Quotation Explorer - 'For'

Anger carries a person in your mind forever.The day U can stand in the room with some1 without being affected is the day you truly moved on - Adapted

Peace is not the absence of poverty But the presence of love for beauty - Debasish Mridha

Organic life, we are told, has developed gradually from the protozoan to the philosopher, and this development, we are assured, is indubitably an advance. Unfortunately it is the philosopher, not the protozoan, who gives us this assurance. - Bertrand Russell

Tell the negative committee that meets inside your head that they have nothing to say you haven't heard before and it's about time they disbanded until they have something positive to say. - Karon Waddell

If I hadn't lost my hearing, I wouldn't be where I am now. It forced me to maximize my own potential. I have to be better than the average person to succeed. - Lou Ferrigno

fear in sooth holds so in check all mortals, because they see many operations go on in earth and heaven, the causes of which they can in no way understand, believing them therefore to be done by power divine. - Titus Lucretius Carus

It's all bullshit, folks and it's bad for ya. - George Carlin

The only way to get the ending you want is to write your own story. - Ashley Ford

Problems are everywhere, so are Solutions. Unfortunately, we see more of the Problems than the Solutions. - RVM

The soul knows full well (even though it pretends to forget many times) that it must render account to the paternal soil. I do not say "fatherland", I say "paternal soil". The paternal soil is something deeper, more modest, more reserved, and is composed of age-old pulverized bones. - N. Kazantzakis

If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right. - Henry Ford

Daily ask yourself: "Considering what I'm doing now, what would be a better, superior choice for me to do, to advance my plans for success? - Mark F. LaMoure

We are never more creative than when we are at odds with the world and there is nothing so artistically destructive as comfort. Princess Leia taught me that. - Simon Pegg

Ever since we’d found Wilson, his cousin’s calmness bothered me. I realized now I felt less unease with angry outbursts from grieving relatives, than I had with the slow, ticking time bomb of the quiet and collected.--Prepped for Kill, Marjorie Gardens Mystery Book 2 - A.E.H. Veenman

What if she'd sought God's Word for her pain? What if she'd resolved to forgive Rees for hurting her and trusted God to work that forgiveness out in her heart, so that she would have arrived in London with an attitude of humility and trust in God to lead her to the right person? - Axtell Ruth

fight for what you believe in,for if you don't you will be forever fighting against yourself. - Keisha Keenleyside

Science and psychology have isolated the one prime cause for success or failure in life. It is the hidden self-image you have of yourself. - Bob Proctor

Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos; the materials must, in the first place, be afforded: it can give form to dark, shapeless substances but cannot bring into being the substance itself. - Mary Shelley

Love is one of the strongest feelings one can ever have. It comes over you all of a sudden and totally absorbs before you manage to realize the fact. - Auliq Ice

CREDITOR, n. One of a tribe of savages dwelling beyond the Financial Straits and dreaded for their desolating incursions. - Ambrose Bierce

Stop looking forward to things, look inward instead. - Kamand Kojouri

To go where no one else has ever gone before is the secret of heroism. - Dejan Stojanovic

Disregard for the past will never do us any good. Without it we cannot know truly who we are. - Syd Moore

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself... You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams. - Kahlil Gibran

We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years. - Nick Faldo

Never let your fear of the unknown and things being too difficult make your choices for you in life. One of the saddest lessons in life is finding out that your fear made the situation worse than what it was and a braver person stole the dream you gave up on. - Shannon L. Alder

The key for any speaker is to establish his own point of view for the audience, so they can see the game through his eyes. - Ronald Reagan

I regard the afterlife to be a fairy story for people that are afraid of the dark - Stephen Hawking

Ish #303 "It's a street food vendor! Stop asking for the health score rating. - Regina Griffin

Dora and I are now married, but just as happy as we were before. - Bertrand Russell

Life is beautiful, but we often forget and decorate it with ugliness. - Debasish Mridha

Cry as much as you want to, but make sure when you're finished, you never cry for the same reason again - Wiz Khalifa

Thinking only begins at the point where we have come to know that Reason, glorified for centuries, is the most obstinate adversary of thinking. - Martin Heidegger

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

For some, memories are a blessing. They give one something to look at and cherish in dark times. For some, memories are a curse. They give one pain, guilt, and sorrow. But for all, memories make up who we are now. - Taylor Chackowsky

You are rebirth; therefore you have one foot in life and the other in death. - Anonymous

Perfect is a dream that you wake up from and spend forever trying to remember. - Joseph Hunt

We ought not to look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dear-brought experience. - George Washington

My main reason for adopting literature as a profession was that, as the author is never seen by his clients, he need not dress respectably. - George Bernard Shaw

If more than ten percent of the population likes a painting it should be burned, for it must be bad. - George Bernard Shaw

most of us, as we undergo the growing up process, do not get what we want or even what we should. We get what we have, and no more, and we find out how to make what we have work for us. - Lilith Saintcrow

Freedom is not reserved for those unwilling to fight for it. - Ben Carson

The man and husband of the household is responsible for the way your family’s income is managed. - Jim George

God takes us through life`s journey. Always nudging our Spirits to go for plus and shun the minus. - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

A good deed that follows upon another is the reward for the first one, and an evil deed that follows upon another is a punishment for the first one. - Junayd

Before the entire universe realizes how special you are, you yourself have to realize it. So that even if they never find out, you will always know. - Vanshika Dhyani

Winners will take what they know and share it with others.The lips of the righteous feed many: but fools die for want of wisdom. - Anonymous

Stop telling me that love is blind. Love doesn't need to be blind; it is accepting. It can see everything and still be unconditionally strong. Love sees you and accepts you for who you are. - Steve Maraboli

The Christian who loves his Master needs not fear any longer for himself. For it is then completely irrational, as it is written thus: 'Perfect love casts out fear.' However, it is very much rational for one to instead fear for the enemies of God. - Criss Jami

I won't look back to regret yesterday, we're not handed tomorrow so I'll live for today - 3 Doors Down

Music is for souls & hearts to dance & sing.Art is for expressing your visionary being.Words are tools for exploring & celebrating.Time is a pool to swim & dream & create in.Waste not one jot of what you are given!Use everything you've got to maximise living. - Jay Woodman

To reveal your greatness, see the greatness in everyone. Ignore pettiness and forgive everyone. - Debasish Mridha

True love is a spiritual force that binds 2 hearts together. - Ellen J. Barrier

The moon has a face like the clock in the hall;She shines on thieves on the garden wall,On streets and fields and harbour quays,And birdies asleep in the forks of the trees. - Robert Louis Stevenson

This is the most unprofessional production I've ever worked on! Nobody knows where they're going, or what they're doing, except, of course, for *ME*

Do not compare yourself with anybody. Compare yourself with yourself, for yourself and by yourself. We are all uniquely pottered and purposed by our creator! - Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

Before hurting anyone, especially those who cannot protect themselves, feel their pain with your heart. Take care of them as your little child. - Debasish Mridha

You're not asking me for advice, you're asking me for permission. - Steve Maraboli

The Cycle of True Love: First I see and think I love, then I say I know I love, today and forever more I decide to love. - Michael Sweeney

Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind. - Leonardo da Vinci

I am prepared to meet anyone, but whether anyone is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter. - Mark Twain

We merely want to live in peace with all the world, to trade with them, to commune with them, to learn from their culture as they may learn from ours, so that the products of our toil may be used for our schools and our roads and our churches and not for guns and planes and tanks and ships of war. - Dwight D. Eisenhower

Histories of morality are rarely written in order to inform the reader. - John Gray

Man forgives woman anything save the wit to outwit him. - Minna Thomas Antrim

He loved her for almost everything she was & she decided that was enough to let him stay for a very long time. - Brian Andreas

The very essence of leadership is that you have to have a vision. It’s got to be a vision you articulate clearly and forcefully on every occasion. You can’t blow an uncertain trumpet. - Theodore Hesburgh

You could say we run a dating service. If you with some books that will take you on a date you will never forget. - Love The Stacks Bookstore

Rewards are not simply given, they are earned. Each of your trials and tribulations increases your reward. You are destined for success and greatness beyond measure. So smile to increase your endurance and laugh in the face of adversity. - Carlos Wallace

Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing. - Bernard M. Baruch

Onward & Forward! We RROOAAARRR! - Dr Margaret Aranda

The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in. - James Baldwin

Two things form the bedrock of any open society — freedom of expression and rule of law. If you don’t have those things, you don’t have a free country."[Don’t allow religious hooligans to dictate terms (The Times of India, January 16, 2008)] - Salman Rushdie

Grounding is taking a conscious effort to retract oneself from the world’s distractions, and then focusing on listening to isolate the voice of God within from the voice of the ego. The voice of God within is where all the answers lie. - Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana

Only you can make yourself strong. Nobody else can do it for you. - Kim Pape

I felt like some part of my soul was ripped out and put under a microscope for criticizing. - Alysha Speer

I said to my girl, 'Was it good for you too?' And she said, 'I don't think this was good for anybody.'

Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. - Virginia Woolf

Being democratic is not enough, a majority cannot turn what is wrong into right. In order to be considered truly free, countries must also have a deep love of liberty and an abiding respect for the rule of law. - Margaret Thatcher

I could feel myself peeking over at him. He was like a seatbelt for my soul. - Kimberly Sabatini

I read, write and create. I must lose myself in work, so that there is no space for the other/anything else. - Patricia Highsmith

Og engang skal hver eneste mann på jord erkjenne, at det var i ungdommen han kunne gjort alt, men ikke gjorde det. Engang skal han erkjenne den bitreste av alle sannheter: at livet ikke kan leves om igjen; at ungdom er noe som bare unge mennesker har, og som bare gamle mennesker forstår å bruke. - Agnar Mykle

The world is like a giant Alcoholic whining day to day about what others are doing. Instead of of living harmoniously and individually for Good Orderly Direction. If we have faith in our God, than why should we care how others are living their lives? - B.L. Kennison

George Bush taking credit for the Berlin Wall coming down is like the rooster taking credit for the sunrise.

After I leave the earth my work is anyway going to belong to the world for centuries but till that time I want to work freely. - Amit Kalantri

Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart. Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love. - Jalaluddin Rumi

When your beauty struck me, it dissolved me. Deep down, I am not different from you. I dreamed you, I wished for your existence. I see in you that part of me which is you. I surrender my sincerity because if I love you it means we share the same fantasies, we share the same madness. - Anaïs Nin

As she cried, I could feel growing there, as had once before, a presence between us: the tiny perfect form of Sherry nestled between her parents' bodies. Our bodies were shaped by her absence, by the almost unbearable weight of her loss. - Robert J. Wiersema

The trees at Cloudwalk have been my friends for forty years. I'm sure if I were sawed in half, our rings would match. - Diane Von Furstenberg

Do not fear going forward slowly; fear only to stand still. - Chinese Proverb

Of all the evils for which man has made himself responsible, none is so degrading, so shocking or so brutal as his abuse of the better half of humanity; the female sex. - Mahatma Gandhi

He leaned forward and opened his door, politely standing aside to let me by before following me in. There are some advantages to dating a guy from another era, I thought. Though I am a big believer in gender equality, chivalry scores high in my book. - Amy Plum

If we love someone deeply, be they friends, family or lovers, don’t treat the relationship like a playground game of back and forth or tit for tat. See it as a loving connection and let that be the basis of it all. - lauren klarfeld

Have you ever wondered why Republicans are so interested in encouraging people to volunteer in their communities? It’s because volunteers work for no pay. Republicans have been trying to get people to work for no pay for a long time. - George Carlin

Confidence thrills men for it means you won’t be fidgety or excessively jealous when the man is in the midst of people especially those of opposite sex. - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

It is a frightful satire and an epigram on the modern age that the only use it knows for solitude is to make it a punishment, a jail sentence. - Søren Kierkegaard

you turn into a shrewd tactician, making a series of cautious semicommitments without really surrendering to some larger purpose. You lose the ability to say a hundred noes for the sake of one overwhelming and fulfilling yes. - David Brooks

One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child. - Randall Jarrell

Be happy while you are looking for happiness because our purpose of life is to be happy. - Debasish Mridha

Theologians and other clerks, You won't understand this book, -- However bright your wits -- If you do not meet it humbly, And in this way, Love and Faith Make you surmount Reason, for They are the protectors of Reason's house. - Marguerite Porete

Honesty is for the most part, less profitable than dishonesty. - Plato

Some look at life, for their entire life, before they actually see. - Nikki Rowe

You have been criticizing yourself for years and it hasn't worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens. - Louise L. Hay

If you cannot forgive others, how can you forgive yourself? - Debasish Mridha

If you spend your life over analysing every encounter you will always see the tree, but never the forest. - Shannon L. Alder

I would wish that people would accept people for who they are, not be judgmental, allow people to live their lives and enjoy themselves and that would be my wish for people. - John Barrowman

look for a long time at what pleases you, and longer still at what pains you... - Colette

If you leave the smallest corner of your mind open for a moment, other people's opinions will rush in from all quarters. - George Bernard Shaw

Laughing on the way to your execution is not generally understood by less advanced life-forms, and they'll call you crazy. - Richard Bach

The universal fact is that the majority do not have the affordability to buy the precious, so if a person is being liked often by most people found around, they might be considering him/her only meretricious. - Anuj Somany

When I write, I disturb. When I show a film, I disturb. When I exhibit my painting, I disturb, and I disturb if I don't. I have a knack for disturbing. - Jean Cocteau

I foresee the day when we shall read nothing but telegrams and prayers. - Emil Cioran

To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost. - Gustave Flaubert

The apartment faces an alley and is entered by a fire-escape, a structure whose name is a touch of accidental poetic truth, for all of these huge buildings are always burning with the slow and implacable fires of human desperation. - Tennessee Williams

What you believe, that is your truth, that you will attract and, for sure, that will manifest in your life. - Debasish Mridha

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

All I wanted for Christmas was a New Years Eve party that I would never forget. Too bad I got too drunk to remember it. - Carroll Bryant

Forgiveness is the process of dropping off your emotional baggage. - Tim Fargo

We lay our words like tenuous plats, build a bridge over itsunsinkable depth: Not a sea of longing,but the brack of wanting what’s physicalto help us forget we are physical. - Cate Marvin

Complaining is good for you as long as you're not complaining to the person you're complaining about. - Lynn Johnston

One always dies too soon--or too late. And yet one's whole life is complete at that moment, with a line drawn neatly under it, ready for the summing up. You are--your life, and nothing else. - Jean-Paul Sartre

My heart's made of goldMy soul is pure steelLoved ones shall riseEnemies will kneelI soothe with water, attack with fireFor I am the master of my own empire. - Sarah Brownlee

Education is what remains when we have forgotten all that we have been taught. - George Savile

When a ship without a functioning rudder and compass miraculously sails safely to the shore, let not the Captain take praise for such success. It is not his place to claim merit. He should nevertheless, be prosecuted for failing as a Captain. - Prinx Maurice

The Reality of The Other Person Lies Not In What He Reveals To You, But What He Cannot Reveal To You.Therefore, If You Would Understand Him, Listen Not To What He Says, But Rather To What He Does Not Say. - Kahlil Gibran

The quickest way to run out of time is to think you have enough of it, - Stewart Stafford

Australian Aborigines say that the big stories — the stories worth telling and retelling, the ones in which you may find the meaning of your life — are forever stalking the right teller, sniffing and tracking like predators hunting their prey in the bush. - Robert Moss

Better to love for no reason than have reasons not to love. - Marty Rubin

We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low. - Desmond Tutu

Qui-gon shook his head. 'No,' he said firmly. 'I'm not testing you, Obi-wan. Life tests you! Every day it brings you new chances for triumph or defeat. And if you pass the test, it doesn't make you a Jedi. It makes you human. - Dave Wolverton

We touch the last reality directly in prayer. - P.T. Forsyth

Love is a spirit, and therefore cannot die a natural death. - Matshona Dhliwayo

When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before.

After two years in Washington, I often long for the realism and sincerity of Hollywood. - Fred Thompson

Stupid is forever, ignorance can be fixed. - Don Wood

These detective series on TV always end at precisely the right moment-after the criminal is arrested and before the court turns him loose. - Robert Orben

When words lose their meaning, physical force takes over.from an essay for Writers by Nancy Crampton - W.H. Auden

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

Think about it for a second:Babies are not born prejudice, they are not racist,they don’t hate, they don’t judge, and are not born believing in christianity, buddhism, sikhism, hinduism, judaism or any other ism.We, as adults, teach them all these things. - Steven Aitchison

Intelligence is an ability to understand, but it is not a substitute for wisdom. - Debasish Mridha

I couldn’t wait for success ― so I went ahead without it. - Jonathan Winters

I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death. - Patrick Henry

The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it. - William James

For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act? - Dante Alighieri

But let no person say what they would or would not do, since we are not judges for ourselves until circumstances call us to act. - Abigail Adams

He that doth not as other men do, but endeavoureth that which ought to be done, shall thereby rather incur peril than preservation; for whoso laboureth to be sincerely perfect and good shall necessarily perish, living among men that are generally evil. - Walter Raleigh

Never such innocence,Never before or since,As changed itself to pastWithout a word--the menLeaving the gardens tidy,The thousands of marriagesLasting a little while longer:Never such innocence again. - Philip Larkin

