Quotation Explorer - 'Of'

On thinking about Hell, I gather My brother Shelley found it was a place Much like the city of London. I Who live in Los Angeles and not in London Find, on thinking about Hell, that it must be Still more like Los Angeles. - Bertolt Brecht

When you're already going through a rough patch of life; a slight wave from past thrash you down so gracefully that journey bcms an unending shore ! - Monika Arora

Teenagers - tired of being hassled by your parents?Act now!Move out, get a job, pay your own bills.....while you still know everything. - James Hauenstein

Our perception of what's real is always changing and that never changes. - Marty Rubin

If language had been the creation, not of poetry, but of logic, we should only have one. - Friedrich Hebbel

Each and every one of us was created to carry out justice, judgment, truth and equity on the earth. It could be in different spheres of life, in various professions or in diverse gifting - Sunday Adelaja

Whatever it is you want in this life, be it material things, a place you want to be, or an experience you want to have, you must first make it real in the realm of your consciousness. - Brandi L. Bates

And what went wrong when other alchemists tried to make gold and were unable to do so?""They were looking only for gold his companion answered. They were seeking the treasure of their personal legend, without wanting actually to live out the personal legend. - Paulo Coelho

I'm not naive or innocent, and neither are you, folks! We all know, to win in politics, you can't just be on the right team, fighting for the right thing and wanting to do a little bit of good for your fellow citizens. You've also got to be able to afford to compete. - Radwan Chowdhury

Curiosity is the essence of our existence. - Gene Cernan

Never underestimate the power of good but never ignore evil lurking in the hearts of men.Rose of Life - Sonia Rumzi

If you want to have a big and strong church, then you need to build a prayer wall of defense in the spiritual realm... - Sunday Adelaja

There is a road which leads to all roads. The name of that road is adventure! - Mehmet Murat ildan

If a person commit a crime against you, have not the right to forgive him; but the law must punish him in order to prevent a repetition of that same crime by others, as the pain of the individual is unimportant beside the general welfare of the people.

People think dreams aren't real just because they aren't made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns and lost hopes. - Neil Gaiman

Those in power must spend a lot of their time laughing at us. - Alice Walker

I found myself in a sea in which the waves of joy and sorrow were clashing against each other. - Naguib Mahfouz

Thoughts, by their nature, come and go endlessly in you. But you are not the thought; you are the one seeing the thought, so any thought of who you are cannot be the truth of who you are. - Enza Vita

Girls just want to have funds. - Adrienne E. Gusoff

Honestly, if you're given the choice between Armageddon or tea, you don't say 'what kind of tea? - Neil Gaiman

World Peace will be achieved the day Humans, embrace The Power of Love and forgo their Love of Power. - Ali Fissam

I think the teaching profession contributes more to the future of our society than any other single profession. - John Wooden

Not that it matters, when you dream, there's no outside or in. Your mind is an unimaginable bloom. A willow catkin as big as the moon. With billions of anthers, shaking pollen like stars. It may seem strange, but in this boundless place --- You are not alone. - Rich Shapero

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

All people know the same truth. Our lives consist of how we choose to distort it. - Woody Allen

The whole interest of my reason, whether speculative or practical, is concentrated in the three following questions: What can I know? What should I do? What may I hope? (Critique of Pure Reason - Immanuel Kant

There is never a restless night for the dark soul. They sleep well within a destiny sealed and accepted in trade for the spoils of the earth - Carl Henegan

You are a full of beautiful madness, an unreasonable reason, but you make sense in all things senseless. - s.w.collins

It is not good to have TOO MUCH of anything. - Andrew Clements

Folly is often more cruel in the consequences than malice can be in the intent. - Aldous Huxley

A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal. - Oscar Wilde

Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority. - Thomas H. Huxley

It is always better to identify the true intention of a person by his/her action (deeds) than his/her words, and invariably more when a man propagates often about the importance of success, happiness and respect for women in life. - Anuj Somany

There are many rivers that we cross in our lifetime, unfortunately some of those rivers just don't have bridges. - John R. Gouin

Some dark nights hide the cruelest of secrets. Such are the tales of the dark shadows hidden in that old castle in a distant land. The story of ages started with a classic; highlighting the infamous monster made out of a man. - Adhish Mazumder

We should challenge the relativism that tells us there is no right or wrong, when every instinct of our mind knows it is not so, and is a mere excuse to allow us to indulge in what we believe we can get away with. A world without values quickly becomes a world without value. - Jonathan Sacks

The most chronic heart disease is caused by having greediness in your heart. Go for check ups regularly and learn how to swallow those lumpy pills of generousity. Be kind and be healthy - Israelmore Ayivor

And since you know you cannot see yourself, so well as by reflection, I, your glass, will modestly discover to yourself, that of yourself which you yet know not of. - William Shakespeare

The pug is living proof that God has a sense of humor. - Margo Kaufman

The gilded spiralOf longings within.Our very own cathedralThat points persistently to heaven. - Scott Hastie

You are the conductor of your own attitude! Nobody else can compose your thoughts for you. - Lee J. Colan

Spirituality exist in testing and experiencing the depth of inner peace consistently. - Amit Ray

I like it when a flower or a little tuft of grass grows through a crack in the concrete. It's so fuckin' heroic. - George Carlin

Mathematics is a vast adventure in ideas; its history reflects some of the noblest thoughts of countless generations.

I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments. - Nathaniel Emmons

The sooner, the better; it’s for a man to understand that a woman often can’t and at times doesn’t want to realize her mistake, so it is senseless to expect from her to apologize first ever to him. - Anuj Somany

...and awakening, at that moment, to the thrilling prospect of complete surrender, not just of one’s lips but of one’s entire body to a lover’s mercy, we recognized that the gap between compassion and surrender is love’s darkest, deepest region. - Orhan Pamuk

Tolerance of intolerance enables oppression. - DaShanne Stokes

And it seemed at last that there were two musics progressing at one time before the seat of Ilúvatar, and they were utterly at variance. The one was deep and wide ad beautiful, but slow and blended with an immeasurable sorrow from which its beauty chiefly came. - J.R.R. Tolkien

I keep a vivid memory of failure in my back pocket, so no matter how much I accomplish I stay grounded. - Noel DeJesus

Punctuality is the virtue of the bored. - Evelyn Waugh

Intellectuals are the most intolerant of all people.

Let us all practice the power of love to win the peace. - Debasish Mridha

Always give your resume of good deeds when you run into someone that you wronged many years ago. They simply need to know today's version of you, before they judge you on yesterday's news. - Shannon L. Alder

I don't trust people who don't love themselves and tell me, 'I love you.' ... There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt. - Maya Angelou

We are all goofs of ourselves no matter how perfect the lives of some may seem. But when we embrace our flaws and work with it, sometimes, just sometimes, we get it right. - Chinonye J. Chidolue

Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hard-working, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then--we elected them. - Lily Tomlin

You can do anything you think you can. This knowledge is literally the gift of the gods, for through it you can solve every human problem. It should make of you an incurable optimist. It is the open door. - Robert Collier

A writer is dear and necessary for us only in the measure of which he reveals to us the inner workings of his very soul. - Leo Tolstoy

I hope that, whatever happens within the publishing industry, because of the increased control writers have of their own careers, better sales information and the advent of the internet, that ultimately this change in our working environment will be a change for the better. - Sara Sheridan

You can create absolutely new reality, both in your personal and professional life and with the same people, by altering your perception towards life, and by putting necessary work into it. - Roshan Sharma

God isn't about making good things happen to you, or bad things happen to you. He's all about you making choices--exercising the gift of free will. God wants you to have good things and a good life, but He won't gift wrap them for you. You have to choose the actions that lead you to that life. - Jim Butcher

We are all bounded with each other on the basis of our beliefs and values; when we question those values, we are certainly left alone, away from our families, friends and the dear one. And that is a cost benefit analysis we all make and we keep satisfying ourselves with the status quo of situations. - M.F. Moonzajer

Some things you do because you want to. Some things you do because of the needs of others in your family. - Gordon Atkinson

You have to look at people now that were members of the Klu Klux Klan or whatever else and now are trying to rewrite their personal histories to tell that they've always been tolerant. It's not peculiar to want to sanitize what you did. - Ruth Hanna Sachs

When you have nobody you can make a cup of tea for, when nobody needs you, that's when I think life is over. - Audrey Hepburn

Use ‘Why?’ to help you follow the breadcrumbs back to the source of the problem. - Stephen Richards

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire. - Aristotle

All natural laws retain the balance contained within the scope of that law, no man made law can do this. It is better to understand the natural laws that govern society then to create man made laws that will not work. - R.A.Delmonico

