Quotation Explorer - 'That'

The genius inside a person wants activity. It’s connected to the stars; it’s connected to a spark and it wants to burn and it wants to make and it wants to create and it has gifts to give. That is the nature of inner genius. - Michael Meade

The more a man knows, the more willing he is to learn. The less a man knows, the more positive he is that he knows everything... - Robert G. Ingersoll

If I thought that what I'm doing when I write is expressing myself, I'd junk the typewriter. Writing is a much more complicated activity that that. - Susan Sontag

Success takes many forms. Most people strive for something unattainable without realizing that it's already theirs. - Lada Ray

Maybe we ought to consider that sometimes the most destructive outcomes in our lives are the ones that we’ve created. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

It will be a beautiful day tomorrow, with the burgeoning greenery of the trees coming alive through the east window of your room – the greenery that will rim the endless sky and our endless love. - Debalina Haldar

There is nothing to be gained by pretending that academic involvement is necessary, or even always desirable, in the quest for truth and knowledge. - Christopher Langan

To fall in love is a legendary action that doesn't need any explanation. - Auliq Ice

When I speak, people know that in my gut, I'm bad. They feel better about being bad in their guts. - Kieron Gillen

Fear isn't what scares, it's reality that does scare - Sofia Reyes

I understand that smoking is vaguely inappropriate in certain situations. You know, like an orphanage, cancer ward, whatever.

I am nothing.I'll never be anything.I couldn't want to be something.Apart from that, I have in me all the dreams in the world. - Fernando Pessoa

Have no fear in the devil and acknowledge the insecurities, mistakes of the past, and disappointments that you have long failed to accept as new beginnings and see the child within you begin to heal. - Forrest Curran

We keep drifting till we see light. Seldom do we realize that the light was always there! - Avijeet Das

It’s not enough to hear someone else’s voice or to sing someone else’s song or to play the note that you heard someone else play. I had to tune into my sound and by doing so, I have recovered not only the sound of my voice but the sound of my life. - Suzette Hinton

I am, a shadowthat grows longer as the sunmoves, drawn outon a thread of wonder.If I bear burdensthey begin to be rememberedas gifts, goods, a basketof bread that hurtsmy shoulders but closes mein fragrance. I caneat as I go. ("Stepping Westward") - Denise Levertov

Don’t try to be useful. Try to be yourself: that is enough, and that makes all the difference - Paulo Coelho

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

Little things spell LOVE. Beware the spouse or marriage that places a premium on expensive gifts and 'toys. - David R. Wommack

We are not even going to throw the challenge of changing a whole generation before the modern day church. This generation of believers don’t even know what that means - Sunday Adelaja

As hurt get burning in our heart, I wish there will be doctor that can scan our heart and tell us what he/she found. - Uche Daniel Oluwaseun

The best thing about being a writer is that 'work' is always something you love, plus usually accompanied by tea, coffee and cakes of some sort. - Jamie L. Harding

The cat that laughs is crazy. Man who does not laugh is below... (Le chat qui rit est un fou. - Homme qui ne rit est dessous...) - Charles de Leusse

Not only must the most privileged feel they are brothers and sisters of the most destitute, but the most destitute must feel as well that something within them makes them equal to the greatest sages and geniuses. - Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov

There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible. - Henry Ford

If there ever comes a time that you forget where you came from, you've gone too far. - Tanya Masse

A mother's love is the morning sunshine that always enlightens our way. - Debasish Mridha

There are things that man is not meant to interfere with, and the robust yet fragile temper of a woman is one of them. - youssef

Too many of our preferences reflect nasty behaviours and states of mind that were genetically adaptive in the ancestral environment. Instead, wouldn't it be better if we rewrote our own corrupt code? - David Pearce

Since I was young, I have always known this: Life damages us, every one. We can’t escape that damage. But now, I am also learning this: We can be mended. We mend each other - Veronica Roth

Love makes people beautiful, beautiful in the fact that those who are stricken by love become blind. Not being able to see the evils and pain in the world, that's the part that makes people beautiful on the inside. - Shannan Jacoby

There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope. - George Eliot

The moment you open yourself completely to the love that awaits your conscious embrace, you are no longer there to receive it. - Eric Micha'el Leventhal

Perhaps above everything compassion is the most important thing to embrace and emanate in life. It will enhance your life - and it's the one thing that will elevate and heal mankind - Rasheed Ogunlaru

Looking at her always reminded me of a rose that was dripping blood. I always felt it was drawing all the life from inside. Just to look beautiful on the outside. - Akshay Vasu

O bliss of the collector, bliss of the man of leisure! Of no one has less been expected and no one has had a greater sense of well-being than... a collector. Ownership is the most intimate relationship one can have to objects. No t that they come alive in him; it is he who comes alive in them. - Walter Benjamin

The minutes felt as long as years and I couldn't be in the sort of time that didn't move, that instead stood still and all I could think of was being allowed to die, being allowed to cut the thread of time forever. - Linda Boström Knausgård

I can't tell if a straw ever saved a drowning man, but I know that a mere glance is enough to make despair pause. For in truth we who are creatures of impulse are creatures of despair. - Joseph Conrad

The hurt that troubled children create is never greater than the hurt they feel. - L. Tobin

Are we not all books waiting for someone to pick us up and read the pages that people missed? - Shannon L. Alder

Misogyny… is not a true part of the human condition. It is life out of balance and that imbalance is sucking something out of the soul of every man and woman who is confronted with it. - Joss Whedon

She was supportive, didn’t pry or expect anything from me, and sensed when I needed my space. If she were a guy, I’d probably date her. Or, if I were a lesbian. And if she were a lesbian. I guess we’d both have to be lesbians for that to work. Regardless, she made a pretty great friend. - Temple West

One of the strange things about human beings is that they value only that which has a price. - Nepoleon Hill

Religion serves all of us; men, women, gays, straights, blacks, whites, Americans and Indians. If it does not comply with our needs, wishes and happiness, then religion without a doubt is a plague that must be stopped. - M.F. Moonzajer

I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end. - Margaret Thatcher

The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing - and then marry him. - Cher

Love imprints a memory on the heart that no one can erase. - Debasish Mridha

The amount of violations of human rights in a country is always an inverse function of the amount of complaints about human rights violations heard from there. The greater the number of complaints being aired, the better protected are human rights in that country. - Daniel Patrick Moynihan

As I was sitting in my chair,I knew the bottom wasn't there,Nor legs nor back, but I just sat,Ignoring little things like that. - Hughes Mearns

My Prayer? Oh' Lord give me the mind of a warrior that has been taught to fear your name, The soul of a prophet with the tongue and courage to speak truth though I be surrounded by those that despise it and the heart of a boy that believes he can slay a giant - Tonny K. Brown

You're all so busy trying to be tough that you've forgotten how to be brave. - K. Towne Jr.

If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted? - George Carlin

This shows you that even mistakes are sometimes valuable, so do not be hard on grown-up people if they are wrong sometimes. - E. Nesbit

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

To seek contentment is to release the novelty that lies within monotony - Ilyas Kassam

Don't rush into any kind of relationship. Work on yourself. Feel yourself, experience yourself and love yourself. Do this first and you will soon attract that special loving other. - Russ von Hoelscher

We attacked a foreign people and treated them like rebels. As you know, it's all right to treat barbarians barbarically. It's the desire to be barbaric that makes governments call their enemies barbarians. - Bertolt Brecht

people can be creul,people can be mean, what they say about us is not true it makes it there opinion, and it doesnt mean thats how the rest of the world see's it. - Rick Riordan

Hold love like a butterfly, with gentle preservation. Hold life like the reigns of a wild stallion, with fierce assertion. Encompass that, and you find the nectar of the immortal spirit. - Kellie Elmore

All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest, it seems, is an interest in life, good, bad, or peculiar.

[On doors of opportunity] If that door doesnt open, Dont worry. It was probably best you got locked out than be locked in. Move on the next door. - Janna Cachola

The greatest fear dogs know is the fear that you will not come back when you go out the door without them. - Stanley Coren

To dream only of what is ‘possible’ is to be fooled into believing that one is dreaming in the first place. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

You have a choice in everything in life, so keep in mind that in the end, the choice you make makes you. - Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means. - Georges Bernanos

All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think, we become.

