Quotation Explorer - 'From'

[Capitalism assumed] that from the beginning all men are equal. If that were so everyone would be equipped with the same working power, the same education and, above all, the same economic assets … each person would [then] have only himself to blame if he did not succeed. - Knut Wicksell

It will take centuries to disconnect people from an addiction like religion; no matter how bad and disastrous it could be, but addiction is the worst of all. - M.F. Moonzajer

In the arms of Your mercy I find rest'cause You know just how far the east is from the westFrom one scarred hand to the other - Casting Crowns

have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you? - Walt Whitman

Minnie Spotted Wolf from Butte, Montana, was the first Native American to enlist in the Marine Corps Womens' Reserve. Spotted Wolf joined in 1943. She commented that Marine Corps boot camp was "hard, but not that hard. - Tom Holm

I went to the doctor, I went to the mountains I looked to the children, I drank from the fountain There’s more than one answer to these questions pointing me in a crooked line And the less I seek my source for some definitive The closer I am to fine. - Emily Saliers

Grown men can learn from very little children for the hearts of little children are pure. Therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss.

Difficult times are ways to know and understand yourself and others in a better way. (From 'Voyage to Happiness') - Sanchita Pandey

Every flower blooms from the face of impossibility with a hope to make this world beautiful. - Debasish Mridha

Humor is our way of defending ourselves from life's absurdities by thinking absurdly about them. - Lewis Mumford

As a rule, Americans are big on that word choice and some souls can be captured simply by dangling before the creature a continual, lifelong supply of things from which to choose. - Geoffrey Wood

America, it is said, is suffering from intolerance — it is not. It is suffering from tolerance. Tolerance of right and wrong, truth and error, virtue and evil, Christ and chaos. Our country is not nearly so overrun with the bigoted as it is overrun with the broadminded. - Fulton J. Sheen

The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it - James Bryce

Noah got a word from God then built upon that word. Then when the storm came he stood on what he built according to the word of God! - Joe Joe Dawson

Let'sss just kill him," said the shorter Ra'zac. "He has caused us much grief." The taller one ran his finger down his sword. "A good plan. But remember, the king's instructions were to keep them alive."-from Eragon, Chapter Title: The Ra'zac's Revenge. - Christopher Paolini

To trust immediate intuitions rather than collective examination that is rational, careful, and intelligent is not wisdom: it is the presumption of an old man who refuses to believe that the great world outside his village is any different from the one that he has always known. - Carlo Rovelli

Conservative. noun. A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from a liberal, who wishes to replace them with others. - Ambrose Bierce

The more we give, the more we reap the benefits of feeling good in helping others. We are all capable of giving and and as well receiving, from giving graciously The blessing about giving is that it always comes back to us! - Angie karan

Years ago there was an old man I knew that told me he didn't trust me, because people with beards were hiding from something. I told him, "That's true, I'm hiding from the barber!! - Neil Leckman

The 12-step chocoholics program: Never be more than 12 steps away from chocolate! - Terry Moore

Deregulation is a transfer of power from the trodden to the treading. It is unsurprising that all conservative parties claim to hate big government. - George Monbiot

In pale moonlight / the wisteria's scent / comes from far away. - Yosa Buson

Whenever you commend, add your reasons for doing so; it is this which distinguishes the approbation of a man of sense from the flattery of sycophants and admiration of fools. - Sir Richard Steele

You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, food falling from the sky, people walking on water, and all sorts of magical, absurd and primitive stories, and you say that we are the ones that need help? - Dan Barker

Strategy is different from other things in that if your mistake the Way (of strategy), even a little, you will become bewildered and fall into bad ways.

The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty. - Theodore Parker

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

You may hate me from your heart but I will continue to love you to touch your heart. - Debasish Mridha

Even if you are a woman who achieves the ultimate and becomes like a man, you will still always be like a woman. And as long as womanhood is thought of as something to escape from, something less than manhood, you will be thought less of, too. - Ariel Levy

Insect life was so loud that when you parked the car and got out it sounded as if you had suddenly tuned into a radio frequency from another planet. - David Samuels

It is a different world today from what it was then. It will be a different world tomorrow from what it is today. - Rom Watangu

I bid him look into the lives of men as though into a mirror, and from others to take an example for himself. - Terence

Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg. - Hans Christian Andersen

The alarm in the morning? Well, I have an old tape of Carlo Maria Giulini conducting the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra in a perfectly transcendent version in Shubert's seventh symphony. And I've rigged it up so that at exactly 7:30 every morning it falls from the ceiling onto my face. - Stephen Fry

We may never be able to forget what has happened. We may harbor the sadness from it in our hearts forever. The former of these is unavoidable. - Brian Pickens

All negative emotion originates from FEAR and all positive emotion originates from LOVE. - Renee Cefalu

What keeps you confident in a healthy way is knowing that everyone else around you is going to support you and teach you and you're going to learn from them. I just feel open to learning from people. - Elizabeth Olsen

There's no reason to have a plan B because it distracts from plan A. - Will Smith

There is no one, no matter how wise he is, who has not in his youth said things or done things that are so unpleasant to recall in later life that he would expunge them entirely from his memory if that were possible. - Marcel Proust

When nothing else subsists from the past, after the people are dead, after the things are broken and scattered...the smell and taste of things remain poised a long time, like souls...bearing resiliently, on tiny and almost impalpable drops of their essence, the immense edifice of memory - Marcel Proust

Remove the letter 'I'(EGO) and word 'WANT'(DESIRE) from the statement "I WANT HAPPINESS" and you will be remained with 'HAPPINESS - Gauthama Buddha

I'm actually way more funny now, because I'm hungry... If comedy comes from pain, I should be funnier now than I ever was. - Seth Rogen

Every year, many, many stupid people graduate from college. And if they can do it, so can you. - John Green

The Lord delivers us from the seventh trouble. He shall surely deliver us from the eight one. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Smile as if you are an angel from heaven. - Debasish Mridha

Control your anger because it is just ONE Letter away from danger. - Auliq Ice

The moment her hymen was plucked from her body in the wilderness, Her soul was taken from sanity. - Roman Payne

Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self respect springs. - Joan Didion

The least deviation from truth will be multiplied later. - Aristotle

She believed in nothing. Only her scepticism kept her from being an atheist. - Jean-Paul Sartre

His harmonic words could weave the fabric of time or spin matter from nothingness if the mood suited him. - Lita Burke

Hope is a seed that grows inside us from the moment we are born - J.D. Willd

When distrust is so profound that it makes you wary of every word dripping from honeyed lips...It sharpens your instincts...Now for a woman, THAT is a powerful weapon... - Virginia Alison

Our repeated failure to fully act as we would wish must not discourage us. It is the sincere intention that is the essential thing, and this will in time release us from the bondage of habits which at present seem almost insuperable.

It is what we think we know that keeps us from learning. - Chester I. Barnard

✡ Before aligning the body to the future, the mind has to straighten out from the impairment of religion. - David L. Lloyd

How controversial is for one to deny that men aren't from space while the Earth itself is in space? - Marcus L. Lukusa

It's very healthy for a young girl to be deterred from promiscuity by fear of contracting a painful, incurable disease, or cervical cancer, or sterility, or the likelihood of giving birth to a dead, blind, or brain damaged baby (even ten years later when she may be happily married).

Therefore the messages coming from our altars must change. We must have a shift! CHURCHSHIFT - Sunday Adelaja

The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless. - Nicholas Chamfort

Be bold, speak from your heart. - Nikki Rowe

An obedient child learns from the example of an obedient parent. - Jim George

I thought myself sufficiently shrewd to make whatever decisions I wanted to make, and then to be able to sufficiently steer those decisions away from the rather dark and nasty places they would naturally take me. And I stand oddly perplexed that suddenly everything around me is dark and nasty. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

When true love broke my heart in half,I took the whiskey from the shelf,And told my neighbors when to laugh.I keep a dog, and bark myself. - Theodore Roethke

The taste of death cannot comes from the recipy of cowerdness. - rishi_328

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

The Tanakee are thought to possess strange, almost supernatural powers.Their eyes are described as large and hypnotic." From Tribe of the Teddy Bear - J. Joseph Wright

Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. - Bible

Ignorance is pass from one generation to other. - Deyth Banger

That was the worst part about having cancer, sometimes: The physical evidence of disease separates you from other people.

