Quotation Explorer - 'Own'

In the South of California has gathered the larges and most miscellaneous assortment of Messiahs, Sorcerers, Saints and Seers known to the history of aberrations.

...have always been known for their storytelling. It appears to be the supreme expression of their spirit. Perhaps they know that, without a story, there could be no nation, no culture, no civilization, no life. - I. Murphy Lewis

So then I bid him farewell and walked down the side of the pool leading to the outside entrance where I waited for soph to come down so we could walk home together - Adrian Hadzic

Her vice takes hold of her again, but she still refrains until some moment when, gnawed by some hideous caprice, she comes aground like a mournful wreck ruined by lust, in the midst of her own banal, perfidious pollution. - Jean Lorrain

Laugh not at the dead, for the corpse at your feet is prophetic of your own destiny. - Mamur Mustapha

Losing path is a magic! If you can enjoy with the unknown path, you shall find the exit much quicker! - Mehmet Murat ildan

You don't have the right to blame others for your own mistakes.. - San Sai R.A

For the sight of the angry weather saddens my soul and the sight of the town, sitting like a bereaved mother beneath layers of ice, oppresses my heart. - Kahlil Gibran

Yes. And I’m rich now when I think about it. I own myself, and I’m worth eight hundred dollars. I wish I had the money. Then I wouldn’t ever want anything else - Mark Twain

Leaders should never look down on the people who put them into power because every leadership requires followers. - Gugu Mona

Never stop believing, have your own happy end. - Anush Yepremyan

After being turned down by numerous publishers, he decided to write for posterity. - George Ade

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

Atheism, a religion dedicated to its own sense of smug superiority. - Stephen Colbert

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

Your commitment to Jesus is a beautiful thing, but it will eventually dwindle down, unless you fully understand His commitment to you. - Carlos A. Rodriguez

She is a woman. No matter how hard you think she has grown, she always has her softer parts. Feel her there. - Akif Kichloo

The closer we try to get to God, the more we will hate to sin in our own lives, the more we are saddened by the thoughts that runs through our minds. I also think that the more we draw closer to God, the more God will honour us and will open doors for the right things to happen in our life. - Patience Johnson

Winter brings a colder palette with more heavy blue and violet, Fall has substantial more reddish and brown, Summer brings a variation of pastel colours and Spring fresh green and tangerine. - Siren Waroe

Your future, hopes and dreams should never be tied down to anybody! The strength lies inside of you to decide at any moment your direction. - Chinonye J. Chidolue

Religion is a belief or a curriculum. It can't hurt people or start wars. People hurt people, and people start wars. The real problem is the narcissist, for he can't control his anger and believes no one else is entitled to their own opinion or beliefs . - Mamie Thornbrue

Destroy yourself. Be on the edge of it all, and right before that weird place tells you to let it go completely; let the energy go in all directions. Falling on your face will never be fun, or purposeful. You don't own energy; you own the inertia! - James Emlund

Please take note that any and all dragon petting will be at your own peril. We are not liable for any injuries sustained while petting. - Love The Stacks Bookstore

The sin of quick anger is an idol of the heart that is not dying to our own rights. - Ron Pearce

Courage is not the absence of fear; it is the making of action in spite of fear, the moving out against the resistance engendered by fear into the unknown and into the future. - M. Scott Peck

Don't look up at the mountain. Keep your head down, and take the next step. - Peter James West

There is nothing so changeable as our own live.Er is niets zo veranderlijk als ons eigen leven. - Jan Jansen

ABOUT: KAHLIL GIBRAN "His power came from some great reservoir of spiritual life else it could not have been so universal and so potent, but the majesty and beauty of the language with which he clothed it were all his own." -- - Claude Bragdon

Consider the rights of others before your own feelings, and the feelings of others before your own rights. - John Wooden

You can never go further than your own thoughts. - Debasish Mridha

Is there a price too great to pay for your own happiness? What is the price that you are willing to pay for your own happiness? - Lenon Honor

We need to reinvent itselfWe make mistakes,But to give others the blame of own faultWhile we do not recognize own fault and continue to blame othersUntil then we can not succeed in life..!! - Shubham Singh

Time will do his own drawing upon us but we will do our own drawing upon time as well! - Mehmet Murat ildan

But then comes a time when forgetting isn't possible. And I do mean a particular time when no amount of dreaming, not then and maybe not ever, can change how naked and unimportant we become in our own eyes. - Stig Dagerman

Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own. - Carol Burnett

The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny. - ― Albert Ellis

In the beginning of his sleep, he cried out, "Flag!"It was not his own voice that called. It was a boy's voice. Somewhere beyond the sink-hole, past the magnolia, under the live oaks, a boy and a yearling ran side by side, and were gone forever. - Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

What is arrogant pride (abhimaan)? It is to believe the weight of the body-complex [pudgal] to be one’s own weight. It is to believe that ‘I am Great’. - Dada Bhagwan

The whole purpose of education is to create a window of the mind through which you can see the world. Look through that window with your own profound love, joy, harmony, and gratitude. - Debasish Mridha

Go to the ant, thou sluggard, learn to live, and by her busy ways, reform thine own.

From ... the age of five or six, I knew that when I grew up I should be a writer. ... I tried to abandon this idea, but I did so with the consciousness that I was outraging my true nature and that sooner or later I should have to settle down and write books. - George Orwell

There are, as is known, insects that die in the moment of fertilization. So it is with all joy: life’s highest, most splendid moment of enjoyment is accompanied by death. - Søren Kierkegaard

I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught. - Georgia O'Keeffe

Count your smiles, not your frowns. - Matshona Dhliwayo

I won't say ours was a tough school, but we had our own coroner. We used to write essays like "What I'm Going to be If I Grow Up - Lenny Bruce

Jazz is not just 'Well, man, this is what I feel like playing.' It's a very structured thing that comes down from a tradition and requires a lot of thought and study. - Wynton Marsalis

Adjusting our mindset for success is always at least half the battle. In the case of overcoming our fears, rather than being overcome by them, - it is 99% a war waged in our own head. - Connie Kerbs

A mind who is materialistic by nature can’t ever find own heart in the work, so s/he may appear effective only for the time being but could never truly be a productive person or a creative soul. - Anuj Somany

If we deny the thirst of love, we stand to lose the last known address of the stranger whithin us. - Sorin Cerin

A man and woman in search of something are always blown apart, but it's the same wind that blows them. - Frank O'Connor

you are responsible for you own happiness - Tshikororo Raymond

We think of those nights spent with one or more friends, nights when we merged with the shadows and could see the world with eyes that were not our own. - Whipplesnaith

If you put a small value on yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price. - Unknown Author 909

Many of these new readers were not yet college-educated, but in terms of their seriousness about the world, their own literacy, and above all their ambitions for their children, they might as well have been. - David Halberstam

The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary. - James D. Nicoll

All life forms add their own colour in the world. It is important we embrace all the colours with equal value. - Tim Rees

Leaving town I sat next to a senseless and beautiful boywho asked where I live.His unwashed hair or the way his eyes were just eyes…the soul is a tiring thing. You can have it.I don’t know what you mean’s what I told him.It’s more simple than that. I’m just passing through. - Alex Dimitrov

The crisis of physical hunger is essentially a crisis of faith. What or whom will you trust to meet your most basic needs? Will you trust the God who made human bodies, or will you seek your own way? (Deuteronomy 8:1-3) - Charles R. Swindoll

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

Failure to prepare is preparing to fail. - Unknown

Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to anybody who owns hideous clothing. - Dave Barry

There is no question that there is an unseen world. The problem is, how far is it from midtown and how late is it open? - Woody Allen

Just give me a thousand words and you may make your own pictures. - Erica Goros

Stop nourishing other people’s ideas and beliefs in your life. Take up your own idea and endeavor to accomplish it. - Abhijit Naskar

Never go down to the darkest room. Stay far away from the rotting coffin. If you want to live through the night, let the devil sleep. - John Verdon

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

The person who can learn by observation can create his own culture. - Santosh Kalwar

Run your own race. Fear creeps in when we compare ourselves too much with others. - Sanchita Pandey

If a person listens routinely to the sermon but doesn’t show the commensurate good change in own daily action, then the fact is s/he is actually not hearing anything of the spiritual master’s oration. - Anuj Somany

To experience the unknown, developing understanding and to care, that is our purpose. - Maurice Randall

Writing may or may not be your salvation; it might or might not be your destiny. But that does not matter. What matters right now are the words, one after another. Find the next word. Write it down. - Neil Gaiman

There are people who make things happen, those who watch what happens, and those who wonder what happened. - Unknown

Only a few of us are going to be willing to break our own hearts by trading in the living beauty of imagination for the stark disappointment of words. - Ann Patchett

Some minds, at some point, discover that they can not make sense of their own predications without attention to grammar, although they do not ordinarily think of what they are doing as an exercise in grammar. - Richard Mitchell

Life has its ups and downs. When you are up, enjoy the scenery. When you are down, touch the soul of your being and feel the beauty. - Debasish Mridha