People forget that there's two sides to every story. Of course somebody is going to tell the side of it that makes them look good and exaggerate the rest to make everyone else look bad. - David Reeves

Probably one of the most private things in the world is an egg before it is broken. - M.F.K. Fisher

Put duties aside at least an hour before bed and perform soothing, quiet activities that will help you relax. - Dianne Hales

Women that can work a camera with ease often work men just as effortlessly for both require the same commitment to vanity and manipulation. - Tiffany Madison

The universe never complains.When you're wrong or right,She always loves and cares,She always gives and shares. When you get lost she becomes the light,Helps you to find what is right. But she never forgetsTo show you the light. - Debasish Mridha

Expect the best, prepare for the worst. - Muhammad Ali Jinnah

I can be forced to live without happiness, but I will never consent to live without honor. - Pierre Corneille

Hope for peace!Dream for peace!Act for peace!Live in peace!Life is for peace! - Debasish Mridha

When people first discover beauty, they tend to linger. Even if they don’t at first recognize it for what it is. - Sherwood Smith

I am reminded of the professor who, in his declining hours, was asked by his devoted pupils for his final counsel. He replied, 'Verify your quotations.' - Sir Winston Churchill

After spending all of his resources to create all of us, not just one or two people, but in millions and billions and yet, God cannot find a man who will stand for him - Sunday Adelaja

I'm too sexy for a grocery store. - John Carter Quinn Liberty At Last

Among leaders who have made the greatest impact through ages, I would consider Muhammad before Jesus Christ. - James Gavin

Often subtle clues are not obvious enough for the stubborn or stupid. This is when God stops throwing crumbs and starts throwing the whole piece of bread. If you step on moldy bread then you know you have waited too long. - Shannon L. Alder

Polly ended her lesson with the words she lived by: man is tender by nature, the rest is invented. Everyone applauded, even Bernice who was relieved that it was finally over. - K. Ford K.

Because it happened in the past , doesn't mean it forgotten ...!! - Doha Asrir

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

The jewels of sorrow last forever - James Thurber

Henry liked fun and avoided when he could any solemn or serious matter, for he confused these with sorrow. - John Steinbeck

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter. - Nicolas Chamfort

We make a home for ourselves, every time we work on something: actors, writers, singers, building these little nests in our gypsy souls, in place of the ones we so seldom seem to make in our own lives. And then suddenly it's over, and we have to start again. - Alan Brennert

I signaled the bus-driver and he stopped the bus for me right outside the cottage, and I flew down the steps of the bus straight into the arms of the waiting mother. - Roald Dahl

Take a moment and sit with yourself. You may find what you are looking for. - Steven Cuoco

Make your interactions with people transformational, not just transactional. - Patti Smith

You are a gift. You are the only one of you on this planet and God made you specifically to deliver that gift to mankind. I request that you stop waiting to remember what you are here for and start sharing you gift with the world. - Monika Zands

Learning is retarded in conditions of high anxiety and low acceptance. For most tasks, people have the intellectual knowledge to perform well; they just have a hard time acting on what they know. - Tim Gallwey

Do you know great minds enjoy excellence, average minds love mediocrity and small minds adore comfort zones? - Onyi Anyado

problems call for ideas, the bigger the problem, the bigger the idea - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Everything that has ever happened to me that has been important has not been something that I've hoped for, or looked for, or manipulated -- it's all been predicated on my ability to take a new road when it presented itself and to go with it."(On Beauty: , Vogue, January 8, 2016) - Susan Sarandon

There is, in fact, no safeword for chemical burns under one’s fingernails. - Agnostic Zetetic

I AM RESPONSIBLE FOR THE THING I DO NOT WHAT MY COMMUNITY OR RELIGION DOES. - merlin8thomas

May the Lord comfort the lonely and suffering souls. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Be a butterfly and always look for kindness, softness and beauties. - Debasish Mridha

Where we see the same faults followed regularly by the same misfortunes, we may reasonably think that if we could have known the first we might have avoided the others. - James Madison

Dream as if you will live forever; Live as if you will die today. - James Dean

Don't believe in imagining things different from what they really are. When the Lord puts us in certain circumstances He doesn't mean for us to imagine them away. - L. M. Montgomery

Feeling sorry for myself was an art. - Benjamin Alire Sáenz

Want to forget that you’re growing older? Walk across green grass with bare feet. - Toni Sorenson

For a nation to be truly great, she must first identify her national values, enumerate her virtues and formulate her value system. But the most tasking of all these is to develop a culture in her people, that will best represent the proclaimed value systems of the nation. - Sunday Adelaja

Perhaps that's why they had been so happy to learn a new tongue in the first place : the self consciousness of it, the effort of it, the grammar of it, pulled you up; a new language provided distance and kept the heart intact. - Kiran Desai

A romance book is designed to tell you something about love–its ability to endure, forgive, go the extra mile, care about someone, put someone else first. - Dee Henderson

Life is too short. I forgive and forget. I have not time to get mad or hate. - Debasish Mridha

If you conform, you can never reform. - Debasish Mridha

I knelt in front of life, folded my hands and prayed for some more time; there couldn't be any. My heart bled and so did my tearful eyes.Time, they say, flies, but I saw it slowly passing by taking each of my tardy breaths with it as it walked out of my life... - Sanhita Baruah

Hair on a man's chest is thought to denote strength. The gorilla is the most powerful of bipeds and has hair on every place on his body except for his chest. - Anton Szandor LaVey

Ask a woman if she’s ambitious and she’ll look at you as if you just asked whether she sticks pins in puppies for fun. Ask a woman if she’s competitive and she’ll look at you as if you suggested that she’s a hooker. - Gina Barreca

Frankl approvingly quotes the words of Nietzsche: "He who has a Why to live for can bear almost any How. - Victor E. Frankl

Tobak Davenport, who is a cross between some Sugar Puffs and Lynn Faulds-Wood, was squatting there before being removed by the local constabulary after he went round to complain about Luther Blisset’s pet turkey fouling the communal herb garden. - St John Morris

At your absolute best, you still won't be good enough for the wrong person. At your worst, you'll still be worth it to the right person. - Karen Salmansohn

Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance. - Samuel Johnson

I was wasting my time, praying for love.For a love that never comes, from someone who does not exist. - Morrissey

If man does find the solution for world peace it will be the most revolutionary reversal of his record we have ever known. - George C. Marshall

Man usually sees what he is looking for; seldom what he is looking at. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

They spoil every romance by trying to make it last for ever. It is a meaningless word, too. The only difference between a caprice and a lifelong passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer. - Oscar Wilde

Each time we allow our interest to take a back sit in favor of others, which is a form of death. - Sunday Adelaja

Just EnoughSoil for legsAxe for handsFlower for eyesBird for earsMushrooms for noseSmile for mouthSongs for lungsSweat for skinWind for mind - Nanao Sakaki

A cheerful music is a powerful light for the shadows of sorrow! - Mehmet Murat ildan

Forgetting nature is like forgetting your mother. Remember you are a child of nature. You are connected to it and belong to it. So don’t forget to protect her. - Debasish Mridha

What was Dr. Mera's motive for murder? I don't need to tell that to a writer of detective novels such as yourself. You know well enough yourself that even without a motive, a murderer lives to kill. - Rampo Edogawa

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

Maturity is for serious people. Let us be immature and have endless fun. - Ksenia Anske

They say, timing is everything. But then they say, there is never a perfect time for anything. - Anthony Liccione

I walked a mile with Pleasure;She chatted all the way;But left me none the wiserFor all she had to say.I walked a mile with Sorrow;And ne’er a word said she;But, oh! The things I learned from her,When Sorrow walked with me. - Robert Browning Hamilton

You ask why I love you. For this: You are a minute of quiet in a loud shouting world. - Gabriel Gadfly

The suppression of uncomfortable ideasmay be common in religion and politics, but it is not the path to knowledge; it has no placein the endeavor of science. - Carl Sagan

Orthodox medicine has not found an answer to your complaint. However, luckily for you, I happen to be a quack. - Richter cartoon caption

It's not doing what is right that's hard for a President. It's knowing what is right. - Lyndon Johnson

History remembers the battle, but forgets the blood. - R

I feel a new era coming in, standing on the shore, waiting for it to slowly greet me. - Charlotte Eriksson

Fervor is the weapon of choice for the impotent. - Frantz Fanon

A lot of people approach risk as if it's the enemy when it's really fortune's accomplice. - Sting

Strategic personal qualities you can base your self-confidence on are those which are interesting for all mankind. - Rossana Condoleo

If being seen as worthy of employing is the best that school does for the schooled, then school is overrated. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The great thing to remember is that though our feelings come and go God's love for us does not. - C.S. Lewis

War created the conditions for great advances in technology...without war men would not traverse oceans in hours, travel in space, or microwave popcorn. - Adrian R. Lewis

You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club. - Jack London

Humanity is a spectator sport. God is the spectator. - Forrest Carr

I was miserable, of course, for I was seventeen, and so I swung into action and wrote a poem, and it was miserable, for that's how I thought poetry worked: you digested experience and shat literature. [from "Mingus at the Showplace"] - William Matthews

Religion is meant to be bread for daily use, not cake for special occasions.