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead. - Aristotle

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

It's not where your from, it's where your going. It's not what you did it's how you do it. -C.H - Clarissa Hodge

Now you may hear songs of kindness From every singing bird And from every dancing heart Let kindness be the part of your being - Debasish Mridha

Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. - Joseph Addison

Wisdom is using your head, separating right from wrong, and doing what is right. - Nurudeen Ushawu

Imagination doesn't always mean looking outside of the box, but taking a closed box and seeing a different world from within it. - Lionel Suggs

The strewn and tangled wreckage that litters our lives is the precious raw material from which great beginnings are forged. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

Many paths lead from the foot of the mountain, but at the peak we all gaze at the single bright moon. - Ikkyu

The achievement gap between children from high income and low income families is roughly 30-40% larger among children born in 2001 than among those born 25 years ago. The class gap among students entering kindergarten was two to three times higher than the racial gap. - Robert D. Putnam

How do you know yourself to be a son of God in fact as well as in name?Answer: Because I am baptized in the name of God the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. - (from his catechism) - John Calvin

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

Happiness does not come from a job. It comes from knowing what you truly value, and behaving in a way that’s consistent with those beliefs. - Mike Rowe

All souls can earn IMMORTALITY.The Creators have IMMORTALITY.The Creators are the' ONLY' ONES'To award IMMORTALITY...FROM MY BOOK: War between Souls over First Universe Justice Awaits - Tiffany Thompson

People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but *actually* from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint - it's more like a big ball of wibbly wobbly... time-y wimey... stuff. - Steven Moffat

I welcome reviews from all readers. I take criticism well; but please . . . no comments on my author face! - C.C. Alma

In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from. - Peter Drucker

It is morally appalling for the so called liberators of South Sudan to keep liberating their own people from a war that has already been won. - Duop Chak Wuol

A mistake from a good person always gets treated as crime. - Pratik Akkawar

How did pretty little Anna go from Westchester suburb brat to New York hooker? Now that’s a story. - Stacey Trombley

Staying aloof from what's keeping you away from Him is not works. - Steven Chopade

In these last days, what the world really needs is courageous parenting from mothers and fathers who are not afraid to speak up and take a stand. - Larry R. Lawrence

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

Beware how you take away hope from another human being - Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

Those who believe everything they read probably should refrain from reading. - Matt

We are rapidly entering the age of no privacy, where everyone is open to surveillance at all times; where there are no secrets from government." [Osborn v. United States, 385 U.S. 323, 341 (1966) (dissenting)] - William O. Douglas

The Knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him. - Blaise Pascal

The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing. - Henry Ford

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

To study and constantly, is this not a pleasure? To have friends come from far away places, is this not a joy? If people do not recognize your worth, but this does not worry you, are you not a true gentleman? - Confucius

Forgiveness doesn’t excuse their behaviour. It prevents their behaviour from destroying your heart. - Hemant Smarty

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

We are a kind of Chameleons, taking our hue - the hue of our moral character, from those who are about us. - John Locke

It was his home now. But it could not be his home till he had gone from it and returned to it. Now he was the Prodigal Son. - G.K. Chesterton

When the Lord disconnects you from your past, don't try to hook up with it again. - Anita R. Sneed-Carter

The true value of a human being can be found in the degree to which he has attained liberation from the self. - Albert Einstein

It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important. - Martin Luther King Jr.

You learn more from your mistakes and failures than from any degree of success. Success can only be grasped for a moment before it becomes a distant oasis not to be found again unless you thirst for the knowledge found in the well fed by your mistakes and failures. - Brian Michael Good

Many ‘experts’ don’t possess the imagination or vision or any of the logistical expertise required to achieve malaria eradication. Their opinions shouldn’t be allowed to hold back men and women who do possess these qualities from achieving the ‘impossible. - T.K. Naliaka

The correct action as we all know is to back off from EMF/RF exposures as a global society. - Steven Magee

A false love, begins with the eye and soon spills from the eye in pain. Where a true love, begins with the eye, and settles in the heart. - Anthony Liccione

CORPORAL, n. A man who occupies the lowest rung of the military ladder. Fiercely the battle raged and, sad to tell, Our corporal heroically fell! Fame from her height looked down upon the brawl And said: "He hadn't very far to fall." Giacomo Smith - Ambrose Bierce

Like President Reagan, President Bush has not shied from calling evil by its name or declaring his intention to defeat its latest incarnation, terrorism, just as free men and women of all political persuasions, here and abroad, defeated fascism and communism before.

Irish and English are so widely separated in their mode of expression that nothing like a literal rendering from one language to the other is possible. - Robin Flower

Men love liberty because it protects them from control and humiliation from others, and thus affords them the possibility of dignity. They loathe liberty because it throws them back on their own abilities and resources, and thus confronts them with the possibility of insignificance. - Thomas Szasz

We had been with the men, we had let them do what they wanted. But they would never know the parts of ourselves that we hid from them - they would never sense the lack or even know there was something more they should be looking for. - Emma Cline

Even the most impassioned devotee of the ghost story would admit that the taste for it is slightly abnormal, a survival, perhaps, from adolescence, a disease of deficiency suffered by those whose lives and imaginations do not react satisfactorily to normal experience and require an extra thrill - L.P. Hartley

Every good gift and every perfect present comes from God. He is out Father who will always love His children. - Pazaria Smith

Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. - Barry Gehm

[Team player vs team builder]Players focus on the wins and the loses.Builders focus on the team and future of the vision.Let's move our members from team player to team builder. - Janna Cachola

Beautiful sunrise in the far away mountains, painting the wide horizon with vibrant warm colors, among the chill from the morning breeze. ☥ - Luis Marques

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without. - Gautama Buddha

Some part of me knew from the first that what I wanted was not reality but myth. - Stephen King

Face it head on and you will crush it..Run away from it and it runs after you..‪#‎Solutions‬ ‪#‎Problems‬ - Abha Maryada Banerjee

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see. - Helen Keller

It’s not the application that is stopping people from using timeless knowledge passed on to us, it’s the acknowledging part. - Daya Kudari

Don't ever run away from your problems. Chase after them like a crazy person till they're too afraid to come near you again. - Zanib Mian

Am better off with the bad news disclosed to me than the good news hidden from me - ABC

To aspire is to go back to the start of the journey when you're one lap away from the finish line, we have to begin with the end in mind and dig for for the opium goals. - Goitsemang Mvula

She called herself an angel, and wandered the world from girlhood till death. She lived every kind of life and dreamt every kind of dream. She was wild in her wandering, a drop of free water. She believed only in her life and in her dreams. She called herself an angel, and her god was Beauty. - Roman Payne

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

Girls like you want to cut guy's nuts off and hang 'em from your rearview mirror. - Simone Elkeles

It's hard to say. Sometimes people have had terrible childhoods. And sometimes they just haven't found their special place in life. And sometimes they're dogs from hell and must be destroyed. - Charles Addams

Learn from seeds; size does not determine how big anyone can grow. - Matshona Dhliwayo

Birthing hope from the madnessthat perches on the fenceof our once perfectdreams. - Jessica Kristie

Freedom without the strength to support it and, if need be, defend it, would be a cruel delusion. And the strength to defend freedom can itself only come from widespread industrialisation and the infusion of modern science and technology into the country's economic life. - Jamsetji Tata

Most of the time, our fight is all about saving us from ourselves. - Akshay Vasu

Are women human yet? If women were human, would we be a cash crop shipped from Thailand in containers into New York's brothels...? Would our genitals be sliced out to "cleanse" us...? When will women be human? When? ~ Half The Sky - Catherine Mackinnon

When you anticipate adversity, you can then plan for adversity. You may never gain control of it, but you can keep it from controlling you. - T Jay Taylor

Create from the heart. - A.D. Posey

From error to error one discovers the entire truth. - Sigmund Freud

Nonsense is that which does not fit into the prearranged patterns which we have superimposed on reality...Nonsense is nonsense only when we have not yet found that point of view from which it makes sense. - Gary Zukav

The greatest weariness comes from work not done. - Eric Hoffer

No more shooting from anyone. Or I am going to get seriously cranky with everyone. Suddenly, and violently and all over the place. - Simon R. Green

All the perplexities, confusions, and distresses in America arise, not from defects in their constitution or confederation, nor from want of honor or virtue, as much from downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit, and circulation. - John Adams

I love therapy. I don't get the taboo about seeking therapy at all. It's exactly like taking Buzzfeed quizzes. At the end of the day, we all want to know what cocktail we are. But it means so much more when it comes from a shrink. It's like 'Ooh, I really am Liquid Cocaine! - Judy Balan

We get greatest joy not from receiving but from giving. - Debasish Mridha

My creed on the subject of slavery is short. Slavery per se is not sin. It is a social condition ordained from the beginning of the world for the wisest purposes, benevolent and disciplinary, by Divine Wisdom. - Samuel Morse

Our universe grants every soul a twin-a reflection of themselves -the kindred spirit - And no matter where they are or how far away they are from each other- even if they are in different dimensions, they will always find one another. This is destiny; this is love. - Julie Dillon

The greatest freedom in this world is a sense of self detached from appearances so that we may sacrifice today’s comforts for tomorrow’s opportunities. - Vironika Tugaleva

