Quotation Explorer - 'Of'

The mystery in "Eyes of your Eyes" can never be found in the interstellar space unless you encounter timelessness. - Vishwanath S J

We all ought to be like little children in the way we treat each other as human beings; quick to forgive, slow to offend, children are friends to each other irrespective of their gender, religion, and color. - Paul Bamikole

You are the slave of your mind! - Ramana Pemmaraju

Words and love together can more often achieve what magic cannot. - Mercedes Lackey

Love and kindness are in the root of all creations. - Debasish Mridha

The power of speech is not in words, but in the oration.

Tie everyone you meet today with your garland of love and kindness. - Debasish Mridha

When you love life passionately, a cloud of beauty floats above, adding an array of wonders to even the worse of days. - Avra Amar Filion

The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible. - Arthur C. Clarke

There are two kinds of people in the world, those who believe there are two kinds of people in the world and those who don't. - Robert Benchley

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching. - Oscar Wilde

We are weak Christians simply because we have refused to be bondservants of Christ - Paul Gitwaza

The first duty of a man is the seeking after and the investigation of truth. - Cicero

Vulnerability is the essence of romance. It's the art of being uncalculated, the willingness to look foolish, the courage to say, 'This is me, and I'm interested in you enough to show you my flaws with the hope that you may embrace me for all that I am but, more important, all that I am not. - Ashton Kutcher

Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone's soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd. - Jalaluddin Rumi

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

Artists are dishonest creatures really. They foist their version of reality upon us while making it all up. Writers, painters, musicians, auteurs—they’re all the same. - Tom Gething from "Sabotage"

Golf may be played on Sunday, not being a game within the view of the law, but being a form of moral effort. - Stephen Leacock

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

We have been God-like in our planned breeding of our domesticated plants and animals, but we have been rabbit-like in our unplanned breeding of ourselves. - Arnold Toynbee

Too often, people are trying to fill the God-size hole in their heart with a person instead of God. A person is too small and too imperfect and will never be able to do it. Once God fills it, then there's plenty of room for the right person. - Laurel Hawkes

Are all of us the same, I wonder, navigating our lives by interpreting the silences between words spoken, analysing the returning echoes of our memory in order to chart the terrain, in order to make sense of the world around us? - Twang Eng Tan

Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy. - Isaac Newton

Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves. - Eric Hoffer

It is no idle phrase that man was made in God's image. There is something worth saving in the worst of us, and out of this something a new man may be fashioned. - Philip José Farmer

Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I applied at Tower Records on Sunset Boulevard after my band broke up. I really wanted to work there because it involved the love of my life, music. It was also located on the world famous Sunset Strip, a place I dreamed of going to ever since I was a teenager in the 80's to become a rock star. - K.D. Sanders

You're wondering if you have to prey on humans, if you can survive by drinking the blood of animals or other creatures. You're hoping you won't have to kill people to live. Am I right? - Julie Kagawa

Diamonds are proof that the most valuable things are sometimes formed in the dark. - Matshona Dhliwayo

The mind of a writer can be a truly terrifying thing. Isolated, neurotic, caffeine-addled, crippled by procrastination, consumed by feelings of panic, self-loathing, and soul-crushing inadequacy. And that’s on a good day."[Academy Award ceremony, March 2, 2014] - Robert De Niro

We are writing in the age of stylish minimalism that in truth has become even more cautious because of word processing. Nowadays, creative writing students are underwriting rather than overdoing it. - Stephen Kuusisto

Portia remembered her interview in the small office upstairs...in which she had been so shy, so terrified about not being good enough, not getting this thing, this chance, which she had only just discovered she wanted very badly. - Jean Hanff Korelitz

Pavlov’s dogs will drool at the site of any food,So go ahead and ring the bell, Sing a classical song about it and Then advertises what sells - Charmaine J Forde

The sharp knife of a short life, wellI've had, just enough time. - Kimberly Perry

Love yourself and feel the joy of life. - Debasish Mridha

With every rising of the sun, the Son's glory rises upon us. - Steven Chopade

Time well spent is an investment of the past for a practical and bright Future. - Victor John Lao

Vision is the end of religion. - William Blake

A slip of the foot you may soon recover, but a slip of the tongue you may never get over. - Benjamin Franklin

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

How "spiritual" you are has nothing to do with what you believe, but everything to do with your state of consciousness. - Eckhart Tolle

Philadelphia is just the tip of the Pittsburgh. - The Covert Comic

Religion (dharma) is decrease in kashay (anger, pride, deceit and greed) and increase of kashay is irreligion (adharma). When Kashay goes away (completely) is the religion of the Self (Soul). - Dada Bhagwan

We are all accountable for our actions; their affect and influence on our lives and the lives of others. Understanding the true meaning of accountability makes us strong and enables us to learn - Sameh Elsayed

For the most part, people strenuously resist any redefinition of morality, because it shakes them to the very core of their being to think that in pursuing virtue they may have been feeding vice, or in fighting vice they may have in fact been fighting virtue. - Stefan Molyneux

Did you know that Christmas means Christ (Jesus) and mas (a celebration)? The story about Jesus is found in the name of that special day when we celebrate His birth! - Soraya Diase Coffelt

A war of ideas can no more be won without books than a naval war can be won without ships. Books, like ships, have the toughest armor, the longest cruising range, and mount the most powerful guns. - Franklin D. Roosevelt

How the story is read is very important is it soft, is it in dry way or smooth... - Deyth Banger

The beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of those depths. - Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

All my life, affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it. - George Bernard Shaw

I really feel as if the things we create together are not things we devised, but things we discovered, as if, in some sense, they were always there in us, waiting to be revealed, like the figure of Mercury waiting in a rough lump of marble. - Raymond Joseph Teller

I think bravery is a lot less formal than it sounds. Bravery is being able to have a conversation with a stranger. It's going back to school even after years of being away. It's being you even when it's easier to be someone else. - Marquita Burke-DeJesus

We spend too much time keeping up with celebrities. They're living their dreams, what about you? Are you where you want to be in life. Get off the couch, turn off the tv and start achieving your goals. - Bianca Frazier

The importance of an artist is to be measured by the quantity of new signs which he has introduced to the language of art. - Henri Matisse

When you seek love in every steps of life, love will seek you every moment of life. - Debasish Mridha

Good values that are cherished,bind and attract both friends and enemies to greatness of life. - JOEL NYARANGI AKOYA

My mother had a kindness that embraced all life.She knew her place well and was comfortable in giving everything she had.This is the tradition of native women. - Dan George

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

If I wrote what I really think, I would be so sad all the time. We create to fill a gap - not just to avoid the idea of dying, it's to fill some particular gap in ourselves. - Joss Whedon

When the distraction of the tongue is removed, the heart listens. - Theodore Dreiser

The dance of the soul! - Lailah Gifty Akita

The greatest impact of the Darwinian revolution...was that it completed the liberation from superstition and fear that began in the physical sciences a few centuries before. Man, too, is a natural phenomenon. [in "The evolutionary concept of man", 1972, p. 35.] - George Gaylord Simpson

In today's globalized world nothing is sure. Routines are falling; stereotypes are breaking. Life has never been as piquant as it is now. So go out of your way; leave your cocoon. Do that crazy thing and be happy you did it. - Ogwo David Emenike

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

Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good. - Thomas Sowell

Writers are sponges. They absorb life, then squeeze and ring it out onto a page. Sometimes, if they squeeze too hard, they dry up. Not hard enough and they remain saturated, heavy and unpredictable, as they carry around a volume of ideas too great for their capacity. - Sarah Colliver

You must not forget that when you think of yourself as special–you really are–you should think of the other people in a similar way. Everybody is special you meet during your life, everyone who has lived and lives on Earth. - Frank Wanderer

Truth has not special time of its own. Its hour is now -- always and indeed then most truly when it seems unsuitable to actual circumstances. - Albert Schweitzer

Earth is crammed with heaven, and every bush is aflame with the glory of God. But only those who see take of their shoes; the rest just pick the berries. - Elizabeth Browning

Beware of the thief who is after your cash; but be more cautious of the thief in the mind that's after your kind, your promise - your dream, your future. - Bernard Kelvin Clive

Clearing your head of everything you thought you knew, even your mostcherished ideas, will give you the mental space to be educated by your present experience--the best schoolof all. You will develop your own strategic muscles instead of depending on other people's theories and books. - Robert Greene