Alas! must it ever be so? Do we stand in our own light, wherever we go, And fight our own shadows forever? - Edward Bulwer-Lytton

The reason sex is fun is not to cater to the desire for individual human pleasure, but because humanity would have ceased to exist a long time ago if it were drudgery. - Joe Beaton

When you choose to look down on something, you render yourself incapable of understanding it. - Stewart Stafford

The steam engine has done much more for science than science has done for the steam engine. - William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin

It's a big world for the idiots. If you're a writer, there are not many cities where you can go and feel normal. - Daniel Marques

The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing. - Jack Kerouac

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

My life isn't perfect and it will never be I make mistakes, I learn from them and keep moving forward. - Shellie Palmer

Passion is the fuel that drives ordinary people to achieve extraordinary results by aligning their hearts, minds, beliefs and efforts. - Dr. Asoka Jinadasa

I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. - Robert A. Heinlein

I'm fairly convinced that the Kingdom of God is for the broken-hearted. You write of 'powerlessness.' Join the club, we are not in control. God is. - Fred Rogers

When my children complain that I'm forgetful, I remind them that DAD is just ADD spelled sideways. - Harvey Stanbrough

You are born to rule or to be ruled. It’s for you to decide which path to choose. - Vinita Kinra

All creative people should be required to leave California for three months every year. - Gloria Swanson

Be noble like the sun; let even those who resent you for shinning benefit from your warmth. - Matshona Dhliwayo

In summer, a soothing warm breeze on a beach is the most soothing music for the soul. - Debasish Mridha

Fear not death for the sooner we die, the longer we shall be immortal. - Benjamin Franklin

Parents have become so convinced educators know what is best for children that they forget that they themselves are really the experts. - Marian Wright Edeleman

Never allow fear to keep you from creating your own miracle. There are unlimited options at your disposal for creating any magical experience safely if you access the wisdom of your heart and make the choice to walk in the light. - Molly Friedenfeld

Three things will last forever — faith, hope, and love — and the greatest of these is love. - Anonymous Holy Bible 1 Corinthians 13 13

People say, 'It's hard to forgive...et al'. I think it's much harder to live peacefully. So, forgive and focus on living peacefully. - m.ralte

My job as a leader is to make sure everybody in the company has great opportunities, and that they feel they're having a meaningful impact and are contributing to the good of society. As a world, we're doing a better job of that. My goal is for Google to lead, not follow that. - Larry Page

The best laid schemes o' Mice an' Men, Gang aft agley, An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain, For promis'd joy! (The best laid schemes of Mice and Men oft go awry, And leave us nothing but grief and pain, For promised joy!) - Robert Burns

Because of course, for every revelation of weakness, there had to be an equal and opposite show of strength. - Jane Casey

When dreams become more important than reality, you give up travel, building, creating; you even forget how to repair the machines left behind by your ancestors. You just sit living and reliving other lives left behind in the thought records.-- Vina, "The Menagerie" ("The Cage"), Star Trek, 1966 - Gene Roddenberry

When lion saddled for hunt, he outfitted by bow and arrow to guard himself - H.B. Ida

Federal and state laws (should) be changed to no longer make it a crime to possess marijuana for private use. - Richard M. Nixon

Every poet will forever try to write the greatest poem ever written, I have found that this kind of poem can be written with One word. And that word consists of a beauty beyond any measure to man and one of the most beauty creations to grace the presents of man. That one word poem is…….. YOU - Michael Jones

Having the courage to stand up for yourself is like bringing swords to a stick fight. - Kyle Schmalenberg

Act with God's compassion, mercy and forgiveness in mind and you will always be right. Act with revenge in your heart and you will always be wrong. - Shannon L. Alder

Try to be happy within the context of the life we are actually living. Happiness is not a situation to be longed for or a convergence of lucky happenstance. Through the power of our own minds, we can help ourselves. - Wayne Coyne

She was mined for the childrenin her, one daughter, then another, a short seam, quick to clay, and not a single son to save them. - Robert Wrigley

After your death, you will be what you were before your birth. - Arthur Schopenhauer

There's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our lungs there'd be no place to put it all. - Robert Orben

Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be. - Rita Rudner

...if that energy could have been channelled into anything more than noise, waste and pain it would have lighted up Indochina for a thousand years. - Michael Herr

Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money. - Virginia Woolf

Be not forgetful to entertain strangers; for thereby some have entertained angels unawares. - Serena B. Miller

Men are mere mortals but their quest for knowledge leads them to the brink of immortality. - Grace Willows

If you want to identify me, ask me not where I live, or what I like to eat, or how I comb my hair, but ask me what I am living for, in detail, ask me what I think is keeping me from living fully for the thing I want to live for. - Thomas Merton

We need leaders, we need political leaders and we need business leaders, and my hope for this book is that it helps create that next generation of business leaders that will lead us into the future. - James White Fellow of INSTAAR

Curiosity is the driving force that propels humanity forward. - Debasish Mridha

True love is the person you lay your eyes on that you will be with forever. - Addisa Irving

Persecution for Christians is not a possibility, it's a promise, it's not a maybe, it's a surely! Following Jesus can mean finding the trouble you've been looking for! - Kingsley Opuwari Manuel

A doctorate study is the passion for extensive research, reading, thinking and writing. - Lailah Gifty Akita

You don't have the right to blame others for your own mistakes.. - San Sai R.A

These days people call entertainment capturing someone at their lowest moment and then posting it for the world to see. - Cedar Cove

The face is not a secondary billboard for our internal feelings. It is an equal partner in the emotional process. - Malcolm Gladwell

The best dreams are the dreams we made come true for the world. - Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

People lack morals, good moral character is important in every aspect of your life. Honesty and Integrity opens the door. Your character allows others to see you for who you truly are. Make your first impression a lasting impression. Ironically it may be your last impression - Amaka Imani Nkosazana

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

Entre los individuos, como entre las naciones, el respeto al derecho ajeno es la paz -- Among individuals, as among nations, respect for the rights of others is peace. - Benito Juárez

Sometimes your mind can imprison your body and can put your body under some constraints. There is only one way for your body to be free: To free your mind! - Mehmet Murat ildan

Never expect someone to care for you or to care for your feelings and emotions, Everyone's fucking heartless, people just don't give a damn about your stupid feelings or your boring stories. People only know how to fool you around for their own benefits... - Taimoor Madni

Decide what you stand for. And then stand for it all the time. - Clayton M. Christensen

If you forgo your plan, you also have to forgo fear. - Eric Schmidt

If your repentance and God's forgiveness of your sin does not lead to total surrender to God, you should wonder if you truly repented. - Gail Davis

Of course, that’s one of the dreams of modernist literature, whether realist or fantastic: that the more stories we tell each other about such tragedies, the fewer of them there will be. We’re still waiting for the results. - Charles Finch

May my heart reside always in the love and for the love. May my heart judge everything with kindness and love. - Debasish Mridha

To get what you want tomorrow, be grateful for what you have today. - Dr. Asoka Jinadasa

We all deserve to be treated with nothing but respect. In order to command respect from others, we must first and foremost respect ourselves. - Julie-Anne

may be you are successful ,powerful ,still you are looking for her, there must be something in her what you do not have - litymunshi

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

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

Nature has a great simplicity and therefore a great beauty. - Richard Feynman

We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess. - Mark Twain

Every moment for us is Laylatul Qadr. - Shaykh Abu Bakr bin Salim

He could not stand. It was notThat he could not thrive, he was bornWith everything but the will –That can be deformed, just like a limb.Death was more interesting to him.Life could not get his attention. - Ted Hughes

Grinning is something you do when you are entertained in some way, such as reading a good book or watching someone you don't care for spill orange soda all over themselves. - Lemony Snicket

When you see a good man, try to emulate his example, and when you see a bad man, search yourself for his faults. - Confucius

Love isn't easy. It isn't perfect like in stories or movies--but it's real. When we feel it, it reminds us we are alive, and when we truly feel it--it hurts like hell--but it reminds us why we live... For the hope of love. - N.A. Koziol

Death moved in the night, in search for blood, and when it found Life, it passed on by, like a cloud that moves by the face of the moon. When he found those dead without the red, he took the life before them born first, and the mourning emptied itself till the morning. - Anthony Liccione

A great leader fights with great adversity, suffers greatly, but courageously, and never forget to help others is his ultimate duty. - Debasish Mridha

