Quotation Explorer - 'Of'

When its a question of money, everybody is of the same religion. - Voltaire

How focused you are, defines the intensity of success you are going to get. - Harsh Malik

All theology is a kind of birthdayEach one who is born Comes into the world as a questionFor which old answersAre not sufficient… - Thomas Merton

If you truly wanted to Educate yourself, there are lots of possibilities to have it. Believing something you want will lead you to your dreams, just be patient enough and trust God in His plans. - Adoniemar

The music of rebellion makes you want to rageBut it's made by millionaires who are nearly twice your age - Porcupine Tree

Embrace your weirdness. Some will adore you. Others won't. But who cares? Worry about loving yourself, not loving the idea of other people loving you. - Karen Salmansohn

Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he does not wish to sign his work. - Anatole France

At least two-thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity: idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religous or political ideas. - Aldous Huxley

Half of your mastery of power comes from what you do NOT do, what you do not ALLOW yourself to get dragged into. - Robert Greene

I have nothing but confidence in you. And very little of that. - Groucho Marx

A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations. - Paul Valéry

If you wish to be happy,Eragon, Think not of what is to come nor of that which you have no control over but rather of the now and that which you are able to change" ~Oromis to eragon ,Brisingr~618 - Christopher Paolini

Perception is the reality in the absence of fact. - Pieter BF Swart

What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish. - W. H. Auden

Walk in the path of light towards the heavens. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Respect means: even in your absence people speak good of your person - Constance Friday

How noble and good everyone could be if, every evening before falling asleep, they were to recall to their minds the events of the whole day and consider exactly what has been good and bad. Then without realizing it, you try to improve yourself at the start of each new day. - Anne Frank

Seeds are proof that God sometimes packages miracles in small things. - Matshona Dhliwayo

I am certain that a novelist is someone who attributes a different reality-value to the characters and events of his story than to those of 'real' life. A novelist is someone who confuses his own life with that of his characters. - Alain Robbe-Grillet

praying without having faith in and believing in what you pray for is just a simple act of soliloquizing - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice. You can put things off until tomorrow but tomorrow may never come.

We believe that all men are created equal because they are created in the image of God.

Faith revels in the liberating fact that only a terribly miniscule part of life lies within the constricted confines of my reach, and that I am graciously invited out to live in a place beyond my grasp. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

One can survive every hurt and move on, except the hatred of a mother formed without reasons, that one could not elucidate. - Darmie Orem

Despite billions of Sun, the universe is still in darkness! The wisdom of light is yet powerless! - Mehmet Murat ildan

Through the "Strength" of one and his simple existence, there will be a transformation over time that will affect many because of just one life, while the "Survival" of many more will suddenly and triumphantly become much more than just a possibility. - J.D. Stark

We know from daily life that we exist for other people first of all, for whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends. - Albert Einstein

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We are all beings of our own creation. - B.C. Sirrom

Recognizing that God exists in all of us is the first step toward genuine kindness. - Charles F. Glassman

Every idea is in the soul of its owner. No other power can shift it to another soul, that is why we have the telephone, aircraft, etc, each having its unique inventor. - Michael Bassey Johnson

Ties to people on the other side of the storm could be severed. Love could bud, then wither and die without a bloom when the storm ended and reality bled back in. - Sarah Winter

Religion is an experience, not a bunch of doctrines. - Abhijit Naskar

Your level of comfort will increase your level of confidence. - Rob Liano

No - the stars are close and dear and I have joined the brotherhood of the worlds. And everything's holy - everything, even me. - John Steinbeck

I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money. - Pablo Picasso

There were plenty of fishes in the pond,yet i fell in love with a crocodile. - Anjum Choudhary

An artist is a provincial who finds himself somewhere between a physical reality and a metaphysical one. It’s this in-between that I’m calling a province, this frontier country between the tangible world and the intangible one. That is the realm of the artist. - Federico Fellini

Some people will bring up evolutionary biology and apes, how female apes bow to male apes - that sort of thing. But the point is this: we are not apes. Apes also live in trees and eat earthworms. We do not. - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Three things to help keep your brain cells awake and alert ... drink plenty of clean water, get plenty of deep sleep, and let your imagination soar to places it's never dared venture. - Toni Sorenson

Swirl into joy today by sharing your caring with the world. Be a pillar of positivity. - Amy Leigh Mercree

There is no need to go to India or anywhere else to find peace. You will find that deep place of silence right in your room, your garden or even your bathtub. - Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

A bore is a man who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company. - Gian Vincenzo Gravina

Literature is a vast ocean, in which one has to drown themselves to be able to conquer it. Those on shore can see a side of it or have tasted a part of it. And I choose to drown myself in it than just to see it. - Nikita Dudani

To see, feel, and understand the magic of life, always believe that life is beautiful and magical. - Debasish Mridha

I was trapped in an awful spiral of insecure narcissism - Amy Poehler

It's hard to get enough of something that almost works. - Vincent Felitti, MD

Whiteness is the color of death, you know, not black. Wetness is life, the breeder and shaper of life. In the beginning the sun was black. So all light was absorbed before it had a chance to return. And our dreams, then, were empty. - Jim Carroll

For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from the force of character. - Baruch Spinoza

We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves. - Henry Ward Beecher

Burn yourself with love; now enjoy the purity of the heart. - Debasish Mridha

True education should teach us how to think, how to see the beauty in the midst of ugliness, how to love without judging, how to find opportunity to help, and how to develop a peaceful and nonviolent society. - Debasish Mridha

You were standing in the wake of devastation And you were waiting on the edge of the unknown And with the cataclysm raining down Insides crying "Save me now" You were there, impossibly alone - Linkin Park

You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question. - Albert Camus

Silence is the virtue of fools. - Sir Francis Bacon

I am a Muslim, because it's a religion that teaches you an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. It teaches you to respect everybody, and treat everybody right. But it also teaches you if someone steps on your toe, chop off their foot. And I carry my religious axe with me all the time. - Malcolm X

I believe that for Nigeria and other third world countries to truly become developed, we must change the culture and attitude of our people towards work - Sunday Adelaja

Your desire is your prayer. Picture the fulfillment of your desire now and feel its reality and you will experience the joy of the answered.Dr. - Joseph Murphy

Perfection is the enemy of the good. - Gustave Flaubert

I am just like you,Destined to play my part.And leave,In the nature of my departure at least,Some kind of sweet message behindIn the fathomless pattern I make. - Scott Hastie

When we neglect our Bible study we often feel guilty. When you skip a meal do you feel guilty? No, you feel hungry. The Bible is food for our soul. When we fail to read it we should not feel guilty, we should feel hungry. Guilt is fueled by obligation hunger is fueled by desire. - Tyler Edwards

A conviction borne of God amply possesses the potency and power to brazenly reach beyond the possible in order to topple the impossible. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

One of the things I learned about writing a memoir is you can’t drag the reader through everything. Every human life is worth 20 memoirs. - Andre Dubus III

A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top . - Unknown

There are a billion people in China. It's not easy to be an individual in a crowd of more than a billion people. Think of it. More than a BILLION people. That means even if you're a one-in-a-million type of guy, there are still a thousand guys exactly like you." - A. Whitney Brown

All those who love Nature she loves in return, and will richly reward, not perhaps with the good things, as they are commonly called, but with the best things of this world-not with money and titles, horses and carriages, but with bright and happy thoughts, contentment and peace of mind. - John Lubbock

There is not one single thing you cannot do if you are able to see fear for what it truly is. Life is full of choices, and one of those choices involves fear. You can either let it control you, or you can learn to control it. - Jellis Vaes

There is no right or wrong way to write a novel. Each journey is different for every individual work and for every writer. The first error is never to begin; the second is never to finish. - Don Roff

Human kind has always been in the shadows of each other since its persistence of social interventional among the large groups of human societies. - Het Desai

The business of lying is transacted in the abode of the gullible. - Michael Bassey Johnson

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

Being in a ship is like being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned. - Samuel Johnson

Novels for me are how I find out what's going on in my own head. And so that's a really useful and indeed critical thing to do when you do as many of these other things as I do. - Cory Doctorow

The power of belief is that is should change lives not create chains. - Johnnie Dent Jr.