People usually feel funny, smile and laugh when I tell them about my strong belief in the very existence of prehistoric advanced technology and great civilizations of wilier races. I just can't wait to see their faces at time the truth is revealed. - Toba Beta

Weird: of strange or extraordinary character - Merriam-Webster

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

If you're not scared or angry at the thought of a human brain being controlled remotely, then it could be this prototype of mine is finally starting to work. - John Alejandro King

By the grace of God, I will finish what I have started. - Lailah Gifty Akita

The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality. - Dante Alighieri

Abortion should be listed as a weapon of mass destruction against the voiceless. - E.A. Bucchianeri

Whatever it is that makes closeness possible between people also puts them in the way of hard feelings if that closeness ends. - Tobias Wolff

{Replying to G. H. Hardy's suggestion that the number of a taxi (1729) was 'dull', showing off his spontaneous mathematical genius}No, it is a very interesting number; it is the smallest number expressible as a sum of two cubes in two different ways, the two ways being 13 + 123 and 93 + 103. - Srinivasa Ramanujan

Tried living in the real world instead of a shell, but I was bored before I even began. - Morrissey

The less approval I get, the more chances I have to develop a relationship with my inner sense of approval. Thankless environments are actually useful for this. They help me discover my own thankfulness and my own self-appreciation. - Vironika Tugaleva

Jesus never says to the poor: ‘come find the church’, but he says to those of us in the church: ‘go into the world and find the poor, hungry, homeless, imprisoned. - Tony Campolo

In reality, serendipity accounts for one percent of the blessings we receive in life, work and love. The other 99 percent is due to our efforts. - Peter McWilliams

He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the maze of the most busy life. But where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incidence, chaos will soon reign. - Victor Hugo

If you are afraid of being lonely, don't try to be right. - Jules Renard

You only can get out of our challenges by changing yourself. Change comes from within... a greater passion, a greater commitment, and a greater life. you can begin today. - Farshad Asl

Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle. - Helen Keller

Words and numbers are of equal value, for in the cloak of knowledge one is warp and the other woof. - Norton Juster

I wanted to read immediately. The only fear was that of books coming to an end. - Eudora Welty

Free speech means the right to shout 'theatre' in a crowded fire. - Abbie Hoffman

Moral character is assessed not by what a man knows but by what he loves - Augustine of Hippo

We can find food and beverage companies most face the challenges in sales management due competition and nature of their product. Sales force is get tool for these companies at different level of sales. - pepupsales.com

A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools. - Spanish proverb

Nothing is more difficult than the art of maneuvering for advantageous positions. - Sun-Tzu

Every challenge, every adversity, contains within it the seeds of opportunity and growth. - Roy Bennett

Instead of becoming a woman of the world, become a woman of the Word. - Elizabeth George

Act as if there is no chance of failure. - Debasish Mridha

Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world. - Edward Hopper

My mom, God love her, she was one of those Bible people. She thought it was wrong to bother anybody, regardless of race, color or religion. It just wasn't a Christian thing to look down on anybody, and that's what she taught us. - Levon Helm

Nearly all libertarians were once conservatives or progressives or independent statists of some stripe. But scarcely any conservatives, progressives, or independent statists were once libertarians. This asymmetry in the direction of ideological migration is interesting and perhaps informative. - Robert Higgs

Relationships grounded in mutual love, trust, caring and forgiveness. In all the ups and all the downs of life. Look closely, - who is really your family, and who in truth are just strangers in for the ride? - Dancolin Flamiano

I'm simply interested in what is going to happen next. I don't think I can control my life or my writing. Every other writer I know feels he is steering himself, and I don't have that feeling. I don't have that sort of control. I'm simply becoming. I'm startled that I became a writer. - Kurt Vonnegut

Wealth is the byproduct of thoughts. To be wealthy, think of wealth. - Debasish Mridha

In a war the most dangerous thing is to understand the enemy. To understand is to forgive. And wehave no right to do that—we never have had, not since the creation of the world. - Sergei Lukyanenko

Fundamentalists offer us a "loving" God who is some kind of divine stalker. - Robert M. Price

That orgy of wishful thinking that has passed for logic in the present century.

Quiet and sincere sympathy is often the most welcome and efficient consolation to the afflicted. Said a wise man to one in deep sorrow, "I did not come to comfort you; God only can do that; but I did come to say how deeply and tenderly I feel for you in your affliction". - Tryon Edwards

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

Yes. Oh no! I don't subject myself to a leadership that does not break new territories! It is the job of leadership to succeed in landing its limbs on new grounds. - Israelmore Ayivor

["The Devil in the Dark"] impressed me because it presented the idea, unusual in science fiction then and now, that something weird, and even dangerous, need not be malevolent. That is a lesson that many of today's politicians have yet to learn. - Arthur C. Clarke

It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth. - Seneca

If everyone bows in front of your wisdom, your greatest wisdom will be to tell them not to bow! - Mehmet Murat ildan

Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself. - Plutarch

Beauty? Let me tell you something - being thought of as 'a beautiful woman' has spared me nothing in life. No heartache, no trouble. Love has been difficult. Beauty is essentially meaningless and it is always transitory. - Halle Berry

I’m not beholden to the confirmation of your prejudices; to be perfectly frank, the prospect of confining the female characters in my story to placid, helpless secondary places in the narrative is so goddamn boring that I would rather not write at all. - Scott Lynch

Life is 10% of what happens to us and 90% of how we react to it - John C. Maxwell

Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have. - Ronald Reagan

The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level. - Norman Mailer

Energy is the essence of life. Every day you decide how you're going to use it by knowing what you want and what it takes to reach that goal, and by maintaining focus. - Oprah Winfrey

There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart. - Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

When the heart extends the touch of love, the mind opens the eye of gratitude. - Debasish Mridha

To forgive a friend, one must practice generosity. To forgive an enemy, one must practice empathy. To forgive yourself requires charity. Forgiveness is a sacred act of gallantry. - Mac MacKenzie

We read to under­stand our intu­ition of the world, to dis­cover that some­one a thou­sand miles and years away has put into words our most inti­mate desires and our most secret fears. Reading is a col­lab­o­ra­tive act. - Alberto Manguel

my mothersensed awar in herwomb,and so sheraised meto fight. - hafsa atique birth of a daughter

Misunderstanding arising from ignorance breeds fear, and fear remains the greatest enemy of peace. - Lester B. Pearson

In the terms of 'Mental Illness' Isn't stable a place they put horses that wish to run free? - Stanley Victor Paskavich

Change is the end result of all true learning. - Leo Buscaglia

All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible. - William Faulkner

Conscience does make cowards of us all, and thus the native hue of resolution is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought. - William Shakespeare

My relative examined you, observed a few of your normal body cells, compared them with what it had learned from other humans most like you, and said that you had not only a cancer, but a talent for cancer. - Octavia E. Butler

Here's to real heroes, not the ones who carry us off into the sunset but the ones who help us choose our princes." - commentary on Castles on the Sand - E.M. Tippetts

If it be the chief point of friendship to comply with a friend's notions and inclinations he possesses this is an eminent degree; he lies down when I sit, and walks when I walk, which is more that many good friends can pretend to do. - Alexander Pope

On the one hand maybe I’ve remained infantile, while on the other I matured quickly, because at a young age I was very aware of suffering and fear. - Audrey Hepburn

I’m tired of ignorance held up as inspiration, where vicious anti-intellectualism is considered a positive trait, and where uninformed opinion is displayed as fact. - Philip Plait

The state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation. - Pierre Trudeau

One form to rule them all, one form to find them, one form to bring them all and in the darkness rewrite the hell out of them

Confident is the grace of courage. - Lailah Gifty Akita

the Great Vaccination — the vaccination against the stupidity of the intelligentsia. - Álvaro de Campos

5 steps to happiness: Don't speak badly about yourself. Trust your instincts. Let go of what you can't control. Don't be afraid to say no. Don't be afraid to say yes. - Karen Salmansohn

My mind is an instrument of peaceI am the peaceMy heart sing the song of peaceMy mind dances with peaceI laugh with peaceMy soul is longing for peaceMy spirit is the source of peace. - Debasish Mridha

Science makes people reach selflessly for truth and objectivity; it teaches people to accept reality, with wonder and admiration, not to mention the deep awe and joy that the natural order of things brings to the true scientist. - Lise Meitner

Experiences might teach us to be cautious, but never to be paranoid. Paranoia is a limiter of destiny - Mr Imbuya

There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking. - Thomas A. Edison

gratitudenoun \ˈgra-tə-ˌtüd, -ˌtyüd\ 1. The word thrown in your face by people who covet what you want and believe that your lack of contentment is a sin. Often, these people believe success is what you have already and obtaining anything else is optional, but not required. - Shannon L. Alder

