Quotation Explorer - 'Of'

There are opportunities for all of us, we just have to open our eyes and hold ourselves completely accountable - K. Abernathy Can You Action Past Your Devil's Advocate

The ultimate philosophy of life is not found in words, but it is found in the ways of living life. - Debasish Mridha

I do not understand those who take little or no interest in the subject of religion. If religion embodies a truth, it is certainly the most important truth of human existence. If it is largely error, then it is one of monumentally tragic proportions—and should be vigorously opposed. - Steve Allen

Even in societies where words are often strictly controlled, messages diverse never die. Resembling seeds scattered here and there, they find all manner of cracks and crevices to root. - William E. Jefferson

In the history of a soul’s evolution there is a critical point of the human incarnation that decides for us whether we stay there, go down or progress upwards. There is a knot of worldly desires impeding us; cut the knot by mastering desires and go forward. This done, progress is assured. - Virchand Gandhi

Pour God's love out of you in pitcher fulls, not thimbles. - Shannon L. Alder

Owning a book is a third of the goal. The others are actually reading it and applying it. - Israel Wayne

Prove to the world that you are alive, let your words breathe life into the nostrils of the universe. - Michael Bassey Johnson

Take your ego out of your story. - A.D. Posey

If you have a harem of 40 women, you never get to know any of them very well. - Warren Buffett

We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another.

I suppose no matter what I'm drawing, there will always be some sort of question in my mind about it. A work of art (even cartoon art)is never really finished; it is abandoned. - Brooke McEldowney

The only thing I regret about my past is the length of it. If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner - Tallulah Bankhead

Your greatest responsibility in your life is to be the best version of yourself. When you feel for what the soul believes that is who you become. - Shannon L. Alder

Every pearl of your necklace touches my heart like a fresh flower of joy. - Debasish Mridha

I often fear to talk so occasionally I express my opinions and my love in writing. - Debasish Mridha

When everything seems hopeless, turn your mind toward the three people who mean most to you in this world. Think about what you must mean to them, and from those thoughts of those three people will stem all the hope and meaning you’ll need to fight through. - Shenita Etwaroo

The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.

Ayame: "Yuki, let's deepen the bond between us brothers!"Yuki: "Before you can do that I'll drown you in the deepest part of that lake."Ayame: "As long as we spend time together."Yuki: "On second thought, go drown yourself. - Natsuki Takaya

Knowledge is half the battle. The application of knowledge is the other half. (1998) - Gary Borthick 1970 2001

Imagination is tapping into the subconscious in a form of open play. That is why art or music therapy, which encourages a person to take up brushes and paint or an instrument, and just express themselves, is so powerful. - Phil 'Philosofree' Cheney

Without art the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable. - George Bernard Shaw

The conscience is a right mix of instinct, reason and culture. The conscience itself is not a truth but it has an ability to access the truth. But the very conscience is assembled only by the reason. - Thiruman Archunan

The irony of taking Anti Depressants: you take them to feel good but they also make you feel bad or worse because you worry about your purse. - Mico Monsalve

Do not limit your Sacred Space to the literal, such as a small room or office. Allow this energy to flow from deep within, so that every where you go, no matter what the circumstance, you will always be immersed in the divine - Gary Hopkins

I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of the way and let them have it. - Dwight D. Eisenhower

Progress is the product of human agency. Things get better because we make them better. Things go wrong when we get too comfortable, when we fail to take risks or seize opportunities. - Susan Rice

Love is when you fight to be with the one you love instead of fight with the one you love for a bed relationship. - Prabha Pillai

Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics. - Jane Addams

The key part of your brand is a quality product. Creating exceptional content is the number one thing. - Rufus Griscom

I am not a quitter. I will fight until I drop. It is just a matter of having some faith in the fact that as long as you are able to draw breath in the universe, you have a chance. - Cicely Tyson

I stood and looked at the large framed painting of the Pierrot clown that hung on her wall and sympathised with the tears that rolled down its cheek. Like the clown, I felt contained within a frame, the only difference being my tears were not for public show. - Eileen Munroe

All of us are born with a set of instinctive fears - of falling, of the dark, of lobsters, of falling on lobsters in the dark, of speaking before a Rotary Club, and of the words "Some Assembly Required". - Dave Barry

Great art is always a way of concentrating, reinventing what is called fact, what we know of our existence- a reconcentration… tearing away the veils, the attitudes people acquire of their time and earlier time. Really good artists tear down those veils - Francis Bacon

In the first play, the crisis is Thomas More. In the second it’s Anne Boleyn. In the third book, and the third play, it’s crisis every day, an overlapping series of only just negotiable horrors. It’s climbing and climbing. Then a sudden abrupt fall - within days. - Hilary Mantel

As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives. - Wilfred Arlan Peterson

I don't know whether it is beautiful or sad, that I find such blissful happiness within the confines of my own mind, than I do in the reality that surrounds me. - Kendal Rob

At the bottom of the human well, there should always be a candle of compassion. - A.J. Garces

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few. - Winston S. Churchill

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

The silence of a mountain has the tranquility and serenity of peace. - Debasish Mridha

For authentic living what is needed is the resolute confrontation of death.

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

The function of a child is to live his/her own life, not the life that his/her anxious parents think he/she should live, nor a life according to the purpose of the educators who thinks they knows best - A.S. Neill

Inspiration in Science may have to do with ideas, but not in Art. In art it is in the senses that are instinctively responsive to the medium of expression. - Arthur Erickson

Someone burns your beloved scripture in front of you, yet you are not bothered even the slightest bit. That's when you know, you have achieved divinity. - Abhijit Naskar

The pleasure of the sportsman in the chase is measured by the intelligence of the game and its capacity to elude pursuit and in the labor involved in the capture. - John Dean Caton

Learn to pray. Pray often. Pray in your mind, in your heart. Pray on your knees. Prayer is your personal key to heaven. The lock is on your side of the veil. And I have learned to conclude all my prayers with ‘Thy will be done’ (Matthew 6:10; see also Luke 11:2; 3 Nephi 13:10). - Boyd K. Packer

I am incapable of mediocrity. - Serge Gainsbourg

Whether a man is burdened by power or enjoys power; whether he is trapped by responsibility or made free by it; whether he is moved by other people and outer forces or moves them -- this is of the essence of leadership.

My Message is already out, what has left is to go and to do your part of the work. - Deyth Banger

Ill love you with every little bit of everything that has ever consumed me and I will forever love you and forever find you in every life time and so on. Until the stars die out and the universe leaps but even then, my love will remain. - Robert M. Drake

Children are more than we think they are; they can do more than we think they can do. All they need is a vote of confidence from grownups, whom they will ultimately replace anyway. Their dream today will become the realities of tomorrow. - Wess Stafford

Sabbath, in the first instance, is not about worship. It is about work stoppage. It is about withdrawal from the anxiety system of Pharaoh, the refusal to let one’s life be defined by production and consumption and the endless pursuit of private well-being. - Walter Brueggemann

The size of a challenge should never be measured by what we have to offer. It will never be enough. Furthermore, provision is God's responsibility, not ours. We are merely called to commit what we have - even if it's no more than a sack lunch. - Charles R. Swindoll

If his mother was drowning and I was drowning and he had to choose one of us to save, He says he'd save me. - Judith Viorst

Of all the pulpits from which human voice is ever sent forth, there is none from which it reaches so far as from the grave. - John Ruskin

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

She's afraid that if she leaves, she'll become the live of the party. - Groucho Marx

Anger is the immune system of the soul. - Stefan Molyneux

Did you ever notice that the first piece of luggage on the carousel never belongs to anyone? - Erma Bombeck

Seek happiness now within you. Don’t look anywhere else or for anyone to help bring that happiness to your life. Happiness comes as a reward of battles we win. Happiness will come from the will to be strong minded and the readiness to face the next challenge with a smile. - Sal Martinez

We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made. - Dan Quayle

The forces of good and evil are working within and around me, I must choose, and in a free will universe I do have a choice.