In my opinion, Nigeria matters! The body of Christ matters - Sunday Adelaja

A woman is a loving mother, a gorgeous daughter, and beautiful angel of imagination. - Debasish Mridha

The most precious gift we can offer others is our presence. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers. - Thich Nhat Hanh

Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art. - Claude Debussy

No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness. - Aristotle

We must be happy with what we want when we are in pursuit of what we want. - Jim Rohn

Rainbows paint the sky with different colors of love, sadness, and joy. - Debasish Mridha

I was never weighed down by beauty in my lifetime. However, I was beaten down by the sad fears of my gender- women who didn't allow you to feel pretty or rejoice in who you are, unless it fell beneath how they thought about themselves. - Shannon L. Alder

My most beautiful and best days are ahead of me but behind me. - Sivaprakash Sidhu

Stay out of the court of self-judgment, for there is no presumption of innocence. - Robert Brault

The human brain is like a railroad freight car -- guaranteed to have a certain capacity but often running empty. - Unknown

The years thunder by.The dreams of youth grow dimwhere they liecaked in dust on the shelves of patience.Before we know it, the tomb is sealed.Where, then lies the answer?In choice.Which shall it be:Bankruptcy of Purseor Bankruptcy of Life? - Sterling Hayden

We've made our decisions, We've taken our choices, What's left, is only a hand-full of emotions. - Auliq Ice

I had no time to hate, becauseThe grave would hinder me,And life was not so ample ICould finish enmity.Nor had I time to love, but sinceSome industry must be,The little toil of love, I thought,Was large enough for me. - Emily Dickinson

If you're lost and aloneOr you're sinking like a stoneCarry on...May your past be the soundOf your feet upon the groundCarry on - Fun

They said it was to be a revolutionary house, free of class struggle, no servants’ rooms because they didn’t believe in laundry maids or cooks.Nobody does, really. Why should they? Only in having clean clothes, clean floors, and enchiladas tapatias. - Barbara Kingsolver

Mother! Believe me, this word is more sacred than the name of Lord Ram. - Tanmaya Guru

Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious. - Jean Cocteau

We are all daughters of God in various stages of construction. - Shannon L. Alder

We need to understand the more government spends, the more freedom is lost...Instead of simply debating spending levels, we ought to be debating whether the departments, agencies, and programs funded by the budget should exist at all. - Ron Paul

Politics should be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage. - Lucille Ball

A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes. - Ludwig Wittgenstein

What is written is merely the dregs of experience. - Franz Kafka

School is about learning to wait your turn, however long it takes to come, if ever. And how to submit with a show of enthusiasm to the judgment of strangers, even if they are wrong, even if your enthusiasm is phony. - John Taylor Gatto

Idleness is an inlet to disorder, and makes way for licentiousness. People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company.

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

When you've been hurt enough as a kid (maybe at any age), it's like you have a trick knee. Most of your life, you can function like an adult, but add in the right portions of sleeplessness and stress and grief, and the hurt, defeated self can bloom into place. - Mary Karr

One must have sensitivity of the princess and endurance of the whore. - Anna Dymna

Your identity & life passion/purpose in the context of your beliefs determine your vision, your vision determines your mission, your mission determines your KRAs, your KRAs determine your goals, your goals determine your thoughts, and your thoughts determine your life! ~ gfp '42© - Gary Patton

Affliction caused by the tongue is worse than that caused by the strike of the blade of a sword. - Anonymous

For every thousand hacking at the leaves of evil, there is one striking at the root.

When you gain maximum knowledge in any area of work and put it into practice, no powerwill be able to hinder you achieving your set goals. - Sunday Adelaja

Envy, as distasteful as it is, has seeped into my mind on rare occasions, and those I've envied, although few in number, have only been those that live a life of leisure with peace of mind and time to do such wonderful things as read. - Donna Lynn Hope

Making decisions about whether to keep and how to organize objects requires categorization skills, confidence in one's ability to remember, and sustained attention. To maintain order, one also needs the ability to efficiently assess the value or utility of an object.

Entrepreneurs pay the price of a road less traveled, while everyone else takes the freeway and perpetually misses their own exit. - Ryan Lilly

It is not necessary to remind you of the fact that your voice, amplified to the degree where it reaches from one end of the country to the other, does not confer upon you greater wisdom than when your voice reached only from one end of the bar to the other. All of these things you know. - Edward R. Murrow

The prudent people are able to measure a person's level of selfishness by the amount of time s/he spends enjoying looking to oneself in the mirror. - Anuj Somany

OFFENSIVE, adj. Generating disagreeable emotions or sensations, as the advance of an army against its enemy. "Were the enemy's tactics offensive?" the king asked. "I should say so!" replied the unsuccessful general. "The blackguard wouldn't come out of his works!" - Ambrose Bierce

Sigmund Freud was a half baked Viennese quack. Our literature, culture, and the the films of Woody Allen would be better today if Freud had never written a word.

To truly know someone is to know the silence that stands for the thing they never speak of. - Robert Brault

A marriage is meant to be a blessing on the world, because it is a context in which two people might become more than what they would have been alone. The entire world is healed by the presence of healed people. - Marianne Williamson

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

Olgun! Wake up!"Her mind was filled with a sense of self-righteous andvaguely drowsy protest."Sure you weren't, she needled at him. You were justpracticing snoring, so you'd be sure to get it right later on,yes?"Olgun's response very strongly resembled an indignantsnort. - Ari Marmell

Did you know that each day that dawns, you are in "TODAY?" Stay in "Today" and you will never have to worry about tomorrow. God will take care of tomorrow. - Pazaria Smith

I understand the sacred words of the sacred souls. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Even against the greatest of odds, there is something in the human spirit- a magic blend of skill, faith, and valor- that can lift men from certain defeat to incredible victory.

Economic and financial conversion is actually attainable, thanks to this principle of truth and honesty. - Sunday Adelaja

What appears in your life everyday is the result of what you have previously thought or felt. The speed that your thoughts and feelings appear in your life, depends on how much you believe it to be true - Franklin Gillette

Better to get off the train at this station. Than to do it later, when it's too late. Remember Time doesn't wait! - Deyth Banger

A deep breath is a technique with which we minimize the number of instances where we say what we do not mean … or what we really think. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I may not always like at times, but life is a beautiful blend of joy, tragedy and dreams. If not for one, I could not have the other. - Paula Heller Garland

Never allow your current circumstances dictate your level of happiness! Remember that this too shall pass! Rejoice always! - Mignon' Talise Padilla

Music is the soul of language. - Max Heindel

When the self is not engaged in apprehending objects it becomes aware of itself. - Walter Terence Stace

Every writer is a frustrated actor who recites his lines in the hidden auditorium of his skull. - Rod Serling

She is not fair to outward viewAs many maidens be;Her loveliness I never knewUntil she smiled on me.Oh! then I saw her eye was bright,A well of love, a spring of light. - Hartley Coleridge

Anger is the fire of the soul, love is the language of the heart ... - Stephen Richards

Replace cyber-bullying with cyber-believing.Let us build eachother up instead of bringing others down. BELIEVE & BUILD - Janna Cachola

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear. - Nelson Mandela

...One of the reasons so many women say "I'm not a feminist but..." (and then put forward a feminist position), is that in addition to being stereotyped as man-hating Amazons, feminists have also been cast as antifamily and antimotherhood. - Susan J. Douglas

Silence is the speech of the spiritual seeker. - Sathya Sai Baba

The Grim Reaper isn't grim at all; he's a life-saver. He isn't grim because he isn't anything. . . . he is nothing. And nothing is a hell of a lot better than anything. So long, boys. - Jack Kerouac

I'm free of all prejudices. I hate everyone equally.

There's a Pleasure"of happinessIn every thing I really wanna doWhen I find true happinessIn every thing I can do - - - Cocoy McCoy

An idea without sacrifice, regardless of grand it might be, will never be anything more than an idea. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

And people who don’t dream, who don’t have any kind of imaginative life, they must… they must go nuts. I can’t imagine that. - Stephen King

Success is most often a matter of competing with yourself for what is important to you as an individual. - Anita Waggoner

He who neglects to drink from the spring of experience is likely to die of thirst in the desert of ignorance.

