Quotation Explorer - 'Of'

History is a voice forever sounding across the centuries the laws of right and wrong. Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity. - James A. Forude

We are currently facing many hurdles, BUT will never lose the sight of infinite hope. - Widad Akreyi

(Kindness) is much more a sign of character than mere niceness. Kindness connects to who you are, while niceness connects to how you want to be seen."- (Every Day) - David Levithan

I've often heard people say, Your country is beautiful, a virtual paradise. When will the people of Indonesia be as beautiful as their land, with a civilization and culture that contributes to the greater beauty of humankind and no longer smothers and strangles the mind? - Pramoedya Ananta Toer

I cannot remember a time when I was not in love with them--with the books themselves, cover and binding and the paper they were printed on, with their smell and their weight and with their possession in my arms, captured and carried off to myself. ― - Eudora Welty

The all-victorious Christ is like a great rock in a weary land, to whose shelter we may flee in every time of sorrow or trial, finding quiet refuge and peace in him. - J.R. Miller

All types and levels of art are beautiful, because art is beautiful, creativity is gorgeous and the artist itself is a masterpiece already. - Kelly Palmen

Henry James would have been vastly improved as a novelist by a few whiffs of the Chicago stockyard. - H. L. Mencken

All the buildings of justice will remain idle on the day when all men have high conscience! - Mehmet Murat ildan

Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack. - Virginia Woolf

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

All the stress and misery of life comes from fear of loss. Remember that you can never lose anything without gaining something. To avoid misery, concentrate on what you will gain. - Debasish Mridha

I set out to discover the why of it, and to transform my pleasure into knowledge. - Charles Baudelaire

Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie. - William Shakespeare

Every morning you begin a new day, and it is the first day of the rest of your life. - Debasish Mridha

Pandering candidates often promise that they can make the pain go away. - Gail Collins

You must sit down to speak this language,It is so heavy you can't be polite or chatter in it.For once you have begun a sentence, the whole course of your life is laid out before you"-quoted in "The Geography of Bliss - Bill Holm

People don't read any more. It's a sad state of affairs. Reading's the only thing that allows you to use your imagination. When you watch films it's someone else's vision, isn't it?"[Interview in The Independent, 15 October 2005] - Lemmy Kilmister

It is unrealistic to assume that if all goes well in a child's life, he or she will be happy. Happiness is not something one can ask of a child. Children suffer in a way that adults don't always realize under the pressure their parents put on them to be happy. - Adam Phillips

I'm a weak man, Navani. I really am. If I give myself a few feet of leeway, I burst through all of my prohibitions. - Dalinar Kholin

When we have no choice of what is to come, we must find the strength to have trust in what lies ahead. SURRENDER. - Karen A. Baquiran

Every great artist has the sense of provocation. - Arthur Cravan

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

God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering. - Augustine of Hippo

I am naked and a beggar and an atom in the vortex of humanity. - Fjodor Dostojevski

Fear is natural, but love is eternal. Never be fearful of love. - Debasish Mridha

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

No dream is too big to come true.You are born to manifest the glory of God on earth. - Lailah Gifty Akita

If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man, don't bother analyzing his ways of being silent, of talking, of weeping, of seeing how much he is moved by noble ideas; you will get better results if you just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he's a good man. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Be Practical." That's probably the most stupid piece of advice I've ever received in my life. - Sharad Vivek Sagar

If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep. - Dale Carnegie

We must adjust our plans to succeed in light of the changes that have occurred. - Andrea Goeglein

America’s treasure troves of public and private data, IP, and critical infrastructure continues to be pilfered, annihilated, and disrupted, while an organizational culture of ‘Participation Trophy Winners managed by tech neophyte executives continue to lose one battle after the next. - James Scott, Sr. Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology

Hard work always pays off in the eyes of a God that never sleeps. . . . Who's always near and never far - Edna Stewart

May the road rise to meet you, May the wind be always at your back, May the sun shine warm upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again may god hold you in the palm of his hand - unknown

In the history of battles and wars, the massacres of civilians were the main reason of revolutions success. - M.F. Moonzajer

Simplicity is the beauty of all creation. - Debasish Mridha

Authorship of anything apart from God is nothing more than a tragedy in the making. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

All that we have and don't have is a grace. Even the awareness of grace is a grace in which we should give thanks." - Mac MacKenzie

There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music. - George Eliot

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance. - Oscar Wilde

It violates right order whenever capital so employees the working or wage-earning classes as to divert business and economic activity entirely to its own arbitrary will and advantage without, the social character of economic life, social justice, and the common good. - Pope Pius XI

Absurdity is one of the most human things about us: a manifestation of our most advanced and interesting characteristics. - Thomas Nagel

Ingredients for a terrific Christmas: Christ. Love for one another. Forgiveness. Generosity. Time. Music. Children’s laughter. Reminising with loved ones. Remembering those who are alone. The making of new memories. - Toni Sorenson

Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life's search for love and wisdom - Jalaluddin Rumi

Nothing touches your skin of sweat(meltdown of oceanic kisses)when the purple lightwhispers to the moon in silent moonlit clarity - Bear Step

Enjoy the limitless bliss consciousness here and now. The reality of you lies much beyond your sensory perceptions and boundaries. - Amit Ray

You are the Poem I dreamed of writing, the Masterpiece I longed to paint. You are the shining Star I reached for in my ever hopeful quest for life fulfilled. Yes, I am Blessed. - Oksana Rus

We have eyelids but not earlids, for the ears are the portals of learning, and Nature wanted to keep them wide open. - Baltasar Gracián

A good writer is a magician; she unfolds the dark secrets of mind. - Debasish Mridha

Too much of anything is not good. But I love her too much. - Raaz Ojha

This is what drives a young writer out of his head, this feeling that nothing is being said. - William Saroyan

A popular Harvard business professor urged his students to read the obituaries in the New York Times before they read anything else, in order to learn from the lives of great men. - Georges F. Doriot

It seems like women are always in the kitchen around food and they're serving and they're giving and they're enjoying and it's part of the plentitude of life and the enrichment of life. - Kathy Bates

Do you have to make me feel like there's nothing left of me? You can take everything I have, you can break everything I am, like I am made of glass, like I am made of paper.Go on and try to tear me down I will be rising from the ground like a Skyscraper... - Demi Lovato

Mine is the poverty of angels. I just don't give a damn about possessions and the like... What need have I for objects and luxury? I write, and that's enough.

Dear God, that man has a magnificent body.' ............. 'It’s like having a cupcake thrust in front of your face and not being allowed to have a lick of the icing. - J.L. McCoy

Mankind, not womankind, has slaughtered more humans in the name of God and Religion than for any other reason. - Abhijit Naskar

There are few things more discomfiting than a spontaneous outburst of genuine decency from someone you’re determined to dislike for no good reason. - Gregory David Roberts

Writing is my passion, not my job. I need to write as much as I need to breathe, if not more. - A.E. Croft

Time changes nothing, girl, but the size of your underwear. . .and hopefully your hairdo. - Minton Sparks

Time is money!!You choose to invest it in thingsthat matters to you...that will offer you something better in the future or either you choose to investit in things that willgive you an easy solutionto your problems anda shortly pleasure to your life! - Rafael Kass.

What we have once enjoyed deeply we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us. - Helen Keller

Society has seldom considered the vicarious effects of domestic violence between partners on the lives of children. - Asa Don Brown

Traveling solo is an incredible – life changing – journey, which I can recommend anyone to undertake. It’s the fear of being alone that prevents many people from daring to take the step to go on that journey. But as with many things, within that fear you’ll discover the greatest triumphs. - Jellis Vaes

If God created great things with a point of vulnerability, it would lie in the reality that great things die in the hands of great ignorance. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

To dream is to desire, to desire is to long for, to long for is to want, and to want you must work to attain all you dream of, desire, long for and want. - Imania Margria

Dream of yoking a gnat with an archangel, and then imagine that you can help your Lord in the work of salvation. - Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Don't just think out of the box, stand on the box to see new possibilities and opportunities in becoming distinguished. - Onyi Anyado

The literal meaning of life is whatever you're doing that prevents you from killing yourself. - Albert Camus

The difference between virtuality and life is very simple. In a construct you know everything is being run by an all-powerful machine.Reality doesn't offer this assurance, so it's very easy to develop the mistaken impression that you're in control.Quellcrest FalconerEthics on the Precipice - Richard K. Morgan

Rule #1 of Traveling-Don't even think of answering questions that contain the word "plan"? - Sanhita Baruah

I can't bring myself to watch yet another video, not because I don't care, but because we're all just a few videos away from becoming completely desensitized. The public execution of Black folks will never be normal. - Andrena Sawyer

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

The happiest moments of my life have a been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family. - Thomas Jefferson

The joy of writing.The power of preserving.Revenge of a mortal hand. - Wisława Szymborska

When he was young, he told her, each phase of his life, each self he tried on, had seemed reassuringly temporary. Its imperfections didn't matter, because he could easily replace one moment by the next, one Saladin by another. - Salman Rushdie

We are the sum total of the decisions we have made. - E.A. Bucchianeri

When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough. - Maurice Maeterlinck

you felt like you always been sadand sorrow used to live in you dailyonly hope keep you alive sometimesyou should always remember that,without sorrow and sadnessyou won't known the essenceof happiness and success - Uche Daniel Oluwaseun

Many people say that they love the winter, but what they really love is feeling proof against it.