Civilization transformed man from a food gatherer to a gatherer of pieces of paper: diplomas, employment contracts, money, etc. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

In this world, two ilk of men exist-those who think they don't need to, and those who think they must. A third alien type exists when indecisiveness is involved. - Solange nicole

Taste is not only a part and index of morality, it is the only morality. The first, and last, and closest trial question to any living creature is "What do you like?" Tell me what you like, I'll tell you what you are. - John Ruskin

Higher consciousness means your self consciousness ceases to exist; you become the ocean of life and a part of the universe. - Debasish Mridha

Eventually we all get tired of any and everything! - honeya

This guy and this guy and this guy… knew a lot of but couldn't find the words which could explain the "knowledge". - Deyth Banger

What you create doesn't have to be perfect....Don't let fear of failure discourage you. Don't let the voice of critics paralyze you—whether that voice comes from the outside or inside - President Dieter F. Uchtdorf

One of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity. - Andrew Carnegie

If he makes me laugh,he's got well...half of my heart. - S G

Intimacy is not purely physical. It's the act of connecting with someone so deeply, you feel like you can see into their soul. - Reshall Varsos

If money is the root of all evil, then why do we have to have jobs? - Matt Groening

The most risky liability of your life is 'the unspoken truth'. - Amit Kalantri

Memories lurk like dustballs in the backs of drawers. The stereo is a special model that plays only music fraught with poignant associations. - Jay McInerney

You cannot have a society of angels except in heaven - Michela Wrong

Robspierre replied softly, 'the question is to know where is the enemy.' 'He is out there, and I have hunted him,' said Danton. 'He is within, and I am watching him,' said Robespierre.

That's the whole point of being 20. You could be a lot of things. I am much older than you are. I AM things. - Frasier

My songs of life are so secret that I can’t find my tune. - Debasish Mridha

Love every version of yourself, they help create your own unique version of extraordinary. - Kaiden Blake

We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full. - Marcel Proust

Life is too short, or too long, for me to allow myself the luxury of living it so badly. - Paulo Coelho

Art is bad when ‘you see the intent and get put off.’ (Goethe) In Tolstoy one is unaware of the intent, and sees only the thing itself. from the book, On Retranslating A Russian Classic Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy - Joel Carmichael

Love is the line that draws the shape of God. --Bleeding Hearts (Demimonde #1) - Ash Krafton

O that a man might know the end of this day's business ere it come! - William Shakespeare

Why have many saints been so perfectly contemplative? Because they always studied to mortify themselves from worldly desires, that they might freely, with all the power of their heart, tend to our Lord.

A private organisation may not have sufficient apple or other essential ingredients in its monthly stock, but its top brass will only talk about individual’s performance pie i.e. achievement vs target of apple-pie sales in the meeting. - Anuj Somany

Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears. - Edgar Allan Poe

Not allowing the mind its freedom to think and find the purpose of life takes away the vision to focus. - Amitav Chowdhury

If we never have headaches through rebuking our children, we shall have plenty of heartaches when they grow up. - Charles Haddon Spurgeon

What to do with daughters has always been something of a problem, unless they are so pretty or so passive or so wealthy that they are snatched up as brides as soon as the come of marriageable age.— THE COLLECTORS: DR. CLARIBEL AND MISS ETTA CONE - Barbara Pollack

I wasn’t finished with you, Pru, he said softly. I had plans.Oh boy. Maybe I had plans, too.Yeah? Closing the gap between them, one of his hands went to her hip, the other slid up her back to anchor her to him. Tell me. Tell me slowly and in great detail. - Jill Shalvis

Whenever He answers prayers, God usually prioritizes those by people who, instead of their mouths, have prayed with their hands and/or feet. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

There's a bit of magic in everything, and some loss to even things out.

Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace. - Bible

Always resist the temptation to forget the painful parts of your past. - Runescape

A great leader often sacrifices greatly in the service of others. - Debasish Mridha

We should not expect everyone to be tough and not feel anything when offended. No one is meant to hate and be hated — we are all meant to love and be loved. - Auliq Ice

The things that we do for love is ugly, mad, full of seat and regret. - Crimson Peak

Beware of the man whose God is in the skies. - George Bernard Shaw

It is amazing how much crisper the general experience of life becomes when your body is given a chance to develop a little strength. - Frank Duff

I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation. Fear of getting failing grades, fear of not staying with your class, etc. Interest can produce learning on a scale compared to fear as a nuclear explosion to a firecracker. - Stanley Kubrick

being genius does not necessarily means knowing it all or having the highest academic qualification but a persons ability to apply wisdom and common sense to common things in a distinctive manner and courageously exhibiting the latent deft to the admiration of the masses - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Nature does not rush things, humans do; when we rush things, we often miss the lessons nature embedded in it - Aniekee Tochukwu Ezekiel

Lately silence is my song of love. - Debasish Mridha

Snyder: There are some things I can just smell. It's like a sixth sense."Giles: Well, actually, that would be one of the five. - Mutant Enemy, Buffy the Vampire Slayer

They camped that night on the foreplain at the foot of a talus slope and the murder that had been reckoned upon took place. - Cormac McCarthy

I repeat that sin, man's self-violation par excellence, was invented purely inorder to make science, culture, and every elevation and ennobling of man impossible; the priest rules by the invention of sin. - Friedrich Nietzsche

Much better stay in company!To love you must have someone else,Giving requires a legatee,Good neighbours need whole parishfulsOf folk to do it on - in short,Our virtues are all social; if,Deprived of solitude, you chafe,It's clear you're not the virtuous sort. - Philip Larkin

Conflict and character are the heart of good fiction, and good mystery has both of those in spades. - Diana Gabaldon

My characters are quite as real to me as so-called real people; which is one reason why I'm not subject to what is known as loneliness. I have plenty of company. - William S. Burroughs

Acts of sacrifice and decency without regard to what's in it for you create ripple effects. Ones that lift up families and communities, that spread opportunity and boost our economy. - Barack Obama

Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances. - Benjamin Franklin

The mouth is but a megaphone to the desires of the heart. - Kevin Thoman

A lie told often enough becomes the truth. - Lenin

Those of us who embrace the feminine know its strength. - Betsy Cornwell

Never take your loved ones for granted. You might lose them in a split of second and never got a chance to say good-bye. - Abdulazeez Henry Musa

Marriage was not the combination of two entities into one; it was instead the creation of a third entity whose sole purpose was to sooth and inspire the two individuals. - Christian Cantrell

Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit. - Napoleon Hill

The world is full of all sorts of brilliant stuff and I haven't found out all about it yet, so I don't want anyone messing it about or endin' it before I've had the chance to find out about it.-Adam to DEATH & the 4 horsepeople of the Apocalypse - Neil Gaiman

Hope is a flicker, a candle flame kept burning by the simple act of breathing. - Joan Clark

As we delight in the strange and exotic beauty of orchid flowers, it is salutary to reflect that we are, in essence, looking at their genitalia. - Unknown British Biologist

As no designation of good and evil can be absolute, neither can it be fixed; no law which is just now will be forever just, and no political institution designed to secure the good can remain the best means to that good. - Allen Wheelis

If someone offers to furnish a sure test, ask what the test was which made the sure test sure.

I mean your borrowers of books - those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes. - Charles Lamb

Capitalism is not a form of government. Capitalism is but one thing only: Buy Low - Sell High. Capitalism is what happens when a government allows free association and respects property rights. It is a symptom of liberty. - A.E. Samaan

Freedom is the absence of influence. - Hugo Embleton-Black

What is the sweetness of flowers compared to the savour of dust and confinement? - Peter Ackroyd

The maxim of illusory religion runs: 'Fear not; trust in God and he will see that none of the things you fear will happen to you'; that of real religion, on the contrary, is: 'Fear not, the things that you are afraid of are quite likely to happen to you, but they are nothing to be afraid of. - Leonard Sweet and Frank Viola

You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful. - Marie Curie

If God could run out of grace, He would’ve for me by now. And yet every morning I wake up, He says, There is more, there is still more. - Genereux Philip

People look for peaceful solutions for the world troubled by conflict. A peaceful solution can only come from a peaceful heart. Be the peaceful solution you seek. - Raphael Zernoff

Each morning offers lessons in light. For the morning light teaches the most basic of truths: Light chases away darkness. - Anasazi Foundation

I've always found that a rather unfortunate quirk in our species. Everyone pants towards orgasm without pausing to realise that its merely a biological trap designed for the purpose of reproduction. What utter nonsense. - Elizabeth George

To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical. - Thomas Jefferson

Jiu Jitsu is a vehicle for self-discovery and growth. It reminds me of my ego, of my insecurities, and of my shortcomings. - Chris Matakas

The line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. - Alexandr Solzhenitsyn

Teachers' favorite color ink, splashed and dripped down his face a grisly reminder of mistakes bruising his life. - Jazz Feylynn

Happy the man who, like Ulysses, has made a fine voyage, or has won the Golden Fleece, and then returns, experienced and knowledgeable, to spend the rest of his life among his family!