In your pursuit of your passions, always be young. In your relationship with others, always be grown-up. - Tom Brokaw

Every Time your lips touch mine the spark ignites anew, my want for more of you... - Daleen Van Tonder

It is theologically and anthropologically important for woman to be at the center of Christianity. Through Mary, and the other holy women, the feminine element stands at the heart of the Christian religion. - Pope Benedict XVI

A sage never measures people's maturity by their age, but fools do and offer them accordingly their wage. - Anuj Somany

If a single man achieves the highest kind of love, it will be sufficient to neutralize the hate of millions. - Mahatma Gandhi

Mind what you mind. Do not just open the door of your mind to anything at all you don’t want to mind. Mind the things that get closer to your mind and mind your mind! - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

I found focusing on the positives was really beneficial. I wrote down thoughts about how much better I would feel and look and how much calmer and more present I would be when I could get through the initial phase of wanting sugar and pop out the other side - Damon Gameau

If you learn to develop an abundant mentality you will not be envious of others, you will celebrate their successes, you share in their joys and pains; don't see life as a competition but a complimentary. - Bernard Kelvin Clive

It's precarious to hang onto the veracity of memory because its edges are smoothed by the river of time. - Khang Kijarro Nguyen

Now slides the silent meteor on, and leaves a shining furrow, as thy thoughts in me.Now folds the lily all her sweetness up,and slips into the bosom of the lake:So fold thyself, my dearest, thou, and slip into my bosom and be lost in me. - Alfred Tennyson

Religious guilt will never grow the kind of love you want in someone. - Shannon L. Alder

Some people just carry heavy hearts and more often than not it has nothing to do with you. - Nikki Rowe

I try my best to create a good quote while sitting alone. But I can never create it. Only on talking to you I get lots of lines - Pawan Mehra

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

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises. - Demosthenes

I'm sick of the images trapped in my headI'm sick of being preoccupied with the dead - Jessica-Lynn Barbour

As I empty my head, I feel wonderful and alive. Sometimes my creation is as beautiful as the feeling it produces, but most often it has to go through many changes before it is considered good enough for public consumption. - Faye E. Robinson

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

A beacon of light shining in a dark tunnel leads even the blind to safety - Wogu Donald

It is better to sit alone than in company with the bad; and it is better still to sit with the good than alone. It is better to speak to a seeker of knowledge than to remain silent; but silence is better than idle words - Anonymous

I arise from dreams of thee,And a spirit in my feetHas led me- who knows how?To thy chamber-window, Sweet! - Percy Bysshe Shelley

The lack of truth in one's words and actions is manifested in the failed attempts at success. Without integrity, reinvention has no impact~ - Bluenscottish

To live with fear and not be afraid is the final test of maturity. - Edward Weeks

Love, Hope, and Reverence are realities of a different order from the senses, but they are positive and constant facts, always active, always working out mighty changes in human life. - Elizabeth Blackwell

There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good friend. - Katharine Butler Hathaway

All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle. - Saint Francis of Assisi

Questioning is important for breakthrough innovation that in future companies will have a CXO level Position that leads all the interesting innovation - CQO Chief Questioning Officer. - Saurabh Gupta Earth5R

Lack of communication has a way of clipping our wings, which keeps us from flying. When things are left unspoken, we forget that everyone is destined to share the sky together. - Shannon L. Alder

Memories are the precious moments wrapped in delicate ribbon. The ones kept dear are beautifully woven around our heart, the ones that don't hold the beauty of the ribbon, unties itself naturally. - Kittie Blessed

Marriage is a triumph of habit over hate. - Oscar Levant

Success is meaningless if you can't sleep at night because of harsh things said, petty secrets sharpened against hard and stony regret, just waiting to be plunged into the soft underbelly of a 'friendship.' - Margaret Cho

Crying is the refuge of plain women, but the ruin of pretty ones. - Oscar Wilde

A mistake is not something to be determined after the fact, but in the light of the information until that point - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Never underestimate the significance of the little things done out of a large heart of love. - Elizabeth George

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

The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness. - Deepak Chopra

When life hands us a beutiful bouquet of flowers we stare at it in cautious expectation of a bee.

Every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving. - Albert Einstein

Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire. - George Bernard Shaw

My life is a work of art and nature is my temple! - Maurice Spees

Attachment-abhorrence is the foundation for the worldly life and the foundation for ‘Knowledge’ is a state free of all attachments (vitragta). - Dada Bhagwan

A country cannot change, be transformed or developed as long as there is no truth and honesty as an everyday principle among the citizens of the nation. - Sunday Adelaja

The burden of information often makes us blind; wisdom opens our eyes. - Debasish Mridha

I think to think. Not to be thought-full, or to reach a point of wisdom or acquire a grace of knowledge. I think for the sensuality of thought. - Ilyas Kassam

A coward cries during a storm;a man of faith sings through it. - Matshona Dhliwayo

Don't let pain keep you out of the garden. - Welwyn Wilton Katz

The things we earnestly chased like they are inevitable; now we see them and pass by....that's what i call GROWTH. Some will take 20 yrs to know this growth but those that feed on the Word have instant growth and prosperity. God be praised - Kingsley ofosu-Ampong

Just take my hand &let us dance under a chandelier of starlight. - Trevor Driggers

There's a different kind of beauty that comes with humility and honesty - Kiera Cass

I think people more often kill those they love than those they hate. Possible because only the people you love can really make life unendurable to you. - Agatha Christie

Peace is a dreamland. Peace is in my imagination.Peace is in my heart. Peace is in my mind forming a singing band. Peace is my best friendalways holding my hand.Peace is the only battle I am fighting for with the power of my love. - Debasish Mridha

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

The best armor is to keep out of range. - Italian Proverb

In America sex is an obsession, in other parts of the world it is a fact. - Marlene Dietrich

Intruding upon a dimension rightfully ours, modern medicine robs us of the dignity of what people in the past regarded as most precious: that final moment of death. - Shinmon Aoki

He hadn't realized that life speaks with a voice to you, a voice that brings you answers for the questions you continually ask of it, had never consciously detected it or recognized its tones until it now said something it had never said to him before, which was "yes". - Douglas Adams

Life is dancing in front of you so don’t forget to enjoy the joy of the dance. - Debasish Mridha

Each time we re-read a book we get more out of it because we put more into it; a different person is reading it, and therefore it is a different book. - Muriel Clark

It is by the goodness of god that in our country we have those 3 unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them. - Mark Twain

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

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 way to reform some people is to chloroform them.

Dreams are tawdry when compared with the leading of God, and not worthy of the aura of wonder we usually surround them with. God only doeth wonders. He does nothing else. His hand can work nothing less. - Jim Elliot

Ah! That glance of yours did some magic on me, you were not aware of. For once I died and was reborn. To put it simply: you did (CRL+ALT+DELETE) to my mind! - Ramana Pemmaraju

What we really need is only a heart of surrender & always trust what God has plan for our life. So we do our best, God shall take the rest. That's what I called FAITH. - Olivia Sinaga

Tomorrow, said the voice of fear in her head. It always said tomorrow, whether it talked about going to the grocery store or starting a new painting. Tomorrow you'll be brave, fear whispered. Tomorrow you'll be normal. Just give me today. That was how fear stole whole lives away. - Dana Morton

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about. - Charles Kingsley

What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real. - George Bernard Shaw

Metaphors are the weapons of cowards.

Sometimes beautiful things come into our lives out of nowhere. We can't always understand them, but we have to trust in them. I know you want to question everything, but sometimes it pays to just have a little faith. - Nutan Bajracharya

Sometimes ideas flow from my mind in a raging river of stringed sentences; I can scarcely scribble on the page fast enough to keep up with the mental current. Sometimes, however, beavers move in and dam the whole thing up. - Richelle E. Goodrich

Only the dead has seen th end of war - Mirza Tabish

BARRACK, n. A house in which soldiers enjoy a portion of that of which it is their business to deprive others. - Ambrose Bierce

Emilio, I am getting rusty and old, I cannot follow the highbrow theory developed by Oppenheimer's pupils any more. I went to their seminar and was depressed by my inability to understand them. Only the last sentence cheered me up. It was: "And this is Fermi's theory of beta decay. - Enrico Fermi

The idea of an election is much more interesting to me than the election itself...The act of voting is in itself the defining moment. - Jeff Melvoin

Like dear St. Francis of Assisi I am wedded to Poverty: but in my case the marriage is not a success. - Oscar Wilde

It is a lesson never learned: Matters of state and the heart that start with a lie rarely end well. - Maureen Dowd

There's no difference between a madman and a professor...it should be clear to you in the way they dress, act and think. - Michael Bassey Johnson

I went to Guatemala to help build a school but left wondering what "help" would really look like... I hadn't prepared myself for how humbled I'd feel, or how hard it would be to find my footing when witnessing a cycle of poverty that seemed to defy any sort of help. - Dee Williams

Bring it up, make amends, forgive yourself. It sounds simple, but don’t think for a second that it is easy. Getting free from the tyranny of past mistakes can be hard work, but definitely worth the effort. And the payoff is health, wholeness and inner peace. In other words, you get your life back. - Steve Goodier

I think the sense of family and family achievement, plus the discipline which I received there from that one-room school were really very helpful in what I did later on. - Alan Shepard

We have art in order not to die of the truth. - Friedrich Nietzsche

The ultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but hold hands.