Problem with Man isn't just his ignorance, not just his iniquities, not just his rebellious nature, not just his pride; above all, his problem is his unwillingness to come out of it - Ajay Chandan

Love yourself enough to take care of your health of mind, body, and soul as a top priority, then you'lll be fit to face anything. - Jay Woodman

Success is a work in progress, failure is not the end of the road: it is the strength to continue that matters. - Ane Krstevska

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

The most powerful factors in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will. - J. Arthur Thomson

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

For every moment of suffering,Others will arriveThat will instead pierce you with joy. - Scott Hastie

I must admit that I feel that the best form of government is benevolent despotism. - Jeff Grubb

An exceptional future can only be built on the transformation of the mess I’ve made out of my past, not the elimination of that mess. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

Taking a picture is like giving a piece of your soul away. You allow other people to see the world through your eyes. - Katja Michael

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

The memories of you are dead in my mind, but alive in my heart. - Mya Waechtler

I don't think each of us receives one harvest only--an after-death sort of payment for services rendered. I think we all get a lifetime full of little harvests--those small miracles that stand out from the rest of life, when we are one with nature, each other, and ourselves. - Janene Wolsey Baadsgaard

Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future. - Brian Tracy

To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man. - Alan Paton

If you are willing to go out on a limb, the tree of life holds endless possibilities. - Angel Sharum

If wealth was the inevitable result of hard work and enterprise, every woman in Africa would be a millionaire. - George Monbiot

You're the creator of your own future. Get to writing. - Ashley Brooke Robbins

The dark skies of despair are no match for the bright skies of hope. - Matshona Dhliwayo

Create space in your mind for the harsh memories too. Don’t ever cower from a teacher. Learn and live higher because you know how to use those dark memories as stepping-stones to think your way to a higher form of living. - Toni Sorenson

You cannot condemn a man for what may only be a figment of your own imagination. - Stephen King

Politics is a country idiot capable of concentrating on only one thing at a time. - Robert Harris

Cowards...cling to the hope that failure will never happen and may be sloppy in the face of danger - not because they don't acknowledge that it exists, but because they are just too afraid of it to look it in the eye. - Simon Sinek

It takes darkness to be aware of the light. - Treasure Tatum

I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly combat. - Plato

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

The world of the commodity is a world upside-down, which bases itself not upon life but upon the transformation of life into work. - Raoul Vaneigem

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

CHILDHOOD, n. The period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth -- two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age. - Ambrose Bierce

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

Allowing a person or thing to leave your life, without further pain is the basis of humanity. Everything else is the reason (theology). - Shannon L. Alder

Be out of the mainstream. I'm out of the mainstream. I enjoy it, who wants to be in the mainstream? - Bill Maher

a lack of communication is preferable to a profusion of miscommunications. - Sagey Malik

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

In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love; they had five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock. - Orson Welles

Be gentle with othersFor many hurt though you see it notSome wounds are invisible yet deepKhoiSan Book of Wisdom - rassool jibraeel snyman

Tell the story that's been growing in your heart, the characters you can't keep out of your head, the tale story that speaks to you, that pops into your head during your daily commute, that wakes you up in the morning. - Jennifer Weiner

Using the power of decision gives you the capacity to get past any excuse to change any and every part of your life in an instant. - Anthony Robbins

It's ok to not like yourself sometimes, it just means there's something in you that needs "fixing". Love yourself to recognize these parts of you and watch yourself grow beautifully into the person you were meant to be. - Karen A. Baquiran

When we are born, we cry, that we are come To this great stage of fools. - William Shakespeare

In such a person, sadness breeds purpose; finding inspiration in the darkness and often times, I believe, they will impress a hell onto their own lives in order to re-create it, that others might suffer the experience from the comfort of their armchairs. - Quote from Her Past's Present. - Michael Poeltl

But in practical affairs, particularly in politics, men are needed who combine human experience and interest in human relations with a knowledge of science and technology. - Max Born

Ignorance must be prosecuted when arrested. The only way for its arrest is by information and the only way for prosecution is through reading and learning of new things. - Israelmore Ayivor

Without the possibility of making mistakes, we wouldn't need to bother about making a decision. - Daniel Englisch

The task of teaching has never been more complex and the expectations that burden teachers are carried out in antiquated systems that offer little support—and yet, teachers are finding success every day. - Tucker Elliot

If you understand or if you don'tIf you believe or if you doubtThere's a universal justiceAnd the eyes of truthAre always watching you - Enigma

Painting is concerned with all the 10 attributes of sight; which are: Darkness and Light, Solidity and Color, Form and Position, Distance and Propinquity, Motion and Rest. - Leonardo da Vinci

DIAGNOSIS, n. A physician's forecast of the disease by the patient's pulse and purse. - Ambrose Bierce

If courage wasn't a standard result of aging, it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well. - Lawana Blackwell

PIG, n. An animal (_Porcus omnivorus_) closely allied to the human race by the splendor and vivacity of its appetite, which, however, is inferior in scope, for it sticks at pig. - Ambrose Bierce

REVERENCE, n. The spiritual attitude of a man to a god and a dog to a man. - Ambrose Bierce

A legacy is not what is recorded in history books or repeated in song, but what is woven into the souls of those who remain.(from The General's Legacy) - Adrian G. Hilder

My love flew over the boundary of time with incredible beauty and notorious rhyme. - Debasish Mridha

In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker. - Plutarch

A goal is not just an object on a pitch; it is also a milestone on your journey of excellence. - Onyi Anyado

To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Is there any conflict between science and religion? There is no conflict in the mind of God, but often there is conflict in the minds of men. - Henry B. Eyring

The lesson of the ages have proved that success is more than just the accumulation of wealth and by contract no one can be a complete failure when you work towards goals and services of others, your goals must be fulfilled. - Godwin Elendu Ph.D

There is no inner peace found in taking care of me and mine. It is present in attending to the needs of we and ours. - John Bruna

AMNESTY, n. The state's magnanimity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish. - Ambrose Bierce

We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves. - Marilyn Manson

When the world says that values are different nowadays - under the definition of freedom, it tries to convince you that GOD doesn't know what he is talking about - Farid F. Ibrahim

God created philosophy for all the intellects that got bored of hearing the same bible stories every Sunday. - Shannon L. Alder

Oh,' said a very white body as it threw a wrist watch to the ground which broke without attracting anyone's attention, 'Oh, how can anyone not love poetry, natural machines, large white houses, the brilliance of steel, crimes and wild passions? - Robert Desnos

Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life . . . the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use. - Samuel Johnson

Men are mere mortals but their quest for knowledge leads them to the brink of immortality. - Grace Willows

When we are capable of living in the moment free from the tyranny of "shoulds," free from the nagging sensation that this moment isn't right, we will have peaceful hearts.

Engineering is the science of economy, of conserving the energy, kinetic and potential, provided and stored up by nature for the use of man. It is the business of engineering to utilize this energy to the best advantage, so that there may be the least possible waste. - William A. Smith

With enough coffee anything is possible - Karen Salmansohn

These tears I'm wailing,I spill not without reason.Remove them, my dearest love.Take me to the place I've been dreaming of,where the grotesquely lonely meet the grotesquely lonelyand they whisper,just very softly,Please be mine, Dearest Love. - Morrissey

Peace is the first condition of joy. - Marty Rubin

Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic. - Jean Sibelius

Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success. - Oscar Wilde

Justice is the only worship.Love is the only priest.Ignorance is the only slavery.Happiness is the only good.The time to be happy is now,The place to be happy is here,The way to be happy is to make others so.Wisdom is the science of happiness. - Robert G. Ingersoll

let the truth speak on behalf of your soul - litymunshi

The newborn has only three demands. They are warmth in the arms of its mother, food from her breasts, and security in the knowledge of her presence. Breatfeeding satisfies all three. - Grantly Dick-Read

I've been quite a late developer on the clothes front, but I've suddenly realised it is one of life's joys. - Benedict Cumberbatch

When dreaming is better than reality we're livingWhat's the sense of waking up in a nightmare? - Joshua Natad

I never know how much of what I say is true. - Bette Midler

He that first cries out stop thief, is often he that has stolen the treasure. - William Congreve

Don’t just GO through life, GROW through it. For Life comes to you only once, never to return! Climb the Ladder of Life, step by step.- - RVM