A credit card allows you transcend time. For it allows you to put off until tomorrow what you bought today, while you are still paying off what you bought yesterday. - Robert Morrissette

Helping other people can be a cure not just for those who are in need, but for your soul as well. - Marinela Reka

The victims of Ankara peace rally sacrificed their lives for peace and their only wish was We Want Peace. - Widad Akreyi

One of the most difficult things to give away is kindness, for it is usually returned. - Mark Ortman

Past is a picture that has been viewed already, and there's nothing more to learn from it, so we need to stop looking at the same picture again and again and start making a better picture for the future, so that when someday we look back the picture's made by us, instead of regretting we cherish it. - Alamvusha

Back then, he'd have to leave at the end of August for the start of school, so the week before Labor Day became it's own tiny season of gloom, like a hundred Sunday nights crowded together. - Charles Frazier

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

Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last, in the ripeness of instinct and discretion, it can be safely exchanged for fidelity and happiness. - George Santayana

The real tradegy is the tragedy of the man who never in his life braces himself for his one supreme effort-he never stretches to his full capacity, never stands up to his full stature. - Arnold Bennett

Maybe you have been looking for peace for no one but yourself. - Building 429

I do this real moron thing, and it's called thinking. And apparently I'm not a very good American because I like to form my own opinions. - George Carlin

If you want it enough, you find strength to work for its achievement. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Power dements even more than it corrupts, lowering the guard of foresight and raising the haste of action.

The speed of communications is wondrous to behold. It is also true that speed can multiply the distribution of information that we know to be untrue. - Edward R. Murrow

The past informs our present and our future. - Todd Stocker

Life is too short, hug tightly, love strongly, forgive oftenly, and always smile widely! - Zane Baker

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."[Remarks on the first anniversary of the Alliance for Progress, 13 March 1962] - John F. Kennedy

Too many people confuse real magic with magical thinking. Real magic isn't a trick and it transforms our lives. Magical thinking is denial.Real magic is what happens when we break old belief patterns and have the courage to employ the native laws of the Universe - Jacob Nordby

And let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit. For love that seeks aught but the disclosure of its own mystery is not love but a net cast forth: and only the unprofitable is caught. - Kahlil Gibran

Now and then women should do for themselves what men have already done—occasionally what men have not done—thereby establishing themselves as persons, and perhaps encouraging other women toward greater independence of thought and action. - Amelia Earhart

I have great respect for the Syrian people, as I do for the rest of the Middle East. - Steven Magee

Let us be the ones who say we do not accept that a child dies every three seconds simply because he does not have the drugs you and I have. Let us be the ones to say we are not satisfied that your place of birth determines your right for life. Let us be outraged, let us be loud, let us be bold. - Brad Pitt

There is intimacy in pain. Anyone who has comforted a sufferer knows it—the helpless tenderness, the embrace and murmur and slow rocking together as two become one against the enemy, pain. - Laini Taylor

Mama said there would be days like this.She never said it would be day after day,after day!~ Unknown - Candace Mumford

The world just goes along. Nothing much matters, you know? I mean really matters. but then sometimes, just for a second, you get this grace, this belief that it does matter, a whole lot. - Lucia Berlin

Every utterance is an event, and no two events are precisely alike. The extreme view, therefore, is that no word ever means the same thing twice. - Louis B. Saloman

Breakups can be sad, but sometimes tears are the price we pay for a freedom we need. - Steve Maraboli

For in the forest someone is always watching and someone is always listening! - Nancy B. Brewer

Book lust forever! - Nancy Pearl

Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages, for yr own joy - Jack Kerouac

Another possible source of guidance for teenagers is television, but television's message has always been that the need for truth, wisdom and world peace pales by comparison with the need for a toothpaste that offers whiter teeth *and* fresher breath. - Dave Barry

Trying something new is like daring to speak a foreign language, you bite your tongue at first, memorize and thereafter sing it as if you were pretending to be unacquainted. - Michael Bassey Johnson

Appreciate those who make efforts only to see you happy. They might have some limitations but that does not mean that the efforts they are making have no meanings. Dont judge them on the basis of their limitations. It really hurts... - Sharfaraz Ahmed

Something that trash for me, might be diamond for you. - Sohail Umar

When we stand up for what we believe in—for what’s right—there is always a chance that we risk the very things we fight for: our safety, our lives, our freedom. But if we stand down, the risk is definite. - Kelseyleigh Reber

I whispered to him, You'll regret it if you let me go. I don't wait for a man, if he's not willing to grow' He didn't believe me, he made his choice & That was the last time, he ever heard my voice. - Nikki Rowe

Some mistakes are worse than others: wearing your underwear inside out isn’t as uncomfortable as wearing it back to front. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

For all the accomplishments of molecular biology, we still can't tell a live cat from a dead cat. - Lynn Margulis

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

There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go. - Tennessee Williams

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them. - George Bernard Shaw

He who thinks money is the key to happiness, my heart cries for him. One has no overstanding of life. - Andrea L'Artiste

Hmmm.. We are like children in a bus with faulty brakes on a hill, eventually we will meet our collusion point. Well blindly some of us may think of sacking out all the good out of the bus before it meets it's end, but what is really there to sack out. Some places are hard to to get out of. - Allan Amanyire

A society that robs an individual of the product of his effort, or enslaves him, or attempts to limit the freedom of his mind, or compels him to act against his own rational judgment ... is not, strictly speaking, a society, but a mob held together by institutionalized gang-rule. - Ayn Rand

Love is an endless act of forgiveness. - Jan Karon

At points of clarity, I realize that my life on earth is meaningless, and that I am merely a pawn in a bigger game. A game I cannot possible understand or have control of. Thankfully, before depression sets in, I drift back into my cloudy, bewildered daily routine.

Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth. - J. K. Rowling

Soldiers are not trained for retire - Bimo Satriyo

Books are finite, sexual encounters are finite, but the desire to read and to fuck is infinite; it surpasses our own deaths, our fears, our hopes for peace. - Roberto Bolaño

I find that I spend a tremendous amount of time chasing the praises of men rather than sitting with the praises of God. The former is something I attempt to catch, the latter catches me. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

Simplicity takes time, patience & practice. Complexity offers too many excuses for failure - Dean Cavanagh

What is carved on rocks were away in time. What is told from mouth to mouth will live forever. - Vietnamese saying

I will not glory, even in my orthodoxy, for even that can be a snare if I make a god of it... Let us rejoice in Him in all His fulness and in Him alone. - D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little

It’s your action that reflects on the others’ reaction. If you expect good you are forced to be good. - Mohd Riyaz Ali

You can't BREED at a place where you can't BREATHE. Therefore, FIX yourself where you FIT. - Israelmore Ayivor

God's help is available for us to achieve great things. We must put our hope and trust in the Lord. - Lailah Gifty Akita

The sole remaining task for philosophy is the analysis of language. - Ludwig Wittgenstein

Pay the hired worker his wages before his sweat dries - Hazrat Muhammad P.B.U.H

God only gives men power to make wealth, meaning God does not give wealth, he gives the power to work for it. (Deut. 8:18) - Sunday Adelaja

For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told. - Anonymous

For students of every ability and background, it is the simply miraculous act of reading a good book that turns them into readers. The job of adults who care about reading is to move heaven and earth to put that book into a child's hands. - Nancy Atwell

When we forgive we are telling God that we have faith in him to fight our injustices. It might not seem possible when you are standing in a storm, but when you take the high road you can see farther than you can now. - Shannon L. Alder

Don't wait for a miracle. Make one happen. - K.J. Mecklenfeld

What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of high living. - Doug Larson

Italy and London are the only places where I don't feel to exist on sufferance. - E.M. Forster

Everyone should have a form of a diary it’s a great release Most people’s Diaries are called "My Diary" Mines called "Conversations with Me". - Stanley Victor Paskavich

It’s not about working for money, it’s about having money work for you. - Stephen Richards

The great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign nations, is, in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connection as possible. - George Washington

Dads, no matter your relationship with your kid’s mom, honor her this weekend. Mother’s Day isn’t about you or drama. It’s about her and her impact on your ids. Be grateful. Celebrate her… and if you can’t get out of your own way, do it for your kids. - Steve Maraboli

Virtues are common, but the virtuous are very few. This is because ordinarily, people know but do not apply what they know. To break the culture, look for more information; learn more and apply more. This is wisdom. - Israelmore Ayivor

You will be hearing from me, she said, as he opened the door for her. And you will find that when I am crossed I am very formidable. - Colm Tóibín

It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him. - Sydney Smith

If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own. - Charlotte Bronte

I trust that everything happens for a reason, even when we're not wise enough to see it. - Oprah Winfrey

Allow me to tell you, Mr Taylor," said I, but quietly as the occasion demanded, "that one gentleman does not rejoice at the misfortune of another in public". - William Golding

