Quotation Explorer - 'If'

If male homosexuals are called "gay," then female homosexuals should be called "ecstatic."

If the gods listened to the prayers of men, all humankind would quickly perish since they constantly pray for many evils to befall one another. - Epicurus

I think: you deserve to be what you are if you could bare to get that way. You must have seen it coming. And now there's nothing for you here. No one will protect you, and people won't see any reason not to do you harm. - Martin Amis

If I see darkness in my nation, I bring light to her. - Sunday Adelaja

Remember that life is a miracle; enjoy it at its best. - Debasish Mridha

Everyone is a different book, with a different cover, different contain but the question is do you dare to open it? - Deyth Banger

Imagine how much happier we would be, how much freer to be our true individual selves, if we didn't have the weight of gender expectations. - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence...on pain of liquidation. - George Bernard Shaw

Beautiful places are almost alive! When you visit them, you can feel their breaths! - Mehmet Murat ildan

Get a grip on yourself. there's only one god here on earth, and that's you. If you don't like the world, make one you like better. - Yasmina Khadra

Only when your inner life is right will your outer life be right as well. - Jim George

The greatest gift that you can give to others is kindness. - M. Howson

Risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing. - Leo Buscaglia

Be excited about life, Pet your curiosity, Get in touch with your emotions. - Jasz Gill

The most precious gift you can ever give to a young woman is, appreciating and understanding her true feelings - M.F. Moonzajer

If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. But do not care to convince him. Men will believe what they see. Let them see. - Henry David Thoreau

If you feel that you are going without go within - Rasheed Ogunlaru

Change is inevitable and the ultimate way of life. Change creates new opportunities for new beauties in life. - Debasish Mridha

I invite all brats to throw their cookies at the baker’s head if they’re not sweet, winos to chuck their wine if it’s bad, the dying to shuck their souls when they croak, and men to throw their existence in God’s face when it’s bitter - Gustave Flaubert

Distress leads to dimness. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Future:Life ahead is full of brighter days. - Lailah GiftyAkita

Well, art is art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water! And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now, uh... now you tell me what you know. - Groucho Marx

If there's one thing I fear most in this world its not living my life to the fullest. It's not doing crazy, fun, and off the wall things. It's not traveling around the world while I still can. It's also regret, I don't wanna regret anything. - Leah Land

Nothing can do what a book can do. Lifts you out of your life... to a whole new world, whole new perspective. A book is like a dream you're borrowing from a friend. - Dave Kellett

Do not deny the truth. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Devote yourself to self education. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Wisdom of the Ages: "Brian Williams Week" Now that NBC is giving him a sixth month "leave" I wonder if he will be "Killing Time-In Saudi Arabia! - Matthew Heines

The brevity of our lives breeds a kind of temporal parochialism—an ignorance of or an indifference to those planetary gears which turn more slowly than our own. - Kathryn Schulz

We are all brothers, and yet I live by receiving a salary for arraigning, judging and punishing a thief or a prostitute, whose existence is conditioned by the whole consumption of my life. - Leo Tolstoy

Try to act like a human, if you're not a one yet - R.Gayan Priyankara

The biggest thing [Frida] brought into my life was this peacefulness. I still get passionate about things, but my passion is not so scattered and it's not needy. It's a lot more powerful because it comes with this groundedness and peacefulness. That it's about the process, not about the results. - Salma Hayek

If men liked shopping, they'd call it research.

As a teen, you're constantly trying to figure out who you are... But it's okay not to know right now. Your whole life you're going to be growing and changing.

If we spark a student's passion, we unleash a powerful force upon the world. - Tim Fargo

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

Stop thinking all the time that you're in the way, that you're bothering the person next to you. If people don't like it, they can complain. And if they don't have the courage to complain, that's their problem. - Paulo Coelho

Every fear fades with faith. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Hammer the lies! Nail the truth." ~ , If I Could Tell You - Angelica Hopes

You can't force creatives into a box. If you try, they'll no longer be creative. And no one will want your box. - Ryan Lilly

You must understand that it is not in the nature of Man to be grateful. So in whatever you or I do for others we must never expect gratitude. If we do, we will only be disappointed. - S R Nathan

Coz life, you see, is not a fairy tell. Just have faith in yourself and God. Let the life take you where it wants to. - Saumyaa Suneja

Through each crisis in my life, with acceptance and hope, in a single defining moment, I finally gained the courage to do things differently. - Sharon E. Rainey

If you are kind enough today, history will sing your song and be kind to you. - Debasish Mridha

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

Fafhrd stopped, again wiped right hand on robe, and held it out. "Name's Fafhrd. Ef ay ef aitch ar dee."Again the Mouser shook it. "Gray Mouser," he said a touch defiantly, as if challenging anyone to laugh at the sobriquet. "Excuse me, but how exactly do you pronounce that? Faf-hrud?""Just Faf-erd. - Fritz Leiber

Life is a game. Either you win or lose. Never allow the fear of losing prevent you from entering the game. - Lailah Gifty Akita

We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict. - Jim Morrison

Happiness is the joy in the heart. - Lailah Gifty Akita

If you feel that you have boy feet planted on the ground, then the university has failed you. - Robert Goheen

Sometimes you can write about a character's day in under a minute and sometimes it takes a day just to write about a minute. - Jennifer v Clancy

Spread your wings of love, and let your mind fly to a distant land where love is the air of life. - Debasish Mridha

Life is a book waiting to happen. - Sloan McBride

Love is a Beautiful Thing that makes us to Adjust ourselves Forcely - Avinash Babu Anand

...as we mature, we begin to realize that life in the Box remains the same, with few deviations from this norm. - Heidi Reagan

If I stop to kick every barking dog, I am not going to get where I’m going. - Jackie Joyner-Kersee

I love these words that just can't be translated from language to language. They seem dignified, grounded, battling against the imperialism of reality. - Olivier Magny

One person's disapproval shouldn't make you quit. If it's your passion, a thousand people screaming 'No!' still won't stop you! - Tammy Ferebee

If you keep an active life, you stay young. - Lailah Gifty Akita

People make mistakes, it's just part of life. But, it's what we do with those mistakes that matters. What matters is what we learn from the mistakes, not what the mistake is. - Chris Hankin

Once you figure out who you are and what you love about yourself, I think it all kinda falls into place." - Jennifer Aniston

There is no other way to determine the difference between the will of God and the crafts of satan... Jesus is the way, the truth and the life... The Holy Spirit of God is the Comforter... - Israelmore Ayivor

What seeds are you planting? - Lailah Gifty Akita

it is not the oppositions a man face that determine his rise or fall in life but his tenacity to dare to soar and to pursue to higher heights - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

it's all right", he said in a clear voice as if explaining something to a child. "It's quite all right. She's having a rest. We'll be going soon. There's no hurry. You see -" Bond's head sank down against hers and he whispered into her hair - "you see, we've got all the time in the world". - Ian Fleming, On Her Majesty's Secret Service

If you choose to not deal with an issue,then you give up your right of control over the issue and it will select the path of least resistance. - Susan Del Gatto

If only we could keep the wars between sperm and stop the ones between people, we would have peace through pleasure. - Dr Susan Block, The Bonobo Way

The power of positive thoughts is the key to receiving wonders and miraculous blessings. - Lailah Gifty Akita

In me is working a power stronger than every other power. The life that is in me is a thousand times bigger than I am outside. - Smith Wigglesworth

Women most often have a difficult enemy and she is a woman and not a man. - Debasish Mridha

If we miraculously became the people we hate, how lovable we would find ourselves.

Remember, someone, somewhere in some corner of this somewhat big world, is out there crying if you’re unhappy and is happy if you are! And you know who that someone is! - Faraaz Kazi

When life takes away, something of greater value is always given in return. - Michael J. Fox

May your spirit be strengthened. - Lailah Gifty Akita

I like to watch the news, because I don't like people very much and when you watch the news ... if you ever had an idea that people were really terrible, you could watch the news and know that you're right. - Frank Zappa

You put yourself where you are, and if you find yourself unsatisfied with how you are, then get yourself out of it. - Stephen Richards

Culture does not make people. People make culture. if it is true that the full humanity of women is not our culture, then we can and must make it our culture. - chimamamanda Ngozie Adichie

Money is like your girlfriend/boyfriend; she/he will come running towards you and embrace you in her/his arms, only if you pay enough attention. - CK Arora

If love was a sin, God Himself would be in the hottest part of Hell. - Matshona Dhliwayo

The actual theme of corruption can condemn humanity and this conflict can be resolved when people are diligent to put an end to this catastrophe as a community." - Saaif Alam

It seems to me that you can almost define civilization by saying it's people who are not willing to hurt other people because the other people are different. - Gene Wolfe

Life is cold; I will put on my clothes and wear my shoes - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

If you have never truly questioned what you believe, I would question whether you truly believe it. - D.A. Simpson

It's said that if you can't say something good about a dead person, don't say it. Well, I consider him dead. - Thurgood Marshall

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

I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well. - Henry David Thoreau

The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen not touched... but felt in the heart.