The knowledge that makes us cherish innocence makes innocence unattainable. - Irving Howe

Knowing more than someone does not necessarily mean that you know every single thing they know. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

The rule is that when one’s mind is controlled in a specific subject, he can control the other person’s mind in that subject. - Dada Bhagwan

OMEN, n. A sign that something will happen if nothing happens. - Ambrose Bierce

Beyond happiness or unhappiness, though it is both things, love is intensity; it does not give us eternity but life, that second in which the doors of time and space open just a crack: here is there and now is always. - Octavio Paz

For people who like that sort of thing, that's the sort of thing they like. - William F. Buckley Jr.

When you have everything in life, you have friends, when you have nothing, you have true friends. The fact that somebody is close to you does mean they are your friend. Be wise! - Oscar Bimpong

Even when you are lazy and don't have the effort to learn something sit somewhere in public and try to observe the stupid people around you, that would be more than enough learning for the day. - Neymat Khan

Every child likes to take a pencil to make a mark. Everybody makes beautiful things when they are three, four, or five years old. Most people lose that spontaneity; I think that always happens. Some are able to win a second spontaneity. - Álvaro Siza

Success, in a generally accepted sense of the term, means the opportunity to experience and to realize to the maximum the forces that are within us.

Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he _becomes_ polite. - Jean Kerr

if you just go on dreaming then it stays a dream and becomes stale and dead. But first to dream and then to do isn't that the way to make a dream come true - Meindert DeJong

That's the news from Lake Woebegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average. - Garrison Keillor

It’s not in the book or in the writer that readers discern the truth of what they read; they see it in themselves, if the light of truth has penetrated their minds. - Augustine of Hippo

I think that is what film and art and music do; they can work as a map of sorts for your feelings. - Bruce Springsteen

You will make it Liz, and no matter what happens down there, remember that I love you with everything I am, your life is my life, your pain is my pain, but my love is also your strength, and my faith your courage. - Léia Kiuski

I was a poet. I had no expectations other than creating a world of art with words that would live on long after I was gone. - Jason E. Hodges

If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War. - George Washington

Our emotions are like programs that function under the control of the operating system comprising of our beliefs. - Dr. Asoka Jinadasa

I would not have imagined that love himself would have such a fatal blow this. - Valentinno

When a falsehood is coveted long enough, it becomes the truth that sustains its own existence. - E.B. Hudspeth

Do you really need permission? Still waiting for that invitation to your life? No one is going to give it to you...only you can do that. - Jennifer Ho-Dougatz

I am forced to conclude that God made Texas on his day off, for pure entertainment, just to prove that all that diversity could be crammed into one section of earth by a really top hand. - Mary Lasswell

The key distinctive of a truly Christian education...is the effective practice of worldview integration, that is, an approach to biblical integration that leads to a Christian worldview. - Martha MacCullough

Someone was waving a large pink-and-white sign that read, "Don't Worry, Be Happy." I was trying, and so were at least thirty thousand other bodies, with varying degrees of post-Aquarian patience, to see the Who for the first time in a year. - Ellen Willis

Creativity is a great motivator because it makes people interested in what they are doing. Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea. Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone. Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting. - Edward de Bono

Each and every day we manifest our own reality and this reality is experienced by a series of meaningful coincidences that we attract into our awareness by means of focused thought and vibrational alignment. - LJ Vanier

Troubles are usually brooms and shovels that smooth the road to the good man's fortune; and many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away hunger.

I want to make people around me happy, because I never know that laughter I gave to them would be my last gift I could offer. - Jimbo J. Antipolo

For if you try to forget yourself, force your heart and thoughts to become indifferent to the sight before you and take share of that entity which seems like one of the courses of the meal. - Auliq Ice

Be so bright that no one can hide the greatness of your light. - Debasish Mridha

When you lose someone, you get used to living day to day without them. But you’ll never get used to the 10 second heartbreak. That’s the time it takes to wake to full consciousness each day and remember… - Nina Guilbeau

Guarding your heart and protecting your dignity are a little bit more important than clarifying the emotions of someone who's only texting you back three words. I've learned that from trying to figure out people who don't deserve to be figured out. - Taylor Swift

Don't be afraid of the shadows, that only means there's a light nearby. - Evanescence

You have an inbuilt goodness. Why should you allow some poisonous elements to destroy that goodness? Protect your goodness by any means. Stay away from the toxic people. - Anjan Dey

My anger is like some rudimentary, single-celled beast, an exploding virus of fury that paralyses rational thought and blinds me to everything except one single goal... - Candace Bushnell

Three years? That's a thousand tomorrows, ma'am. - Karen Kingsbury

Science is not a collection of facts. Nor is science something that happens in the laboratory. Science happens in the head. It's a flight of imagination beyond the constraints of ordinary perception. Columbus chapter -The Virgin and the Mousetrap - Chet Raymo

The world is full of 'friends' of suicide victims thinking 'if I had only made that drive over there, I could have done something. - Darnell Lamont Walker

It is said that we do not make the guilty party suffer for the sake of suffering; it is nonetheless true that we find it right that he should suffer. - Émile Durkheim

Patience is a fruit of the spirit that grows only under trial. It is useless to pray for patience. Well, actually I encourage you to pray for patience, but I'll tell you what you'll get TRIALS! - Joyce Meyer

People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them. - Eric Hoffer

I don’t know if this happens in all relationships, but I just got so sick of his all too familiar stories. I had heard these stories so many times that I could have recited them myself. - Brenda Perlin

Men at some time are the masters of their fates: The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings. - William Shakespeare

It’s okay. It may not seem like it right now, but you are going to be fine. I know it’s scary, but don’t be afraid. You are who you are, and you should love that person, and I don’t want anyone to have to go through 22 years of their life afraid to accept that. - Connor Franta

There are thoughts that don’t let you sleep in the darkness of nights. Thoughts of life, love, circumstances and dreams. Interestingly, these thoughts don’t disappear when you have your eyes opened in the day ahead. Whether you live greatly or not is determined by these thoughts. - Taranpreet Singh

Sometimes, instead of being hurt, you should look at betrayal as a gift. It makes it that much easier to sweep it up and toss it out with the rest of the trash. And why is that you ask? Because trash starts to stink...and when it does, it has no more value in your life. - Donna Schoenrock

The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. - John Kenneth Galbraith

I go into ecstasies every time I see the naked figure of a woman, such as Venus, for example. It strikes me as so wonderful and exquisite that I have difficulty in stopping the tears rolling down my cheeks. - Anne Frank

God wants to lead you to places you cannot get to without Him, and He does that by the power of His Spirit. He can bring you into the realm of the miraculous—not as a show, but as a demonstration of His love and compassion for the lost, hurting, or needy. Who among us doesn’t want or need that? - Stormie Omartian

If a bullet should enter my brain, let that bullet destroy every closet door. - Harvey Milk

I find comfort in numbers and that is number one - Mark Maish

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

4. Real men are men who have devoted their lives to solving the problem of others and giving a helping hand to those they meet in their journey through life. These are the kind of men that history can never forget. - Dr. Bien Sufficient

In effect, the poor person is a rich person left to fend for him or herself, without the support of institutions that help the person to take 'good' decisions. - Daniel Cohen

Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair. - George Burns

An old racetrack joke reminds you that your program contains all the winners' names. I stare at my typewriter keys with the same thought. - Mignon McLaughlin

A relationship that violates values is simply headed for crisis. - Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

I think the biggest achievement of my life is that I followed my heart when I knew what it wanted, and had faith in destiny when I didn't know what it held. - Mansi Laus Deo

Does it not occur to people that I might be artificial by nature? - Maurice Ravel

In a way, she became the sand to my hourglass... she made watching that trickling sand a little more bearable. I no longer worried about what would happen when the sand ran out. I began to see the spark each grain held as it fell. - Hubert Martin

While I wholeheartedly believe in choosing to approach every challenge with a great attitude, I don't mean that we should abandon authenticity and live in fantasyland. - Charles R. Swindoll

At the end of the day, you're only as good as the shadow that was left in the morning. - Aspen Copper