Hate is strewn like confetti by the fear-fueled, specious, tiny- dicked (or un-tender) vacuous dictators, of any gender, whom never knew true love, only sadism. They ALL need some good pharma. - Elizabeth Lucye Robillard

I think everything should have an end, an end of the brutal stuff happening home. ENd for the song, end of the film, end of the evil... This how it must go and it will go, if you think that evil has gone it's still here. If you believe in god, that's means that you believe this evil. - Deyth Banger

I believe that all people from the humanity which are dead. Aren't really dead, they are just out of the stage and they are on the chairs and they are watching the Endless Film. - Deyth Banger

Pulling together is the aim of despotism and tyranny. Free men pull in all kinds of directions. - Terry Pratchett

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

And all Negroes at some period of their lives there is that yearning for a sense of group unity that is the yearning of men for a flag: for a unity that cannot be compromised, that cannot be bought; that is conscious of itself, of its strength, that is militant. - Ralph Ellison

I would more appropriately define mastery as the technical ability possible within the constraints of your particular existence. - Chris Matakas

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

In those days I coercedOracular assuranceIn my favour out of every sign. - Ted Hughes

Everyone is kneaded out of the same dough but not baked in the same oven. - Yiddish proverb

Art is a mirror of time, it must reflect a moment. - Unarine Ramaru

Most people think that making a living from books is fun or joyful, but there's much more to it than what the eyes can see, and I wish I had more time for more profitable and also joyful activities. - Robin Sacredfire

Humanity reveals her inner beauty through the interplay of gratitude, love, and kindness. - Debasish Mridha

One of the most foolish of all human philosophies, is to believe that we all have an unavoidable destiny. - Dennis E. Adonis

Arabic science throughout its golden age was inextricably linked to religion; indeed, it was driven by the need of early scholars to interpret the Qur'an. - Jim Al-Khalili

No matter how many sins you make or how slow you travel back toward God's valley, you are still way ahead of a person who never made a mistake and doesn't know what it is like to climb out of a pit of shame and rise above their temptations. - Shannon L. Alder

Trying to fall out of love is like trying to climb a mountain. Blindfolded, on crutches, naked in a hail storm. - Louise Caiola

To feel that one has a place in life solves half the problems of contentment.

In an age of rampant chronic disease, reconnecting with the Earth's energy beneath our very feet may provide a way back to better health and keeping our bodies in top condition throughout our lives. - Jed Diamond

The promise of a dreamer’s future will always remain greater than their present ability. God will always give them dreams that are further along than their current level of maturity. - Wayne Cordeiro

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

. . . there is a wish in the heart of mankind to be distracted and confused. Truth is but one attraction, and not always the most powerful. - Joyce Carol Oates

You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level. - Eckhart Tolle

Narration, after all, isn’t just a literary function. It represents the human capacity to tell stories in such a manner that they yield meaning. Television replaced this concerted quest for meaning with a frantic pursuit of wonder. - Steve Almond

You are the energy you attract. Whether you are aware of that or not, everything you come up against is teaching you about that part within yourself. Listen carefully, it's a hint to a better you. - Nikki Rowe

A minute's success pays the failure of years. - Robert Browning

Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.

The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.

Plainly it is not every error made by a witness which affects his credibility. In each case the trier of fact has to make an evaluation; taking into account such matters as the nature of the contradictions, their number and importance, and their bearing on other parts of the witness's evidence. - H.C. Nicholas

The nostalgia of a moment's love can be an illusionary precipice from which we fall from truth; in heartbreak, what we escape to in the past is what tortures us in the present. - Mike Norton

I dream of being there,Where the skies lie below,Clouds flow like the endless river,Where all the divinity is before me, with me,And in the shadows yet above all,Above all who choose to hide,I run along the stars,Wake up the ever-glowing sky,And sleep to the sound of the universes beating heart... - Mrinalini Mitra

You'll only beat your fears once you get to the point where you care more about your purpose than what people think of you. - Adam Smith

Invitation to Dance-It’s a Dance. And sometimes they turn the lights off in this ballroom.But we’ll dance anyway, you and I. Even in the Dark. Especially in the Dark.May I have the pleasure? - Stephen King

Conscience and cowardice are really the same thing. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. - Oscar Wilde

Frustration is one of the greatest things in art; satisfaction is nothing.

Invest your capital of love to get the best dividend of a beautiful life filled with happiness. - Debasish Mridha

Today the greatest single source of wealth is between your ears. - Brian Tracy

Of our thinking it is but the upper surface that we shape into articulate thought; underneath the region of argument and conscious discourse lies the region of meditation. - Thomas Carlyle

If you spend most of your time turned away from people, you get to know what they're doing without having to see it. - Sophie Kinsella

Your life is the product of your thoughts - Dr. 'A'id al Qarni

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

Dreamers are mocked as impractical. The truth is they are the most practical, as their innovations lead to progress and a better way of life for all of us. - Robin S. Sharma

The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing. - Albert Einstein

One of the best things that I wanted to become a teacher is that; I don't want to be forgotten. - Adoniemar

Most people in the world are Christ lovers. And then there are Christ haters. But all of them are fixated on Christ, and he perpetuates for ever. - Marilyn Monroe

Who lives inside your head? The hero of your story OR The victim of someone else's? - Tony Curl

Every quote is like a Picasso. The meaning is different for each person and half the admirers miss the true intent and twisted humor of it all. - Shannon L. Alder

Life is there to attain Liberation while going through the experience of it. It should not be ‘above normal’ or ‘below normal,’ it should be ‘normal’. - Dada Bhagwan

Lies are in the minds, but the truth is in the soul - Sofia Reyes

I didn't know when I told God that I wanted to be a mother that I needed to be more specific. Instead of asking to be a mother of my own children, I now realize that I was given the responsibility to be a mother to all of God's children. - Monika Zands

God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: "This is my country." - Benjamin Franklin

Marriage is more about work than about divine luck, more about finding someone to love than about finding someone to meet your own laundry list of personal needs. - Mark Gungor

Solitude and retirement cherish grief, employment and exertion are the only means of dissipating it. - Lord Melbourne

I was going to buy a copy of The Power of Positive Thinking, and then I thought: What the hell good would that do? - Ronnie Shanks

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

Inequality is the cause of all local movements. - Leonardo Da Vinci

Don’t allow your thoughts of frustration allow you to make decisions out of desperation. - DeWayne Owens

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

World peace must develop from inner peace. Peace is not just mere absence of violence. Peace is, I think, the manifestation of human compassion. - Dalai Lama XIV

A prince ... is only the first servant of the state, who is obliged to act with probity and prudence. ... As the sovereign is properly the head of a family of citizens, the father of his people, he ought on all occasions to be the last refuge of the unfortunate. - Frederick II of Prussia

It may be that The Great Gatsby is as perfect, word for word, just in terms of English; but Ulysses is deeper, richer, wider – and is comic, whereas The Great Gatsby is a tragic novel. And I think all great art is comic art.() Stephen Fry - video

The secret of all power is - save your force. If you want high pressure you must choke off waste. - Joseph Farrell

It doesn't matter how green a blade of grass is expected to be, when it's already smashed beneath the feet. - Munia Khan

Education delivered by a strict councellor, and recieved with great pains would never brighten the future of any student. - Michael Bassey Johnson

88% of what we call good songs aren’t really good. They merely remind us of a good time we once had. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Who are you, Hockenberry, to thwart Fate and defy the Will of the Gods?I am me, Thomas Hockenberry. I am fed up with these power-addled thugs who call themselves gods. - Dan Simmons