He felt something trickle down his face and he wiped it away irritably. When he looked at the back of his hand, he found trails of red. He had never cried in his life; in fact, he could not cry with no tear ducts. But now, at last, he was. He was crying tears of blood. For her. - Phillip W. Simpson

Mind is indeed that which takes one to Moksha, and it is also the mind that makes one wander around in the worldly life. One needs to just turn it in the right direction. It had been turned in the wrong direction, and so it needs to be turned in the right direction. - Dada Bhagwan

Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough. Not only have I found that when I talk to the little flower or to the little peanut they will give up their secrets, but I have found that when I silently commune with people they give up their secrets also - if you love them enough. - George Washington Carver

What was any art but a mold to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself- life hurrying past us and running away, to strong to stop, too sweet to lose. - Willa Cather

The right to lead a life free of fear is a fundamental right of all living beings. But this fundamental right is being brutally violated by humans in animal testing, meat and dairy industry, circus, zoos, aquariums, and sports. - Ama H. Vanniarachchy

Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it.

Cheat your landlord if you can and must, but do not try to shortchange the Muse. It cannot be done. You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal. - William S. Burroughs

And watch two men washing clothes,one makes dry clothes wet. The other makes wet clothes dry. they seem to be thwarting each other, but their work is a perfect harmony.Every holy person seems to have a different doctrine and practice, but there's really only one work. - Jalaluddin Rumi

One of the greatest challenge in life is not having an attitude but knowing or accepting that you have one - Ikechukwu Izuakor

Love is the greatest gift to mankind. - Matshona Dhliwayo

When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive thinking. - Albert Einstein

When he was young, he told her, each phase of his life, each self he tried on, had seemed reassuringly temporary. Its imperfections didn't matter, because he could easily replace one moment by the next, one Saladin by another. - Salman Rushdie

Kindness carries no price tag neither does it require making a purchase. A random act of kindness can change someone's life...choose to be kind always. - Kemi Sogunle

i'm like a mirror if you're cool with me, i'll be cool with you.if you're cold with me, i'll be cold with you.if you're naked with me, i'll be naked with you. - Sathish #@zZy

Opportunities like this come once in a lifetime! - Kendall Schmidt

A religion is a system of symbols which acts to establish powerful, pervasive, and long-lasting moods in men by formulating conceptions of a general order of existence and clothing those conceptions with such an aura of factuality that the moods and motivations seem uniquely realistic. - Clifford Geertz

I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them. - Thomas Jefferson

If you know that I am an unbeliever, then you know me better than I do myself. I may be an unbeliever, but I am an unbeliever who has a nostalgia for a belief. - Pier Paolo Pasolini

You may be able to conquer the whole world and gain everything in action, But you'll live in torment if you can't find peace of mind and satisfaction. - Mouloud Benzadi

The Fall will always be yours and mine… - Jennifer Elisabeth

Death ends a life, not a relationship. All the love you created is still there. All the memories are still there. You live on- in the hearts of everyone you have touched and nurtured while you were here. - Morrie Schwartz

As I walked out the door toward the gate that would lead to my freedom, I knew if I didn't leave my bitterness and hatred behind, I'd still be in prison. - Nelson Mandela

In your life never become an agent of Negativity; Unknowingly if you act negative to positive pursuits... you unnecessarily accumulate Karmic bondage... Then why act negative ? - Dinesh Kumar

And, drunk with my own madness, I shouted at him furiously, "Make life beautiful! Make life beautiful! - Charles Baudelaire

If we deny the grief its right in our lives, then we must question the love for which the grief is supposedly rooted. God's grief is founded in His love for Himself and His love for us. Looking at God as our model is healthy. Facing the pain means honoring those with whom our love is rooted. - W. Scott Lineberry

In the haunted house of life, art is the only stair that doesn't creak. - Tom Robbins

I find placebos uplifting and exhilarating. It means that taking action--no matter what the action is--might help you feel better. - A.J. Jacobs

For being different, it’s easy. But to be unique, it’s a complicated thing. - Lady Gaga

Shatter the limits in your mind and you shatter the limits in your life. - Matshona Dhliwayo

Sometimes, we need to accept that life doesn’t always go the way we planned. - Karon Waddell

There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before. - Robert Lynd

When you count your blessings, count life twice. - Matshona Dhliwayo

Art is the essence of life in creative form. If you want to compete, run a damn race. If you truly want to create essence, you need to leave competition out of it. 2014 - Jenna Cornell

If tears were liquor, I'd have drunk myself sick. - Mark Lanegan

All the repressed emotions and subconscious desires in time lead to some kind of psychological or physiological breakdown, if kept unchecked. - Abhijit Naskar

This is the real secret of life -- to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play. - Alan W. Watts

It is only the brave who win life’s rewards. Those who don’t overcome their fears are destined to fail at even the least things. - Kevis Hendrickson

The discoveries of my life that were of greatest significance (1) When I discovered love, (2) When I discovered faith and (3) When I discovered one cannot be without the other. - Tonny K. Brown

Anyone in this life is a good person - Kat Unda

You can always get exactly what you desire. - Lailah Gifty Akita

If you only had a year left to live, what book would you write?Now, write that book. - M. Kirin

If you are out there, you have fans. You have a champion. Organize these champions. You probably know who your best customers are. Make them a star on your site. Make those people your superheroes. - Jamison Stafford

Would you love money more than man? - Lailah Gifty Akita

It had only been my repeated experience that when you said to life calmly and firmly... 'I trust you; do what you must,' life had an uncanny way of responding to your need. - Olga Ilyin

That single thought is enough. The impulse increases to a wish, the wish to a desire, the desire to an uncontrollable longing, and the longing (to the deep regret and mortification of the speaker, and in defiance of all consequences,) is indulged. - Edgar Allan Poe

To ‘us’, nothing except the Soul (Atma) is beautiful, and there is indeed no such thing as bad in this world. Bad is to deviate from one’s own ‘boundary’ (to not remain as the Self). - Dada Bhagwan

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. - Mahatma Gandhi

With every breath, I breathe in so much of inspiration. I feel if there is one thing as free and as important as oxygen, it's inspiration. - Sharad Vivek Sagar

The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams. - Oprah Winfrey

The greatest challenge in life is discovering who you are, The second greatest is being happy with what you find. - Auliq Ice

We all are beautiful, let's not pretend to be ugly. - Indrani sarkar

The process of awakening or enlightenment is nothing but to empty yourself from inside, and make you encounter with the real being, where you absolutely relax yourself and feel rejuvenated to experience life again. - Roshan Sharma

If you do not have persistence then no amount of education, talent or genius can make up for it. - Stephen Richards

The Lord delivers those who delight in Him. - Lailah Gifty Akita

If you want peace, prepare for ideological war with those who want others to prepare for physical war. - Jakub Bożydar Wiśniewski

The Sufis advise us to speak only after our words have managed to pass through three gates. At the first gate we ask ourselves, Are these words true? If so, we let them pass on; if not, back they go. At the second gate we ask, Are they necessary? At the last gate we ask, Are they kind?

The universe offers you three things that money cannot buy: joy, love, and life. - Matshona Dhliwayo

I turn my heart to the light and receive its beauty and nourishment. I turn my heart to the shadows as they reveal hues, shades and textures that contrast the light. I turn my heart to them both and embrace their gifts, for they have graced me with blessings untold. - Kristin Granger

No one is too poor to give a smile - a gift, often, of greater consequence than any sum of money. - Vironika Tugaleva

Everyone who has ever taken a shower has had an idea. It's theperson who gets out of the shower, dries off, and does somethingabout it that makes a difference. - Nolan Bushnell

The ultimate purpose of life is to live it with profound love, joy, and happiness. - Debasish Mridha

FORGETFULNESS, n. A gift of God bestowed upon doctors in compensation for their destitution of conscience. - Ambrose Bierce

Your current situation = the life expectations you have accepted as completed, unless you change your comfort zone to create a better life. - Shannon L. Alder

Begin to learn. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Suicide is the way OUT of life, but, leaving everyone behind is the way INTO sadness. - TheKatAttack

We would worry less about what others think of us if we realized how seldom they do. - Ethel Barrett

If everyone had a dad like mine, no one would have sex tapes. - Tina Fey

Rare and precious gifts,gold and myrrh and frankincense,to offer a king. - Richelle E. Goodrich

Never lose hope,because ALLAH is always by your side. - Waseem Latif

It is better to be beautiful than to be good, but it is better to be good than to be ugly. - Oscar Wilde