(Her husband's departure ...) had picked Mildred up by the hair and dropped her down at the doorstep of insanity.From "Butterfly on F street - Edward P. Jones

Be substantially great in thyself, and more than thou appearest unto others. - Sir Thomas Browne

The rule of the universe is that others can do for us what we cannot do for ourselves, and one can paddle every canoe except one's own. - C.S. Lewis

What I'm trying to describe is that it's impossible to get out of your skin into somebody else's.... That somebody else's tragedy is not the same as your own. - Diane Arbus

What can you give God but bhakti bhava? He owns it all anyway. - Radhe Maa

There is no ownership. There is only stewardship. - LeeAnn Taylor

The dog has seldom been successful in pulling man up to its level of sagacity, but man has frequently dragged the dog down to his. - James Thurber

Live for the present, and the future will be known before it ever happens. - Avinash Rao

Life is like a mirror.Cry and you see a crying face,Frown and you see a Sad Face !Smile and it smiles back at you ! - Sham Hinduja

Very few people see their own actions as truly evil,... It is left to their victims to decide what is evil and what is not. - Laurell K. Hamilton

tonight i was taking down a man - kierra cass

I've never struck a woman in my life, not even my own mother. - W. C. Fields

If Paul Revere had been a modern day citizen, he wouldn't have ridden down Main Street. He would have tweeted. - Alec Ross

Philosophy and the subjects known as 'humanities' are still taught almost as if Darwin had never lived. No doubt this will change in time.

An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person. - Joseph Addison

The earth has grown a nervous system, and it's us. - Daniel Dennett

A sure way to start your own business is to stay out of everyone else’s. - Kathy McClary

I finally understand. Cancer is not a gypsy curse. It's a huge smashing wave. It catches you and drags you out. And anybody can be spit back up, and anybody can drown. -The Lucky Place - Zu Vincent

The surest method against scandal is to live it down by perseverance in well doing.

When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master. - Baruch Spinoza

Meeting, for the first time in person, someone that you’ve ‘known’ for sometime online = Taking the relationship to the ‘previous’ level. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

We need money not only for meeting our own needs, but also for fulfilling God’s plans. - Sunday Adelaja

Being strong and positive is like holding your breath under water. You will never be able to do it forever. Sometimes crying out and express yourself will help you from drowning. - Vivek Thangaswamy

The animals known as human beings live in humongous condominium blocks, just going about their daily lives. I've come to realize that it's just a modern jungle. And I'm the girl who's wandered into the forest. - Inio Asano

People won't see Imagination in something that doesn't relate to their experience because of their own mental limitations. I want people to escape the expected and ordinary, to escape the regular expectations of a story, and truly step into a different world of literature. - Lionel Suggs

It's amazing to be a woman because even without children of your own, you can still be an excellent mother. - Gugu Mona

I always strive to create a setting that leaves the readers' imagination room to roam. That way, every reader sees the story through their own eyes. - P.S. Bartlett

The process of grieving any loss is dependent upon your relationship to the person. - Asa Don Brown

‎Mark it down: God loves you with an unearthly love. You can't win it by being winsome. You can't lose it by being a loser. But you can be blind enough to resist it - Max Lucado

The world is unbearably ugly when beauty is judged purely by what is seen on the outside. - Sarah Brownlee

PALACE, n. A fine and costly residence, particularly that of a great official. The residence of a high dignitary of the Christian Church is called a palace; that of the Founder of his religion was known as a field, or wayside. There is progress. - Ambrose Bierce

A man's dying is more the survivors' affair than his own. - Thomas Mann

It is not a religion. It is a relationship. - Unknown Author 516

Think about your own life. Are there foods or drinks that call your name in your weakest moments—like maybe at night in front of the TV? Are there certain treats you can hardly resist when they’re in your presence? Are there goodies that you continue to eat even after you’re full? - Josh Bezoni

I do not want to die. . . until I have faithfully made the most of my talent and cultivated the seed that was placed in me until the last small twig has grown. - Kathe Kollwitz

With honesty and a little digging, we have the opportunity to identify our gifts and harness them in the service of our best self—our own unique noble purpose. - Tom Hayes

One should never use exclamation points in writing. It is like laughing at your own joke. - Mark Twain

Prayer, to the patriarchs and prophets, was more than the recital of well-known and well-worn phrases. It was the outpouring of the heart. Beset by perils, persecutions, pain and privations, they naturally turned to God in their need, believing that He was able to redeem them out of their troubles. - Herbert Lockyer

It's better to be the hero of your own story than to become the villain of someone else's. - Chris Colfer

Let me be one of the upward and outward lookers, not one of the downward and inward lookers. - Alfred Edersheim

No, I do not want to be loved unconditionally. I want to be shown when I am treating you less than you deserve. I want you to leave if I ever start making you promises I do not see through. Love me for my flaws, yes, but don’t you dare ever allow them to hurt you. - Beau Taplin

I was just an option.Blown easily to piecesand offered to the skyby the sweet laced painupon your lips. - Jessica Kristie

There is a lure in power. It can get into a man's blood just as gambling and lust for money have been known to do. - Harry Truman

A conversation in which the two parties have different beliefs should never begin with the intention of converting the other party to your own beliefs. Every worthwhile conversation's goal should be to understand the other person's opinions and help them understand your own. - Emily Eskowich

No kind of social system can make you more happier and secure than your own money. - Amit Kalantri

Not all are called to be artists in the specific sense of the term. Yet, as Genesis has it, all men and women are entrusted with the task of crafting their own life: in a certain sense, they are to make of it a work of art, a masterpiece. - Pope John Paul II

Murphy Brown is doing better than I am. At least she knows she still has a job next year. - Dan Quayle

A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child. - H. L. Mencken

Story should be a descent -- the feeling that there is an intense gravity to the narrative that draws you down, down, down. - Chuck Wendig

You haven't rewarded evil unto them who were at peace with you; nor you have delivered them that without cause is your enemy. But they want to tread down your soul upon the earth, and lay your honour in the dust. - Compton Gage

I won’t ever tell someone to never hold on for what might be gone; because if they don’t see it for themselves, my words will be just words. - Rayvon L. Browne

Loads of children read books about dinosaurs, underwater monsters, dragons, witches, aliens, and robots. Essentially, the people who read SF, fantasy and horror haven't grown out of enjoying the strange and weird. - China Miéville

Perhaps the Creator of this strange place knows us better than we know ourselves. Perhaps humanity was meant to eternally ponder the purpose and importance of our own existence. If we were assured of either, we’d be intolerable creatures. - Tiffany Madison

And they came up on the broad plain of the earth and surrounded the camp of the saints and the beloved city, and fire came down from heaven and devoured them.-Revelations 20:9 - A J.J. Graves

You lie and kill in the service of liars and killers. You pretend to be separate, to have your own code, something that makes up for the horrors. But they are part of you. And they will never go away. - Loki, Marvel's The Avengers

Every Republican's voted for it. Look at what they value and look at their budget and what they're proposing. Romney wants to let the - he said in the first 100 days he's going to let the big banks once again write their own rules - unchain Wall Street. They're gonna put y'all back in chains. - Joe Biden

Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs. - Albert Einstein

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

He had long been curious at leaders intermittent calls for a return to past values and had tested the notion by trying to build a house from the sky downwards - Steve Aylett

It was one of those days when I was thinking too much, too fast. Only it was more like the thoughts had a mind of their own and going all by themselves at a hundred miles a second, and I was just sitting back, feeling the growing paranoia inside of me. - Sasha Mizaree

We must conduct research and then accept the results. If they don't stand up to experimentation, Buddha's own words must be rejected. - Dalai Lama XIV

The reason many fail to joyfully proclaim Jesus Christ is because deep down they fail to joyfully adore Him - Steve Bainbridge

Each loved one went silently down;bubbles bursting leaving behindimages they heldto stick on the glass of memory. - Dr. Prathap Kamath Elegy

Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting over lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can do, begin it; Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Everybody is born so that they can learn to live a good life-like loving everybody and being nice, right? Well animals already know how to do that, so they don't have to live so long - Robin Downing

Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them. - Edward R. Murrow

We generate our own environment. We get exactly what we deserve. How can we resent the life weve created for ourselves? Whos to blame, whos to credit, but us? Who can change it anytime we wish, but us? - Richard Bach

The value of a quote is not determined by the number of online LIKE vote that it has got of the people, but only by the worth of a person who in its support is true to own nature. - Anuj Somany

The thing I always wanted to say is that surviving abuse sucks. But it's also a choose-your-own-adventure story. - Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

Never make a promise you can't keep.Never look down on a person you can't help.Never solicit a question you can't answer.Never judge a person you don't understand.Never condemn a person you don't know. - Matshona Dhliwayo

Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece. - Ralph Charell

Whether you are trying to finish a race or a book or that hard conversation you've been avoiding, the training leading up to that event is what makes it possible to face the fear & walk forward anyway. Quit complaining about discipline & start seeing it as a powerful tool for courageous living. - Annie F. Downs

Change the world, I know I won’t,Enthralling as always I hope it remains,A kaleidoscope of joy, sorrow and pain.But my only wish as I take this jaunt,Is for my words on you to impress upon,A smile, a tear or even an angry frown. - Anurag Anand

We take simple preferences and turn them into conditions for our own happiness. - Richard Carlson

For a chic and an honorable full victory, you must make your own fight and win your own battle entirely by yourself! Try to refuse any help to get a pure victory, a victory which belongs merely to yourself! - Mehmet Murat ildan

In order to rise from its own ashes, a Phoenix first must burn. - Octavia E. Butler

Real hard work and satisfaction will bring a detachment from time and worries. Do what you love and life will flow downstream. - Phil Wohl

Life is like a piano... what you get out of it depends on how you play it. - Unknown

We have flown the air like birds and swum the seas like fishes, but have yet to learn the simple act of walking the earth like brothers. - Martin Luther King Jr.