You know how it is when you go to be the subject of a psychology experiment, and nobody else shows up, and you think maybe that's part of the experiment? I'm like that all the time. - Steven Wright

The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.

The cost of not following your heart is spending the rest of your life wishing you had. - Anonymous

Action is the pulse of any good story, but the character is the heart. If the action has no consequence to the character, the story loses heart. - Linda W. Yezak

Your obsession determines what you pay attention to. Your observations are limited to the focus of your mind. - Emmanuel Ayensu

After you've seen behind the facade of a stage set you can't take the play seriously any more. You can't go backwards and regain your ignorance; you have to move forward. - Zeena Schreck

I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs. - Joseph Addison

For there is no respect of persons with God. - Anonymous

[T]hat mutual jealousy, that intolerantly keen edge of criticism, that irrational hunger for a beautiful perfection, that life and wisdom do presently and most mercifully dull. - H.G. Wells

Although the author dealt some of John Bunyan's conclusions in spiritualizing the details of Solomon's Temple, he attributes to Bunyan a "consecrated ingenuity". - Charles Haddon Spurgeon

You have not lived until you have fled a city in a country where you do not speak the language in the middle of the night. - Ken Poirot

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

My art is the result of a deeply personal, infinitely complex, and still essentially mysterious, exploration of experience. No words will ever touch it. - George Brecht

If we rated greatness by the influence of the great, we will say "Muhammad is the greatest of the great in history - Will Durant

Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness. - Dag Hammarskjöld

The tombstone over the grave of the conscience always reads: "Human Nature". - Stefan Molyneux

Don't let the fear of failure keep you away from your Destiny. - Jeanette Coron

To mock something is pure ignorance. Intelligent people even open themselves to things that they don't understand. […] When an ignorant praises something, it won't probably be something profound. Surely it can't be the Principle that guides us. - Alfonso Colodrón

Accept it as it is and be true to yourself, the real answer is in you. It is about saying no to whom and what no is due and saying yes to whom and what yes is due! A simple solution to most of the problems of mankind today is just Yes and No! - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Letting go facilitates the evolution of the soul. - Jodi Livon

In 1963, while my brothers were engaged in their lives, I call this period of my life 'my character-building years.' I adhered to the saying, 'When the going gets tough, the tough get going. - Marc Ashton

No story lives unless someone wants to listen. So thank you, all of you. - J.K. Rowling

The question is not why should we change but rather what sort of death wish are we promoting by refusing to change? - William Badke

The pain of the journey should challenge you to make change, the vision of what could be drives you forward. - Tony Curl

Life is a bubble in the ocean of time. At the same time, it can hold all the water of the ocean in her heart. - Debasish Mridha

P46- As long as the oppressed remain unaware of the causes of their condition, they fatalistically "accept" their exploitation. - Paulo Freire

I dream of a morning when Filipinos can wake up from the centuries-long sleep that took them from their past and denied them their destiny as a people. - Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

Brown paper represents the primal twilight of the first toil of creation, and with a bright-coloured chalk or two you can pick out points of fire in it, sparks of gold, and blood-red, and sea-green, like the first fierce stars that sprang out of divine darkness. - G.K. Chesterton

All that matters is this moment and what you make of it, because the past is history and the future is just full of wishes that you can’t foresee. - Austin V. Songer

When I draw something, I try to build some kind of history into it. Drawing an object that has a certain amount of wear and tear or rust; or a tree that is damaged. I love trying to render not just the object, but what it has been through. - Alan Lee

The structure of the universe is a computational geometry that is fractal in nature. - R.A.Delmonico

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

Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that he nastiest of men, for the nastiest of reasons, will somehow work for the benefit of us all. - John Maynard Keynes

Most often a country is poor when its educational system is poor and individuals do not strive to become educated. - Debasish Mridha

When you are extravagant, you can result yourself facing alot of debt and not adjust to the pursuit of happiness. - Saaif Alam

I can't think why fancy religions should have such a ghastly effect on one's grammar. It's a kind of intellectual rot that sets in, I'm afraid. - Dorothy L. Sayers

Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value. - Albert Einstein

Think not of the fragility of life, but of the power of books, when mere words can change our lives simply by being next to each other. - Kamand Kojouri

Fear is a state of nervousness only fit for children - The RZA

PLEONASM, n. An army of words escorting a corporal of thought. - Ambrose Bierce

Never joke about the job of your friend. He/she feeds their family with it and it affects their dignity! - Rossana Condoleo

Let us look around with a compassionate heart to feel and see the deepest joy of life. - Debasish Mridha

Antiguo oficio humano, este de querer apagar la luz. ¿Te acordás de la última vez que creímos poder iluminar la noche?. - Gioconda Belli

I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life. - James M. Barrie

In America, sex is an obsession; in other parts of the world it's a fact. - Marlene Dietrich

Why did I hope we would be happy abroad? A change of environment is that traditional fallacy upon which doomed loves, and lungs, rely. - Vladimir Nabokov

Great knowledge, makes a great pain, in the world of pain. - VicDo

To lead and live the life of your dream, you must arise and be in-charge of the authorship of your own destiny. - Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

Since no individual acting separately can lawfully use force to destroy the rights of others, does it not logically follow that the same principle also applies to the common force that is nothing more than the organized combination of the individual forces? - Frédéric Bastiat

Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn all that we have been able to teach them of charity, mercy and patience. - Julia Ward Howe

Follow your bliss and let the magic of life happen. - Janelle Jalbert

The Scripture vouches Solomon for the wisest of men; and his proverbs prove him so, The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame each of them by a single sentence, consisting of two or three words.

Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty--power is ever stealing from the many to the few. - Wendell Phillips

The way I see it, God put me on Earth to achieve a certain number of things. By now I'm so far behind, I'll never die.

Extraordinary change can happen in your life, but it will take extraordinary people, extraordinary courage and extraordinary faith to believe that this won't be a repeat of your past. - Shannon L. Alder

You cannot write your character until you know how he or she thinks, until you know what their philosophy is in the world that they occupy. - Don Roff

The love of a half dead heart will keep you half alive - Munia Khan

One of my favourite parts of writing is doing the research. It's the door into that magical reading/writing state - the raw material for making the story real. - Sara Sheridan

The only way to build a fan base is to have a lot of material out there for readers to find. You can't manufacture a fan base. You create it, one story at a time. - Kristine Kathryn Rusch

When your reflection in the mirror,Smiles back, it lies, you know it.When you lay your head to sleep at night,It's filled with every moment,Every chance you missed to be something,Or learn from your mistakes,You're not alone.You're with me.You're not alone.You're with me. - Of Mice & Men

RACK, n. An argumentative implement formerly much used in persuading devotees of a false faith to embrace the living truth. As a call to the unconverted the rack never had any particular efficacy, and is now held in light popular esteem. - Ambrose Bierce

Do you feel loved by God because you believe he makes much of you, or because you believe he frees you and empowers you to enjoy making much of him? - John Piper

A thousand times, people may have touched each other, but never ever sensed a single vein of oneness or complicity in the wilderness of their inner world, since obdurate mental impediments have been barricading the road to understanding and propinquity. (A thousand times) - Erik Pevernagie

Regaining health is more difficult an objective then becoming ill. Becoming ill is a random act of ignorance and regaining health is an intentional effort in frustration. - Richard Diaz

Peace is inside us, it's a natural state of mind;to find it, we create war, destroy the world like a blind. - Debasish Mridha

Listen to your body. The quality of your communication matters. - Natalie Geld

Acquiring a blissful brain and in peace, is when I think positively, the sounds around and within me become music, my movement as one of a conscious dance, my smile breaking in to an infectious laughter, my mind transcending in meditation, and my life grows and becomes a celebration! - Angie karan

Said the Sun to the Moon-'When you are but a lonely white crone,And I, a dead King in my golden armour somewhere in a dark wood,Remember only this of our hopeless loveThat never till Time is doneWill the fire of the heart and the fire of the mind be one - Edith Sitwell

The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it. - Doris Day

If you want to succeed,you should strike out on new paths rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success. - John D. Rockefeller

The best way to reduce stress is to know that it is not real; it is just a false perception. Replace it with a perception of love and joy. - Debasish Mridha

Consistency simplifies the problem more than hard work of one time because no problem cannot possibly beat you everyday. - Amit Kalantri

I remainMistress of mine own self and mine own soul - Alfred Tennyson

The fact that you can still stand for God even when some people try to push you to fall, is a proof that you were not DRAGGED Up, but you were BROUGHT Up! - Israelmore Ayivor

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

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

The biggest moment of your life when your enemy think for a second that you are a good person.. - Aditya Pandya

Were this world an endless pain, and by sailing eastward we could forever reach new distances, and discover sights more sweet and strange than any Cyclades or Islands of King Solomon, then there were promise in the voyage. - Herman Melville

One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going.