Love is the strongest soul. - Lailah Gifty Akita

To enjoy the greatness and magnificence of life, lose yourself in the ocean of love. - Debasish Mridha

If I wanna die I may be awesome that I fear nothing. So I can do anything in this earth. Cause I am about to die. And If I start to do anything in this earth, the worst can be, I will die. This is the way I make impossibles possible. - Arefin Bashar Arif

If we can connect in some tiny way with a human that doesn't agree with us, then maybe we won't blow up the planet. - Nancy White

Have you wondered what our ego is?Our ego is a reflection of our life conditioning.It is no more than a mask (of our outer surface).It is not the inner of who we truly are and what we can truly be. - Alice Bacon

Don’t settle for helping those who will help you in return or doing a good deed for others to see. Help others without expecting anything back. Even if nobody else cares, God will notice. - Dillon Burroughs

I'm not praying for an easy life,but for God to give me strength to overcome life's circumstances - Amanda Penland

I refuse to let fear subjugate all my freedoms & liberty; I refuse to let it be the guiding beacon in my life. - Mamur Mustapha

If you desire romance then give some it’s equally heartwarming. There’s many ways to satisfy one’s heart, and feel special. - Ron Baratono

A little girl and her father were walking along in the evening. She was fascinated by the stars, and kept looking up at them, but made no comment until her father asked what she was thinking. She replied, "If the bottom side of heaven is so beautiful, how wonderful the other side must be - Francis Gay

Let there be love. There will be light to show you the path of life. - Debasish Mridha

I saw the same dynamic in our family - a dysfunctional family - mirrored in the country in the 1980's. If you take this family, and you put them up there as the First Family - if you look at what the dynamic is in the family - you might have a pretty good sense of how it's going to trickle down.

We do not want to be beginners [at prayer]. but let us be convinced of the fact that we will never be anything but beginners, all our life! - Thomas Merton

The playing field isn't level. All just beautiful bitches with a hint of the devil. - Anya Herdeg

To annoy or piss off are light offences. I'd say if you abuse the goodness of a novelist or a writer, the truth is, he or she can kill you multiple times or cannibalise you in many antagonist characters. - Angelica Hopes

I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect. And it's these things I'd believe in, even if the whole world indulged in wild suspicions that she wasn't all she should be. I love her and it is the beginning of everything. - F. Scott Fitzgerald

Fresh clean sheets are one of life's small joys.

If you don't create a good message about your dreams, those who were created to pay for it can't find it. Speak them out and you will find those God created to finance it - Israelmore Ayivor

And Mrs. Fox said to her children, 'I should like you to know that if it wasn't for your father we should all be dead by now. Your father is a fantastic fox.'Mr. Fox looked at his wife and she smiled. He loved her more than ever when she said things like that. - Roald Dahl

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

Life only gets better with every bright light. - Lailah Gifty Akita

The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do. - Galileo Galilei

He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it. - Douglas Adams

No matter your reason, if you sacrifice your health, you’re making the wrong choice. - Toni Sorenson

Narcissists are everywhere in this ripe age of self-love, which amazes me because so much in life would seem to foster humility. - Dean Koontz

When you make a mistake, understand it not as a mistake but as a lesson. This however, is if and only if you have learned something from it. - HENRY E. REYNOSO

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

They'll die in overtime - Jenifer Levin

That's why we make enemies of our friends as soon as they start to drift, he thought, cos that way they get stuck with all our flaws, unlike when they're shared. Maybe brief friendships are best. If you pul out in time, the vices are all theirs. - Yuri Herrera

Imagine how free we would feel and what we could accomplish if we could live without fear. - Susan Taylor

Who knoweth if to die be but to live, and that called life by mortals be but death? - Euripides

It should be our care not so much to live a long life as a satisfactory one. - Seneca

If I have learnt anything, it is that life forms no logical patterns. It is haphazard and full of beauties which I try to catch as they fly by, for who knows whether any of them will ever return? - Margot Fonteyn

I have never loved, Watson, but if I did and if the woman I loved had met such an end, I might act even as our lawless lion-hunter has done. - Arthur Conan Doyle

If you are walking with Jesus, in the Spirit, you need not fear going too far. No believer has gone as far as God wants him to go. - A.A. Allen

Producing laws is not an easier job than producing cars and food, so if the government is incompetent to produce cars or food, why do you expect it to do a good job producing the legal system within which you are then going to produce the cars and the food? - David D. Friedman

And I, Nephi, took one of the daughters of Ishmael to wife.' Well Mr. Go-And-Do just went and did! - John Bytheway

I confess to wincing every so often at a poorly chosen word, a mangled sentence, an expression of emotion that seems indulgent or overly practiced. I have the urge to cut the book by fifty pages or so, possessed as I am with a keener appreciation for brevity. - Barack Obama

There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise. - Gore Vidal

My mother... she is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to grow old and be like her. - Jodi Picoult

Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, And life unto the bitter in soul; Which long for death, but it cometh not; And dig for it more than for hid treasures; Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave? - Compton Gage

Everything that is past is either a learning experience to grow on, a beautiful memory to reflect on, or a motivating factor to act upon. - Denis Waitley

What is beautiful?Everything that has been loved by someone,That is beautiful. - Newpostcard

If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those moments. - Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Life isn't about knowing your purpose, it's about creating it. - Tanya Masse

You can only write what you know if you've lived, otherwise, you'll just be writing words. - Joseph Hunt

No misery ever so beautiful than the one this mind creates. - Vivid Darkness

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

Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole. - William S. Burroughs

If you want your dreams to work out for you, you must work with them. Pay the price and have the package of your accomplishments in full versions. - Israelmore Ayivor

If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth. - Carl Sagan

Be at peace with your soul - Lailah Gifty Akita

Sometimes life appears one way, but what matters is how you internalize life and its lessons. - Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.

I have spent most of my life worrying about things that have never happened - Mark Twain

Children are a gift from God. -Psalm 127:3 - Psalm 127 3

No, she laughed." How on earth could that be done? If you try to laugh and say ‘No’ at the same time, it sounds like neighing — yet people are perpetually doing it in novels. If they did it in real life they would be locked up. - Hilaire Belloc

It's a pleasure to create a smile on people's face, and a gratification to see it on the people you love. - Hassan Choughari

Life is a present; life is a miracle. Life is a song divine.When you touch my heart, hold my soul.Oh my pure valentine. - Debasish Mridha

Beautiful is the man who leaves a legacy that of shared love and life. It is he who transfers meaning, assigns significance and conveys in his loving touch the fine art and gentle shaping of a life. This man shall be called, Father. - Stella Payton

I wonder if, in the dark night of the sea, the octopus dreams of me. - N. Scott Momaday

Life is like a song; no matter how magnificent, it must end. - Matshona Dhliwayo

Imagine life as ... black can become white, and white can become black. But white can remain if you show love and respect. - Ibrahim Khidair Ali

Life is just a quick succession of busy nothings. - Jane Austen

Close friends are truly life's treasures. Sometimes they know us better than we know ourselves. With gentle honesty, they are there to guide and support us, to share our laughter and our tears. Their presence reminds us that we are never really alone. - Vincent Van Gogh

Pursuit of God, passion for life. - Lailah Gifty Akita

I sat down on the sofa, surrounded by years of coffee rings and sandwich stains. If the police ever did a DNA test on this sofa, it would be ninety per cent disappointment. - Danny Wallace

Don't Judge People By Their Outer Appearances, Even The Bright Beautiful Moon Has Its Dark Side Which It Keeps Hidden All The Time.... - Muhammad Imran Hasan

That peace, safety, and concord may be the portion of our native land, and be long enjoyed by our fellow-citizens, is the most ardent wish of my heart, and if I can be instrumental in procuring or preserving them, I shall think I have not lived in vain. - Thomas Jefferson

A child who grows up too closely aligned with adults assumes knowledge of a life she hasn’t yet experienced. - Suzanne Haynes, Loretta Nyhan

Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars. - Norman Vincent Peale

Believing or not makes no difference to the Absolute of Things That Be. But it does to you. For you shall live and die accordingly. A wise person, or a fool. Choose. - Fakeer Ishavardas

She might not have read many books. But when she reads a book, she swallows the very words. If you open the books on her shelves, you will find that the front and back covers encase white pages. - Kamand Kojouri

The most amazing people are those who love life and humanity. - Debasish Mridha

You were made by God and for God and until you understand that, life will never make sense. - Rick Warren

Life is transient and ephemeral so dance in your own way. - Debasish Mridha

You think that fairytales are not true, but life itself is the most magical and mysterious fairytale. - Debasish Mridha

To inspire is to give life. To expire is to give death. - J.R. Rim

Voglio vedere chi può superarmi nel talento di amare. In verità è un talento pieno di dolore, di sofferenza, di lacrime; ma mi è così congeniale, così adatto, che difficilmente vi rinuncerò mai. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Conquer your mind; your life will be in your control. - Sanjeet Veen

If I have the power to make things that I want it to be then life would be so better as I hope it to be.. - San Sai R.A

Let all of life be an unfettered howl. - Vladimir Nabokov

Unbidden, Unwelcome, Yet unable to resist, I entered a stranger's life - Joyce Carol Oates

The goal in life is not to try and live forever, but to create something that will forever live in people’s hearts. - Karon Waddell

Equation (1.2-9) is a second order, nonlinear, vector, differential equation which has defied solution in its present form. It is here therefore we depart from the realities of nature to make some simplifying assumptions...

