Quotation Explorer - 'Of'

Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties. - Abraham Lincoln

Most of the time, communication gets confused with conversation. In fact, the two are distinctly different. - A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

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

It's because we have little faith that we look within instead of without. - Ralph Bouma

An informed buyer purchases the product for its good quality ,and not merely for its brand endorsed by a celebrity or even when lots of people are buying it for the big discount on its bulk quantity. - Anuj Somany

Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go... And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over. - Gloria Naylor

Peace is not the absence of war but the absence of fear. - Ursula Franklin

To become truly immortal, a work of art must escape all human limits: logic and common sense will only interfere. But once these barriers are broken, it will enter the realms of childhood visions and dreams. - Giorgio de Chirico

Be a craftsman in speech that thou mayest be strong, for the strength of one is the tongue, and speech is mightier than all fighting. - Ptahhotep

It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers. - James Thurber

Man is an animal which, alone among the animals, refuses to be satisfied by the fulfilment of animal desires. - Alexander Graham Bell

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

Everything has changed. . . except the way we think. The aim [of education] must be the training of independently acting and thinking individuals, who, however, see in the service of community their highest life problems - Albert Einstein

Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are great because of their passion. - Martha Graham

You are that angel of paradise.You are that flower of heaven.This universe was longing for you,with endless love for infinite time. - Debasish Mridha

Success is waking up in the morning and bounding out of bed because there's something out there that you love to do, that you believe in, that you're good at - something that's bigger than you are, and you can hardly wait to get at it again. - Whit Hobbs

To get what you want, you have to deserve what you want. The world is not yet a crazy enough place to reward a whole bunch ofundeserving people. - Charles T. Munger

Never let your fears be the boundaries of your dreams. - Anonymous

I once stood on a road and found I had no friends. And I was glad. Better to have no friends than to have people claim they were your friends when they were not. It is a source of strength to come to terms with your right to be alone. - Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

The human creature, humiliated and offended in ways that are inconceivable to the mind and heart, defies the blind and deaf divinity. - Françoise Mauriac

Once people learned how to believe in something, that skill started spilling over to other parts of their lives, until they started believing they could change. Belief was the ingredient that made a reworked habit loop into a permanent behavior. - Charles Duhigg

My whole thing was, if I can put in 5 percent of the effort of somebody getting an A, and I can get a C minus, that’s amazing, he explains. It’s certainly good enough, right? [Then] I can take the other 95 percent of the time and invest it in something I really care about. - David Heinemeier Hansson

I told you. You don't love someone because of their looks or their clothes or their car. You love them because they sing a song only your heart can understand. - L.J. Smith

At the end of the day all we ever need is something that helped pass the time and something that keeps time from passing. - Sanober Khan

In the presence of the sun nobody sees the stars; excel, and you too will eclipse your competition. - Matshona Dhliwayo

The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That's real glory. Thats the essence of it. - Vince Lombardi Jr.

Courage comes with action. The minute you step forward, the minute you declare your decision, the minute you say, "This is how it's going to go," courage comes. It floods through you and energizes every single fiber of your being. You don't have to wait for it. It'll be there. - Gail Blanke

Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower classes. - Oswald Spengler

The suprematist must have a superior knowledge of understanding. With out that, their art is powerless - Luhraw

Life is an opportunity to sing the song of love. - Debasish Mridha

The Bible is the means through which we are introduced to Jesus and invited to follow Him in the life of humility and service. - Richard Foster

I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world. - Georges Duhamel

Three out of every one hundred people set goals. Even fewer write them down… You can be someone who does have goals—A Goal Getter! - Beverly K. Bachel

In his youth, he was electrified. The stars were moving in his bloodstream. He would not have been cowed by the customs of an earthly monarch. When he loved, it was with a heat and a desperation that he carried like a sword. He loved in the way that Greeks burned cities. - Brenna Yovanoff

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

Everything Can Change in One Moment of Time - Debbie Ann Egdell

You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure. - Jane Austen

The difference between a free human and a human is not the word "free" it's the word "human" , because humanity can never be caged with the chains of slavery. - M. Osman Baalbaki

Did you know that the center of a Protostar (the star in the middle of a nebula) is called a Nuclear Furnace? So you can call that the star's "heart." The heart of a star is a furnace. Not much unlike the human heart. - C. JoyBell C.

Fly in the sky of imagination to find the true solution. - Debasish Mridha

Evil comes in various forms, the one it comes most is the crowd of people. - James Miller

If you really wish to contribute anything worthy to the world; offer your silence with smile. - Aditya Ajmera

Only a few have learned to savor the significance of solitude. Those who can glory in being alone on occasion are the saint or poet or explorer. - William P. Barker

Eli: I walk by faith, not by sight. - Book of Eli Movie

Grace is the strength of greatness. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Advertising - A judicious mixture of flattery and threats. - Stephen Leacock

If you really want to be happy, don't just go for the money. Go for the relationship that lasts. Go for things of greater value. - Tony Meloto (Your First Job by: N. Dy)

I left her because of you,not for you. - Taimoor Madni

All things are possible to those who believe in themselves. Live a life without limits. Believe in yourself. Break through the ceiling of limitation. Develop high confidence and connect yourself to total success. - Mark F. LaMoure

Love well, laugh often and live well for Christ. - Karen Kingsbury

Never underestimate the healing power of silliness and absurdity. - Steve Maraboli

Discipline your mind to see the good in every situation and look on the best side of every event. - Roy Bennett

As to the gods, I have no means of knowing either that they exist or do not exist. For many are the obstacles that impede knowledge, both the obscurity of the question and the shortness of human life. - Diogenes Laërtius

I've found that busting your ass on a daily basis to make your art good, clear, and meaningful creates the most luck. - Don Roff

It’s is not just a question of doing what you love for a living. It is a matter of doing what you love with love. Then your life and all lives will be transformed. - Rasheed Ogunlaru

Be alive. Feel it, and be happy of it. - Olivia Sinaga

It is better to know oneself than know to others. So not find fault others see first in yourself. When one experiences truth, the madness of finding fault with others disappears. - Suman Jyoty Bhante

The reason I could never be an atheist is because when they get together they have literally nothing to talk about. - R. Joseph Hoffmann

Webs of deceit were not only tangled, they were also very lonely. - Laura Lee Guhrke

The resounding echo of the mortal coil, echoes in the ears of those who are unprepared for it. To some, it sounds like a symphony - to others, a death toll.

I was too green to know that all cynicism masks a failure to cope -- an impotence, in short; and that to despise all effort is the greatest effort of all.

There is no key to open the heart of another - except curiosity. - Stefan Molyneux

Fantasy, if it's really convincing, can't become dated, for the simple reason that it represents a flight into a dimension that lies beyond the reach of time. - Walt Disney Company

We can ignore reality, but we cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality. - Ayn Rand

Believe in things impossible, love the magic of a place, mystery in a person, passion in a relationship and seek adventures in life.. Live the life don't go through it.. - Anubhav Mishra

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

DICTIONARY, n. A malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic. This dictionary, however, is a most useful work. - Ambrose Bierce

We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn't obey the rules. - Alan Bennett

I believe only in the religion which spreads the word of nonjudgmental love. - Debasish Mridha

Just as Christian came up to the Cross, his burden loosed from off his shoulders, fell from off his back, and began to tumble down the hill, and so it continued to do till it came to the mouth of the sepulchre. There it fell in, and I saw it no more! - John Bunyan

I Don't Write Because God Gives Me A Fresh Word Everyday, I write Because of The Words He Has Already Spoken Yesterday That Changed Today. - The Prolific Penman

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

So death, the most terrifying of ills, is nothing to us, since so long as we exist, death is not with us; but when death comes, then we do not exist. It does not then concern either the living or the dead, since for the former it is not, and the latter are no more. - Epicurus

Love is victory of imagination over intelligence - Shantanand Sharma

No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought. - John Stuart Mill

Kind deed is a seed of love. - Lailah Gifty Akita

It's hard to imagine, seeing all of us breathing yet one day each of us shall be gone, leaving memories. - Auliq Ice

This transformationbegins in the spinningof the soul,hanged upside down,massively re-arranged,motion light.By inch the radicaltakes place the old is decomposed, the gruesome has been destroyed melting into something beautiful.What has seemed to harm youbrought you to life.- CHANGE, A Poem - Tara Estacaan

A person's Acts of #Kindness far outlives their lifespan,for they leave behind a true, meaningful legacy. - Michael Levy

In the deep places he gives thought to music great and terrible; and the echo of that music runs through all the veins of the world in sorrow and in joy; for if joyful is the fountain that rises in the sun, its springs are in the wells of sorrow unfathomed at the foundations of the Earth. - J.R.R. Tolkien