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

The valuable attributes of research men are conscious ignorance and active curiosity. - Willis R. Whitney

They wonder much to hear that gold, which in itself is so useless a thing, should be everywhere so much esteemed, that even men for whom it was made, and by whom it has its value, should yet be thought of less value than it is. - Sir Thomas More

It only takes one thought in one moment to alter the course of your life. - Mark Donnelly

Your life is unlimited because you are blessed with infinite power of love and kindness. - Debasish Mridha

A dead man’s vanity: his ashes full of life that cannot be deceased before a living being’s pride. - Munia Khan

I imagined the sound of whips on black backs and the roar of the overseer over the cry of mothers being separated from their babies. I pulled on all the strength I had not to shot out every valuable leaded pane of glass in that stinking house. - Linda Leigh Hargrove

If a literary man puts together two words about music, one of them will be wrong. - Aaron Copland

When I say I must write, I don't mean I must publish. There is a great difference. the important thing is the chaotic form given to my chaotic experience, which is, as it was for James Joyce, my kind of religion, and necessary for me...as the confession and absolution for a Catholic in church. - Sylvia Plath

I'm not an abstractionist. I'm not interested in the relationship of color or form or anything else. I'm interested only in expressing basic human emotions: tragedy, ecstasy, doom, and so on. - Mark Rothko

Boast not thyself of to-morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth. - Bible

It seems the misfortune of one can plow a deeper furrow in the heart than the misfortune of millions. - Kirby Larson

The Y Chromosome, organized religion and money are the roots of all evil. - William Hageman

Depravity and decadence are two sides of the same coin. - Manoj Vaz

People may forget the quantity of your works but cannot forget the quality of your works. - Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

No thought is born in me that does not bear the image of death. - Michelangelo Buonarroti

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

Learning is more than the acquisition of the ability to think; it is the acquisition of many specialized abilities for thinking about a variety of things. - Lev S. Vygotsky

Keep knocking with the hammer of your love. The door will open when the power is strong enough. - Debasish Mridha

My original intent was to write a horror story about someone who loses his mind and slowly begins to unravel. The story, as I envisioned it, would evoke horror within the context of psychological decay, entropy. - Jupiter Cutter

The day will always have some bit of weirdness in it like a piece of fruit with one bad spot. Spit it out as fast as u can and eat the rest! - Raven Moore

The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear. - Jiddu Krishnamurti

Press them continually with memory and dream and have them waste their Present there. - Geoffrey Wood

...I swear Dev your cock is going to be the death of us all.'Dev just sat back and smiled unrepentantly. 'I beg to differ. My cock is like a finely tuned homing device. He led me straight to the person I needed to see. His judgement is infallible... - Lanie Malone

civilization is the very root cause of the woes of civilization - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

If you take care off your employees, they will take care of your business - Zybejta Metani'Marashi

I have been heartbroken once and it has affected all of my relationships from there on. But now I look at it as an occupational hazard. If you are in the meat market at some point you are gonna get mad cow disease. - Dominic Monaghan

There's that moment every day when you look in the mirror: Are you committed, or are you not? Commitment is a big part of what I am and what I believe. How committed you are to winning? How committed you are to being a good friend? To being successful? - Ebelsain Villegas

Be the master of your own thoughts to control your future. - Debasish Mridha

Scribblings of love are on your heartSo you think you can find it anywhere...Darling please beware not everyone has your heart. - Jasmine Sandozz

The happiest time of anyone's life is just after the first divorce. - John Kenneth Galbraith

I am thankful that in the giving we receive, and what we receive is the satisfaction of knowing that whatever we give is always bigger once we’ve given it away. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

A seeker ventures out to find beauty. When he is on the top of a mountain, he discovers that beauty is inside of his heart. - Debasish Mridha

Accept all of you, the good with the bad, the successes with the failures, the times you shone and the mistakes you made. It will bring into a place of peace. It will help you to move forward with your life. - Eileen Anglin

Becoming excellent at want, helps raises your confidence and develops your courage. Most of all, it can give you a grand reputation. - Mark F. LaMoure

The biggest payoff in achieving a goal is not what you get, but who you've become. - Joan Posivy

It is not unseemly for a man to die fighting in defense of his country. - Homer

It is thrifty to prepare today for the wants of tomorrow. - Aesop

No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond. - C.S. Lewis

Dream is made of Matter,Matter is invisible but infinite in length.Love is Consisted of matter,Life begins from Matter. - J.T Abraham

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

Most whites do not have a racial identity, but they would do well to understand what race means for others. They should also ponder the consequences of being the only group for whom such an identity is forbidden and who are permitted no aspirations as a group. - Jared Taylor

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

An Attitude of Gratitude Delivers To You Altitude of Beatitudes. - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

Nothing better than this moments of new year, to say : goodbye last day, last month, last year. Do i confused to say goodbye facebook? goodbye virtual world? - Nabil TOUSSI

All acts of healing are ultimately our selves healing our Self. - - Ram Dass

Every word I write is like a drop of my blood. If it's flowed passionately and long, I need time to recover from the emotion spent before I begin a new story. My characters are aspects of my life. I have to respectfully and carefully move between them. - Red Haircrow

Listen to life story of few people, made me think 'human being are prefer to leave than to be replaced..it take years to recover the pain..once recovered and they accept you, appreciate it...its hard to trust other people twice (Ejump,2016) - Ejump Schiffler

I have found adventure in flying, in world travel, in business, and even close at hand... Adventure is a state of mind - and spirit. - Jacqueline Cochran

Waiting with hope is very difficult, but true patience is expressed when we must even wait for hope. I will have reached the point of greatest strength once I have learned to wait for hope." - George Matheson

Achievement is not possible in the absence of Zeal. - Kishore Bansal

With any part you play, there is a certain amount of yourself in it. There has to be, otherwise it's just not acting. It's lying.

Hard fun is, of course, the idea that we take pleasure in accomplishing something difficult: the joy in meeting and mastering a challenge. As a result, when someone is doing something that is hard fun, moment by moment it looks more like "work" than "fun," but the net effect is pleasurable overall. - David Williamson Shaffer

We'd do well to remember that at the end of the day, the law doesn't defend us; we defend the law. And when it becomes contrary to our morals, we have both the right and the responsibility to rebalance it toward just ends. - Edward Snowden

I am telling himwhat he wants to hear: antsdying of love underthe constellation of the dandelion.I swear that a white rose,sprinkled with wine, sings.I am laughing, tiltingmy head carefullyas if checking an invention.I am dancing, dancingin astonished skin, inan embrace that creates me. - Wisława Szymborska

The health of an enlightened and progressive society is measured by how vibrant is its science fiction, since that is where true self-critique and appraisal and hope lie. - David Brin

The strength of a woman is not measured by the impact that all her hardships in life have had on her; but the strength of a woman is measured by the extent of her refusal to allow those hardships to dictate her and who she becomes. - C. JoyBell C.

Why are you unhappy?Because 99.9 percent of everything you think, and of everything you do, is for yourself—and there isn’t one. - Wei Wu Wei

When did most of us stop being poets? - Michael St. George

When i move through my pain, it clears the path for a new dawn, a new day. It is in these moments, i feel the sun rising on the horizon of hope, in my soul. - Jaeda DeWalt

It has taken me years of struggle, hard work, and research to learn to make one simple gesture, and I know enough about the art of writing to realize that it would take as many years of concentrated effort to write one simple, beautiful sentence. - Isadora Duncan

He realized without being aware of it that he had had the possibility to know her, before – had he known her? – but now that had changed. The possibility was gone. Now no one would know her unless she herself willed it. And there was nothing quite like the will he sensed in her now. - Amanda Coplin

Our span of life is brief, but is long enough for us to live well and honestly. - Cicero

A groundless rumor often covers a lot of ground. - Anonymous

It is never a crime to steal the heart of someone you love. - Matshona Dhliwayo

Some skeptics believe religious people are religious because they fear Hell. It's about as fair as saying skeptics are skeptics because they fear the ridicule of modern society. - Criss Jami

Extreme busyness is a symptom of deficient vitality, and a faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity. - Robert Louis Stevenson

To be free of destructive stress don't sweat the small stuff and by realizing that all stuff is small.

The solution to women’s issues can only be achieved in a free and democratic society in which human energy is liberated, the energy of both women and men together. Our civilization is called human civilization and is not attributed only to men or women. - توكل كرمان

Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame. - Arthur Schopenhauer

Only the great power of love can make you great. - Debasish Mridha

The satisfactions/of agreement are/immediate as sugar--/a melting of the/granular, a syrup/that lingers, shared/not singular./Many prefer it. - Kay Ryan

Awareness is a great neutralizer of negative emotions." Living Beyond the Five Senses - Teresa L. DeCicco, PhD

Even though your life is Rainy and muggy you can fight through it just Make sure you know what is happening And make sure you don't take to much pressure on it just shake it off! - Skye Daphne

All situations can be resolved peaceful. We should advocate for kindness instead of violence. - Mary Sage Nguyen

The habit of giving up when the present task is half finished and try something else is one of the chief causes of failure. - Christian D. Larson

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

People suicide because of the board rules, they don't like it. So people suicide, they don't see any other out of this place! - Deyth Banger

Everything science has taught me strengthens my belief in the continuity of our spiritual existence after death. I believe in an immortal soul. Science has proved that nothing disintegrates into nothingness. Life and soul, therefore, cannot disintegrate into nothingness, and so are immortal. - Werner Von Braun

The sound was like a gentle breeze of joy on a warm summer day. It wrapped around his senses and his heart. That was the moment, and he knew he’d be telling her about it fifty years from now when she asked him when it was that he knew that he loved her. - Grace Willows

A person who talks often about success and happiness is most likely to be a sales (wo)man, so the people ought to be always watchful of the price s/he is charging for her/his offerings. - Anuj Somany

There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist. - Ayn Rand

The joy of discovery is certainly the liveliest that the mind of man can ever feel.

