver. - Peter James West

Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat. - John Viscount Morley

What makes people tick? Life can be a trap of ennui, but imagery may be a redemptive escape from dullness. The iconic power and exuberance of images generate an inexorable addiction that needs to be gratified without respite. Here and now! ("Give me more images") - Erik Pevernagie

Detach yourself from people that only exists when they need something from you. From people who only calls you a friend when they have favors and leave you behind afterwards. Remove toxic people in your life, they will become a hindrance to you. - Dembe Michael

Abstaining from sex is a small fraction of the chastity process. Your intentions are just as important as the act of sex itself"The Ultimate Guide to Chastity - Sandra B. James

I was never afraid of anything in the world except the dentist. - Taylor Caldwell

If you wanna judge it...then you need to expereince it..! - shakir parekh

One sees clearly only with the heart, anything that is essential is invisible to the eye."- The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

My short stories are like soft shadows I have set out in the world, faint footprints I have left. I remember exactly where I set down each and every one of them, and how I felt when I did. Short stories are like guideposts to my heart... - Haruki Murakami

The facts of variability, of the struggle for existence, of adaptation to conditions, were notorious enough; but none of us had suspected that the road to the heart of the species problem lay through them, until Darwin and Wallace dispelled the darkness. - Thomas Henry Huxley

Corporate planning cycles are a classic example of generals fighting the last war over again instead of preparing for what might lie ahead. - Jay Samit

What one generation finds ridiculous, the next accepts; and the third shudders when it looks back on what the first did. - Peter Singer

America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success. - Sigmund Freud

Even in your absence I fight with you in my mind, I laugh with you in my mind.That's how the strong connection exists between you and me. It will be forever. - Emma Brynstein

Since the beginning of physics, symmetry considerations have provided us with an extremely powerful and useful tool in our effort to understand nature. Gradually they have become the backbone of our theoretical formulation of physical laws. - Tsung-Dao Lee

I might paraphrase Churchill and say: never have I received so much for so little.[Exemplifying humility, upon accepting the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.] - Luis Federico Leloir

It took me a beat down to execute you Angel but the pleasure will be all mines! - Warden Pinnacle From the book Framed: The Second Book Of The Thousand Years War. - Angel Ramon Medina

Arianne had her feet up on the table, wearing a striped conductor's cap.Arriane was fixated on the game. A chocolate cigar bobbed between her lips as she contemplated her next move. Roland was giving Arianne the hawk eye."Checkmate, bitch," Arianne said triumphantly, knocking over Roland's king. - Lauren Kate

Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science. - Edwin Hubble

Ninja faith stands. It is not shaken when things seem contrary to what one expects. Ninja faith chooses to believe the truth. - Anna M. Aquino

Ivy was particularly adept at being ignorant but could cause extensive havoc with the smallest scrap of information. - Gail Carriger

True leaders fail fast and often in order to learn what's necessary to reach the next level of growth and advancement - Lillian Gregory

A woman should always know her place, and it's exactly wherever she wants to be. - Kierra C.T. Banks

How would your life be different if you celebrated the things in your life that you do have instead of lamenting things that you don't? Let today be the day you embrace gratitude and appreciation and let go of entitlement and expectation. - Steve Maraboli

Each person you admire is simply a reminder of your own latent excellence, your own unacknowledged beauty. - Vironika Tugaleva

Most of the tools from medieval times were extensions of the physical self. Tools are now extensions of the mental self. - Lotoya Peterson

All fled—all done, so lift me on the pyre—The Feast is over, and the lamps expire. - Robert E. Howard

Science is based on experiment, on a willingness to challenge old dogma, on an openness to see the universe as it really is. Accordingly, science sometimes requires courage - at the very least the courage to question the conventional wisdom. - Carl Sagan

Living your life on your terms, means No excuses and only results. - LadyTiara

FYI, women think glasses are a sign of brains, and also, they're sexy. - Jill Shavis

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

I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.. - Henry David Thoreau

Personally, I think the "Potter" books have too many adverbs and not enough sex. - Lev Grossman

Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. - Oscar Wilde

Sentiment has never been unpopular except with a few sick persons who are made sicker by the sight of a child, a glimpse of a wedding, or the thought of a happy home. - Oscar Hammerstein II

I think that people's sexual preferences are a legitimate subject for humour, dirty humour if at all possible. - Christopher Hitchens

You can't keep snakes in your backyard and expect them only to bite your neighbors. You know, eventually those snakes are going to turn on whoever has them in the backyard. - Hillary Rodham Clinton

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

On a basic level, he had seen first-hand how his government used the element of fear to accomplish its objectives; the same element of fear that had been used as an excuse to engage its huge war machine in conflicts for the profits of America’s oligarchy. - Kenneth Eade

Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good; try to use ordinary situations. - Jean Paul Richter

I don't play accurately-any one can play accurately- but I play with wonderful expression. As far as the piano is concerned, sentiment is my forte. I keep science for Life. - Oscar Wilde

When you aspire to inspire before you expire, you conspire to inspire even after you pause to respire. Keep pushing it! - Israelmore Ayivor

The true index of a man's character is the health of his wife. - Cyril Connolly

Death is experienced only once, but he who fears it dies each minute.