Shall I tell you our secret? We are charming thieves who steal hearts and never fail because we are the friends of the One.Blessed is the poem that comes through me but not of me because the sound of my own music will drown the song of Love. - Jalaluddin Rumi

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth. - Oscar Wilde

We knew our Father. There was no need for persuasion. Would not His Fatherliness be longing to give us our hearts' desire (if I may put it so)? How could we press Him as though He were not our own most loving Father? - Amy Carmichael

We all feel that the opposite of our own highest principle must be purely destructive, deadly, and evil. We refuse to endow it with any positive life-force; hence we avoid and fear it. - C.G. Jung

Your blindness to my downfall,Has gone too far to be a joke,As I stand ablaze before you,And you tell me you smell smoke. - Erin Hanson

Man is the only kind of varmint who sets his own trap, baits it, then steps on it. - John Steinbeck

We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics. - Franklin D. Roosevelt

Made you the subject of my dreams, I was always the first to hear your screams. Haven't you had enough of all these schemes? Re-run all the scenes...Haven't you noticed we're being a bit too extreme? I know not everything is as it seems, but aren't you tired of floating downstream? - Dalal Gebara

Why comes temptation, but for man to meet and master and crouch beneath his foot, and so be pedestaled in triumph? - Robert Browning

Behind almost every woman you ever heard of stands a man who let her down.

A King will have his way in his own hall, be it folly or wisdom. - J.R.R. Tolkien

Had I owned the words I would've told him what my heart intuited - that joy and sorrow often travel the same road and sometimes, whether by grace or misfortune, they meet and become each other's companion. - Ratner, Vaddey

Do not hold your breath for anyone,Do not wish your lungs to be still,It may delay the cracks from spreading,But eventually they will.Sometimes to keep yourself togetherYou must allow yourself to leave,Even if breaking your own heartIs what it takes to let you breathe. - Erin Hanson

I lost my sense of trust, honesty and compassion. I crashed down and became what I consider an emotional mess. I've never been so miserable in my whole life. I just wanted to go to bed and never get up. - Shania Twain

Yes, if it is meant to be, it will be. In the meantime, create your own fate. Plan big and dream bigger. - Destiny Booze

So you’re going to horrible places and meeting horrible people and you’re complaining about it? Live your life like a decent person. Go to the grocery store, buy your own food, take care of yourself. If you live a responsible life, you’ll run into responsible people, he said. - Aziz Ansari

Everybody looks good in their own mirror! - Manoj Vaz

He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God. - Aeschylus

How many hearts must you break in order to fix your own? - Vanshicca Dhyani

Vulnerability has a strength of its own. - William Zinsser

The true law of the race is progress and development. Whatever civilization pauses in the march of conquest, it is overthrown by the barbarian.

Returning home is the most difficult part of long-distance hiking; You have grown outside the puzzle and your piece no longer fits. - Cindy Ross

First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my mind, I should have no incentive or need to write about it. We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand. - Cecil Day-Lewis

Like the Pied Piper, the street entertainer carries his own mystique which cannot easily be transferred to the stage. He seems to have escaped reality, to perform in a time and space where he doesn't necessarily belong. - Edward Claflin

You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one. - Lois McMaster Bujold

To live in joy and fully manifest our true potential, we must let go of our desires and attachment to the past and the future and be excited about living in the unknown. - Mada Eliza Dalian

I am not a teacher. I can only inspire you and show you how to unfold your own beauty. - Debasish Mridha M.D.

An audience that is unwilling to suspend its own presuppositions and biases while considering an opposed (or even unopposed) viewpoint not only frustrates the function of extended argument but effectively denies its own beliefs a rational basis. - Vincent E. Barry

As contraries are known by contraries, so is the delights of presence best known by the torments of absence. - Alcibiades

Make your own luck, and then share it with others. - Matshona Dhliwayo

Why does it matter what I own,how I look, what I wear,if I don't help out a friend in need,if I've forgotten to love and care. - Abhishek Sainani

There isn’t a viler creature on earth than a politician who sends the children of others to the war but not his own children! - Mehmet Murat ildan

To say that a writer's hold on reality is tenuous is an understatement-it's like saying the Titanic had a rough crossing. Writer's build their own realities, move into them and occasionally send letters home. The only difference between a writer and a crazy person is that a writer gets paid for it. - David Gerrold

My author role model is Kurata Misako. I want to be rich enough to drive from room to room in my home but also down to earth enough to let squirrels live in my hair. - Christy Leigh Stewart

Explaining the unknown should be left to science, questions of good and bad behavior can be answered by ethics, and inspiration is often found in the arts. There’s no longer a need for the social construct of religion. - David G. McAfee

You only think women are inferior when your own mother is failure. - Frans Hanghome

Ideals are like stars. You will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But, like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides and following them you will reach your destiny. - Unknown

Every time you get angry, you poison your own system.

If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name. - Theodore Roosevelt

I have only known two men's souls in my life, one the devil, the other the the bird's wings which picked me up and carried me back to the freedom of being. - Wendy gibbins

slow down, oh sweet tearsflowing nectar...down my lashes' tipssomedaysomeone will kiss you away,even before you can reach my lips. - Sanober Khan

VISION is the voice inside that transcends words and shines through the initiation! - Charles A. Brown II

Put down that map and get wonderfully lost. - Anonymous

To be ill adjusted to a deranged world is not a breakdown. - Jeanette Winterson

If you jotted down all of my ill-thought out comments, you could write a book entitled, Guide to Getting Punched in the Throat for Boneheads-Mad Hatter in "Death of the Mad Hatter" (Coming Soon!) - Sarah J. Pepper

Dressing up is inevitably a substitute for good ideas. It is no coincidence that technically inept business types are known as "suits." - Paul Graham

The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others. - Tryon Edwards

Self improvement can be very challenging, but where there's a will, there's a way. Make your own way! - Melica Niccole

Live not for others, but for your own self. - Eddie Gear

If one understands (realizes) his own Self, then he himself is an Absolute Supreme Soul (Parmatma). - Dada Bhagwan

But I'd be in big trouble if Karma was going to finally be my judge. I'd be in deep shit. It doesn't excuse my mistakes, but I'm holding out for Grace. I'm holding out that Jesus took my sins onto the Cross, because I know who I am, and I hope I don't have to depend on my own religiosity. - Michka Assayas

Had I known but yesterday what I know today,I’d have taken out your two gray eyesAnd put in eyes of clay;And had I known but yesterday you’d be no more my ownI’d have taken out your heart of fleshAnd put in one of stone - Tam Lin Neville

Sometimes being hotheaded and doing it your own way and walking out on all the hot shit might be the right thing to do. - Porochista Khakpour

Education opens our minds eye to see the world with our own unique vision and perception. - Debasish Mridha M.D.

Anyone who thinks money can't buy happiness has never owned a cat [or any pet]. - Arya Riverdale

Everyone had their own responsibilities, duties and feeling, only you don't have yourself, when you are in love. - Nutan Bajracharya

If the world were a logical place, men would ride sidesaddle. - Rita Mae Brown

The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail; mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession. - Sallust

If I could find the words, if I could shake the world,If I could turn back time would you still be there?If I could find the words to say,If I could shake the world to break you down,Then would you still be there? - Of Mice & Men

All the perplexities, confusions, and distresses in America arise, not from defects in their constitution or confederation, nor from want of honor or virtue, as much from downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit, and circulation. - John Adams

God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road. - Karen Blixen

Have more humility. Remember you don't know the limits of your own abilities. Successful or not, if you keep pushing beyond yourself, you will enrich your own life – and maybe even please a few strangers. - A.L. Kennedy

Women remember the first kiss, men remember the last. - Unknown

When you've grown up mis-educated, surrounded by fear and hate, unaware of your privilege, lies can sound like the truth. - DaShanne Stokes

Forgiveness, she was only required to accept the seed of healing, and to let it grow on its own time. - H. L. Balcomb

Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story. - John Barth

People missed things. People didn’t notice; people didn’t care. People’s own misperceptions made black into white, made grey into whatever they wanted it to be. - Judith Ivory

All fiction boils down to two plots: Either a stranger comes to town or someone goes on a trip. - Parker Bauer