Behind the veil of each night, there is a smiling dawn. - Kahlil Gibran

You can crush a rose; all it will do is give off perfume. - Matshona Dhliwayo

The definition of genius is that it acts unconsciously; and those who have produced immortal works, have done so without knowing how or why. The greatest power operates unseen. - William Hazlitt

The human animal differs from the lesser primates in his passion for lists of "Ten Best".

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

Presenting a rational argument to a person who has forsaken the use of reason is like asking a vegetarian to eat a cheeseburger. - Michel Templet

The voice that U hear is the alchemy of Ur mind. - Prince

You get peace of mind not by thinking about it or imagining it, but by quietening and relaxing the restless mind. - Remez Sasson

Criticism alone can sever the root of materialism, fatalism, atheism, free-thinking, fanaticism, and superstition, which can be injurious universally; as well as of idealism and skepticism, which are dangerous chiefly to the Schools, and hardly allow of being handed on to the public. - Immanuel Kant

Happines is like mercury. Hard to hold, and when we drop it, it shatters into a million pieces. Maybe the bravest of all are those who have the courage to reach for it again.

Stupidity is letting your pride rob you of God’s blessings. - Shannon L. Alder

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

Courage is holding on one minute longer than everyone else. Courage is stepping forward when every fiber of your being says step back. Courage is being willing to do the impossible because it is the right thing to do. - Blaine Lee Pardoe

The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good. - Baltasar Gracian

Humility is not a one time lesson that comes when you have lost everything. It is a daily reminder of how far we have come, yet still short of who we can be through HIS guidance. Blessed is the soul that can recognize that he isn’t moving mountains, but God is for him. - Shannon L. Alder

He is one of those peple who would be enormously improved by death

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

Ever since that day, I have lived a lie, the lie of living. - Lelouch Vi Britannia

Don’t worry, I’m the business expert here, and when I make my first million, I’m going to sue those werewolves’ asses off, Priscilla said cheerfully. They’ll have no ass left. They’ll be ass-less. They’ll look ridiculous. - St. Clair, Georgette

When women are depressed, they eat or go shopping. Man invade another country. It's a whole different way of thinking.

ADMIRAL, n. That part of a war-ship which does the talking while the figure-head does the thinking. - Ambrose Bierce

The fact is that more people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, that my friends, that is true perversion! - Harvey Milk

Speak well of the sun, but know that it can harm you;when enraged, it is pitiless. Speak well of the ocean, but know that it can injure you; when angry, it is merciless. Speak well of the wind, but know that it can wound you; when provoked, it is ruthless. - Matshona Dhliwayo

Growth is one of the most natural process of life - Sunday Adelaja

Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art--Not in lone splendour hung aloft the nightAnd watching, with eternal lids apart,Like nature's patient, sleepless Eremite. - John Keats

Do everything with your whole heart, or not at all. Don't put up with lies or with people who lie to you. Don't risk hurting people just for the fun of it. And lastly, your best foot shouldn't be put forward; it should be with you at all times— right there beside the other one. - C. JoyBell C.

I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody. - J. D. Salinger

There is probably no more terrible instant of enlightenment than the one in which you discover your father is a man--with human flesh. - Frank Herbert

The human body is the best work of art. - Jess C. Scott

It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship. - Colette

Maj. Burns: "What kind of idiot do you think I am?" Cpl. O'Reily: "You'd know that better than me, sir.

How wil we ever get out of this labyrinth of suffering? - John Green

All of us are in desperate need of the restoration of our wholeness through union with our inmost self. - Stephan A. Hoeller

but there was nothing I could do to dim the supernovae exploding inside my brain, an endless chain of intra cranial firecrackers - John Green

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

I exist in the paradise of my mind. - Lailah Gifty Akita

I shall act always so as to increase the total number of choices. - Heinz von Foerster

Religion holds the solution to all problems of human relationship, whether they are between parents and children or nation and nation. Sooner or later, man has always had to decide whether he worships his own power or the power of God.

As it turns out, Plutarch, consciously or unconsciously, touched on a truth that most of us feel, but rarely meditate upon: the little things in behaviour are the door not only to the real character of people but also to their soul. - Nicos Hadjicostis

If you want to understand the causes of aggression, study police officers - Steven Magee

Eat a live toad the first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day. - Unknown

The public interest is best served by the free exchange of ideas.

Your actions may not directly define the kind of person you are but the words that come out your mouth surely will. - Val Irvin Mabayo

Every act of goodness it's born from our desire to be happy. - Udai Yadla

It [discovering Finnish] was like discovering a wine-cellar filled with bottles of amazing wine of a kind and flavour never tasted before. It quite intoxicated me. - J.R.R. Tolkien

There were two and only two messages that could have been comprehended by what he said.But neither of them was soothing; neither of them was a lie. - Sanhita Baruah

Be aware of the voices in your head. Identify them. Just became you hear it doesn’t mean it’s your voice saying it. And just because you think it doesn’t mean it’s true. - Toni Sorenson

There was once a house built out of memories and inside this house lived a woman called The Memory Snatcher. This woman was my Aunt Beydan. She was a sorceress and as a child I feared she would stalk me in my sleep and steal all my memories until I could no longer remember who I was. - Diriye Osman

When you have confidence, you can have a lot of fun. And when you have fun, you can do amazing things.

Blessed be the meek, for they shall inherit six feet of the earth.

Let your soul bloom like a flower with the beauty and fragrance of divine love. - Debasish Mridha

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Imagination is the reality of the dreamer.

We are not creators; only combiners of the created. Invention isn't about new ingredients, but new recipes. And innovations taste the best. - Ryan Lilly

Nobody ever died of laughter. - Max Beerbohm

As a general rule, in the world of magic, the most successful magician is the one who has enough patience to keep the secrets of his original magic effects. - Amit Kalantri

You must have a definite purpose of life and a deep desire to achieve it. Without purpose, life is boring. - Debasish Mridha

What a sad thing I thought-- to live in a world so concerned with the lives of others,we forget to live our own. - Anonymous

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

Most people do not take care of their lives, because they don’t value life - Sunday Adelaja

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

No man who ever held the office of president would congratulate a friend on obtaining it. - John Adams

When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic. Sell not liberty to purchase power. - Benjamin Franklin

Some people are severely lonely, all they can do is accept the single life as an example of being free and happy. - Anthony Liccione

Some of us read the Bible to quote God’s words back to Him so as to get Him to make us live a discomfort free life. The reason is not far-fetched – God is not interested in your comfort. He is more interested in your purpose. - Sunday Adelaja

Leaving the familiar for unknown terrain is like a death - and feeling this level of finality should snap one back to life for life has greater meaning in the face of death. - Donna Lynn Hope

Technology... the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it. - Max Frisch

I believe that every human has a finite number of heart-beats. I don't intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises. - Buzz Aldrin

What I wear on and off stage is my mask. You see, a mask doesn't hide you, it exposes you. - Nuno Roque

I don't believe in the idea of the strong woman; there is simply woman. - Melissa Thayer

Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for and you will succeed. - Sydney Smith

True, I was rather alone, but loneliness isn't proof of not being right. - Krleža, Miroslav

That's the first rule of survival in enemy waters: volunteer nothing. - James Clavell

It may be that the fear contains information. Something can be interesting if you get to the other side of that fear. - Craig Ferguson

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

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

Whenever I use to think of others, I had to sacrifice myself...., Its called life in earth where you had to think a lot to do or not to do, the things you like or dislike..... - Nutan Bajracharya

A carpenter is hired- a roof repaired, a porch built. Everything that can be fixed. June, July, August. Everyday we hear their laughter. I think of the painting by van Gogh, the man in the chair. Everything wrong, and nowhere to go. His hands over his eyes. - Mary Oliver

If I were a flower, then now I’d be a budI shall treasure the beginning of my youth withoutany regrets - Kifuji Aya

With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bended arm for a pillow - I have still joy in the midst of these things. Riches and honors acquired by unrighteousness are to me as a floating cloud. - Confucius

Families are like puzzles. They fit together in a certain way, and if one piece is missing, it throws everything off. - Richard Schiff

In the end, the number of prayers we say may contribute to our happiness, but the number of prayers we answer may be of even greater importance. - Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Sometimes the signs and signals of the non-language speaking world are not very clear. Then we have to walk in trust, move forward step by small step, until we are sure of the proper path. - Elaine Seiler

Historically, philosophy does not have an impressive track record of answering questions about natural world in a decisive manner. - Christof Koch

The only period where there is lesser competition for opportunities are during times of difficulties. - Auliq-Ice

Be the author of your destiny. - Lailah Gifty Akita

The house had been torn down. Nothing is left but the old white fence. There used to be privet bushes everywhere. "The smell of privet is the smell of summer for me," I say to Catherine."Yes, Mom." she says, "I know, Your memories are my memories now. - Abigail Thomas