If I am not for myself, who will be? - Pirke Avoth

If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.

Life demands growth - Sunday Adelaja

Don’t give up on your daydream! That little voice inside is telling you how to live your life with intent & purpose. - Dawn Gluskin

We like to forget and underestimate the power of love and kindness, more often than not, it can change a life and a society. - Debasish Mridha

When we are courageous enough to begin exploring the ‘Why’s and the ‘Who’s' of life, the ‘How’s’ and ‘What’s’ of life start to come into focus as well. " - Mac MacKenzie

Silence hung around the corners, draped like spider webs across all surfaces and hanging like smog in the air. - Jennifer Perry

A rude man tells a women to stop talking too much because she is making noise. A polite man will tell this same woman that she looks so beautiful when her lip are closed. Compare and choose one! Speak politely; but be sure you get to where you are going with your words. - Israelmore Ayivor

He who has injured thee was either stronger or weaker than thee. If weaker, spare him; if stronger, spare thyself. - William Shakespeare

Is life worth living? Yes, so long As there is wrong to right.

I guess in this culture of ever-shortening attention spans, it's good if a song can lift us out of the madness, even if only for a few minutes. - Peter Bradley Adams

Love is the most valuable currency of life which you can spend as much as you want without the risk of bankruptcy. - Debasish Mridha

Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind. - E. B. White

How do you give something away with the knowledge that you will get it back in three days, and then claim it to be the 'Ultimate Sacrifice'? - Jake Jesser

I write so I don’t call you. - Jennifer Elisabeth

When you pursue your goals with passion, you will attract people who love you; but you’ll also attract haters. I’m okay with that; I welcome it. I don’t want to live life as a spectator. I’ve learned that if no one is cheering you on and/or booing you; it means you're not in the game. - Steve Maraboli

No matter how nice the company one might be with, however, it is never pleasant to have a rifle pointed at one's back. - Meg Cabot

The greater the destiny, the greater obstacles you’ll have to overcome. No great destiny comes without great challenges and sacrifices. - Jeanette Coron

The purpose of human life is to expand love. - Maharishi Sadasiva Isham

Life is Not a perpetual climb towards Greatness.For our family, ourselves, and friends,It is but sad Decay, so,Let every girl die after her Hebé (Ἥβη).And every man after his Aristeia(ἀριστεία). - Roman Payne

Endless opportunities exist. - Lailah Gifty Akita

I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person. - Jane Austen

Sooner or later in life everyone discovers that perfect happiness is unrealizable, but there are few who stop to consider the antithesis; that perfect unhappiness is equally unattainable. - Primo Levi

What if, as an act of worship, creating something meant healing and restoration took place instead of pain and frustration? - Michelle Dennis Evans

A woman has got to be able to say, and not feel guilty, 'Who am I, and what do I want out of life?' She mustn't feel selfish and neurotic if she wants goals of her own, outside of husband and children. - Betty Friedan

Hope, in anything but myself, is just way too dangerous right now… - Jennifer Elisabeth

What comes out of the mouth is the state of the mind. - Lailah Gifty Akita

An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding. - Robert Louis Stevenson

(From Boulez, an authorized biography by Joan Peyser)At the chapel door he [a priest associated with a school Boulez attended] asked me if what he had been told was true: that Boulez no longer believed in God. I said it was... - Pierre Boulez

Be strong in spirit, you can conquer every circumstance. - Lailah Gifty Akita

One of the most scariest thing in life is when you come to the realization that the only thing that can save you is...yourself - Demi Lovato

If you could observe every thought in your brain the magnitude of it's vastness would drive you insane. - Stanley Victor Paskavich

If we could only share our hopes, our dreams, our disappointments, our fears, our achievements, and our discoveries.... the world would be a little kinder and a lot more forgiving. - Robert Anthony

What would you say to yourself if you could actually meet a younger you? - Doug Dillon

You may not have money, you may not have medicine, you may not have miracles, but you do have words, and they can produce life, or death depending on how you use them. - Rick Cochran

If a thing isn't worth saying, you sing it. - Pierre Beaumarchais

Be grateful for every sacred breath. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Through their teachings they dignify even the most mundane professions. According to them any profession or work that adds to the common good of man must be respected and it is dignified - Sunday Adelaja

I will not give up on love. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Years ago this was just a place where I was assigned to work. Today looking at this place represents the opportunity that God allowed me to see the beauty of His works. The difference in then and now - I guess our views are a representative of our growth. Thankful. - Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.

Time goes by so fast, people go in and out of your life. You must never miss the opportunity to tell these people how much they mean to you.

The only end of writing is to enable readers better to enjoy life or better to endure it. - Samuel Johnson

Turns out that once you kill a god, people want to talk to you. Paranormal insurance salesmen with special "godslayer" term life policies. Charlatan's with "godproof" armor and extraplanar safe houses for rent. But most notably, other gods... - Kevin Hearne

If you follow a foolish ism, how are you an intelligent being? - Fakeer Ishavardas

Women lose their lives not knowing they can do something different..." from Two or Three Things i Know For Sure - Dorothy Allison

We should not allow ourselves to be deceived by our outward show of ‘civilized’ manners and ‘cultured’ social behavior into believing that self-concern, desirous attachment, aversion, and indifference are steadily losing their hold over us. - Stephen Batchelor

But,instead of what our imagination makes us suppose and which we worthless try to discover,life gives us something that we could hardly imagine. - Marcel Proust

Love is not just an ecstasy, not just an intense feeling. It is a driving force. It is something that carries us through our life of joyful duty.

To succeed in life you must believe and take first step in working towards realizing your goals. - Lailah Gfty Akita

Life is full of unexpected. The grace of God is available to everyone to stand the test of time. - Lailah Gifty Akita

u wil win if u do not quit - Ikechukwu Joseph

If we kiss, it will change everything. - Dolores

Raise your self-esteem to such a level that you only allow loving experiences in your life. Don't waste time trying to get even. It doesn't work. What we give out always comes back to us. So lets drop the past and work on loving ourselves in the now. Then we will have a wonderful future. - Auliq Ice

Husband and wife both are works together as two wheels in a vehicle. Here is equality between both. - Kusum Manjeshri

There is no doubt that the most effective way to heal my pain is to purposefully put it to work healing the pain in the life of another. But that means I must endure the pain of not focusing on 'my' pain. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

Just dabbing pieces of my heart into things that make me shine, my little young simple life. - Nikki Rowe

One of the most stupid things in life is not to enter the door which is wide open just because of the fear that this door will be shut and going back will be impossible! Have some courage, because even a harvest mouse leaves his hole to discover new places! - Mehmet Murat ildan

So what if the airin Paris smells of romance?My shirt smells of you. - Pooja Nansi

But a somewhat more liberal and sympathetic examination of mankind will convince us that the cross is even older than the gibbet, that voluntary suffering was before and independent of compulsory; and in short that in most important matters a man has always been free to ruin himself if he chose. - G. K. Chesterton

The living water that never runs dry,The water of life, Lord, the saviour of the world. - Lailah Gifty Akita

We always cherish and miss the time passed yet struglling for a better future but after moving to next level we feel the past was beautiful - Salman Ahmad

Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story. - John Barth

‎The only way Jesus can be our King is if we allow Him to be our Servant - Stuart Greaves

There are many who live Life in Fear, without taking risks. They don’t take chances. Alas! Not only are they missing chances, they are missing Life itself! - - RVM

Free will, determinism, meaning, existence, etc. are academic problems, not problems in life. - Marty Rubin

Unconditional love is one of the greatest gifts of God's to mankind. - mukasa ronald

To brighten your vision, look at the positive side of life with great love. - Debasish Mridha

There are only two people in your life, when you think of them, they will either give you a negative feeling, or a warm feeling, when you think of them. - Robert Black

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

A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them to see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it. - Max Planck

Nothing's more gratifying than to get a heart-felt 'Thank you' ! - Saurabh Singal

To be beautiful, be the person who helps others to reveal their own beauty. - Debasish Mridha

Give your life purpose and focus. Position yourself to succeed - Karon Waddell

No one that ever lived has ever had enough power, prestige, or knowledge to overcome the basic condition of all life - you win some and you lose some.