In practice it is death that works soseductively behind the image of its brother, sleep - Friedrich Nietzsche

The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible. - Ray Bradbury

I long ago developed a very practical smile, which I call my "Noh smile" because it resembles a Noh mask whose features are frozen. Its advantage is that men can interpret it however they want; you can imagine how often I've relied on it. - Arthur Golden

Health is more than the absence of disease. Health is about jobs and employment, education, the environment, and all of those things that go into making us healthy. - Joycelyn Elders

That sure as fuck ain't no cow - Scott Sigler

There are two types of obstacles in life; those we put in our on way to prohibit growth. And those that life puts in our way to promote growth. - Glenn A. Maltais

The truth about true love is that it is endless. - Gugu Mona

They tried to bury me, but didn't know that I'm a seed. - Mexican proverb

This world is given as the prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world, is truer still of the world to come. - Frederick William Robertson

The proposition that the people are the best keepers of their own liberties is not true. They are the worst conceivable, they are no keepers at all; they can neither judge, act, think, or will, as a political body. - John Adams

Every writer should know their target. Aim for the heart ~ hit that and all which follows is sheer ecstasy. - Muse

Get attached to your dreams; The but to that statement is, be open to all possibilities in your mission. - Unarine Ramaru

...Tell him that I am quite specifically in desperate need of a redheaded bastard."Julius blinked. "And that will help, will it? - KJ Charles

Spend your leisure time in cultivating an ear attentive to discourse, for in this way you will find that you learn with ease what others have found out with difficulty. - Isocrates

Be the ocean of love so that everyone can come to you to enjoy the beauty of the beach. - Debasish Mridha

Never underestimate the distance that one simple act of kindness can carry you. - Thurman P. Banks Jr.

PHRENOLOGY, n. The science of picking the pocket through the scalp. It consists in locating and exploiting the organ that one is a dupe with. - Ambrose Bierce

Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishfull thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and freedoms.

And how will you afford to buy them in the first place?""I shall save up.""But that will take you years and years and years," said the twins."I've got years and years and years," said Sophie. - Dick King-Smith

I mean, I hope you're happy,But the sky is still the sky without you,And I'm not surprised by that anymore. - Caitlyn Siehl

I love belief it can move the pallet on a Ouija board or put a man into space. The problem that we have is the wrong beliefs we can't erase. - Stanley Victor Paskavich

Many were the steps taken in doubt, that saw their shapeless ends in no time. Those who travail in faith today will truimph in joy tomorrow. Let faith lead the way. - Israelmore Ayivor

…because it is natural to touch more often the parts that hurt. - Seneca

Look at each failure as a deposit made into the account that will help you write the check for your next significant success. - Bobby Darnell

Man is his own star and the soul that can render an honest and perfect man commands all light, all influence, all fate. - John Fletcher

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

In a day it happens for once in my mind that you are the only one I have waited for - Pawan Mehra

Who can declare that money is not a power which rulers of the world cannot withstand? - S. Alice Callahan

No, there is plenty wrong with Negroes. They have no society. They’re robots, automatons. No minds of their own. I hate to say that about us, but it’s the truth. They are a black body with a white brain. - Malcolm X

And I fear that my place gets taken by some other one, very lucky and not too shy, who flirts with your eyes while I’m the one who’s crazy about them. - Nizar Qabbani

Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence. - Louis Pasteur

Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it. - George Orwell

I am reminded of that irregular preacher at home who was accused of wandering from his subject. He replied that, whether he stuck to his subject or not, he thanked God that he stuck to his object, which was to bring men to Christ. I hope I shall never lose sight of that. - Geraldine Taylor

In what concerns you much, do not think that you have companions: know that you are alone in the world. - Henry David Thoreau

There are no rules. That is how art is born. - Helen Frankenthaler

New thinking doesn't mean shuffling your old thoughts around; it means getting rid of the old and implementing the new. That way your, "I can't" become "I can!" and "I did! - Toni Sorenson

You can't be a good writer in the States anymore because to be a good one you have to have a country where you can be poor and still eat, and still make your living standard secondary to your writing. Thoreau himself couldn't do that in the States today. - Nelson Algren

The true instrument is that, with the help of which, the egoism and my-ness goes away. - Dada Bhagwan

The Sun Tzu School Ping-fa Directive. Be strong and continually aware. Manage your strength and that of others. When essential, engage on your terms. Be observant, adaptive, and subtle. Do not lose control. Act decisively. Conclude quickly. Don't Fight! - David G. Jones

People only worry about the uncanny for about a week; that's the end of their attention span. After that, suspicions turn into shtick. - Scott Westerfeld

In the event that,If you know time really well then you know the future. - Jerril Thomas Abraham

Sooner or later, we all learn that our immortality is rooted not in our professional involvements and achievements, but in our families. In time, all of our wins and losses in the workplace will be forgotten. If our memories endure, it will be because of the people we have known and touched. - Harold S. Kushner

Humility is the acknowledgement that without God you wouldn't have made it thus far. - Gugu Mona

You’re just spooked. It’s Halloween; we’re all kind of spooked. That’s just the way it is. - Tory - Matthew Leeth

It's frightening to think that you might not know something, but more frightening to think that, by and large, the world is run by people who have faith that they know exactly what is going on. - Amos Tversky

You do not attain success when you associate with those in high positions, It comes when you accept yourself and realize that only you can take yourself to where your heart truly lies. - Michael Bassey Johnson

Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. But unfortunately, although it is true, it is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer. - Shunryu Suzuki

For me, all writing -- storytelling and style -- gets back to the Bible, Twain and Hemingway, and not in that order. - Dennis R. Miller

It is not power that corrupts but fear. - Aung San Suu Kyi

There isn't any questioning the fact that some people enter your life, at the exact point of need, want or desire - it's sometimes a coincendence and most times fate, but whatever it is, I am certain it came to make me smile. - Nikki Rowe

I remember reading article about the woman in that Oakland neighborhood who lost all her children to violence. I wondered why'd she keep living there after the first one was killed. Didn't she care about the others?Today, I zoomed out and wondered why I'm still in America. - Darnell Lamont Walker

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, where does that leave God? - George Deacon

If you ask a tree how he feels to know that he's spreading his fragrance and making people happy, I don't think a tree looks at it that way. I am just like that, and it is just my nature to be like this. - SadhguruJV

I'd come to realize that all our troubles spring from our failure to use plain, clear-cut language. - Jean-Paul Sartre

Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it. - Blaise Pascal

Make a journey in such a way that it becomes the dream of others even long after you have gone! - Mehmet Murat ildan

Ha! Kids! You have no idea what you put your parents through, either. Wait till you have your own, you'll see. That's when you'll know what it really feels like." .. "What what feels like?"..."Love," said Angela. - Tess Gerritsen

Human emotions have deep evolutionary roots, a fact that may explain their complexity and provide tools for clinical practice.The Nature of Emotions (2001) - Robert Plutchik

In life, some of the things we are afraid of are the same things that are use to test our ability to stand trials - Buhari S.I

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

One of rarest things that a man ever does is to do the best he can. - Josh Billings

I have found that it don't really matter if you're brought up fine or rough, but that it helps to have someone to spill your sorrows to. - Erica Eisdorfer

To know much and taste nothing-of what use is that? - Bonaventure

The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found. - Calvin Trillin

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

Many people today believe that cynicism requires courage. Actually, cynicism is the height of cowardice. It is innocence and open-heartedness that requires the true courage-however often we are hurt as a result of it. - Erica Jong

Human reason has this peculiar fate that in one species of its knowledge it is burdened by questions which, as prescribed by the very nature of reason itself, it is not able to ignore, but which, as transcending all its powers, it is also not able to answer. - Immanuel Kant

You have to be able to center yourself, to let all of your emotions go. Don’t ever forget that you play with your soul as well as your body. - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. - Langston Hughes

Her smiles are like the morning sun that illuminates my world. - Debasish Mridha

Say that we are a puff of warm breath in a very cold universe. By this kind of reckoning we are either immeasurably insignificant or we are incalculably precious and interesting. I tend toward the second view. - Marilynne Robinson

Forgiveness offered -especially when so undeserved - cuts chains off the human heart that no other power in any universe anywhere can rattle much less break....love did what hatred can not and never will. - Charles Martin

A man never grows out of wanting and desiring money that follows him through life. - Auliq-Ice

The truth is that thinking crates problems, it doesn't solve them. - Marty Rubin

California is like an artificial limb the rest of the country doesn't really need. You can quote me on that. - Saul Bellow

Maybe her parents had picked a favorite kid, but that hadn’t bowed Kate. It had made her lock her legs and stand strong instead. - Joyce, T.S.