And give to the orphans their properties and do not substitute the defective [of your own] for the good [of theirs]. And do not consume their properties into your own. Indeed, that is ever a great sin. The Women 4 :2 - Quran

Old age means realizing you will never own all the dogs you wanted to. - Joe Gores

Don't be preoccupied with something that drags your mind downhill. Be someone who could be destined to shine and can have the ability reach ultimate goals for the future." - Saaif Alam

you don't have to be great to get started, but you have to get started to be great. - Les Brown

A criminal remains a criminal whether he uses a convict's suit or a monarch's crown. - Victor Hugo

Man is a gregarious creature, more so in mind than in body. He may like to go alone for a walk but he hates to stand alone in his opinion. - Unknown

If man does find the solution for world peace it will be the most revolutionary reversal of his record we have ever known. - George C. Marshall

Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own. - Bruce Lee

Blessed is the person who is too busy to worry in the daytime and too sleepy to worry at night. - Unknown

The sun's rays don't bother me. No they cast down such a wonderful heat. Masking beauty, by a terrible fate. - Sara Quin

Giving these students, teenagers, any form of power over the use of their own words, allowing them to turn everyday raw material into some form of beauty, is a gift beyond measure. - Gloria Ng

Sure I am this day we are masters of our fate, that the task which has been set before us is not above our strength; that its pangs and toils are not beyond our endurance. As long as we have faith in our own cause and an unconquerable will to win, victory will not be denied us. - Winston S. Churchill

I could turn up the volume on their songs and that loudness matched all my panic and fear, anger and emotions that seemed up until that point to be uncontrollable, even amorphous. - Carrie Brownstein

Everybody sells something to somebody every day, whether it’s a product, a service or just a case of making sure that they get their own way. - Chris Murray

You can speak truth to power, . . . but when you speak truth to weakness, weakness gets mad and queasy. It accuses you of its own insecurity.""The Off Season: A Victorian Sequel - Jack Cady

...Domestic violence occurs at all socioeconomic levels. - Asa Don Brown

The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a Heav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n. - John Milton

Surrender to the unknown and trust that the universe will lead you home. - Karen A. Baquiran

To be free of insistence [free of forcing one's own opinion] is the path of Vitragta [attachment-free state, the enlightened one]. Quit insisting at all places. To even insist on the truth, God has considered it as ignorance. There is no insistence in ‘Us’ whatsoever! - Dada Bhagwan

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

A person should not misguide own conscience to say to the people that LOVING ONESELF is also BEING TRUE TO ONESELF for there is a sea difference between the two terms. - Anuj Somany

When I asked him the meaning of life, Dr. Webb got very quit and then told me that life has no one meaning, it only has whatever meaning each of us puts on our own life. - John Corey Whaley

Don't live in a town where there are no doctors. - Jewish Proverb

The tree is known by his fruit. - Bible

Your emotions will wander like a vagabond when you're indebted. Those happy moments with friends will soon be interrupted with a frowning creditor in your sub-conscious, and all your frenzy will be taken aback. - Michael Bassey Johnson

You cannot keep a man down without staying down with him.

I am neither a philosopher nor a thinker, but simply follower of my own thoughts. - M.F. Moonzajer

Talk to yourself like you would to someone you love. - Brené Brown

Until that afternoon in October four years ago, I hadn't known dogs could scream. - Stephen King

Some people need a super hero to save them, but I am my own super hero. All I need is myself, my strengths and the fiery passions in my heart to overcome the obstacles in my life. - Imania Margria

Limiting ourselves with our own limitations - Alice Bacon

So I had nothing to distract me from my books and their other worlds that swallowed me whole, from Narnia to the Wisconsin woods, from a small town in Sweden to the red earth of Prince Edward Island. Nothing and no one interested me as much as my books. - Luisa Weiss

I had never before considered leaving my religion, my family, my customs, and my beliefs behind. It was all that I had ever known. Would it be worth it to give it all up? I had no way of knowing. It was frightening even to contemplate a life beyond - Carolyn Jessop

The secret to strong leaders is that strong leaders are strong because they have been tempered by the negative. They have discovered the secret of combining the negative and the positive to PRODUCED their very own POWER plant! - John Paul Warren

You don't just get over it. And it doesn't make any difference if you're supposedly a grown-up. It never goes away. - Sophie Kinsella

You are the community now. Be a lamp for yourselves. Be your own refuge. Seek for no other. All things must pass. Strive on diligently. Don’t give up. - Gautama Buddha

A dog owns nothing, yet is seldom dissatisfied. - Irish Proverb

To inquire into the intricacies of a distant landscape, then, is to provoke thoughts about one’s own interior landscape, and the familiar landscapes of memory. The land urges us to come around to an understanding of ourselves. - Barry López

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

We all care intensely for the narrative of our own life and very much want it to be a good story, with a decent hero. - Daniel Kahneman

On the road to success, even little stones may cause you fall down! If you are not serious and careful, forget about reaching your target! - Mehmet Murat ildan

Be the man she can depend on, not the man that constantly lets her down. - Stephan Labossiere

Not all things that fall down break. Some develop wings. - Neelam Saxena Chandra

I don't need new boots I got bluchers back down home. Eff the effing bluchers I'll buy you new adjectival effing elastic sided boots. - Peter Carey

Enough is not in the volume of money owned or size of one’s account. It is in the needs that can be consistently met without having to work for money anymore - Ola Barnabas

Your Maker has rescued you from the darkest corner of your own heart... What he asks in return is obedience. And the courage to do what is necessary. - Compton Gage

My own personal position is that it's much more special to wait for the person who you're married to.

And, drunk with my own madness, I shouted at him furiously, "Make life beautiful! Make life beautiful! - Charles Baudelaire

In the midst of life’s ups and down, beginnings and endings, let us live our life, let us be joyful, let us be happy. - Debasish Mridha

¿Qué tal si dejáramos de celebrar estar ocupados como si fuera una medida de importancia? ¿Qué tal si, en cambio, celebráramos cuanto tiempo hemos pasado escuchando, reflexionando, meditando y disfrutando el tiempo con las personas más importantes para nosotros? - Greg Mkeown

If the clients can be shown the saving in money on the purchase of a product, they themselves give often multiple reasons to the seller as why his goods or services offer a value for money. - Anuj Somany

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

No one should be judge in his own case. - Publilius Syrus

Why hasn't someone lassoed a few teenagers and had them sit down and write out all the supposed answers they have so we can solve the world's problems already? - Richelle E. Goodrich

Blessed be childhood which brings down something of heaven into the midst of our rough earthliness.

While looking down memory lane, I realized that I have had an unusual and extraordinary life at times. Then it dawned on me, maybe it's because I'm supposed to help unusual and extraordinary lives. - Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.

A man's body is like a circus. You can swing off his trapeze arms, lay your head on thighs like fresh-blown balloons while his cock performs tricks, soft to hard, a burst like a cannon if you treat him right. - Bojan Veljanov

Deep down in my heart, I am always smiling because life is such a magical, mysterious, and wonderful thing. - Debasish Mridha

as an artist, one of the toughest things to do is getting someone to understand why you think the way you think. And as much as i don't wanna care what they think about my thinking, it comes down to making them understand or watching them leave. - Darnell Lamont Walker

Never look down on anybody unless you're helping them up. - Jesse Jackson

No new venture occurs without mistakes. Dare to learn and grow through your mistakes--this is how mastery occurs! - Debra Crown LPC-S LCDC

Oh my love, pure and divine love,I want to drown in youand then get lost,to find myself again and again,as a symbol and source of love,pure, blissful and divine. - Debasish Mridha

Organizing your emotions reclaims your power over any given drama. Nothing is stronger than your own mind. - Jennifer Elisabeth

A man who can own pearls does not bother about shells, and those who aspire to virtue do not trouble themselves over honors. - Francis de Sales

I was someone hungry for stories; more specifically, I was someone who craved after facts...I was, you see, at the start of this tale, a person with history. I had no story of my own. Lacking this, I developed a curiosity about other people's lives. - Arlene J. Chai

The key to every man is his thought. Sturdy and defying though he look, he has a helm which he obeys, which is the idea after which all his facts are classified. He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which commands his own. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are some people whose turbulent waves of behaviors will drown you no matter how well you think you can swim. - Steve Maraboli

...chief proof of man's real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness. - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

You are unique in this universe like everyone else so why is this competition it'll ruin your life .. start living here and now with just your own self nd make your life more and more beautiful - jagvirji

Humility is the nearly impossible task of being more concerned with our own sins that we are with the sins of others. - Trevor hammack

You've got nothing that lasts, you know. That's not the first town that ever stood there. There was one before that, and one before that, and one before that one, on back for 900 years. But this tree has stood here all along. What do you make of that, boy? - Natalie Babbitt

Enlightenment is nothing but to experience your own mind. The experience of the self too is experiencing the intrinsic nature of the mind. - Roshan Sharma

My will shall shape the future. Whether I fail or succeed shall be no man's doing but my own. I am the force. I can clear any obstacle before me or I can be lost in the maze. My choice, my responsibility. Win or lose, only I hold the key to my destiny. - Elaine Maxwell

Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it, and that a very severe one.