Give thanks for what you are today and go on fighting for what you gone be tomorrow - William Shakespeare

Happiness is in all of us and it comes from progress. The root cause of a multiplier effect or a destroyer effect lies inside of us. The multiplication of the happiness in us on a daily basis makes us unique and powerful and gives us the reason for our existence." --. - Bimal Shah

Break my heart for what breaks yours. Everything I am for you kingdom's cause, as I walk from nothing to eternity. - Kiera Cass

The tyrant’s formula for every genocide since the beginning of time: differentiate, divide, destroy. - Clifford Cohen

We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life. - Tennessee Williams

Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever. - Albert Einstein

They deem me mad for I will not sell my days for gold; I deem them mad for they think my days have a price. - Kahlil Gibran

Technology to wipe out truth is now available. Not everybody can afford it but it's available. When the cost comes down, look out! - Bob Dylan

How sweet all at once it was for me to be rid of those fruitless joys which I had once feared to lose..! You drove them from me, you who are the true, the sovereign joy. You drove them from me and took their place.... O Lord my God, my Light, my Wealth, and my Salvation. - Augustine of Hippo

The soul that acquires the virtue of forgiveness won't find any more trouble. No matter what happens, he will know how to run his life ... - Chico Xavier

The only honest art form is laughter, comedy. You can't fake it...try to fake three laughs in an hour -- ha ha ha ha ha -- they'll take you away, man. You can't. - Lenny Bruce

The surest way to suppress our ability to understand the meaning of God and the importance of worship is to take things for granted...Indifference to the sublime wonder of living is the root of sin. - Abraham Joshua Heschel

Peace is the only destination worth searching for. - Debasish Mridha

Don't wait for the right conditions. All you need for your growth is available to you in this moment - Radhe Maa

Leadership is an ability to have a great vision for the future and the ability to inspire others to follow. - Debasish Mridha

I have something that I call my Golden Rule. It goes something like this: 'Do unto others twenty-five percent better than you expect them to do unto you.' … The twenty-five percent is for error. - Linus Pauling

I am grateful for the magic, mystery and majesty of nature – my loyal friend and companion – always there, welcoming and waiting for me to come; to be healed. - Tom North

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it. - John Ruskin

Creation is always an act of affirmation, a lust for life or activity, a restlessness accompanied by art. That art is what pleases and invigorates and mystifies me. - Jean Moreau, Abbey of Kervennec, France

I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God. - Abraham Lincoln

We're living in a teetering tower of babble. A shaky reality of words. A DNA soup for disaster. The natural world destroyed, we're left with this cluttered world of language. - Chuck Palahniuk

It strikes me as unfortunate that this approach - affording the same dignity to and investing in the same quality for a poor child as you would for your own - is so often received as provocative. - Jacob Lief

Forgiveness has the ability to transform our thoughts. - Asa Don Brown

Nothing lasts for long. Even moments of beauty transcend and transform. - Debasish Mridha

Homer begged and Rembrandt went bankrupt. Aristotle, who had money for books, his school, and his museum, could not have bought this painting of himself.Rembrandt could not afford a Rembrandt. - Joseph Heller

Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices, but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence and fulfills the duty to express the results of his thought in clear form. - Albert Einstein

One day you're waiting for the sky to fallThe next you're dazzled by the beauty of it all - Bruce Cockburn

Focus forward, not around you.In the moment;Not behind you.Don't grimace in the whys, Reslish in the Yes's. Be Positive...When you amplify the goods, you'll see bads as infinitesimally minuscule.Glorify and Cleanse... first and foremost , YOUR perception. #levitate - Tiffany Luard

Live a Nomad Family lifestyle to broaden your horizon and create a more suitable lifestyle for your family - Brenda Brave

Surely of all ‘rights of man’, this right of the ignorant man to be guided by the wiser, to be, gently or forcibly, held in the true course by him, is the indisputablest. - Thomas Carlyle

Nothing lasts forever. But the thing is, you can reuse some. Use your mind. - Leo's Mother, The Lost Hero - Rick Riordan

I can give not what men call love;But wilt thou accept notThe worship the heart lifts aboveAnd the heavens reject not:The desire of the moth for the star,Of the night for the morrow,The devotion to something afarFrom the sphere of our sorrow? - Percy Bysshe Shelley

The constitution does not provide for first and second class citizens. - Wendell Willkie

You are on the floor crying,and you have been on the floor crying for days.And that is you being brave.That is you getting through itas best you know how. No one else can decideWhat your tough looks like. - Clementine von Radics

I can say.. that I never said that... we never met and this never happen... How?(Good question, the answer I will leave it for later) - Deyth Banger

You know, When does a girl asks you for a selfie ?When she got the solution to the biggest mathematical equation of this Society. - Balakoteswara Panchakshari

The Puritan ethic of marriage was first to look not for a partner whom you do love passionately at this moment but rather for one whom you can love steadily as your best friend for life, then to proceed with God’s help to do just that. - J.I. Packer

Do for the others more than you do for yourself - Book of Eli Movie

Every uncomfortable experience in life gives you the choice of growing bitter or better. - Orrin Woodward

Never say never, for if you live long enough, chances are you will not be able to abide by its restrictions. Never is a long, undependable time, and life is too full of rich possibilities to have restrictions placed upon it. - Gloria Swanson

All the activities that are happening in this world are indeed done through the intellect; there is no need for Knowledge there. Knowledge is indeed in Knowledge (Knowing). And whatever actions are done through the intellect, the Knowledge ‘Knows’ it too. - Dada Bhagwan

I've been playing the game of life for over 52 years now and I don't feel one day younger or older than I am. Maybe its I just don't feel - Stanley Victor Paskavich

A worshipper perceives that he is near to God because he is awake all night worshipping God. But after worship, your prayers are for health, long life, wealth, and for the damsels and slaves of the Paradise. Ponder! Did you ever pray to God, ‘O’ God, I desire from Thee nothing but Thee’? - Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi

It takes quite a spine to turn the other cheek. It takes phenomenal fortitude to love your enemy. It takes firm resolve to pray for those who persecute you. (with reference to Matthew 5) - Rob Bell

Men aren't an inexhaustible resource, even for a king. Soldiers must have faith that their sacrifices are worthwhile. - C. J. Brightley

This is how I disappear in pieces.This is how I leave without moving from my place.This is how I dance away.This is how I'm gone before you wake. - Emma Brynstein

Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages. - H. L. Mencken

Think twice before you speak, and then you may be able to say something more insulting than if you spoke right out at once. - Evan Esar

…little people like me have to keep the true story alive. That way, when the revolution ends, and people come looking for the history, we can say, ‘Here it is – we kept it for you. - Mauriel Joslyn

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

Some people are more interested in making good on a promise—rather than in doing what they promised. - Clifford Cohen

God is looking for sons to send to the world of business to manage it for him. - Sunday Adelaja

[Tolstoy] does not necessarily get rid of [his angry] temperament by undergoing religious conversion, and indeed it is obvious that the illusion of having been reborn may allow one's native vices to flourish more freely than ever, though perhaps in subtler forms. - George Orwell

The only time success comes before work is in the dictionary. - Harvey Specter

For 'tis a truth well known to most, That whatsoever thing is lost, We seek it, ere it comes to light, In every cranny but the right. - William Cowper

He wondered why he wasn't as in love with her as he was with...Hector had only shared enjoyment with (her)...he shared everything, enjoyment and sorrow...but for some time now they'd shared too much frustration, boredom and fatigue. - François Lelord

The more you read, the better you are informed. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it. - H. L. Mencken

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

In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure. - Bill Cosby

The world is now too small for anything but brotherhood.

I've never known a musician who regretted being one. Whatever deceptions life may have in store for you, music itself is not going to let you down. - Virgil Thomson

Have you ever considered that you shouldn't pray for God to deliver you from your enemies, rather deliver you from yourself so you can not hate them? - Shannon L. Alder

If you are sure that you're going to heaven when you die, you ought to make the most of today. Why live below God's standards when He has so many wonderful things planned for you? - Jose Zayas

Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it, but a tree, which requires to grow and develop itself on all sides, according to the tendency of the inward forces which make it a living thing. - John Stuart Mill

Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you have not time properly to attend to pecuniary [monetary] matters. Want of attention to these matters has impeded the progress of science and of genius itself. - William Cobbett

Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age. - Booth Tarkington

I see a good deal of talk from Washington about lowering taxes. I hope they do get 'em lowered enough so people can afford to pay 'em. - Will Rogers

Action cannot destroy ignorance, for it is not in conflict with ignorance. Knowledge alone destroys ignorance, as light destroys dense darkness. - Shankara

We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us. - Joseph Campbell

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone. - Henry David Thoreau

Father Break my heart for what breaks yoursGive me open hands and open doorsPut your light in my eyes and let me seeThat my own little world is not about me - Matthew West

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted ...but to weigh and consider. - Francis Bacon

The world," he said, "is not a wish-granting factory," and then he broke down, just for one moment, his sob roaring impotent like a clap of thunder unaccompanied by lightning, the terrible ferocity that amateurs in the field of suffering might mistake for weakness. - John Green

You will not able to find peace if you are the source of unhappiness for others. - Debasish Mridha

I guarantee you it's not the stoned kids that are shooting everyone. They don't have time to like buy ammo. A little bit busy looking up the Domino's number in the phone book for, like, the fiftieth time.