We spent time on Burma and the need for the military regime there to understand that they shouldn't fear the voices of people. And yet they do. - George W. Bush

Getting my lifelong weight struggle under control has come from a process of treating myself as well as I treat others in every way. - Oprah Winfrey

Democracy is not something that you believe in, or something that you hang your hat on. It's something that you do, you participate. Without participation, democracy crumbles and fails. If you participate, you win, and the future is yours. - Abbie Hoffman

Many people seek popularity and want everyone to know their name. It’s not important for everyone to know your name, it’s important that some of the people you know don’t forget your name. - Ron Baratono

Work is the greatest thing in the world. So we should save some of it for tomorrow. - Don Herold

The truest form of love is how you behave toward someone, not how you feel about them. - Steve Hall

Get back in my cot, girl," said Gilsa. "You're sickly."No, I'm not," said Ani.Oh, no? Well, maybe stubbornness is a sickness, did you ever think of that? - Shannon Hale

For centuries we have been ripped apart by the hands of others as well as ourselves. Our personalities have been conditioned to become disconnected from our most Earthly ancestral knowledge. The days of disconnectedness are over. We must begin anew. - Dacha Avelin

The cruelty itself is motivated by something deeper: the wish to know the secret of things and of life. - Erich Fromm

As each child looks at the world through innocent eyes all they can see, Is the worlds way of life and the way they think their lives should be.

And once again Mr. Sherlock Holmes is free to devote his life to examining those interesting little problems which the complexity of human life so pletifuly presents.

I commissioned two political experts to advise me about what I could do to oppose the re-election of President Bush. - George Soros

Being happy at others cost...not a sign of humanity. - Adil Adam Memon

I love you more than depth of the ocean, but I can't let you feel the pain of it...lines from Love Vs destiny.... - Atul Purohit

I have a theory about pink pastry boxes. So much joy comes from those boxes. When someone walks into a room with a pink pastry box, joy immediately fills the room. World peace? Three words. Pink pastry box. I get a big cup of coffee and finalize my plans for world domination. - Liza Palmer

We must cease striving and trust God to provide what He thinks is best and in whatever time He chooses to make it available. But this kind of trusting doesn't come naturally. It's a spiritual crisis of the will in which we must choose to exercise faith. - Charles R. Swindoll

I love and enjoy writing.Writing is a form of daily communication.It a communication to higher divine power. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Kiss me until I forget how terrified I am of everything wrong with my life. - Beau Taplin

I can see better when i close my eyes; don't make much ado, that's my latest style of view. - Michael Bassey Johnson

I’m not afraid of death, just of dying. - Duane Hewitt

If erotic writing is the objectification of sex, then reading is its subjectification. - Mark John Isola

Forgiveness is the way we return what has been taken from us and restore the love and kindness and trust that has been lost. With each act of forgiveness, whether small or great, we move toward wholeness. Forgiveness is nothing less than how we bring peace to ourselves and our world. - Desmond Tutu

Johnson had a sense of humor, and he could kid with me, he would say. Johnson didn’t enjoy talking with most liberals. He didn’t think they had a sense of humor. - Hubert H. Humphrey

Death is not the endDeath can never be the end.Death is the road.Life is the traveller.The Soul is the Guide...Our mind thinks of death.Our heart thinks of lifeOur soul thinks of Immortality - Sri Chinmoy

As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand. - Josh Billings

Supreme happiness will be the greatest cause of misery, and the perfection of wisdom the occassion of folly. - Leonardo da Vinci

Raising your children to love and serve Jesus is fulfilling one of God’s highest callings upon your life. - Elizabeth George

phase two of Operation Fish and CHIPs (Clean House of the Idiot Piranhas) - Brenda Pandos

If one believes in a god, one is a Theist. If one does not believe in a god, then one is an A-theist — he is without that belief. The distinction between atheism and theism is entirely, exclusively, that of whether one has or has not a belief in God. - Chapman Cohen

When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income. - Plato

Great things are done by a seris of small things brought together. - Vincent Van Gogh

For all the normal people who make fun of the mentally ill it's spelled K.A.R.M.A. and it's pronounced your days coming, Bitch! - Stanley Victor Paskavich

Self-reflection is a kind of self-judgment. The difference is just this – the former is positive and the latter is negative. - Balroop Singh

Build my fear of what's out thereAnd cannot breathe the open airWhisper things into my brainAssuring me that I'm insaneThey think our heads are in their handsBut violent use brings violent plansKeep him tied, it makes him wellHe's getting better, can't you tell? - Metallica Welcome Home Sanitarium

And one fine day the goddess of the wind kisses the foot of man, that mistreated, scorned foot, and from that kiss the soccer idol is born. He is born in a straw crib in a tin-roofed shack and he enters the world clinging to a ball. - Eduardo Galeano

If the liberties of the American people are ever destroyed, they will fall by the hands of the clergy. - Marquis De Lafayette

In fact the trick good shooters deploy is change of focus from long to short and vice versa. And that should happen fast.The modus operandi is an alignment – of long Focus (long term vision) with due validation with respect to current status (short term goals). - Priyavrat Thareja

O, throw away the worser part of it, And live the purer with the other half.

It's hypocritical to expect a job based on a curriculum built out of companies that for whatever reason rejected you. - Daniel Marques

If the dream is a translation of waking life, waking life is also a translation of the dream. - René Magritte

The experience of this sweet life. - Dante Alighieri

Just because you see bad contents in few pages of the bookIt doesn't mean the whole contents in that book are bad too - 69rascal

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

Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder. - Laurence J. Peter

PLEBISCITE, n. A popular vote to ascertain the will of the sovereign. - Ambrose Bierce

It is not money that makes a person free, but it is the knowledge of God’s truths. - Sunday Adelaja

In less than a year, the Bush administration will strut out of office, leaving the country in roughly the same condition a toddler leaves a diaper. - Graydon Carter

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

I would suggest that the theater is the art form that most fully offers us an opportunity to reflect on the Incarnation because it is the presentation of one body to another. - Mother Dolores Hart

Who are we to think we deserve anything? What makes us so great? No one is "lucky" to have us. We are all full of it. - Donna Lynn Hope

This is the postmodern desert inhabited by people who are, in effect, consuming themselves in the form of images and abstractions through which their desires, sense of identity, and memories are replicated and then sold back to them as products - Larry McCaffrey

If the future historians were to digitally unearth our generation, they would decipher the facial expressions on the "Selfie's" as the generation of people suffering from wide spread constipation! - Vishwanath S J

I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them. - Boris Pasternak

I don't believe an accident of birth makes people sisters or brothers. It makes them siblings, gives them mutuality of parentage. Sisterhood and brotherhood is a condition people have to work at. - Maya Angelou

A tree does not stop growing because the wind blew off a few of its leaves. - Matshona Dhliwayo

He who let's the world, or his own portion of it, choose his plan of life for him, has no need of any other faculty than the ape-like one of imitation - John Stuart Mill

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship. - George Bernard Shaw

I’m not holding myself out as a model, but I do believe that we in America can ask more of children than we typically do, and they will not only respond to the challenge, but thrive. - Amy Chua

The act of reading will enrich your life.Become a lifelong learner and a reader. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Honesty, vulnerability and a good amount of courageous faith allows you to cry out in your bewilderment and not lose your belief in the process. These things allow you to wrestle your faith rather than lose it. - Bono

The cruelest thing is love that leads us to deal with the parts of ourselves that we do not want to see, and this is what, in fact, we do not forgive each other. - Luigina Sgarro

Happiness is to capture the images of our dreams in the morning dew and the smile of the sun. - Subhan Zein

What would be the description of happines? Nothing, except what prepares and then what destroys it, can be told. - André Gide

How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! How great is the sum of them!If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand. - Psalms 139

I once said cynically of a politician, 'He'll doublecross that bridge when he comes to it.' - Oscar Levant

When you experience permanent bliss of the Self (samadhi), then it will be considered that your entire work is completed. - Dada Bhagwan

Peace is not the absence of warbut the presence of love and care - Debasish Mridha

I have dozens of loyal fans! Baker's dozens! …they come in thirteens. - Felicia Day

More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginnings of all wars. - Franklin D. Roosevelt

In accordance with our principles of free enterprise and healthy competition, I'm going to ask you two to fight to the death for it.