In every work of genius we see our own rejected thoughts. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Kindness is as simple as being grateful for the love anyone has shown you, by not destroying them because it isn't on your terms. - Shannon L. Alder

Any form of art can be known only in deep silence, to be in silence is to be receptive - No sooner you become receptive, you become woman, it has nothing to do with gender, its a quality, which is why woman is epitome of Receptivity! - Ramana Pemmaraju

I want to believe that I'm not wrong. I want to believe that life isn't full of darkness. Even if storms come to pass, the sun will shine again. No matter how painful and hard the rain may beat down on me. - Natsuki Takaya

Here, in this quiet place we own, worlds are born. - Cassandra Wilson Run the Voodoo Down

When someone asks me what a song is about, it’s like, I feel like I might ruin it if you ask me that. I feel like I did my best to explain the song in the song on its own terms as a song. - Kyle Morton

I was the wings that kept her aloft, while the churning sea of reality nipped at her feet. I kept her from drowning, but I still felt bad, that her toes had to experience such dreadful cold. - Hubert Martin

It wasn't until I was 37 that I grasped the great truth that you've got to write your own books and nobody else's, and then everything followed from there. - William Golding

What you can't go through on your own, God will help you fly over. - Woodrow Kroll

What Saint has ever won his crown without first contending for it? - Jerome

It is by your own that you have to learn a lesson and they by themselves so that they will blame you not. - Auliq Ice

Your responsibility as an adult is accept your childhood and make your own choice of life. - Kathy Mckeon

Worry is a down payment on a problem you may never have - Joyce Meyer

I should have looked into my own heart, and found this new growth springing up there, and plucked it out while it was young. - Wilkie Collins

The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him his own. - Benjamin Disraeli

Even a child cannot sit here without support. Some support will be necessary. No one can live without the support from the material world. After getting the support from one’s own Soul, one doesn’t need the support from the material world. ‘He’ will then become independent [support-free]. - Dada Bhagwan

She's my daughter. She's my sister. - Robert Towne

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

The key for any speaker is to establish his own point of view for the audience, so they can see the game through his eyes. - Ronald Reagan

Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices--just recognize them. - Edward R. Murrow

Suicide is not criminal. However, a failed attempt at it is. I wonder how someone will so much fail in life to want to take his own life and still fail at it. - Magnus Nwagu Amudi

Remember tomorrow has it own plans.so if you plan for tomorrow dont think tomorrow will favor you. - Sylvester M. Aguzey

Do not be afraid. Do not be satisfied with mediocrity. Put out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch. - Pope John Paul II

Before you cut down the tree, think of the birds that take refuge on it - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality. - Frida Kahlo

To tell the truth, my dear count, I must own that of all nauseating human emanations, literature is one of those which disgust me most. I can see nothing in it but compromise and flattery. And I go so far as to doubt whether it can be anything else. - André Gide

Not knowing what you have means not having it (at all). Not knowing where you have what you have means not having it (at all). Not knowing that you don’t own what you don’t have means never getting it. Having, not having – human (being) you are. - VIRGIL PROFEANU

I am glad that I can tell the truth, for lies are a form of theft; the liar steals from another person's trust. There are liars all over the world who have grown rich on the trust they have stolen. - Najaf Mazari

To country people Cows are mild,And flee from any stick they throw;But I’m a timid town bred child,And all the cattle seem to know. - T.S. Eliot

While writing is like a joyful release, editing is a prison where the bars are my former intentions and the abusive warden my own neuroticism. - Tiffany Madison

I am a storyteller, not a historian, and it's my ambition to create something compelling - something unputdownable and riveting - that chimes with the real history but is, in fact, fiction. - Sara Sheridan

There are persons who always find a hair in their plate or soup for the simple reason that, when they sit down before it, they shake their heads until one falls in. - Christian Friedrich Hebbel

Every journey has its own traveler. Every dream has its own dreamer. We are all belonged to a specific journey and dream. Some people are currently looking for it, some people are just figuring it out, some people are still lost, and to some they have finally found it. - Diana Rose Morcilla

We have always known that heedless self interest was bad morals, we now know that it is bad economics. - Franklin D. Roosevelt

The sky is a canvas, so paint your own life. - Jada Berglund

Water generally flows downhill in this area.

Crowns belong to those that serve. - Aniekee Tochukwu Ezekiel

Art is not documentary. It may incidentally serve that function in its own way but its true effort is to open to us dimensions of the spirit of the self that normally lie smothered under the weight of living. - Jeanette Winterson

We would go out and play these songs and people could interpret them however the hell they wanted. - Carrie Brownstein

The whole problem with news on television comes down to this: all the words uttered in an hour of news coverage could be printed on page of a newspaper. And the world cannot be understood in one page.

Never accept anyone's definition for your life. I'm a testimony of grace. Do your small things in your own way - Kingsley ofosu-Ampong

Sometimes our whole life is all about, not letting the fire that burns our homes down become the light that guides us home. - Akshay Vasu

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

Kind words do not cost much. They never blister the tongue or lips. They make other people good-natured. They also produce their own image on men's souls, and a beautiful image it is. - Blaise Pascal

I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough in me to confess my errors and to retrace my steps. - Mahatma Gandhi

Among other things Jonestown was an example of a definition well known to sociologists of religion: a cult is a religion with no political power. - Thomas Wolfe

Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.

Either I’ve got a wart on my nose they find curious, or I’ve grown a tail, Albie Merani muttered to himself. Just then he thought. I’d better get a move on, got work to do. He hurried across to some stairs, heading down deeper into station, then followed the signs to the pod station. - R.W. Rivers

Create your own style… let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others. - Anna Wintour

There's a pinch of the madman in every great man. - Unknown

O Winter! ruler of the inverted year, . . . I crown thee king of intimate delights, Fireside enjoyments, home-born happiness, And all the comforts that the lowly roof Of undisturb'd Retirement, and the hours Of long uninterrupted evening, know. - William Cowper

It's up to you to make your own destiny and not up to destiny to make you - Amit Abraham

Ideas about our own self-worth are no more real than thoughts about an imaginary chair. - Mark Williams

The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness, and relations of friendship or affection. - Bertrand Russell

I reject your reality and substitute my own!

For my own part, having had much trouble in growing old, I am in no hurry to grow young again. - Nathaniel Hawthorne

Quote from FUTURE GONE:…I set the house on fire. It’s dark outside. The fire tears down the darkness. I turn my back to the place and leave, not knowing where. And suddenly I understand…All dreams are dead now. - Alexandar Tomov

People who actually have good advice seldom give it voluntarily, instead others seek them out for it. They do not shove it down people's throats just to boost their exaggerated sense of importance. - JJ Matebesi

Progressive feminists have shown nothing but the most reflexive, regressive contempt for women on the other side of the ideological aisle. It doesn’t matter if you’re a conservative stay at home mom, work at home mom, or work outside the home mom. If you’re Right, the Left is gonna hate. - Michelle Malkin

Time has witnessed events even before it's own birth without energy. - Vishwanath S J

I have opinions of my own -- strong opinions -- but I don't always agree with them. - George Bush

Even God would say"Finish the task you have undertaken". He would never recommend breaking her mother's heart, damaging her parents' lives. "Your mother and then your mother and then your mother," the Prophet had said, "and then your father." But what about her own life? What is to become of that? - Ahdaf Soueif

When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, Idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter. - Logan Pearsall Smith

A man’s spirit is free, but his pride binds him with chains of suffocation in a prison of his own insecurities - Jeremy Aldana

I think it's important to remember that writers do not have a monopoly of wisdom on their books. They can be wrong about their own books, they can often learn about their own books - China Miéville

Hope. It is the quintessential human delusion, simultaneously the source of your greatest strength, and greatest weakness. - Unknown or The Archictect from the Matrix reloaded movie

I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice. - W. Somerset Maugham

It is naturally given to all men to esteem their own inventions best. - Thomas More

People who know their worth understand the power of their own words. - Gugu Mona

I am the one constant obstacle to my own momentum. - Pete Vellucci Jr.

I became aware of a voice inside my head. [...] It was only later that I realized that this voice was my own thinking, that this moment of anguish was my first inkling that I was a ceaseless monologue trapped within myself. - Yann Martel

Stop comparing yourself to others. Compare yourself to your perfect self version and start develop and progress step by step to get closer to your perfect version. - Mahmoud Own

No good can come from beating ourselves up for falling down—for feeling unhappy when we want to feel just the opposite. - Toni Sorenson

The atheist staring from his attic window is often nearer to God than the believer caught up in his own false image of God. - Martin Buber

We enjoy warmth because we have been cold. We appreciate light because we have been in darkness. By the same token, we can experience joy because we have known sadness.