CHERISH a heart like you'd carry an egg, cause when it drops it becomes pieces of shell, never to be MENDED - Poise

There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the water. - Kate Chopin

The best method of sharing your vision is your personal example - Sunday Adelaja

Some people say you pick up the Dirty Boogie where you left it off. Others say you pick it up where you would have been had you never gotten off it. - James Lee Burke

An ounce of wisdom can earn you a ton of gold. - Matshona Dhliwayo

It's a season of life, if your granted peace, freedom and you got the right person to love. - Auliq Ice

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

Maybe life is all about twirling under one of those midnight skies, cutting a swathe through the breeze and gently closing your eyes. - Sanober Khan

I come from a long line of body snatchers, probably the top-notch body snatchers in America. No make that the world. Some people might think it's gross digging up bones or corpses, but who asked them? It's no big deal, but then I've been doing it since I got out of diapers. - Minda Webber

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

Y’know, it’s not that we need equality. Because everyone’s already equal, it’s just that a ton of idiots lost the memo. Indeed, everyone just needs to be TREATED like the equal they already are. - Ellie Rose McKee

Morality is the foundation of sadhana. Morality is the base, intuition is the way and Life Divine is the goal - Shrii Shrii Anandamurti

Sometimes one doesn't have to be part of the experience to realize and learn from the experience. - Unarine Ramaru

I couldn’t admit to any of the boys I hung out with that I wanted to fuck ’em, so my erotic life was in my imagination and in the body. - Christos Tsiolkas

Some of the worst mistakes of my life have been haircuts. - Jim Morrison

Happiness is not something you pursue, it is a state of mind and a feeling of positivity, within. - Amitav Chowdhury

We never stop investigating. We are never satisfied that we know enough to get by. Every question we answer leads on to another question. This has become the greatest survival trick of our species. - Desmond Morris

Sadness flies on the wings of the morning, and out of the heart of darkness comes the light. - Jean Giraudoux

Nothing is too wonderful to be true if it be consistent with the laws of nature. - Michael Faraday

Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are and doing things as they ought to be done. - Josh Billings

I would not know what the spirit of a philosopher might wish more to be than a good dancer. - Friedrich Nietzsche

Treacherous people do not last only memories of their treason last.So will it last with emotions mixed, of love and hate for treacherous ones. - Amit Abraham

You cannot escape God's call on your life. He will pursue you to the ends of the earth! - Jim George

I remember sitting and meditating beside a slow flowing river in India, and I got the feeling that this river could teach me all the secrets of the mystery of life. If we learn to surrender to a stone, a flower, to a man, to a woman, or a river, it becomes a door to the Whole. - Swami Dhyan Giten

Personal Responsibility is when an individual volunteers to be in charge of duties, tasks and is ready to see to its fulfilment - Sunday Adelaja

A library implies an act of faith which generations, still in darkness hid, sign in their night in witness of the dawn."À qui la faute? (1872) - Victor Hugo

It is winter--the best time to dream of spring. - Debasish Mridha

mYou learn more from your mistakes and failures than from any degree of success. Success can only be grasped for a moment before it becomes a distant oasis not to be found again unless you thirst for the knowledge found in the well fed by your mistakes and failures. - Brian Michael Good

I live in the realm of love and light. - Lailah Gifty Akita

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

A world without esoteric knowledge is a poorer place and we as a humanity pay the price for the loss of its principles. - Belsebuub

Wisdom of the Ages: "Brian Williams" This guy gets around more than Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys, but this time, I think he's gone too far. Unfortunately, I can't put a cover of my book My Year in Oman with Mr. Williams' picture on the cover. - Matthew Heines

Seduction is the art of saying what you don't do in order to do what you don't say - Löis Lancaster

It is a cliche that human beings are fascinated by size--mountain peaks, high buildings, and whales. We are also amazed by miniatures--a flea on a mouse, a flea on a trapeze, the Last Supper carved on the head of a pin. - Rosamond Purcell

But ironically the believers have done worse in exploring the earth than sons of men who are not even believers have done. - Sunday Adelaja

A fool believes that the society of the future will transcend the laws of economics. A person of reason hopes that it will finally learn to respect them. - Jakub Bożydar Wiśniewski

Our business is to be free of anything that separates us from God, who has created us to simply be happy and to progress. - Toni Sorenson

It's not a matter of whether or not someone's watching over you. It's just a question of their intentions. - Randy K. Milholland

But marriage is more than just two people. Marriages are a combination of two people, their closest family members, and the nearest and dearest of friends that enter that circle of love. - Sandi Gamble

Growth demands a temporary surrender of security. - Gail Sheehy

Democracy is the process to elect the Government of the Upper class or caste people, by the poor people and for the corporate people - Idiotneil - Neil Jain

Be like a branch of a tree; flex your body to face 'wind of sorrow'; flex little harder to dance in the 'wind of happiness'. - Santosh Kalwar

Society is composed of two great classes-- those who have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners. - Sebastien Chamfort

Do not buy finery or jewels, because books are worth more than they are. Adorn your understanding with their precious ideas, because there is no luxury that dazzles like the luxury of science. - Luisa Capetillo

Imaginative mind is the seed of every dream and every vision. It always starts from our minds before the manifestation. - Euginia Herlihy

The philosophical study of nature endeavors, in the the vicissitudes of phenomena, to connect the present with the past. - Alexander von Humboldt

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

Error, indeed is never set forth in its naked deformity, lest, being thus exposed, it should at once be detected. But it is craftily decked out in an attractive dress, so as, by its outward form, to make it appear to the inexperienced more true than truth itself. - Irenaeus of Lyons

I’m convinced that one of the most powerful forces on earth is the prayer of a child. - Wess Stafford

Nine out of ten people who change their minds are wrong the second time too.

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

A cynical modification of letting go doesn't bring forgiveness, it's when, once you forgive, will you be able to let go. - Anthony Liccione

He was incapable of anticipating to-morrow's griefs. - Trollope Anthony 1815-1882

Virtues are formed by prayer.Prayer preserves temperance. Prayer suppresses anger. Prayer prevents emotions of pride and envy.Prayer draws into the soul the Holy Spirit, and raises man to Heaven. - St. Ephrem of Syria

To forgive is to be free from past resentment to welcome the dawn of peace. - Debasish Mridha

Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering.

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

Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years. - Oscar Wilde

A valid contract requires voluntary offer, acceptance, and consideration. - Robert Higgs

Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious. And however difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at. It matters that you don't just give up. - Stephen Hawking

Art is the proper task of life. - Friedrich Nietzsche

Which soul shall escape the power of the grave?. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Education has for its object the formation of character. - Herbert Spencer

It is in justice that the ordering of society is centered. - Aristotle

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

I think I've been afraid most of my life to be myself. - J.A. Redmerski

To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle. - George Orwell

Forgiveness is the answer to the child’s dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again. - Dag Hammarskjöld

One of the greatest disconnects for this generation is how life and work fit together. There is a need to talk about purpose in life, vocation, and calling. We need to provide a stronger theology of work to help them make integrated connections to their daily lives. - David Kinnaman

One of history’s most useful tasks is to bring home to us how keenly, honestly and painfully, past generations pursued aims that now seem to us wrong or disgraceful. - John Carey

Faith is not the knowledge of what the mystery of the universe is, but the conviction that there is a mystery, and that it is greater than us.

He gave up. No hint of ember behind his eyes nor life in his breath. He snipped the last, overstretched strand of hope, and nicked the strand of life by mistake. He did it with his hands. - Hubert Martin

If you go through life expecting nothing chances are you'll be content most of the time. - Mark W. Boyer

A great human revolution in just a single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a nation, and further, can even enable a change in the destiny of all humankind. - Daisaku Ikeda

The very desire to be certain,to be secure,is the beginning of bondage.It's only when the mind is not caught in the net of certainty,and is not seeking certainty, that it is in a state of discovery. - Jiddu Krishnamurti

Before the battle begins and the outcome has been decided, let the adversary know that you are a fearless competitor, worthy of a second opinion. - Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.

Rod Cockshutt, Professor Emeritus at N.C. State University called my book, Evidence of Insanity, "an extraordinary achievement" and told me to not change the last 10-15 pages no matter what. - carol piner

She was chaos and beauty intertwined. A tornado of roses from divine. - Shakieb Orgunwall

Our mind, keep all the record of our emotions, wrapped in hope and preserve it. - Kishore Bansal

The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you free. - Swami Vivekananda

When you become the source of joy, when you become the source of peace, your world and world around you become joyful and peaceful. you become the symbol and messenger of joy and peace. - Debasish Mridha

When you can think of yesterday without regret and tomorrow without fear, you are near contentment.