Should' assumes that when either willingness or ability is lacking, it may be compensated for by an abundance of the other. This is simply not realistic. - Agnostic Zetetic

Another purpose for speaking in tongues is the edification of the church. - Sunday Adelaja

Sometimes the hardest thing is admitting you were wrong. It’s hard to say you need to be forgiven. - Jane Casey

Life is Like one of those Planets with No Sign of Life till LOVE for Him Appears within . - Ashok Khurana

Forgiveness, she was only required to accept the seed of healing, and to let it grow on its own time. - H. L. Balcomb

Don't frustrate yourself by mistaking "associates" for "friends"! Everyone doesn't have your back. Identify the people in your life & don't expect them to be, who they're not! - Jackie Hill

Asking questions is what brains were born to do, at least when we were young children. For young children, quite literally, seeking explanations is as deeply rooted a drive as seeking food or water. - Alison Gopnik

I try to be like a forest: revitalizing and constantly growing. - Forest Whitaker

It was a desire, an echo, a sound; she could drape it in color, see it in form, hear it in music, but not in words; no, never in words. She sighed, teased by desires so incoherent, so incommunicable. - Virginia Woolf

Each time I see the Upside-Down ManStanding in the water,I look at him and start to laugh,Although I shouldn't oughtter.For maybe in another worldAnother timeAnother town,Maybe HE is right side upAnd I am upside down - Shel Silverstein

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

That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment. - Dorothy Parker

We do not want to deny existence. Yet we also do not want to limit existence. Thus, we observe and honor without forming opinion, labeling, or adding a story to the object of our observation. - Alaric Hutchinson

The smile of a child is the inspiration for the future. - Debasish Mridha

Global transformation can occur only when each individual has the courage to awaken from this amnesia to our true self and then make conscious choices true to our spirit. The human race is the only species on earth evolved enough to be capable of this privilege. - Patsie Smith

Parent should never forget the great excitement they felt for the birth of a new born into the world. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Over time, we commit acts with intentions, either good or bad, that require forgiveness. - Emily Thorne

No sense in settling for mediocre minions - A. Dalcourt

You can do anything…but before you can do anything, you have to do something. - Clifford Cohen

[Praying] demands that you take to the road again and again, leaving your house and looking forward to a new land for yourself and your [fellow human]. This is why praying demands poverty, that is, the readiness to live a life in which you have nothing to lose so that you always begin afresh. - Henri J.M. Nouwen

When one does not die for the other, then we are already dead_ - Tasos Livaditis

This is what Helen has learned: it is possible to be so tired you cannot reach for the sky, you cannot breathe. You can’t even talk. You can’t pick up the phone. You can’t do a dish or dance or cook or do up your own zipper. - Lisa Moore

I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances. a - Martha Washington

The struggle you're in today is developing the strength you need for tomorrow. Don´t give up. - Robert Tew

But there was so much todo: cigarettes to smoke, sex to have, swings to swing on. I'll have more time for reading when I'm old and boring. - John Green

Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology. - Rebecca West

Don't take life for granted.Don't compare yourself to others.Don't run from your problems.Don't entertain negative people.Don't abuse your friendships.Don't hold onto the past.Don't throw away opportunities.Don't blame others for your failures.Don't quarrel over small issues. - Matshona Dhliwayo

You're good for the ones you love. You want to be good for the ones you love, because you know that your time with them will end up being too short, no matter how long it is. - Stephen King

God has provided food for every bird, but He doesn't throw it in their nests - Mizan Chaudhury

There is a rationale for every action. - Lailah Gifty Akita

I was born because my mother needed a fourth for meals.

If you count sheep before you go to sleep, are you barrrrr'd from dreams? - Benny Bellamacina

I wish to be buried in Ireland, the country of my adoption a country which I loved, which I have dutifully served, and for which I believe I have sacrificed my life. - Thomas Drummond

It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are still alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger for them. - George Eliot

As we make our way through life there are often many challenges which we must face alone. And, in those darkest moments we may find an unexpected strength to continue moving forward. Hang on to that strength. - Michael A. Contés II

All I ever think about day and night is-how can I make a difference in the lives of others, how can I provide an ounce of contentment and happiness? - Charmaine J Forde

I believe in living healthily and sustainably, and looking to nature for renewal and inspiration. - Jay Woodman

Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings. - Arthur Rubinstein

No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty. Whether as seen carving the lines of the mountains with glaciers, or gathering matter into stars, or planning the movements of water, or gardening - still all is Beauty! - John Muir

Everybody gets everything handed to them. The rich inherit it. I don't mean just inheritance of money. I mean what people take for granted among the middle and upper classes, which is nepotism, the old-boy network. - Toni Morrison

Relax. Cultivate your children's capabilities. Maximize their strengths. Do not handicap their unique skills by spending too much time on making them average in everything. Help them create their own style, and appreciate your children for who God created them to be. - Tamara L. Chilver

Life is not worth living unless you live it for the One who gave you life. - Anya vonderLuft

All too often, we are pleasing the enemy MORE than we are pleasing God by living defeated. Jesus did not die for us to walk around defeated. You have the POWER to turn any situation around that you want to. - Sandra M. Michelle

Noah had transformed in my eyes, too, butt it wasn't because he had changed. It was my perception of him had changed. He'd always been the cool person I'd come to know and respect, I'd just been blinded by my prejudices. - Lee Strauss

We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong. - Bill Vaughan

Don’t wait for a perfect day. To make it a perfect day, dance the whole day, sing every hour, and love every moment - Debasish Mridha

The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason. - Hunter S. Thompson

No matter where you are, just be grateful for your life and all of the beauty that surrounds you. - Debasish Mridha

Worth is not something you can buy for $39.99, nor something you can lose with 10 extra pounds. Self-judging people make good consumers. Start a revolution. Love yourself. - Vironika Tugaleva

for a soul condemned to Hell, the sight of an Angel is what is Heaven. - Devjeet Chawdhary

Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too. - Voltaire

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit. - Elbert Hubbard

Without harming anyone, how can I make this world more peaceful? How can I help others to fulfill their desires? How can I enhance and enrich the beauty and happiness for humanity? - Debasish Mridha

For me, concept of death works as a liberator from anxiety -- no matter whatever is happening, its all going to end when we die. - Shon Mehta

You live your life proportional to your love for life. - Debasish Mridha

The ultimate source of comfort and peace is within ourselves. - Dalai Lama XIV

Fiction is just that–fiction. Yes, it is serious business, but it should also be taken for face value. It’s entertainment. It’s escapism. It’s 365 pages of relaxation. - Rachael Wade

Authenticity is not a metaphysically distinctive way of being human; it is just a way of taking responsibility for what one has already been given. - Peter E. Gordon

No time for negativity or fake people. - Moosa Rahat

The irony of seeking a shrink: they are successful in shrinking your brain but unfortunately they also make your wallet shrink. - Mico Monsalve

She turned around to look at me with her enchanting gaze that further pierced my heart; a look I would never forget and I would retain till perpetuity and think of it always whenever she came to my mind. And that is not going to be a few times, if my heart is to have its way. - Faraaz Kazi

Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass, it's about learning how to dance in the rain. - Vivian Greene

The average man does not know what to do with his life, yet wants another one which will last forever. - Anatole France

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

I am utterly convinced that Science and Peace will triumph over Ignorance and War, that nations will eventually unite not to destroy but to edify, and that the future will belong to those who have done the most for the sake of suffering humanity. - Louis Pasteur

Yankee Stadium, it’s like everything else in this country. In Europe, they save all their old buildings for history. Here, we just tear them all down. - Bob Feller

For once in life i want no one to judge me ,not my parents not my friends no one..For once in life i want to do what i want and live everyday like no tomorrow will come .For once in life i want to know the purpose we are here . I know its not money, no religion ,no rich and poor - kanav sharma

Recall that the minimum wage was initially conceived as a method to exclude undesirables from the workforce. - Jeffrey Tucker

I long for some connection, to the real and those who love them, and hope that my fiction can reach beyond the veil, that I might touch someone and make them feel something…or something. - Shannon Celebi

Hate will cause you to "catch a case". Release yourself from your own personal jail before you are put in the real one for life! It ain't worth it!! - Anita R. Sneed-Carter

You can't prepare for the things that change your life. They come suddenly and unannounced. - Marty Rubin

A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.