Every woman is different in her own special way. - Habeeb Akande

I don't know whether it is beautiful or sad, that I find such blissful happiness within the confines of my own mind, than I do in the reality that surrounds me. - Kendal Rob

Adding your own piece of knowledge to the vast knowledge of the humanrace could be a sufficient reason for having existed. - Eraldo Banovac

he philosophy of Islam will be shown in terms of the modern philosophy, and if there are imperfections in the old ideas then they shall be removed. My task is merely constructive, and in this construction I shall take into consideration the best traditions of Islamic philosophy. - Muhammad Iqbal

Nobody wants to fall into a safety net, because it means the structure in which they've been living is in a state of collapse and they have no choice but to tumble downwards. However, it beats the alternative. - Lemony Snicket

Just as he was slowly bringing order to his own internal life, he would also bring order to his language. - David Brooks

A man cannot own more than his heart can love. - Gabriele Corno

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

There are two Newman's laws. The first one is "It is useless to put on your brakes when you're upside down." The second is "Just when things look darkest, they go black. - Paul Newman

Poor is the man who does not know his own intrinsic worth and tends to measure everything by relative value. A man of financial wealth who values himself by his financial net worth is poorer than a poor man who values himself by his intrinsic self worth. - Sidney Madwed

Never argue with an idiot, because they will only bring you down to their level and beat you by experience.

Fish are small, but do not drown in the sea. Ships are big, but sink in the ocean. - Matshona Dhliwayo

You may not be able to understand the world, but you can create your own world with your perception and imagination. - Debasish Mridha

Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power. - Seneca

All Faith is false, all Faith is true: Truth is the shattered mirror strown In myriad bits; while each believes His little bit the whole to own. - Sir Richard Francis Burton

Each to their own reality - T. Donaldson

Today we must begin again. Step by small step, without any more protection than comes from our own bodies. - Eduardo Galeano

Seems like everything lead up to this dayand it's just like every day that's ever been.Sun goin' up and then the sunit goin' down. - Jerry Garcia

Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity and change. - Brené Brown

Strange, how the name Israel, God's own chosen nation, who don't believe Jesus to be the Messiah, sounds almost the same as saying "is He real? - Anthony Liccione

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

People would say - to break free, to soar, and sadly, to chop your wings too. The moment you listen to them, you voluntarily put yourself in a cage. Be a free soul - fly or fall on your own terms. - Saru Singhal

Faith doesn't always come naturally but as we take those steps of faith, we notice little by little that our faith has grown and it isn't as hard as we first thought. - Jacqueline Winslow

Don't let people intimidate you into downgrading your goals. They intimidate only because they are intimidated by your goals. - Janna Cachola

The books and magazines streamed in. He could buy them all, they piled up around him and even while he read, the number of those still to be read disturbed him. … they stood in rows, weighing down his life like a possession which he did not succeed in subordinating to his personality. - Thomas Mann

It is essential to happiness that our way of living should spring from our own deep impulses and not from the accidental tastes and desires of those who happen to be our neighbors, or even our relations. - Bertrand Russell

Watch carefully the journeys of others because the beginning of your own journey is hidden in the journeys of others! - Mehmet Murat ildan

Never believe someone cares for you because of other people's reactions. Sometimes you have to drown out the noise from the crowd, in order to figure out if there is a song playing between the two of you or simply annoying static that you thought was a tune. - Shannon L. Alder

Nature's first green is gold,Her hardest hue to hold.Her early leaf's a flower;But only so an hour.Then leaf subsides to leaf.So Eden sank to grief,So dawn goes down to day.Nothing gold can stay. - Robert Frost

Your absence has not taught me to be alone, it merely has shown that when together we cast a single shadow on the wall. - Doug Fetherling

What’s it like being a writer? Mostly it’s like being a child surrounded by adults. My friends have grown-up careers. They balance spreadsheets, analyze data, negotiate deals. They build things, heal patients, teach children. Meanwhile, I’m over here saying Let’s pretend. - Jennifer Froelich

I'd always liked her in a way I never had to think about, like the fact of my own hands. - Emma Cline

It is the unknown that we thirst for. Curiosity that drives us... to learn. Not to hear, or to be told. But to see and feel, to experience. - Steven Hudson

I must fling myself down and writhe; I must strive with every piece of force I possess; I bruise and batter myself against the floor, the walls; I strain and sob and exhaust myself, and begin again, and exhaust myself again; but do I feel pain? Never. How can I feel pain? There is no place for it. - Harry Houdini

My eyes are not for sale and nobody owns the world. - Marty Rubin

Angela Duckworth has shown how important grit and perseverance are to lifetime outcomes. College students who report that they finish whatever they begin have higher grades than their peers, even ones with higher SATs. - David Brooks

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

Fame is the worst pain known to man. It’s stronger than heroin. - Nicki Minaj

numquam illegitimi carborundum --"Never let the bastards grind you down. - this version -- my Latin prof

The power of the Executive to cast a man into prison without formulating any charge known to the law and particularly to deny him the judgement of his peers is in the highest degree odious and is the foundation of all totalitarian government whether Nazi or Communist. - Winston S. Churchill

Genius is a bend in the creek where bright water has gathered, and which mirrors the trees, the sky and the banks. It just does that because it is there and the scenery is there. Talent is a fine mirror with a silver frame, with the name of the owner engraved on the back.

Why climb the corporate ladder when you can build an elevator in your own building? - Joshua E. Leyenhorst

MANNA, n. A food miraculously given to the Israelites in the wilderness. When it was no longer supplied to them they settled down and tilled the soil, fertilizing it, as a rule, with the bodies of the original occupants. - Ambrose Bierce

A woman impudent and mannish grown is not more loathed than an effeminate man in time of action. - William Shakespeare

Catholics have more extreme sex lives because they're taught that pleasure is bad for you. Who thinks it's normal to kneel down to a naked man who's nailed to a cross? It's like a bad leather bar. - John Waters

Buy a stock, if it goes up, sell it, if it goes down, don't buy it. - Yogi Berra

And the only life which looks down upon the life of political ambition is that of true philosophy. Do you know of any other? - Plato

Upstairs, in the cupboard, he had a box of things he had saved as a boy and a young man. He hadn't looked into it in twenty years or more. Nothing fancy or valuable, but things that had meant something to him at one time. He found it, and found the key, and carried it downstairs without opening it. - Jane Smiley

When you're silent, your silence condones it. Thus, whatever you believe in goes down the drain. - Jennifer Tindugan-Adoviso

You must always see your loneliness as an opportunity to meet something good unexpected, something new unknown before, something interesting not happened yet! - Mehmet Murat ildan

I think about and consider God's feelings before the people's or even my own. - Delano Johnson

Fear swept in to fill the silence. Fear of disappearing, of the dark, of the unknown. Fear or being somewhere without this love to define him. 'Don't stop talking,' he tried to say. - Tommy Wallach

As I have no form now, I will be recreated;into unknown new shapes, colours and forms distorted.the 'I' in me has faded, and passed on, to a distant land, - Drunken Mystic

Egoism [Ahamkar: Aham=I; kar=did] means ‘I did’. Where one is not the doer and he says, ‘I did’; that is egoism. To do egoism and to walk around with an inflated chest is pride (maan) and then to go on telling others ‘I did it myself’, is known as pride with my-ness (abhiman). - Dada Bhagwan

Learn to forgive "HATERS" and people who think less of you. Don't bring yourself down to their level, because you know who you are. Be HUMBLE and shower them with unexpected love. - Henry Johnson Jr

There is a fine line between any contradictory matters. When our souls fail to spot it before our minds, we lose track of both reality and vision in which lead to a one way ticket for an unknown path - Rola Mahmoud

If you want self-esteem. Do estimable acts ~ V, from A Piece of Cake: Memoir - Cupcake Brown

Go higher and higher, until it becomes impossible to bring you down, I wanna use a microscope to locate you, don't even dream of coming down. - Michael Bassey Johnson

Dedication is not what others expect of you, it is what you can give to others. - Unknown

It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion. - Rebecca West

[...] the past century has shown that dumb minds can do extraordinary damage. - Daniel Pipes

Of course we get hurt in love. We have this immense need to immerse violence into love. As if a love that doesn't devastate is less of a verb.As if a rain that doesn't drown wouldn't make the trees grow. - Akif Kichloo

He was guilty of nothing, except that he earned his own fortune and never forgot that it was his. - Ayn Rand

Be yourself, And take control of your own destiny. There is nothing more disgraceful in life, Than living someone else’s life. - Mouloud Benzadi

Everyone loses their class when they travel through hell, but only a few will regain it if they remain humble and accept the part they played in their own misery. - Shannon L. Alder

Higher energy always wins and the light always drowns out the darkness. - Lada Ray

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

Every person that you meet knows something you don't; learn from them. - H. Jackson Brown Jr.