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

Enlightenment lacks any form of judgment. - Kamand Kojouri

Prayer is a many fingeredand kaleidoscopic thing—it foldsand unfolds inside of you. It entersthe many rooms you cannot enter. - Cecilia Llompart

Raise and Praise; it keeps the devil away!Feeling down? Start praising even if it is a sacrifice of praise. You will soon start feeling better because the devil will not stick around & praise God with you! - Sandra Lott

I know you love how I make it all go away: all the joy, all the pain, all thoughts in your brain.For the price of your soul, I will hold your heart in my talons. For three summers straight you've been my sweet eye candy;and no one will ever, ever, take you away from me. - Say Anything, Skinny mean man

Every relationship is a trust, for you to learn or be taught; the moment you start seeing relationships as a trust, then you will begin to make the best out of it - TopsyGift

Religion became the evil of our society when it started to teach resentment and hate instead of unconditional love and wisdom. - Debasish Mridha

Religious unity does not come so easily. It is not a piece of pie, which you can buy in the shop. It takes sincere efforts from every single human being on this planet. - Abhijit Naskar

Be inquisitive. Open your eyes, open your minds to things you don't necessarily know even exist. I think that's an important part of learning and growing. The more [you]'re willing to ask, the more [you]'re going to get out of it. - Jay Rinaldi

Defeat is only defeat if we accept it as defeat. Victory often comes after defeat, because one was too stubborn to allow it to be their reality. In the trail of any great conflict you will see the scuff marks, where the one was beaten down, but they could not be taught to stay that way. - Tom Althouse

There is no night porter wandering about in King's. The authorities pay you the compliment, ugly gate-crasher, of treating you as a grown-up. And since we are not grown-up you and I, we will perform our midnight frolics as the inmates burn the midnight oil. - Whipplesnaith

I am crying over the loss of something I never had. How ridiculous. Mourning something that never was – my dashed hopes, dashed dreams, and my soured expectations. - E.L. James

Beyond the limit of suffering is strength. - Lailah Gifty Akita

In the beginning there was a fruit stand. The fruit of life on one side, and the fruit of intelligence on the other. While most chose life, humanity chose intelligence, and became the dominate species on this planet. - J. M. Norris

Art – the one achievement of man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised - James Thurber

How do I define success? Let me tell you, money's pretty nice. But having a lot of money does not automatically make you a successful person. What you want is money and meaning. You want your work to be meaningful, because meaning is what brings the real richness to your life. - Oprah Winfrey

Life is not a miracle. It is a natural phenomenon, and can be expected to appear whenever there is a planet whose conditions duplicate those of the earth.[Stating how planets supporting life cannot be rare.] - Harold Urey

I am furiously happy. It's not a cure for mental illness...it's a weapon, designed to counter it. It's a way to take back some of the joy that's robbed from you when you're crazy. - Jenny Lawson

Don't let feeling lonely push you into the arms of a person who will make you miserable. - Stephan Labossiere

Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot. - Josh Billings

Definitions and meanings change all the time. Truth and reality are very volatile, indefinite, multi layered and sometimes very paradoxical. That’s why it is very fiddly to make a set definition for the phenomena of our daily life. ( " Did not expect it would ever happen, there" ) - Erik Pevernagie

The future is not a result of choices among alternative paths offered by the present, but a place that is created - created first in the mind and will, created next in activity. - John Schaar

You said, 'They’re harmless dreamers and they’re loved by the people.' 'What,' I asked you, 'is harmless about a dreamer, and what,' I asked you, 'is harmless about the love of the people? Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams. - Tennessee Williams

The pleasure of living and the pleasure of the orgasm are identical. Extreme orgasm anxiety forms the basis of the general fear of life. - Wilhelm Reich

Beauty will never fade away from the eyes of those who love one another. - Auliq Ice

It is much easier to break the rules when one s surrounded by strangers. One does not know any of them, so one cannot really care for their opinion. - Monica Fairview

And so it turned out that only a life similar to the life of those around us, merging with it without a ripple, is genuine life, and that an unshared happiness is not happiness. - Boris Pasternak

Ronald Reagan and George Bush pushed through programs that raised taxes on the middle class. I think it's time to cut them. And in my administration I'll offer a middle-income tax cut that will cut rates on the middle class. - Bill Clinton

It is the greatest art of the devil to convince us he does not exist. - Charles Baudelaire

A fool cannot be protected from his folly. If you attempt to do so, you will not only arouse his animosity but also you will be attempting to deprive him of whatever benefit he is capable of deriving from experience. Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.

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

The soul is soft, beautiful, delicate, fun-loving, and always blooming. To nurture the soul, it needs sunshine and unconditional self-love. - Debasish Mridha

A majority of the people do not actually lend their support to the authority, but just repay the debt to the favour received from her/him. - Anuj Somany

That's the downside of growing up. There's a lot of pretending involved. We frequently act like someone other than who we really are because we don't know or aren't comfortable with our true selves. - Connor Franta

The holy passion of Friendship is so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money. - Mark Twain

The power of positive thoughts is divine. Maintain a positive thoughts to create the life you want. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Many of us saw religion as harmless nonsense. Beliefs might lack all supporting evidence but, we thought, if people needed a crutch for consolation, where's the harm? September 11th changed all that. - Richard Dawkins

When starting a relationship in Business or Personal Be in it to win it.Be present,be consistent and remind YOUR focus of your desire.~bns - Bluenscottish

Still reading but learning a lot about true education and the process of guiding our children in their educational pursuits. - Oliver DeMille

when you change the way you think, you'll begin to see things that were not seen before, and this is the path of wisdom .عندما تغير طريقة تفكيرك سوف ترى أشياء لم تكن تراها من قبل، وهذا هو طريق الحكمة - Hicham LM Kamelionaire

To live is - to war with trolls In the holds of the heart and mind - Henrik Ibsen

When all the kids answered "fireman", "dentist", "mother", "want to marry a rich guy" and "astronaut", mine was "rockstar" when we grow up. Half of that was met. I knew I wouldn't be happy with any other occupation that was not in the entertainment business. - Nona Sebastian

It’s been raining outside and I feel like a sad poet, hating my imagination pissing on the roof. - Munia Khan

Most of our imports come from other countries. - George W. Bush

Anybody who has doubts about the ingenuity or the resourcefulness of a plumber never got a bill from one. - George Meany

Flowers of sin, like some black sun,Bloom in my dreams Their perfume-sodden fragrance Spreading through each heartbeat. - Shiv Kumar Batalvi

A great obstacle to happiness is the expectation of too great a happiness. - Fontenelle

If you can bow in front of the justice at the height of your power, it means that you are really a just person! - Mehmet Murat ildan

Within us all are sages, warriors and fools; we more often that not choose the fools - rassool jibraeel snyman

It is not in the gene of an Intellectually blinded person to experience the paradise in the writer's imagination. - Michael Bassey Johnson

The right to "liberty" and "pursuit" of happiness is incompatible with a government that makes choices for you. - A.E. Samaan

There is no greater importance in all the world like knowing you are right and that the wave of the world is wrong, yet the wave crashes upon you. - Norman Mailer

I can bow to fear and flee the pursuit of great things. I can bow to God and engage in the pursuit of making things great. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

Where I grew up, women’s liberation was when you let a chick out of her cage for 15 minutes so she could stretch her legs. - John Rachel

Only those who are eager to get lost in the wilderness of life’s beauty can find a meaningful life. - Debasish Mridha

How many people came and stayed a certain time,Uttered light or dark speech that became part of youLike light behind windblown fog and sandFiltered and influenced by it, until no partRemains that is surely you. - John Ashbery

The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech. - George Bernard Shaw

Always think about how you can contribute and never think of how you can receive a contribution. - Debasish Mridha

A person with a large tuber of self-pride remains engrossed in the fear of, ‘Someone is going to insult me…someone is going to insult me’ or ‘From where can I get respect? From where can I get the respect? - Dada Bhagwan

Sometimes it is one step at a time, and things don’t always work out the way we would like them to, but as you allow God to direct you He will bring you to a place of peace. - Anna Stevens

My circumstances of unrelieved responsibility and permanent distraction necessitated the short story form. - Raymond Carver

Procrastination is the kidnapper of souls, and the recruiting-officer of Hell. - Edward Irving

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking about. - G. K. Chesterton

Naming one thing after another cannot, logically, increase the chances of the new thing turning out like the old thing.