Any religion which uses the words such as hell, fire, curse, burning, amputating can never be a religion of love because a religion of love must only use the language of love, must only use only the sweet words of affection, not the words of darkness and torture! - Mehmet Murat ildan

On the first day of a college you will worry about how will you do inside the college? and at the last day of a college you will wonder what will you do outside the college? - Amit Kalantri

What a beautiful name. I love to watch how it falls off the lips of those who love Him. I shudder as it falls off the lips of those who don't. Jesus. - Beth Moore

think of the condition of Europe for twenty years before, where people were fighting, not by thousands, but by millions; each one of whom as he struck his enemy wounded horribly some other innocent heart far away. - William Makepeace Thackeray

It happens to us all. We drink too much, take one too many hits of acid, proposition the wrong prostitute and end up by the side of some freeway, disheveled and disoriented. - Kenyon Ledford

I committed mistakes many times, fall short, tempted and diverted but able to reconfigure my direction because of God's loving mercy. - Nathaniel E. Quimada

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

if you are not a fan of great consumer service, then you are not a fan of business ultimately not making you a fan of money. - K. Abernathy Can You Action Past Your Devil's Advocate

Every single man who is too stupid enough to realize how beautiful is God's creation through WOMEN and continuously lay his hand on them, he is not man enough to be classified with the rest of us. - Unarine Ramaru

It was curious what trying to speak English had done lately to his mind; it reminded him of studying poetry in college, words gaining and losing their meaning, overlapping with images, the curious echo of ideas behind the words people used. - Jess Walter

The humiliating climbdown, the necessary deception, and stepping over one's pride: they should each have their honoured place in a modern account of the political virtues. - Jonathan Glover

The workings of the human heart are the profoundest mystery of the universe. One moment they make us despair of our kind, and the next we see in them the reflection of the divine image. - Charles W. Chesnutt

The rich, the poor, the high professor and the prophane [sic], seem all to be infected with this grievous disorder, so that the love of our neighbor seems to be quite banished, the love of self and opinions so far prevails. - Christopher Marshall

Arrogance is the armour of the weak. They are always at war to hide their real self. - Balroop Singh

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

To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement. - Augustine of Hippo

Never pray to be a better slave when God is trying to get you out of your situation. - Shannon L. Alder

Never judge the othersfor each one wears a coverfor their version of the original.(talking about individuals in the stream of consciousness that gives rise to each one of us.) - Jay Woodman

It was on my fifth birthday that Papa put his hand on my shoulder and said, 'Remember, my son, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm.' - Sam Levenson

Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty. - Thomas Jefferson

Men with Honor are not killed by swords, they die of Shame. - Alok Jagawat

The whole hard work in achieving any goal is not in the means of achieving greater heights, but in the courage in fulfilling the simple yet daunting tasks. - Chinonye J. Chidolue

Don't let people get the best of you they say what they want but don't let that distract you from accomplishing your goals. - Alcurtis Turner

How much are you willing to sacrifice to achieve the level of success you desire? - Sherman Morris

When someone told me I live in a fantasy land, I nearly fell off my unicorn. - Unknown

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

What i don't know ,can't see,science can not assure me, i believe ,these unknown are frightened, and could be delighting. Unknown things i believe exists by full of surprises. - litymunshi

The test of our progress is not whether we add to the abundance of those who have much. It is whether we provide enough to those who have little.

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

Don’t you burn when fire touches you...? It’s just because the flames are real as are a few things in this world... That’s why love does hurts ... Not because of tears or bad moments but because the passion is real ... And real gets burnt - Konstantinos Kyriakou.K.K

It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way. - Ernest Hemingway

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

Let us be appreciative and grateful for the abundance, beauty, experience, and bliss of life. - Debasish Mridha

Fear not the path of Truth for the lack of People walking on it. - Robert F. Kennedy

Music helps us drift away to places of tranquility, happiness, sadness, & imagination. - April Mae Monterrosa

...the experience of battle forever divides those who talk of nothing else but its prospect from those who talk of everything else but its memory. - James D. Hornfischer

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

Believe None of What You Hear, And Only Half of What You See. - Chris Mentillo

More and more I had come to see the Capped as lacking what seemed to me the essence of humanity, the vital spark of defiance against the rulers of the world. - John Christopher

We can never skip growing old. As we grow older, we understand old things and things of old times better! - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

True love should not have to lie, cheat, or steal. The best kind of love finds you when you need it most. - Shelly Crane

Men are more often bribed by their loyalties and ambitions than by money. - Robert Jackson

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge. - Thomas Carlyle

We must achieve both security and solvency. In fact, the foundation of military strength is economic strength, - Dwight D. Eisenhower

The world is your oyster...YOU determine the value of the pearl! - Jolene Church

The world is not made of molecules, the world is made of stories.

I mistrust all systemizers and avoid them. The will to a system is a lack of integrity. - Friedrich Nietzsche

To walk in the footsteps of the great, put on their shoes. - Matshona Dhliwayo

I'm of the opinion and quite certain that our 'personal histories' with God are meant to be well informed by the Scriptures - R. Alan Woods 2007

...But all that power has culminated in gentleness. It is as if that is the point of power: to allow one to access the higher registers of gentleness. - George Saunders

It takes a heck of a lot of courage to stay true to yourself when the world has forgotten it's way. - Nikki Rowe

The only person I compete with is Satan. If that happens to be you, then could you please move out of the way? You’re standing in Christ’s spot. - Shannon L. Alder

We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like? - Jean Cocteau

You have to look in the mirror and do one of two things; love or hate who you see. So, be good to yourself - it's all the esteem you have. - Stacy Snapp-Killian aka StacyK

Political history is largely an account of mass violence and of the expenditure of vast resources to cope with mythical fears and hopes.

I believe that freedom is the deepest need of every human soul. - George W. Bush

Also unfortunately, Congress is far too busy asking if baseball players are really as strong as they seem and trying to choke bankers with wads of cash to grant more funds to such trifling matters as the avoidance of space bullets, so they won't give NASA the money - Robert Brockway

The first time I read an excellent work, it is to me just as if I gained a new friend; and when I read over a book I have perused before, it resembles the meeting of an old one. - James Goldsmith

Wanting him to come back before anyone notices part of the world has not moved since he left. - Brian Andreas

When the beauty and warmth of summer is here,then dancing leaves with colors are not too far. - Debasish Mridha

A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not. - Henry Fielding

The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use - of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public. - Robert F. Kennedy

The promise of a hopeful future is motivation for the pursuit of my dreams. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Philosophy means the complete liberty of the mind. - Henri-Frédéric Amiel

You will never reach a place you're not willing to "work to". Life has a way of punishing us when we refuse to work. - Asuni LadyZeal

A grand passion is the privelege of people who have nothing to do. - Oscar Wilde

A man who tosses worms in the river isn’t 't necessarily a friend of the fish. All the fish who take him for a friend, who think the worm’s got no hook in it, usually end up in the frying pan. - Malcolm X

Over the course of human history, many items have briefly flourished as means of exchange, only to be demonetarized. Now, we have demonetarized money. - Markham Shaw Pyle

Be ahead of all parting, as though it already were behind you, like the winter that has just gone by. For among these winters there is one so endlessly winterthat only by wintering through it will your heart survive. - Rainer Maria Rilke

Life is like a storm. At its worst, it's full of blinding fury, rage, and destruction. However, at its best, it is full of striking beauty and wonder. - Tanner Walling

Anybody who listens to their intuition risk at times making other people disappointed or even pissed off because you're not tending to what they want from you but instead to what feels right for you. - Maria Erving

Love, he told himself, was open to interpretation like any other abstract indulgence but followed the same principles everywhere, irrespective of everything else. One, either won or lost in love, there was no bridge in between, and he decided he had lost, lost to himself, if not to her. - Faraaz Kazi

Books aren't written - they're rewritten. Including your own. It is one of the hardest things to accept, especially after the seventh rewrite hasn't quite done it. - Michael Crichton

They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps. - William Shakespeare

Love is the luckiest tenant in the world, living in the hearts of men and women rent free. - Matshona Dhliwayo

Seeing a murder on television... can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some. - Alfred Hitchcock

Feel your emotions,Live true your passions,Keep still your mind. - Geoffrey M. Gluckman

Don't you wish you had a job like mine? All you have to do is think up a certain number of words! Plus, you can repeat words! And they don't even have to be true! - Dave Barry

The Marxians love of democratic institutions was a stratagem only, a pious fraud for the deception of the masses. Within a socialist community there is no room left for freedom. - Ludwig von Mises

Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat. - Robert Frost

Looks like Kelsey wins the award for early riser. And doesn’t she look purtier than a pat of butter meltin’ all over a stack of griddle cakes? - Colleen Houck

A woman is soft, kind, and loving. When you are in danger, she is always ready to sacrifice herself to save you. So never forget to respect her. - Debasish Mridha

Only wise men can differentiate between what is a matter of pride and what is a principle of dignity. - Sameh Elsayed

Erinnerungen sind aus wundersamen Stoff gemacht – trügerisch und dennoch zwingend, mächtig und schattenhaft. Es ist kein Verlaß auf die Erinnerung, und dennoch gibt es keine Wirklichkeit außer der, die wir im Gedächtnis tragen. - Golo Mann