There’s something tightly woven throughout the fabric of our humanity that runs entirely opposite to the baser instinct of looking out for our own good. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

There will be pages. Lots and lots of pages. Most of the pages will have letters on them, and a vast majority of these letters will be in the Roman alphabet. - Aaron Allston

The Truth only offends those who live outside it. - Corey M.K. Hughes

There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbors will say. - Cyril Connolly

The ‘Gnani’ is in the form of an instrument to attain the goal (Experience of Pure Soul). The goal is the scientific form of Soul (vignan swarup atma). - Dada Bhagwan

I do not believe in God, because I believe in man. Whatever his mistakes, man has for thousands of years been working to undo the botched job your god has made. - Emma Goldman

Our universe grants every soul a twin-a reflection of themselves -the kindred spirit - And no matter where they are or how far away they are from each other- even if they are in different dimensions, they will always find one another. This is destiny; this is love. - Julie Dillon

It is the doom of laziness and gluttony to be inactive without ease, and drowsy without tranquility. - Samuel Johnson

For the multiculturalist, white Anglo-Saxon Protestants are prohibited, Italians and Irish get a little respect, blacks are good, native Americans are even better. The further away we go, the more they deserve respect. This is a kind of inverted, patronising respect that puts everyone at a distance. - Slavoj Žižek

The struggle against injustice is just another kind of injustice. - Marty Rubin

To act morally is not to act out of fear of punishment; it is not to act as one is commanded to act. Rather, it is to act as one ought to act. And how one ought to act is not dependent upon anyone's power, even if the power be Divine. - Steven M. Cahn

The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done. - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

We are all failures - at least the best of us are. - James M. Barrie

Value of life depends not on your possessions, but on your donation. - Debasish Mridha

holding the eveningtremblingly close to mei weepinto the sun lettingthe burdenof hopelift off my chesti realizethis is what it meansto be free. - Sanober Khan

The day she was born,her grandfather made her a ring of silver and a polished stone, because he loved her already. - Aliki

Let your heart sing the song of peace; let it be your anthem. - Debasish Mridha

Time does have a way of softening most things. Anger, hate, and even loss are often diluted by the passage of time. And memories, well they become more precious as days go by . . . until one day the cup that seemed half-empty, incredibly, becomes half-full. - Cynthia Mock Burroughs

I'm not here to win the rat race of materialism. I am here to experience the depths of my soul in form. - Erin Fall Haskell

We can lie in the language of dress or try ot tell the truth; but unless we are naked and bald, it is impossible to be silent.

Express a mean opinion of yourself occasionally; it will show your friends that you know how to tell the truth. - Edgar Watson Howe

You can tell how often a person thinks of you by how often they tell you they think of you. - Mark W. Boyer

A glint of intention initiates the process of creation. - Debasish Mridha

If life was fair ... one third of the people would comprise of judges and lawyers ... one third of police and prison officials ... and one third of legislators ... and one third more to make the other three thirds make any sense at all .... Thank goodness for no fair. - Brian Spellman

The story you are about to read is a work of fiction. Nothing - and everything - about it is real. - Todd Strasser

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread. - Mahatma Gandhi

Nostalgia is the intimate refuge of every man and every woman in a world seemingly gone mad. - John Larkins

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

Devote yourself to reading of Scriptures. - Lailah Gifty Akita

To risk life to save a smile on a face of a woman or a child is the secret of chivalry. - Dejan Stojanovic

What have they done to the earth?What have they done to our fair sister?Ravaged and plundered and ripped her and bit herStuck her with knives in the side of the dawnAnd tied her with fences and dragged her down - Jim Morrison

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

Do what you do only for God's sake, start for God's sake, work for God's sake, and act within the sphere of God's good approval. - Said Nursî

A thousand cups of wine do not suffice when true friends meet, but half a sentence is too much when there is no meeting of minds. - Chinese proverb

Nevermore shall men make slaves of others! Not in Asgard--not on Earth--not any place where the hammer of Thor can be swung--or where men of good faith hold freedom dear! - Stan Lee

Death, displacement and injury caused by conflicts constitute one of the most devastating epidemics of our age. - Widad Akreyi

I will Basquiat the canvas of your body like a Broadway Junction wall…and Gordon Parks you for those dark midnights when your scent fades. - Brandi L. Bates

I cannot marry the facts of William Shakespeare to his verse: Other men had led lives in some sort of keeping with their thought, but this man is in wide contrast. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

The mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation. - William McKinley

Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries,hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. - Stephen King

Delusion is the seed of dreams. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Spring is painted in daffodil yellows, robin egg blues, new grass green and the brightness of hope for a better life. - Toni Sorenson

The beauty of life is not a lack of darkness, but it is in the presence of light. - Debasish Mridha

Often religious education teaches us to conform and creates a psychological prison which is difficult to escape. - Debasish Mridha

Looking back at our lives, the unbelievable thing is that despite all the times when things felt so wrong, we still managed to meet at the perfect moment. Almost as if by some plan which we were unaware of. - John Mark Green

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.

Art forms that appeal to [leftists] tend to focus on ... defeat and despair ... as if there were no hope of accomplishing anything through rational calculation. - Theodore J. Kaczynski

My life's an open book. Some of the pages are a little ripped, but it's open. - Tim LaHaye

When the music note grows tired we will land on the wings of a guardian - One already accustomed to my attempts to fly One aware of my weakness for a beautiful try - Phibby Venable

Many people find bald, unvarnished truths so disturbing, they prefer to ram their heads in the sand and start dreaming at the first sign of scientific reality. - Charlie Brooker

There's more than one way to be a person. Actually, there are more than two or three ways. You'd think that was obvious, but I find that often it is not. The world is essentially a collection of teams. Life is a process of deciding which ones we're going to join. - Meghan Daum

When you put fear behind the wheel, you're bound to crash, but when you drive in faith the ride will be rough, but preceding into a journey of your lifetime. - Anthony Liccione

Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved. - William Jennings Bryan

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

Who was it who said something about the Indians being argumentative, good soul, let him come to Haridwar and meet this bunch. Good for him too, if he adapts with age; for if after fifty you don't live the aspirations of the young, go away. Who needs spectacle snails salivating on the Soma of youth? - Aporva Kala

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

Live in the midst of q crowd, but think like you're in the solitude. - Debasish Mridha

The bare knowledge of God's will is inefficacious, it doth not better the heart. Knowledge alone is like a winter sun, which hath no heat or influence; it doth not warm the affections, or purify the conscience. Judas was a great luminary, he knew God's will, but he was a traitor. - Thomas Watson

Each minute of my life is brand new and ready to be used. - Stephen Richards

The spiritual meaning of love is measured by what it can do. Love is meant to heal. Love is meant to renew. Love is meant to bring us closer to God. - Deepak Chopra

They call good evil and evil good. There are those who are so easily offended that they lose their ability to ever discern any truth, and this is often derived from a sort of frenzy by way of their own masked prejudice. - Criss Jami

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

Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace! Where there is hatred let me sow love; Where there is injury, pardon; Where there is doubt, faith; Where there is despair, hope; Where there is darkness, light; Where there is sadness, joy. - Saint Francis of Assisi

Whenever you can call your enemy and tell him that you truly love him with compassion, then you are practicing the power of true love. - Debasish Mridha

Each morning the winds of the city moan and weep with lost souls clinging to hope of reliving the memories of yesterday. - Jason E. Hodges

The influence of individual character extends from generation to generation.

Even on the most solemn occasions I got away without wearing socks and hid that lack of civilization in high boots - Albert Einstein

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

When Life teaches you a lesson, write it down and use it ASAP. Many destinies have failed because of lack of attention to important details. - Asuni LadyZeal

A deaf and dumb in the mist of morons is a renowed talkative among brains. - Michael Bassey Johnson

Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman. - Margaret Fuller

If I traveled to the end of the rainbow As Dame Fortune did intend, Murphy would be there to tell me The pot's at the other end.