DISOBEDIENCE, n. The silver lining to the cloud of servitude. - Ambrose Bierce

Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience. - Adam Smith

The decisions of the courts on economic and social questions depend on their economic and social philosophy. - Theodore Roosevelt

Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void but out of chaos. - Mary Shelley

You are the sunshine, so raise above the clouds of anger, hate, resentment and intolerance to fill the world with beauty of love. - Debasish Mridha

Age is no guarantee of maturity. - Lawana Blackwell

Shy and unready men are great betrayers of secrets; for there are few wants more urgent for the moment than the want of something to say. - Sir Henry Taylor

But I will only be able to claim it if I am offered it. Tell me, Dr. Blevens, in your opinion, is there a limit to how much knowledge one person is allowed to accumulate? Have I reached my quota? - Robin Oliveira

To have the beginning of a truly great story, you need to have a character you're completely and utterly obsessed with. Without obsession, to the point of a maddening addiction,there's no point to continue. - Jennifer Salaiz

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

Most of the time, yesterday’s level of increase will not be enough to secure tomorrow"s increase - Sunday Adelaja

It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own self-interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own neccessities but of their advantages. - Adam Smith

Your problems and mine, they are nothing new. They are all just another small part of the generic nightmare.

i loved him, every inch of his being, but i realised one day; if loving him meant losing me, than loving him was not enough anymore. - Nikki Rowe

The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods. - Maxine Hong Kingston

Changing yourself is not about changing of what you are. But changing other's perspective that they always think you are. - Dancolin Flamiano

Words have to make sense; facts don't. That life makes no sense is the most beautiful fact of all. - Marty Rubin

Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly. - Plutarch

One cause, which is not always observed, of the insufficiency of riches, is that they very seldom make their owner rich.

Though the space in hell is small, it can accommodate countless souls. When hell is full, those souls who’ve spent a millennium are evolved to burning flames. That’s how the fire of hell is preserved. - Prof PP Healings

New scientific ideas never spring from a communal body, however organized, but rather from the head of an individually inspired researcher who struggles with his problems in lonely thought and unites all his thought on one single point which is his whole world for the moment. - Max Planck

God created the institution of marriage for mutual happiness and pleasure. - Sunday Adelaja

The general instrument by which God interferes in the affairs of men is by the weapon of LIGHT - Sunday Adelaja

There is not such thing as false or real hope. Hope is the brain's natural mood stabilizer. And an illusory friend that gives hope and eases the struggle of one's daily life, is much better than all the living friends who just ain't bothered. - Abhijit Naskar

The world is ruled by such dreams, dreams of impassioned hearts, and improvisations of warm lips, not by cold words linked in chains of iron sequence, --- not by logic. The heart with its passions, not the understanding with its reasoning, sways, in the long run, the actions of mankind. - William Kirby

We can follow a steady upward course in a world of change without fear, welcoming opportunities - Henry B. Eyring

In order to live a fulfilled life, do not focus on the size of your audience; focus instead on leaving an impact on the circle of influence God has given you. - Rosette Mugidde Wamambe

You can seek out good fortune, authority (power), and even a righteous life-partner...and find them all. But when all of this is gone...which it will be eventually, I wish you Peace, which is only found through Christ our Lord. - Joe Campos

The first thing a girl hopes for from the garden of love is at least one carat.

Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world! - Bible

I mean it takes a certain kind of maturity to live in the South these days. You don't have it yet, but you have a shadow of the beginnings of it. You haven't the humbleness of mind-" "I thought the fear of the Lord was the beginning of wisdom.""It's the same thing. Humility. - Harper Lee

Nothing carries more potential for change than individual acts of human kindness. - Jamie Winship

Like a bird, my thoughts were flying away so I became a writer to cage my thoughts with paper and pen. You should not call me a writer but rather a catcher of thoughts. - Debasish Mridha

A man of logic is a man of sin. - Mike Norton

I think it's hard to learn democracy when we make children prisoners until they're nineteen years old. - Mimsy Sadofsky

Smartass Disciple: What were you thinking when the truth is revealed unto you?Master of Stupidity: I wasn't thinking. I was having sex when it came to my mind. - Toba Beta

We often blame our government for their lack of responsibility, socially and politically. We forget that that is only a result of the societal irresponsibility in general. - Sunday Adelaja

In the true married relationship, the independence of husband and wife will be equal, their dependence mutual, and their obligations reciprocal. - Lucretia Mott

Nothing is so dangerous to the progress of the human mind than to assume that our views of science are ultimate, that there are no mysteries in nature, that our triumphs are complete and that there are no new worlds to conquer. - Humphry Davy

We stand the risk of failure, because you refused to take risks. So life demands risks. - Sunday Adelaja

Characters are just extensions of my madness. - Mark Tilbury

God has hidden in each and every one of us so many abilities, gifts and resources that could only be activated by work. - Sunday Adelaja

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

Be purpose oriented and remember that the ultimate source of joy is in giving; the ultimate purpose of life is happiness. - Debasish Mridha

Music and image has continued to get more extreme as the world gets more extreme. We are the consequence of the modern decaying civilization. - Marilyn Manson

Describing my sexual history and scope of experience; am surrendering; in conclusion an epic failure'I'm a master at setting people off...of this it may continue... - Robert Wesley Miller

If Jesus himself, or Mohammed, or Buddha spoke to me personally and said that women are inferior to men, I would still reject that as false dogma because I know with every ounce of my being that this is not true. - Alice Bag

Keep true to the dreams of thy youth. - Friedrich von Schiller

Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise! - Alexander Pope

We are all searching for love, some at the bottom of a bottle, some at the casino, some in the eyes of a new lover. The more we search outside ourselves, we more desperate we become. We suffer not because love's unavailable, but because we are not looking in the right place. - Vironika Tugaleva

A wise woman knows when to stay silent. However, a wiser woman of faith knows that sometimes words can win the battle, when all odds stand against her. - Shannon L. Alder

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

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

Some people are constructive, if you like. Others are destructive. It's this diversity in humankind that results in some making positive contributions and some negative contributions. It's necessary to have enough to make positive contributions to overcome the problems of each age. - Jonas Salk

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

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

Music opens the window of the soul to let the nectar of life come in. - Debasish Mridha

A person has to ignore the larger social, economic, political, and religious climate of early North American colonialism to advance the Christian nation myth. - David D. Flowers

My life is filled with buckets of tears; thousands of people shouting in my ears; the humming and chirping of hundreds of Himalayan birds, which are irresistible to hear. - Santosh Kalwar

The essence of life does not consist in the lushness of your possessions, but in the richness of your heart. - Roy T. Bennett

Who do you need to forgive? Letting go of what you have been holding onto will bring energy to everything good you want to bring into your life. - Eileen Anglin

Do not follow conformity toward the darkness. Follow the light of wisdom to fill the world with happiness. - Debasish Mridha

Modern man's loss of a sense of being sinful doesn't spring from a feeling that he is inherently good. Rather, it springs from his feeling of being inherently ineffectual. - Brendan Francis

It seems to me a measure of the true perversity of the human race, that one of its very few reliably pleasurable activities should be the subject of so much hysteria and repression. - A dangerous Method, 2011 (Movie)

It would be advisable to think of progress in the crudest, most basic terms: that no one should go hungry anymore, that there should be no more torture, no more Auschwitz. Only then will the idea of progress be free from lies. - Theodor W. Adorno

Only those who sow seeds of change can hope to grow and reap a harvest. - Andrea Goeglein

There is no better way to improve yourself than an exchange of ideaswith peers. - Eraldo Banovac

The process of thinking is a way of analyzing and making the right assumption at the right moment in life. - Jerril Thomas Abraham

Denying yourself a life of personal freedom is denying yourself of a life worth living. - Michelle Cruz-Rosado

He had the entertainment of thinking that if he had for that moment stopped the clock it was to promote the next minute this still livelier motion. - Henry James

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

when Whitman wrote, I sing the body electricI know what hemeantI know what hewanted:to be completely alive every momentin spite of the inevitable.we can’t cheat death but we can make itwork so hardthat when it does takeusit will have known a victory just asperfect asours - Charles Bukowski

The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper. - W.B. Yeats

There is also a third blessing that comes from spending time alone with God. When we spend time alone with Him, this releases all God’s potential, His power, grace and anointing, all of which are so essential for doing work for the Kingdom of God. - Sunday Adelaja

Success is a way of life that has meaning and purpose. - Debasish Mridha

Fatigue, discomfort, discouragement are merely symptoms of effort. - Morgan Freeman

The Jews are the scum of the earth, but they are also great masters in lying. - Arthur Schopenhauer

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

Ethics are the moral compass of a human society that change and adjust over time. - Debasish Mridha M.D.