A little hope and love now and thenWise and beautiful, more than often. - Debasish Mridha

I saw my real gods . . the gods of most men. Food, drink, and security in conformity. - Anne Rice

One kernel is felt in a hogshead; one drop of water helps to swell the ocean; a spark of fire help to give light to the world. None are too small, too feeble, too poor to be of service. Think of this and act. - Hannah More

The opposite of war isnt peace its creation - Jonathan Larson

Artists are strange people. They make the world a beautiful place, and make others feel good, but they are a bunch of lonely people. Artists are people with unfulfilled, unrealistic dreams, lonely, and always searching for perfection. - Ama H. Vanniarachchy

During the Second World War, the Germans took four years to build the Atlantic Wall. On four beaches it held up the Allies for about an hour; at Omaha it held up the U.S. for less than one day. The Atlantic Wall must therefore be regarded as one of the greatest blunders in military history. - Stephen Ambrose

A poet is a silent singer; he sings the deep songs of the soul silently. - Debasish Mridha

Beyond happiness or unhappiness, though it is both things, love is intensity; it does not give us eternity but life, that second in which the doors of time and space open just a crack: here is there and now is always. - Octavio Paz

Facts or opinions which are to pass through the hands of so many, to be misconceived by folly in one, and ignorance in another, can hardly have much truth left. - Jane Austen

Enthusiasm is excitement with inspiration,motivation, and a pinch of creativity - Bo Bennett

Power is the near neighbour of necessity. - Pythagoras

Writing without revising is the literary equivalent of waltzing gaily out of the house in your underwear. - Patricia Fuller

The simplicity of life never ceases to amaze me, and the many ways we complicate it blows my mind. - TemitOpe Ibrahim

The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel. - Piet Mondrian

The state is nothing but an instrument of oppression of one class by another--no less so in a democratic republic than in a monarchy. - Friedrich Engels

Being the Novelist-in-Residence at a riad hotel in the kasbah of an Arabic North African city is a lot like trying to write one’s memoirs on shreds of napkins in a nuthouse. - Roman Payne

Even though we don’t realize it, every moment we begin our adventure in the unknown future of life. - Debasish Mridha

It is only through fiction and the dimension of the imaginary that we can learn something real about individual experience. Any other approach is bound to be general and abstract. - Nicola Chiaromonte

Did you see the frightened ones,Did you hear the falling bombs,Did you ever wonder why we had to run for shelter in the promise of a brave new world unfurlled beaneath the clear blue skies.Good bye blue skies. - Roger Waters

It is said that we do not make the guilty party suffer for the sake of suffering; it is nonetheless true that we find it right that he should suffer. - Émile Durkheim

The sincere friends of this world are as ship lights in the stormiest of nights. - Giotto di Bondone

The faith of religion is belief on insufficient evidence. - Sam Harris

I was so blinded by her talent that I didn't recognize the tremendous pain behind her work. She gave me hundreds of images, so many chances to see that she was in trouble. I failed her. - Nina LaCour

Whatever it will bring, it will be good to be there, in the Land of Future! - Mehmet Murat ildan

We sometimes fear to bring our troubles to God, because they must seem small to Him who sitteth on the circle of the earth. But if they are large enough to vex and endanger our welfare, they are large enough to touch His heart of love. - R.A. Torrey

Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body. But rather, to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming .... WoW, what a ride. - Mark Frost

Regardless of how much wealth [material pleasures] one has, if he does not like bondage even for a moment, then he has become qualified to understand the science of the Vitarags [the enlightened one’s]. - Dada Bhagwan

I take the opportunity each day offers. - Andy Goldsworthy

If I have refused to risk, I have in the self-same decision refused to love. And if indeed I have refused to love, tragically I have refused to live. And when will I realize that that in and of itself is an unacceptable risk. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

...distinction between growth and development. Aggregate growth in national economic indicators need not mean an improved life for the majority of the people. - Raewyn Connell and Nour Dados

if you like the lovable sound of an asthma attack in your ear every time you tell a joke. - Kiera Cass

The best kind of comedy to me is when you make people laugh at things they’ve never laughed at, and also take a light into the darkened corners of people’s minds, exposing them to the light. - Bill Hicks

No need to look to see if your former home has vanished yet into the humdrum gray behind you; you'll be able to feel it, the sudden eclipse of the tractor beam the house puts out. Of its forcefield of sadness. - Garth Risk Hallberg

An Irishman is the only man in the world who will step over the bodies of a dozen naked women to get to a bottle of stout. - Unknown

Few of our modern novelists dare to invent a single thing. It is an open secret that they don't know how to do it. - Oscar Wilde

Sometimes just the tiniest allocation of time spent with a friend, imprints on your mind and gives you something to smile about for the rest of the week, month, or your life! - Marcia Lynn McClure

The most inspirational feeling I can come up with is.......The feeling of presence. - Matthew Donnelly

Maxim 27: Don't be afraid to be the first to resort to violence.-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries - Howard Tayler

To be civilized, really, is to be aware of the others, their hopes, their gladnesses, their illusions about life. - Sherwood Anderson

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information on it. - Samuel Johnson

History is the diary of humankind; to forget it is to try to navigate the future with no memory of the past. - T.L. Rese

Nothing else in all life is such a maker of joy and cheer as the privilege of doing good. - J.R. Miller

Projection from the beginning of time White women with a passionate horns Butchered yet another beloved - Santosh Kalwar

PREDICAMENT, n. The wage of consistency. - Ambrose Bierce

The only time you ever run out of chances is when you stop taking them.

Woody Allen once said that ‘I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.’ This is certainly a very wise wish! Whoever grasped the triviality of anything besides the existence is a wise man indeed! There is no substitute for life! - Mehmet Murat ildan

Change will force you to step off the path, to venture from the nest, to close your eyes and dive right in, knowing that the greatest opportunities in life are found in the sink or swim, do or die moments. - Stella Payton

The Rape of Europa. Both the myth and the picture only prove the power of beauty to turn anyone into a beast. - Lara Biyuts

The geologic column is a bunch of balarky. - Arthur C. Howard

Human consciousness arose but a minute before midnight on the geological clock. Yet we mayflies try to bend an ancient world to our purposes, ignorant perhaps of the messages buried in its long history. Let us hope that we are still in the early morning of our April day. - Stephen Jay Gould

I wish you all the good and charm that life can offer. Think of me kindly, and rest assured that no one would more rejoice to hear of your happiness. - Ludwig van Beethoven

Naughtiness is a diamond of childhood. - Aabid Surti

He was withdrawing. I think it was getting harder for him to accept his fate. Like a bird in a cage, he grew silent. - Alice Hoffman

Trees are the earth's example of beauty, duty, wisdom and happiness. - Debasish Mridha

I think one of the things you and I have to learn is that we have to live without the consolation of belonging to a Church....Of one thing I am certain. The religion of the future will have to be extremely ascetic, and by that I don't mean just going without food and drink. - Ludwig Wittgenstein

Let go of your pain and heal your wounds. - Lailah Gifty Akita

This is God's beauty!The Elegant nature of Esther,The Meek nature of Moses,The Pius nature of Paul,The Passionate nature of Peter,The Just nature of Jesus and thenThe wise nature of you! - Israelmore Ayivor

There will always be a down but also always an up, your moods depends on wich of the two you pay the most attention to. - Laurins

It's time to make love, douse the glim; The fireflies twinkle and dim; The stars lean together Like birds of a feather, And the loin lies down with the limb. - Conrad Aiken

Friend' is sometimes a word devoid of meaning; enemy, never. - Victor Hugo

If human beings are perceived as potentials rather than problems, as possessing strengths instead of weaknesses, as unlimited rather that dull and unresponsive, then they thrive and grow to their capabilities.

A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils. - Daniel Webster

A mind can be empty of thoughts but a heart cannot be void of feelings. - Raheel Farooq

This world is a favourite movie to God, made by God and life is the main character of that movie. - iqra iqbal

I am quite a wise old bird, but I am no desert hermit who can only prophesy when his guts are knotted with hunger. I am deep in the old man’s puzzle, trying to link the wisdom of the body with the wisdom of the spirit until the two are one. - Robertson Davies

Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.

I write a lot of lyrics and I'm involved in the producing process, because it's like, if I'm singing it, I want it to be something that I can relate to. - Lindsay Lohan

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

He who asserts belief with absolute certainty knows nothing of faith and makes himself into a fool. He who is wise, upon realizing they have done this, recants and searches themselves for further enlightenment. - Cristina Marrero

What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice. Without the possibility of choice a man is not a man but a member, an instrument, a thing. - Archibald MacLeish

Love is one of the most powerful healing tools in the universe. Most people forget to use it to build rapport, to deepen their relatedness, and to mend the upset that underlies disagreement and expectation. Sprinkle more love and you will heal only 100% of the time. - Monika Zands

Don't let circumstances determine your fate. Choose your fate and mold circumstances to fit your fate of choice. - D.B. Harrop

CONSULT, v.i. To seek another's approval of a course of action already decided on. - Ambrose Bierce

Far from being a meaningless void, chaos is the source of creativity and construction in nature and in social dynamics.