All the means of action - the shapeless masses - the materials - lie everywhere about us. What we need is the celestial fire to change the flint into the transparent crystal, bright and clear. That fire is genius. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Traveling is the ruin of all happiness! There's no looking at a building after seeing Italy.

Schizofrenia pana la ultima ei limita, refuzul total al oricarei realitati decat cea a visului, al oricarui adevar decat al viziunii. - Gellu Naum

On aime sa mère presque sans le savoir, et on ne prend conscience de toute la profondeur des racines de cet amour qu au moment de la séparation dernière. - Guy de Maupassant

Without any inhibitions of any kind I make it quite clear that Australia looks to America, free of any pangs as to our traditional links or kinship with the United Kingdom.

The best kind of wealth is to give up inordinate desires.

Your chronological age makes you older, grownNess is a state of mind! - Sheila Tiller-Tooks

Life is a series of surprises and would not be worth taking or keeping if it were not. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

A lot of people desire to go to their next level but only a few are determined to grow to their next level - Saji Ijiyemi

Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known. - A.A. Milne

Don't act so callous to blank out good friends who failed on their way to success, just because something unusual hindered them, but you meandered out by a stroke of luck. - Michael Bassey Johnson

The concept of portraying evil and then destroying it - I know this is considered mainstream, but I think it is rotten. This idea that whenever something evil happens someone particular can be blamed and punished for it, in life and in politics is hopeless. - Hayao Miyazaki

An insufficient level of awareness is indistinguishable from ignorance. - R.A.Delmonico

The natural laws of life is not an idea but the truth that holds life on existence. Once you realize the truth within, all your problems and queries of life, cease to exist. - Roshan Sharma

You've already got everything you need to succeed right in-front of your tits - Runa Magnus

Cats and books are my universe. Both are infinitely fascinating and full of mystery. - Rai Aren

If a man is destined to drown, he will drown even in a spoonful of water. - Yiddish Proverb

God is a supreme-being.God is all powerful.God is the creator of all things.God is great.God is mighty. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Love is the best treatment for depression. To get better, you have to give it away as much as you can, as fast as you can, and as often as you can. - Debasish Mridha

It is your responsibility to make sure that positive emotions constitute the dominating influence of your mind. - Napoleon Hill

The act of claiming an identity can be transformational. It can provide healing and empowerment. It can weld solidarity within a community. And, perhaps most importantly, it can diminish power from an oppressor, a dominant group. - Simon Tam

Don't underestimate the allure of darkness. Even the purest hearts are drawn to it. - Klaus Mikealson

Push through the pain, and conquer the obstacles. Regardless of what you think today, it won’t matter 5 years from now. - Anonymous

A generation of men is like a generation of leaves; the wind scatters some leaves upon the ground, while others the burgeoning wood brings forth - and the season of spring comes on. So of men one generation springs forth and another ceases. - Homer

When I get ready to talk to people, I spend two thirds of the time thinking what they want to hear and one third thinking about what I want to say. - Abraham Lincoln

I am satisfied-For the peace that has graciously engulfed my tender heart.I am home-Because of the abundance of love that I have given myself.I am enlightened-For the journey I have embarked in knowing my higher self.I am complete-Because I now realize that I was always whole. - Karen A. Baquiran

Engkau yang khusyu' membangun ketaátan adalah hati yang megah dan indahMereka-mereka yang sibuk mencari keburukan adalah jiwa-jiwa lemah dan lapukBiarkan hanya kalam Allah yang Maha menggetarkanmuBukan perkataan merendahkan yang tidak lebih hanya kesia-siaan dosa-dosa busuk - firman nofeki

Crowded classrooms and half-day sessions are a tragic waste of our greatest national resource - the minds of our children. - Walt Disney Company

The means of defence agst. foreign danger, have been always the instruments of tyranny at home. - James Madison

One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community. - Albert Einstein

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

If you have realized how powerful a simple act of kindness is, you will never be rude. - Debasish Mridha

There are sufficient resources in the world for the needs of everybody, but not enough for the greed of even a significant minority. - Millard Fuller

Today is the first day of the rest of your life! AND I DECLARE THAT 'THE REST OF YOUR LIFE IS GONNA BE THE BEST OF YOUR LIFE'. NO STRINGS ATTACHED. ~ UNIVERSE LOVES YOU & SO DO I ‪#‎StardustAK‬ - Abhishek Kumar

Spirituality is not primarily about values and ethics, not about exhortations to do right or live well. The spiritual traditions are primarily about reality...an effort to penetrate the illusions of the external world and to name its underlying truth. - Parker J. Palmer

Research suggests that people are typically unaware of the reasons why they are doing what they are doing, but when asked for a reason, they readily supply one. - Daniel M. Gilbert

If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments. - Earl Wilson

The world doesn’t owe you anything. You have to work for everything you get and you have to appreciate every bit of success the world gives you. - Taylor Swift

(Emerson's) aphorisms tend to be chicken soup for the academic soul or gobledygook of a man who prefers the sounds of words to their meanings. - Micah Mattix

Depart, Satan,' she said, with a complete lack of enthusiasm. — Bats 2015 - Fred Barnett

You are pitiful, isolated individuals! You are bankrupts. Your role is played out. Go where you belong from now on – into the dustbin of history! - Leon Trotksy

To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love. - Charles-Victor De Bonstettin

Sometimes I sit alone under the stars and think of the galaxies inside my heart and truly wonder if anyone will ever want to make sense of all that I am - Christopher Poindexter

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

I always have the feeling we are merely fearfully trying to save room for God; I would rather speak of God at the center than at the limits, in strength rather than weakness, and thus in human life and goodness rather than in death and guilt. - Dietrich Bonhoeffer

In life I've learnt to CHERISH the moments with those I meet in life, CONQUER my fears, CLIMB the ladder of opportunities, COUNT my blessings, and CARE for the needy. - Goitsemang Sandra Mvula

Yuvali struggled to put one foot in front of the other. The long leaves of a purple-flowered bush raked her forehead. The flower emerged from bulbous green tubes, unfolding toward the sun. The petals radiated like flecks in an eye, a whirlpool, a sea-shell. Ch.19 - B.T. Lowry

The art of economics consists in looking not merely at the immediate but at the longer effects of any act or policy; it consists in tracing the consequences of that policy not merely for one group but for all groups. - Henry Hazlitt

Remember, faith is the harbinger of chaos. - Lionel Suggs

Celebrate Life. To truly live, Celebrate each day of Life. Let each day be a Festival of Joy.- - RVM

By its definition, sound is interactive. It is you connecting with the frequency of something greater or richer through hearing. Likewise, when your sound goes out, you can no longer hear the sound of your voice. And if you cannot hear your voice, you don’t know who you are. - Suzette Hinton

I think we might’ve met in a past life. You know, one of those you pass and think, wow you’re kind of beautiful. Just one of those. - Dominic Riccitello

Pride has traditionally been regarded as the foremost of the Seven Deadly Sins, but it has rather obviously been overtaken by Greed. - James Carlos Blake

Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society. - Benjamin Franklin

Today I was overwhelmed, Yesterday I was too. There’s a high probability that tomorrow will bring a few moments of the same. I know my state is because of my nature. Embrace your inner overachiever. - Colleen Ferrary Bader

if you can't take a nap, if you can't take a day off, heaven's going to drive you nuts. - Mark Driscoll

The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth. - Saadi

The Christian God seemed the most offensive to people precisely because he was the most godlike. He was too perfect even to be coaxed by human efforts, and therefore sent his son to do the job. - Criss Jami

Hurting people you love is the heaviest kind of regret. - Charlotte Eriksson

No one of real intelligence will accept anything just because some authority declares it be so. Don't accept the truth of anything you have not confirmed for yourself. - Paul Hoffmann

I understand art and love, if only because I long for it with every fiber of my being - Moulin Rouge

There are times when wisdom cannot be found in the chambers of parliament or the halls of academia but at the unpretentious setting of the kitchen table. - E.A. Bucchianeri

Name and form are simply illusions of separation. Love doesn’t make us blind; rather, it erases the illusions so we can see clearly. - Kamand Kojouri

Until we are all free, we are none of us free. - Emma Lazarus

One of the most important qualities of a president is the ability to inspire, to bring people together for the common good. - DaShanne Stokes