No wonder I stopped keeping a journal. It was like keeping a record of my own stupidity. Why would I want to do that? Why would I want to remind myself what an asshole I was? - Benjamin Alire Sáenz

A scrupulous writer, in every sentence that he writes, will ask himself at least four questions, thus: 1. What am I trying to say? 2. What words will express it? 3. What image or idiom will make it clearer? 4. Is this image fresh enough to have an effect? - George Orwell

Don't worry about not doing "it" perfectly right now. It's ok, just keep at it, you will soon settle in it and then you'll be glad you didn't give up. All you need is to be sure that GOD's hand is in it. - TemitOpe Ibrahim

It is in providing outward display for things and pathways as they exist within the horizons of landscape that places enable memories to become inwardly inscribed and possessed: made one with the memorial self. The visibility without becomes part of the invisibility within. - Edward S. Casey

It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape. - Thomas Jefferson

Listen, and you will realize that we are made not from cells or from atoms. We are made from stories. - Mia Couto

You're good for the ones you love. You want to be good for the ones you love, because you know that your time with them will end up being too short, no matter how long it is. - Stephen King

Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us. - Bill Watterson

"That's the problem with tradition, it's always dated.

If I discover within myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world. - C.S. Lewis

Matt would stare at Andrew for 10 minutes. It's depressing that people are different. Everyone should be one person, who should then kill itself in hand-to-hand combat. - Tao Lin

That’s love: Two lonely persons keep each other safe and touch each other and talk to each other. - Rainer Maria Rilke

None of us are responsible for all the things that happen to us, but we are responsible for the way we act when they do happen.

He that is good at making excuses is seldom good at anything else. - Benjamin Franklin

Never forget that you're a member of your own community. Don't do something that you wouldn't like to see done. - Keith Richman

There are so many people that use 'following your dreams' as an excuse to not work. When in reality, following your dreams, successfully, is nothing but work. - Brandon Stanton

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

I don’t have a mind to mindI only have a heartthat loves and cares - Amit Abraham

War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory. - Georges Clemenceau

Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be - James Baldwin

Anything that makes weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison. - Swami Vivekananda

Your words crossed a threshold,And entered the past,Yet they have created,A word that will last. - Somya Kedia

Don't allow yourself to feel guilty about wanting deep and endless love, amazing sex and opportunities that will change your life. Expect these things - work for them and don't ever stop until they're yours. - Jennifer Elisabeth

I never talk back. I listen and always remember your every word, so come pen or mouse, never forget that I will treasure your thoughts forever. Yours truly, Paper. - L.M. Fields

We hate each other by race, color, tribe, wealth, gender etc because everyone wants to feel special and different than the other. I do not however have a solution on how people can stop having an ego that makes them specially superior than the other. - Robert Kodingo

We don't know that we don't own or owe Anything (In mathematical terms we are sifar), so keep walking as long as your legs are moving towards the infinite. Your own Ego is the only obstacle in this journey, earlier you get rid of it sooner will you find the infinite peace. - AnkitMishra

There were never going to be any happy ending for me. I know that now. But that is all right. That is all right. - S.J. Watson

If your questioning whether something will work or not. Remember that life is an experiment. Don't over analyze just act with heart and passion and move forward in compassion. - Matthew Donnelly

Religion is the world's label for following God. But, it is a one-on-one, daily and personal relationship that God seeks from all of us. - Elizabeth Salamanca-Brosig

My mind is the only sanctuary that has not been stolen from me. Men have tried to breach it before, but I've learned to defend it vigorously, for I am only safe with my innermost thoughts. - Christopher Paolini

Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words. - Jalaluddin Rumi

Choice Theory explains that, for all practical purposes, we choose everything we do. - William Glasser

The most astonishing thing about miracles is that they happen. - G. K. Chesterton

As I crawled out of the abyss of combat and over the rail of the Sea Runner, I realized that compassion for the sufferings of others is a burden to those who have it. As Wilfred Owen's poem "Insensibility" puts it so well, those who feel most of others suffer most in war. - Eugene B. Sledge

Everything that has ever happened to me that has been important has not been something that I've hoped for, or looked for, or manipulated -- it's all been predicated on my ability to take a new road when it presented itself and to go with it."(On Beauty: , Vogue, January 8, 2016) - Susan Sarandon

One of the things that has helped me as much as any other, is not how long I am going to live, but how much I can do while living. - George Washington Carver

The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work. - Robert Frost

I try hard to hold fast to the truth that a full and thankful heart cannot entertain great conceits. When brimming with gratitude, one’s heartbeat must surely result in outgoing love, the finest emotion we can ever know. - Bill W.

​Have faith in yourself. That’s all you need to succeed. - Abhijit Naskar

I have to believe in reincarnation. believing that I'll be in one place forever is a hell in itself. - Darnell Lamont Walker

To be thankful for just being alive...To survive means to win... That only applies to animals, but I'm a human being! - Nobuyuki Fukumoto

The are things that you might forget, but you might not clearly forget. Time is the only coin you have to buy the things you want to remember, and to pay for the things you want to leave behind. - Aileene Mhar Jabarani

I've learned that you can't have everything and do everything at the same time. - Oprah Winfrey

Will gives us the ability to take an idea hold that idea and zero right in on something - Bob Proctor

If a railroad is bent, the train shall turn over; if a man’s character is bent, he shall turn over just like that train. - Mehmet Murat ildan

You learn a lot from the people in your life who value you and for the ones that don't you learn forgiveness~ - Bluenscottish

Do not be sad that all odds are against you; be happy that your real purpose is by you - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

I understand you, and I shall not attempt to make you change your mind. I am too old to want to improve the world. I have told you what I think, and that is all. I shall remain your friend even if you act contrary to my convictions, and I shall help you even if I disagree with you. - Milan Kundera

The introduction of free competition is thus public declaration that from now on the members of society are unequal only to the extent that their capitals are unequal, that capital is the decisive power, and that therefore the capitalists, the bourgeoisie, have become the first class in society. - Karl Marx

Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning. - John Henry Cardinal Newman

Prejudice plunges you into a world of fear and hate. That's no way to live. - DaShanne Stokes

Be kind like a flower and know that life is beautiful like springtime. - Debasish Mridha

There is no dignity when the human dimension is eliminated from the person. In short, the problem with pornography is not that it shows too much of the person, but that it shows far too little. - Pope John Paul II

God is represented as infinite, eternal, incomprehensible; he is contained under every predicate in non that the logic of ignorance could fabricate. - Percy Bysshe Shelley

Amazing love and grace that Christ shared for all to be saved. - Lailah Gfty Akita

You will not find your passion in things and you will not find your passion in money. The more things and the more money you have, the more you will look around and use that as the metric and there will be someone with more. - Randy Pausch

The average man seeks certainty in the eyes of the onlooker and calls that self-confidence. The warrior seeks impeccability in his own eyes and calls that humbleness. - Carlos Castenada

The beauty about creating soundtracks is that each time I’m living in a magical world, a world of the logic of sense away from the crazy world we’re living in where materialism in charge of our destiny - sami abouzid

You are alone... you put it like that "Come and Fuck me"... or "I am free.."... but why??? - Deyth Banger

I have a theory that the answers to all of life's major questions can found in a John Mayer song. - Susane Colasanti

...Tolstoy said, happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story - then what does that make us?... - John Geddes

If you go deeper into the details of your calling, finding out new things about it, seeking wisdom and understanding from God on it, this in itself will cause you to be successful. He that tills his land will be satisfied with bread. - Pastor Adelaja Sunday