Just as my body had changed at puberty, now I was developing a sense of guilt, a sense not only of how I appeared to others, but of how I appeared to myself, especially in violating self-imposed prohibitions. - Hanif Kureishi

The beauty of a woman is not in her facial makeup but in the kindness of her soul. - Debasish Mridha

She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind. - Toni Morrison

The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time. - Colette

In forming a judgment, lay your hearts void of foretaken opinions; else, whatsoever is done or said, will be measured by a wrong rule; like them who have jaundice, to whom everything appears yellow. - Sir Philip Sidney

In completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others of which we could have no idea before, so that we cannot solve one doubt without creating several new ones. - Joseph Priestley

Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten. - William Shakespeare

Some are drawn to the light of your strength but can't handle the darkness of your weaknesses. If they run when the light gets dim, don't chase them. They have no understanding of how dark is necessary for light to shine its brightest. - Sanjo Jendayi

You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job. - Laurence J. Peter

You were the hardest year of my life and I’ve never been so happy. What does that say about me? - Charlotte Eriksson

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will. - George Bernard Shaw

Lies are usually caused by undue fear of men. - Hasidic Saying

The question is not 'Am I a leader?' - the question is 'What kind of leader am I? - Steve Knox

In the end the soul is itself the longing of the soulless for salvation. - Theodor W. Adorno

It's paradoxical that the idea of living a long life appeals to everyone, but the idea of getting old doesn't appeal to anyone. - Andy Rooney

Love and take care of yourself because you are your best friend, and you have to live with yourself rest of the life. - Debasish Mridha

Love: I guess It is some kind of magic, It has a power to make us better... But there is the thing magic can sometimes be an illusion and nothing else. - Rati Tsiteladze

Life has always been a series of the same choices: enslavement, apathy or freedom. - Shannon L. Alder

You may hear bad words but you always use soft words that carry the air of flowers! - Mehmet Murat ildan

I don't care to be someone's first love, I care to be their second or third; after every heartbreak they had experienced, I was worthy enough for them to move forward and this to me is greater than any first's of someone's heart. - Nikki Rowe

To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves. - Alexander Pope

...an ambitious array of dishonorable intentions that he intended to wield upon the Countess’s nether regions. — BATS 2015 - Fred Barnett

The problem with our sense of justice is we always seemed to be kind to beautiful and attractive criminals. - M.F. Moonzajer

It is much more rewarding to get to the top of the mountain and share your experience with others than to show up by yourself, exausted. - -Shandel Slaten

Those who always think of their aches can never do what it takes! - RVM

We are in the age of achievements provided we are adequately informed. we are not too young to make a difference nor too old to chart a new course - Sesan Kareem

Loneliness is not lack of companion; it is the absence of the right people in our life. That is why we are alone even among the people. - M.F. Moonzajer

My family of friends has kept me alive through lovers who have left, enterprises that have failed, and all too many stories that never got finished. That family has been part of remaking the world for me. - Dorothy Allison

By showing that you don't have to lose yourself, maybe someone else will feel some sort of comfort. - Lea Michele

A mistake is simply another way of doing things. - Katharine Graham

Great! I’m addressing the King of Altoln…about who knows what, but I’m at the centre of it and everyone’s looking at me now, oh for all the gods’ sake Falchion, swallow it down and say something damn you. - J.P.Ashman

If there's one thing I can say when it's my time to look back over my glorious life is I lived, bravely and fiercly in the chaos of it all. - Nikki Rowe

[M]y grandmother...had always complained that our house didn't have a profile that was "significant enough. - Katie Crouch and Grady Hendrix, The White Glove War

It's often a matter of sitting in front of the computer and worrying. It's what writing comes down to--worrying that things aren't going to work out. - Khaled Hosseini

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

If religion is against homosexuality, then it is against the will and happiness of people. - M.F. Moonzajer

We are paid for our daily labors by the pennies and dollars; we are paid in respect and gratitude when those labors consist of good deeds. - Charles Cross

80There is no greater influence in the lives of your children than the words you speak over them. The blessing of the father is incredibly potent and powerful. Your words give your children potential. As their father, you are prophesying their future! - Neil Kennedy

The morning will come In the press of every kiss, With your head upon my chest Where I will annoy you With every waking breath Until you decide to wake up. - Coheed and Cambria

There are only ten minutes in the life of a pear when it is perfect to eat. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Solitude is strength; to depend on the presence of the crowd is weakness. The man who needs a mob to nerve him is much more alone than he imagines. - Paul Brunton

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

The calla lilies are in bloom again. Such a strange flower—suitable to any occasion. I carried them on my wedding day, and now I place them here in memory of something that has died. - Katharine Hepburn

Art is not like other culture because its success is not made by its audience. The public fill concert halls and cinemas every day, we read novels by the millions, and buy records by the billions. 'We the people'--affect the making and quality of most of our culture, but not our art. - Banksy

The true wealth of a man is not what's in his pocket, but what's in his heart. - Unarine Ramaru

A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light. - Leonardo da Vinci

Nico looked so devilishly handsome under the spilling glow of the moon. - Keira D. Skye

If you need true friend 'a cup of tea can be' it gives you company, listen without complain and makes you fresh anytime,anywhere - Rahul Bodkhe

Ninety percent of all mental errors are in your head. - Yogi Berra

Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, gaiety and life to everything. It is the essence of order, and leads to all that is god, just, and beautiful, of which it is the invisible, but never less, dazzaling, passionate, and eternal form. - Plato

To leave a man's ego bigger, retweet him. To leave his faculty of reasoning better, challenge his tweet. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Life lived in the absence of the psychedelic experience that primordial shamanism is based on is life trivialized, life denied, life enslaved to the ego. - Terence McKenna

Blushing is the color of virtue. - Diogenes of Sinope

If you are a worrywart you can't be a ninja. You can't rise up and fight when the weight of the world is pressing you down. Your family needs you to be sane and not bogged down in fear. - Anna M. Aquino

The idea of death has been associated with the fear of the unknown, and the punishment or reward for our life choices. There is no punishment, and there is no reward. We punish ourselves instantly, when we choose to be destructive. We reward ourselves, when we choose being our loving selves. - Raphael Zernoff

At least grandmas don't look for angles like other people. Jo - Facts of Life

Humanity could be more humane if we can tie everyone with the thread of love. - Debasish Mridha

Solemnity is a device of the body to hide the faults of the mind. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The way to peace, harmony and balance for the planet is through the loving kindness of each individual heart. - Laurence Overmire

For breakfast to be called ‘in bed’ instead of ‘on top of a bed,’ the house in which it is about to be eaten has to have at least two rooms (excluding the kitchen); (at least) three, if it has a bathroom. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

People who make no mistakes lack boldness and the spirit of adventure. They are the brakes on the wheels of progress. - Norman Vincent Peale

He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.

Diligence is the mother of good luck. - American Proverb

I should wish to see a world in which education aimed at mental freedom rather than imprisoning the minds of the young in a rigid armor of dogma calculated to protect them though life against the shafts of impartial evidence. - Bertrand Russell

Lucien took the cigar and lit it, in the Spanish fashion, from that of the priest. "He is right," Lucien thought; "there is plenty of time to kill myself. - Honoré de Balzac

The chance of the bread falling with the buttered side down is directly proportional to the cost of the carpet. - Murphy's Law

I often wonder if we were all characters in one of God's dreams. - Muriel Spark

Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory, when the defect is in the judgment; and others, by grasping at all, retain nothing. - Thomas Fuller

The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves, which leave us to wonder at the possibility that there may be something to them that we are missing.