There are always exquisite things and times to remind us of the original source of all beauty and love. - Jay Woodman

Empathy is a creative act. It is the act of imagining ourselves not only in another's shoes, but perhaps inhabiting their very heart and soul. - Michele Jennae

I lovehow grown childrenwill still nametheir mothersthe mostbeautiful.It isas though,their eyeshave met the cascadingcurvesand goldensilhouettesof every woman.Yettheir soulsstilldrumto the beat of theirmother'swarmth and care. - A Starry Eyed April

The realms of love and light, anything is possible - Lailah Gifty Akita

Life is a series of events and sensations. Everything else is interpretation. Much is lost in transition - and added in assumption / projection - Rasheed Ogunlaru

We wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. - Compton Gage

Everything we could possibly want or need is there for the taking, but we are blinded by fears of lack and limitation, and we have bought the lie that resources are limited, so we must therefore compete for the few that are left. - Stephen Richards

That’s one of the great things about music. You can sing a song to 85,000 people and they’ll sing it back for 85,000 different reasons. - Dave Grohl

I have been a believer in the magic of language since, at a very early age, I discovered that some words got me into trouble and others got me out. - Katherine Dunn

One of the most dangerous things that can happen to a child is to kill or torture an animal an get away with it. - Margaret Mead

Resistance is the subtlest form of attachment. - Eric Micha'el Leventhal

I would cling to unhappiness because it was a known, familiar state. When I was happier, it was because I knew I was on my way back to misery. I've never been convinced that happiness is the object of the game. I'm wary of happiness. - Hugh Laurie

When religious people take the stance that they don’t owe anyone that is hurting closure or answers then God is not winning. Conflict continues because of lack of communication, fear and indifference. - Shannon L. Alder

The Lord replied, "The years when you have seen only one set of footprints, my child, is when I carried you. - Mary Stevenson

It is a common condition of being poor... you are always afraid that the good things in your life are temporary, that someone can take them away, because you have no power beyond your own brute strength to stop them. - Rick Bragg

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

I know two kinds of Christians, those that love and those that love to be right. - Jim Sterling

Sometime,Its better to ignore your ignorance by other. They are not worth of your kindness. - Nikhil karnwal

I'm afraid of time... I mean, I'm afraid of not having enough time. Not enough time to understand people, how they really are, or to be understood myself. I'm afraid of the quick judgements or mistakes everybody makes. You can't fix them without time. I'm afraid of seeing snapshots, not movies. - Ann Brashares

Books signify the mind of many souls. - Lailah Gifty Akita

To say that atheism is not a religion is the equivalent of saying anarchy is not really a political creed - Bō Jinn

As we try to change society to fit our standards and bring about the sense of peace we long for, it is only when we turn inwards, clean our own backyards and serve as a source of inspiration that society will improve on its own. - Dana Gore

If there's going to be pain anyway, I'd rather it be the pain of growth rather than the pain of staying stuck. - Suzette Hinton

Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them. - Orison Swett Marden

Petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of reality. - Henry David Thoreau

Too many people think only of their own profit. But business opportunity seldom knocks on the door of self-centered people. No customer ever goes to a store merely to please the storekeeper. - Kazuo Inamori

Alone, I relished the bird songs, the drone of hushed conversation from neighboring tables, and the gentle lapping of waves sliding on the shore. I didn't feel the passage of time. There was no destination propelling me forward, no past and no future. Each glorious moment was replaced by the next. - Marilyn Berman

For writers it is always said that the first twenty years of life contain the whole of experience – the rest is observation - Graham Greene

A writer need not devour a whole sheep in order to know what mutton tastes like, but he must at least eat a chop. Unless he gets his facts right, his imagination will lead him into all kinds of nonsense, and the facts he is most likely to get right are the facts of his own experience. - W. Somerset Maugham

Any community's arm of force - military, police, security - needs people in it who can do necessary evil, and yet not be made evil by it. To do only the necessary and no more. To constantly question the assumptions, to stop the slide into atrocity. - Lois McMaster Bujold

A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep. - W. H. Auden

Eyes are the windows to the soul. A smile is the mirror of the heart - Janna Cachola

If you feel ashamed of ignorance,it's your fault.Try to make yourself acceptable. - Arunesh mani

Four years after my father's death, when the subject of parents came up in conversation i would relate the information in a flat, matter-of-fact tone eager to detect in my listener the flinch of grief that eluded me. - Alison Bechdel

Every time someone tries to prevent a war from beginning...people get killed. - Captain America - The Avengers...The Age of Ultron

Mamoru, each & every one of us have stars in our hearts, & you know that the star is shining when you feel that heat…-Usagi/Sailor Moon - Naoko Takeuchi

If we try to run the economy for the benefit of a single group or class, we shall injure or destroy all groups, including the members of the very class for whose benefit we have been trying to run it. We must run the economy for everybody - Henry Hazlitt

The only way to succeed in life is to never give up. Oftentimes, it requires standing alone. - Ellen J. Barrier

It is my belief that the basic knowledge that we're providing to the world will have a profound impact on the human condition and the treatments for disease and our view of our place on the biological continuum. - J. Craig Venter

Scientists are in the strange position of being confronted daily by the indisputable fact of their own consciousness, yet with no way of explaining it. - Christian de Quincey

Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy. - Franz Kafka

Depression is not an absence of happiness, it’s a feeling that happiness may never return. - Steven Aitchison

There are times when I think that the ideal library is composed solely of reference books. They are like understanding friends—always ready to meet your mood, always ready to change the subject when you have had enough of this or that. - J. Donald Adams

We have come to a point in time where using common sense, speaking factual truths and asking honest questions have been deemed radical behavior. While in turn, manipulation, thoughtlessness and dishonesty is often rewarded and rules the day. - Gary Hopkins

There are no office hours for leaders.

Action is the ink that writes what you think on the pages of life! - Constance Chuks Friday

Does the beauty of life remain alive without making a comparison? - Suman Pokhrel

The sacred soul delivers the message of life. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Beauty lies in the purity of Heart,looking good is just called prettiness. - Vansh Wadhwani

Thirty thousand a year was all right, but dyspepsia and inability to be humanly happy robbed such princely income of all its value. - Jack London

Never judge a work of art by its defects - Washington Allston

Let love bloom like a flower with the fragrance of the garden of your heart filled with beauty, joy, and happiness. - Debasish Mridha

I don't worry about what other people think of me. It's one of the things I most admired about my dad growing up. He didn't give a hoot what others thought. He was who he was. It's one of the qualities that has kept me most sane. - Chris Kyle

Not to be cheered by praise, Not to be grieved by blame, But to know thoroughly ones own virtues or powers Are the characteristics of an excellent man. - Saskya Pandita

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

The greatest single achievement of nature to date was surely the invention of the molecule DNA. - Lewis Thomas

True compassion does not sit on the laps of renovation; it dives with an approach to reconstruction. Don't throw a coin at a begger. Rather, destroy his source of poverty. - Israelmore Ayivor

We too often let the material things serve as indicators that we're doing well, even though something inside us tells us that were not doing our best. That we are avoiding that which is hard, but also necessary. That we are shrinking from rather than vising to the challenges of the age. - Barack Obama

Literacy is one of the greatest gifts a person could receive - Jen Selinsky

Life is a work of art, and what you see depends on your perspective. - Rosemarie Osmun

Every pedagogical situation can be thought of as a kind of triangle among three parties: the student, the teacher, and the world that student and teacher investigate together. - Aaron Hirsh

The answer of life struggles in between two kinds of people- those who live to dreamand those who dream to liveAsk them the question about death if they can truly conceive - Munia Khan

The farther you go, however, the harder it is to return. The world has many edges, and it's easy to fall off. - Anderson Cooper

Sometimes you have to let go of a career you love, a beloved home, or a loved one. Take time to grieve a loss of this nature. If you find yourself disoriented, consider surrounding yourself with people who see your strengths, goodness, gifts, and talents. They will help you find your way. - Laura Staley

Could it be that different political views, different religions and even scientific theories had been looking at our reality from different angles? If so, we should not accept or prefer one over the other, but instead we must aim to draw the best out of each view. - Ardiana Bani Cohn

Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men. - George Bernard Shaw

America fears the unshaven legs, the unshaven men's cheeks, the aroma of perspiration, and the limp prick. Above all it fears the limp prick. - Walter Abish

The biblical account of Noah's Ark and the Flood is perhaps the most implausible story for fundamentalists to defend. Where, for example, while loading his ark, did Noah find penguins and polar bears in Palestine? - Judith Hayes

Sometimes consequences are building blocks fashioned of granite when successes are shaped of clay. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education. - Martin Luther King Jr.

Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Unique among the nations, America recognized the source of our character as being godly and eternal, not being civic and temporal. And because we have understood that our source is eternal, America has been different. We have no king but Jesus. - John Ashcroft

As I like to put it, we have hit pay dirt. The effort to cure the resource curse is a good example of what private foundations working with NGOs can accomplish. - George Soros

Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures. And however undramatic the pursuit of peace, that pursuit must go on.[Address before the United Nations, September 20 1963] - John F. Kennedy

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

The clash of ideas is not weakness.Truth reaches its place when tussling with error. - Richard Henry Pratt

...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

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

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

A compulsive external search only leads us to the interpretation of another’s path. True identity and sustained harmony can only be achieved by turning inward, and it is there that you will find every answer that you need to step into enlightenment - Gary Hopkins

Of all the nonsense that twists the world, the concept of 'altruism' is the worst. People do what they want to do, every time.

Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace. - Dalai Lama XIV

The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. - George Orwell

The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children. - Dietrich Bonhoeffer

A not complete unit or a new unit. The elements in the 3 parts should neither fit nor not fit together.One would like not to be led. Avoid the idea of a puzzle which could be solved. Remove the signs of thought. It is not thought which needs showing. - Jasper Johns

You can't understand depth of science, unless you challenge the published scientific data. - Amit Ray

My head was playing an irresistible music that only me was hearing it, and I laid down as if I was a siren waiting for someone to wash away her fear of being seen. You were the river which caught me when I was falling from the sky as a leaf , and you said even if I don’t remember you, you do. - Kenza Slaoui

I am very careful about who I choose to build memories with. Some of them might last a lifetime. - Angélica Calheiros

Things turn out best for the people who make the best out of the way things turn out. - Art Linkletter

Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the Act depriving a whole nation of arms, as the blackest. - Mahatma Gandhi

I have interacted with the police complaints and internal affairs division twice and both times I came away with the opinion that I was dealing with a blatantly corrupt group of people. - Steven Magee

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

Life has a vendetta against writers. It does everything in it's power to get in the way of our craft. Maybe it thinks we embellish too much? - Hannah Harding

What if you find out at the end of life that you could have had all you ever wanted had you only asked for it?? - Kate McGahan

One of the things about equality is not just that you be treated equally to a man, but that you treat yourself equally to the way you treat a man. - Marlo Thomas

Since we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our minds, it is our duty to furnish it well. - Peter Ustinov

Marx hated weakness in men, and considered the making of moral judgements as the last resort of the weak. To say 'That is morally wrong' is implicitly to say ' I am powerless to stop that, so I will inveigh against it'. - Paul Robert Wolff

you are the builder of your future, the creator of your destiny. Therefore, do not swerve from the path of truth........ - Tanu Reshma B Singh

You won't find me dancing in a club at night but you will find me climbing mountains to see the sunrise, with a glimmer of hope and a smile on my face ~ this is life baby and freedom fills my days. - Nikki Rowe

Everyone should have a form of a diary it’s a great release Most people’s Diaries are called "My Diary" Mines called "Conversations with Me". - Stanley Victor Paskavich

Write this down: My life is full of unlimited possibilities. - Pablo

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestioned ability of a man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor. - Henry David Thoreau

We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible. You cannot educate a man wholly out of superstitious fears which were implanted in his imagination, no matter how utterly his reason may reject them. - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Assessing existence while failing to embrace the insights of modern physics would be like wrestling in the dark with an unknown opponent. - Brian Greene

Strive to have the faith of a child; endeavour to have the wisdom of an elder. - Matshona Dhliwayo

It is not the quantity of your thoughts but the quality of your thoughts that make the difference. Thoughts can either be productive or a hindrance. But, when we focus our attention on faithfulness and truthfulness the restoration process begins. - Amaka Imani Nkosazana

[The decay of Logic results from an] untroubled assumption that the particular is real and the universal is not. - C.S. Lewis

The greatest obstacle to liberty is not the existence of evil rulers, but the belief in the existence of good rulers. - Jakub Bożydar Wiśniewski

I need to open this door of self in order to throw out everything that is useless and to save the meaning ofthe things I have to keep. - Marieta Maglas- Eschatological Regression

I have changed my mind, and changed the trimmings of my cap this morning; they are now such as you suggested. - Jane Austen

Forgiveness, compassion, and kindness are the fundamental ingredients of our beloved humanity. - Debasish Mridha

People live in different worlds. There's a rich world, there's a poor world, and there's an extremely poor. The one you dwell is determined by the outcome of your sacrifice. - Michael Bassey Johnson

Be The Best Big Hearted Person You Can Be Without Being Stepped On By Others.So Even If Life Gives You A Bad Hand. At The Last Breath And Moment Of Your Life You Can Feel That Much More Complete. - David Cuoco

How many times have I turned away? How may voices have I chosen to ignore, my own not least of all? How far into darkness, into shadow, must one crawl not to see? And how can the blind walk out?" - , The Marksmith - C.V. Dreesman

Freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men’s minds which follows from the advance of science. - Charles Darwin

Think of my rants and posts as they would come from Edgar, Vincent, and Dali. - Solange nicole

The narrator, I think, must succeed in frightening himself before he can think of frightening his reader… - E.F. Benson

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

Don't force to become the top, but loosen up to be the top....(as in don't try hard when people are before you but be glad... instead of working up your energy for the highest honor) - Florie Jo Alicer

What if I told you 10 years from now your life would be exactly the same?Doubt you'd be happy.So, why are you afraid of change? - Karen Salmansohn

Injustice upon earth renders the justice of of heaven impossible. - Robert G. Ingersoll

Each time a man looks into your eyes, he is only searching to find himself; for he knows already, that he is part of you - Jeremy Aldana

In the garden, Autumn is, indeed the crowning glory of the year, bringing us the fruition of months of thought and care and toil. And at no season, safe perhaps in Daffodil time, do we get such superb colour effects as from August to November. - Rose G. Kingsley

Audience of angels descend in the ambiance reciting praises in your glory, when you wear your dance shoes, when you arrive at the stage and with every step you take beneath your feet heaven moves. That is the power of dance. - Shah Asad Rizvi

Discernment is a light of protection and direction in a world that grows increasingly dark. - Elder David A. Bednar

You are not what you think, but you are the reflection of what you think. - Debasish Mridha

Work and pray rather instead of watching and wishing. - Anonymous

Everything which helps us to exist is holy! And a tree is holiest of the holy for us! - Mehmet Murat ildan

The triune God exercises total government over all things, and He requires us as His image-bearers to exercise government in Christ in our own spheres in terms of His law. - Rousas John Rushdoony

Sometimes I think evil is a tangible thing--with wave lengths, just as sound and light have. An evil place can, so to speak, broadcast vibrations of evil. - Richard Connell

The focus of the entrepreneur must always be on exchanging products or services for money, and anything that distracts from that like actually running a business, should be avoided where possible. - John Winterson Richards

It's really seeing student involvement … as a variety of opportunities that are appropriate for each given student and responsive to their individual needs and their desires for their educational experience. - Adam Fletcher

I don't care for the colour of your skin, I care for the size of your heart behind it. - Nikki Rowe

Maxim 6: If violence wasn't your last resort, you failed to resort to enough of it.-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries - Howard Tayler

My vigor, vitality, and cheek repel me. I am the kind of woman I would run from. - Nancy Astor

The habit of intellectual principles without reasons is called faith. - Friedrich Nietzsche