The one who doesn't, at the time of bliss as well as crisis, abandon his own, is the one worthy to be addressed as a human. - Radhika Mundra

I've got daughters. Nine years old and six years old. First of all, I'm gonna teach them about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don't want them PUNISHED with a baby. - Barack Obama

You must first dream, without worrying about how you will fulfill the dreams. There is a divine power that will attract the needed resources for the fulfillment of your dreams. - Lailah Gifty Akita

I don't admire the person who hides from the world and claims enlightenment. To be purified you have to be tested and there is no better test of strength than dealing with other people. - Donna Lynn Hope

It is not solely or chiefly in virtue of the divine image that man effectively resembles God, but in virtue of his consciousness of being an image and the movement whereby the soul, passing in a way through itself, avails itself of the factual resemblance in order to attain to God. - Étienne Gilson

In the garden of humanity every baby is a fresh new flower. - Debasish Mridha

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out. - Walter Winchell

The depth of my love cannot be emphasized, as I can't stop falling in love with you... - Solomon Debisette

Virtuous motives, trammeled by inertia and timidity, are no match for armed and resolute wickedness. A sincere love of peace is no excuse for muddling hundreds of millions of humble folk into total war. The cheers of the weak, well-meaning assemblies soon cease to count. Doom marches on. - Sir Winston Churchill

The United States of America has more monolingual experts on bilingual education than any other country in the world.

They say blood is thicker than water. It's also more treacherous, prone to betrayal, full of shit and quite honestly, I wouldn't put much weight into it at all. - Ashly Lorenzana

Happiness is a reflection of how you perceive the moment - Jane Emery

An American has no sense of privacy. He does not know what it means.There is no such thing in the country. - George Bernard Shaw

Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily; even if you had no title or position. - Brian Tracy

Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

To be profitable, practice diligence.To be successful, practice excellence.To be influential, practice intelligence.To be honorable, practice prudence.To be blissful, practice kindness.To be joyful, practice goodness. - Matshona Dhliwayo

AGE, n. That period of life in which we compound for the vices that we still cherish by reviling those that we have no longer the enterprise to commit. - Ambrose Bierce

I don't want to sound Pollyannaish, but I hope that out of a tragedy like this something good will come. I hope we understand we're one family. - Madeleine Albright

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

Body awareness not only anchors you in the present moment. It is a doorway out of the prison that is the ego. - Eckhart Tolle

Love is scary; it changes; it can go away. That's part of the risk. - Jenny Han

The single greatest reason why we are losing a generation is because the home is no longer the place of the transference of the faith. We live in a day of ‘outsourcing’…Today, we have a generation of people that outsource their kids. - Tony Evans

Out of the strain of the Doing, Into the peace of the Done. - Julia Louise Woodruff

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

Literature will save me it's the only certainty i am sure of. - Nikki Rowe

Stories are made about girls like you. The wild ones, those rare faces that smile in the midst of chaos. - Nikki Rowe

Majority of people find that nature is anything that walks and grows on planet Earth, astronomers have found that this nature stretches way beyond our atmosphere as far as we can see in to the Universe. - Michel Reitsma

A journey of a lifetime is measured by memories, not by time. - Debasish Mridha

Bias rules our minds and causes us to overlook the obvious. From 'Fillossofee: Messages From a Grandfather', by - Robert Gately

PORTUGUESE, n.pl. A species of geese indigenous to Portugal. They are mostly without feathers and imperfectly edible, even when stuffed with garlic. - Ambrose Bierce

Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke. - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

I knew with certainty now—I could say no, and he would stop. Above all, I felt the fierce beauty of the choice. I knew now what it was that had held me from falling into my desire to be with him fully: I first needed to make sure he was a man who would respect my 'No. - Aspen Matis

The Bible is the greatest book of all times. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Marriage is long enough to have plenty of room for time behind it. - William Faulkner

Golf is a game in which you claim the privileges of age, and retain the playthings of childhood. - Samuel Johnson

Love. What is it truly? Love is a spiritual state, an intangible, often insatiable need to put one's needs above your own. To provide peace, stability and smiles to those who have made the long transition from your mind to your heart. - Bella Vespira

Life is made up of sobs, sniffles and smiles, with sniffles predominating. - O. Henry

The problem, unstated until now, is how to live in a damaged body in a world where pain is meant to be gagged uncured ungrieved over. The problem is to connect, without hysteria, the pain of anyone's body with the pain of the world's body. - Adrienne Rich

Now I'm just like everybody else, and it's so funny, the way monogamy is funny, the waysomeone falling down in the street is funny.I entered a revolving door and emergedas a human being. When you think of meis my face electronically blurred? - Jeffrey McDaniel

Intercessory prayer is exceedingly prevalent. What wonders it has wrought! The Word of God teems with its marvelous deeds. Believer, thou hast a mighty engine in thy hand, use it well, use it constantly, use it with faith, and thou shalt surely be a benefactor to thy brethren. - C.H.SPURGEON

Cowards falter, but danger is often overcome by those who nobly dare.

Conformity is the ruin of the mind.

If the U.S. foreign policy results in massive death and destruction abroad, they cannot feign innocence when some of that destruction is returned. On 9/11/2001, Americans noticed that payback can be a real motherfucker. - Ward Churchill

Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow, hope lies in dreams in imagination - Irak. ibrahim Hussain Didi

I ask myself every day am I an Adult?What is an Adult? To me an Adult is someone who can see the world for what it really is.And instead of giving up and trying to escape reality at every moment they can, they choose to continue on and use what is around them to help them succeed. - Michael Mano

A life spent in fear is not much of a life at all. - Daniel Willey

The first principle of achievement is mental attitude. People begin to achieve when they begin to believe. - Zahid Abas

The human worker will go the way of the horse. - Wassily Leontief

The universe evolved from something and nothing, and has most of these elemental dualpair until now. - Joey Lawsin

People who ask our advice almost never take it. Yet we should never refuse to give it, upon request, for it often helps us to see our own way more clearly. - Brendan Francis Brown

Don’t worry. All of your problems will be solved in the end. - Debasish Mridha

Love is a drama of contradictions. - Franz Kafka

More often than not, rejecting rescue is in reality rejecting our need to be rescued. And it may very well be that is why so many reject Christmas. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

Money does not go only to those who go to church, it goes to those who know and comply with the laws of money - Sunday Adelaja

The world in which you were born is just one model of reality. Other cultures are not failed attempts at being YOU: they are unique manifestations of the human spirit. - Wade Davis

My first words, as I was being born [...] I looked up at my mother and said, 'that's the last time I'm going up one of those. - Stephen Fry

Forgiveness simply means to give love instead of hate. - Auliq-Ice

We are, perhaps uniquely among the earth’s creatures, the worrying animal. We worry away our lives, fearing the future, discontent with the present, unable to take the idea of dying, unable to sit still. - Lewis Thomas

Anyone with more than 365 pair of shoes is a pig.

Absence of conflict creating intents is itself Moksh (Ultimate Liberation). - Dada Bhagwan

Life is an affair of mystery; shared with companions of music, dance and poetry. - Shah Asad Rizvi

Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it.Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window. - William Faulkner

We decided to become a society of women, a club to make sure women were protected. The club was something important back then. Not like it is today. - Sarah Addison Allen

I was a normal person, living in a rough area with a foreign mother, I endured it and came out of the other side to help hundreds of thousands of people worldwide to change their lives just like I had mine. - Stephen Richards

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

Intuition isn't the enemy, but the ally, of reason. - John Kord Lagemann

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social enviroment. Most people are incapable of forming such opinions."(Essay to Leo Baeck, 1953) - Albert Einstein

A call to embrace democracy is the worst insult to a society that is still alien to civilisation. It is like being asked to dance to the tune of mob justice. - Newton Gatambia

You feel your strength in the experience of pain. - Jim Morrison

When you enter a mindset, you enter a new world. In one world--the world of fixed traits--success is about proving you're smart or talented. Validating yourself. In the other--the world of changing qualities--it's about stretching yourself to learn something new. Developing yourself. - Carol S. Dweck

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

Those who decide to live in the Present, must leave their past behind. Once past has been left behind, future also disappears! What is left then? The actual moment, the Present! Living in the here and now means that we are able to get rid of time and suffering! - Frank Wanderer

When all your efforts are channeled through a common canal for progress, no condition can alter a single sentence of your success story! Dream it; Drive it; Be in focus! - Israelmore Ayivor

The bell tolls with a painful note afarWhen man drops in the dreadful jaws of deathBut human beasts watch death with mouth ajarWhile lifeless church bell feels the pangs of death - Manuel Newton-Management Consultant Poet MA M.Com LLB ICWA FIBAM FIMM etc

Sharing feelings, conveying appreciation and whispering desires are all crucial components of a satisfying encounter with your beloved. - Brownell Landrum

< L'ESSERE UMANO - L'UOMO È LA PERSONOFICAZIONE DEL INCOSCIENZA IN PERSONA , CHI SI CONSIDERA UOMO SI CONSIDERA INCOSCIENTE AL 100% > - COSMO GANDI

The concept of dignity of labour took people off the street. - Sunday Adelaja

Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment. - Robert Benchley

The big corporations are suddenly taking notice of the web, and their reactions have been slow. Even the computer industry failed to see the importance of the Internet, but that's not saying much. Let's face it, the computer industry failed to see that the century would end. - Douglas Adams

Be aware of the voices in your head. Identify them. Just because you hear it doesn’t mean it’s your voice saying it. And just because you think it doesn’t mean it’s true. - Toni Sorenson

Pull yourself out of the dirt, dust yourself off, and get back on the horse and ride towards the sunset. - Michael Dean Russell Jr.