Be not the slave of your own past. Plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep and swim far, so you shall come back with self-respect, with new power, with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

The lack of understanding does not hurt, as much as the lack of effort to understand does ! - Wordions

The aurora of humanity will begin when we learn that love is our only power and kindness is our ineffable religion. - Debasish Mridha

Do you wish to take control of your life? Begin by focusing on steering the storm, rather than where the lightening strikes. - Gary Hopkins

I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early. - Charles Lamb

It is a moral travesty to give a woefully thirsty man a drink of water in a measuring cup. - Dennis Adonis

In the world of miracles, you ask the impossible. - Gavriil Stiharul

There is no right person or wrong person. They only differ in the level of consciousness. - Debasish Mridha

It wasn't exactly love at first sight, but it was deeper than that. A sense of belonging to a place I never knew I wanted but somehow always needed. It was a home that carried a heartbeat. - Nikki Rowe

My mother belonged to that group of low IQ individuals who find everything alarming and believe that raising your voice is the most effective form of communication. - Annabelle R. Charbit

People who have outrageous skills and abilities are the gold nuggets in the river bed of human history. - Michael Pryor

It always strikes me, and it is very peculiar, that, whenever we see the image of indescribable and unutterable desolation—of loneliness, poverty, and misery, the end and extreme of things—the thought of God comes into one's mind. - Vincent Van Gogh

The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning. - Sir Winston Churchill

The measure of a country's greatness is its ability to retain compassion in times of crisis. - Thurgood Marshall

You Change , the things WHEN YOU let your thoughts be like the mind of Christ. - Dariush Youkhaneh

The most beautiful work of art that we can create is this life. - Kristi Bowman

Gratitude, not guilt, as motivation is always His starting point, thus guilt as a motivation leads nowhere. - Geoffrey Wood

Let us make this world a house of love and peace. Let us forget and forgive all hate and prejudice. Let us break all the walls of pride and prejudice. Let us open our door to welcome joy and peace. - Debasish Mridha

MAGNETISM, n. Something acting upon a magnet. The two definitions immediately foregoing are condensed from the works of one thousand eminent scientists, who have illuminated the subject with a great white light, to the inexpressible advancement of human knowledge. - Ambrose Bierce

True happiness... arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self. - Joseph Addison

...I pray this winter be gentle and kind - a season of rest from the wheel of the mind... - John Geddes

I don't have a lot of regrets about the way I've lived my life. Not because I haven't made mistakes - I've made plenty. But what's the point of regret? You can't undo the past. - Cindy Crawford

Blessed are the ignorant fools of the world, for they know not the unspeakable horrors that await us all. - Dorkly

I explore the mind of souls in stories. - Lailah Gifty Akita

I am the creation of love.I am the source of love.I am the beginning of love.I like to vanish in love. - Debasish Mridha

Powerful leaders use their position of power to empower others. - Gugu Mona

The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground. - Thomas Overbury

Don’t take life too seriously! Nobody gets out alive anyway. Smile. Be goofy. Take chances. Have fun. Inspire. - Dawn Gluskin

Patience is power.Patience is not an absence of action;rather it is "timing"it waits on the right time to act,for the right principlesand in the right way. - Fulton J. Sheen

You are never alone as long as you are in the company of your precious self. - Miya Yamanouchi

Look in Kego’s defense he was only Nine and a half when he took command of the ship and she had been put way off course by her captain and you lot would all be dead if it wasn’t for him.Jenny Smith In The Navigator by - Steve Merrick

Any man who tries to excite class hatred, sectional hate, hate of creeds, any kind of hatred in our community, though he may affect to do it in the interest of the class he is addressing, is in the long run with absolute certainly that class's own worst enemy. - Theodore Roosevelt

I'm the only person I know that's lost a quarter of a billion dollars in one year.... It's very character-building. - Steve Jobs

You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. . . . Only man behaves with such gratuitous folly. It is the price he has to pay for being intelligent but not, as yet, quite intelligent enough. - Aldous Huxley

Music is the perfect reminder of our essence; the vibration of strings - Budel

Power...Born out of nature, Coveted by men; Wars rage on, And victors are crowned. But true power can never be lost or won. True power comes from within. - Emily Thorne

Wood burns. Roots nourish. Branches shelter. Leaves heal. The words had become her mantra, her way of reigniting her courage when it started to falter. My life depends on a tree, she thought wryly as she cinched her pack. - Teresa Tsalaky

Find the window of unconditional love in your heart and liberate yourself from the prison of judgemental and conforming thoughts. - Debasish Mridha

All life is in vain, for Death makes a nonsense of pain. - Gasmaskman

October is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks. Others are July, January, April, September, November, May, March, June, December, August and February. - Mark Twain

The very idea of freedom presupposes some objective moral law which overarches rulers and ruled alike. - C. S. Lewis

Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future. - Dale E. Turner

Half of the world knows not how the other half lives. - George Herbert

Never believe a friend who offered you his friendship just because he was getting bored. - Amit Kalantri

Any great art work … revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world - the extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air. - Leonard Bernstein

The weird thing about houses is that they almost always look like nothing is happening inside of them, even thought they countain most of our lives. - J. Green

The monkey body has carried us to this moment of release, but we are coming more and more to exist in a world made by the human imagination. - Terence McKenna

Contemporary poets got so obscure that poetry kind of fell out of favor, - Paul Ruffin

A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it. - Frank Herbert

Compassion is not prevention of all negative certainty, it is a home floating on the sea of fear, that equally brings assistance to those sinking. - James C. Emlund

Exactly when will you give up?When things will seem out of your hands ?When situations will seem out of your control?Will you try to control them? Or will you let go?Will you give up then? Or will you keep holding on?Don't tell me that I gave up; I didn't.Because I didn't let go; I just let it be. - Sanhita Baruah

A moment of Patience in a moment of Anger saves a thousand moments of Regret. - Ali Ibn Abu Talib

No amount of community policing will cause the common people to accept a known corrupt police department. - Steven Magee

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

Be what you are and sing a song of beauty and love. - Debasish Mridha

Beauty is the reflection of a loving heart, not the quality of an object or subject. - Debasish Mridha

Your character is a blueprint of who you are. People access and determine your pre-qualifications, assents and mode of thinking through the character you cough out. - Prince Akwarandu

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations. - Kahlil Gibran

As white snowflakes fall quietly and thickly on a winter day, answers to prayer will settle down upon you at every step you take, even to your dying day. The story of your life will be the story of prayer and answers to prayer. - Ole Hallesby

Let not the sands of time get in your lunch. - National Lampoon

Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds. - Herodotus

It's quite conceivable that [life] will eventually spread through thegalaxy and beyond. So life may not forever be an unimportant tracecontaminant of the universe, even though it now is. In fact,I find it a rather appealing view. - Astronomer Royal Sir Martin Rees

Each of us repeats Adam’s journey and acknowledges, with the loss of innocence, that he is mortal. Weep and pray, O Arseny. And do not fear death, for death is not just the bitterness of parting. It is also the joy of liberation. (Laurus, p. 30) - Eugene Vodolazkin

A cup of tea is all I need to keep working. - Lailah Gifty Akita

We think in generalities, but we live in detail. To make the past live, we must perceive it in detail in addition to thinking of it in generalities. - Alfred North Whitehead

The hopes of the Republic cannot forever tolerate either undeserved poverty or self-serving wealth. - Franklin D. Roosevelt

This is the rock-solid principle on which the whole of the Corporation's [IBM's] Galaxy-wide success is founded...their fundamental design flaws are completely hidden by their superficial design flaws.

God reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists. - Albert Einstein

People don't deserve the restraint we show by not going into delirium in front of them. - Louis-Ferdinand Céline

Anger is the fire of ego which tries to burn the beauties of heart and soul. - Debasish Mridha

Dare to dream and yearn to learn to cross the boundary of fears and doubts. - Debasish Mridha

You are here having realized the necessity of contending with yourself; then thank everyone who provides an opportunity. - Gurdjieff

The ultimate lesson all of us have to learn is unconditional love, which includes not only others but ourselves as well. - Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

Having money will make you look enticing to women even if you are not a good-looking dude. Don’t believe me, go ask Mick Jagger, Donald Trump, Jay-Z and the rest of the fugly men who have all the money and get all the fine women. - Rebecca Scott

It is not the longevity of life that matters the most; it is the beauty of life. - Debasish Mridha

If nothing else in this long and short life, let me be true to my conscience, to the dignity of my own heart. Let me act in a way that says, I have honored my spirit as truly as I have honored others'. Let me stand tall and rooted as a mountain in the face of a quaking world. - Jennifer DeLucy

Isn’t it true that philosophy is a barrier? For sure it screens and modifies every bit of information that the mind allows to enter. - Debasish Mridha

I am in a state of peaceful happiness - Charmaine J. Forde

One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself. - Leonardo da Vinci

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

each day's life comes with lot of puzzles, mysteries to unravel; being so conscious of life can make one so unconscious of life - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

A few hours spent reading a book is better than a lifetime of ignorance. - Matshona Dhliwayo

... parents naturally want their children to excel in every area of academics and extra-curricular activities, but the reality is- God made each child differently for His purpose. He never intended for our children to excel in everything. - Tamara L. Chilver

The art of life is to live in the present moment and to make that moment as perfect as we can by the realization that we are the instruments and expression of God himself. - Emmet Fox

Letting go of the past, is like opening the flood gates of healing to be set free. - Asa Don Brown

Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways. - Samuel McChord Crothers

The hobgoblin of a little mind may be the genius of a great one. - Hermester Barrington

I have been to lots of partiesand acted perfectly disgracefulbut I never actually collapsedoh Lana Turner we love you get up - Frank O'Hara

Beauty is always found in the profound and deepest actions of a person who does things from the heart not from the shallowness of materialism. - Paul Isaacs

Spiritual growth is the gradual, I would say, transition from a God of tradition to a God of experience. - Neville Goddard

I believe that you control your destiny, that you can be what you want to be. You can also stop and say, 'No, I won't do it, I won't behave his way anymore. I'm lonely and I need people around me, maybe I have to change my methods of behaving,' and then you do it. - Leo Buscaglia

A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians. - Frank Zappa

[Taken from a BBC documentary]Tariq was born in Lahore, now in Pakistan, then part of British-ruled India, in 1943. A Catholic school education did nothing to shake his life-long atheism, which he shared with his communist parents. - Tariq Ali

The Purpose of Philosophy is to fall in Love. To strip the world of all its clothes, and fall in Love with it as it stand before you completely naked. - Ilyas Kassam

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

Egotorial: An editorial in broadcasting or print media where the subject matter is secondary to the superficial, pretentious, antagonistic, or materialistic ego of the author. - Grant McLachlan

I'm not afraid of death really, just what comes after. - Jose Guerra Sison

A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves. - Edward R. Murrow

Science/horror/Non-Fiction/Technology/Music/Games/Space... these are the subjects of future. The other again will develop but not with such speed like these here. - Deyth Banger

I am time, the destroyer of all; I have come to consume the world. - Eknath Easwaran

ACEPHALOUS, adj. In the surprising condition of the Crusader who absently pulled at his forelock some hours after a Saracen scimitar had, unconsciously to him, passed through his neck, as related by de Joinville. - Ambrose Bierce

I speak my mind. If it offends some people, well, there's not much I can do about that. But I'm going to be honest. I'm going to continue to speak my mind, and that's who I am... - Jesse Ventura

Analysis is soul of thought and ghost of wit. - Raheel Farooq

We know nothing about motivation. All we can of is write books about it. - Peter Drucker

Allow yourself to be alive every single day of your life. - Raphael Zernoff

Education about gender and peace is important. Educational strategies to promote peace must consider all relations of dominance. - Widad Akreyi

Learn to appreciate every moment of your life, stop thinking of the future too much, you have a choice to make a difference in your life at any time you wish. - Auliq Ice

I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. - Franz Kafka

I always found it so ironic, how the people from the past would do anything to see what happened everywhere else in the world that they lost so much of their own life watching this little screen. - Silje Jensen

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

You are either the person you were or the person you are, eventually you have to let go of one - Saahil Prem

Details" is the beauty of this life. - Yahya

Through our scientific and technological genius we've made of this world a neighborhood. And now through our moral and ethical commitment we must make of it a brotherhood. We must all learn to live together as brothers—or we will all perish together as fools. - Martin Luther King Jr.

Poetry is the essence and evidence of life. - Debasish Mridha

Isn't it strange how the most lethal cynics are often the most optimistic creative dreamers? - Robert Black

With passion you want to possess. The conversion of passion into compassion is the whole problem of marriage. - Joseph Campbell

In the quantum multiverse, every choice, every decision you've ever and never made exists in an unimaginably vast ensemble of parallel universes. - Nick Payne

Her dark world was bright because of her sparkling attitude! - Archana Chaurasia Kapoor

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

Buddhism is more a philosophy for living rather than a religion or dogma - it's about being awake, free from illusions and fear, so that compassion and loving kindness permeates all of our relationships. - Charlotte Kasl

When we look into the eyes of others with compassion, our personal biases suddenly begin to fade away. Then, we can see others for what they truly are, Human. - Rob Pinell

The quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence, regardless of his chosen field of endeavor. - Vince Lombardi Jr.

La heradera del dia destruida.(The heiress of the destroyed day.) - Pablo Neruda

Cutting out drama... Healthy mind and body choices... Intent followed by action... Keeping real friends and letting go of the pretends... Livin' clean for Twenty Seventeen! - Steve Maraboli

Still there are some, braver and more valiant than their peers, who face their demons head on, staring defiantly into the shadows, demanding forgiveness. - Rebecca Harris - Be The Death of Me

The secret of Happiness is Freedom, and the secret of Freedom, Courage. - Thucydides

Consciousness and awareness are the sources of all possibilities and infinite creativity. - Debasish Mridha

Be the silent watcher of your thoughts and behavior. You are beneath the thinker. You are the stillness beneath the mental noise. You are the love and joy beneath the pain. - Eckhart Tolle

Armed violence and peace cannot coexist. We need to overcome the challenges we face and seek practical solutions. We must replace the culture of war with the culture of peace. - Widad Akreyi

Democracy is that form of society, no matter what its political classification, in which every man has a chance and knows that he has it. - James Russell Lowell

People are just like the stars. Now, some of them are meant to stay in your lives forever. But the others are like shooting stars, they make it look beautiful. - Kunal Sareen

Enjoy memories of the past, cherish every moment of present and focus on your future achievement - S.G

When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks. - Natalie Clifford Barney

In the desert of the heart, tears do not touch the ground. (Dans le désert du coeur, - Les larmes ne touchent la terre.) - Charles de Leusse

The process of becoming is not of doing but simply an act of observing. The internal process has been designed in such a way that it seems impossible for you to sit quietly even for some time at one place. - Roshan Sharma

Life is a journey, so go on your way. Be a messenger of peace. - Debasish Mridha

Imagination may be the most essential, uniquely human capacity - creating both the dead-end crises of our time and the doorway through them. - Bill Plotkin

Fortunate indeed, is the man who takes exactly the right measure of himself, and holds a just balance between what he can acquire and what he can use.

Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped past him. - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

To see a world in a Grain of Sand, And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand, And eternity in an hour. - William Blake

Lifeboats are decked out on the sides of a ship waiting for when disaster strikes, faith on the other hand is a part of you for whenever. - Unarine Ramaru

When your position is one of peace, then you're truly powerful. - Sue Fitzmaurice

DeYtH Banger is a character, who is famous because of me, who is created by me and who lives by me... - Deyth Banger

Leadership is the art of intentional living. - Farshad Asl

One of the most valuable things one of my art teachers said to me was, ‘Don’t get upset by criticism. Value the fact that at least someone noticed what you did. - Chris Ware

The more books you read, the less topics you have in common with most of the people, that´s the price you pay for reading. - Martina Tutková

The mind is a metaphor of the world of objects. - Pierre Bourdieu

I recognize that I have the ability to be selfish, but I also recognize that you can't be happy if you only care about yourself at the expense of other people. - Russell Brand

I wither slowly in thine arms; here at the quiet limit of the world, a white hair'd shadow roaming like a dream. - Alfred Tennyson

Starting and profitably running a business is not just some achievement, it is heroism. - Amit Kalantri

The first duty of a man is to think for himself - José Martí

To create an inner peace of mind, be humble, gentle, harmonious, and kind. - Debasish Mridha

More so God didn’t choose to resolve the problem of the earth by sending PRAYERS but by sending his son - Sunday Adelaja

Disorder in society is the result of disorder in the family. - St. Angela Merici

My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself, afraid of what I think or of my opinions. - Eartha Kitt

You can invoke neither time nor space nor matter not energy nor the laws of nature to explain the origin of the universe. General relativity points to the need for a cause that transcends those domains. ~Stephen C. Meyer, PHD~ - Lee Strobel

Enjoy every bit of your life to the fullest. Your compromises and sacrifices will be rewarded. - Santosh Kalwar

The most powerful tools of revolution through intention are humility and consciousness. - Bryant McGill

The process of grief and loss is as unique as your personal DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid); no two individuals will have the same experiences or relationship to grief. - Asa Don Brown

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

I don't have any idea of who or what God is. But I do believe in some great spiritual power. I feel it particularly when I'm out in nature. It's just something that's bigger and stronger than what I am or what anybody is. I feel it. And it's enough for me. - Jane Goodall

When a man finds this kind of woman, he will go all out for her knowing that she will not be a letdown. - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out. - Václav Havel

You get what you give. What you put into things is what you get out of them. - Jennifer Lopez

I can be tolerant of traffic jams and disorganization, faulty technology, miserable weather, and bland foods. People, however, require more than the cold, grudging favor of being tolerated. They require love. - Richelle E. Goodrich

If we fall, we don't need self-recrimination or blame or anger - we need a reawakening of our intention and a willingness to recommit, to be whole-hearted once again. - Sharon Salzberg

The healthy should be reminded that we are all dying because it is through our own reminder of mortality that we accelerate our good intentions, into actions people can see. - Shannon L. Alder

The other night I was lying in bed, looking up at the stars, and I wondered, 'Where the hell is my roof? - Steven Wright

Life is a dream made real through the power of our imaginations. - Orrin Woodward

The truth is this: People that give you focus, energy and anger do care. If you were nothing then you wouldn't be able to affect them. Behind every over reaction was first the thought that your opinion mattered and your respect was once of value or you wouldn't get the response you got. - Shannon L. Alder

The madness of an autumn prairie cold front coming through...ringing throughout the house was an alarm bell that no one but Alfred and Enid could hear directly. - Jonathan Franzen

When the momentum of mindfulness is well developed, it works like a boomerang; even if we want to distract ourselves, the mind naturally rebounds to a state of awareness. - Joseph Goldstein

This is neither the time nor the place, however, to ponder how often the soul, in order to be able to boast of a clean body, has burdened itself with sadness, envy, and impurity. - José Saramago

For if my poems have always been about survival--and I believe they have been--then survival too keeps revealing itself as an art of the unexpected. - Jane Cooper

Self-awareness is inevitably erratic, a work in progress, an etch-a-sketch that shifts with the slightest shimmer of movement. Doing the best we can is the best we can do. - Narboe, Nan

Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

You need only claim the event of your life to make yourself yours. When you truly possess all you have been and done, which may take some time, you are fierce with reality. - Florida Scott-Maxwell

Being in a minority, even a minority of one, did not make you mad. - George Orwell

Knowing your purpose on earth is simple, but the task here is to bring about the success of your destiny. - Michael Bassey Johnson

Wisemen's minds and hearts live together under the same roof of wisdom - Munia Khan

If you throw money out of the window throw it out with joy. Don’t say: 'one shouldn't do that' - that is bourgeois. - Karl Lagerfeld

The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership. - Harvey S. Firestone

If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign? - Albert Einstein

I am the bended, but not broken. I am the power of the thunderstorm. I am the beauty in the beast. I am the strength in weakness. I am the confidence in the midst of doubt. I am Her! - Kierra C.T. Banks

Dicho del ProfetaOpresiónCuando existe la opresión, incluso el pájaro muere en su nido - Idries Shah

Realities disguised as symbols are, for me, new realities that are immeasurably preferable. I make an effort to take them at their word. To grasp, to carry out the diktat of images to the letter. - Claude Cahun

To hear the faint sound of oars in the silence as a rowboatcomes slowly out and then goes back is truly worthall the years of sorrow that are to come. - Jack Gilbert

Three-fourths of the miseries and misunderstandings in the world will disappear if we step into the shoes of our adversaries and understand their standpoint. - Mahatma Gandhi

The most precious gifts you can think of are not ends in themselves. They all lead to God. Ultimately, that is what all His gifts are for. - John Piper

Any magazine-cover hack can splash paint around wildly and call it a nightmare, or a witches sabbath or a portrait of the devil; but only a great painter can make such a thing really scare or ring true. That's because only a real artist knows the anatomy of the terrible, or the physiology of fear. - H.P. Lovecraft

Every Moment can be History of tomorrow but its upon us what to do with this Moment"- - Samar Sudha

Life may not have dealt you a great set of cards... but who says the one with better cards will win? - Manoj Vaz

In the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it. - Barack Obama

Thought, if I may put it, is the man behind the possession, appearance, things we like, things we hate and the very epitome of life. - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

g*d wept, but that mattered little to an unbelieving age ... for there began to rise in America in 1876 a new capitalism & a new enslavement of labor" --w.e.b. dubois - Debois

Faith is a bird that sings songs of the heart. - Debasish Mridha

True republicanism is the sovereignty of the people. There are natural and imprescriptible rights which an entire nation has no right to violate. - Marquis De Lafayette

Humor and paradox are often the only ways to respond to life's sorrow with grace. - Matthew Fox

No woman can be handsome by the force of features alone, any more that she can be witty by only the help of speech.

Is it better to be the lover or the loved one? Neither, if your cholesterol is over six hundred. By love, of course, I refer to romantic love -- the love between man and woman, rather than between mother and child, or a boy and his dog, or two headwaiters. - Woody Allen

Courage is an act of faith. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Always wear a jacket of love and a smile of gratitude. - Debasish Mridha

A book is a treasure of life. - Lailah Gifty Akita

The spirit of determination is the soul set on fire. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Each of us has a vulnerability like Edmund's that Satan is eager to exploit. It may be something addictive like drugs or alcohol, or it may be something seemingly harmless and perhaps even good like food, friendship, or work. - Discovery House Publishers

Web standards keep you out of the dustbin of history. - Josh Greenberg

I became insane, with long periods of horrible sanity.

He was a living dead man. According to official records he had died, not once, but twice. yet he still breathed - Matt Hilton

Dignified in what she does, when she sings the smile that she brings to all of you unaware of what's to come, I said tell me what's to come. - Tegan Quin

Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of magic. - Carl Sagan

Some of most valuable gifts come wrapped in the ugliest paper. - Navonne Johns

I'm fresh out of fucks to give. - Tucker Max

Whatever your difficulty, whatever your hardship in life: Dance and make the song you sing your prayer. Sing it courageously, and with each step strengthen yourself with the knowledge and wisdom of your elders, so that whatever next happens, you can survive and not lose your rhythm. - Red Haircrow

I love the smell of pastels...that breaths life into my soul. - Ama H. Vanniarachchy

We change the world not by what we say or do, but as a consequence of what we have become. - David R. Hawkins

Can't look at the damage that's been done, it's not healthy. Have to look ahead of it. Can't change what I've done, only what I'm gonna do. - Jordan Ghere

I don't know a better preparation for life than a love of poetry and a good digestion.

War like any other racket, pays high dividends to the very few. The cost of operations is always transferred to the people who do not profit.

We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings. - Albert Einstein

It is a sign of immaturity to believe that being older than someone (automatically) makes you more (mentally) mature than them. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Prayer is the key that opens heaven; the favors we ask descend upon us the very instant our prayers ascend to God. - Augustine of Hippo

The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. - Elie Wiesel

This hath not offended the king. - Sir Thomas More

Consuming the content and culture of creatives does not make one a creative. Creating makes a creative. - Ryan Lilly

It was our first date and I asked what his favorite movie is. He asked if I’d judge him, but instead of judging him I just loved him. - Dominic Riccitello

A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms. - George Wald

A huge part of losing weight is believing you have the power to do it. - Debasish Mridha

When they [breasts] are huge, you become very self-conscious...I've learned something though, through my years of pondering and pontificating, and that is: men love them, and I love that. - Drew Barrymore

Life is full of crap, so don't add S**t on it, it will make the life stink - Zybejta Beta Metani' Marashi

Remember, people will judge you by your actions, not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold -- but so does a hard-boiled egg. - Unknown

Many things are worse than defeat,and compromise with evil is one of them.