Life is spirit.Life ends when our spirit departs from the body. - Lailah Gifty Akita

I would rather never make a penny on book sales and know that many had derived some fair pleasure from my writing, than to know that very few had ever taken a chance on my work. I certainly won't last forever, but I'd love to think that my imagination will continue to surface in the minds of others. - Eric Diehl

You can't really move forward until you look back.[From Remaking America panel discussion at George Washington University] - Cornel West

A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday, does not know what it is today, nor what it is trying to do. We are trying to do a futile thing if we do not know where we came from or what we have been about. - Woodrow Wilson

Why aren’t the thinks I’m thinking getting thunk on the page any faster?!? (from Stop Lying: Writing Is Hard on ChristopherLehman.com) - Christopher Lehman

O ye of little faith, who believe that somehow the birth of Christ is dependent upon acknowledgment in a circular from OfficeMax! - Anna Quindlen

For you to make your creative work creative, you must seek creativity from the creator. - Michael Bassey Johnson

In short, do you keep pace with those around you, or do you decide yourself just how you will live your life? The truth is...only you are qualified to set your standards. Only you can determine how you should live and what you will finally expect from yourself. - Steve Goodier

Some thought magic came from the mind, others the soul, or the heart, or the will. - V.E. Schwab

People : Learn from your mistakes.Me: Ok.* Commits new mistakes * - PS Juneja

The descent to Hades is the same from every place. - Anaxagoras

Friendship among men is always part war, something learned from childhood. - Terry Kay

If your anger is the result of your sadness or if your sadness is result of your anger , you are undoubtedly suffering from disorientation. - Aparna Pathak

Let your intimate friends be chosen from such as are better informed than yourself. - Robert Schumann

I would control your life, every step you walk, and every word you say; there is no way you can run from an injured wolf. - M.F. Moonzajer

You can’t let the fear of failure keep you from taking the risks that you know are the right ones to take. - S. Usher Evans

Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops. - Kurt Vonnegut

When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift. - Oprah Winfrey

Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book. If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for. - Alice Walker

Pearls from the soul are more precious than diamonds from the mine. - Matshona Dhliwayo

Good parents use the mistakes they did in the past when they were young to advice the children God gave to them to prevent them from repeating those mistakes again. However, bad parents always want to be seen as right and appear "angelic and saintly" as if they never had horrible youth days. - Israelmore Ayivor

Let the darkness find you if it must. Throw off the quick and tempting escapes, and seek help only from those who would teach you to grow, feed your soul, embrace your heart, but would not steal away your journey. - Jennifer DeLucy

Madam, I have just come from a country where people are hanged if they talk. - Leonhard Euler

Happiness doesn't always come from a pursuit. Sometimes it comes when we least expect it. - Dalai Lama XIV

I understood finding the place you are born in an unbearable prison and wanting something completely different from what you are familiar with, knowing it represents a haven. - Jamaica Kincaid

For believe me: the secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and greatest enjoyment is - to live dangerously. - Friedrich Nietzsche

The past has no power to stop youfrom being present now.Only your grievance aboutthe past can do that.What is grievance?The baggage of oldthought and emotion. - Lao Tzu

Learning the secret of flight from a bird was a good deal like learning the secret of magic from a magician. - Orville Wright

Strong relationships come from well-bonded friendships. - Jonathan Anthony Burkett

Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession. - George Washington

Intentions do not insulate us from the consequences of our actions. - Jon D Harrison

Yet simple souls, their faith it knows no stint:Things least to be believed are most preferred.All counterfeits, as from truth's sacred mint,Are readily believed if once put down in print - John Clare

If heartache was a physical pain I could face, I could faceBut your hurting me from inside of my headAnd I can't take it, I can't take itI'm going to lose my mind - The Wanted

Some friends are like sunny days, with false flames, oozing from afar, coming near without a dime. - Michael Bassey Johnson

If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men. - Francis of Assisi

It is very difficult to break free from the prison of conformity and fixed false beliefs without changing our level of consciousness and awareness. - Debasish Mridha

America’s education system has become less a ladder of opportunity than a structure to transmit inequity from one generation to the next. - Nicholas Kristof

It always a blessing to learn the wisdom from elderly people. - Lailah Gifty Akita

The road from ‘here’ to ‘there’ is a map yet to be written with the pen I hold in my hand. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

It's easy to be with someone who is completely different from you, but difficult when that person holds starkly different opinions from you. - Tarang Sinha

Never underestimate the value of advice from anyone, whether they are younger or older than you. Wisdom is not categorised under age - Unarine Ramaru

Of course we can keep this going, in principle, forever. In practice we will keel over from exhaustion, boredom, or death.

A poet's work . . . to name the unnamable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world and stop it from going to sleep. - Salman Rushdie

Racism and religious bigotry are two essential pieces of baggage mankind carries as it moves from one century to the next. - R. N. Prasher

The sin of fornication hinders a person from enjoying God's blessings - Sunday Adelaja

Walking away from bad situations and negative people sets a healthier tone for the rest of your life. It also gives those who do not know any better the opportunity to self-correct. - Gary Hopkins

Holy shit, you're so big."He wasn't a conceited ass when it came to his dick, but it wasn't the first time he'd heard a woman say that. However, coming from Lucie, he suddenly felt like He-Man, minus the fur underwear. - Gina L Maxwell

The biggest surprise that I had during my time in high altitude astronomy was being prevented from arranging a free Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA) onsite evaluation to assist with bringing the observatory into OSHA compliance by the upper management team that I reported to. - Steven Magee

Those who grow Tall by giving it their All, without the worry of Fall, are powered by a Passion, that is born from Inspiration.-RVM ‪ - R.v.m.

Look at yourself from the space! You are very little, you are so tiny! But there is something big in you: Your great ideas! Even from the space they look big because they have the power to change the universe, to change the space! - Mehmet Murat ildan

How close the sexes sometimes come to one another. It is as much a matter of behaviour and the spere in which they move that separates the masculine part of humanity from the feminine. - Elizabeth Aston

I don’t want a single öre from that pig.Then give the money to Greenpeace or something.I don’t give a shit about whales. - Stieg Larsson

Today I will find something beautiful.Delicate pink blossoms on a cherry tree.The dove resting near the lemon buds.Sunbeams smiling from sky to earth.Smiling on me."Creating" in BREATHE IN - Eileen Granfors

People open bookstores because they want their souls back.(from "Two Women" published in Do Me: Tales of Sex & Love from Tin House) - Elizabeth Tallent

We are suffering from too much sarcasm.

If conquest constitutes a natural right on the part of the few, the many have only to gather sufficient strength in order to acquire the natural right of reconquering what has been taken from them - Karl Marx

Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self. - Erich Fromm

Sometimes even doing the right thing will leave you with scars. But beauty comes from ashes, too. And I know that to be true. - Natalie Lloyd

Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it. - Kahlil Gibran

With the glorious flames of compassion in your heart, embrace the goodness from all religions. - Abhijit Naskar

A strong soul recovers from any suffering. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Victory is not possible, if one doesn't learn from the past and mistakes made. - Auliq Ice

Emotion is bad if it hinders the mind from thinking. Anemotion that opens the mind to contemplate severalaspects of things at once is better than one that fixesthought to an obsession. - A.C Grayling

There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing. - Maya Angelou

While amidst the crowd and seeking quieteness in another zone you can still get away from them by homing in on matters within. - Stephen Richards

It's not vanity, because if you look weird, it will distract from what your trying to do. If you look as good as you can, people will be able to pay attention to what your actually saying. - Tina Fey

Donate your blood from your heart to save life. Life will donate you hearts full of love, blood and contentment in return. - Munia Khan

..the feeling that you felt something weird..then you just shut your mouth for tears keep falling from your eyes..sharp knives tearing your heart in pieces and it leaves you wondering...are you enough?? was your love enough?? or still...whatever you do..you can never replace someone's first love.. - Grace Tamio

Even if you cover the whole world with darkness, you can never stop the sun from rising. - Debasish Mridha

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

My proceeds from the PayPal acquisition were $180 million. I put $100 million in SpaceX, $70m in Tesla, and $10m in Solar City. I had to borrow money for rent. - Elon Musk

Those who grow Tall by giving it their All, without the worry of Fall, are powered by a Passion, that is born from Inspiration. - RVM

If you're running away from pain and people who cause it, then you'll never find eternal happiness. Face it and show them that you're not weak to runaway. - Shrestha Sapan

Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all human affairs into account you will find that some comfort is to be derived from them. - Saint Basil

Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing. - E.L. Doctorow

Guard your heart:Mysterious things happen in there.Stand as the watchman of your soul,And be careful about what you let in.For, therefrom, come all your life's issues. - Manuela George-Izunwa

I could hardly wait for following chapters, which arrived in dribs and drabs, and I began to feel for all the world like the young T.B. Macaulay walking from London to meet the Cambridge coach bearing the next installment of Waverley novels. - Vernon Sproxton

From just one spark we can create one fire. And from one fire we can create one light. From that one light, we create vision and that vision is how we share just one spark. Inspire all those around you. - Josh Blatter

Education is the movement from darkness to light. - Allan Bloom

Sometimes I feel that the wars in my country ended so early, we are still thirsty of bloodshed, murder and killing. We lost too many but not enough, the transformation from barbarian society to a human didn’t complete yet. - M.F. Moonzajer

Aside from the inescapable realities of birth and death, we’re responsible for the paths our lives take. We each make our own choices. - Alissa Johnson

i just stopped from dreaming and woke up,just like a dream to be loved back is just a dream you have to accept,it was just glimpse of hopes you wanna take it to reality, nothing more, nothing less - Jinnul Jr.