It's easy to make money, a lot tougher to make a difference - Shilpa Menon

I mean, whatWhat if no one's watchingWhat if when we're deadWe are just deadI mean, whatWhat if it's just us down hereWhat if God is just an ideaSomeone put in your head - Ani DiFranco

It doesn't do any good to sit up and take notice if you keep on sitting.

My approach is different. My mistakes are conscious mistakes. And I learn more than those I despise way too often than those I admire. - Harshit Walia

Anything in life is possible when you work hard to achieve it. - Abdulazeez Henry Musa

Desire, Desire, Desire!!!Desire to love.Desire to seek.Desire to ask. - Lailah Gifty Akita

If there be any truer measure of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he gives.

The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives. - Albert Einstein

The tram can run over you only if you are on the tram way! The darkness can run over you only if you are on the ignorance way! - Mehmet Murat ildan

remember 's First Rule of Writers and Agents, learned by bitter personal experience: You don't need one until you're making enough for someone to steal ... and if you're making that much, you'll be able to take your pick of good agents. - Stephen King

There are a thousand thousand reasons to live this life, everyone of them sufficient - Marilynne Robinson

Morning sunrise wakes me upwith rays of hope.Clouds of fear can hide the sunbut not for long.If rays of hope are strongand patience is a song,then hope will bloom andrain will bring a rainbow. - Debasish Mridha

Contentment is the joy of life - Lailah Gifty Akita

How old are you?""Ten," answered Tangle."You don't look like it," said the lady."How old are you, please?" returned Tangle."Thousands of years old," answered the lady."You don't look like it," said Tangle."Don't I? I think I do. Don't you see how beautiful I am! - George MacDonald

Making the best of things is a damn poor way of dealing with them. My life has been a series of escapes from that quicksand. - Rose Wilder Lane

If men want to oppose war, it is *statism* that they must oppose. - Ayn Rand

The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility. - Oscar Wilde

If everyone takes one action for peace every day, our future generations will be able to enjoy peace. - Debasish Mridha

Religion serves all of us; men, women, gays, straights, blacks, whites, Americans and Indians. If it does not comply with our needs, wishes and happiness, then religion without a doubt is a plague that must be stopped. - M.F. Moonzajer

A wise man is able to differentiate between humility and weakness, he does not mistake courage for pride. - Newton Gatambia

You don’t hear what I hear. - Lailah Gifty Akita

We must continually abide in the vine, so that we can keep bearing lasting fruits - Lailah Gifty Akita

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

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life. - Confucius

If the past was what we were meant to see…then behind, not in front, our eyes would be. - RVM

It’s just proper for old people to die. Otherwise, they’d go insane in a world too different from the one they knew. - Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

Embrace every soul with love. - Lailah Gifty Akita

If a person takes comfort in his or her faith upon divinity in times of distress, then who the hell am I to say, that the person is delusional. - Abhijit Naskar

The best journey of life that you can take is inside yourself to discover your new thoughts, new ideas, and new hopes. - Debasish Mridha

If only a man can work on that thought within 48 hours the reality will manifest - Adedayo Olabamiji

If someone puts you through hell, don’t be mad or bitter about it, because the thing that will free you from that hell is forgiveness. - Jeanette Coron

Readers often tell me after they've read the books, they find it difficult to sum up the plot in a simple way. My response is, "It's a story about the love a father shares for his daughter. All the rest is just filler."- MJ Mancini, on his best-selling trilogy, "Revelation". - M.J. Mancini

If you are searching for sacred knowledge and not just a palliative for your fears, then you will train yourself to be a good skeptic. - Ann Druyan

No more important duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to their best convictions.

If a believer demands that I, as a nonbeliever, observe his taboos in the public domain, he is not asking for my respect, but for my submission. - Flemming Rose

Divine joy is spirit of the journey. - Lailah Gifty Akita

The happiest excitement in life is to be convinced that one is fighting for all one is worth on behalf of some clearly seen and deeply felt good. - Ruth Benedict

We only pass this way once..unless our significant other is reading the map.. - k.j. force

If I had lost everything and was out on the streets with no money I would go sit in the library and read and meditate for weeks at a time. - Matthew Donnelly

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats. - Andrew Schweitzer

Always accept good advices from others, they will help you out if you are facing any complications in life - Saaif Alam

Even if you feel wronged, respond right. - Carlos A. Rodriguez

Natafuta mwanamke mwenye utu, wema, uaminifu na tabia njema – sifa ambazo ataendelea kuwa nazo hata uzeeni. Sifa hizi zinaweza kubadilika kwa sababu ya maisha au kwa sababu ya mapenzi ya Mungu, lakini mabadiliko haya hayatakuwepo kwa haraka. Sura haidumu. Tabia hudumu. - Enock Maregesi

As an instinct told her which way to turn, her wisdom told her that it will be a long path to manifest. - Sarah Pussell

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

Next to the Word of God, music deserves the highest praise. The gift of language combined with the gift of song was given to man that he should proclaim the Word of God through Music. - Martin Luther

I hate you.'My sister said it different than she said it to my dad. She meant it with me. She really did.'I love you,' was all I could say in return. - Stephen Chbosky

If you ask God for love,He may give you someone to forgive.If you ask God for patience,He may give you someone to bear. - Matshona Dhliwayo

If power is the only important thing, then Frodo loses against Sauron. Hell, if power’s the only important thing then Gandalf loses against Sauron. If magic is the deciding factor of a fight, then four plucky kids from England get their asses turned to stone by the White Which. - Patrick Rothfuss

The thought manifests the word;The word manifests the deed;The deed develops into habit;And habit hardens into character;So watch the thought and its ways with care,And let them spring forth from loveBorn out of compassion for all beings.As the shadow follows the body, as we think, so we become. - Juan Mascaró

We all try to be are greatest, but what if are greatest hasn’t affected others with greatness… - Taija Rae

If there was no woman in this world there would be no prophecy - Hamza Khan Takkar

If stupidity is the only sin, who is blameless? - Marty Rubin

Knowledge comes from learning - Ignorance is born from not wanting to know the difference! - Robbie Thomas

Get close to only those who renew our spirit and sense of purpose in life. - Aditya Ajmera

Read. Read as if your life depended on it because your life as a novelist does. - Louise Doughty

Humanity is not a gift of nature, it is a spiritual achievement to be earned. - Richard Bach

Always give your best; today's great work is tomorrow's benchmark. - Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

That's why Knowledge of Self is like life after death, Apply it to your life, and let destiny manifest.

If your holy book makes you hate, you're reading the wrong shit, mate. - Fakeer Ishavardas

Without passion everything lame in this life. - Baris Gencel

Men love pleasure, but women wish for purposeful promise. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Knowledge is the Best Weapon, Experience is the Best Teacher,Respect is the Best Admirer, But Life Is the Best Answer - Look Im A Cat

It's the pointless things that give your life meaning. Friendship, Compassion, Art, Love. All of them are pointless. But, they're what keeps life from being meaningless. - Tim Winton

I'm not saying it's going to be easy. Nothing in life is easy. But that's no reason to give up. You'll be surprised what you can accomplish if you set your mind to it. After all, you only have one life, so you should try to make the most of it. - Louis Sachar

If studidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out? - Will Rogers

There is a big difference between being centered and being self-centered - Lolly Daskal

The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent. - Stendhal

Life is a joke, even though it is not always funny. - Stephan Attia

If you are silent, if I never learn one fraction more of your soul's equation/I know you. - Jeanie Thompson

I hope somebody cares because I sure don't. I sure don't. Not anymore. I'm ashamed to go around my family. I'm too embarrassed to confide in my friends. Outside of work I don't have a life. - Mary B. Morrison

What do you do with a lifetime of work? Face it in the morning. - Iggy Pop

Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress. - Mahatma Gandhi

If a man asks me for my loyalty...I will give him my honesty.If a man asks me for my honesty...I will give him my loyalty! - John Boyd

If you haven’t the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you. - T.S. Eliot

If the race isn't over after you have won, then it wasn't your game! - Vishwanath S J

Life is an endless sea of admiration, in constant collision with those who have aspired, to feel inspired once again. - James C. Emlund

It is vain to try to sacrifice once for all one'syouthful ideals. - Paul Bourget

If you are always persuasive, you would be able to make new friends in society. - Saaif Alam

Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord. - Nikolai Gogol

When I die, I would love to die smiling. If however I forget this, I hope I have someone there to make me smile. - Fafore

So what we are right now is a pair of dickweeds in a hotel room in Sydney. My life is royally fucked up right now and from where I’m sitting, your life is even bloody worse. - Dave Gorman

Life is here to be enjoyed, your happiness and your smile makes it even better - Jim Jensen

If you're rational you don't get to believe whatever you want to believe. - Michael Huemer

We’ve yet to comprehend the impervious reality that to gain ‘life’ we have to do the most scandalous thing imaginable, and that is to work ‘against’ the whole of our humanity and give everything away. And yet to give everything away is to work ‘with’ the whole of God’s character. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

Inner peace is the hallmark of a peaceful joyful soul. - Lailah Gifty Akita

If I reveal myself without worrying about how others will respond, then some will care, though others may not. But who can love me, if no one knows me? I must risk it, or live alone. - Sheldon B. Kopp

Romance is the deepest thing in life. It is deeper than reality. - G.K. Chesterton

Love has power in it; it can melt any heart, if your love is true and divine. - Debasish Mridha

I won't fight you, it looks puerile to me, but i can ignore and forget you till you wonder if you still exist. - Michael Bassey Johnson

Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.