NOTORIETY, n. The fame of one's competitor for public honors. The kind of renown most accessible and acceptable to mediocrity. A Jacob's-ladder leading to the vaudeville stage, with angels ascending and descending. - Ambrose Bierce

Backstory is like a flavour you can’t quite pick, lurking in the layers of a curry. You know it’s there and it enhances the flavour, but it’s intangible and fleeting. Use it sparingly! - Sandy Vaile

When you really want to find the answers to the great questions of your life, you need to look for them deep in yourself. - Frank Wanderer

It comes from looking at the heart of things, from stopping to smell not only the roses but the bushes as well. It is a quality of attention to ordinary life that is so loving and intimate it is almost worship. - Martha N. Beck

What patients seek is not scientific knowledge that doctors hide but existential authenticity each person must find on her own. Getting too deeply into statistics is like trying to quench a thirst with salty water. The angst of facing mortality has no remedy in probability. - Paul Kalanithi

Only a happy mind will see the beauty of a beautiful view! For the sad mind everywhere looks gloomy! - Mehmet Murat ildan

In most people, the term consciousness identifies with that socially conditioned Ego. At a number of people this identification is so powerful that they are unaware that their life is governed by a socially conditioned mind. - Frank Wanderer

Grow into your ideals so that life cannot rob you of them. - Albert Schweitzer

If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech. - W. Somerset Maugham

Some women don't care what you can do for them. They care about what you could make of them in the inside. - Shannon L. Alder

If you're "one in a million", and the world is full of seven billion people, that means there are seven thousand people just like you. - Jeff Goins

It may be crazy, but I'm the closest thing I have to a voice of reason. - Gil Scott-Heron

I would rather discover one scientific fact than become King of Persia. - Democritus

No matter the nature of your individuality, you can nurture a better identity and have a mature positively rewarding life. - Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

When people attempt to rebel against the iron logic of Nature, they come into conflict with the very same principles to which they owe their existence as human beings. Their actions against Nature must lead to their own downfall. - Adolf Hitler

I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose. - Charlie Chaplin

Our power lies in our small daily choices, one after another, to create eternal ripples of a life well lived. - Mollie Marti

I believe you find life such a problem because you think there are good people and bad people. You're wrong, of course. There are, always and only, the bad people, but some of them are on opposite sides. - Terry Pratchett

Procrastination is the thief of time. - Edward Young

To reach the pinnacle of success, you have to cross the treacherous valleys of failures and discontent. - Debasish Mridha

Instinct of love toward an object demands a mastery to obtain it, and if a person feels they can't control the object or feel threatened by it, they act negatively toward it. - Sigmund Freud

We can't see and we can't reach the true frontiers of our ignorance; we can only approach to it by extending our knowledge - Mehmet Murat ildan

Persist in the pursuit of your passion. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security, or the rights of property; have in general been as short in their lives as they are violent in their deaths. - James Madison

The acquiring of intelligence doesn't require an institution if you got the heart to seek knowledge, and the balls to use it as wisely as those who came before you. - James Emlund

Man is the artificer of his own happiness. - Henry David Thoreau

The ability to lie, paired with unaccountability, has made a near infinite amount of liabilities. - Justin K. McFarlane Beau

Let me remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And let me also remind you that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue. - Barry Goldwater

i have known yousince the beginningof timethe one i have loved alwaysin spirit.only just discoveredin person. - Sanober Khan

In my eyes, all readers are my father and mother. You may see a boy, with all of his body and heart bared, resplendently smiling to mom, and that boy is me. - Xue Mo

The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedom."[Public Utilities Commission v. Pollak, 343 U.S. 451, 467 (1952) (dissenting)] - William O. Douglas

There are many legal and psychological ramifications to using Krav Maga in the real world and nearly all of them are extremely unpleasant. - Craig De Ruisseau

My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition. - Indira Gandhi

When a leader has an attitude of gratitude, it can create great differences in the lives of others. - Debasish Mridha

The voices of peace can’t be silenced by bombs, shootings, sieges, brutality and barbarism. Despite the challenges we face as peace-makers in a troubled region, all we want is peace and our campaign #WeWantPeace continues. - Widad Akreyi

We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. Knowing the contents of a few works of literature is a trivial achievement. Being inclined to go on reading is a great achievement. - B.F. Skinner

The quest of validation is undeniable. Yet let your search begin where it should end, always within. Or seek endlessly. - Tyconis D. Allison Ty

Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning. - Rick Cook

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

Even in the hottest fire there's a bit of water. my The Opposite Of Magic. - Ivan Stoikov

Part ways with your perception of reality, allow the unknown and your curiosity muster into a visual you've never allowed yourself to see. - Elizabeth Lomeli

Every sacred soul must walk and keep the way of God in the wilderness for years, to begin the sacred writings. - Lailah Gifty Akita

My fingers burn behind the keys of my typewriter, the lettering fading with every thoughtful strike. The many words I write I dare not stall; my mind perpetually alert for my magnum opus call. - A.K. Kuykendall

Of all the inanimate objects, of all men's creations, books are the nearest to us for they contain our very thoughts, our ambitions, our indignations, our illusions, our fidelity to the truth, and our persistent leanings to error. But most of all they resemble us in their precious hold on life. - Joseph Conrad

When you get to the end of all the light you know and it's time to step into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing that one of two things shall happen: either you will be given something solid to stand on, or you will be taught how to fly. - Edward Teller

Most often, what I don’t know will have a vastly greater bearing on my life that what I do know. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

Wearing a smile while claiming to not judge and condemn people as you equate their nature with no less than a carnal and immoral act rather than as understanding their orientation and identity as an intrinsic part of who they are doesn't lessen the harshness and cruelty of that rejection. - Christina Engela

How we remember, what we remember and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality. - Christina Baldwin

How can anyone underestimate the ballistic quality of words? Invisible things happen in intangible moments. What should keep us writing is precisely that possibility of explosions - Miguel Syjuco

The ultimate relationship is within thyself, knowing that all other relationships are a projection or a reflection of our ability or inability to love. - Erin Fall Haskell

In the world of your story, your outline is like the Ten Commandments. Unfortunately, your characters are all Atheists. - Jefferson Smith

I'm waiting for the piece of shit to crawl out from under his rock. If it is who she said it is, then I'll be there to kick the throne from beneath his filthy, lying, murdering backside. - Nik Driver - A.Z.Green

I don't like my language watered down, I don't like my edges rounded off. - Ani DiFranco

Certainly work is not always required of a man. There is such a thing as a sacred idleness - the cultivation of which is now fearfully neglected.

Faith is the seed of the future. - Lailah Gifty Akita

If all the women over the world have been permitted to be married to only one man, except one woman. He'd love to marry that woman. That is the imprint of man - Ali ibn Abi Talib

HYPOCHONDRIASIS, n. Depression of one's own spirits. Some heaps of trash upon a vacant lot Where long the village rubbish had been shot Displayed a sign among the stuff and stumps -- "Hypochondriasis." It meant The Dumps. Bogul S. Purvy - Ambrose Bierce

Hundreds of hysterical persons must confuse these phenomena with messages from the beyond and take their glory to the bishop rather than the eye doctor. - James Thurber

The mystery of seeking God is that HE is the One who finds you. - Kingsley Opuwari Manuel

With poetry and writing, the question isn’t do you know the right words?.The real question is, can you make words from the unwordable, chisel blocks of raw silence into shapes and touch our souls? - Jacob Nordby

Some think intuition is a gift, but it can be a curse as well--a voice calling to us from places that are better left unexplored...an echo of memories that will never die, no matter how hard we try to kill them. - Emily Thorne

Hell’s got IT?Yes, of course. Who do you think invented Candy Crush? - Gwynn Marssen

I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death. - George Carlin

Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like? - Josh Brand and John Falsey

God can be realized through all paths. All religions are true. The important thing is to reach the roof. You can reach it by stone stairs or by wooden stairs or by bamboo steps or by a rope. You can also climb up by a bamboo pole. - Ramakrishna

Every king springs from a race of slaves, and every slave had kings among his ancestors. - Plato

Society shall never make progress unless it changes its basic objective of making things easier;instead our main objective should be to make men stronger!I say "men" as women have always had and shall continue to have all the strength needed!!-(Woods oration-2008) - Ashoka Jahnavi Prasad

How can a man understand and appreciate the time of peace when he has never been in the trenches of life. - Paul Bamikole

If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself. - Henry Ford

Your greatest adventure is written inside of you - rassool jibraeel snyman

Anyone who claims good or evil isn't one or either, they're just a liar... the worst kind of liar... the liar that doesn't even know they're lying. We're human. We're good during the day and evil at night, half the time those roles are reversed, that's what it's all about. - Hubert Martin

All attributes of the relative self (prakrut) in the world have arisen due to lack of understanding. All this has arisen due to not understanding the truth. One has been wandering around for countless lives and still one considers oneself so great! - Dada Bhagwan

Moral cowardice that keeps us from speaking our minds is as dangerous to this country as irresponsible talk. The right way is not always the popular and easy way. Standing for right when it is unpopular is a true test of moral character. - Margaret Chase Smith

It takes only a bit of tragedy to destroy insta-love. - Mya Robarts

It's not that I feel that school is a good idea gone wrong, but a wrong idea from the word go. It's a nutty notion that we can have a place where nothing but learning happens, cut off from the rest of life. - John Holt

Just as Man developed morals and ethical behavior over thousands of years of evolution; so, too, did he invent an authority figure to enforce these behaviors - God. - Lex Allen

Every instant of time is a pinprick of eternity. All things are petty, easily changed, and vanishing away.