Love is the reason for it all. - Dorothy Fields

Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity. - Christopher Morley

I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests. - Pablo Neruda

Forbid that I should walk through Thy beautiful world with unseeing eyes. - John Baillie

Death is as unexpected in his caprice as a courtesan in her disdain; but death is truer – Death has never forsaken any man - Honoré de Balzac

While we thank God for them and their efforts, we must also know that our generation of believers has the responsibility to take the gospel a bit further. To conquer some more territories and to expand the influence of the kingdom to a higher horizon - Sunday Adelaja

Till the chit is in blissful state, the world does not come in one's remembrance (one forgets the world till that time). - Dada Bhagwan

Do you love me, Rain?""More than I knew it was possible to love. All the stars will fall from the heavens before I ever stop. - C.L. Wilson

You can change your life or not change it. It really doesn’t matter in the end.Life as humans live it is too fleeting, too incidental, too minisculefor the universe to keep forever.So just do good to others; be good, allbecause it makes you happy,happy beyond fame, power, andeternity. - Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

Forever echoed in their favor. "Never say never", she said softly. For you see, Forever had never heard of Never. - Shannon L. Alder

Ah, life's little surprises! They can make any day unforgettable... or make it your last. - T.A. Barron

Libraries offer, for free, the wisdom of the ages--and sages--and, simply put, there's something for everyone inside. - Laura Bush

Rich People plan for three generationsPoor people plan for Saturday night - Gloria Steinem

The memory should be specially taxed in youth, since it is then that it is strongest and most tenacious. But in choosing the things that should be committed to memory the utmost care and forethought must be exercised; as lessons well learnt in youth are never forgotten. - Arthur Schopenhauer

Men will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon. - Napoleon Bonaparte

The worldly comforts are not for me. I am like a traveler, who takes a rest under a tree in the shade and then goes on his way - Anonymous

Liberty of imagination should be the most precious possession of a novelist. To try voluntarily to discover the fettering dogmas of its own inspiration, is a trick worthy of humna perverseness which, after inventing an absurdity, endeavours to find for it a pedigree of distinguished ancestors... - Joseph Conrad

Nothing in life is promised. Each day is a valuable opportunity to play an important role in this world. Treat each moment like it's the performance of a lifetime; approach every show like it's your first, respect it as if you've invested years, appreciate it like it's your last. - Carlos Wallace

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command. - Alan Watts

When I'm really into a novel, I'm seeing the world differently during that time— not just for the hour or so in the day when I get to read. I'm actually walking around in a haze, spellbound by the book and looking at everything through a different prism. - Colin Firth

A murderer is a killer without a uniform. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I said : "There is a formula for beauty?"He answered : "More than one. - Sean Micheal

The internet can be many things, of course. Too often it's a cesspool of distraction, a place we indulge in the modern sport of snark and schandenfrende, building the case for our own bigotries, where we mock and thereby dismiss the suggering of others. - Strayed, Cheryl

I was forced to wander, having no one, forced by my nature to keep wandering because wandering was the only thing that I believed in, and the only thing that believed in me. - Roman Payne

Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live. - Margaret Fuller

You can try to defend discrimination on grounds that people are acting according to their conscience, but never forget that those same people may find it conscionable to discriminate against you next. - DaShanne Stokes

Expect nothing but be ready for everything. - Debasish Mridha

Supreme level of maturity is needed to realize; that, conveyance of family life, depends on equally maintained pair of wheels and both crediting each other, for their functioning and struggles as well. - Aniruddha Sastikar

A holiday is for kindness, compassion, love, and holiness; it is not for laziness or craziness. - Debasish Mridha

Don’t set your sights low, just because someone else has a limited view of life’s possibilities. One person's comfort zone may be another person's cage. - Eleanor Brownn

Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. - Oscar Wilde

When man meets himself upon the reflexion of the mirror, it is always advisable to ask the question "Who are you?". If an unsatisfactory answer comes forth, then one must delve into the far reaches of Self and understand why he failed to answer this simple, yet transcending question. - Pablo Andrés Wunderlich Padilla

Art is nothing more than creating an emotion in your own form. - Shannon L. Alder

We can change in one day. We can fall in love in one day. Anything can happen in one day. - Gale Forman

Spend your time with family and people you love. Don't wait for festivals be with them, each moment you're with them, that's a festival. - Sarvesh Jain

May God grant his grace for all people. - Lailah Gifty Akita

An ordinary man can surround himself with two thousand books and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is always possible to be happy. - Augustine Birrell

The truth will form and fall apart again. - Sarah Slean

The biggest test for parents is not how they parent, but how the respond to disorder and unpredictability. - Sarah Newton

The desire for connection with the Divine and our formless inner self is at the foundation of all desire for human connection. - Donna Goddard

Your perspective is always limited by how much you know. Expand your knowledge and you will transform your mind. - Bruce H. Lipton

Death is a force, not a man in a horse - Dry the River

Let no one who loves be called unhappy. For even love unreturned has its rainbow.

We know that energy can not be created nor destroyed but can be changed in it's form. If it can not be formed then it can not exist. We may not exist. - Mohammed Ali

Love is essential for a happy life. - Eileen Anglin

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

I crave for knowledge. I envy tolerant, peaceful folks. I am frightened by ignorance. I loathe violence. - tsegaye gebre medhin

Spread the light of love for everyone. With love and trust, you can change anyone. - Debasish Mridha

If it weren't for women, men would still be wearing last week's socks.

Everywhere I read, I see a rush for love, if it comes knocking and your not ready you'll miss it; bla bla fucking bla... If love is, LOVE it wouldn't miss me and if it did, it wasn't worth my time to begin with. Never should the most important emotion of our journey be rushed. - Nikki Rowe

By no longer relying on approval from others for (false) reassurance or acceptance, you access a Divine channel of freedom. - Maria Flynn

Swans sing before they die— 't were no bad thing Should certain persons die before they sing. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The things, good Lord, that we pray for, give us the grace to labour for’, as Sir Thomas More expressed it. The inner voice of prayer expresses itself naturally in action, just as the inner voice of my brain guides all my bodily actions. - Philip Yancey

A delayed game is eventually good, a bad game is bad forever. - Shigeru Miyamoto

[A]though people get paid to do their jobs, you cannot pay someone to do their job passionately and wholeheartedly. Those qualities are not for sale; they are themselves gifts that can only be given freely, and are in many, many fields. - Rebecca Solnit

If there are occasions when my grape turned into a raisin and my joy bell lost its resonance, please forgive me. Charge it to my head and not to my heart. - Jesse Jackson

Create something. Create something ugly. Create something beautiful. I don't care what it is. Create it. - Jill Telford

Today is a special day for you and for the universe. Today you started your life’s journey and the universe got a precious gift and that is you. I am wishing you a day of joy to fill your life with pleasant surprises. - Debasish Mridha

Honesty and integrity are absolutely essential for success in life … all areas of life. - Zig Ziglar

The assholes are always puzzled when the order of the universe is restored, when they are held accountable for their cowardly, pretentious, loveless ways. - Carol Kepnes

I play with the fire of my own truth," she told me, "I will burn for the things I love. - Mia Hollow

Desires are done by the ‘Pudgal’ (non-self mind-body-complex), so how can they be suppressed? If You (the Self) are the one doing the desiring, then why don’t you stop it? But that doesn’t happen therefore, desire is a matter pertaining to the Pudgal (non-self mind-body-complex). - Dada Bhagwan

Coming true is not the only purpose of a dream. Its most important purpose is to get us in touch with where dreams come from, where passion comes from, where happiness comes from. Even a shattered dream can do that for you. - Lisa Bu

The search for the soul is a sacred adventure. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Just because you say you will do something does not mean that you are also willing to do that thing. Ensuring that both things are true is especially important in the matter of either making or receiving a proposal of marriage. - Clifford Cohen

Don’t wait until your energy runs out before you take a much needed step back to assess the situation. - Auliq Ice

Like Garth Brooks said about it, you need to live where you could honestly choose, if you had to, on whether to give up one yesterday for one more tomorrow, you have to be able to say no to that. - John Schmidt

An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind. - Mahatma Gandhi

To me there is something thrilling and exalting in the thought that we are drifting forward into a splendid mystery-into something that no mortal eye hath yet seen, and no intelligence has yet declared. - Edward Chapin

Give me a chance, Gracie. I’m not a monster. I’m not going to hurt you. All I want to do is to make you scream with pleasure. To know each and every inch of your body. I will make you forget the pain you’ve been through and create beautiful memories for you with me. - Luke Bryce, Be Mine - Isobelle Cate

Deep within I'm shaken by the violence of existing for only you... - Sarah McLachlan