Do something: be it good or evil, if they ask why you did it, tell them you're different. - Michael Bassey Johnson

If a person starts always analyzing everything before saying to the people so that the thoughts are pleasant, then most probably s/he would not be able to say ever anything excellent. - Anuj Somany

God is God. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Even if I die you keep living okay? Live to see the end of this world, and to see why it was born. Live to see why a weak girl like me ended up here... and the reason why you and I met. - Lachi

Love of loves! - Lailah Gifty Akita

Still, all it really took was one alteration in my life, a change which appeared insignificant and unlikely at the time, nonetheless it has affected my outlook completely, turning it around the compass of my life. - Andrew James Pritchard

DISCRIMINATE, v.i. To note the particulars in which one person or thing is, if possible, more objectionable than another. - Ambrose Bierce

If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves. - Maria Edgeworth

At least if you were ignorant, you could do what you wanted, you had no idea what had been achieved in the past. You were free, instead of chewed at by bleeding impotence, dissolved away like a pearl in acid. - Hamza wolf

The outward freedom that we shall attain will only be in exact proportion to the inward freedom to which we may have grown at a given moment. And if this is a correct view of freedom, our chief energy must be concentrated on achieving reform from within. - Mahatma Gandhi

You are a true leader if you help others to grow as leaders. - Debasish Mridha M.D.

Life's true test of perseverance is continuing to run after learning that the finish line is only the start to a new race. - Tyconis D. Allison Ty

Life is ever changing. We can always adapt to the new changes. - Lailah Gifty Akita

If you know the brightness of your heart, you will never fear darkness. - Debasish Mridha

Dream is the roadmap but hope is the guiding light in the way of life. - Debasish Mridha

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

Left alone, no matter at what age or under what circumstance, you have to remake your life. - Katharine Graham

If you list down whatever you didn’t get to do, then whatever you did won’t feel like it mattered. - Saim Cheeda

My imagination longs to dash ahead and plan developments; but I have noticed that when things happen in one's imagination, they never happen in one's life. - Dodie Smith

The more you remain aware with all the internal and external changes of life, more you allow yourself to move deeper towards the source. - Roshan Sharma

If you have a definite purpose, if you have a driving desire to achieve it and if you go with passion, then don't wait for success because you are already a success. - Debasish Mridha

I wanna be so consumed with the love of Christ that it flows into every aspect of my life. - Evangelist Jordan Wells

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

I don't need to write a memoir of my life. All you need to do is read one of my books. I'm there. - Lori Lesko

With astonishing wonder, I have seen the magic of life, the power of thoughts, and the beauty of imagination. - Debasish Mridha

Until the lion learns how to write, every story will glorify the hunter. - J. Nozipo Maraire

I have seen people starting the fire with water, turning every breeze into a storm, create chaos out of peace. Few people are meant to destroy everything and themselves no matter what, and if you hold on to them long they will take you into their abyss and tear you into pieces. - Akshay Vasu

There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it. - George Bernard Shaw

The important thing is to know when to laugh, or since laughing is somewhat undignified to smile. But the smile must be of the right kind must have understanding in it, and friendliness, and a good deal of patience. - Roderic Owen

She was the one person he’d hoped to avoid as much as possible when he’d taken his place as Sheriff of Maxville. It wasn’t that he disliked her, that was the problem. Despite his better judgment and a glutton for punishment, he still cared too damn much for the woman. - Lia Davis

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. - Victor Hugo

464Joy is found in the breath of acceptance knowing that all is well in our world, if we surrender with grace. - Jennifer Lynch

How beautiful is death, when earn'd by virtue! Who would not be that youth? What pity is it That we can die but once to serve our country! - Joseph Addison

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

They said we are different. but I Said we are same because we all are busy to blaming others for our sins! - sid

To have a positive influence on someone's life is a blessing. - Unarine Ramaru

Eliminate all unnecessary negativity from your life and watch it change for the better. - Tanya Masse

There's no point in fighting for a woman that is rude and boring, just because she's hot. Such woman shortens your lifespan. - Daniel Marques

Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart. - Martin Luther King Jr.

The innocent little girl said at the end of her prayer "Jesus, please take care of yourself because if anything happens to you, we are all in trouble - Kingsley Opuwari Manuel

In our day heaven and earth are on tiptoe waiting for the emerging of a Spirit-led, Spirit-empowered people. All of creation watches expectantly for the springing up of a disciplined, freely gathered, martyr people who know in this life the power of the kingdom of God. - Richard Foster

Moreover, in order to understand any man one must be deliberate and careful to avoid forming prejudices and mistaken ideas, which are very difficult to correct and get over afterwards. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

No problem is too small or too trivial if we can really do something about it. - Richard Feynman

At the banquet table of nature, there are no reserved seats. You get what you can take, and you keep what you can hold. If you can't take anything, you won't get anything, and if you can't hold anything, you won't keep anything. And you can't take anything without organization. - A. Philip Randolph

Life is fragile and temporary. The faces of today quickly become the faces of the past. Sorrow, pain, and anger... it all fades- except love. Love is forever and there after, even when we've fallen to our graves. - Lee Argus

The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it. - Elbert Hubbard

People and nations cannot be happy, if they do not acknowledge the Lordship of Jesus Christ - Sunday Adelaja

The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read - Oscar Wilde

Religion is so frequently a source of confusion in political life, and so frequently dangerous to democracy, precisely because it introduces absolutes into the realm of relative values. - Reinhold Niebuhr

The sacred soul writes the sacred words. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Love is the source, power, essence, and evidence of life. - Debasish Mridha

If you can justify your life’s journey, you are a success. - Debasish Mridha

If you do everything with love and joy, you will find your soul. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Good art is always dangerous, always open-ended. Once you put it out in the world you lose control of it; people will fit it into their minds in all sorts of different ways. - Greil Marcus

We have the power to move mountain, if we have faith that the mountain can be moved. - Compton Gage

Life doesn’t always go our way. But one thing we know and can stand upon. Jesus has burst open the gates of LIFE. So we look ahead with great joy. The Story of God is one of hope, promise and life eternal. - Anusha Atukorala

Life is as simple as these three questions: What do I want? Why do I want it? And, how will I achieve it? - Shannon L. Alder

The first day or so we all pointed to our countries. The third or fourth day we were pointing to our continents. By the fifth day, we were aware of only one Earth. - Sultan bin Salman Al-Saud

Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is a nobler art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials. - Lin Yutang

Writing is a sacred passion. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top. - Edward Abbey

Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all easy; and he that riseth late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night; while laziness travels so slowly, that poverty soon overtakes him. - Benjamin Franklin

I live in the paradise of my imagination. - Lailah Gifty Akita

If I blink she'll disappear," he told her. She looked at him and said,"Maybe that is the best thing for you. - Donna Lynn Hope

Some people say I raised a good child. I like to think of it as my child raised a good parent. - Clifford Cohen

But if government is in the business of promoting what is good and suppressing the bad, that is a license for it to stick it’s nose into virtually every human activity. - John Stossel No They can t Pg 32 Threshold Editions New York New York 2012

Why do you write meaningless philosophy? you asked. Because it gives meaning to life, I whispered with deep empathy. - Debasish Mridha

Money is numbers and numbers never end. If it takes money to be happy, your search for happiness will never end. - Bob Marley

Life is a journey that gives you the liberty to draw your own map, and choose your own route. - Dennis E. Adonis

The only thing your life teaches you is how to live your life. And that’s only if you’re very lucky. And you listen very hard. - Mark Slouka

If you forget where you came from, you've gone too far. - Tanya Masse

My first wife said, 'It's either thatguitar or me,' you know -- and I giveyou three guesses which one went. - Jeff Beck

Be a peacemaker. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Her happiness floated like waves of ocean along the coast of her life. She found lyrics of her life in his arms but she never sung her song. - Santosh Kalwar

We are a pluralist civilisation because we allow mosques to be built in our countries, and we are not going to stop simply because Christian missionaries are thrown into prison in Kabul. If we did so, we, too, would become Taliban. - Umberto Eco

Explore, Dream & Discover are 3 secrets which the time traveler is unaware. They demystify as the journey advances! - Vishwanath S J

sejak bekerja di majalah, kami mengerti Valentine adalah momen dagang....Korbannya tentu remaja-remaja naif, orang-orang melankolis, yang tidak sadar uangnya dirampok siang-siang. - Syahmedi Dean

Rise, Rise. - Lailah Gifty Akita

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

Dear God, if one day I lose my hope and purpose, give me confidence that your destiny is better than anything I ever dreamed. - Daniel Friday Danzor

Hope is the grace of a happy heart. - Lailah Gifty Akita

I believe that everyone should have a dream and believe in it. Make it real, bring it to life. You'll never regret trying. Trying is what strengthens your heart and delivers courage. Once you believe in yourself, nothing can stop you. - Richard P. Denney

How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old? - Lois McMaster Bujold

Life is a dream from which we must wake before we can dream again.