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

People will have their opinions of you, but you must be able to distinguish theirs from yours. - Chris Burkmenn

In a surreal gift from the universe, time both stands still and flies past you in that singular moment when you find out someone you once loved is gone. - Rachel Thompson

He felt, rather than saw, her chin lift toward him. But instead of pulling her hand from his grip and turning away, she tightened her own fingers and unceremoniously, unexpectedly, threw herself down the incline, dragging him with her.Dragging him with her! - V.S. Carnes

It is pleasing to God whenever you rejoice or laugh from the bottom of your heart. - Martin Luther

Ideas are easy. It's the execution of ideas that really separates the sheep from the goats. - Sue Grafton

...and that this country shall have a new birth of freedom, and that this government, of the people, for the people, by the people, shall not perish from the Earth. - Abraham Lincoln

Fatigues and hardships serve to wean me more from the earth, and will make heaven sweeter. - David Brainard

And the uniqueness of every momentseeks the path from pain to a pearl. - Lina Kostenko

You don’t want modesty, you want humility. Humility comes from inside out. It says someone was here before me and I’m here because I’ve been paid for. I have something to do and I will do that because I’m paying for someone else who has yet to come. - Maya Angelou

I told myself a thousand times every single day I needed to forget you. I forgot to forget, and I forgot what I told myself" From "The Jasmine Tree: Love in the time of revolutions - Maha Khlaid

We may be from different sides of the coin but we still hold the same value - Courtney .J. Brooks (Mt Gambier)

Always drink upstream from the herd. - Will Rogers

Every contrivance of man, every tool, every instrument, every utensil, every article designed for use, of each and every kind, evolved from a very simple beginning. - Robert Collier

I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for the truth; and truth rewarded me. - Simone de Beauvoir

I was coming home from kindergarten--well they told me it was kindergarten. I found out later I had been working in a factory for ten years. It's good for a kid to know how to make gloves. - Ellen DeGeneres

We dreamt of a crappy apartment somewhereMaking love while we let the midnight airFlow through the open window, into our closed heartsLeft bitter from heartbreak and too much time apart - Jessica-Lynn Barbour

There are many fine ideals which are not realisable, and yet we do not refrain from teaching them. - Peretz Smolenskin

I am grateful to those who have betrayed me… They thought they were just stabbing me in the back, but they were also cutting me free from their poisonous life. - Steve Maraboli

The nicest thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. - Ken Olsen

Yet I am not writing with ordinary ink, but with red blood that dripsfrom my heart. All its wounds long scarred over have opened and itthrobs and hurts, and now and then a tear falls on the paper. - Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

The quote above about patience is NOT MERYL STREEP's-- this quote is actually from the pen of Portuguese self-help author/life coach José Micard Teixeira. PLEASE REMOVE IT!!!!! - Meryl Streep

Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate. - Mark B. Cohen

DON'T FOR GET WHERE YOU CAME FROM SO YOU KNOW WHERE YOUR GOING. - Edward Loffredo

Work your craft; until it becomes an art from. - Johnnie Dent Jr.

Life and all that is in it is a gift from the infinite mind / God;And the only way that life can go wrong is by the limited finite mind / Man. - Eric F. Saucier

Dorothy: Shut up, just shut up. You had me at "hello".- From Jerry Maguire, 1996 - Movie Quote

When you conquer fear, you unleash a greater power from within you. - Stephan Labossiere

Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to enduring fact of mystery. - Henry Miller

The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind. - Friedrich Nietzsche

Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves. - J.M. Barrie

The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking. - John Kenneth Galbraith

The more you make your thoughts (beliefs) into your identity, the more cut off you are from the spiritual dimension within yourself. - Eckhart Tolle

Lord if this would be the right thing for Joannie and I, that I would see a bald eagle right here as confirmation from you that this will be a good thing for us. - Michael Richard Stosic

But the culture-vultures and the intellectual snobs, and the self-appointed guardians of the Muses, often frighten off the average person from the free development of this appetite. - Sydney J. Harris

God’s purpose for money, differs completely from the world’s purpose. - Sunday Adelaja

It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge. - Voltaire

Man's main task is to give birth to himself. - Erich Fromm

You try moving things with nothing but willpower. It's about as easy as trying to lasso a bull with a licorice whip."—from "Phantom's Veil - Richelle E. Goodrich

Most children threaten at times to run away from home. This is the only thing that keeps some parents going. - Phyllis Diller

Writing comes from the fear of failure not from the joy of winning. - Debasish Mridha

A lion does not take orders from sheep. - Matshona Dhliwayo

EMANCIPATION, n. A bondman's change from the tyranny of another to the despotism of himself. He was a slave: at word he went and came; His iron collar cut him to the bone. Then Liberty erased his owner's name, Tightened the rivets and inscribed his own. G.J. - Ambrose Bierce

He who has the audacity to stop you from dreaming is he who had given you the imaginations to think, but not those who watch you as you explore the dreams! - Israelmore Ayivor

Perfection is something we should all strive for. It's a duty and a joy to perfect one's nature... The most difficult thing is love. A loveless, driving person that just competes in the rat race is far from perfection in my book. - R.D. Laing

The one who has found inner silence, stops pondering over the meaning of life and starts living it. That's the journey from "going with the flow" to "being the flow. - Rashmit Kalra

I read a lot of books. Here are the books I'm using for my 9/11 project. [Wright gestures to three six-foot-long shelves of books.] As I read them I highlight certain passages. Then I have an assistant write down each quote on an index card and note where it came from. - Lawrence Wright

But in the expression of the countenance, which was beaming all over with smiles, there still lurked (incomprehensible anomaly!) that fitful stain of melancholy which will ever be found inseparable from the perfection of the beautiful. - Edgar Allan Poe

[The decay of Logic results from an] untroubled assumption that the particular is real and the universal is not. - C.S. Lewis

The prime purpose of eloquence is to keep other people from talking. - Louis Vermeil

Hell is so bloody thing, but with Lucifer from Lucifer series, hell is like comedy. - Deyth Banger

Life after love was possible. I was proof. Loss taught you about yourself, burrowed in the dark parts of your soul and ate you from the inside out. - Hailey Edwards

Tough love and brutal truth from strangers are far more valuable than Band-Aids and half-truths from invested friends, who don’t want to see you suffer any more than you have. - Shannon L. Alder

On the path to truth, you can’t see many people; truth’s way is calm and quiet. Look around you, friend! Are there too many people on the path you walk? If there are, question your path! Get away from the crowds! - Mehmet Murat ildan

A popular Harvard business professor urged his students to read the obituaries in the New York Times before they read anything else, in order to learn from the lives of great men. - Georges F. Doriot

Today is a gift from God. Don't waste it! - Ruth Kyser

Most people like to be rich, but they don’t know that the rich people are the unhappy bunch. Always marrying at least 3 times, always having drinking or drug problems and always think they are smartest one around, when in fact they can’t name 2 capitals from Europe without a Google search. - Mircea Popister

To be always intending to make a new and better life but never to find time to set about it is as to put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day to the next until you're dead. - Og Mandino

Grant kissed my neck that I offered up like a willing victim in True Blood. Take me... Bite me. Lick me. Oh this was madness! Glorious, wonderful madness!" -JulieFrom: A New Addiction - Valerie Alexander

From all that I saw, and everywhere I wandered, I learned that time cannot be spent. It can only be squandered. - Roman Payne

The apple doesn't fall far from the tree......unless that tree's growing on top of a hill. - John DePrey

My body was a buzzing antenna into which radio waves flooded from the entire cosmos. I was the living switchboard of the universe. My skull was a magnetized globe. - Simon Critchley

The extremity of her sensitivityimpressed a richly idle princely family,of her discomfort, bothered as she had to beby the absurd softness of the ample beddings,not to mention the pillow piles aggravatingher much lamented acrophobic dis-ease.[from the poem, ] Joseph Stanton - Princess and the Pea