Honesty: The best of all the lost arts. - Mark Twain

Be ordinary, but bring a quality of awareness to your ordinary life. Bring God to your ordinary life introduce God into your ordinary life. Sleep, eat, love, pray, meditate, but don’t think that you are making or doing something special—and then you will be special. - Osho

The great masterpiece of Dada was the idea of having fun. - Marty Rubin

Possessions and positions may promote our happiness but cannot create it. Happiness is a state created by self through the realization of how the self is important to the creator. - Israelmore Ayivor

The value of things is not the time they last, but the intensity with which they occur. That is why there are unforgettable moments and unique people! - Fernando Pessoa

Adjusting to life’s changes may be difficult and something you may not be looking forward to experiencing. Be gentle with yourself and you will find clarity on all levels of encouragement in places and by people you least expect. Remember as it has been said before: This too shall pass! - Steven Cuoco

People open bookstores because they want their souls back.(from "Two Women" published in Do Me: Tales of Sex & Love from Tin House) - Elizabeth Tallent

What one learns in a classroom is just a very small part of learning process . The real learning starts when one crosses borders and travels miles for the real knowledge. - vivek sahni

Still the most magical day of my life was the day I became a mom. - Linda Becker

Where we sail and anchor our heart fill up the multitude odyssey paving to the coming home of our soul. - Angelica Hopes

We are semipermeable membranes. We can pick and choose which troubles are worthy of our attention. What sinks us can only do so with our permission; a boat stays afloat until the water gets in. - Joyce Rachelle

In the center of your being there is a fountain of music and that is your love. - Debasish Mridha

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

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

Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public. - H. L. Mencken

Be happy while you are looking for happiness because our purpose of life is to be happy. - Debasish Mridha

The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do. - Benjamin Disraeli

Free-market capitalism is a network of free and voluntary exchanges in which producers work, produce, and exchange their products for the products of others through prices voluntarily arrived at. - Murray N. Rothbard

Walking is also an ambulation of mind. - Gretel Ehrlich

Every reader wants the same thing: to open the cover of a book and watch the words explode like fireworks off the page. - Kim Lehman

The true value of a man is not determined by his possession, supposed or real, of Truth, but rather by his sincere exertion to get to the Truth. - Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

The knowledge you acquire in an area of study is accompanied by an incalculable ignorance. The farther we get into anything, we learn that we have even farther to go. - Chris Matakas

Food is the most primitive form of comfort. - Sheila Graham

Everybody that is born on the surface of this earth, is wealthy. That wealth is the wealth of time. - Sunday Adelaja

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

Wisdom supersedes knowledge in all venues outside of perhaps "presence". - Daniel Desprez

My thoughts are the dance of my consciousness on the stage of my mind. - Debasish Mridha

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

One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful. - Sigmund Freud

ENTERTAINMENT, n. Any kind of amusement whose inroads stop short of death by injection. - Ambrose Bierce

We have become, by the power of a glorious evolutionary accident called intelligence, the steward of life's continutity on earth. We did not ask for this role, but we cannot abjure it. We may not be suited to to it, but here we are. - Stephen Jay Gould

No one likes a person that "should of" all over the place. - Shannon L. Alder

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

After we deal and heal...NOT A A SHRED OF EVIDENCE EXISTS THAT LIFE IS SERIOUS.....Jan Marshall - Jan Marshall

This planet is dying. The human rase is killing it. ...If the Earth dies, you die. If you die, the Earth survives. - Arthur Tofte

For me, the consolation of history resides in the fact that hypothetically returning to any point in time feels like coming home. - Martha M. Moravec

Though I despise it, I do not doubt His Love for the creatures. I have seen it —His ever-reaching outward for any hand that might reach back. At His love, I tremble yet believe. - Geoffrey Wood

The biologically harmful effects of man-made environmental radiation was a jigsaw of existing information that needed to be assembled by a group of independent researchers that had a broad range of knowledge and were free of corrupt corporate government influence. - Steven Magee

Forgiveness means letting go of the past. - Gerald G. Jampolsky

Deeds, not stones, are the true monuments of the great. - John L. Motley

The blessings of the Lord is our greatest wealth. - Lailah Gifty Akita

If you have to ask for their attention, you're better off without it. - Ali. B. Moe

An unbridled imagination is the fountain of youth; it's what keeps us young at heart. - Richelle E. Goodrich

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

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

Love is not a mere sentiment but an instrument of ability. - Debasish Mridha

TELEPHONE n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance. - Ambrose Bierce

When we start rating each other’s lives and afflictions, we lose a bit of our humanity, compassion and perspective. - Ariana Carruth

Some believe that every library looks like a splendid cemetery of human thoughts and ideas. Could librarians be called grave-diggers? However that may be, like a cemetery, a library will never stop being of use. - Lara Biyuts

I have come to the conclusion that none of us in our generation feels as guilty about sin as we should or as our forefathers did. - Francis A. Schaeffer

The power of the harasser, the abuser, the rapist depends above all on the silence of women. - Ursula K. Le Guin

The human is the only animal on earth that pays a thousand times for the same mistake. The rest of the animals pay only once for every mistake they make. But not us. We have a powerful memory. We make a mistake, we judge ourselves, we find ourselves guilty, and we punish ourselves. - Miguel Ruiz

I know I have a long way to go but for now I am taking my life one day at a time. Enjoying every minute of my youth as far as I could. I know I am still young but no one is ever too young to have a dream so big to inspire many people. - Diana Rose Morcilla

The fanatic emphasis on ‘Plan B’ that professionals talk about is not a coward’s fall-back system. It serves a purpose, a purpose that a strategist has envisioned and planned before the need for an alternate solution surfaces. - Andy Paula

Every great and commanding moment in the annals of the world is the triumph of some enthusiasm. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

I'm gonna go put my earplugs in and practice piano for hours until my fingers bleed. I practice the piano with the focus of Helen Keller—and nothing can distract me from the scent of the music.- and Jarod Kintz - Karen Quan

I have every luxury imaginable, I own acres of land, and have enough money to buy the moon were it for sale. Though people think I have everything, it sometimes feels like my possessions own me; towering over me and reducing me into a small bundle of insignificance. - J. Matthew Nespoli

Never trust an armed police officer. - Steven Magee

You enhance the beauty of your life by sharpening your awareness and deepening your consciousness. - Debasish Mridha

For it is probable that when people talk aloud, the selves (of which there may be more than two thousand) are conscious of disserverment, and are trying to communicate but when communication is established there is nothing more to be said. - Virginia Woolf

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

When humanity suffers from the darkness of violence, I will bring the empathetic, soft, kind, light from the moon to enlighten humanity. - Debasish Mridha

I am charting a course that will become a seed which may fall to the ground and die. But out of it shall arise many seeds and trees that shall become a plantation of light, which would usher in a new dawn of Gods righteousness to the church, Nigeria, and to Africa. - Sunday Adelaja

When you let go of past pain, believe in yourself, and follow your dreams—you can find true happiness! - Casi McLean

The world is moved not only by the mighty shoves of the heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker. - Helen Keller

The true index of a man's character is the health of his wife. - Cyril Connolly

If there is any religion that could respond to the needs of modern science, it would be Buddhism. - Albert Einstein

The materialistic view of happiness of our age starkly revealed in our understanding of the word "luxury. - Alain de Botton

From my mother's sleep I fell into the State,And I hunched in its belly till my wet fur froze.Six miles from earth, loosed from the dream of life,I woke to black flak and the nightmare fighters.When I died they washed me out of the turret with a hose. - Randall Jarrell

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

I have always felt that the moment when first you wake up in the morning is the most wonderful of the twenty-four hours. - Monica Baldwin

A man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her. - George Bernard Shaw

I could never understand what was going on in my dreams I couldn’t control the happenings, it’s like I just stood there glued to the ground watching everything around me move and evolve into different scenarios. I was a ghost of myself watching life unravel before my own eyes... - JaszCab.