I’ve come to the conclusion that people who wear headphones while they walk, are much happier, more confident, and more beautiful individuals than someone making the solitary drudge to work without acknowledging their own interests and power. - Jason Mraz

Never let the thoughts of self-unworthiness re-arrange your prepared passion for failure. You can do it even if others say you can't. But you cannot do it if you tell yourself you can't. - Israelmore Ayivor

If we put our trust in the common sense of common men and 'with malice toward none and charity for all' go forward on the great adventure of making political, economic and social democracy a practical reality, we shall not fail. - Henry A. Wallace

Life is not about tomorrow. Life is about living your fullest today. - Debasish Mridha

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

There are a lot of questions I keep asking myself about why I do comedy. I guess I laugh to keep from crying. And I guess if you ever get me crying, I might not stop. This is the way I look at tragedy or else I'll cry. - Bob Newhart

If you get up one time more than you fall, you will make it through.

Love and Hate are two of the most used, abused, and misused words of mankind. - Tiffany Winfree

Own your errors but never be consumed by them. If you are willing to learn they provide great opportunities for how not to do it a second time around. - Lennox D.Lampkin

God wonderfully made you different; you must make a wonderful difference ! - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

A federal judge has ruled that Microsoft should be split into two different companies. One company will have the Windows operating system and the other will count Bill Gates' money. - Conan O'Brien

This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet. - Jalaluddin Rumi

Do you want to know the secret of pain? If you just stop feeling it, you can start to use it.

I felt as if I was the only person awake in a city of sleepwalkers. That's an illusion, of course. When you walk through a crowd of strangers it's next door to impossible not to imagine that they're all waxworks, but probably they're thinking just the same about you. - George Orwell

Imagine who you could be, what you could accomplish-if only you could get out of your own way. - Staci Backauskas

If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's. - Joseph Campbell

Criticism is the disapproval of people, not for having faults, but having faults different from your own.

Teamwork is the best ever investment. If I make 3 and you make 5, together we will not make 8. We will make 15. Leaders build active teams! - Israelmore Ayivor

If You Are Not Getting Any Kind of Negative Feedback, Than You Probably Are Not Working Hard Enough. - Chris Mentillo

Fornication and adultery unleash destructive consequences into a person's life:• Poverty;• Lack of perception;• Loss of respect and mutual acceptance;• Children with shattered futures;• Dullness of the senses and of the intellect;• Deterioration of health. - Sunday Adelaja

Falling in love is a kind of wonder. - Lailah Gifty Akita

A present reality, experienced in this life that begins in you, is known as; the kingdom of God. - Stacy Snapp-Killian aka StacyK

I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness. - Franz Kafka

Religion imprisons God. By its own accord, if we are made in the image and likeness of God, then His condemnation of the sinner is an act of hypocrisy. I believe God to be greater than that. - Steve Maraboli

If you have to choose between your self-respect & ego and other person; choose your self-respect & ego.Because other person may leave you at their will but your self-respect & ego will always support and carry you even in toughest situations. - Nikita Dudani

#3533. The law disregards trifles.

If writers stopped writing about what happened to them, then there would be a lot of empty pages. - Elaine Liner

In my opinion, works of art should be viewed as gifts; something precious given from a point of empathy, where personal enrichment is vastly superior to the value of the gift, and the giver begs for nothing but for the gift to shine on its own. - Kevin Focke

If you judge people you have no time to love them. - Mother Teresa

What is it about our specific belief in God and His wishes that makes us so angry at the specific beliefs of another? What is it about the teachings of our respective deities that makes us more right than the next person? Or more wrong? - Chuck Austen

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

Authors are the closest thing man would come to understanding God. It is a remarkable thing to conjure up a life and create its story. - Palle Oswald

Let the Evils of yesterday sinks into the past. take a new look at your life - George Bank jc

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

The pond is clear, but it isn't this beyond the sea blue and has never been. The sky is blue, but it isn't this strikingly bright and vivid nor has it ever been. But together, and in each other's company, they are more beautiful than they could ever have been alone... - Anoma Natasha Paleebut

Stay determined to achieve your dreams. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Depression's a mood killer. People crowding you, asking if you're okay. Deperssion; the world's worst thing. - TheKatAttack

Good is never accomplished except at the cost of those who do it, truth never breaks through except through the sacrifice of those who spread it. - John Henry Newman

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification. - Martin Henry Fischer

Stand firm in your refusal to remain conscious during algebra. In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra. - Fran Lebowitz

Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday.

Once you have listened to the gossip for some time, you will soon feel as if you know everyone, even if you have never met them. - Monica Fairview

The beauty of life isn't the perfectioned moments or storybook endings; the beauty of life is when you fall flat on your face, the Lord picks you up, then you look around and cheer, after all, a merry heart is the medicine! - Mary Kate

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

If someone tells you he is going to make ``a realistic decision,' you immediately understand that he is going to do something bad.

As the essence of courage is to stake one's life on a possibility, so the essence of faith is to believe the possibility exists. - William Salter

Oppose vigorously any tendency to sadness ... You must persevere. By means of sorrow the enemy tries to make us weary of good works, but if he sees that we don't give them up and that being done in spite of his opposition they have become very meritorious, he will stop troubling us. - Francis de Sales

The greatest gift that you can give anyone is your pure love. - Debasish Mridha

The only walk of life where you can rightfully chill and run.Celebrate childhood!! Happy Childrens Day!! - Vidya

A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth. - George Bernard Shaw

You are about to begin reading 's new novel, If on a Winter's Night a Traveller. Relax. Concentrate. Dispel every other thought. …Tell the others right away, "No, I don't want to watch TV!… I'm reading! I don't want to be disturbed! - Italo Calvino

God gives absolutely everybody the opportunity to be successful in life. - Sunday Adelaja

What about thinking of happiness as a right instead than as a gift? - Rossana Condoleo

The decision as to whether to risk one’s actual life or to surrender the ideal self-conception is a decision about who one is.(from The structure of desire and recognition) - Robert B. Brandom

Life is something that really cannot be explained. It got to be experienced! For experiencing life to its fullest an attitudes of openness, gratefulness, happiness, flexibility are required. But most of all 'being in love' is crucial to live life to its fullest potential. - Vishwas Chavan

And sure enough, even waiting will end...if you can just wait long enough. - William Faulkner

All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time. - Ernest Hemingway

If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music. - Albert Einstein

In suffering, we build our strength for ultimate success. - Lailah Gifty Akita

If I give with the motive to get, regardless of the degree to which that motive besets me, I will walk away impoverished and I will leave those to whom I have given just as impoverished as I have now found myself. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

If God lived on earth, people would break his windows. - Jewish Proverb

I must say that acting was good training for the political life that lay ahead of us. - Anthony Burgess

Life is like this roller coaster you can’t wait to be tall enough and old enough to get on. But when you get on it you realize you’re afraid of roller coasters. - Evan Rauch

There is nothing that exists outside or inside to punish us or take a note of every action of ours, but it’s our own understanding towards life, that allows us to experience, different pain and pleasures of life. - Roshan Sharma

If you don't know where you're going, you might not get there. - Yogi Berra

Nothing is over our heads if we hold them high enough. - Johnny Rich

DREAM INTERPRETATION Simplified.Everything's eitherconcave or -vex,so whatever you dreamwill be something with sex. - Piet Hein

Knowing God is like listening to beautiful music. His words have power. He lifts me up & soothes my soul. He makes me dance. He gives me joy. - Germany Kent

Idleness for me is not a giving up on life but a spirited grabbing hold of it. - Tom Hodgkinson

Live daringly. - Lailah Gifty Akita

If life is a flower, then love is the beauty of that flower. - Debasish Mridha

If one could always predict the future, this person would soon be the saddest being on earth, for it cannot be surprised nor could it stop thinking of making a difference. - LordBloodySoul

Urgency fills our life with stress and anxiety. but slowness, simplicity, and love fill our life with beauty and happiness. - Debasish Mridha

And deep down, she felt like maybe she didn't deserve it-that she belonged with the petty thieves and guys who drank Pabst Blue Ribbon for breakfast - Jennifer McMahon

The paintings of Francis Bacon to my eye are very beautiful. The paintings of Bosch or Goya are to my eye very beautiful. I've also stood in front of those same paintings with people who've said, 'let's get on to the Botticellis as soon as possible.' I have lingered, of course. - Clive Barker

Each day provides its own gifts. - American Proverb

It is ever so much easier to be good if your clothes are fashionable. - L. M. Montgomery

Silence embeds thoughts better than speeches. If you are afraid of silence, you are afraid of your thoughts. - Rossana Condoleo

Remember:It’s all in your head… all of it.If you don’t like the story, change it.If the people around don’t accept your new story; change them. - Steve Maraboli

The treasure of life, learning. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Just because you fall once, doesn't mean you're fall at everything. Keep trying, hold on, and always trust yourself, because if you don't then who will?? - Marilyn Monroe

Not the sadness, but the happiness, is the ultimate purpose of life. - Debasish Mridha

So live your life that those who speak ill of you will not be believed. - one of the ancient Greeks I'm on a hunt to find which one.