Everything you seek is achieved from within not without. You know what is right and what is wrong for you because you feel it. - Mayra Mejia

Time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn't seem to be working. - Anonymous

Writers are a product of where we come from but by looking at alternatives to the culture in which we live, we can find ways to change and hopefully improve it. - Sara Sheridan

Positive feelings come from being honest about yourself and accepting your personality, and physical characteristics, warts and all; and, from belonging to a family that accepts you without question. - Willard Scott

I define connection as the energy that exists between people when they feel seen, heard, and valued; when they can give and receive without judgment; and when they derive sustenance and strength from the relationship. - Brené Brown

Memories help make us who we are.(Taken from novel...A Very English Affair) - Faith Mortimer

A good story is a dream shared by the author and the reader. Anything that wakes the reader from the dream is a mortal sin. - Victor J. Banis

Always set small, realistic goals that you know you can achieve first. But don't give up on the bigger ones that may seem too far from your reach. - W.D. Lady

Secret of man's Mortality; Man has transformed from immortal to become a mere mortal being all because of our mental love for sex and evil. - Auliq Ice

The ideal conditionWould be, I admit, that men should be right by instinct;But since we are all likely to go astray,The reasonable thing is to learn from those who can teach. - Sophocles

There is no dignity when the human dimension is eliminated from the person. In short, the problem with pornography is not that it shows too much of the person, but that it shows far too little. - Pope John Paul II

Darling, even raindrops try to wipe my teardrops but your thoughts haul out more tears from my liquid eyes and then teardrops replace raindrops... - Abhishek Rath

I am a tourist of the emotions, visiting only the most well-worn spots. It is romantic, that is, a distortion, to imagine whole lives from the barest observation. - Jean Thompson

Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices - today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it. - Kevyn Aucoin

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well worth remembering from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. - Oscar Wilde

Life without thankfulness is devoid of love and passion. Hope without thankfulness is lacking in fine perception. Faith without thankfulness lacks strength and fortitude. Every virtue divorced from thankfulness is maimed and limps along the spiritual road. - John Henry Jowett

Don't let the blights from the past hold you back from the bliss of the future - Constance Friday

My world is about FEELings. Sometimes, these feelings run so deep i fear i will drown.Creatively, it's a dream to be so sensitive. In real life, it's exhausting, as i tread water to keep myself from sinking. - Jaeda DeWalt

We have to have the money to do the work we want to do, as well as to keep a roof over our heads and food on the table. Fat commissions are good, but not always easy to come by, and each new painting takes its time. So we need to find every way possible to earn extra income from our work. - Elizabeth Aston

All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses. - Friedrich Nietzsche

My dear boy, your thinking has no structure, no foundation. You pick up your primary ideas from TV shows. You're like a fart in the bathtub. ['The Murder Room: The Heirs of Sherlock Holmes'] - Richard Walter

Let me lose everything on earth and the world beyond, but let me not lose what I'm craving for, let it be that i died on the way than retreating from getting it. - Michael Bassey Johnson

People are already disappointed by their acquaintances, they can not handle anymore hate from stranger, so show some instantaneous kindness and forgiveness to them. - Amit Kalantri

Basically, that's why I wrote: to save my ass, to save my ass from the madhouse, from the streets, from myself. - Charles Bukowski

Sometimes Füsun yawned so beautifully that I would think that she had forgotten the entire world and that she was drawing from the depths of her soul a more peaceful life, as one might draw cold water from a well on a hot summer day. - Orhan Pamuk

Where it comes from I don't know. Is it a gift? I don't know. But with perseverance you are sure to always end up on the winning side. - Manuela George-Izunwa

We dream of the future, to distract ourselves from the present, in order to forget the past.Heal the past, live in the present and don’t rush to the future. Life is a journey and it will all be over before you know it. - L.J. Vanier

I have just returned from Boston. It is the only sane thing to do if you find yourself up there. - Fred Allen

From this day onward whatever circumstances may jam my way I'll break through it unscathed for in the end who will but suffer but me, so much so that I will reach for the unreachable, I'll break that which is unbreakable and attain that is impossible! - Liliosa Hilao

I have given my word that only death will take me from you. - Philippa Gregory

Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility. - Dietrich Bonhoeffer

I believe in destiny Angel. I believe every choice I've made has brought me closer to you. I looked for you for a very long time. I may have fallen from heaven, but I fell for you. - Becca Fitzpatrick

Don't leave life until life leaves you.from the book 'I Know Who You Are! - Fatima Masood

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time. - Mark Twain

A song she heardOf cold that gathersLike winter's tongueAmong the shadowsIt rose like blacknessIn the skyThat on volcano'sVomit riseA Stone of ruinFrom burn to chillLike black moonriseHer voice fell still... - Robert Fanney

There is a cosmic river flowing from the Sun to the Earth and to everywhere: The Sunlight, the holiest of the holy rivers! Enemy of Darkness is the best friend of existence! Touch the sunlight with a strong love because light itself made that love possible! - Mehmet Murat ildan

God has been pushed aside by the non-Self complex. Vibrations have arisen from vibrations. ‘We’ now give you the Knowledge of how to stop the vibrations. - Dada Bhagwan

The true understanding of life and its purposes comes from an understanding of consciousness. - Debasish Mridha

Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom. - William Shakespeare

We have done with Hope and Honour, we are lost to Love and Truth,We are dropping down the ladder rung by rung,And the measure of our torment is the measure of our youth.God help us, for we knew the worst too young!from "Gentleman Rankers - Rudyard Kipling

There is no Christianity unless first there is repentance. And it is not just, Well, I am guilty. It is not just a conviction. It is a conviction plus a desire to turn away from those things. - Brian Richardson

Survival is running from death.Our whole life is running from death, but we all just meet it while we are running from it! what a failure is this try! - Fereidoon Yazdi

Isn't it surprising how many things, if not said immediately, seem not worth saying ten minutes from now?

You don't know a woman until you have received a letter from her.

A child comes from God, a child is a gift from God, but a child is not our possession. Give the child unconditional love and freedom. Respect the child, the child has its own soul. The child has its own way. - Swami Dhyan Giten

The importance of reading, for me, is that it allows you to dream.Reading not only educates, but is relaxing and allows you to feed your imagination - creating beautiful pictures from carefully chosen words. - Eric Ripert

Governments derive their just power from the consent of the governed - Harriet Beecher Stowe

I just met Stephen King in my dreams... I just said what I have watched and read from his books... Mainly I received a hug from him, it was like we are friends from long time. - Deyth Banger

He wanted to take his love back from her so badly. The old techniques didn’t work anymore. In fact, they’d never worked. How do you stop loving someone? It was one of the world’s more brutal mysteries. The more you tried, the less it worked. - Ann Brashares

From ashes I cameTo ashes, I'll return.But tonight I'm contentTo sit here and burn. - C.B. Roberts

Grown ups’ could learn a lesson from watching cartoons. - James Jean-Pierre

In those days spirits were brave, the stakes were high, men were real men, women were real women and small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were real small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri. - Douglas Adams

your smile.is the ultimategolden dream.all the poemsin the worldare waking up from. - Sanober Khan

What folly takes light through ether to each eye from every horizon. - Scarlett Thomas

Humility is not just thinking less of yourself or thinking lanyard less of your gifts than others,It is freedom from thinking of yourself at all - Barbara Cueto

I never make up anything. I get everything from my books. They're all true!" --Ann Newton/Shadow of a Doubt (1943) - rebecca hitchcock

Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. - Martin Luther King Jr.