You want more constraints on you. You want to embrace constraints. Don't try to use resources to get them out of the way. - Jason Fried

The prayer of a righteous man avails much - Sunday Adelaja

The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words. - Philip K. Dick

If a person takes comfort in his or her faith upon divinity in times of distress, then who the hell am I to say, that the person is delusional. - Abhijit Naskar

The tongues of hell are dull. - Sylvia Plath

The being called God...bears every mark of a veil woven by philosophical conceit, to hide the ignorance of philosophers even from themselves. They borrow the threads of its texture from the anthropomorphism of the vulgar. - Percy Bysshe Shelley

Instead of focusing on how much you can accomplish, focus on how much you can absolutely love what you’re doing. - Leo Babauta

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

The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn. - Alvin Toffler

RASCALITY, n. Stupidity militant. The activity of a clouded intellect. - Ambrose Bierce

Trust is like a block of ice, once it melts into the ground, you can never get it back. - Captain Chief

To me you are a work of art, and I would give you my heart - that's if I had one. - Morrissey

To capture someones light is to seal a moment in time of their soul. trapping it within a pane of glass.. forever suspended in time - Kurt Grüng

When you see the fire of hate, spread the tranquility of your ocean of love. - Debasish Mridha

Freedom of expression is more than a fashion statement. - Miss Vera

Victory is a thing of the will. - Marshal Foch

The very essence of politeness is to take care that by our words and actions we make other people pleased with us as well as with themselves. - Jean de La Bruyère

Thoughts of love are such a nice way to start a day. - Debasish Mridha

Writing is really a way of thinking--not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet. - Toni Morrison

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A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A DOE Unbearably lovely music is heard as the curtain rises, and we see the woods on a summer afternoon. A fawn dances on and nibbles slowly at some leaves. He drifts lazily through the soft foliage. Soon he starts coughing and drops dead. - Woody Allen

The deer hovered by the trees beyond as the sounds of the ravening wolves came to them across the grass, their own senses almost frozen in impotent horror. - David Clement-Davies

Men are only clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others. - Titus Livius

El Sueno de la razon produce monstrous. (The sleep of reason breeds monsters) - Francisco de Goya

The only step that makes the valuable to become valueless is the negative side of your eyes that you use to see it. - Israelmore Ayivor

Pale sky, white land; like somewhere past the end of the world - Rinsai Rossetti

To sin by silence, when they should protest, makes cowards of men. - Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time. - Albert Camus

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself. - Oscar Wilde

A husband is what's left of the lover once the nerve has been extracted. - Helen Rowland

Worship offered with stale flower and an unclean mind is of no value - Radhe Maa

I wanted her love she wanted mine. In the quest of expecting anddisappointing.The almost perfect relationship died. - shivangi lavaniya

What a computer is to me is the most remarkable tool that we have ever come up with. It's the equivalent of a bicycle for our minds. - Steve Jobs

God Please help Man find his lost Freedom faster. So that the rest of the creatures on earth who deserve it more can have theirs back. - Surabhi Dhar

The problem with the prosperity gospel is that it makes prosperity the Gospel. God's word is flawless, however if your interpretation of the word is wrong, your application will be wrong also. - Kingsley Opuwari Manuel

Nothing you hear or read will be of any benefit to you unless you meditate and digest itdeeply. - Sunday Adelaja

Oh, the summer night / HAS A SMILE OF LIGHT / And she sits on a sapphire throne. - Barry Cornwall

Always set your mind to think thoughts of victory even before the battle begins, this way you will experience limitless possibilities. - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

Crowd is just a bunch of heads, it is their leader who is the mind. - Amit Kalantri

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

The secret of being boring is to say everything. - Voltaire

I have nothing but contempt for the kind of governor who is afraid, for whatever reason, to follow the course that he knows is best for the State; and as for the man who sets private friendship above the public welfare - I have no use for him either. - Sophocles

God is like a mirror, consistent, stable, unchanging; reflecting His image of us, that is always changing. - Anthony Liccione

The wind has many lovers and I am one of them, I move freely in her armsI know no chains, nor bound to anyone’s truth, you can call me a harlot of the wind, I take no offense, because I know at the end of my days, my face will show that I have been kissed by the breath of GOD.~Micheline Jean louis - Micheline Jean Louis

A man wakes up and for a few moments he experiences everything exactly as it is. Jon wrote: A man wakes up and is lucid. It doesn’t last long, though, he thought, that kind of lucidity. If it did you wouldn’t be able to stand it, it would kill you. - Ullmann, Linn

We often know the truth, but rarely do we follow it. - Debasish Mridha

If you believe that the killing of innocent people is right, then you are not part of my future. - King Abdullah II

Life is full of joy and beauty. Look around and notice it. Notice the little butterfly, a little baby with a smile, and the white rose in the garden. Notice a drop of dew on a green leaf in the morning sun. Touch the wind, smell the rain, and feel the joy. Live your life with beauty and joy. - Debasish Mridha

And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. - Martin Luther King Jr.

Close your eyes. Now see the world with your mind, and feel the joy of your magnificent life. - Debasish Mridha

The perception of beauty is a moral test. - Henry David Thoreau

Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone. - John Maynard Keynes

Some type of men I call a waste of make up. - Ilana Mack

Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of faith, for it assumes the permanence and uniformity of natural laws - a thing which can never be demonstrated

Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent. - William Shakespeare

The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What's left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars. - Bertolt Brecht

Nineteen twentieths of [mankind is] opaque and unenlightened. Intimacy with most people will make you acquainted with vices and errors and follies enough to make you despise them. - John Adams

In selecting men for office, let principle be your guide. Regard not the particular sect or denomination of the candidate - look to his character. - Noah Webster

Where there is hatred, let me sow love. Where there is injury, pardon. Where there is doubt, faith. - Saint Francis of Assisi

The Word of God is my life's manual. - Jane Bulos

If colleges are going to justify themselves, they are going to have to thrive at those things that require physical proximity. That includes moral and spiritual development. Very few of us cultivate our souls as hermits. We do it through small groups and relationships and in social contexts. - David Brooks

All the friends in the world are in the fountain of a pen. - Michelle Franklin

It may be that DMT makes us able to perceive what the physicist call "dark matter" - the 95 per cent of the universe's mass that is known to exist but that at present remains invisible to our senses and instruments. - Graham Hancock

It's hard to imagine a more biblical definition of devil worship than an exaltation of the self, an exaltation of the ego, and a tearing down of that countercultural sign of the cross," Moore argued. This pride – doing things our way instead of following God's plan - Russell D. Moore

Gillard is as likeable as Rudd is charmless. She is self-deprecating; he is ludicrously vainglorious. She is a mistress of understatement; he is a ranter. - Germaine Greer

If literature has engaged me as a project, first as a reader, then as a writer, it is as an extension of my sympathies to other selves, other domains, other dreams, other territories. - Susan Sontag

Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered -- either by themselves or by others. - Unknown

RADIUM, n. A mineral that gives off heat and stimulates the organ that a scientist is a fool with. - Ambrose Bierce

There is no force in Earth or Heaven above,No, not even the damned of Hell can stop relentless Love. ---Kari, The Valkyrie, Chapter Sixteen,Valley of the Damned Epic Martial Poem/Allegory - Douglas M. Laurent

Perhaps I occasionally sought to give, or inadvertently gave, to the student a sense of battle on the intellectual battlefield. If all you do is to give them a faultless and complete and uninhabited architectural masterpiece, then you do not help them to become builders of their own. - Carl-Gustaf Rossby

To Be Happy, You Must Know The Pass Code of Life. And Life Gives You Many Attempts To Unlock It.... - Muhammad Imran Hasan

Who knew that the path to a womans heart was through the soul of an honest man? - Melissa de la Cruz

RANSOM, n. The purchase of that which neither belongs to the seller, nor can belong to the buyer. The most unprofitable of investments. - Ambrose Bierce

...because of the foulness of her mother's emotional river, a current which ran swift, changing its path without warning... - Tamara Rose Blodgett

[Men] are incomprehensible animals... They walk about boasting of their wisdom, strength, and sovereignty, while they have not sense so much as to swallow an apple with the aid of an Eve to put it down their throats. - Frances Wright

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

I honestly think that depression, unhappiness or the feeling of emptiness is more a lack of amazement about life than anything else. - Jellis Vaes

I've learnt not to draw my sword first to strike. That in no way portends I have the most feeble of minds or might . . . Probably, I'm waiting for the perfect moment to startle with a fatal strike. - Ufuoma Apoki

Imagine you saw a colour in your dream, which you have never seen before. It doesn't consist of any colours or shades that you know. Trying to describe that colour would be as difficult as trying to belive that there is enough love & compassion in the world so every human can feel happiness. - Egor Kraft

MIRACLE, n. An act or event out of the order of nature and unaccountable, as beating a normal hand of four kings and an ace with four aces and a king. - Ambrose Bierce

Suffering has many faces. If we discover the roots of one suffering, we are at the same time discovering the roots of others. - Thich Nhat Hanh

Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same; and Linton's is as different as a moonbeam from lightning, or frost from fire. - Emily Brontë

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

The jewels of sorrow last forever - James Thurber

We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities but its own talents. - Eric Hoffer

Yes. This. It was just what she needed, because here, held by him like this, her guilt, her regret, her fears . . . all of it gave way to this heady, languid sensation of being desired and she didn’t want it to stop.Any of it. - Jill Shalvis