Whether you approach your dreams on soft feet or in a breathless run, just so long as you acknowledge that your dreams are valuable and worthy of pursuing, then you’ve made it. - Devon Monk

If literature does one thing, it makes you more empathetic by making you live other lives and feel the pain of others. Ideologues don't feel the pain of others because they haven't imaginatively got under their skins. - Yann Martel

I won the vote but shunned the soft parade[...]I won every battle and lost the war"(Geronimo) - Shannon McNally

Surround yourself with people who are better than you in each individual area of business. - Graham Speechley

It is my belief, Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside. - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The worst mistake a boss can make is not to say 'Well done'. - John Ashcroft

I keep following this sort of hidden river of my life, you know, whatever the topic or impulse which comes, I follow it along trustingly. And I don't have any sense of its coming to a kind of crescendo, or of its petering out either. It is just going steadily along. - William Stafford

Gentlemen respect the rights of others. They are honorable men. - Ellen J. Barrier

Delusion is the greatest barrier of humanity.. - Simran Shah Khan

People fear death even more than they fear pain. It’s strange that they fear death. Life hurts more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over. - Jim Morrison

I watched you try on suits in Hugo Boss.‘For the big job,’ you said. And I laughed, because I knew I would never see it. I’d never get up and watch you put it on and walk out of the door. I would never be the one that you came home to. - Kate Chisman

It's not so much what we do that matters, but what kind of person we choose to be. - Kristi Bowman

What's the point of living if you don't feel alive? - Leigh Hershkovich

An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth. - Bonnie Friedman

Because you have my heart, Virgilia Wessex. Softly, almost achingly. Every black ounce of it. Scars and all. - V.S. Carnes

I have been right, Basil, haven’t I, to take my love out of poetry, and to find my wife in Shakespeare’s plays? Lips that Shakespeare taught to speak have whispered their secret in my ear. I have had the arms of Rosalind around me, and kissed Juliet on the mouth. - Oscar Wilde

An ocean of shimmering love exists in your heart. Tap into it today and rest in the undulating currents of the great mystery. - Amy Leigh Mercree

Small Moth...She's slicing ripe white peachesinto the Tony the Tiger bowland dropping slivers for the dogpoised vibrating by her foot to stop their fallwhen she spots it, camouflaged,a glimmer and then full on-happiness, plashing blunt soft wingsinside her as if it wantsto escape again. - Sarah Lindsay

The study of the past is the main portal through which culture is acquired. - Joseph Epstein

I believe I shall,in some shape or other,always exist; and, with all the inconveniences human life is liable to, I shall not object to a new edition of mine, hoping, however, that the errata of the last may be corrected. - Benjamin Franklin

...the women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776. - Susan B. Anthony

The only power that I want to use is the power of love. - Debasish Mridha

Failure is not the end. In fact it is the beginning of a beautiful journey. - Jade Youssef

Contentment is the foundation of true Happiness. The Happiness that comes from fulfilling desires can never be permanent. - RVM

The light of love, the purity of grace,The mind, the Music breathing from her face, The heart whose softness harmonised the whole —And, oh! that eye was in itself a Soul! - George Gordon Byron

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

You are a miracle, you are a light. You are not made of our weaknesses but of your strengths. You are a masterpiece made by The Master. Don't see yourself less! - Kemi Sogunle

If you don't know what to do, call the media and at least give the appearance of doing something. - David Peterson

Life is like getting dropped off in the middle of the woods, and then year by year, gradually walking home. - April Foiles

Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not. - C.G. Jung

Some selfish people rise because some kind people haven't learned the art of saying no to them. - Sanhita Baruah

The home is the chief school of human virtues. - William Ellery Channing

The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences. - Ruth Benedict

Darwin abolished special creations, contributed the Origin of Species and hitched all life together in one unbroken procession. - Mark Twain

The speed of communications is wondrous to behold. It is also true that speed can multiply the distribution of information that we know to be untrue. - Edward R. Murrow

The depravity of man is at once the most empirically verifiable reality but at the same time the most intellectually resisted fact. - Malcolm Muggeridge

Cheap little rhymesA cheap little tuneAre sometimes as dangerousAs a sliver of the moon. - Langston Hughes

According to the concept of transformational evolution, first clearly articulated by , evolution consists of the gradual transformation of organisms from one condition of existence to another. Ernst W. Mayr - Lamarck

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

One of the things that kills Buddhist spiritual life is excessive seriousness. - Gil Fronsdal

It is a damn poor mind that can think of only one way to spell a word. - Andrew Jackson

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. - André Gide

If the pursuit of perfection is a way to prove our worth, in the end the pursuit will only prove our imperfections. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

I am the witch of my mystical world. - Usha Cosmico

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

Age is a state of mind. - Ken Norton

The greatest power that a human possesses is the power of pure love. - Debasish Mridha

It's compassion that makes gods of us. - Dorothy Gilman

I can still love feeling so close to the sun and the peaks of mountains, still love life at this altitude — it makes me feel like every breath counts. - Kaul Hart Hemmings

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

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

Ask anyone; possibly ninety-five percent of our wishes have come true. The unfortunate part is, we all overlook that, and regret all our lives and torment ourselves for not getting the other five percent. - Love, Life, and Logic

Be something! That's the inscription written over the gates of hell. - Marty Rubin

Of course it's possible to love a human being if you don't know them too well. - Charles Bukowski

It is amazing that our souls -- our eternal essences, with all their hopes an dreams and visions of an eternal world -- are contained within these temporal bodies.

Age does not mean wisdom, Do not follow the old man off the cliff. - James Pedigo

Good composition is like a suspension bridge; each line adds strength and takes none away... Making lines run into each other is not composition. There must be motive for the connection. Get the art of controlling the observer – that is composition. - Robert Henri

We're born along and we die alone. It's just a question of getting used to both of them. - Erlend Loe

Hypocrisy has its place in the ages of strong belief: in which even when one is compelled to exhibit a different belief one does not abandon the belief on already has. - Frederich Nietzsche

It is a smile of a baby that makes life worth living. - Debasish Mridha

He loves Thee too little, who loves anything together with Thee, which he loves not for Thy sake. - Augustine of Hippo

The measure of greatness is in humility, simplicity, and in kindness. - Debasish Mridha

Young children have no past. The old have no future. The rest are too busy with present. This time-tripod holds up the world. You ignore the importance of this interdependence of the three, the world as you know it is in danger of collapsing - R. N. Prasher

As consciousness expands, so does perception of self. - Erin Fall Haskell

Integrity is the antithesis of compromise and the sworn enemy of comfort. It bases its decisions not on how much discomfort we might be able to avoid, but on how much we need to avoid the compromise of comfort. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

I don't care how much you eat, Ender, self-cannibalism won't get you out of this school. - Orson Scott Card

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

Learning to draw is really a matter of learning to see -- to see correctly -- and that means a good deal more than merely looking with the eye.

The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else, even if it only be the art of raising lentils, receives the crown he merits. If he raises all his energy to that end, he is a benefactor of mankind and its rewarded as such. - Og Mandino

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

The war was about vanity, he said. It was about old men who couldn't look in the mirror anymore and so they sent the young out to die. Was was a get-together of the vain. They wanted it simple--hate your enemy, know nothing of him. - Mccann Colum

Fear is a state of mind. There is nothing real about it. Welcome it in, 60 seconds passes, and as your guest politely ask it to leave. It will leave every single time!! - Christopher Saleh

I always tell my writing students that every good piece of writing begins with both a mystery and a love story. And that every single sentence must be a poem. And that economy is the key to all good writing. And that every character has to have a secret. - Silas House

Not every single way of saying the right thing is right. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Without judgments life loses its hierarchical quality of being a choice between preferences and by losing that, it loses it's savor. - Auliq Ice

We are alive in all our layers of self and selflessness - individuals becoming one. - Jay Woodman

Great fiction is the art of a soul. - Douglas Christiansen

Our five senses are incomplete without the sixth - a sense of humor.