I Don't Write Because God Gives Me A Fresh Word Everyday, I write Because of The Words He Has Already Spoken Yesterday That Changed Today. - The Prolific Penman

I think that nothing is so important for freedom as recognizing in the law each individual’s natural right to property, and giving individuals a sense that they own something that they’re responsible for, that they have control over, and that they can dispose of. - Milton Friedman

Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others. - Unknown

Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too. - Anton Chekhov

He that loves the law will get his fill of it. - Scottish Proverb

The duke had a mind that ticked like a clock and, like a clock, it regularly went cuckoo. - Terry Pratchett

Of the many species that have existed on earth--estimates run as high as fifty billion--more than ninety-nine per cent have disappeared. In the light of this, it is sometimes joked that all of life today amounts to little more than a rounding error.more than a rounding error. - Elizabeth Kolbert

I don't know who explained this rule to me; maybe it was the product of my own speculations and fantasies. That would have been typical: I was always inventing stories and machinations to make sense of things I didn't understand, and I understood almost nothing. - César Aira

She isn't the kind of girl that makes you wonder why she doesn't have someone, you just know that the kind of guy who is good enough for her is rare, and she projects the kind of strength that says she is perfectly happy to wait till he shows up. - Stacey Ballis

How can one not be fond of something that the Daily Mail despises? - Stephen Fry

Apothegms to thinking minds are the seeds from which spring vast fields of new thought, that may be further cultivated, beautified, and enlarged.

Golf isn't a game, it's a choice that one makes with one's life. - Charles Rosin

A recent study of three thousand New England high-school kids shows that students with B averages or better enjoyed seventeen to thirty-three minutes more sleep and went to bed ten to fifty minutes earlier than students with C averages. - Roger Angell

I used to think it utterly normal that I suffered from suicidal ideation on an almost daily basis. In other words, for as long as I can remember, the thought of ending my life came to me frequently and obsessively. - Stephen Fry

When we lose our spiritual child then that is when we have grown old. - Stephen Richards

It is my wish that you may have at better and freer life than I have had. Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience; this was what upheld me in time of misery. - Ludwig van Beethoven

The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. - William Blake

You are the salt of the earth. But remember that salt is useful when in association, but useless in isolation. - Israelmore Ayivor

My art is an attempt to reach beyond the surface appearance. I want to see growth in wood, time in stone, nature in a city, and I do not mean its parks but a deeper understanding that a city is nature too-the ground upon which it is built, the stone with which it is made. - Andy Goldsworthy

You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership. - Dwight D. Eisenhower

When it's all over and the dust from our Ancestors bodies and our own settle from the four winds only then will we see that we were here! - Stanley Victor Paskavich

To invest into a memory that will only take you down a road that cannot be traveled is futile and counter-productive. It takes us away from the here and now, and it only impedes our well-being when we give nostalgic cadence to this venture. - DC Gunnersen

When you know that someone is playing love games with you and still you are there then it means either you are a true lover or a true loser. - Jasmine Kiyani

FAMILY. The ties that bind. The cement that builds character, strength of purpose, mutual respect, values. - David R. Wommack

One of the greatest tragedies in life is to lose your own sense of self and accept the version of you that is expected by everyone else. - K.L. Toth

One thing I have come to realize is that love is not always happiness. - Jerhia

If all men are born free, how is it that all women are born slaves? - Mary Astell

The fact that so many successful politicians are such shameless liars is not only a reflection on them, it is also a reflection on us. When the people want the impossible, only liars can satisfy. - Thomas Sowell

When Roseanne read the first script of mine that got into her hands without being edited by someone else she said, 'How can you write a middle-aged woman this well?' I said, 'If you met my mom you wouldn't ask'. - Joss Whedon

You are amazing! That is your secret. - Debasish Mridha

I can only see life as this most miserable accident that I have been forced to endure simply because I refuse to see it as the most astounding plan that I have been privileged to engage. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

The path of precept is long, that of example short and effectual. - Seneca

Some things are so completely ludicrous that a man must laugh or die. To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!

Little deeds that proceed from charity please God and have their place among meritorious acts. - Francis de Sales

If you truly love someone, have the faith to 'let them go.' Encourage them to be the fullest measure of themselves, and you will be overwhelmed by the love that your spouse returns to you. - Seth Adam Smith

I want to disabuse people of the idea that knowledge is power. Knowing how to get to Detroit is not the same thing as having the bus fare. - Andrew Vachss

She was another gift, surely, to us all. She was a happiness that made me cry. - Wendell Berry

I Don't use common sense i use senses that's way more significant than common !! - jojo1980

I read anything that’s going to be interesting. But you don’t know what it is until you’ve read it. Somewhere in a book on the history of false teeth there’ll be the making of a novel. - Terry Pratchett

Nature is one of the most underutilized treasures in life. It has the power to unburden hearts and reconnect to that inner place of peace. - Janice Anderson

There is no such thing as objectivity. We are all just interpreting signals from the universe and trying to make sense of them. Dim, shaky, weak, static-y little signals that only hint at the complexity of a universe we cannot begin to understand. - Bones The Doctor in the Photo

The healthy should be reminded that we are all dying because it is through our own reminder of mortality that we accelerate our good intentions, into actions people can see. - Shannon L. Alder

I am happy that I can aid those admirable men, both living and dead, who by their pens or their tongues have aided the great cause of human liberty and universal happiness. - James Watson

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

The importance of reading, for me, is that it allows you to dream.Reading not only educates, but is relaxing and allows you to feed your imagination - creating beautiful pictures from carefully chosen words. - Eric Ripert

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

That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise. - Abraham Lincoln

You ought not to practice childish ways, since you are no longer that age. - Homer

...an ambitious array of dishonorable intentions that he intended to wield upon the Countess’s nether regions. — BATS 2015 - Fred Barnett

Do not go gentle into that good night. - Dylan Thomas

Life is meaningless. It is our actions that add meaning to it. - Avinash Rao

If we ever forget that we're one nation under God, then we will be one nation gone under. - Ronald Reagan

Self-respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious. - H. L. Mencken

The line that we chart into our future is often more a circle that brings us back to our past. And it might be that there is some hidden intent in charting circles in that we can feel like we’re moving when we actually have no intent of doing so. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

Teaching is the most powerful force that changes our world one student at a time. - Debasish Mridha

The theory of karma exists not to bring fear to your heart but to ensure you do not lose hope and give up at the first obstacle that hits your path. - Pooja Ruprell

The tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but self denial. - Oscar Wilde

Our tragedy is their beauty. Our pain is their art. The beatific bereavement that is our life captured on a canvas for all the world to see. - Solange nicole

It's no good pretending that any relationship has a future if your record collections disagree violently or if your favorite films wouldn't even speak to each other if they met at a party. - Nick Hornby

Show me that age and country where the rights and liberties of the people were placed on the sole chance of their rulers being good men, without a consequent loss of liberty? - Patrick Henry

Libraries allow children to ask questions about the world and find the answers. And the wonderful thing is that once a child learns to use a library, the doors to learning are always open. - Laura Bush

I was certain of the uncertainty thatlied ahead which made you A risk,A mystery,And the most annihilating thing I have ever known. - akhil shah

Even though your thinking might not be right for others, just so long as it's right for you then that's all what matters. - Stephen Richards

When I see that humanity is suffering, it tears my heart. I cry, and then I extend my hand to help heal my heart. - Debasish Mridha

The way we sink into each other. The way I can’t tell mu heartbeat from yours. We have this perfect rhythm, whenever we’re together, and that’s the essence of us. - Leisa Rayven

The greatest adventure for a person is to live own life, but even greater daring than that for a man is to live a married life and sustain by offering own opinion to his wife. - Anuj Somany

You are my beautiful forever... a connection so deep that even an eternity doesn't seem long enough to spend with you. - Steve Maraboli

I think: you deserve to be what you are if you could bare to get that way. You must have seen it coming. And now there's nothing for you here. No one will protect you, and people won't see any reason not to do you harm. - Martin Amis

God makes his gospel attractive through people…that is the point of the gospel; it is trans-formative in nature. - Gary Rohrmayer

I have come to believe that the best kind of walk, or journey, is the one in which you have no particular destination when you set out. - Ruskin Bond