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

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

Sadly, there are writers who wouldn't know an umlaut from an omelet. - Kevin Ansbro

Faith is the leverage we need to liberate us from the shackles of unbelief. - Auliq-Ice

nothing can save you except writing. it keeps the walls from failing. - Charles Bukowski

HEMP, n. A plant from whose fibrous bark is made an article of neckwear which is frequently put on after public speaking in the open air and prevents the wearer from taking cold. - Ambrose Bierce

Cruelty and fear shake hands together. An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence. - Honoré de Balzac

Feelings are much like waves. We can't stop them from coming but we can choose which one to surf. - Jonatan Mårtensson

Never let anyone distract your focus from accomplishing great opportunities in your life . - Tawana Beecham

Computers are one of the products in the USA that appear to be unregulated by the government which leaves consumers unprotected from flawed devices. - Steven Magee

He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Eliminate something superfluous from your life. Break a habit. Do something that makes you feel insecure. - Piero Ferrucci

Everyone agrees the celibacy rule is just a Church law dating from the 11th century, not a divine command. - Hans Küng

So that was where we were in our relationship.Derwent’s scale ran all the way from wouldn’t piss-on-you-if-you-were-on-fire to would-kill-for-you-no-need-to-ask-twice. I was quite glad to be somewhere near the middle. - Jane Casey

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

We are all scared; it is only the bravery that differentiates us from others. - M.F. Moonzajer

I received your letter of June 10th. I have never talked to a Jesuit priest in my life and I am astonished by the audacity to tell such lies about me. From the viewpoint of a Jesuit priest I am, of course, and have always been an atheist. - Albert Einstein

If you always do what is easy and choose the path of least resistance, you never step outside your comfort zone. Great things don’t come from comfort zones. - Roy Bennett

Resilience is not what happens to you. It’s how you react to, respond to, and recover from what happens to you. - Jeffrey Gitomer

Sane and intelligent human beings are like all other human beings, and carefully and cautiously and diligently conceal their private real opinions from the world and give out fictitious ones in their stead for general consumption. - Mark Twain

The locus of the human mystery is perception of this world. From it proceeds every thought, every art. - Marilynne Robinson

But then with me the horrid doubt always arises whether the convictions of man's mind, which has been developed from the mind of the lower animals, are of any value or at all trustworthy. - Charles Darwin

One writes primarily to free oneself from oneself. - Marty Rubin

Our problems stem from our acceptance of this filthy, rotten system. - Dorothy Day

To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude. - Joseph Addison

If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism. - Hunter S. Thompson

Emancipate yourself from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds. - Bob Marley

An hour spent reading is one stolen from paradise. - Thomas Wharton

It begins with the natural feeling that one wants to serve, to serve first. Then conscious choice brings one to aspire to lead. That person is sharply different from one who is leader first, perhaps because ofthe need to assuage an unusual power drive. - Robert Greenleaf

For Jesus, it was about the Father and us. It was not about Him. Could we say the same about ourselves? From the book: Removing Your Shame Label. - Eddie Capparucci, LPC

If we are to fight discrimination and injustice against women we must start from the home for if a woman cannot be safe in her own house then she cannot be expected to feel safe anywhere. - Aysha Taryam

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

Discourtesy does not spring merely from one bad quality, but from several--from foolish vanity, from ignorance of what is due to others, from indolence, from stupidity, from distraction of thought, from contempt of others, from jealousy. - Jean de la Bruyere

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. - Mark Twain

Imagination is the connecting line that connects humanity to the other realm to tap from its abundance. - Auliq-Ice

THE WISDOM OF THE SPHERESHow instructiveis a star!It can teach usfrom afarjust how smalleach other are. - Piet Hein

from my chair i can see the street and it seems depressing - Brandon Scott Gorrell

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. - Albert Einstein

Motivation and determination for anything comes from within. One can not barrow it from someone else. - raja shakeel mushtaque

From those to whom privilege and opportunity are given, we have the right to expect much. - John Vasconcellos

Your religion cannot be divorced from your relationships. - Jim George

If equally matched, we can offer battle; if slightly inferior in numbers, we can avoid the enemy; if quite unequal in every way, we can flee from him. Though an obstinate fight may be made by a small force, in the end it must be captured by the larger force. - Sun Tzu 孙子

WHAT COMES FROM THE HEART TOUCHES THE HEART. - Lester Swan

Love is as clear as water from a pitcher. - Debasish Mridha

O mankind, fear your Lord, who created you from one soul and created from it its mate and dispersed from both of them many men and women. And fear Allah , through whom you ask one another, and the wombs. Indeed Allah is ever, over you, an Observer. The Women 4 :1 - Quran

When he followed the instincts which God had transmitted to him from his ancestry of beasts of prey, he called it sin and asked God to forgive him. - Bertrand Russell

Worries isn't good to your mental and physical health, so you better stay away from those things that keeps on bothering you, live peacefully and free.Always pray, and one day blessings will be on your way! - Bradley B. Dalina

You’re asking me? The Whack-O from loony town! she snapped at him. - Beth Bares

Take some advice from an old farmer. You’re in business now. Take the money. You’d be amazed at how many don’t want to pay. - Kathy Bryson, Fighting Mad

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will; and the other from a strong won't. - Henry Ward Beecher

The path to mastery involves being a white-belter till it becomes black from use. - Malti Bhojwani

The more we have, the more we realize can be taken from us, and that’s when our lives border on insanity. We live in fear of losing what we think we possess. Once we let go and let God, then we gain a peace that surpasses understanding. - Toni Sorenson

Don't be so defensive and afraid to be proven wrong that you miss the opportunity to learn from your mistakes. - Karen E. Quinones Miller

I live within my daydreams and nightmares; through that, I have learned to create, and I never cease from doing so. - Shannon A. Thompson

and her skin shone luminous and impossibly pale, as if it drank light from the moon. - Madeline Miller

I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage. - Erma Bombeck

I have to be alone very often. I'd be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That's how I refuel."(: Many-Sided Charmer, LIFE Magazine, December 7, 1953) - Audrey Hepburn

Our goodness, our badness all develop from social experience, the company we keep, the things we're taught when we're young. We start with a clean slate. It's everyone else who fucks us up. - S. Walden

HARMONISTS, n. A sect of Protestants, now extinct, who came from Europe in the beginning of the last century and were distinguished for the bitterness of their internal controversies and dissensions. - Ambrose Bierce

I like two types of dust: pixie dust and dust from old, first edition books. - Nicholaa Spencer

Awakened at midnightby the sound of the water jarcracking from the ice - Bashō Matsuo

I'm gonna go put my earplugs in and practice piano for hours until my fingers bleed. I practice the piano with the focus of Helen Keller—and nothing can distract me from the scent of the music.- and Jarod Kintz - Karen Quan

The American white relegates the black to the rank of shoeshine boy; and he concludes from this that the black is good for nothing but shining shoes. - George Bernard Shaw

Private property and free trade stand on exactly the same footing, both being essential and indivisible parts of liberty, both depending upon rights, which no body of men, whether called governments or anything else, can justly take from the individual. - Auberon Herbert

If I die today, will you remember me tomorrow?The love I'm leaving behind, will you care to borrow? From a snake-shed-skin or from the sky unknownIn all living and the dead I'll dwell to groan - Munia Khan

Life is not about receiving. It's about giving, knowing that someone might learn, understand or grow that little bit from the experience. - Peter E

There are all sorts of kisses... from the sticky confection to the kiss of death. Of them all, the kiss of an actress is the most unnerving. How can we tell is she means it or if she's just practicing? - Ruth Gordon

I have walked myself into my best thoughts and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it. - Søren Kierkegaard

Nothing can save you from hate, empty all your treasures and give it to people and one out of the multitudes will curse you, so live your life to please yourself and not others. - Michael Bassey Johnson

So an inerrant archer who's inaccurate." Hastra to Athson, from The Bow of Destiny - P. H. Solomon

Men… I huffed. No guts, no glory…Do you guys stop to consider the insanity of all of it, or do you just charge ahead without a second thought?This from the woman who would surrender her own life without a moment’s consideration?He had me there. - M.A. George

Check your ego at the door and check your gut instead. Every right decision I have ever made has come from my gut. Every wrong decision I've made was the result of me not listening to the greater voice of myself - Oprah Winfrey

True humility does not know that it is humble. If it did, it would be proud from the contemplation of so fine a virtue. - Martin Luther

The spirit of man is not a created being; it existed from eternity and will exist to eternity. Anything created cannot be eternal; and earth, water, ect., had their existence in an elementary state, from eternity." ~Joseph Smith, Jr., 2 July 1839 - Documentary History of the Church 3:387 - Joseph Smith Jr.

You never die from a snake bite, you can't be unbitten it's in the way, what continues to pour through you long after the bite has taken place. - Bob Proctor

We learn from trials and errors. - Lailah Gifty Akita

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

When the poverty comes in the room automatically love go out from room windows. - AbdulNasir

Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly. - Albert Einstein

The life of your dreams begins with the unfolding of consciousness from within. - Jiulio Consiglio

Let the ruins come to lifeIn the beauty of Your nameRising up from the ashesGod forever You reign - Hillsong

Congratulations.You've just been demoted from the "pity" sector to the "apathy" sector.To check the validity of this offer you can ask if anyone cares.To cancel your subscription, go get a life.Thank you. - Sanhita Baruah

You are correct in saying that desires often come from things we cannot easily gain - mine, being that of your love. By all accounts, I do wish I could steal it. But I am not that sort of man. I will wait. Forever and a day...I will wait. - Renee Vincent

You can't run away from trouble. There ain't no place that far. - Joel Chandler Harris

And yes, I’ll admit, I am jealous. I’m jealous of every minute you spend with him, of every concerned expression you send his way, of every tear shed, of every glance, every touch, and every thought. I want to rip him to pieces and purge him from your mind and from your heart. But I can’t. - Colleen Houck

Cash flow never comes from making people redundant. - kamil Toume

Sunlight reflecting from rippled windows greatly accelerates plant growth by up to three times normal rates. - Steven Magee

Popularity comes from allowing yourself to be bored by people while pretending to enjoy it.