The one great art is that of making a complete human being of oneself. - G.I. Gurdjieff

What is the meaning of it all, of this...of this world?'Mystery', I heard in my thoughts, or perhaps, 'mercy', but I wasn't certain of either. - Orhan Pamuk

In the middle of the night, there is always less hope; in the dawn of the morning, there is always more hope! - Mehmet Murat ildan

I will not allow yesterday's success to lull me into today's complacency, for this is the great foundation of failure. - Og Mandino

There is no aspect of life that you take that does not demand discipline. It is a requirement of life. It is not a matter of choice. - Sunday Adelaja

No harm's done to history by making it something someone would want to read."(The Course of Human Events, NEH Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities 2003) - David McCullough

Religion stops the loot of illusion; and through non-religion, the loot of illusion begins. - Dada Bhagwan

Every little girl knows about love. It is only her capacity to suffer because of it that increases. - Francoise Sagan

MERCY, n. An attribute beloved of detected offenders. - Ambrose Bierce

I think people need to recognize that those of us who have been so much influenced by violence in the media- in particular pornographic violence- are not some kinds of inherent monsters. We are your sons, and we are your husbands. And we grew up in regular families. - James C. Dobson

Life is a cake and love is the icing on top of it. Without 'love', it becomes difficult to swallow 'life'... - Mehek Bassi

He who cherishes the values of culture cannot fail to be a pacifist. - Albert Einstein

A painting is a universal language which everyone can read, understand, and interpret in his own way through the power of imagination. - Debasish Mridha

Ah, you big Nancy, there’s nothing to be afraid of. Seen it many times before. They come and go, boy, never change. It’s the same type from the very beginning. Nothing’s changed except the clothes and technology. - William Elias

I love to sleep. Do you? Isn't it great? It really is the best of both worlds. You get to be alive and unconscious. - Rita Rudner

Translation software is not making translators obsolete. Has medical diagnostic software made doctors obsolete? - Nataly Kelly

There is no such thing as a perfect person in this world. We all must become the main characters or the stars of our lives. We are all different and start differently. But from whatever is our circumstances, it is very important that we find the opportunities to try out what we want to do. - Goo Hye Sun

Success is attached to mentality of a man's maturity - Buhari S.I

All my life I have lived within the very hours of the hands of love. - Valentinno

People need not fear the unknown if they have a capable of achieving what they need and what - Paulo Coelho

Life is a one-way journey to be enjoyed, so enjoy the beauty of the present moment with all your heart. - Debasish Mridha

The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught. - H. L. Mencken

Because history is not the background—history is the stage! And you are on the stage! Oh, how sickening is your appalling ignorance of your own times! - Philip Roth

My self-esteem is not tied to the approval of others. - Kenneth Wayne Wood

[A young adult novel] ends not with happily ever after, but at a new beginning, with the sense of a lot of life yet to be lived. - Richard Peck

Every aspect of your life is anchored energetically in your living space, so clearing clutter can completely transform your entire existence. - Karen Kingston

Photography captures a moment in time. Art captures time in a moment. - Joyce Wycoff

After a life of being entombed, essentially a slave to an unfair beginning,I am free. I'm a liberated whore of the world with little to no inhibitions."(Annie from upcoming book 3) - Robert Kimbrell

A creative thought at first sight seems ridiculous and unimportant, an increase in those who cherish it reassures that hiding your creativity hides you for the rest of your life. - Michael Bassey Johnson

Every year it minus or subtract a percentage of your life. Thats why when we grow , The time is more faster, the months are faster, days are faster. We are hardly able to keep track of time. We are also getting closer to death than we were . - De philosopher DJ Kyos

It seems to me that man has engaged in a blind and fearful struggle out of a past he can't remember, into a future he can't forsee nor understand. And man has met and defeated every obstacle, every enemy except one. He cannot win over himself. - John Steinbeck

Be jealous of fellow men, but of those men who are pious - your fellow men who are honest, sincere and loyal with their friends, family and teachings of their Creator. See everyone as equal and wish no harm on anyone - who are we to judge each other when we are being judged by our Creator. - Mizan Chaudhury

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

To resist the frigidity of old age one must combine the body, the mind and the heart - and to keep them in parallel vigor one must exercise, study and love. - Karl von Bonstetten

We must as second best...take the least of the evils. - Aristotle

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon. - Woody Allen

We have too many cellphones. We've got too many internets. We have got to get rid of those machines. We have too many machines now. - Ray Bradbury

There is nothing which can better deserve our patronage than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness. - George Washington

We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path. - Paulo Coelho

I wish I had a brush that could paint the whole sky and turn every morning into night. I wish I could always sleep next to you in the never ending night and hold your hand, watching the reflection of all the stars in your eyes, while you smile and watch them in the sky with wonder. - Akshay Vasu

Sexual role-play is the enactment of a highly imaginative and erotic psychodrama where the individual is given creative license to express the polar opposite qualities of their multifaceted personality; bringing a profound sense of psychological release and rejuvenation to those involved. - Miya Yamanouchi

Move on, don’t let the little things of Life hold you back. Forget, Forgive, and Move on.- - RVM

A man desires praise that he may be reassured, that he may be quit of his doubting of himself; he is indifferent to applause when he is confident of success.

Saying 'I don’t know' is one of the most powerful things you can say because it creates the potential to find out. - Kyle Schmalenberg

My sense of the holy is bound up with the hope that some day my remote descendants will live in a global civilization in which love is pretty much the only law. - Richard M. Rorty

Evil originates not in the absence of guilt; but in our effort to escape it. - Shannon L. Alder

Your anger is the fire which can burn the whole world, but forgiveness is the water which can extinguish the fire and bloom the flowers of peace and love. - Debasish Mridha

Picnics are very dear to those who are in the first stage of the tender passion. - Arthur Conan Doyle

says 'End your ego, think of nation - Imran Khan

Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them. - Paul Valery

I'm out of the loop, and that's the way I like it. - Anonymous

Wine is the most healthful and most hygienic of beverages. - Louis Pasteur

Suicide is nothing, but an act of depriving the soul from it's very right to liberation. - Aniruddha Sastikar

Sometimes words are just a crude translation of love. - Saleem Sharma

Waves of positivity and possibilities send tiny ripples of hope to wash away the walls of negativity. - Debasish Mridha

In life, the first thing you must do is decide what you really want. Weigh the costs and the results. Are the results worthy of the costs? Then make up your mind completely and go after your goal with all your might. - Alfred A. Montapert

Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people. - Oscar Wilde

True children of God experience pleasure in giving. - Sunday Adelaja

In and of itself, nothing really matters. What matters is that nothing is ever in and of itself. - Chuck Klosterman

Christ went more willingly to the cross than we do to the throne of grace. - Thomas Watson

Even though their marriage had been dead for over two years (her words, not mine), this put her in the role of the innocent. She was now a woman scorned. ~Shattered Reality - Brenda Perlin

Authors are supernatural beings. They exist in the world, also in worlds they create, and in the worlds of other authors they read. - Lani Brown

Toward dawn we shared with youyour hour of desolation,the huge lingering passionof your unearthly out cry,as you swung your blind headtowards us and laboriously openeda bloodshot, glistening eye,in which we swam with terror and recognition. - Stanley Kunitz

Who am i? I'm the one you won't be able to handle. I'm the one who is the other side of the picture. I'm the one who is going to make you question everything you believe. I'm the one whom you can never understand. - Ashbeel Roy

Food is an important part of a balanced diet. - Fran Lebowitz

Wear #gratitude and life will show unto you into rhythm of synchronicity #quote - Thomas Muriuki

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime. - Mark Twain

You don’t come to live here [New York City] unless the delusion of a reality shaped around your own desires isn’t a strong aspect of your personality. 'A reality shaped around your own desires' — there is something sociopathic in that ambition. - Zadie Smith

There's no retirement for an artist, it's your way of living so there's no end to it. - Henry Moore

One great function of Bible verses: To keep us from drawing false inferences from other Bible verses. - John Piper

Every wave in an ocean has a secret to tell you; life is a wave of love so let it flow over you endlessly. - Debasish Mridha

I am not trying to teach you anything but trying to ignite the fire of curiosity for knowledge and wisdom. - Debasish Mridha