Why was it, she asked herself, that "animals can sometimes subdue their predatory ways in only a few months, while humans, despite centuries of refinement, can quickly grow more savage than any beast? - Diane Ackerman

I'm still struggling with the fact that due to my own (selfish) desire to be a writer, my children probably won't have the same opportunities I had growning up. For most students, however, I genuinely think it's about the money. It's a factor, sure. But it just feels like a factor. - Marina Keegan

Distance and time might keep people apart, but the heart and mind will always stay connected by memories, miracles and the power of two unlikely souls that were destined to meet. - Shannon L. Alder

True beauty is something that attacks, overpowers, robs, and finally destroys. - Yukio Mishima

What happens after death is so glorious that our imagination, our feelings do not suffice to form even an approimate conception of it. Memories and Dreams, - Carl Jung

There's only one person who needs a glass of water oftener than a small child tucked in for the night, and that's a writer sitting down to write. - Mignon McLaughlin

The Holy Spirit is saying that no authority or authoritative being exists that was not created by Jesus Christ. This is a statement beyond creation. It is a statement of Godhead. - Todd Coburn

You are here to feel the joy of life by empowering, enabling, enlightening humanity so that humanity may find its own joy. - Debasish Mridha

All of us sport an invisible sign around our necks -- AS IS. It means, take me as I am. I may not become what you want me to be. And I’m far, far from perfect. But I have some great qualities, too, as well as my share of faults. You will have to take me AS IS and I’ll take you that way, too. - Steve Goodier

If getting addicted to something is just wrong, then I don't want to be right when it comes to books and music !! Those are the two things that can set anything in the world right... - Priyanka R

To remember friendship is to recall those conversations that it seemed a sin to break off - Christopher Hitchens

Social justice has to do with issues such as poverty, inequality, war, racism, sexism, abortion, and lack of concern for ecology because what lies at the root at each of these is not so much someone's private sin but rather a huge, blind system that is inherently unfair. - Ronald Rolheiser

Without haters, you can't see the level of your progress, that shows you that haters are necessary evil. - Michael Bassey Johnson

I made dangerous choices in those years, thinking myself bold and adventurous. Later I would come to understand that I hadn't been daring at all, just driven by confusion and hormones. The person capable of true daring, I knew now, possessed two admirable qualities: curiosity and courage. - Alice Steinbach

The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it. - Neil deGrasse Tyson

I no longer believe that William Shakespeare the actor from Stratford was the author of the works that have been ascribed to him. - Sigmund Freud

It is a truth universally acknowledged that as soon as one part of your life starts looking up, another falls to pieces. - Helen Fielding

Do not share your thoughts with people who think that what you are thinking is not worth thinking. - Michael Bassey Johnson

Everything you have said will not matter anymore one day, only those things that you never said will always haunt you and strangle you every time you see your world in someone else's hand. - Akshay Vasu

Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom. - William Shakespeare

The most important gifts we can give our children are confidence in their ability to remake themselves again and again and the tools with which to do that job - Anders Ericsson

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

I have found little that is good about human beings. In my experience most of them, on the whole, are trash. - Sigmund Freud

There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly. - Terence

Love is a desire for that lost half of ourselves. - Milan Kundera

I find peace where the sun kissed leaves dance in the melody of the cool breeze that floats through the air. - Saim Cheeda

Sometimes the slightest things change the directions of our lives, the merest breath of a circumstance, a random moment that connects like a meteorite striking the earth. Lives have swiveled and changed direction on the strength of a chance remark. - Bryce Courtenay

We really can’t afford to live our lives walking in some sort of introspective darkness as if the darkness is the only thing that we can walk in. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

It is only when we see the worst that Man can offer, that we begin to see the best that Man still holds. If they are blinded by greed, then it’s time to pick up our virtual stones so we can start knocking sense into ‘em... - Faith Brashear

But, deep in her heart she knew more than what the words read or heard seemed to say. She knew that every letter in every word in every war bulletin was, somewhere, first written in blood of men, of human beings, who had once smiled and sung songs, eaten, drunk, slept and loved. - Kate Seredy

Set priorities for your goals. A major part of successful living lies in the ability to put first things first. Indeed, the reason most major goals are not achieved is that we spend our time doing second things first.

She speaks in heartbeats and the rises of her chest, words forever seared in thoughts that will never rest. - Hubert Martin

We are not equal, we are two halves that make each other whole. - Tyconis D. Allison Ty

Behind those happy eyes, you hide a mind that is terribly chaotic and that's what makes you, so beautiful. - Akshay Vasu

How did pretty little Anna go from Westchester suburb brat to New York hooker? Now that’s a story. - Stacey Trombley

Most of us go through each day looking for what we saw yesterday And, not surprisingly, that is what we find. - James A. Kitchens

For there comes a day on which we will see a mirror of judgement; to gaze not on man, but within ourselves. what cometh on that day in you? truth or despair? love or hate? - Robert Vanleeuwen

I want to be born and reborn as a cherry tree so that I may beautify this world with my blossoms, feed everyone with my nectar of love fruits, and purify the air with my calmly dancing leaves. - Debasish Mridha

Blurred is the picture, To not know what's next! Is it the laughter that awaits, Or sorrows lined up to dictate. Untold, unclear is...A story of our fate! - Somya Kedia

This is a little secret that all writers share: We have two lives; the one we live on Earth and the one we live in our books. - Chrys Fey

#1597. Everything is deemed possible except that which is impossible in the nature of things.

The sense of death is most in apprehension; and the poor beetle, that we tread upon, in corporal sufferance feels a pang as great as when a giant dies. - William Shakespeare

Ever notice the word 'rough' in through? There is truth to that, though the way may be rough, we are still able to get through it. - Anthony Liccione

We are all different. God made us that way. Drawing a line in the sand due to that is indeed unfortunate. - Jill Telford

Most people are asleep and need to be confronted, like adults that are still behaving like they're 5 years old, and don't want to assume responsibility for their mistakes. - Robin Sacredfire

Let us talk sense to the American people. Let us tell them the truth, that there are no gains without pains. - Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

I will tell you one thing that will make you rich for life. There are two struggles: an Inner-world struggle and an Outer-world struggle...you must make an intentional contact between these two worlds; then you can crystallize data for the Third World, the World of the Soul. - G.I. Gurdjieff

it's not how far you fall, but how high you bounce that counts. - Zig Ziglar

I learned that I' have to be detached if I was ever to achieve anything at all. - Iain Pears

Sometimes I feel that what used to be once casual conversations between friends are now being substituted with forced conversations containing none of the warmth it possessed earlier. It's better to not have any conversation at all than have forced conversations. - Adhish Mazumder

We often focus on what is wrong and complain that nothing is beautiful. - Debasish Mridha

Free will is about the power to decide for yourself without outside influence. That means no family, no religion, no ethnicity, no boundaries to encumber you in making decisions that are solely for YOUR LIFE. That is complete free will - Levon Peter Poe

To enjoy beauty in the company of myself is to experience beauty bound by the limits of the sole person that I am. But, to experience beauty in the company of God is to experience beauty bound by the limits of Who God is, which is to experience beauty without limits. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

I believe that if we really want human brotherhood to spread and increase until it makes life safe and sane, we must also be certain that there is no one true faith or path by which it may spread - Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

The desire for freedom resides in every human heart. And that desire cannot be contained forever by prison walls, or martial laws, or secret police. Over time, and across the Earth, freedom will find a way. - George W. Bush

You were born into this life equipped to succeed. You are a part of God’s perfect plan. Yes, you. The plan would not be perfect if you were missing. Think about that. You matter more than you know. - Toni Sorenson

The cost of war is like an immeasurable tremor that knows no borders, its shockwaves reverberating across the world resulting in universal suffering. - Aysha Taryam

God always brings someone into your life that has traveled the same path and knows the rocks you climbed to get to the end of the trail. - Shannon L. Alder

No system that implies control of society by privilege seekers has ever ended any other way but collapse - William E. Dodd

Songs of myselfClear and sweet is my soul, and clear and sweet is all that is not my soul. Lack one lacks both, and the unseen is proved by the seen, Till that becomes unseen and receives proof in its turn. - Walt Whitman

When someone attempts to insult you know that they are inadvertently giving away what would insult them. - Donna Lynn Hope

The comfortable estate of widowhood is the only hope that keeps up a wife's spirits. - John Gay

Noble be man, Helpful and good! For that alone Sets him apart From every other creature On earth.