Extensive traveling induces a feeling of encapsulation, and travel, so broadening at first, contracts the mind. - Paul Theroux

Yet, even amidst the hatred and carnage, life is still worth living. It is possible for wonderful encounters and beautiful things to exist. - Hayao Miyazaki

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built. - Eleanor Roosevelt

Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common. - Denis Diderot

Much misconstruction and bitterness are spared to him who thinks naturally upon what he owes to others rather than what he ought to expect from them.

A bear, however hard he tries, grows tubby without exercise.

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience. - George Bernard Shaw

Life is there to attain Liberation while going through the experience of it. It should not be ‘above normal’ or ‘below normal,’ it should be ‘normal’. - Dada Bhagwan

We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey; - John Hope Franklin

There is help for the helpless, hope for the hopeless, and forgiveness for the inexcusable. - Mary A. Pérez

While you keep ageing, your experience compensates for your lost brain power. - Amit Kalantri

A vicious circle develops in which the people around you expect you to be there for them all the time and comply with their wishes. - Auliq Ice

HIPPOGRIFF, n. An animal (now extinct) which was half horse and half griffin. The griffin was itself a compound creature, half lion and half eagle. The hippogriff was actually, therefore, a one-quarter eagle, which is two dollars and fifty cents in gold. The study of zoology is full of surprises. - Ambrose Bierce

Imagine yourself at your best. Transform yourself with hard work to become excellent. - Mark F. LaMoure

your love, your facial expression, your spirit and your words to the wise is my fervency: special for my mom and dad - S. Ikom Afriani

Until you can measure something and express it in numbers, you have only the begining of understanding.

Self is one, personal and impersonal. But it is only on the personal level that one comes to know the Self.When you know the Self, you realize there are two types of knowledge. First is to know how to exist and second is to know the all-pervading spirit. - Gian Kumar

The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the Hand of Divinity itself, and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power. - Alexander Hamilton

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea. - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Beauty is a form of genius--is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon. - Oscar Wilde

Aim and hit the target of excellence, with constant practice. Make success happen, by working to be the best at what you do. - Mark F. LaMoure

Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing.

I'm very wary about giving advice. I think it's very dangerous to give advice to people, except if you know them very well. - Omar Sharif

When faith touches your heart, you can walk on water.When fear pricks your soul, you can sink on land.With a great mind, you can achieve countless things.With a strong heart, you can achieve extraordinary things.With a loving soul, you can achieve impossible things. - Matshona Dhliwayo

What is objectionable, what is dangerous, about extremists is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents.

Build a bridge over shame by teaching kids about sexual abuse. Give them a chance to run to us should they encounter it. Be their hero. - Carolyn Byers Ruch

When you open your heart to someone, you're also exposing it to pain. - Lisa De Jong

Experiment the power of love. - Lailah Gifty Akita

You can't experience the Father's embrace until you first embrace your earthly father's experience. - Bob Parr

Quality of life does not depends up on the branded product that you use. It totally depends up on the quality of your thoughts and quality you maintain to express your thoughts - Anoop Raghav

In the transmission of human culture, people always attempt to replicate, to pass on to the next generation the skills and values of the parents, but the attempt always fails because cultural transmission is geared to learning, not D.N.A.

We economists don't know much, but we do know how to create a shortage. If you want to create a shortage of tomatoes, for example, just pass a law that retailers can't sell tomatoes for more than two cents per pound. Instantly you'll have a tomato shortage. It's the same with oil or gas. - Milton Friedman

Give yourself to reading.’... You need to read. Renounce as much as you will all light literature, but study as much as possible sound theological works,especially the Puritanic writers, and expositions of the Bible. - Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Wherever and whenever a woman is harassed, abused and exploited there could be found a religion or some kind of irrational belief and suppression of reason among the minds of men or women who were responsible for the exploitation. - Thiruman Archunan

You can be an expert any field of study with consistent effort and consistent learning. - Lailah Gifty Akita

All life's training is just exactly what is needed for the true Life-work, still out of view but far away from none of us. Don't grudge me the learning of a new lesson. - Amy Carmichael

We are living in a very complex society. It puts me in a complex frame of thinking. - Ai Weiwei