If there has been one overriding change in poetic practice, it is that under the influence of free verse the poets have made a primary virtue out of exactitude and economy of meaning: this has replaced metrical skill as the first thing the poet tunes to. - Martin Langford

You have to recognize when the right place and the right time fuse and take advantage of that opportunity. There are plenty of opportunities out there. You can't sit back and wait. - Ellen Metcalf

The worst abuse of freedom is to deny that it exists. - Marty Rubin

Invest in love to earn dividends of happiness. - Debasish Mridha

Eating rice cakes is like chewing on a foam coffee cup, only less filling. - Dave Barry

But what if you're wrong?What if there's more?What if there's hope you never dreamed of hoping for?What if you jump?And just close your eyes?What if the arms that catch you, catch you by surprise?What if He's more than enough?What if it's love? - Nichole Nordeman

Silence is golden...but in times of tyranny it is blood red - Parag Tipnis

Liberty is the right to choose. Freedom is the result of the right choice. - Anonymous

Language is the source of misunderstandings. - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

The best thing that life can offer is happiness. The best way to find happiness is through unconditional love. - Debasish Mridha

I don’t want to beone of those easily forgotten people, so important at the time, so special, soinfluential, and so treasured, yet years later just a vague face and a distantmemory. - Cecelia Ahern

The struggle for freedom is ultimately not resistance to autocrats or oligarchs but resistance to the despotism of public opinion. - Ludwig von Mises

Never forget to leave your footprint of love on the surface of this loving universe. - Debasish Mridha

Christ came to take away our sins, not our minds. - William Sloane Coffin Jr.

I'm already crazy. I'm a fearless person. I think it creeps up on you. I don't think it can be stopped. If my destiny is to lose my mind because of fame, then that's my destiny. But my passion still means more than anything. - Lady Gaga

Behind every successful man there are usually a lot of unsuccessful years.

Your love opened up a whole world that no amount of books or wisdom could ever do. - Kamand Kojouri

A song rises up from the belly of my pastand rocks me in the bosom of buried memories. - Brenda Sutton Rose

man cannot control the current of events. he can only float with them and steer - Otto von Bismarck

Music felt married to place, and the notion of "somewhere" predated the Internet's seeming invention of "everywhere" (which often ends up feeling like "nowhere"). - Carrie Brownstein

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

I burn, I shiver, out of this sun, into this shadow. - Virginia Woolf

One of the things everybody seems to want to ask writers is, "Where do you get your ideas?" When people ask me this, my usual response is, "Ideas are the easy part. The hard part is writing them down. - Patricia C. Wrede

The greatest wisdom is to make the enjoyment of the present the supreme object of life because that is the only reality; all else being the play of thought. But it might as well be our greatest folly because that which exists only a moment and vanishes as a dream can never be worth a serious effort. - Irvin D. Yalom

The end of a melody is not its goal: but nonetheless, had the melody not reached its end it would not have reached its goal either. A parable. - Friedrich Nietzsche

The softest things in the world to overcome the hardest things in the world. - Lao-Tzu

When you turn your dreams on there is no off switch. - Stephen Richards

Followers of Jesus do well to spend more time engaging him than explaining him. - Ron Brackin

A faith so weak that it is not sufficient unto itself but requires that others tiptoe around it for fear of hurting it, knows deep down that it is a lie. - Joe Blow

All the horrors of the reign of terror were based on concern for public tranquility. - Leo Tolstoy

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

All of us could take a lesson from the weather, it pays no attention to criticism.

I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes. - Henry David Thoreau

With your life, you are writing the history of the universe. - Debasish Mridha M.D.

You could bounce rocks off her pride. - Terry Pratchett

The soul of Dr. Mrs. is the spirit of light and love. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Hope itself is like a star- not to be seen in the sunshine of prosperity, and only to be discovered in the night of adversity. - Charles Haddon Spurgeon

...for liberty is an acknowledgment of faith in God and His works. - Frédéric Bastiat

The minds of the everlasting gods are not changed suddenly. - Homer

On Valentine's Day, millions of men give millions of women flowers, cards and candy as a heartfelt expression of the emotion that also motivates men to observe anniversaries and birthdays: fear. - Dave Barry

If you don't make a choice, life makes it for you and then you're stuck with what it decides. Take control of your destiny so that doesn't happen - Stewart Stafford

If you fail in life’s journey, just don’t complain. Make it a part of your journey. - Debasish Mridha

Are you educated in the art of medicine? Yeah, the art of Walgreens and Urgent Care. A bit, I hedged. - Lisa T Bergren

The soul knows full well (even though it pretends to forget many times) that it must render account to the paternal soil. I do not say "fatherland", I say "paternal soil". The paternal soil is something deeper, more modest, more reserved, and is composed of age-old pulverized bones. - N. Kazantzakis

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

Giving up drinking for life is easy.I've done it loads of times. - Peter James West

I see her not dispirited, not weak, but well, remembering that she has seen dark times before, indeed with a kind of instinct that she sees a little better in a cloudy day. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

People sometimes get so lost in their own beliefs that they fail to gain truth and understanding. You can't get the whole picture just by relying on your own perception. Never be afraid of the truth. - Amaka Imani Nkosazana

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

It is blasphemy to call tyrants and oppressors, God’s ministers. They are more properly the messengers of Satan to buffet us. No rulers are properly God’s ministers, but such as are just, ruling in the fear of God - Jonathan Mayhew

Stress comes from the fear of the unknown; tranquility comes from accepting the unknown with love and joy. - Debasish Mridha

Things don't happen for a reason, we make reasons out of things that happen. - michael p naughton

You won't be able to find it out for yourself in any library or archive, either, because my grandmother has carefully and systematically destroyed every shred of evidence. - Katie Crouch and Grady Hendrix, The White Glove War

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

It’s not that they’re small, the fair folk. Especially not the queen of them all, Mab of the flashing eyes and the slow smile with lips that can conjure your heart under the hills for a hundred years. It’s not that they’re small. It’s that we’re so far away. - Neil Gaiman

You're not here just to make a living but for appreciating and expressing gratitude for the abundance and beauty of life that you are enjoying. - Debasish Mridha

life is like a tree, when you feeling down the leaves fall off. - Iyonna Williams

USAGE, n. The First Person of the literary Trinity, the Second and Third being Custom and Conventionality. Imbued with a decent reverence for this Holy Triad an industrious writer may hope to produce books that will live as long as the fashion. - Ambrose Bierce

I have dedicated my life to fight against the heinous rottenness of modern capitalism because it robs the laborer of this world's goods. But blow for blow I shall strike against Communism, because it robs us of the next world's happiness. - Charles E. Coughlin

I wish we'd be able to deliver our message at the global level on the need to recognize the past genocides in order to prevent new ones. Our message of peace and justice will hopefully reach every corner of the world. - Widad Akreyi

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists of not exceeding the limit. - Elbert Hubbard

Ah! Happy they whose hearts can breakAnd peace of pardon win!How else may man make straight his pathAnd cleanse his soul from sin?How else but through a broken heartMay the Lord Christ enter in? - Oscar Wilde

Even the most beautiful of the starsare taken for grantednight after night. - Veronika Jensen

They are all cut from the same cloth, so of course, the sleeve will not tell the collar it is not part of the garment. - Molly Shaffer Franks

DNA tells you all the secrets of life,’ he used to say. Except for one—how to live it. - Jennifer Donnelly

Intelligence and perserverance cannot defeat the purpose of popularity because it can describe a trait of a successful person who is prominent. - Saaif Alam

Management by objectives works if you first think through your objectives. Ninety percent of the time you haven't. - Peter Drucker

To overcome the fear of failure, do what makes you fearful. - Debasish Mridha

Selfless Actions; expand our life outside of us, enable us admired leaders and make our actions that live beyond our lifespan. - Ahmet Adam Asar

The joy of the Lord is our strength. - Euginia Herlihy

…is postmodernity the pastime of an old man who scrounges in the garbage-heap of finality looking for leftovers, who brandishes unconsciousnesses, lapses, limits, confines, goulags, parataxes, non-senses, or paradoxes, and who turns this into the glory of his novelty, into his promise of change? - Jean-François Lyotard

The power of your intentions has a greater impact on your life than your actions. - Debasish Mridha

There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar means the hurt is over, the wound is closed and healed, done with. - Harry Crews

Is everything forbidden us except to fold our arms? Poverty is not written in the stars; under development is not one of God's mysterious designs. - Eduardo Galeano

One of the greatest creations of the human mind is the art of reviewing books without having read them. - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

The purpose of all higher education is to make men aware of what was and what is; to incite them to probe into what may be. It seeks to teach them to understand, to evaluate, to communicate.