In the whole world, Everyone is a creative with their own way and idea. - Anil prajapati

The power to shape your reality lies within you, therefore the most important voice you will ever hear is your own. - Max Patrick

There are two key areas that boil down life. Our relationships with people and the relationships with ourselves. - Matthew Donnelly

We evaluate, measure, and describe this world from our own point of view, but how does a tree see the world? - Debasish Mridha

My name is Jane Delaney and I do things my paying customers can’t do, don’t want to do, don’t want to be seen doing, can’t bring themselves to do, and/or don’t want it to be known they’d paid someone to do. To dead people. - Pamela Burford, Undertaking Irene

There was no use feeling guilty about getting on to the ship when you are in the middle of the ocean. If you felt guilty or sorry, you had only one option – drown in the middle of the sea. - Jagdish Joghee

I am a nobody trying to be a somebody by not riding or pulling down anybody. - Amit Abraham

A child is reliving millions of years of Evolution from a single cell to a XXI Century Human. This is the most amazing miracle I've ever encountered, and I am truly grateful to the Nature for letting me perform it - for letting me create a new life called Emily. - Sophia Newtown

You control your own destiny. Never let anyone put you in a box and say 'This is your space'; You have the whole world to choose from. If you have something to say, say it. Live your life as you want to live it, not how others perceive your life to be lived. Take control. Today. - Michelle Geaney

Be determined. Be persistent. Be consistent," the muse said. "Then he looked at me and winked. "Never give up, dumb-ass. - Lani Brown

Writers Block? Get out and have fun. Love yourself. No use frowning and buying anti-wrinkle cream after. - Juan Morris

Stay Alive in Your Own Life - Jan Jansen

...he wanted me to come home--to come home, as he said, and settle down, and whenever he said that I thought of the sediment at the bottom of a stagnant pond. - James Baldwin

Ending a series is a difficult one .......where should a story that you have followed for so long end? When do you step away from the characters and let the readers decide their fate from there? When they can stand on their own is my only answer for that. - Shandy L. Kurth

Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress. - George Eliot

When you don't find a way... don't wait every time for others, Sometimes you have to be yourown angel. - Chandni Maurya

Wind and breeze are separated todayCrimson twilight denies to fade away Grass blades turn brown to match the soilWe pretend to smile at every turmoil - Munia Khan

The waters of spirituality are forever changing and forever constant. Prejudice or fixed ideas can only weigh you down and remove you from the flow. - The Book of Metanoia (D. Williamsen) - Dannye Williamsen

Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own. - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself. - Thomas Paine

He must not laugh at his own wheeze. A snuff box has no right to sneeze.

...Nobody ever gets to know no body! We're all of us sentenced to a solitary confinement inside our own skins for life!

I married a man who was as much a part of me as my own soul. - C.J. English

True love allows each person to follow his or her own path, aware that doing so can never drive them apart.

I didn't come here of my own accord, and I can't leave that way.Whoever brought me here will have to take me home. - Jalaluddin Rumi

You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books. - Voltaire

Motivate yourself your own way, be creative about how to succeed in your Life. It's Your Life, After all. - Anajo Black

Independence isn't doing your own thing; it's doing the right thing on your own. - Kim John Payne

The whole world steps aside for the man who knows where he is going. - Unknown

How happy is the little stoneThat rambles in the road alone,And doesn't care about careers,And exigencies never fears;Whose coat of elemental brownA passing universe put on;And independent as the sun,Associates or glows alone,Fulfilling absolute decreeIn casual simplicity. - Emily Dickinson

I've no interest in being thought provoking. Who needs more thoughts. I'd rather go down as one who is thought disposing. - Rasheed Ogunlaru

You cannot rise beyond the external as well as internal reality unless you understand your own perception. - Roshan Sharma

What shall I do to be for ever known,And make the age to come my own? - Abraham Cowley

He studied with the guru of rock n’ roll, Baba Oom Mow Mow, who taught his own version of the Golden Rule: "Do wop unto others as you would have them do wop unto you. - Swami Beyondananda

You think I'm prettyWithout any make-up onYou think I'm funnyWhen I tell the puch line wrongI know you get meSo I'll let my walls come down, down - Katy Perry

Happiness is like manna; it is to be gathered in grains, and enjoyed every day. It will not keep; it cannot be accumulated; nor have we got to go out of ourselves or into remote places to gather it, since it has rained down from a Heaven, at our very door.

Everyone thinks you make mistakes when you're young. But I don't think we make any fewer when we're grown up - Jodi Picoult

Life is the will to power; our natural desire to dominate and reshape the world to fit our own preferences and assert our personal strength to the fullest degree.

Loss leaves us empty- but learn not to close your heart and mind to grief. Allow life to replinish you. When sorrow comes it seems impossible- but new - Pam Brown

Don't mark up the Library's copy, you fool! Librarians are Unprankable. They'll track you down! They have skills! - Charles Ogden

Life is short. Smile while you still have teeth. - Unkown

Maybe the real miracle in any miracle is our ability to believe that despite our own depravity, in the eyes of God we are worthy of a miracle. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

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

I'm just a young guy with big dreams who is working hard to make it on top while many people are waiting for my downfall, they don't support but hate and talk negativity. - Werley Nortreus

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

Doubt is a disease that infects the mind creating a mistrust of peoples motives and ones own perceptions. Doubt has the ability to call into questions everything you ever believed about someone and reinforce the darkest suspicions of our inner circle. - Emily Thorne

Zo, I'm not a damn pussy!'Erik, looking very tall and full-grown, kick-your-butt vampyre-like, snorted sarcastically and then said, 'No, you're a damn human. Wait, that does make you a pussy! - P.C. Cast

He was grand in his convictions. He would stride forward to meet his own destruction. - Natsume Soseki

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

Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune. - Dr. Thomas Fuller

A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something. - Unknown

Girls bored me - they still do. I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I've ever known. - Walt Disney

The greatest gift that you can give yourself is a little bit of your own attention.

That consciousness is everything and that all things begin with a thought. That we are responsible for our own fate, we reap what we sow, we get what we give, we pull in what we put out. I know these things for sure. - Madonna

This reasonable moderator, and equal piece of justice, Death. - Thomas Browne

A person who speaks against one party and favors another is most likely to have just own enjoyment of a sumptuous meal in a bash or party. - Anuj Somany

Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord. - Nikolai Gogol

Pat Conroy embraced his new hometown with the grateful passion of a refugee. - William Grimes

I may be a little like the grown-ups. I must have grown old. - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

A true man will treat a woman how she treats herself, you can't expect to be a queen when your disrespecting your own crown. - Nikki Rowe

Have you ever noticed how statists are constantly reforming their own handiwork? Education reform. Health-care reform. Welfare reform. Tax reform. The very fact they’re always busy reforming is an implicit admission that they didn’t get it right the first 50 times. - Lawrence W. Reed

Love, I have always known, is an evolutionary trait. It is a delicately tuned, intricate, sensitive impulse, but a trait nevertheless, a reaction honed by millions of years of an ever-changing and complex mating instinct. - David Bajo

You can't get out of life alive, so you may as well have a good time. - Les Brown

Where are you looking for samadhi (enlightened blissful state)? You just come into your own original Self-form of the Soul, final liberation and samadhi are the natural qualities of the Soul! - Dada Bhagwan

Dream your own dreams, achieve your own goals. Your journey is your own and unique. - Roy Bennett

As my mind changes, so do my quotes. I empathize with those who, by force, are put on trial for their own clarity of conscience. For that, we must convene by force of argument. - Michael Brett Turner

Plumpick: Don't you understand, the whole town will blow up in three minutes! Columbine: Yes--they will be wonderful, those three minutes.

If our life is a dream, let it continue; who wants the reality? If our life is a reality, let it continue; who wants the dream? Unknown is unreliable! - Mehmet Murat ildan

I'm reaching out my hand. I hope you are too. I just want to be in the dark with you. - Greg Brown

Marginal gains is not about making small changes and hoping they fly. Rather, it is about breaking down a big problem into small parts in order to rigorously establish what works and what doesn't. - Matthew Syed

First rule of spirituality - thou shall not believe in your own bullshit. - Fakeer Ishavardas

I have known sorrow and learned to aid the wretched. - Virgil

Another one of them new worlds. No beer, no women, no pool parlors - nothin'. Nothing to do but throw rocks at tin cans and we got to bring our own tin cans.

I believe there is a hero in each of us. The best books are the ones that remind us of who we already are and empower us to embrace our own story. - Marilynn Halas

Okay, I said. As long as I've got you here, we're going to use and appreciate this present moment. Because I wish, and I've wished a thousand times since you went, that we'd known it was the present, and that we were living in it. - Ali Smith

God put me on Earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I'm so far behind I will never die! - Unknown

MILLENNIUM, n. The period of a thousand years when the lid is to be screwed down, with all reformers on the under side. - Ambrose Bierce

To think about your life is to create it. You have to take ownership of where you are right now and know where you want to go before you can get there. Keep collecting evidence for your success. You can believe it, and you can be it. - Ali Vincent

I never understood why when you died, you didn't just vanish, everything should just keep going on the way it was only you just wouldn't be there. I always thought I'd like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I'd like it to say 'figment'. - Andy Warhol

Be your own best friend and unlock the fountain of beauty. - Debasish Mridha

[P]oetry resembles metaphysics: one does not mind one's own, but one does not like anyone else's. - Samuel Butler

A friend is someone who will help you move. A real friend is someone who will help you move a body. - Unknown

No man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause, because his interest would certainly bias his judgment, and, not improbably, corrupt his integrity. With equal, nay with greater reason, a body of men are unfit to be both judges and parties at the same time. - James Madison

Blow by blow a giant is knocked down. - Matshona Dhliwayo

Women have always been the strong ones of the world. The men are always seeking from women a little pillow to put their heads down on. They are always longing for the mother who held them as infants. - Coco Chanel

Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands - two equally harmful disciplines. - Simone de Beauvoir

There are few things reason can discover with so much certainty and ease as its own insufficiency.