Set a goal to achieve something that is so big, so exhilarating that it excites you and scares you at the same time. - Bob Proctor

It's been said that love finds you when you're ready. - James Patterson

My person says I don’t understand cause and effect. That’s not true, I get it: roll in the mud, you get the bath. But what shedoesn’t understand is, sometimes it’s just plain worth it. - Belle, Dog Only Knows - Terry Kaye

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

I believe that this war, upon which I entered as a war of defense and liberation, has now become a war of aggression and conquest. - Siegfried Sassoon

O what fine thought we had because we thought that the worst rogues and rascals had died out.

What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity - intellect and resources - to do some thing about them. - Henry Ford II

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

You can always find hope in the truth that our God reigns & He will take care of His own. - Jim George

Guilt can be a good thing. It's the soul's call to action. The indication that... something is wrong. The only way... to rid your heart of it... is to correct your mistakes and keep going... until amends are made. - Father Lantom, Daredevil

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

Shall ignorance of good and ill Dare to direct the eternal will? Seek virtue, and of that possest, To Providence resign the rest.

A tart temper never mellows with age; and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use. - Washington Irving

No matter the life-shattering circumstance that delivers the devastating blow to our spirit, God is bigger. He is faithful and unchanging, merciful and consistent with His offer to us, that through it all, we will be comforted, we will be loved, we will be HELD. - Henri J. M. Nouwen

Science and Truth are simple phenomenon of nature, but it is the known that is preventing us from mastering the unknown. - Chandrakanth Natekar

A non-doer is very often a critic-that is, someone who sits back and watches doers, and then waxes philosophically about how the doers are doing. It's easy to be a critic, but being a doer requires effort, risk, and change. - Wayne W. Dyer

One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. - Plato

When I hear that "Possession is the grave of love," I remember that a religion may begin with the resurrection. - F.H. Bradley

Love is, not putting you through hell. That is no basis for a loving relationship - Karon Waddell

I know that story, when you start a fight, the main idea is one to survive, one to be the victim and one to be the killer. This explains why FBI, CSI and DIA and other departments are here! - Deyth Banger

We are often so worried about what is going to happen that we can't enjoy what is happening NOW. - Tanya Masse

That which does not kill us makes us stronger. - Friedrich Nietzsche

Everything is an appreciation, even an insult provided you look at it with that angle. - Vipin Behari Goyal

The only way to take command of your life is to realize that you are never going to be in control of it. - Toni Sorenson

Set your sights so high that even failure has in it an echo of glory. - Anonymous

I work every day to live my life in such a way that when I take my last breath, I will be satisfied I made a difference and I was an inspiration; that I left something behind that will be meaningful to society; I did not shame my family, disappoint my friends or ruin my good name. - Carlos Wallace

If nothing excites you and nothing makes you wonder, you are going to miss all of the wonderful things that life can offer. - Debasish Mridha

Novels are just very, very, very long lies. That is to say, you’ve got to get your story straight! - Blair Thornburgh

That mine adversary had written a book. - Bible

The purpose of life is not to be happy—but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you lived at all. - Leo Rosten

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

Regret is her companion and the one who whispers to her often. She has even let hope die and that brings about despair. - Donna Lynn Hope

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

, But the streets need cleaning, brother," Gromph said. "That is why the gods gave us magic, brother," Jarlaxle replied in the same smug tone. "To perform the mundane tasks of life. - R.A. Salvatore

The pain of being treated like a mere object. And a sense that this pain would turn into pleasure. - Natsuo Kirino

Philosophy does not promise to secure anything external for man, otherwise it would be admitting something that lies beyond its proper subject-matter. For as the material of the carpenter is wood, and that of statuary bronze, so the subject-matter of the art of living is each person's own life. - Epictetus

Some people did what their neighbors did so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them. - George Eliot

I know that this process of ‘me changing my life’ doesn’t just end once I set fire to this list of things I hate about myself. Tonight isn’t as much of a new beginning as it is a violent end and I know the real work hasn’t even started yet. - Jennifer Elisabeth

To feel that your will is not free is the very definition of insanity. - Marty Rubin

I loved Monty Python for the wordplay--this sense that you didn’t have to squash your intelligence to be funny. In fact, you could walk right into your intelligence and nerdiness and self-doubt, and that could be funny. - George Saunders

Religion is still useful among the herd - that it helps their orderly conduct as nothing else could. The crude human animal is in-eradicably superstitious, and there is every biological reason why they should be. Take away his Christian god and saints, and he will worship something else... - H.P. Lovecraft

The ability to live in a stable, safe environment that gives us the opportunity to create, grow and nurture our talents is sadly denied to many in the world today. I am proud to be able to say – as a leader – I can offer this to my people. - Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum

REFLECTION, n. An action of the mind whereby we obtain a clearer view of our relation to the things of yesterday and are able to avoid the perils that we shall not again encounter. - Ambrose Bierce

That there should one Man die ignorant who had capacity for Knowledge, this I call a tragedy. - Thomas Carlyle

Our business is communication oftentimes through the medium of stories but our capacity has a far greater scope - to entertain certainly, but also to stimulate debate, to mark up changes and differences and that way, to maybe, just now and then, to change the world. - Sara Sheridan

Crying was an acceptable outlet, even if it made you feel raw and empty inside, it was still better than that build up of resentment that grew from not letting your emotions out.- My Bestfriend's Girl - - Dorothy Koomson

Sometimes life isn't what you expect it to be, and you feel like giving up. But isn't life supposed to be full of challenges that will make us learn from our mistakes. And mistakes make us better people. - Raj Solith

Real love, true love is not like the shooting star that makes you go, "ooh, aah". Real, true love is like the constancy of the sun that comes up slowly every morning - sometimes too hot; sometimes hidden behind the clouds, but always there. Therefore, often take for granted. - Lucille Anderson

I will take all the action there is, and even if I fail and fail and fail and fail and fail, I know like I know, that the door to this opportunity will one day get weakened by the forces of my attempts, and breaks wide open for me to get in. - Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana, Ph.D, MBA

Your selling point is that unique quality like integrity,teachability, honesty, humility, skill, sagacity, love, self-confidence, vision, compassion and kindness which distinguishes you among your contemporaries. - Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

When you love more than you receive, you create a positive vibe that enhances the beauty of this earth. - Debasish Mridha

He who believes not in your quest should not sail with you, so that he won't sink your ship. - Bamigboye Olurotimi

Live your life in a way, that there is more left after you than an Excel table. - Strýco Mange

The great thing about church is that it has people in it - and people can be tricky - Tyana Parr

We each carry with us unique gifts, recognized and unrecognized. We long to harness those gifts in a way that gives life significance and helps us to matter more in the lives of others. - Tom Hayes

When you join teams that changes lives, yours will be the first. - Todd Stocker

That which we fear to touch is often the fabric of our salvation. - Don DeLillo

There's the country of America, which you have to defend, but there's also the idea of America. America is more than just a country, it's an idea. An idea that's supposed to be contagious. - Bono

That's the irony of women in charge, they don't like other women in charge. - Michael R. Perry

One of the consequences of sin is that it makes the sinner pity himself instead of causing him to turn to God. One of the first signs of new life is that the individual takes sides with God against himself. - Donald Grey Barnhouse

It's not enough to listen to their words. You have to mine their silences for buried ore. It's often only in the lies that we refuse to speak that truth can be heard at all. - Karen Marie Moning

The ultimate way to change something is to change what is behind that something. Change what is behind something and something will change! - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Did you see any of those who are downtrodden, would that justice help them? Anyone oppressed and suppressed around you take a decision, make plans, strategise, to begin to proclaim and establish justice in your world - Sunday Adelaja

The positive emotions that arise in...unpromising circumstances demonstrate that social ties and meaningful work are deeply desired, readily improvised, and intensely rewarding. The very structure of our economy and society prevent these goals from being achieved. - Rebecca Solnit

Without mountains, we might find ourselves relieved that we can avoid the pain of the ascent, but we will forever miss the thrill of the summit. And in such a terribly scandalous trade-off, it is the absence of pain that becomes the thief of life. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

Not that you lied to me, but that I no longer believe you, has shaken me.