I don't want to become obsessed with work or money or change any of the values I have now. I don't have reason to believe that I ever should change, as much as I have this feeling of urgency to pursue my dreams... - Tanya Kimberly Orme

Some kid asked what a dilemma is. And I replied: When a starving man has to choose between a plate of food, and, a roll of toilet paper. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The devil attacks you today, because you have got a future. He wants to destroy you for that very reason, because he is scared of your future acts and exploits. - Sunday Adelaja

The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and of all the exercises walking is the best. - Thomas Jefferson

If you need someone to explain morality to you, then you likely have little of it to draw from. - Auliq-Ice

Something like another wave of despair crashes into me. "I'm so heavy." I blink and a tear slides down my cheek."Then you lean on us for a while. Let us carry you, Joy, until you're not heavy anymore. That's what family is. - Jolene Perry

The man may be the head of the household. But the woman is the neck, and she can turn the head whichever way she pleases. - Nia Vardalos

Your smile is a gift of the gods. - Kristian Goldmund Aumann

I don't think you really belong here, Aviger." Xoxarle nodded wisely, slowly.Aviger shrugged, and did not raise his eyes. "I don't think any of us do.""The brave belong where they decide." Some harshness entered the Idiran's voice. - Iain Banks

Depression, as far as I'm concerned, is just a waste of time. - Helen Reddy

Women are cursed, and men are the proof.

If you're going to put yourself out there, you just have to let the criticism roll off your shoulders. - Cliff Hannold

Life is given to everyone as a demonstration of God’s trust. - Sunday Adelaja

I am Chandubhai’ is good or bad focused applied awareness (shubha-ashubha upyoga). ‘I am Pure Soul’, is the focused pure applied awareness of the Self (shuddha upayog). With good-bad focused applied awareness (shubha-ashubha upayog) instillation in the worldly life occured. - Dada Bhagwan

Is your country under great dangers? Light is gone and the darkness is everywhere? You don’t know whom to trust and what to do? Read the history of your country! There you will find out the best map for the way out! - Mehmet Murat ildan

To find true peace, forgive those who fill your mind with hatred and instead show them the path of love. - Debasish Mridha

The dream is the small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul, which opens to that primeval cosmic night that was soul long before there was conscious ego and will be soul far beyond what a conscious ego could ever reach. - C.G. Jung

Then Anu and Bel called by name me, Hammurabi, the exalted prince, who feared God, to bring about the rule of righteousness in the land, to destroy the wicked and the evil-doers; so that the strong should not harm the weak. - Code of Hammurabi 1772 B.C.

The essence of science is that it is always willing to abandon a given idea for a better one; the essence of theology is that it holds its truths to be eternal and immutable. - H.L. Mencken

Apa yang kita lakukan dan tidak kita lakukan hari ini akan menentukan masa depan anak cucu kita, generasi penerus kita selanjutnya; we simply cannot afford the price of inaction and egotism. - Agus Harimurti Yudhoyono

I will help build your museumWhen you run out of space to hang your workYou can hang your work in mine - Darnell Lamont Walker

Alexier found that a dose of humility did wonders to one’s ability to grasp new ideas and, after all, it had been this very ability that made him the researcher he was today. - I. H. Richardson

Man has no Body distinct from his soul; for that called Body is a portion of a Soul discerned by the five senses, the chief inlets of Soul in this age. - William Blake

For a long time I spent my weary days in a fog of what might be and what has been and I guess you could say im still learning how to accept what is. - Nikki Rowe

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy to a friend. - Martin Luther King Jr.

The role of any person in this world is to be themselves without damaging the rest. We are important as long as the rest "is". - - Rossana Condoleo

Failure seldom stops you. What stops you is the fear of failure. - Jack Lemmon

Right on the other side of our fears resides hope and happiness. We get stuck in our lives afraid to walk over there when it’s a much kinder place. - Ron Baratono

What others think of you is not as important as what you think of yourself. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Religious politics is the bent of those who push "The Myth of the Christian Nation" or "Muslim Supremicism" everywhere! ~ © gfp '42™ - Gary Patton

The era of procrastination, of half-measures, of soothing and baffling expedients, of delays is coming to its close. In its place we are entering a period of consequences. - Winston S. Churchill

The habit of love cuts through confusion and stumbles or contrives its way out of difficulty, it remembers the way even when it forgets, for a dumfounded moment, its reason for being. The path is the thing that matters. - Eudora Welty

Around the circle eyes began to glisten as Carol's awe of the Gospel laid bare the shame of those of us whose senses had been dulled to its wonder. - Barbara Hughes

It is wrong and immoral to seek to escape the consequences of one's acts. - Mahatma Gandhi

Don’t let anyone trample on your dream, or let the river take you to its destination. Take the river to your own destination. When you find love, hold on to it. - ~ Fidelis O Mkparu (2016), author of ‘Love’s affliction’

To know you are ignorant is the beginning of wisdom. - Marion Zimmer Bradley

You don't get to advertise all the good that your religion does without first scrupulously subtracting all the harm it does and considering seriously the question of whether some other religion, or no religion at all, does better. - Daniel C. Dennett

That's what Ender has to understand. There really is evil in the world, and wickedness, and every brand of stupidity. There's meanness and heartlessness and... I don't even know which of them is me." - Hyrum Graff - Orson Scott Card

The dead don't desire revenge, but the happiness of the livng. To dirty your small hands would bring joy to no one.-Kenshin to Eiji - Nobuhiro Watsuki

Even when we do not actively participate in our destiny, we are still on a chosen path. Life has a way of making decisions for us. - Nina Guilbeau

Inspiration is like perspiration. It tends to strike at the most inopportune of times. - Max Hawthorne

Blaming others is an act of refusing to take responsibility. When a person can’t accept the fact or the reality, they blamed another person or the situation instead of taking accountability. - Dee Dee Artner

A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit. - Richard Bach

Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often. - Samuel Butler

Be not ashamed of thy virtues; honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times. - Ben Jonson

One of my greatest failures: I was trying to cut a piece of moment so that I could erase it.One of my greatest achievements:I have learnt to ignore my futureless past. - Munia Khan

Time is often wasted by those who don't understand that time is worth more than money because when lost, money can be regained but time cannot. - Gugu Mona

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

A theology that endangers life rather than "giving life" is one that cannot accept the title of being adequately Christian. - Michael Joseph Brown

The meaning of existence is that you have simply existed at all. - Christopher Charles Harris

You don't die of a broken heart, it only wears you down—just another rainy day. – Grey Daze - Michael Allan Scott

Keep flowing even its good or bad. Stilness is ultimate result of flow, path of yoga is to keep flowing. - Yogi Vini

Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man's nature runs to the more ought law to weed it out. - Sir Francis Bacon

Smiling has special powers that you can't believe it is capable of doing, like calming fears, insecurities, hurt and anxiety just like beauty around you. - Auliq-Ice

What need is there to weep over parts of life? The whole of it calls for tears. - Seneca

The only power which can illuminate you is your own mind! No other mind can lighten you if your mind insists to remain in the darkness! The fate of your fate is within you! - Mehmet Murat ildan

Problems and challenges are the sense of life" - Mohamed Osman Abbasheikh

Reckless of my mortality,Strengthen me to behold a face,To know the spirit of a beloved oneYet to endure, yet to dare! - Edgar Lee Masters

I do not believe in God. It seems to me that theists of all kinds have very largely failed to make their concept of a deity intelligible; and to the extent that they have made it intelligible, they have given us no reason to think that anything answers to it. - A.J. Ayer

Time alone is the gift of self-entertainment - and that is the font of creativity - Lin-Manuel Miranda

Come forward as servants of Islam, organize the people economically, socially, educationally and politically and I am sure that you will be a power that will be accepted by everybody. - Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Most people who lose their lives because life might be down for them only refuse to know what a tuber of yam that is put into the soil goes through before it comes up as a fresh green creeping plant to bear yet another bigger tuber - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has. - Will Rogers

Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself. - Jean Anouilh

You don't spread democracy with a barrel of a gun. - Helen Thomas

Forgiving others simply means that you refuse to be a prisoner of a past that you can't change, and shackled to decisions that you didn't make. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