The best thing about existence is that any moment in time can be a point of beginning to anything! In other words, every moment of our life holds a key for the unknown or the closed doors of new paths! - Mehmet Murat ildan

I understand that in our work - doesn't matter whether it's acting or writing - what's important isn't fame or glamour, none of the things I used to dream about, it's the ability to endure. - Chekhov Anton

When the power falls on me, it buzzes in the warm, dark spaces of my skull. It stings like nettles at the tips of my fingers. The power is a fever I have felt since early childhood, a heat in the blood that leaves me flushed and unsteady, dreaming in daylight. - Victoria Lamb

Humor can make a serious difference. In the workplace, at home, in all areas of life – looking for a reason to laugh is necessary. A sense of humor helps us to get through the dull times, cope with the difficult times, enjoy the good times and manage the scary times. - Steve Goodier

... the Wisdom of God ... rules all things, because it is infinitely more powerful and more loving and, above all, more merciful than ours. - Father Jacques Philippe

The light of love is a flaming fire. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Red, the color of blood. It is what binds us, what divides us. White, the color of divinity. It is what saves us, delivers us. - Rebecca Moll, The Beauty of Digging Deep

'I think therefore I am' is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches.

Next step: take the veil off - Sunday Adelaja

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

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

Virtue has its own reward, but no box office. - Mae West

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

The attitude you pose is greatly influenced by the links of friendships you bookmark. Good friends, good attitudes; best friends, best attitudes. Guess what for toxic friends...! - Israelmore Ayivor

Open your umbrella of creativity when glaring heat of adversity hits you unaware." ~ , If I Could Tell You - Angelica Hopes

He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many foulder in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.

I guess each of us, at some time, finds one person with whom we are compelled toward absolute honesty, one person whose good opinion of us becomes a substitute for the broader opinion of the world.

Any second can be the beginning of anything; any second can be the end of anything! Welcome to our universe! - Mehmet Murat ildan

The act of giving with love opens the door of abundance. - Debasish Mridha

The youth, intoxicated with his admiration of a hero, fails to see, that it is only a projection of his own soul, which he admires. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Even in the heart of the darkness ,You will find a spot of light - Mohammed Sekouty

forget the simple live like the world just for the safety of your loved ones is one of the greatest accomplishment - Kennard Setubal

The more the problems in a society, the greater the chances of success. - Sunday Adelaja

When people keep telling you that you can’t do a thing, you kind of like to try it. - Margaret Chase Smith

Until you realize how easily it is for your mind to be manipulated, you remain the puppet of someone else's game. - Evita Ochel

If you and I are to live religious lives, it mustn't be that we talk a lot about religion, but that our manner of life is different. It is my belief that only if you try to be helpful to other people will you in the end find your way to God. - Ludwig Wittgenstein

Maggie Dove wanted to be a beacon of light. She dreamed of being the sort of person who made others laugh, calmed crying babies, soothed wild dogs, inspired hopefulness. - Susan Breen

He knew me in all the ways that truly mattered: the shape of my fears, the contours of my dreams. - Justina Chen

You give little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give. - Kahlil Gibran

I do not regret one moment of my life. - Lillie Langtry

There's nothing like the discovery of an unknown work by a great thinker to set the intellectual community atwitter and cause academics to dart about like those things one sees when looking at a drop of water under a microscope. - Woody Allen

What I like most about the process of literary creation is gathering mundane facts and concepts, then clothing them with the ornate jewels and fine garments of imagination and fantasy, weaving a tale on the glittering edge of possibility. - Gregory Hamilton

We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves. - Malcolm X

I'm a word man. See, there's this theory about the nature of tragedy, that Aristotle didn't mean catharsis for the audience but a purgation of emotions for the actors themselves. The audience is just a witness to the event taking place on stage. - Jim Morrison

God indeed has given the earth under to the control of man. - Sunday Adelaja

Every pain, addiction, anguish, longing, depression, anger or fearis an orphaned part of usseeking joy, some disowned shadow wanting to returnto the lightand homeof ourselves. - Jacob Nordby

God will bring you a gift. However, it is up to you to stop shaking the same box and expecting something wonderful will fall out of it again. After a while, you are going to break that box and it won't remind you of that moment when it meant everything to you. - Shannon L. Alder

They may take you for a fool, promise to shower you with the world, use their canny devastating tongue to manipulate and dominate your mind, but its better to put them bulshit people at arms length rather than falling into the arms of infidelity. - Michael Bassey Johnson

Don't judge a person by how important he is or how big he is. Judge a person by the strength of character or size of his heart. - Glad Munaiseche

There are many backstabbing friends who in your hard time will ignore you, without to ask something from them. You just are filled with sadness and they don't confide in you anymore. The downside of your hard time is being considered rude, negative, boorish and insistent. - Camelia C.

In love, women are professionals, men are amateurs - François Truffaut

Everyday you have a new chapter to write about your journey of life. As you write that chapter do it so well such that if others read it, you would still be proud of yourself. - Gugu Mona

Life is made up of constant calls to action, and we seldom have time for more than hastily contrived answers.

A bit of fragrance clings to the hand that gives flowers. - Chinese Proverb

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

There are two kinds of taste in the appreciation of imaginative literature: the taste for emotions of surprise and the taste for emotions of recognition. - Henry James

I met Jack Kennedy in November, 1946. We were both war heroes, and both of us had just been elected to Congress. - Norman Mailer

Words are the voice of the heart. - Confucius

Sing Ho! For the life of a Bear!

Who but the Atman is capable of removing the bonds of ignorance, passion and self-interested action? - Adi Shankaracarya

The ghosts that exert the most power in people’s lives-at least, the people I know–tend to be of their own making, and consist of equal parts regret and old fears and just plain missing somebody. - Glen Hirshberg

Peace is not only the absence of war, but the presence of harmony. - Debasish Mridha

Globalization is a form of artificial intelligence. - Erol Ozan

When you search for happiness, it flies away.When you serve others, you will find the way.When you share blessings and express kindness,You will find the source of enduring happiness. - Debasish Mridha

Listen to all the conversations of our world, between nations as well as between individuals. They are, for the most part, dialogues of the deaf. - Paul Tournier

I love you and that's the beginning and end of everything - ZAKIYA AND MAJID

My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me. - Benjamin Disraeli

I'm guilty of giving people more chances than they deserve but when I'm done, I'm done. - Turcois Ominek

Death is the first and final entry in the book of this life. - Kevin Focke

Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic. - Edward de Bono

On this Mother's Day and every day before and after, I thank you God for the precious gift of my three children. I love them unconditionally. - Ana Monnar

To find what you seek in the road of life, the best proverb of all is that which says:"Leave no stone unturned. - Edward Bulwer-Lytton

ARSENIC, n. A kind of cosmetic greatly affected by the ladies, whom it greatly affects in turn. "Eat arsenic? Yes, all you get," Consenting, he did speak up; "'Tis better you should eat it, pet, Than put it in my teacup." Joel Huck - Ambrose Bierce

A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation. - Friedrich Nietzsche

I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened. - Mark Twain

Classic of '43. Don't knock it. A Vintage year. - Keith Richards

Like Mother Theresa, your greatness unfolds by the kindness you show to the weakest members of humanity. - Debasish Mridha

Too often, feelings arrive too soon, waiting for thoughts that often come too late. - Dejan Stojanovic

Who would wave a flag to be rescued if they had a desert island of their own? That was the thing that spoilt Robinson Crusoe. In the end he came home. There never ought to be an end. - Arthur Ransome

Talent develops in tranquility, character in the full current of human life. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Improvement is achieved by the ripple effect of a few simple changes in approach, attitude, or habit. - Dale Ludwig