Paulie smiled slightly at this, as profanity had always felt to him like a seal of understanding, a shortcut to extreme feeling that people used when they needed it most. - Kathleen Alcott

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

The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mindabout nothing -- to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts. - John Keats

Promises are priceless, and a kiss is a kind of promise, too. - Rick Yancey

Life is a learning experience and this is a very peaceful method of accepting the reality you face…What will I learn? - David W. Earle

You ain't get nothing for staying low, lazy. The world only tremble at the feet of the few craziest doers ever lived. - Olawale Daniel

[From a New York Times biography from May 27, 2010 entitled Introduction to 's 'The Second Sex']Beauvoir herself was as devout an atheist as she had once been a Catholic, and she dismisses religions — even when they worship a goddess — as the inventions of men to perpetuate their dominion. - Simone de Beauvoir

Abraham Lincoln did not shoot John Wilkes Booth. Titanic did not sink a North Atlantic iceberg. And Fox News is neither fair nor balanced. These are simple historical facts intelligible to all adults, most children, and some of your more discerning domesticated animals. But not... to Bill O - Keith Olbermann

Peace is not the absence of poverty But the presence of love for beauty - Debasish Mridha

The extremists are afraid of books and pens, the power of education frightens them. they are afraid of women. - Malala Yousafzai

Search and seek the spirituality of being! - Lailah Gifty Akita

Life is a test. A test of Character and Strength, experience is our study guide... so remember what you learn and more importantly-apply it. - Sarah Funkhouser

It is one thing to have the gift of seeing the spirits and hearing the Gods who move about us as we come and go; but it is a gift of darkness as well as light. - Mary Stewart

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

Inspiration may be a form of superconsciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness - I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self- consciousness. - Aaron Copland

The Lord is the strength of my heart. - Lailah Gifty Akita

...Being a mother is like being a gardener of souls. You tend your children, make sure the light always touches them - Karen White

It is amusing that a virtue is made of the vice of chastity; and it's a pretty odd sort of chastity at that, which leads men straight into the sin of Onan, and girls to the waning of their color. - Voltaire

How could I ask for a better friend? Someone who gives me a backup plan. Instead of someone who makes me the backup plan. - Sarah Mylnowski

We are always in a constant state of conspiracies, at least thats what they keep telling us... - Faith Brashear

If I see darkness in men of God I bring light to them. - Sunday Adelaja

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

My views and feelings (are) in favor of the abolition of war--and I hope it is practicable, by improving the mind and morals of society, to lessen the disposition to war; but of its abolition I despair. - Thomas Jefferson

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,Than are dreamt of in your philosophy. - William Shakespeare

London is satisfied, Paris is resigned, but New York is always hopeful. Always it believes that something good is about to come off, and it must hurry to meet it. - Dorothy Parker

RENUNCIATION is the rightful path of the soul to true freedom, & only then Peace can follow in the life. - Deepak Chandra

It' like he has the ability to take on some of my pain. I feel so much better around him. Stronger. And he is willing to take my pain. He wants to bear it with me. I can see it shining in his eyes. I'm more than a duty to him. I'm more than his literal dream girl. I'm so much more. - Cynthia Hand

The idea of formulated 'rights ... comes not from John Locke and Thomas Jefferson ... but from the canon law of the Catholic Church. - Thomas E. Woods Jr.

Love is a byproduct of deep appreciation. - Debasish Mridha

Through real-life stories, Kristin Kaufman illustrates the core idea of being present in the moment and opening oneself up to new ideas in order to become an authentic leader in life. - Stephen R. Covey

Henry Kissinger may have wished I had presented him as a combination of Charles DeGaulle and Disraeli, but I didn't....out of respect for DeGaulle and Disraeli. I described him as a cowboy because that is how he describes himself. If I were a cowboy I would be offended.

When one's work hides behind simple, process is kind of long story. - Shawn Lukas

I wash off the night in the water, my scrapes and aches numbed by the sea. My bones have become boughs, all scarred knees and gnarled kuckles. None of us are the same person we once were, since the human body replaces itself every seven years; there have been at least six different mes. - Philip Hoare

The most romantic creation to have come out of regret is time-travel - Preeti Bhonsle

Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave. - G.I. Gurdjieff

The Bible Belt is collapsing. The world of nominal, cultural Christianity that took the American dream and added Jesus to it in order to say, 'you can have everything you ever wanted and Heaven too,' is soon to be gone. Good riddance. - Russell D. Moore

People in this civilization are starving in the middle of plenty. This is a civilization that is going down, not because it hasn't got the knowledge that would save it, but because nobody will use the knowledge. - Idries Shah

MARTYR, n. One who moves along the line of least reluctance to a desired death. - Ambrose Bierce

One of my chief regrets during my recent years in the theater is that I couldn't sit in the audience and watch me. - John Barrymore

Day starting with a smile leads you to that place where even imagination is quite hard. Smile and make your day bright since the beauty of smile is priceless and its a language that all the people around world can understand. - Sakin Maharjan

Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art. - don Miguel Ruiz

You will never truly know yourself or the strength of your relationships until both have been tested by adversity. - J. K. Rowling

Use your intellect to guide you, and you will end up putting peopleoff. Rely on your emotions, and you will forever be pushed around.Force your will on others, and you will live in constant tension. Thereis no getting around it—people are hard to live with. - Natsume Soseki

We volunteer to work for the love and joy of service. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Education is the key which opens the magical door of wisdom which reveals the beauty and purpose of life. - Debasish Mridha

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

If one billion of you watch and do not intercede as one million of you assent to the one thousand who participate in the murder of a child, then one billion of you are a billion times guilty. - Compton Gage

Catch from the board of beauty/ Such careless crumbs as fall. - Edna St. Vincent Millay

Learning to distance yourself from all the negativity is one of the greatest lessons to achieve inner peace. - Roy Bennett

Live with boldness! Get drunk with all of the beauty of life. - Debasish Mridha

Describing current human mindsets reflecting our ignorance and cowardice and non action-oriented mentality:"I'm going to do nothing but escapist drugs and hop from one party or festival to another. I will dance my way out of the harsh realities of Planet Earth. - Mark Passio

Malnutrition can be as common in poverty as in wealth, one for the lack of food, the other for the lack of knowledge of food. - T.K. Naliaka

The spiritual journey is an adventure of exploration that gradually starts to open up before us when we are ready to begin asking the questions, Who am I? and Who are you? - Mac MacKenzie

Unfortunately, there seems to be far more opportunity out there than ability.... We should remember that good fortune often happens when opportunity meets with preparation. - Thomas A. Edison

Words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outline and covering up all the details. - George Orwell

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

She knew that it was better to have a dream and pay a price for it than to be lukewarm. - regarding St. Teresa of Avila - Mark Salzman

Hamlet: Do you see yonder cloud that's almost in shape of a camel?Polonius: By the mass, and 'tis like a camel, indeed.Hamlet: Methinks it is like a weasel. Polonius: It is backed like a weasel. Hamlet: Or like a whale? Polonius: Very like a whale. - William Shakespeare

Maturity isn't a product of growing older. It's a product of growing wiser. - Ann Landers

To read a book for the first time is to make the acquaintance of a new friend; to read it a second time is to meet an old one. - Selwyn Champion

What I've learned about writing is that sometimes less is more, while often more is grander. And both are true. - Richelle E. Goodrich

Nature of Human is neither good nor bad, it is simply a fusion of primitive instinctual urges and modern humane conscience. - Abhijit Naskar

If I'm an advocate for anything, it's to move. As far as you can, as much as you can. Across the ocean, or simply across the river. The extent to which you can walk in someone else's shoes or at least eat their food, it's a plus for everybody.Open your mind, get up off the couch, move. - Anthony Bourdain

And then this happened. And then this other thing happened. Oh, and I almost forgot to tell you about the time this happened. I should've had this book over for a cup of coffee and a chat. - Nick Stewart

In spite of our proud domination of nature, we are still her victims, for we have not even learned to control our nature. - C.G. Jung

It is the saying of an ancient sage that humor was the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor.

Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form. - Stephen Nachmanovitch

...you have to learn where your pain is. You have to burrow down and find the wound, and if the burden of it is too terrible to shoulder, you have to shout it out; you have to shout for help... And then finally, the way through grief is grieving. - Jane Hamilton

I now watch porn, but I don't have the feeling to go to the bath and start to jerk off. It's the world bad idea ever came. I have quite jerk off and I will quit it's not the way I should live, the same is for you! - Deyth Banger

Our minds thirst for anything that reminds us of the deepest wisdom of the soul. - Vironika Tugaleva

Praise and blame, gain and loss, pleasure and pain, fame and disripute, these are just the worldly winds of existence. - T. Scott McLeod

There is a blueprint for every one of us, and if we find it, we will not stress. - Bidemi Mark-Mordi