They can stop a river by building a dam, but I will be damned if they can stop my river of blood flowing through my veins and heart. - Anthony Liccione

We see and tell about the myriad truths of how the universe is and might be. That's what we writers DO. - Nicohle Christopherson

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

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

People are of 3 categories;Some dream with an opportunity.Some pursue it and some create it - Mohammed Sekouty

My everlasting Summer fills heart with laughter like a blooming flower... Her diverse sounds is nature's symphony, sprinkle delight, with comfort of ocean breeze which needs no attest.. The unique every moment of soul's revival and its sun to shine... - Oksana Rus

It is easy to hurt people when we do not filter our thoughts, when we do not choose our words, when we do not control the tone of voice and the body language. - Saif Samir

We are precarious. Which is to say some good things (accumulation of diverseknowledges, skills and abilities through work and life experiences in permanentconstruction), and a lot of bad ones (vulnerability, insecurity, poverty, socialexposure). - Lisa Adkins

Over seven billion people exist and not one has your set of fingerprints. That sets you apart from anyone who has or ever will walk the face of this earth. You bring something to the table of life that no one else can, so bring it! - DeWayne Owens

At the end of the day the only thing that stays are your words. They linger while you disappear. Hanging in the air like they're on a clothesline, oh how I wish I could let them go. - Jasmine Sandozz

The incompetent with nothing to do can still make a mess of it. - Laurence J. Peter

Back of every creation, supporting it like an arch, is faith. Enthusiasm is nothing: It comes and goes. But if one believes, then miracles occur. - Henry Miller

Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving. - W.T. Purkiser

The rather difficult antagonists towards the Faith consist not nearly of the cruel and heartless, nihilistic intellectuals who hate God and humanity, but the well-meaning spirits who for the most part lack Spiritual understanding. - Criss Jami

Greatness is the flower of great adversity. - Debasish Mridha

You dance love, and you dance joy, and you dance dreams. And I know if I can make you smile by jumping over a couple of couches or running through a rainstorm, then I'll be very glad to be a song and dance man. - Gene Kelly

Flowers carry not only beauty but also the silent song of love. You just have to feel it. - Debasish Mridha

...and tell you the worst of me and try to give you the best of me... - Sarah Kane

The calling of an author is more than just to entertain, but also to share ones experiences with the world. - M.J. Stoddard

I know that men are so eager to be one among the stars.I feel that damaged earth will never let men go off hand. - Toba Beta

Those who have assets must withdraw them from the markets of loans. Do not accept notes of loan on speculation. The time will soon come when you will gain no profits from the market of loans, and your wealth will be taken by the very few. - Compton Gage

Why would we want fame, when God promises us glory? Why would we be seeking the wealth of the world when the wealth of heaven is ours? Why would we run for a crown that will perish with time, when we're called to win a crown that is imperishable? - Paul David Washer

I have a strong theory that you can tell a lot about someone by their coffee order - Emmie Lee Dean

It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance. - Saint Jerome

Perfection is, however, not to be sought in the future, as we are fully capable of experiencing it here and now, if we abandon ourselves into the present moment and allow the pleasure of Existence take us with it. - Frank Wanderer

To-day is the pupil of yesterday. - Publilius Syrus

Most people think happiness is about gaining something, but it's not. It's all about getting rid of the darkness you accumulate. - Carolyn Crane

The worst thing to be afraid of is fear. Give yourself grace. – Jessica Willis - The Willis Clan

No instance exists of a person's writing two languages perfectly. That will always appear to be his native language which was most familiar to him in his youth. - Thomas Jefferson

This is a celebration of individual freedom, not of homosexuality. No government has the right to tell its citizens when or whom to love. The only queer people are those who don't love anybody. - Rita Mae Brown

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

I have heard it said that the first ingredient of success - the earliest spark in the dreaming youth - is this: dream a great dream.

Any lack of joy in the world is the result of disobedience. - Carolyn Shields

Don't leave it all unsaid,somewhere in the wasteland of your head. - Morrissey

Opportunity...it often comes disguised in the form of misfortune or temporary defeat. - Napoleon Hill

Baptism in the Holy Spirit belongs to them that believe and are not of this world - Sunday Adelaja

The grace and blessing of God is sufficient to carry us through the storms of life. With persistence and determination, victory awaits us at end of the journey. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Some plant lips on Mother Earth in a display of gratitude.Meanwhile, she is kissing the soles of your feet, recognizing the one to be worshiped is you. - Taylor Patton

I spent most of my life trying to specialize myself. I went to theater school, film school, music school, mime school ... Finally, I was able to gather enough knowledge to build the confidence to create my own work, that goes utterly against the sense of specialization. - Nuno Roque

She turned around to look at me with her enchanting gaze that further pierced my heart; a look I would never forget and I would retain till perpetuity and think of it always whenever she came to my mind. And that is not going to be a few times, if my heart is to have its way. - Faraaz Kazi

Because we are saturated with life, because we are human, our strongest motive is life, humanity; and the stronger the motive back of the line the stronger, and therefore more beautiful, the line will be. - Robert Henri

The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways--I to die and you to live. Which is the better, only God knows. - Socrates

The journey of life requires alot of enthusiasms, great passion and commitment. - Lailah Gifty Akita

The only time I ever really suffered in body or mind, the only time that I ever fancied myself unwell, or had any ideas of danger, was the winter that I passed by myself. As long as we could be together, nothing ever ailed me, and I never met with the smallest inconvenience. - Jane Austen

For growth to happen it is necessary to get your BUT out of the way. - Jay Perry

Always try to be Natural in all Perspectives of life because there is no alternative of Natural Blessings. - Arbab J. Edhi

Nothing knits man to man like the frequent passage from hand to hand of cash. - Walter Sickert

The man who pursues moral ends with unmoral means is involved in acontradiction of motives, and nullifies the object at which he aims,since he denies it by his actions. - Fredrich Von Bernhardi

You know when all you want to do is shout for help because you're falling apart inside and you can't cope without crying everyday and you want to hug the person in front of you and hear them say it'll all be okay but then you realise you don't deserve or need help? Yeah that sucks - Dr.

Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long. - Robert Lynd

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them? - Abraham Lincoln

The amount of money that a person has in his bank account is not determined by his startingcapital but by his knowledge about money and his ability to manage it properly. - Sunday Adelaja

Our frustration is greater when we have much and want more than when we have nothing and want some. We are less dissatisfied when we lack many things than when we seem to lack but one thing. - Eric Hoffer

I get a lot of cracks about my hair, mostly from men who don't have any. - Ann Richards

Sometimes you need to go through many small doors, to get to that big door of opportunity. - Anthony Liccione

The ultimate decision [of wearing hijab] must be that of the individual. Western opinions on the hijab or burkas are rather irrelevant. We don't get to decide for Muslim women what does or does not oppress them, no matter how highly we think of ourselves. - Roxane Gay

There is no vacation for a writer! Every moment of his life is work! - Mehmet Murat ildan

Part of our work as faithful Christians is to learn how to discern when, and by what means, to resist authority. - The Liberty Book

Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice."[Stanford University commencement speech, 2005] - Steve Jobs

No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge. - Democritus

You are free to go, Father," she whispered. "We are all of us free." Olivia finally understood what Mr Tugwell had tried to tell her. This was how it was for every fallen crteature. Christ bore the penalty we each deserve, to purchase our freedom. - Julie Klassen

The general rule of law is, that the noblest of human productions -- knowledge, truths ascertained, conceptions, and ideas -- become, after voluntary communication to others, free as the air to common use."~ - Louis D. Brandeis

The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait."(About Books; Recoiling, Rereading, Retelling, New York Times, February 22, 1987) - Anatole Broyard

Human rights violations are nit accidents; they are not random in distribution or effect. Rights violations are, rather, symptoms of deeper pathologies of power and are linked intimately to the social conditions that so often determine who will suffer abuse and who will be shielded from harm. - Paul Farmer

The purpose of life is soul growth. We are here to become transcendent and to become one with God. There is no more to life than this. In other words, we are here to love. - Sara Wiseman

As the most powerful people in history, we have climbed to the top of the world food chain, so to speak. Facing not one single enemy or predator who poses to us any danger of consequence, we've found the only prey left: ourselves. - Gavin de Becker

A nation of philosophers [might have no need for the steadiness of venerable institutions], but a nation of philosophers is as little to be expected as the philosophical race of kings wished for by Plato. - Madison, James

The very essence of love is uncertainty. - Oscar Wilde

I knelt in front of life, folded my hands and prayed for some more time; there couldn't be any. My heart bled and so did my tearful eyes.Time, they say, flies, but I saw it slowly passing by taking each of my tardy breaths with it as it walked out of my life... - Sanhita Baruah