Take man's most fantastic invention- God. Man invents God in the image of his longings, in the image of what he wants to be, then proceeds to imitate that image, vie with it, and strive to overcome it. - Eric Hoffer

Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable. - E.M. Forster

...a book, a real book, language incarnate, becomes a part of one's bodily life. - Wendell Berry

As the ocean tugged me at my feet, i realized that Early Auden, that strangest of boys, had saved me from being swept away. - Clare Vanderpool

Always imitate the behavior of the winners when you lose. - Anonymous

ALLIANCE, n. In international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third. - Ambrose Bierce

My work has been always presented to me in front of others by creating a unique individual. - Tanmaya Guru

I don't want revenge on the Taliban, I want education for sons and daughters of the Taliban. - Malala Yousafzai

One face of the cloud sees the sun, other face of the cloud sees the darkness! To survive in this universe, you must do the same! See the sun, see the darkness! Enjoy the life, but prepare for the worst as well! - Mehmet Murat ildan

When I write fiction, I struggle to decide the fate of two people created by my mind and spend countless hours to give them a happy ending. God, the Almighty has created infinite human beings till date and runs all our lives with such ease. He is the BEST WRITER of all. - Shahla Khan

I am constant as the northern star, of whose true fix'd and resting quality there is no fellow in the firmament. - William Shakespeare

I wanna lie on a bed of clouds to be near the sun. - jmemo

Confidence in others' honesty is no light testimony of one's own integrity. - Michel de Montaigne

In this metallic age of barbarians, only a relentless cultivation of our ability to dream, to analyse and to captivate can prevent our personality from degenerating into nothing or else into a personality like all the rest. - Fernando Pessoa

The benefit of being friends will vastly outweigh the benefit of being enemies. - R.A.Delmonico

If I shake hands with anti-Me it will be the end of me. - Siren Waroe

Each creature is a unique piece of art to be respected and believed in. once we realise this, equality follows. - Sameh Elsayed

But the witness of the substitutionary atonement of Jesus is that God's most difficult promise has been kept. - Sheila Walsh

There is only as much space, only as much time, Only as much desire, only as many words, Only as many pages, only as much ink To accept all of us at light-speed Hurrying into the Promised Land Of oblivion that is waiting for us sooner or later. - Dejan Stojanovic

There are few sorrows in which a good income is of no avail. - Logan Pearsall Smith

The true measure of your success is the degree to which within you are truly content - and the depth to which others hold you with real love and respect - Rasheed Ogunlaru

News is only the first rough draft of history. - Alan Barth

We see eternity through a microscopic window of time. - Debasish Mridha

From the windows, through the fur of snow, the landscape became more melancholy when the sun successfully brightened the quiet trees, unable to speak without their leaves. - Toni Morrison

Lies are the first step to the violent protection of them - rassool jibraeel snyman

Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy. - George Bernard Shaw

Don't knock the weather. If it didn't change once in a while, nine out of ten people couldn't start a conversation. - Kin Hubbard

He mobilized the English language and sent it into battle to steady his fellow countrymen and hearten those Europeans upon whom the long dark night of tyranny had descended. - Edward R. Murrow

He was so benevolent, so merciful a man that he would have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower of rain. - Douglas Jerrold

It is that little bit of extra attention that makes all the difference. - Debasish Mridha

Do you want to live under someone else’s life? Nearly everything we get to do is because of politics. Everything else not open to us is because of the politicians. We don’t have much say already. Don’t make it we don’t even get to see - George Stamatis

The control of information makes history. - duzB August 2010

Happiness is an indescribable intense ecstasy of life that comes from deep love and kindness for the world and all of its contents. - Debasish Mridha

I don't know about you, but I practice a disorganized religion. I belong to an unholy disorder. We call ourselves "Our Lady of the Perpetual Astonishment - Kurt Vonnegut

A good inclination is but the first rude draught of virtue, but the finishing strokes are from the will, which, if well disposed, will by degrees perfect it, as if all disposed will quickly deface it.

I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism. - Howard Dietz

Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their homework - an inability to endure pain or discipline or pursue any self-sustained goal of any sort, a devastating boredom with life. - Betty Friedan

To understand the song of life, listen to the melody of wind and ocean and watch the dance of waves and water. - Debasish Mridha

Maybe, if you can't get someone out of your head they were never meant to leave. Perhaps, they were meant to help change you into the person you have been waiting to become. - Shannon L. Alder

Educators not only teach, but they also inspire students to learn, ignite the light of imaginations, shine the sense of perception, and define the path of life for future generations. - Debasish Mridha

Be glad that once you did experience that magic. It's part of who you are now, and you're richer for it. - mary esselman

The desires of the heart are as crooked as corkscrews. - W.H. Auden

Any appeasement of tyranny is treason to this republic and to the democratic ideal. - William Allen White

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.

Are you looking for something real in this world of illusions? Call me. Casual Flings need not apply. I am looking for Love. - Aprilynne Pike

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

Turning an experience about to observe it, results in a lessening of the experience directly proportional to the amount of observation. To think about it is, to some degree, to stop the pleasure, to stop the experience, to step outside it. - Geoffrey Wood

I dropped my hoe and ran into the house and started to write this poem, '.’ It began as a celebration of wild geese. Eventually the geese flew out of the poem, but I like to think they left behind the sound of their beating wings. Stanley Kunitz - End of Summer

I hope my forgiveness reminds you,Of the part you forgot to break in me. - Jenim Dibie

Hell is full of musical amateurs. - George Bernard Shaw

A wisely chosen illustration is almost essential to fasten the truth upon the ordinary mind, and no teacher can afford to neglect this part of his preparation.

Magic to me is not something extraterrestrial or paranormal,its our own realization of the things which we haven't noticed. - dhariyaa

I find pain, rather beautiful. It has a chaotic way of shaking up Everything we once ignored, To empower us to move past Anything that doesn't serve the best of us anymore. - Nikki Rowe

There is no stress. It is a misinterpretation of a situation. Just change your perception and stress will melt away. - Debasish Mridha

When we hear news we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation. - Voltaire

He laid the foundation of a universal government. His law was one for all. Equal justice and love for everyone. - George Rivorie

We speak, but it is God who teaches. - Augustine of Hippo

If knowledge is a glass of water, then wisdom is the unlimited, infinite and not yet invented ocean. - Debasish Mridha

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

Failure and Success are two sides of the same coin. One does not exist without the other. - Paula Antonia Purpera

Soyons fermes, purs et fidèles ; au bout de nos peines, il y a la plus grande gloire du monde, celle des hommes qui n'ont pas cédé. [Let us be firm, pure and faithful; at the end of our sorrow, there is the greatest glory of the world, that of the men who did not give in.] - Charles de Gaulle

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

The value of a man resides in what he gives and not in what he is capable of receiving. - Albert Einstein

You need not to hate most of the people, life already hates them. - Amit Kalantri

The fact is very few men live harmoniously, while most of us survive miraculously! - Ramana Pemmaraju

Do not lose the enthusiasm of your youth. - Lailah Gifty Akita

A person who has enjoyed the most but at the cost of others' labour only can often be heard saying to the people that the Life is a pleasure - Anuj Somany

Your outlook upon life, your estimate of yourself, your estimate of your value are largely colored by your environment. Your whole career will be modified, shaped, molded by your surroundings, by the character of the people whom you come in contact everyday. - Orison Swett Marden

It is a commonplace of all religious thought, even the most primitive, that the man seeking visions and insight must go apart from his fellows and love for a time in the wilderness. - Loren Eiseley

Chastity is a monkish and evangelical superstition, a greater foe to natural temperance even than unintellectual sensuality; it strikes at the root of all domestic happiness, and consigns more than half of the human race to misery.