Wake up call may be a disastrous failure, if it results in a life change, the failure is worth the suffering - Faisal Khosa

I won't say that all senior citizens who can't master technology should be publicly flogged, but if we made an example of one or two, it might give the others incentive to try harder. - Chuck Lorre

It's so simple to be happy, but so difficult to be simple.

If our actions stem from honesty, kindness, caring, and vision, then no matter what the result of our efforts, we have added something of value to our souls and to the world.

Whatever hand life has dealt you, seeing it positively will always make it a winning one! - Stephen Richards

If you want a happy ending, it just depends on where you close the book! - Orson Welles

They said" Your Anger could Destroy you.." Even if my Brain designed it to Destroy my enemy. - Srinivas Shenoy

The most difficult dilemma for a person is perhaps when his heart testifies to an inevitable reality yet his tongue will not proclaim it, when his mind screams in acceptance of truth but he cant bring himself to state it. - Umera Ahmed- Peer-e-Kamil

Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.

If someone likes you when you are living a lie, remember - he likes the lie, not you. - Azim Jamal & Brian Tracy

Being a good person doesn't mean you fit the life of every person you meet. - Shannon L. Alder

You must be the most beautiful and sophisticated thief I have ever met. Secretly you stole my heart without my knowledge. - Debasish Mridha

Inspirational quotes are dances of light that shine in dark places during your life. - Shannon L. Alder

Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say that there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe. - Frank Zappa

Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life. - Henry Ward Beecher

If you're in business, all the content in the world will do you no good unless it leads to a sale. - Richie Norton

Events are transient, feelings are momentary, perception is optional and internalization is life long. - Debasish Mridha

If you can't see God in all, you can't see God at all - Yogi Bhajan

I seek to know my divine self. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Vision is purpose, and when your purpose is clear so are your life choices. Vision creates faith and faith creates willpower. With faith there is no anxiety, no doubt-just absolute confidence.

It would be great if a person could state with indisputable facts & figures as how many people have ever got a job or a business opportunity by liking an online thought/post of a rich businessperson. - Anuj Somany

I fly on the wings of love. - Lailah Gifty Akita

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

To my mind, a picture should be something pleasant, cheerful, and pretty, yes pretty! There are too many unpleasant things in life as it is without creating still more of them. - Pierre-Auguste Renoir

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

Positive thinking gives positive energy. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful. - Sophia Loren

For me, it's that I contributed, ... That I'm on this planet doing some good and making people happy. That's to me the most important thing, that my hour of television is positive and upbeat and an antidote for all the negative stuff going on in life. - Ellen DeGeneres

Don’t neglect the importance of prayer in your Christian life. - Jim George

The tragedy of life is what dies in the hearts and souls of people while they live. - Albert Einstein

One of the very best things about life is the way we must regularly stop whatever it is we are doing and devote our attention to eating. - Luciano Pavarotti

I never set out to write a book to change women's lives, to change history. It's like, 'Who, me?' Yes, me. I did it. And I'm not that different from other women. ... Maybe my power and glory was that I could speak my truth as a woman and it was the truth of every woman. - Betty Friedan

There is nothing to lose in this life. - Lailah Gifty Akita

He sighed. "I don't think an apology will do, Mercy. Because an apology implies that you wouldn't do it again. And, under the circumstances, you wouldn't do anything differently, would you?"No. - Patricia Briggs

It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry. - Nikolai Gogol

Endless light, endless love. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Facts are like cows. If you look them in the face long enough, they generally run away. - Dorothy L. Sayers

Some days I like to wander to old and warn our places, forests ripped apart by man and streams that carry stagnant water where it use to flow. There is a sense of clarity in these places, a reflection of who I am or atleast who I have been. Broken, yet still incredibly beautiful. - Nikki Rowe

By their essential nature triumphs can't be given. They must be taken, and the worse the odds and the fiercer the resistance, the greater the honor. Victories can't be gifts. - Lois McMaster Bujold

In stories like Cinderella and Beauty and the Beast, they always say the heroine is 'as good as she is beautiful.' I wondered if people just wanted that to be true, wanted the beautiful to be good. I wondered if they wanted the ugly to be bad because then they wouldn't have to feel bad for them. - Alex Flinn

Life is like a cooking pot. If you cook something good, you well get something tasty. If you cook something bad, you will get something bad. - Debasish Mridha

Science is the most reliable guide in life. - Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons. - Jim Rohn

If you want to be a good writer, internalize the good writers; absorb them; integrate with their souls; embrace their minds; mingle with their life stories; in short, merge with them, lose yourself in them! - Mehmet Murat ildan

If you have time to write a business plan, you have time to prove the model. Just sayin. - Richie Norton

Make your passion your life. Just don’t make it about you. - Leigh Hershkovich

In all emotional conflicts, the thing you find the most difficult to do, is the thing that you should do."--Meyer's Law - John D. MacDonald

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run. - Henry David Thoreau

Love is displacement of life and moments. People ask in gaping bewilderment, "am I in love? is this love? Is it real love?" No one has to ask, "Have I been fucked? - Glenn Hefley

Grace is the pleasure of God to magnify the worth of God by giving sinners the right and power to delight in God without obscuring the glory of God. - John Piper

If I bet on humanity, I'd never cash a ticket. - Charles Bukowski

Sometimes I think life is just a rodeo, the trick is to ride and make it to the bell. - John Fogerty

Dating's like going on a job interview. You don't know if you'll get the job, but if you do, you get to see the interviewee naked. - Waiter Rant

If you want to win a game of life, there is only one way — you must be unpredictable. Otherwise life will never forgive such a deadly sin. - Elmar Hussein

If a man aspires to a righteous life, his first act of abstinence if from injury to animals. - Leo Tolstoy

As humans, reality for us is largely based on other people's perceptions. If there's 20 bodies in your crawl space but you haven't been caught yet, you tell yourself you're still a birthday clown, and that's how you keep doing it. - Dan Harmon

After a year in therapy, my psychiatrist said to me, "Maybe life isn't for everyone."

Whenever you touch a poem that caresses your soul, breathe it gently for it might be the wind that perfects your life's goal. - A. Saleh

In life what you ASPIRE will TRANSPIRE—be it Loss or Gain, Sun or Rain, Joy or Pain. - RVM. - R.v.m.

If music be the food of love, play on; Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die. That strain again! it had a dying fall: O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour! - William Shakespeare

If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world. - Ludwig Wittgenstein

You may not be rich with money, Socrates was not, your life still has tremendous value. - Debasish Mridha

Time is precious, so use it wisely in every area of your life including having a relationship with God through"The Door", Jesus Christ! No one knows how much time that they have to live, so don't allow time to run out on you! - Anita R. Sneed-Carter

They weren't people that liked change. They were the kind of people that would have tied change to a chair with dental floss if they could in order to avoid it. They were the type of people who desired to live in their virtual bubbles and grew to resent anyone that challenged that world. - Anna M. Aquino

Words are beads on the strings of sentences. So make a beautiful necklace! - Aneta Cruz

UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility. - Ambrose Bierce

Lord of lords! - Lailah Gifty Akita

If you do not see light at the end of the tunnel, consider it an opportunity to create an opening yourself, wherever you want. - Ashok Kallarakkal

Life is so urgent it necessitates living slow. - Ann Voskamp

If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him. - Armand Jean du Plessis Richelieu

We all intuitively know that a mother's love is crucial to the creation of a well-adjusted human and that we are all born with an instinctive expectation of receiving unconditionally selfless love from our mother. - Jeremy Griffith

I didn't have all the answers, but at least I had a goal. Revenge. Who cared if it would eat me up inside and leave me hollow? - Brandon Sanderson