When avarice takes the lead in a state, it is commonly the forerunner of its fall. - Alexander Hamilton

Joy is the simplest form of gratitude. - Karl Barth

My tears were wiped away, my heart was strong, I saw the way of healing…I said, God help me now to preach the Word to all the dying around, and tell them how ‘tis Satan still defiles, and Jesus still delivers, for He is just the same today. - John Alexander Dowie

If I let the past and my goals be the only thing that drives me in life, I will never know the meaning of being happy. - Unarine Ramaru

We are animals and as animals we kill to survive. Unfortunately some of us are monsters and kill just because they can. - Richard Myerscough

For 70 years Democrats bitterly denied being "socialists". Bernie Sanders has done the service of exposing them. - A.E. Samaan

Here we are then, I was thinking, in a war to the finish between everything I love and everything I hate. Fine. We will win and they will lose. A pity that we let them pick the time and place of the challenge, but we can and we will make up for that. - Christopher Hitchens

To love is to open the window of our heart for all the beauty of the world to come in and dance with joy within our soul. - Debasish Mridha

In our need to be somebody, we often forget that we are somebody. - Eric Micha'el Leventhal

Can you identify the voices inside of your own head? It’s imperative that you do so you can understand who is doing your thinking. - Toni Sorenson

The great delusion of modernity, is that the laws of nature explain the universe for us. The laws of nature describe the universe, they describe the regularities. But they explain nothing. - Ludwig Wittgenstein

Sure, scars can be painfull to look at, reminding you where you've been, but they also remind you of how far you've come. - GirlDrawsManga

Ingenuousness is skewed by the cracks in the mirrors of the eye caused by the blunders of the insincere - T-anne Constable

Mystery of love is like digging water: everything closes. (Mystère de l'amour est comme - Creuser l'eau : tout se referme) - Charles de Leusse

...while cleverness is appropriate to rhetoric, and inventiveness to poetry, truth alone is appropriate to history. - Procopius of Caesarea

Your little r changes the status of a single lady ‘Ms’ into a respectable lady ‘Mrs’. Man, you make the difference! - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Most people neglect their lives and allow all kinds of accidents, mishaps and misfortunes to happen to them. - Sunday Adelaja

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

Never change yourself just because others don't accept you, the one who's destined for you will accept you the way you're; not that he doesn't find flaws, but it matters no more for he sees only the spark & magic in your eyes, making you feel special for the rest of your life! - Ramana Pemmaraju

Jesus isn't one of many; he's the one and only. - Todd Stocker

Right where you are, the potential of the universe is. - Alexandra Katehakis

For good-intentioned people making decisions, there's no such thing as a bad choice. So it doesn't matter what you choose. Choose something, then deliberately line up with the choice you make. This is the art of alignment and allowing. (paraphrased) - Abraham Hicks

Count the cost of everything.Rather than asking someone, "How much does this cost?" Ask yourself, "What is my value? - Deborah Brodie

There is always a part of my mind that is preparing for the worst, and another part of my mind that believes if I prepare enough for it, the worst won’t happen. - Kay Redfield Jamison

A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.

Risk - If one has to jump a stream and knows how wide it is, he will not jump. If he doesn't know how wide it is, he'll jump and six times out of ten he'll make it.

All I want to do is to find the joy of life. - Debasish Mridha

People are seen through the stained glass window of our imagination. ( "The hidden sides of his character" ) - Erik Pevernagie

In the end, history proved the Jews correct. Across time and place, memory lives on the tenacity of a people’s resolve never to forget—not just with words—but with an endless stream of concrete actions rushing every day, every hour, every minute, every second. - Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

I'm always angry about the death of people who are still alive, their eyes are opened, yet they can't see anything...the spell of ignorance - Michael Bassey Johnson

Here is little habit that can make a big difference. Send sunbeams. Intentionally send a word of encouragement or appreciation every day to one person. - Steve Goodier

We all have the greatest potential. Life is about finding it, embracing it and then learning to be with it in the world without fear of prejudice or judgment. - Aisha Mirza

The forgiving state of mind is a magnetic power for attracting good. - Catherine Ponder

There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost. - Martha Graham

What do you think an artist is? ...he is a political being, constantly aware of the heart breaking, passionate, or delightful things that happen in the world, shaping himself completely in their image. Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war. - Pablo Picasso

Beauty is the purgation of superfluities. - Michelangelo Buonarroti

I am not a one in a million kind of girl. I am once in a lifetime kind of woman. - Pravinee Hurbungs

The body often contains emotional truths that words can too easily gloss over. - Esther Perel

Authentic personal brands are built on the foundation of purpose - Bernard Kelvin Clive

When you leave,weary of me,without a word I shall gently let you go. - Kim Sowol

In Islam, it is the "moderate" who is left to split hairs,because the basic thrust of the doctrine is undeniable: convert, sub-jugate, or kill unbelievers; kill apostates; and conquer the world. - Sam Harris

A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation. - Adlai E. Stevenson II

The sacred is a fine hiding place for the profane. - David Mitchell

Isn't there any other part of the matzo you can eat? - Marilyn Monroe

I've had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened. - Mark Twain

Everyone has a gift for something, even if it is the gift of being a good friend. - Marian Anderson

Live Free Or Die; Death Is Not The Worst Of Evils. - General John Stark

It is the character of lived experience I want to explore, not the nature of man. - Michael James Jackson

So now you're on the run,' Warrick said wistfully. 'Travelling the Dark Highway, a lone wolf. With your friend, who is another wolf. Two lone wolves. Two wolves, really. Not really alone. Two wolves in a car. Travelling. One of them naked and bloody. The other with her ass hanging out. - Derek Landy

Wealth and greed are the roots of all evils - Ali R.A

Trust is the fruit of a relationship in which you know you are loved. - William Paul Young

Joshua made the sun stand still in the sky, but I can't keep these thoughts of You from passing by. - Rich Mullins

In this world of memories, there's no need for strangers.-Kenshin to Kaoru - Nobuhiro Watsuki

History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history. - Clarence Darrow

The color of truth is grey. - André Gide

The Universe has your back. Instead of trying to control the outcome, just enjoy the journey. - Dawn Gluskin

Some of you may not like what I had to say, but these are the things that I’ve noticed and believe should be said. - Auliq Ice

Conquest is made from the ashes of one's enemies. - Starscream

We are the custodians of our bodies. We must take action to employ healthy lifestyle habits to prevent, reduce, and/or manage disease and illness. - Bridgette L. Collins

The glory of the age is beauty of grayhair. - Lailah Gifty Akita

It is one of the worst of errors to suppose that there is any path for safety except that of duty.

Thinking there had to be a better way was a brilliant stroke of serendipity! - Lorii Myers

Understanding is a pure glass of water. All great truths have no taste. Hints of sweetness are coloured by the need for amazement. - Ben Okri

If only they could stay young & beautifull like most of them desire, then we would probably stay young too - zundap

Never try to be the passenger of life. Be the driver and enjoy the ride. - Debasish Mridha

Attitude is the most beautiful expression of a positive life. - Debasish Mridha

CLERGYMAN, n. A man who undertakes the management of our spiritual affairs as a method of better his temporal ones. - Ambrose Bierce

Innocence more often than not is a piece of good fortune rather than a virtue. - Anatole France

The institutions of Churchianity are not Christianity. An institution is a good thing if it is second; immediately an institution recognizes itself it becomes the dominating factor. - Oswald Chambers

We lie the loudest when we lie to ourselves. - Eric Hoffer

he citizens must begin to work to clean the city and country of any dirt. - Lailah Gifty Akita

The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

The fractured self is not something that needs to be rectified fixed and made whole; by freeing thought of the blinkers of representation, the space of fracture, of multiplicity (as opposed to unity) becomes a powerful place and one from which the most radical ideas can emerge. - Ria Banerjee

I'm appalled with description of "Sex Criminal" as recreation. Just responded to "20 minutes of action" by father of Stanford rapist. Lots of women at Goodreads, what are you thinking? - Bawb Cawx

The greatest profit, is to make your own gain. - Auliq Ice

What is the finding of love, but a voice answering a voice? - D. Antoinette Foy

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts. - Bertrand Russell

It is not so much our friend's help that helps us as the confidence of their help. - Epicurus

All the tough lessons in life are meant for negative ending to positive beginning. Like fall to spring. During such time nature warn us to alter everything in our life including mind. Such transformation are vital and essential. If we don't alter nature create force of destruction. - Aditya Ajmera

We are not our thought we are just prisoner of our Identification of thought - Sushil Singh

The mind, placed before any kind of difficulty, can find an ideal outlet in the absurd. Accommodation to the absurd readmits adults to the mysterious realm inhabited by children. - André Breton

When we have faith and discipline everything becomes easier. Patience is the mother of all virtues. With anxiety all our lives become worse. - Chico Xavier

When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a young person today, trying to gain a sense of myself in the world, I would do that again by reading, just as I did when I was young. - Maya Angelou

With the notion that we can open up our world by opening our minds, realize that home is the land that is least explored, and that adventure is a notion not determined by location, but is ultimately a state of mind. - Forrest Curran

The day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying. - Jean Cocteau

Not a tenth of us who are in business are doing as well as we could if we merely followed the principles that were known to our grandfathers. - William Feather

Special-interest publications should realize that if they are attracting enough advertising and readers to make a profit, the interest is not so special. - Fran Lebowitz

Dance like you're stamping on a human face forever, love like you've been in a serious car crash that minced the front of your brain, stab like no one can arrest you, and live like there's no such thing as God. - Warren Ellis

Wings can only flyas long as the bird flies Soul blackens when you put on vestment of lies White candle wax criesfor ignitable wickJealous people burnto make your heart feel sick - Munia Khan

Literature is integrated, and I'm not just talking about color or race. I'm talking about the power of literature to make us recognize - and again and again - the wholeness of the human experience. - Ralph Ellison

There are only two ways by which to rise in this world, either by one's own industry or by the stupidity of others.