If I let a gust of wind or a sprinkling of rain turn me aside from the easy tasks, what preparation would such sloth be for the future I propose myself? - Charlotte Brontë

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

I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes. - Sara Teasdale

The density of your destiny is the product of the mass of your visions and the volume your impacts occupy! - Israelmore Ayivor

It is emphatically the province and duty of the Judicial Department to say what the law is. - John Marshall

Values are the definition of our actions in life - Armin Houman

The "self," it seems today, is at the core of the nation's worldview rather than others (the common good), or God. - Martha MacCullough

And that's why people no longer care which words they use as long as they use lots of them. - Norton Juster

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

Train yourself to let go of the things you fear to lose. - George Lucas

Like the bud of a flower, change forces you to surrender to growth. It makes you vulnerable. It requires you to enlarge, expand and become bigger. Like the oxygen provided with each breath, we are denied its benefits until we relax and breathe in. - Stella Payton

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been. - Henry Kissinger

I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally. - W.C. Fields

I go to de One who says silver n gold is Mine - Kingsley ofosu-Ampong

In the pursuit of acquiring Treasures, we lose the ONE treasure that we truly possess—Life. Let us not lose Life in the wild pursuit of other things. - RVM

Patience is inversely proportional to the distance from the front of the queue. - John Day

No one else can choose your attitude for you. Your perspective and choice of attitude gives you the power to be in control. - Irene Dunlap

Digressions, incontestably, are the sunshine, the life, the soul of reading! Take them out and one cold eternal winter would reign in every page. Restore them to the writer - he steps forth like a bridegroom, bids them all-hail, brings in variety and forbids the appetite to fail. - Laurence Sterne

Time is the mother of truth. - Khalid Masood

Science and Religion are two vividly different realms of the human mind. They work differently at the molecular level, but the purpose of both is alleviation of the mind from the darkness of ignorance. - Abhijit Naskar

Love more. Love often. Love endlessly. - Debasish Mridha

The greatest untold story is the evolution of God. - G.I. Gurdjieff

Have you failed today? If not, you might not be trying hard enough. Failure is a part of growth, a stepping stone towards success. In its own right it is a small victory and should be celebrated as such. So I ask you again, have you failed today? - Shane E. Bryan

I just realized, there is too much of me in me. - EverSkeptic

I think the only choice that will enable us to hold to our vision is one that abandons the concept of naming enemies and adopts a concept familiar to the nonviolent tradition: naming behavior that is oppressive - Barbara Deming

Today words curve around my vision,Stumbling from my parched coreTo soak again those strands of silence. - Phen Weston

Looking at yourself in a mirror isn't exactly a study of life. - Lauren Bacall

Appearances can be deceiving, but the true colours of your soul remain. - Angelica Hopes

It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants. - William Cobbett

If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles. - Doug Larson

I can never do justice to the great feeling of amazement and encouragement I felt when, perhaps for the first time in American history, white citizens of a Southern state banded together to come to Selma and show their indignation about the injustices against the African-Americans. - Amelia Boynton Robinson

Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon which your reason and your judgment wage war against passion and your appetite. - Kahlil Gibran

Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death. - Anaïs Nin

What we call as burden of life is nothing but the human failure on the matter of creating a just world! - Mehmet Murat ildan

Weird is the thinking of the world as a person is not considered famous by the people until cartoonists start making his caricature. - Anuj Somany

Beware of wolves in sheep's clothing, for they will feed you delicious morsels that they may later feast upon your tender flesh. - Michele Faison

Wednesday had come and gone in a single breath. As I dreamt of divine love, Picasso, and a vast field of gold, a new dawn had already begun. - Terry A. O'Neal

It is doubtful that real personal change can occur without the conscious and painful process of self-criticism that is required to reject power and ego. - Janis Birkeland

You have a great advantage as a writer, Monsieur,' said Poirot. 'You can relieve your feelings by expedient of the printed word. You have the power of the pen over your enemies. - Agatha Christie

I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position. - Mark Twain

He kept him as the apple of his eye. - Bible

Just thinking of your laughter gives me courage. . . - Rosamund Lupton

We only have one desire, which wants to manifest in thousands of ways,like a flower who blooms in billions of shadesto express her only one desire...to be beautiful - Debasish Mridha

A forest fire was making its way along the tinderbox ridges above them, flaring and shimmering against the overcast like the northern lights. Cold as it was he stood there a long time. The color of it moved something in him long forgotten. Make a list. Recite a litany. Remember. - Cormac McCarthy

War can not be avoided until the physical cause for its recurrence is removed and this, in the last analysis, is the vast extent of the planet on which we live. - Nikola Tesla

Silence is a way of saying: we do not have to entertain each other; we are okay as we are. - Martha Grimes

I wanna hang a map of the world in my house. Then I'm gonna put pins into all the locations that I've traveled to. But first, I'm gonna have to travel to the top two corners of the map so it won't fall down. - Mitch Hedberg

When you trust yourself, you sow the seeds of fear into the hearts of your enemies! - Mehmet Murat ildan

It occurs to me it is not so much the aim of the devil to lure me with evil as it is to preoccupy me with the meaningless. - Donald Miller

Genuineness is often sacrificed in order to showcase the author's control over the form and subject matter, the end result technically sound but emotionally cold. - Jennifer S. Davis

Let me put it this way. Canada is not so much a country as a holding tank filled with the disgruntled progeny of defeated peoples. - Mordecai Richler

Don’t quit. It’s very easy to quit during the first 10 years. Nobody cares whether you write or not, and it’s very hard to write when nobody cares one way or the other. You can’t get fired if you don’t write, and most of the time you don’t get rewarded if you do. But don’t quit. - Andre Dubus

It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are, the more gentle and quiet we become toward the defects of others. - Francois de Fenelon

What is life but being conscious? And good and evil are manifestations of consciousness. If you reject one, you're not getting the whole thing that's there to be had. - Jerry Garcia

Humility and open-mindedness are a shield to keep your foot out of your mouth. - Laura Gilfillan

Curiosity is the ultimate beauty of an adventurous mind. - Debasish Mridha

The highest freedom of mind comes from becoming non-judgmental. - Debasish Mridha

We shall not cease from our exploration, and at the end of all our exploring, we shall arrive where we started and know the place for the first time. - T. S. Eliot

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

Ask a deeply religious Christian if he'd rather live next to a bearded Muslim that may or may not be plotting a terror attack, or an atheist that may or may not show him how to set up a wireless network in his house. On the scale of prejudice, atheists don't seem so bad lately. - Scott Adams

Don’t know if it’s good or bad that a Google search on Big Bang Theory lists the sitcom before the origin of the Universe - Neil deGrasse Tyson

The beauty of the world...has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder. - Virginia Woolf

The children are intrigued by these invitation, and it's only a matter of minutes before they find themselves engaged in a new world of possibilities. - Rachelle Doorley

Questions that pertain to the foundations of mathematics, although treated by many in recent times, still lack a satisfactory solution. Ambiguity of language is philosophy's main source of problems. That is why it is of the utmost importance to examine attentively the very words we use. - Giuseppe Peano

The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. Whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles. - Ayn Rand

Sometimes when Anna is talking to Louise she sees words coming out of her mouth like fistfuls of stones. But she doesn't intend to spew stones; it's simply the only way Anna knows how to takl to her mother. - Jessica Anya Blau

Perfect courage means doing unwitnessed what he would be capable of with the world looking on. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Some experimenters have reported that an angry face pops out of a crowd of happy faces, but a single happy face does not stand out in an angry crowd. The brains of humans and other animals contain a mechanism that is designed to give priority to bad news. - Daniel Kahneman

Many people say I'm the best women's soccer player in the world. I don't think so. And because of that, someday I just might be. - Mia Hamm

The light of God's love makes us unique personalities - Sunday Adelaja

At the center of a man's purpose rests the hunger for competition, war, chaos, and calmness. You take it away, there is nothing but a self-reflection of stagnation for him. - Lionel Suggs

Cada uno de nosotros es, sucesivamente, no uno, sino muchos. Y estas personalidades sucesivas, que emergen las unas de las otras, suelen ofrecer entre si los mas raros y asombrosos contrastes. - José Enrique Rodó

No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one's character may retain entirely unaffected for the better. With mere good intentions, hell is proverbially paved. - William James

Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols. - Thomas Mann

Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state. - Kathleen Norris

The meat smelt rank and was very tough, the soup was greasy and of a curious flavour, but it was a wonderful meal after all these hungry weeks. - Wilfred Thesiger

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

I came trusting them. They beat me with rods of dullness. They don't know, they don't understand how agonizing their complacent dullness is. Like ants and August sun on a wound." - Carol Kennicott - Sinclair Lewis

If you can see the vision of your goal clearly, you can plan and map effectively, and navigate efficiently. - Steve Maraboli

We claim to have the light in the Church yet we want to lock ourselves within the four walls of that same Church. - Sunday Adelaja

If you have not seen the real end of the journey, don’t boast much at the beginning and never be too proud and haughty in mid of the path. Keep the real end in mind and mind how to get to the real end successfully! - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

To be free to roam our own consciousness and be responsible for ourselves, a letting go process is required. We have to let go of how others define us; what damaging messages remain from childhood; how others define our relationship with the creator; and what expectations they may have for us. - David W. Earle

I am interested in the homeless, but they're a symptom. You're treating a symptom and the disease rages on and consumes the human race. I'm talking about an overhaul of the system: putting power in different hands.

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

Theory is like a book.It's full of meaningless words, a few want to read it and where stays the movie. - Tim Goossens

Where there is a real superiority of mind, pride will be always under good regulation. - Jane Austin

...a revolution of government is the strongest proof that can be given by a people of their virtue and good sense. - John Adams