The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one. - Seneca

Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants. - John W. Gardner

A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both. - Milton Friedman

I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. - Albert Einstein

The success of any country relies on the commitment of its leaders to serve others. - Gugu Mona

Bringing light of our personal and social consciousness to dark corridors of human pain that have long been neglected and suppress. - William Keepin

What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity - intellect and resources - to do some thing about them. - Henry Ford II

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

DAD (Decide-Announce-Defend) remains the order of the day, with only a few inspiring models of EDD (Engage-Deliberate-Decide) available to us to demonstrate how very different things could be. - Johnathon Porritt

Better stop short than fill to the brim. Oversharpen the blade, and the edge will soon blunt. Amass a store of gold and jade, and no one can protect it. Claim wealth and titles, and disaster will follow. Retire when the work is done. This is the way of heaven.

Religiously strict people, who judge themselves without mercy, are also those who have most often spoken ill of mankind in general.

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

I am very simple and kind of a man to be a politician. - Debasish Mridha

Well we've moved through the funfair a bit - we've done the rollercoaster, now we're on the ghost train. - Steven Moffat

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

Oh God, let me not be cured of love, but let my passion grow! Let me love for love's sake! - Diane Wolkstein

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power. - John Steinbeck

The role of gender in society is the most complicated thing I’ve ever spent a lot of time learning about, and I’ve spent a lot of time learning about quantum mechanics. - Randall Munroe

Poetry never makes any money, and so there's no pressure to appeal to an audience. That makes a lot of things about being a poet difficult, but it also means freedom to write whatever you want to write, however you want to write it. - Garth Greenwell

Most people think that if you do not love yourself fully, no one else will. That is not true. People are perfectly capable of giving love even if they feel less confident about themselves. - Anna Agoncillo

No one was born a reader; we learn to build the habit of reading. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Never accept anyone's definition for your life. I'm a testimony of grace. Do your small things in your own way - Kingsley ofosu-Ampong

Our knowledge is so limited that often we are not much better than an ape. - Debasish Mridha

If you keep people down so they dont become better than you, you gotta stay there to keep them down so you dont progress yourself.What kind of wahala (Suffering) is that ?Leave them to progress so you can expand. - Myles Munroe

The final discovery is the discovery of knowledge. - Kedar Joshi

Fiction challenges us and works its miracles by placing us in the skin of another human being and teaching us empathy. - Hugh Howey

The three of us ate a fine supper of grilled trout with sorrel cream sauce, and red potatoes out of Britney's old garden behind the ruins of the Watling place, and watercress sautéed in butter for hardly a moment with a dash of vinegar, and cream custard with wild blackberries for dessert. - James Howard Kunstler

[My study of the universe] leaves little doubt that life has occurred on other planets. I doubt if the human race is the most intelligent form of life. - Harold Urey

I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts. - John Locke

Gardener, for telling me these news of woe, pray God the plants thou graft'st may never grow. - William Shakespeare

I'm just an insomniac struggling for a night where I don't dream of you anymore. - Lone Alaskan Gypsy

Try to keep your soul always in peace and quiet, always ready for whatever our lord may wish to work in you. it is certainly a higher virtue of the soul, and a greater grace, to be able to enjoy the Lord in different times and different places than in only one. - Ignatius of Loyola

The irony of American history is the tendency of good white Americanas to presume racial innocence. Ignorance of how we are shaped racially is the first sign of privilege.In other words. It is a privilege to ignore the consequences of race in America. - Tim Wise

When once a man has made celebrity necessary to his happiness, he has put it in the power of the weakest and most timorous malignity, if not to take away his satisfaction, at least to withhold it. His enemies may indulge their pride by airy negligence and gratify their malice by quiet neutrality. - Samuel Johnson

I believe beauty is action. If my action can bring smiles in the innocent faces of people then my act is beautiful. - Runa Maharjan

Words of Wisdom (wow): Be Still. Let Go.Flow.Breathe.Believe.Allow.Grow.Align.Be the Light.Be Awake.Be Aware.Anticipate.Participate.Embrace Change.Take that...Chance.Love.You Are Loved.Rise to the Occasion.Fuel your Motivation & make the world become a better place ☯ - Pablo

The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of. - Blaise Pascal

...for no man lives in the external truth among salts and acids, but in the warm, phantasmagoric chamber of his brain, with the painted windows and the storied wall. - Robert Louis Stevenson

Cry "Havoc," and let slip the dogs of war. - William Shakespeare

She is beyond any mortal structure of words, yet she inspires the effort to try anyway. - Hubert Martin

The purpose of music as an art form, is to engage the audience. - Unarine Ramaru

Flute of BreathDusky condolenceToday i 'll sing youMy Sighs - Satbir Singh Noor

The theater has been called the pulse of the people. - Abigail Adams

Science can destroy religion by ignoring it as well as by disproving its tenets. No one ever demonstrated, so far as I am aware, the non-existence of Zeus or Thor - but they have few followers now. - Arthur C. Clarke

I cherish the Franco-German cooperation as one of the most important developments in post-war Europe. But I will not accept is as being so sacrosanct that the rest of us shall simply adapt to what is decided between Paris and Berlin.

The Devil's minions worked his treacherous plot through the hearts of men, possessing them, ruling them. These hounds of hell ran wild these days through their human hosts, working greater and greater abominations. - Eric J. Martindale

Better to die fighting for freedom then be a prisoner all the days of your life. - Bob Marley

Ultimately what I like about reading together is that we all make it happen together. Of course even amid shared experience we’re still alone… each reading of each book is unique. But what a comfort it is to share readings and experiences. How lucky we are when we get to be alone together. - John Green

Striking a balance in life is tough, but trying to strike balance and remain fair in the face of imbalance and oppression is even tougher. - Aisha Mirza

Best-selling horror fiction is indeed necessarily conservative because it must entertain a large number of readers. It’s like network television. I’m your local cable access station. - Thomas Ligotti

When kings the sword of justice first lay down; They art no kings, though they posess the crown; Titles are shadows, crowns are empty things, The good of subjects is the end of kings.

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

A lot of impulsive mistakes are made by people who simply aren’t willing to stay bored a little longer. - Paul Aurandt Jr.

One of chief pieces of advice I give to aspiring rationalists is "Don't try to be clever." And, "Listen to those quiet, nagging doubts." If you don't know, you don't know what you don't know, you don't know how much you don't know, and you don't know how much you needed to know. - Eliezer Yudkowsky

Get out of your own way... What we call 'lack of willpower' is actually just losing an argument with an outdated version of yourself. - Steve Maraboli

She was the kind of girl who wore dark lipstick and didn't need to speak a word to seduce you. - Stephen F. Campbell

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

All the perplexities, confusions, and distress in America arise, not from defects in their constitution or confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit, and circulation. - John Adams

Prof McGonagall : ... bravery doesn't forgive stupidity. ... - J.K. Rowling

The poet cannot invent new words every time, of course. He uses the words of the tribe. But the handling of the word, the accent, a new articulation, renew them. - Eugène Ionesco

Political judgment is the ability to hear the distant hoofbeats of the horse of history. - Otto von Bismarck

....I wondered if there had been a more corroding and devastating attack upon the personalities of men than the idea of racial discrimination. - Richard Wright

Entropy is the normal state of consciousness - a condition that is neither useful nor enjoyable. - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

If you think people in your life are normal, then you undoubtedly have not spent any time getting to know the abnormal side of them. - Shannon L. Alder

Unnecessary bureaucracy hinders creativity, growth, justice and the attainment of peace. - Widad Akreyi

Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses through which the universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its magnificence. - Alan W. Watts

It was never darkness for both of them... He was a squid throwing protective ink ... She was a transparent poisonous jelly fish... They both met at the bottom of the ocean but they have both risen together at the higher layers of the Sky. K.K - Konstantinos Kyriakou.K.K

The life of less, one bent on simplicity, and not needing or wanting anything other than what God has deemed good for you turns out to be all you could ever need or want. - Hayley DiMarco

I respect the man who knows distinctly what he wishes. The greater part of all mischief in the world arises from the fact that men do not sufficiently understand their own aims. They have undertaken to build a tower, and spend no more labor on the foundation than would be necessary to erect a hut. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections and the truth of imagination. What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth - whether it existed before or not. - John Keats