The size of your audience doesn't matter. What's important is that your audience is listening. - Randy Pausch

Power is something that is out of term. - Lena Hussain

We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open. - Jawaharlal Nehru

If you want to know the truth, he says, leaning forward like he’s getting ready to tell a really good story, it has to do with Kelsey. And the biggest lie of all.And that’s when I realize the thing about the truth. It always comes out, no matter what you do. - Lauren Barnholdt

When you told me I didn't love youI simply thought how would you knowFor I remembered the spaces between your fingersAnd the crease between your eyesHow dare you tell meI never thought of you as mine. - Sara Jones

You either get the point of Africa or you don't. What draws me back year after year is that it's like seeing the world with the lid off. - A.A. Gill

You invite a few players in to start a game of Texas Hold'em by telling them that the deck doesn't have any jacks or queens in it and that you won't tell the other people who come to play with them. How do you get people into the casino? You pay the brokers to bring them there. - Michael Lewis

Happiness is as fragile and fleeting as a bubble soap. Water down the last dregs of happiness and turn them into bubbles to fill the void. It may nothing more than an illusion, but it was still better than the emptiness. - Kanae Minato

If you're being bombarded with information, the act of looking for patterns – not necessarily finding them – is what going to give you psychic refuge, a sense of sanctuary. - Douglas Copeland

He who ashamed of his poverty would be equally proud of his wealth.

To be a follower of Christ and not just a fan means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you. - Shannon L. Alder

Of course gratitude should be expressed...But that does not mean to kill your self-esteem. - Deepika Muthusamy

There was never a great genius without a touch of madness. - Ben Jonson

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

People stumble over the truth from time to time,but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened. - Winston S. Churchill

When I was on "StarSearch", one of the producers told the other contestants, "She'll never be famous; she's too tough, she's too New York, and she's too heavy." And I remember thinking, "Gosh, he's gonna feel like a jerk when I'm famous. Through the negativity I learned to hear myself quite loudly. - Rosie O'Donnell

When people think the world of you, be careful with them. - Margaret Cho

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

If most people around a person make, more often than not, her/his life miserable for her/his thoughts being regularly factual, then only s/he is most likely to be an actual intellectual. - Anuj Somany

Princes & KingsIsn't it strange how princes and kings,and clowns that caper in sawdust rings,and common people, like you and me,are builders for eternity?Each is given a list of rules;a shapeless mass; a bag of tools.And each must fashion, ere life is flown,A stumbling block, or a Stepping-Stone. - R. Lee Sharpe

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

Intelligence is composed mostly of imagination, insight, things that have nothing to do with reason. - Vivienne Westwood

Whenever that tiny bulb of revelation flashes over your head, it almost always follows a period of uncertainty. These periods are usually dark and distorted, with nary a sliver of light, yet they serve us because they contribute to understanding. - Nichole Beamer

In the Book of Life, The answers aren't in the back. - Charles M. Schulz

It is no coincidence that, on all four sides, in all four corners, the borders of the Roman Empire stopped where wine could no longer be made. - Neel Burton

Autumn is my favourite season of all. It is a transitory period that allows the earth to rest before it sees the harshness of winter and hears the promise of spring. - Kamand Kojouri

Tell me what’s the differencebetween hope and waitingbecause my heart doesn’t knowIt constantly cuts itself on the glass of waitingIt constantly gets lost in the fog of hope - Anna Kamieńska

The world has been blind in the presence of artificial lights.They blame on the darkness in broad daylight. - Bikash Chaurasiya

When I was a little kid I had a very different meaning of life; simple like a cup of tea with sugar and a piece of cake, today the whole world doesn’t give me that life. - M.F. Moonzajer

We have come to the determination to die, all of us, rather than abandon our God, and our religion. - Jeanne D'Albret

Our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strengths. - Charles Haddon Spurgeon

To accomplish our destiny it is not enough to merely guard prudently against road accidents. We must also cover before nightfall the distance assigned to each of us. - Alexis Carrel

A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser. - William Shakespeare

To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can. - Og Mandino

A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession. - Albert Camus

All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last. - Marcel Proust

My definition of an expert in any field is a person who knows enough about what's really going on to be scared. - P. J. Plauger

There is something mankind can never destroy in spite of an unreasoning will to destruction, and this is its own idealism, that integral part of its very being. - Radclyffe Hall

Real leaders are people who help us overcome the limitations of our own individual laziness and selfishness and weakness and fear and get us to do better, harder things than we can get ourselves to do on our own. - David Foster Wallace

You can only be afraid of what you think you know. - Jiddu Krishnamurti

Truth and honesty are some of the most powerful principles to developing a nation. - Sunday Adelaja

Illusory attachment (moha) is indeed what will keep on biting you until the point of your demise! - Dada Bhagwan

As a nation, we will only become the shining light to the world with the emergence of more and more role models worthy of emulation by all - Fela Durotoye

The big mistake that men make is that when they turn thirteen or fourteen, and all of a sudden they've reached puberty, they believe that they like women. Actually, you're just horny. It doesn't mean that you like women any more at twenty-one than you did at ten. - Jules Feiffer

Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this son of York, And all the clouds that loured upon our house In the deep bosom of the ocean buried. - William Shakespeare

A real woman's blood pressure will go up when another man touch her, in anger of me losing my dignity and not because she likes it. - Unarine Ramaru

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances."— - Aristotle

There's a certain Slant of light, Winter Afternoons-- That oppresses, like the Heft Of Cathedral Tunes-- - Emily Dickinson

Desire is the starting point of all achievement. - Napolean Hill

It is better in some respects to be admired by those with whom you live, than to be loved by them. And this is not on account of any gratification of vanity, but because admiration is so much more tolerant than love. - Sir Arthur Helps

Success is simply the wisdom born out of so called failures - Rasheed Ogunlaru

Teaching kids how to feed themselves and how to live in a community responsibly is the center of an education. - Alice Waters

Maybe we could all take care of each other, I dreamed. - Michelle Tea

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

The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant--and let the air out of the tires. - Dorothy Parker

You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestation of your own blessings. - Elizabeth Gilbert

In the enjoyment of a great myth we come nearest to experiencing as a concrete what can otherwise be understood only as an abstraction. - C.S. Lewis

Courage atrophies from lack of use. - Unknown

Up past the old lime kiln built into the side of a hill we take a hard right at a clearing lined by brittle apple trees still willing to bear fruit.I snap sticks beneath my feetand steal pictures of the view while you reach for something sweet, as much as it bowsto you. - Kristen Henderson

Of all the follies the greatest is to love the world. - Hazrat Muhammad P.B.U.H

Man and woman are the two wheels of society. If either one becomes defective, the society cannot make progress. - Abhijit Naskar

In the thoughtlessness of my incessant hurry, I have made God an ‘addendum in’ my life verses the ‘agenda of’ my life. And what I need to hurry up and realize is that with these priorities positioned as such, what I am hurrying to is my own demise. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

So many people don't think seriously about the fact that Personal Responsibility is one of the most essential credentials in National transformation - Sunday Adelaja

Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day. - Bertrand Russell

What you endured was a sign of what you would become. - Matshona Dhliwayo

father taught me that the tongue should have three gatekeepers: Is it true? Is it kind? Is it necessary? If it’s not one of those three, it’s best not to say it - Honor Raconteur Deepwoods

People believe that Noah's Ark is a legend when we are already apart of this legend, look around what do you see? - Abdulkadir Abdullahi Mohamed Mirre

That which is aware of sadness is not sad. That which is aware of fear is not fearful. The moment I am lost in thought, however, I'm as confused as anyone else. - Sam Harris

Instead of saying, "I'm damaged, I'm broken, I have trust issues" say "I'm healing, I'm rediscovering myself, I'm starting over. - Horacio Jones

If we feel inwardly strong, we will have no need or desire to speak ill of others. - Sri Chinmoy

Why do they always teach us that it's easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline to restrain ourselves? It's the hardest thing in the world--to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kind of courage. I mean, what we really want. - Ayn Rand

It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself. - Eleanor Roosevelt

In this new, hyper competitive age, none of us, none of us can afford to be complacent. - Barack Obama

Be tuned with song of your life, and that song must be beyond the reality - Rahul Bodkhe