Learn from seeds; they don’t die when you throw dirt at them; they grow. - Matshona Dhliwayo

For what is love if one loves a woman without knowing her? Just a decision to love? Or even an imitation? The question concerns us all: If, from our childhood on, the examples of love were not there inviting us to copy them, would we know what "loving" means? - Milan Kundera

We passed from laughter to terror which, like love and hate, are close relatives. - Lise Deharme

If you are a special intelligent expect that God or people from "relatives or from strangers or friends,..." to get you down and your reply is must to absorb problems and try to alleviate and diminish from its sad effects - Ramy Mohamed Sabry

Enjoy losing weight. Enjoy eating healthy, delicious food. Do not wait until you reach your destination to feel good. Take as much happiness and joy as you can from your weight loss journey. - Harry Papas

We never move on from the cross. We only get a more profound understanding of the cross. - C.J. Mahaney

Dear Teens at Starbucks wearing 'Abstain from Sex 2 Attain Ur Goals' t-shirts: Doesn't it depend on what my goals are? - John Green

Before joining the bandwagon to vouch support for the ‘Women Empowerment’, let’s all make sure that our laws are free from flaws so that the men are not implicated in the fabricated cases. - Anuj Somany

If you invoke faith as justification for your belief, you must accept the same from others. And every person who retreats to faith bears a measure of responsibility for every act of hate and violence justified by it. - Nate Phelps

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

True confidence is not about what you take from someone to restore yourself, but what you give back to your critics because they need it more than you do. - Shannon L. Alder

Warriors will always have wounds from the battle, but they are only stronger from them. - Chris Burkmenn

CHILDHOOD, n. The period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth -- two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age. - Ambrose Bierce

...stories break silence and nourish those who work, feel, and dream.From Costa Rica: A Traveler's Literary Companion - Carmen Naranjo

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. - Albert Einstein

The chandelier's teardrop crystals twinkled above them like stars. It was easy to imagine that they were miles away from London, and that only the two of them existed. - Anna Bennett

There are some moments you won't completely heal from, those rare ones you will take torn open to the grave but throughout all the big moments that shake you up there will be countless tiny experiences that help you laugh all over again. - Nikki Rowe

This is no time for drinking a mug of water - which you would do nowhere else in the world. A mug of water! You just don't drink water from mugs, do ya? Except on the telly. Water out of a mug! Should be a hot drink... mug of water. - Russell Brand

Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again. - Vincent Van Gogh

Even as a child, even as my blood-past was drained from me, I understood that if I were strong enough to accept it, I was being offered a second history. - Anne Michaels

Always remember your days are blessed. You may know how to profit from them or you may not, but they are blessed. - Nadia Boulanger

Take hope from the heart of man, and you make him a beast of prey.

As it was, she always did whatever occurred to her, which was, admittedly, not difficult for someone in her position, coming from a background where rick of failure was minimal; in fact, you had to work hard to fail in her world. - Hanif Kureishi

Contemplating this suffering which is unbearable to us, and is unbearable to others, too, can produce awake mind, which arises from the compassion that wishes to free all living beings from suffering. - Dalai Lama XIV

No matter what happens i choose to value the memories of the good times, grow from the lessons of the bad times because i don't regret a single moment of it, every detail made me who i am. - Tilicia Haridat

If a celebrity from one walk of life is engaged to promote the growth of another field's activity, then the authority’s sincerity for its publicity is always under a big question mark. - Anuj Somany

Congress may carry on the most wicked and pernicious of schemes under the dark veil of secrecy. The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them. - Patrick Henry

The scientific method is nothing more than a system of rules to keep us from lying to each other. - Ken Norris

If one man gets excessive maan (importance from others) higher than a certain point, he will get tired of it, and if he gets excessive insults higher than a certain point, he gets agitated. - Dada Bhagwan

Today I will work when others procrastinate, I will confront my fears when others hide from theirs, and I will create solutions when others find excuses; today I refuse to allow my enemies to out work me. - Noel DeJesus

True art comes from the anonymous self. - Maria Riike

In reality, though, the first thing to ask of history is that it should pointout to us the paths of liberty. The great lesson to draw from revolutions isnot that they devour humanity but rather that tyranny never fails to generatethem. - Pierre Trudeau

In order to stay happy, You must learn from your wins and fails and accept all things that come your way as they are. - Auliq Ice

Desires move us from one station to another in this life while we search for beauty, love, and happiness. - Debasish Mridha

They are all cut from the same cloth, so of course, the sleeve will not tell the collar it is not part of the garment. - Molly Shaffer Franks

From one point my father is dead I need time to get rid of this topic, from other side I will have a big holiday from 3.28.2016 up to the end of the April Vacation. That's awesome, isn't it??I will be a lot of time out of school! - Deyth Banger

Anger is a fire that burns you from both ends. - Debasish Mridha

Almost all the times advices from your loved ones are for your safety, not for your success. - Amit Kalantri

To be capable of embarrassment is the beginning of moral consciousness. Honor grows from qualms. - John Leonard

I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes. - Edna St. Vincent Millay

Would a harsh word ever fall from lips which now breathed only love? Would the step whose lightest footfall now made her heart leap, ever sound in her ear like a death knell? - Fanny Fern

And in the end... Not even that old familiar sensation of emptiness. Just a hint of helplessness, a frustration for a lost time from a result prematurely injured and failed. - Irina Sopas

Real development is not leaving things behind, as on a road, but drawing life from them, as on a root. - G. K. Chesterton

From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life. - Arthur Ashe

REPLICA, n. A reproduction of a work of art, by the artist that made the original. It is so called to distinguish it from a "copy," which is made by another artist. When the two are mae with equal skill the replica is the more valuable, for it is supposed to be more beautiful than it looks. - Ambrose Bierce

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

I really, really wanted to be successful in my life just based on me and my mind alone…I didn’t ever want it to be an equation that amounted to a result coming from my brain plus something else. - Steve Wozniak

Take the things from America that speak to you, that excite you, that inspire you, and be the Americans we all want to know; then cook it up and sell it back to them for $28.99. Cue Funk Flex to drop bombs on this. All my peoples from the boat, let 'em know: WEOUTCHEA. - Eddie Huang

There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The slave is not afflicted with a punishment greater than the hardening of the heart and being distant from Allah. For the Fire was created to melt the hardened heart. The most distant heart from Allah is the heart which is hardened. If the heart becomes hardened, the eye becomes dry. - ابن قيم الجوزية

Persons appear to us according to the light we throw upon them from our own minds. -, author (1867-1957) - Laura Ingalls Wilder

Giving from the heart is supernatural, it manifests into blessings. - D.A. McBride

Conventions are, indeed, all that shield us from the shivering void, though often they do so but poorly and desperately. - Robert Aickman

I replayed the moment I first saw him at the picnic throughout our years together. As corny as it may sound, from the first glance we shared near the cake stand at the picnic, the two of us remained connected like the icing on one of those made from scratch cakes... - Kat Kaelin

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

CUNNING, n. The faculty that distinguishes a weak animal or person from a strong one. It brings its possessor much mental satisfaction and great material adversity. An Italian proverb says: "The furrier gets the skins of more foxes than asses." - Ambrose Bierce

Growth in love comes from a place of absence, where the imagination is left to it’s own devices and creates you to be much more then reality would ever allow. - Coco J. Ginger

Their gazes locked and held for a long beat, like maybe he was taking her pulse from across the room, absorbing the fact that she was drenched and breathless. The corners of his mouth twitched. She’d amused him again. - Jill Shalvis

Evolution is a part of nature. The world has strayed away from God, and now interprets its conception for the benefit of blissful ignorance. - Lionel Suggs

Stress comes from fear of the unknown, so have faith and fear will disappear and stress will melt away. - Debasish Mridha

We just move from one addiction to the other, choose your addiction! - Harrish Sairaman

People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times. - Isaac Bashevis Singer

Isn't it obvious in in today's world from people's preoccupation with self-medication, drug and alcohol use, rationalization and avoidance distraction that the truth doesn't just hurt, it's extremely painful. - James Turner

If I could get my membership fee back, I'd resign from the human race. - Fred Allen

Why is it a man can never seem to buckle down and train himself to indolence and stupidity when he can see what sanctuary they offer from toil and pain? - Alan LeMay

When a burden is given to us from the Lord, it does not lose its strength with the passage of time but rather gains intensity. - Reona Peterson Joly

Little deeds that proceed from charity please God and have their place among meritorious acts. - Francis de Sales