To say more while saying less is the secret of being simple. - Dejan Stojanovic

To relate oneself expectantly to the possibility of the good is to hope. To relate oneself expectantly to the possibility of evil is to fear. By the decision to choose hope one decides infinitely more than it seems, because it is an eternal decision - Søren Kierkegaard

Love without conditions, restrictions, or the expectation of being loved in return. - Kamand Kojouri

The singular reason for calamities, destructions, failures and devastations is seen in ignorance of Gods people. - Sunday Adelaja

I reserve the right to love many different people at once, and to change my prince often. - Anaïs Nin

The landscape looks different from every blade of grass. - Marty Rubin

Nothing else wounds so deeply and irreparably. Nothing else robs us of hope so much as being unloved by one we love - Clive Barker

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs, Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers’ eyes, Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers’ tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, A choking gall and a preserving sweet. - William Shakespeare

One should learn by considering one's own failures that are a part of life. - Eraldo Banovac

Every experience has a pattern and sometimes it teaches us through the spirit of patience captured, that there are no coincidences in life. - Deejay Kapil

As our circle of knowledge expands, so does the circumference of darkness surrounding it. - Albert Einstein

Difficult times are pregnant with glory moments just waiting to be birthed in the lives of those willing to labor through the pain. - Sharon Jaynes

Augustine taught that true freedom is not choice or lack of constraint, but being what you are meant to be. Humans were created in the image of God. True freedom, then, is not found in moving away from that image but only in living it out. - Augustine of Hippo

Modesty is the citadel of beauty. - Demades

I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night. - Sarah Williams

The purpose of life is to live, learn, and love. - Christine Rice

I am alone on this road strewn with bones and bordered by ruins! Angels have their brothers, and demons have their infernal companions. Yet I have but the sound of my scythe when it harvests, my whistling arrows, my galloping horse. Always the sound of the same wave eating away at the world - Gustave Flaubert

Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil---the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be. - William George Jordan

It is the nature of ambition to make men liars and cheats, to hide the truth in their breasts, and show, like jugglers, another thing in their mouths, to cut all friendships and enmities to the measure of their own interest, and to make a good countenance without the help of good will. - Sallust

LOVE is made up of a strong affection and patience whiles LUST is made up of a strong affection and impatience. Affection is common to them, but patience is not common. - Israelmore Ayivor

As a photographer you have a deep love for light, life and yourself. You know that the eyes of love aren’t blind, they are wide open. Only when your eye, heart and soul shine brighter than the sun, you realize how ordinary it is to love the beautiful, and how beautiful it is to love the ordinary. - Marius Vieth

Why do we keep focusing on the minutiae, not the possible significant large events, in spite of the obvious evidence of their huge influence? - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Falling in love you remain a child; rising in love you mature. By and by love becomes not a relationship, it becomes a state of your being. Not that you are in love - now you are love. - Osho

when they asked me : why you still you use this old photo?my answer : photo? it's not a simple photo, it's a cover of a book that i can remember his story, page by page. - Nabil TOUSSI

Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery - it's the sincerest form of learning. - George Bernard Shaw

Crows pooping in your neighbor's roof is not good news; one day they will be pooping in your roof too - Fazli Rrezja

The ultimate aim of reading or writing poetry is to enrich one's life experience. - Marty Rubin

Listen to the silent whisper of your soul and then let your heart dance with song. - Debasish Mridha

The extent of God’s grace always eclipses the extent of my grotesqueness. Therefore, I can never be bad enough for God to tell me that He’s had enough. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

Your reality is a reflection of yourself - Avis J. Williams

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

One of the best ways you can fight discrimination is by taking good care of yourself. Your survival is not just important; it's an act of revolution. - DaShanne Stokes

don't be too much busy on imagining your your life as perfect as the romantic movies, you have your own private story that is being written by the master of the masters. - asma ismaciil

A love of tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril; but the new view must come, the world must roll forward. - Sir Winston Churchill

There is no history of anything happening until it does.And then there is. - Ronda Rousey

Sometimes even the best of us have to lose ourselves in fantasy to survive reality. - Maxi Bransdale

When we understand that Peace is a state of mind we understand true Peace. - Tony Samara

I have lived some thirty years on this planet and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors. - Henry David Thoreau

To reach greater heights, we must refuse the negative opinions of people and passionately pursue your destiny. - Lailah Gifty Akita

To forsake wisdom is to seek folly,to seek folly is to seek evil,to seek evil is to be in the arms of the devil,and to be in the arms of the devil is be in the arms of death. - Matshona Dhliwayo

Men are not generally sufficiently aware of the distinction between the law of God and his purpose; they are apt to suppose, that as the temper of the sinner is contrary to the one, so the outrages of the sinner are able to defeat the other; than which nothing can be more false. - John Witherspoon

It is not enough to profess the word of God; we must partake in good deeds. - Lailah Gifty Akita

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

If you do not see light at the end of the tunnel, consider it an opportunity to create an opening yourself, wherever you want. - Ashok Kallarakkal

In between saying something and achieving it, there is some pothole to fill; that’s doing it. Goals are pursued with the word GO and visions with the word VENTURE. You can’t be living always in the promise of the cloud; it must rain now! - Israelmore Ayivor

Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings. - Helen Keller

Prejudice is the child of ignorance.

The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one's opportunities and make the most of one's resources.

You are the product of your own brainstorm.

More than any other attribute of Jesus, his humility is the key to a healthy marriage. If two people make it their goal to imitate the humility of Christ, everything else will take care of itself. - Francis Chan

Live for today with love and kindness. Live profoundly for tomorrow is promised to no one. - Debasish Mridha

Doesn't it seem more reasonable to take action to heal the social pathology that generates crime than to use gun control to blow another political toe off American liberalism during each election cycle? - Joe Bageant

In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth. - Mahatma Gandhi

So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty. All other pacts of love or fear derive from it and are modeled upon it.

Oh my Valentine! I want to wake up and enjoy every sunrise with you and vanish into your hand at the sunset of my life. - Debasish Mridha

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

All of yesterday's ballers are today's road sweepers. - Habeeb Akande

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

Writing is the delicate, difficult, and dangerous means of succeeding in avowing the unavowable. - Hélène Cixous

That eye which sees anything good in the creature is a blind eye; that eye which fancies it can discern anything in man, or anything in anything he can do to win the Divine favor, is as yet stone blind to the Truth of God, and needs to be lanced and cut, and the cataract of pride removed from it! - Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Courage is not the absence of fear. Only fools have no fear. Rather, courage is the intellectual mastery of fear by understanding the true risks and opportunities of the situation and keeping those things in balance - Julian Assange

The desire for an increase of wealth can be satisfied through exchange, which is the only method possible in a capitalist economy, or by violence and petition as in a militarist society, where the strong acquire by force, the weak by petitioning. - Ludwig von Mises

Jesus is great -- is there a better role model? No. It's religion, it's the people who get in between -- the bureaucracy, you know. ... It's the way people abuse Jesus. Was there ever a greater victim of name dropping? - Bill Maher

All of the the books, the readings, the workshops, the ah-ha moments won't change your life unless you put actions behind them. - Eileen Anglin

It is hard to laugh at the need for beauty and romance, no matter how tasteless, even horrible, the results of that need are. But it is easy to sigh. Few things are sadder than the truly monstrous. - Nathanael West

Reinvent yourself as often as you'd like. There's no limit on the possible YOUS you can be. - Michele Savaunah Zirkle Marcum

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

Reply when questioned on the safety of the polio vaccine he developed:It is safe, and you can't get safer than safe. - Jonas Salk

He was a nobody. Yet and still, he held the gun and therfore all of the power. - Brima Lamin & Chantale Wesley-Lamin, The Walk - Memoir of a Liberian Civil War Survivor, 2016

if a man runs with man is called as "Race" but if a man runs towards God is called as "Grace". - grace of God

Be fearless in pursuit of your goal. - Harsh Malik

Many find in sex and economics the meaning of life and the reason of it all. The consequence of this is that the goal of life for many has become a relief of tension. - Sachindra Kumar Majumdar

Cruelty against innocent helpless animals is the worst form of violence. - Debasish Mridha

The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs. - Alphonse de Lamartine

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

Stress often comes from speed. So slow down, be simple, enjoy the profound beauty of the little flowers. - Debasish Mridha

One more soldier of the Cross has taken up his crown; one more beloved member of our church has gone to the great assembly above; one more Christian has triumphed in the living Faith; one more flower is planted and harvested in the garden of God's Kingdom. - Reverend Ada Slaton Bonds, Cumberland Presbyterian