I sit next to you and the world stands still; eternity has become a timless unit of time. - Kristian Goldmund Aumann

Don’t wait for opportunity in front of a closed door—wander until you find the open one. - Debasish Mridha

The shield of faith is sword to conquer every fear. - Lailah Gifty Akita

In the very center of your being, life begins in silence and in joy. - Debasish Mridha

Everything has a consciousness. Every atom and molecule is conscious. Every virus and bacteria is conscious. Every tree, large and small animals are conscious, but each level of consciousness is different. All humans are conscious; the level of consciousness among humans also differs. - Debasish Mridha

Shall I crack any of those old jokes, master,At which the audience never fail to laugh? - Aristophanes

If you want to know the secret of life, learn with enthusiasm and love with all of your heart. - Debasish Mridha

Change is scientific, ‘progress’ is ethical. Change is indubitable whereas progress is a matter of controversy. - Bertrand Russell

A great teacher is the architect of a great future. - Debasish Mridha

A bend in the road is not the end of the road…Unless you fail to make the turn. - Helen Keller

She gave thee beauty—blush of fire, That bids the flames of war retire! Woman! be fair, we must adore thee; Smile, and a world is weak before thee! - Anacreon - 485 BC

Vivo sin vivir en mí... muero porque no muero. (I live without really being alive... I die because I am not dying.) - Teresa of Ávila

Where there is poverty and ignorance, there will be suffering, cruelty, corruption and intolerance.We must change everything and focus on education and empowering lives. Start in your own town and you will be a part of the changes you want to see happen in the world. - Eileen Anglin

It is an acknowledged fact that we perceive errors in the work of others more readily than in our own. - Leonardo da Vinci

RECONCILIATION, n. A suspension of hostilities. An armed truce for the purpose of digging up the dead. - Ambrose Bierce

Getting kicked out of the American Bar Association is like getting kicked out of the Book-of-the-Month-Club.

The desert takes our dreams away from us, and they don't always return.... Those who don't return become a part of the clouds, a part of the animals that hide in the ravines and of the water that comes from the earth. They become part of everything … They become the Soul of the World. - Paul Coelho

Genuine bravery for a writer.... It is about calmly speaking the truth when everyone else is silenced, when the truth cannot be expressed. It is about speaking out with a different voice, risking the wrath of the state and offending everyone, for the sake of the truth, and the writer’s conscience. - Murong Xuecun

Creativity is an integral part of existence and it emanates from the mind. - Wogu Donald

The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave, and not the slave of a single man, but - what is worse - the slave of as many masters as he has vices. - Rubianne Wood

I tried to gather all the pieces… I picked each one and fixed them so perfectly. No one could say that I was broken once, unless they see my hands, lacerated by the splinters of my heart. - Jasmine Kiyani

As discussed earlier, when it comes to music, most of us tend to have confidence in our taste even though we may totally lack knowledge regarding historical development or compositional theory. I frequently hear, "I don't know anything about art" but hardly ever, "I don't know anything about music". - Michael Findlay

Expression is a function of intention and intention emanates from your thought faculty. - Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy, we can all sense a mysterious connection to each other. - Meryl Streep

The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made. - Jean Giraudoux

The people reign over the American political world as God rules over the universe. It is the cause and the end of all things; everything rises out of it and is absorbed back into it. - Alexis De Tocqueville

We spend half of our lives preparing to live-instead of just living. - Leah Newman Fredrichs

Ani saw herself clearly in that moment, as a face in darkness gains sudden dimensions in a flash of lightning - a young girl, a silly thing, a lapdog, a broken mare. - Shannon Hale

Let books be your dining table, / And you shall be full of delights. / Let them be your mattress,/And you shall sleep restful nights - Ephrem the Syrian

We have to condemn publicly the very idea that some people have the right to repress others. In keeping silent about evil, and burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are implanting it, and it will rise up a thousand fold in the future. - Alexandr Solzhenitsyn

To create greatness, give away your life for the success of others. - Debasish Mridha

After all those neurochemicals are drained out, it takes a while for them to replenish so on the back end of flow state...I can barely string sentences together. I become stupid. - Steven Kotler, Dean Potter

What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of having a patient, but restless mind, of sacrificing one's ease or vanity, of uniting a love of detail to foresight, and of passing through hard times bravely and cheerfully. - Charles Victor Cherbuliez

The Bible is an ocean of instruction and wisdom. Dip daily into the vast pool to discover its truths. - Elizabeth George

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. - John Locke

The knowledge of God that a person has, influences not only his own life, but also the lives of his children. - Sunday Adelaja

Magic will find those with pure heats, even when all seems lost. And love is the greatest magic of all. I know this to be true. - Morgan Rhodes

When the habitually even-tempered suddenly fly into a passion, that explosion is apt to be more impressive than the outburst of the most violent amongst us. - Margery Allingham

Reap your harvest. (Benefits) You have been sowing seeds on good soil. (Working Hard) Your garden is overflowing abundantly.(Successful) Now is the time for you to fill your basket with the fruits of your labor. (Savings). Prepare your soil for new seeds. (Investments) - Amaka Imani Nkosazana

The excitement of dreams coming true is beyond the description of words. - Lailah Gifty Akita

What is the best way to write? Each of us has to discover her own way by writing. Writing teaches writing. No one can tell you your own secret. - Gail Sher

Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet. - Diane Ackerman

Hope is the flower of the soul. Let it bloom with action and persistence. - Debasish Mridha

Growth demands a temporary surrender of security. - Gail Sheehy

Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of. - Jane Austen

Life has taught me that money is important, but it's not everything. For, if I have all the money in the world, but no time to enjoy, of what use is it?-RVM - R.v.m.

We are all equal. The unlike of choices is what distinguishes us from each other. - Amen Muffler

It is better to be the cause of an effect rather than be the effect that was caused. - Richard Machowicz

Everyone needs a helping hand, You just have to offer it. - Analiza Micheal

Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done. - C. E. Stowe

But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun. - William Shakespeare

Love is proved the moment you let go of someone because they need you to. - Shannon L. Alder

God seems to have left the receiver off the hook and time is running out. - Arthur Koestler

Never in history has violence been initiated by the oppressed. How could they be the initiators, if they themselves are the result of violence? - Paolo Freire

Man has made use of his intelligence, he invented stupidity.

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

The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And, because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change until we notice how our failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds. - R.D. Laing

Experience teaches that the fire of mental grief is intensified by being confined to its own hearth. - Fr James Groenings

And is often the case with faith, I thought I was being asked a favor, when in fact I was being given one". - Mitch Albom

I can’t… It’s not possible… I’m not good enough... ~ These are lies the demons of your past use to scare away the possibilities of the present. - Steve Maraboli

All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking. - C. H. Parkhurst

To be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.

Dying, however, is lonely, the loneliest event of life. Dying not only separates you from others but also exposes you to a second, even more frightening form of loneliness: separation from the world itself. - IRVIN D.YALOM

The size of the seed does not determine the size of the tree. - Matshona Dhliwayo

The identification of fantasy is always an attempt to avoid one's own suffering: the identification of art is the sharing in the suffering of another. - W.H. Auden

Part of avoiding thoughts about something was not encouraging opportunities for that something to makes itself felt. - Kristin Cashore

‎"The more we spend our time 'practicing the presence' of Jesus, the more we become like Him"~ - R. Alan Woods

Another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise. - Margaret Atwood

We love the imperfect shapes in nature and in the works of art, look for an intentional error as a sign of the golden key and sincerity found in true mastery. - Dejan Stojanovic

Make enthusiasm a way of life. Make optimism a way of success. Make gratitude a way of happiness. - Debasish Mridha

Some want to live within the soundOf church or chapel bell;I want to run a rescue shop,Within a yard of hell. - C.T. Studd

Somehow, it bothered her watching Garth’s charm directed so effectively at another. Could he convince her so easily of an untruth? - Colleen Chen

It is not any common earth,Water or wood or air,But Merlin’s Isle of GramaryeThat you and I will fare. - Rudyard Kipling

The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it one gets through many a dark night. - Friedrich Nietzsche

It is often pleasant to stone a martyr, no matter how much we admire him. - John Barth

Man has been bestowed with all the senses, Alas! What a drama, we are yet to know the art of using it! - Ramana Pemmaraju

Most people know the physical senses, but a lot of people don’t know the soul’s senses: empathy, trust, intuition, love and harmony - Steven Aitchison

The meaning of Sannyas is not well defined. Its meaning is not static; it is redefined after short periods of time in the life of a Sannyasi. - Harshit Walia

Redeemed humanity is still young, it has hardly come to its full strength. But already there is joy enough in the little finger of a great saint such as yonder lady to waken all the dead things of the universe into life. - C.S. Lewis