If we were always given a choice as to every path presented us in life, a multitude of roads leading to priceless treasures would forever go untraveled.Be grateful for your adversities. From toil and triumph evolves a life worth living."—from "Brahna A'Mahr - Richelle E. Goodrich

Mind's acres are forever green: Oh, IShall keep perpetual summer here; I shallRefuse to let one startled swallow die,Or, from the copper beeches, one leaf fall. - Stanley Kunitz

You have to be burning with an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right. If you're not passionate enough from the start, you'll never stick it out. - Steve Jobs

One person's success doesn't take away from your own. - Jeremy Piven

No more can they keep us inListen, damn it, we will winThey see it right, they see it wellBut they think this saves us from our hell - Metallica Welcome Home Sanitarium

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

MY MOONI'll always wonder what time it is there; if you're dreaming, or awake. My moon is your sun; my darkness, your light. I'm in the future, you'd jokingly say.And I know where you are, because I'm watching you from the past. - Coco J. Ginger

Grace was pouring out everywhere, from hidden sounds, into Els's damaged auditory cortex. And all that secret, worldwide composition said the same thing: listen closer, listen smaller, listen lighter, to any noise at all, and hear what the world will still sound like, long after your concert ends. - Richard Powers

To get dividends from life, invest in yourself. - Debasish Mridha

Still, compared to him, compared to the people we descend from, I am free of history. I'm so free of history I have to get in a car and drive seven states to find it. - Sarah Vowell

For of those to whom much is given, much is required - John F Kennedy, from Luke 12.48

Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey. - Pat Conroy

When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found; they forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what had brought them along. - Carl Sandburg

It is only by following your deepest instinct that you can lead a rich life, and if you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, then your life will be safe, expedient and thin. - Katharine Butler Hathaway

I am terrified of restrictive religious doctrine, having learned from history that when men who adhere to any form of it are in control, common men like me are in peril. [The World Is My Home (1991)] - James A. Michener

True beauty radiates not from outer cosmetics, but from the simple joy of making a difference for those that need your voice, passion, and time without expecting or wanting anything in return... - Deborah Barnes

The Devil loved watching children pour down the front steps of the high school like lava from a volcano. Trolling for souls. He posed in one of his favorite guises today, a school bus driver. - Serena Schreiber

What I think the political correctness debate is really about is the power to be able to define. The definers want the power to name. And the defined are now taking that power away from them. - Toni Morrison

We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed. - Thomas Jefferson

The best way to be unique and set ourselves apart from Society is to create. Use your imagination and apply action towards it. - Matthew Donnelly

Horror. I can't manage it. I become--well--horrified. Self-help books have a similar effect. When asked, "Any literary genre you simply can't be bothered with?" - (By the Book: Writers on Literature and the Literary Life from the NYT Book Review, by Pamela Paul) - Emma Thompson

The problems we face, did not come down from the heavens. They are made, they are made by bad human decisions, and good human decisions can change them. - Bernie Sanders

It is both relaxing and invigorating to occasionally set aside the worries of life, seek the company of a friendly book...from the reading of 'good books' there comes a richness of life that can be obtained in no other way. - Gordon B. Hinckley

It is the great privilege of poverty to be happy and yet unenvied, to be healthy with physic, secure without a guard, and to obtain from the bounty of nature what the great and wealthy are compelled to procure by the help of art.

I couldn't tell fact from fiction, Or if the dream was true My only sure prediction In this world was you. I'd touch your features inchly. Beard love and dared the cost, The sented spiel reeled me unreal And I found my senses lost. - Maya Angelou

Taking the decision-making process away from people disempowers them. It also makes them much less likely to buy into the decision, however right it may be. One’s own conscience remains the ultimate arbiter. - Lama Surya Das

it is an ocean of burning oil I am cast adrift upon, no sea’s repose; I pass from waking agonies… to the semiconscious trance of torment in which the smaller, earlier, deeper rings of the brain know only that the nerves scream, the body aches, and there is no one to turn crying to for comfort. - Iain Banks

love start from eyes & smiles but its end on bed - Viraj

I know you’re tired…but this is your time, Laney. Claim your power. Make everything…from the beginning until the end…make it all count. - R.W. Patterson

Instead of being proud that you led someone to God, be more concerned with the person you pushed away from Him. - Donna Lynn Hope

Fear always springsfrom ignorance. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Staying married may have long-term benefits. You can elicit much more sympathy from friends over a bad marriage than you ever can from a good divorce. - P.J. O'Rourke

You know you love something if you're willing to die for it, and you know it means nothing if you walk away from that which is dying. - Anthony Liccione

This earth that we live on is full of stories in the same way that, for a fish, the ocean is full of ocean. Some people say when we are born we’re born into stories. I say we’re also born from stories. - Ben Okri

The best way is not to fight it, just go. Don't be trying all the time to fix things. What you run from only stays with you longer. When you fight something, you only make it stronger. - Chuck Palahniuk

Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love. - Leo Buscaglia

the difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will and the other from a strong won't - Henry Ward Beecher

Life...as God intended it enables us to live above the drag of fear, superstition, shame, pessimism, guilt, anxiety, worry, and all the negativity that keeps people from seizing each day as a gift from Him. - Charles R. Swindoll

No credit--no debt. Credit leads a man into temptation. Cash down is the only thing that will deliver him from evil. - Solomon Northup

Thoughts, like fleas, jump from man to man, but they don't bite everybody. - Stanislaw J. Lec

Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean, Tears from the depths of some devine despairRise in the heart, and gather to the eyes, In looking on the happy autumn fields, And thinking of the days that are no more. - Alfred Tennyson

Death was a quiet evil, unavoidable like the dark night and defenseless sleep and tearful sorrows. It had hunted her down and slithered close, wanting only to smother every last flicker of life."—from "My Aquarius - Richelle E. Goodrich

A writer will divine a metaphor from a pattern on a dress, or a gesture, because sunsets have been done before. - Brandi L. Bates

No good ever came from not talking. - Ken Poirot

Expectations from others is your biggest weakness. - Devesh Tamta

You will find rest from vain fancies if you perform every act in life as though it were your last. - Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises. - Samuel Butler

My driving abilities from Mexico have helped me get through Hollywood. - Salma Hayek

I melted into the dream as if I had always been there. I knew where I had come from; I knew where I was going. - Chelsie Shakespeare

All others are outside myself;I lock my door and bar them outThe turmoil, tedium, gad-about.I lock my door upon myself,And bar them out; but who shall wallSelf from myself, most loathed of all?If I could once lay down myself,And start self-purged upon the raceThat all must run ! Death runs apace. - Christina Rossetti

All you really need to know for the moment is that the universe is a lot more complicated than you might think, even if you start from a position of thinking it's pretty damn complicated in the first place. - Douglas Adams

Honesty makes stories real and characters memorable. From there, taking them to where they need to go will be all the development they need. - Dan Alatorre

Your darkest moments are not meant to be swept under the carpet, hidden from the world in the silent pursuit of perfection. The darkness you've overcome is your ticket into leadership. It's what you're meant to light up in the world. - Vironika Tugaleva

To have a deeper understanding of life one must pause from looking outward and travel inward into the depths of consciousness. - Jiulio Consiglio

On Twitter, people who had read my book followed me and I could see what else they were reading, why they'd liked what I'd written and by the by, more about them than I'd ever elicit from two minutes in a tent at a book festival, stuck behind a signing desk. - Sara Sheridan

Where do dreams come from?...they slink out of books, they lurk in the stacks of libraries. Out of pages turned they rise like the scent of peonies and infect the brain with their promises. - Marge Piercy

Success comes from patience and passion. - Debasish Mridha

Truth and facts are woven together. However, sometimes facts can blind you from seeing what is actually going on in someone’s life. - Shannon L. Alder

Trivia are not knowledge. Lists of facts don't comprise knowledge. Analyzing, hypothesizing, concluding from data, sharing insights, those comprise knowledge. You can't google for knowledge. - Elaine Ostrach Chaika

Religion is a distraction from true education. - Richard Dawkins

Wisdom is not finally tested in the schools, Wisdom cannot be pass'd from one having it to another not having it, Wisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible of proof, is its own proof. - Walt Whitman

I've never seen beauty so devastatingas in the linesthat trace our hopeand fall from the stars. - Jessica Kristie

One is either an artist or one is not. It is not something one becomes. It is something that one is from birth. We do not study to be artists. We study to become more proficient. To understand more. - Edward Swift

Part broken - part whole, you begin again. ( from 'Why books seem shockproof against change.' THE TIMES: BOOKS) - Jeanette Winterson

Learn all you can from the mistakes of others. You won't have time to make them all yourself.

Past experience doesn't go away, so the secret is to accept, embrace and learn from it. However the key to the secret, is to keep it at bay and be open minded about the future from the second after the experience and never let the experience be the bar or commission of anything thereafter. - Unarine Ramaru