To fall down is to face the weakness of my humanity, test the mettle of my character, and push the limits of my strength. Therefore, falling down will tell me who I am far more clearly than most things I might learn when I’m standing up. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

The Law Polarity decrease that everything has an opposite it's the flip side of the coin, you're right my left, consider this next time you disagree with someone because their right from their point of view. - Bob Proctor

The most silent people are generally those who think most highly of themselves. - William Hazlitt

Wooing a woman is like fishing; the quality of your catch is determined by the quality of your bait. - Matshona Dhliwayo

In Vitrag-Vignan [science of vitraag lords, the enlightened ones] there cannot be the slightest of the [wrong] insistence; moreover, there can be no insistence on one’s own opinion. - Dada Bhagwan

Of all the purposes of education, I think the most useful is this: It prepares you to keep yourself entertained. It gives you a better chance of an interesting job. - Roger Ebert

Age doesn't determine maturity. It's the depth of life that does, not its duration. - Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

Remember, before they promoted to the chair of CEO, they were the best employees of their companies. - Amit Kalantri

Beginning with End in focus ,a proof of self confidence - Mohammed Mushtaq GK

When people say they try to find themselves, their inner self, to understand the meaning of life I smile and I say, instead why don't you create yourself and give a new meaning to your life - Anubhav Mishra

Kindness is soft and beautiful like a fresh flower. - Debasish Mridha

I just Not Love Your Because You Are The Most Beautiful Girl On Earth..I Love You Because, Me Want To Alive To See Both Of Us Smiling .. - Yaganesh Derasari

When today fails to offer the justification for hope, tomorrow becomes the only grail worth pursuing. - Christopher Bigsby

the path of politics should be cleared with the sword of the constitution - king Annan

The end is the best part of any story - Michael Grant

It is fatal to be right when the rest of the world is wrong.

The central thought of the Scriptures is that God intends to work Himself in Christ through the Spirit into us, that God and we, we and God, might be really one in life, in nature, and in the Spirit. To show this God uses several figures or symbols in the Bible. - Witness Lee

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

The fact of your heart's enfoldment in mine is evidence enough that there is, underneath it all, some hidden order to this world. - Eric Micha'el Leventhal

I am proud of (knowing) who I am. - G Rodrigues

Forgiveness is the intentional act or process of pardoning or offering absolution unto another. - Asa Don Brown

The first rule of book club - is that nobody wants to talk about book club. - Douglas Lewis

A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose. - Samuel McChord Crothers

The best gifts in life are the memories of love that we have given away. - Debasish Mridha

Then on your tombstone, where you only get a little bit of space to sum up your life, some wax-faced creep chisels a set of meaningless numbers instead of poetry or a secret love or the name of your favorite candy. In the end, all you get is a few words. - Scott Nicholson

Every touch of you on my skin has burnt and etched your name on my soul. Whenever I close my eyes and try to feel myself, all I can hear is constant echoes of your name in my head, and all I can feel is the constant longing for the darkness. - Akshay Vasu

All human errors are impatience, a premature breaking off of methodical procedure, an apparent fencing-in of what is apparently at issue. - Franz Kafka

We are now forced to actively pursue our struggles. If we do not go out of our way to stretch our comfort zones and grow, no one nor nature will do it for us. - Chris Matakas

When virtue and modesty enlighten her charms, the lustre of a beautiful woman is brighter than the stars of heaven, and the influence of her power it is in vain to resist. - Akhenaton

To do the work of others is slavery. To do the work of God is true liberation. - Anonymous

Custom is the great guide of human life. - David Hume

Nine-tenths of that which is attributed to sexuality is the work of our magnificent ability to imagine, which is no longer an instinct, but exactly the opposite: a creation. - José Ortega y Gasset

Strength is the outcome of need. - H. G. Wells

Eating is really one of your indoor sports. You play three times a day, and it's well worth while to make the game as pleasant as possible. - Dorothy Draper

what it is...is a place where I can return to myself. It's enough of a scramble to get to...that the energy expended is significant, and it translates into a change in my body chemistry and my psychological chemistry and my heart chemistry... - Jay Salter

Now the purpose of the commandment is love from a pure heart, from a good conscience, and from sincere faith. 1 Timothy 1:5 - Apostle Paul

Each drop hits the pavement;A soft, incoherent shatter below.Here I stand in torturous observanceOf this strange disappearing act. - Katie Douglas

A man becomes God. This is the culture of life power of a human being. This is such a culture of unimaginable life power.The term God is the self -prejudiced word. This is used to explain the thing. But whatever happens is encircling a man. - Sri Jibankrishna or Diamond

Despite every advancement, language remains the defining nexus of our humanity; it is where our knowledge and hope lie. It is the precondition of human tenderness, mightier than the sword but also infinitely more subtle and ultimately more urgent. - Andrew Solomon

Sorrowful tears drench the earth, rise again in the form of hope - Connie Jordan

Understanding is the first step of accepting! - ey ramos

The man who believes that honesty is the best policy is not an honest man. - Paul Hoffman

The greatest undiscovered splendid wealth is hidden in the most exquisite palace in the never ending land of your mind. You just have to find the wealth. - Debasish Mridha

Trifles light as air are to the jealous confirmations strong as proofs of holy writ. - William Shakespeare

Every day thousands of people bury good ideas because they are afraid to act on them.And afterwards, the ghosts of these ideas come back to haunt them. - David J. Schwartz

It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious. - Alfred North Whitehead

It's the work itself that's important to me.' Miranda is aware of how pretentious this sounds, but is it still pretentious if it's true? - Emily St. John Mandel

For though, I walk through the valley of shadows of Death, I will never fear. For You are in Me and I know You will never let me Go. - Jestoni Revealed

Now I think poetry will save nothing from oblivion, but I keep writing about the ordinary because for me it's the home of the extraordinary, the only home. - Philip Levine

Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters. - Isaac Bashevis Singer

It is not for man to rest in absolute contentment. He is born to hopes and aspirations as the sparks fly upward, unless he has brutified his nature and quenched the spirit of immortality which is his portion. - Robert Southey

Next step: take the veil off - Sunday Adelaja

That night when you kissed me, I left a poem in your mouth, and you can hear some of the lines every time you breathe out. - Andrea Gibson

Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass. - John Steinbeck

A person travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it. - George Moore

Politics are not a science based on logic; they are the capacity of always choosing at each instant, in constantly changing situations, the least harmful, the most useful. - Otto von Bismarck

Jesus has entrusted His message of salvation to His followers. Faithfully share the message! - Jim George

Crawling out of the flophouseI saw the mayor stealing my junkI doth protest, citizen's arrestNow my body's in his trunkWhere's the shadow government when you need it?Where's the shadow government?It's a bad, bad world! - They Might Be Giants

They say what doesn't kill u makes u stronger.. but truth is sometimes it does kill u, it kills a part of u then it makes u stronger. - Tilicia Haridat

OBSTINATE, adj. Inaccessible to the truth as it is manifest in the splendor and stress of our advocacy. The popular type and exponent of obstinacy is the mule, a most intelligent animal. - Ambrose Bierce

She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others. She does not dare to be herself. - Anaïs Nin

There are no secrets to success: don’t waste time looking for them. Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty to those for whom you work, and persistence. - Colin Powell

I hate what you represent."... "Power without conviction." Isana replied, her tone lifeless, matter of fact. "Ambition without conscience. Decent folk suffer at the hands of those like you. - Jim Butcher

It is not, in the long run, the battles and sieges that signify, but the permanent effect on the human race of the changes they help to bring about. - John Baddeley

The most treasured and sacred moments of our lives are those filled with the spirit of love. The greater the measure of our love, the greater is our joy. In the end, the development of such love is the true measure of success in life. - Joseph B. Wirthlin

Success is a process of learning, growth, progression and faithfulness. - Sunday Adelaja

God knows the motive of every man. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Jaime studiò gli occhi di lei. "Begli occhi'' non poté fare a meno di pensare. ''E calmi.'' Aveva imparato a leggere lo sguardo delle persone. E a riconoscere lo sguardo della paura. ''È determinata, non disperata. - George R. R. Martin,A Storm of Swords

Hell is full of musical amateurs. - George Bernard Shaw

Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons. It is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth. - Walt Whitman

The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them. - Lois McMaster Bujold

Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard. - Peter Drucker

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

To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization. - Arnold Toynbee