Selfie is like asking others to cast their likes on a own social media picture in liking or loving only and solely me. - Anuj Somany

We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own. - Ben Sweetland

Whatever unspeakable act done to you, write it down, read it, then ball up the paper & sling it hard into the wall. Expunge it from your soul - Ace Antonio Hall

It Follows, can become a great story....So far the "Clown", is awesome it shows something incredible... - Deyth Banger

Merlin, do you mind?' It was the King who asked me, a man as old and wise as myself; a man who could see past his own crowding problems, and guess what it might men to me, to walk in dead air where once the world had been a god-filled garden. - Mary Stewart

When you lay down with neglect & sleep around with excuses, you wake up with failure...When you marry your goals & remain intimate with your vision, you'll give birth to your dreams. - Jay Danzie

Fuck the weather forecasters and their predictions. With magic, he’d just turned their Doppler radar upside down. (Being Familiar With a Witch) - Sapphire Phelan

It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress. - Mark Twain

The future is always unknown. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Bird has to fly with their own wings; we have to think our own thoughts, find our own destiny. - Debasish Mridha

Reading aloud with children is known to be the single most important activity for building the knowledge and skills they will eventually require for learning to read. - Marilyn Jager Adams

When everything has gone down, God wants youto look up - Richmond Akhigbe

The only true thoughts are those which do not grasp their own meaning - Theodor W. Adorno

Dwell on your own sacred thoughts. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Whatever you do, do it to the purpose; do it thoroughly, not superficially. Go to the bottom of things. Any thing half done, or half known, is in my mind, neither done nor known at all. Nay, worse, for it often misleads. - Lord Chesterfield

The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it. - Samuel Johnson

Your own thoughts serves as the magnet which attracts units of life from the great ocean of life out there. - Adedayo Olabamiji

Pain is inevitable; suffering is optional. - Unknown

Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known. - Garrison Keillor

If I should go before the rest of youBreak not a flower nor inscribe a stone, Nor when I'm gone speak in a Sunday voice But be the usual selves that I have known. Weep if you must, Parting is hell, But life goes on, So sing as well. - Joyce Grenfell

In order to bring down the great, you have to be able to reach the stars. - Matshona Dhliwayo

They throw their stones at you not expecting that you would catch them with a smile. But a wise soul knows that what life throws at you today, is only preparing you for a stronger tomorrow. After all, you can't build a castle without first laying down its foundations... - Seja Majeed

Evil" is an inverted anagram of "live." As we live our life, learn to tame our own private demons and conquer evil with a good, pure, humble, courageous, patient heart. - Angelica Hopes

The road up and the road down is one and the same. - Heraclitus

Pride of opinion has been responsible for the downfall of more men on Wall Street than any other factor. - Charles Henry Dow

It's a wonderful thing to be able to create your own world whenever you want to. - Woody Allen

be much more friendly to such things that matter most .Things that will propel your vision and ambition to higher heights. Things that will help you enlarge your tentacles. Do not look down on small things however - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

The simple fact is that neither an efficiently successful HOW nor a compelling persuasive WHY is sufficient on its own..without the other to bring about impactful sustainable improvement. - Robert M. Olsen

I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had no where else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day. - Abraham Lincoln

I first heard of Parmenides' best-known assertion, "Whatever is, is." I laughed and blurted out, "And he's famous?" With this verbal ejaculation I revealed myself as the quintessential sophomore. - R.C. Sproul

Music eliminates my gravity. When I'm singing, I'm a ravenous pterodactyl. I'm alive and free and hungry, and I know who I am. But the flood is coming; it's weighing me down, making me prisoner to my loneliness and pain.-character Joanna (Broken) - J. Matthew Nespoli

The future begins when we tear down the walls that keep us in the past. We must be thankful for those who walked through the pain and helped us to see the way out. - J. Loren Norris

Debbie Downer" was one of the few sketches where I broke, and I remember watching Heratio Sanz laugh so hard that tears squirted out of his eyes. I still believe that sketch may be a cure for low-level depression if watched regularly. - Amy Poehler

Does the fact that I can no longer remember my own phone number indicate my growing feebleness? No, on the contrary, it unleashes the mind from the petty tyranny of tending to the trivial and allows it to concentrate on the important and the critical. - Don Norman

My heart may be bruised and scarred, bleeding slow drip-drip with every thump and every other thump-thump that widens unsealable wounds. My heart is the strongest part of me. It's survived everything I've thrown at it and much more than it should. - Hubert Martin

I've known humans, and I know beasts. The beast is better. It is unpretentious. It kills for food. Humans do 'cause they're just not any good. - Fakeer Ishavardas

If you let go and let God than you will never have to worry about God letting Go - Brynelle K Brown

Corporations and their government minions are capable of anything...just look at the frauds the recent wars became known as. Hundreds of thousands killed in the name of corporate "liberation". - Steven Magee

My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's. - Oscar Wilde

When I lost you...my world darkened beyond any known shade of black, and the only light that I have seen since is you... - Tracey-anne McCartney

Just because everyone is behaving like a clown, it doesn’t mean you have to join the circus. - Matshona Dhliwayo

When you take a photo, you often take your own reality into your camera - the reality that you shaped in your mind - and not the real reality over there, whatever it is! - Mehmet Murat ildan

Somehow everything I own smells of you, and for the tiniest moment it's all not true - Snow Patrol

There is no use being alive if one must work. The event from which each of us is entitled to expect the revelation of his own life’s meaning - that event which I may not yet have found, but on whose path I seek myself - is not earned by work. - André Breton

Where we see the same faults followed regularly by the same misfortunes, we may reasonably think that if we could have known the first we might have avoided the others. - James Madison

When you have the courage to follow your talents into the dark unknown places they lead, often God will send angels to light your way. - Shannon L. Alder

In that moment, we knew that we were all weird, all in this together, and that addressing our own suffering, while learning not to inflict it on others, is part of the work we’re all here to do. So is love, which comes in so many forms and can be directed at so many things. - Rebecca Solnit

We couldn’t believe our luck, and for a little while it felt like we were on some big train rolling down a hill, and all we cared about was how great it felt to be going fast. - Meg Rosoff

Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals. - John Steinbeck

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth. - Alan Watts

Gratitude is a form of worship in its own right, as it implies the acceptance of a power greater than yourself. - Stephen Richards

Your journey is completely yours. It is unique. Others may try to steal part of it, tell it in their words or shape it to suit them. Reality is no one can live it or own it but you. Take charge of your journey, it's yours and yours alone! - Kemi Sogunle

The last thing I have to say is that ice is the past tense of water. I've always wanted to write that sentence and now I have. - Rita Mae Brown

There is no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary. - Brendan Behan

A person’s true intention behind his/her nice & advisory word manifests itself through the ground action shown by the people who follow him/her like a herd. - Anuj Somany

The garden is an unemployed township-based man's cubicle. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

No ceremony that to great ones 'longs, not the king's crown, nor the deputed sword, the marshal's truncheon, nor the judge's robe, become them with one half so good a grace as mercy does. - William Shakespeare

At that darkest moment, while drowning in the Abyss of Emotional Bankruptcy, reflect on this universal truth: the difference between success and failure is one more time. - Ken Poirot

Life is its own consumer - Munia Khan

All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors. - Unknown

It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.

Down in Louisiana we call that Boogie Woogie! - Jerry Lee Lewis

You are not judged by your success, but rather, how you respond to your failures. - T.W. Brown

It was a uniform that signified that one was a kind of downtown aesthete; not necessarily nihilistic, but a monk in the bohemian order. - David Byrne

A person is known by his own action, but even better by the deeds of the people often hanging around him on the physical ground than merely with his sweet words or sound. - Anuj Somany

CAVILER, n. A critic of our own work. - Ambrose Bierce

If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down. - Ray Bradbury

There's a club, if you'd like to goYou could meet somebody who really loves you.'So you go, and you stand on your ownAnd you leave on your ownAnd you go home, and you cryAnd you want to die. - Morrissey

If I were born a woman, my clothes would be for any man with rough hands to tear down and my body to be made love to by any heart lost enough to love - Prabhukrishna M

Begin your day by saying "I AM". You will begin to believe that you have control of your life, freedom of expressing yourself with ease, and the clarity to recognize your own truth. - Steven Cuoco

It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more. - J. K. Rowling

The ball laughs, radiant, in the air. He brings her down, puts her to sleep, showers her with compliments, dances with her, and seeing such things never before seen his admirers pity their unborn grandchildren who will never see them. - Eduardo Galeano

European merchants supply the best weaponry, contributing to their own defeat. - Sultan Salahuddin Ayubi