I was making pancakes the other day and a fly flew into the kitchen. And that's when I realized that a spatula is a lot like a fly swatter. And a crushed fly is a lot like a blueberry. And a roommate is a lot like a fly eater. - Demetri Martin

He enables [his children] to walk before him; he holds their hand in difficulties; he himself carries them along in hardships that he sees as being otherwise unbearable to them. - Francis de Sales

Don't be scared of scars. They just tell stories that are hard to hear. - Ashly Lorenzana

A federal judge has ruled that Microsoft should be split into two different companies. One company will have the Windows operating system and the other will count Bill Gates' money. - Conan O'Brien

Gratitude is not something idyllic that comes when all good things line up to be counted. Gratitude is there all the time waiting to be focused on. - Antonia Montoya

Sometimes that mountain you've been climbing is just a grain of sand, and what you've been up there searching for forever, is in your hands. When you figure out love is all that matters after all it sure makes everything else seem so small. - Carrie Underwood

~Have NO fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with YOU, therefore NO harm can befall YOU; all is very, very well. Do this in complete faith and confidence~ - Pope John Paul II

Relax your fears, let your ambition take the wheel for a while; it'll take you somewhere exciting that you've never been. - Noel DeJesus

Real dishes break. That's how you know they're real. - Marty Rubin

The people of the United States, perhaps more than any other nation in history, love to abase themselves and proclaim their unworthiness, and seem to find refreshment in doing so... That is a dark frivolity, but still frivolity. - Robertson Davies

It is an illuminating sign of beauty's generation by desire, that when the object of desire is securely won, the sense of its beauty languishes; few men are philosopher enough to desire what they have, and fewer still can find beauty in what no longer stirs desire. - Will Durant

Almost everybody today believes that nothing in economic history has ever moved as fast as, or had a greater impact than, the Information Revolution. But the Industrial Revolution moved at least as fast in the same time span, and had probably an equal impact if not a greater one. - Peter Drucker

Happy is the soul that has a friend. Happier is the soul that trusts in the truth of the heart of a friend. Happiest is the soul that knows the solemnity of friendship and honours its laws. - Ogwo David Emenike

It used to be about trying to do something. Now it's about trying to be someone. - Margaret Thatcher

I have my own ego, greed, love and a passion but sometime that same greed and ego kneels me down. In that moment I don't kneel and cry for my ego but I will clear a dirt over my pant and run for my passion. Ego can kill us but not your passion not your love. Move On!!! - Sakin Maharjan

Now, bring me that horizon. - Johnny Depp

That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing. - Anthony Trollope

How like God's love yours has been to me- so wise, so generous, and so unsparing!" exclaimed Pancratius. "Promise me one thing more- that is, that you will stay near to me to the end, and carry my last legacy to my mother. - Cardinal Wiseman

When good men die their goodness does not perish,But lives though they are gone. As for the bad,All that was theirs dies and is buried with them. - Euripides

It is so amazing to see how lots of people can beguile themselves to believe that they have not been caught as who they actually are by the post or thought that they like, comment, say or share online and, most surprisingly, continue to regale themselves with the netizens of their type only. - Anuj Somany

Growing up doesn't mean that you are older than someone, it means that you are no longer an amateur. - Michael Bassey Johnson

If a person advises others to beg to be happy, then instantly the people ought to make sure that his/her own bag is not empty of happiness. - Anuj Somany

She always did feel sharp for things that was done wrong to her. I think she felt hurts more, say, than me. It's cause she's smarter; she got more person to hurt. - Joann Greenberg

I prize the soul that slumbers in a quiet eye. - Eliza Cook

You think that fairytales are not true, but life itself is the most magical and mysterious fairytale. - Debasish Mridha

God has chosen to make the heavens his jurisdiction while at the same time he himself makes it very clear that the earth has been given to man as man’s sphere of influence. - Sunday Adelaja

Sometimes you may feel that your heart is speaking and sometimes you may feel that your mind is speaking. In reality there is only one speaker: Mind! - Mehmet Murat ildan

Intelligence and education that hasn't been tempered by human affection isn't worth a damn. - Daniel Keyes

Make peace with silence, and remind yourself that it is in this space that you'll come to remember your spirit. When you're able to transcend an aversion to silence, you'll also transcend many other miseries. And it is in this silence that the remembrance of God will be activated. - Wayne W. Dyer

I am planting a tree in this bomb crater to remind us that in the midst of death, there is life... and hope. - Robert S. Graetz

you are not a failure , belive that you can do what people think you can not do , - siphesihle manzini

Sometimes bad things that come in life aren’t necessarily bad things; they can be motivators to do more. - Adam Smith

No one has any right to tell you that the way you perceive yourself is wrong. Because by doing so, they also discourage the person you aspire to be. - Kamand Kojouri

There's that special something in each of us. We just have to find it. - Robert A. Magarian

Scripture is our norming norm and tradition is our normed norm and that in a doctrinal controversy Scripture alone has absolute veto power while The Great Tradition (orthodox doctrine) has a vote but not a veto. - Roger E. Olson

Poetry in the dark of the night you are my torch.Poetry makes you believe in the freedom in your own home.Poetry causes the increase of the human race.Poetry ennobles the spirit of man.Poetry is like a noble fragrance that caresses your soul.Poetry is the royal essence of beauty. - Kristian Goldmund Aumann

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

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul, and sings the words without the tune, and never stops at all. - Emily Dickinson

Where humor is concerned there are no standards - no one can say what is good or bad, although you can be sure that everyone will. - John Kenneth Galbraith

It is our failure to become our perceived ideal that ultimately defines us and makes us unique. It's not easy, but if you accept your misfortune and handle it right your perceived failure can become a catalyst for profound re-invention. - Conan O'Brien

We are sometimes depressed by our failure to convince people who strongly believe that we are that we are definitely not depressed. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Be ahead of all parting, as though it already were behind you, like the winter that has just gone by. For among these winters there is one so endlessly winterthat only by wintering through it will your heart survive. - Rainer Maria Rilke

A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses; it is an idea that possesses the mind - Robert Oxton Bolton

We are turning against boys and forgetting a simple truth: that the energy, competitiveness, and corporal daring of normal, decent males is responsible for much of what is right in the world. - Christina Hoff Sommers

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

I never meet a ragged boy in the street without feeling that i may owe him a salute, for I know not what possibilities may be buttoned up under his coat. - James A. Garfield

There appears to be value in getting past a mentality that good things can only rest in good things. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

Profound joy of the heart is like a magnet that indicates the path of life. - Mother Teresa

What is it about our specific belief in God and His wishes that makes us so angry at the specific beliefs of another? What is it about the teachings of our respective deities that makes us more right than the next person? Or more wrong? - Chuck Austen

Your motivation has to be rock solid. You have to want it so bad that even th threat of death won't take it from you. - Orson Scott Card

The 'peace' the gospel brings is never the absence of conflict, but an ineffable divine reassurance within the heart of conflict; a peace that surpasses understanding. - Walter Wink

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

This worldthat was our homefor a brief spellnever brought us anythingbut pain and grief;its a shame that not one of our problemswas ever solved.We departwith a thousand regretsin our hearts. - Omar Khayyám

Sometimes your time is shorter than you think and that is why you should be carefully with it! - Pēteris Bitāns

What if she'd sought God's Word for her pain? What if she'd resolved to forgive Rees for hurting her and trusted God to work that forgiveness out in her heart, so that she would have arrived in London with an attitude of humility and trust in God to lead her to the right person? - Axtell Ruth

Always set small, realistic goals that you know you can achieve first. But don't give up on the bigger ones that may seem too far from your reach. - W.D. Lady

The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four people is suffering from a mental illness. Look at your 3 best friends. If they're ok, then it's you. - Rita Mae Brown

The drug that heals our sorrows forgetfulness. - Appianus

I've triedto become someone else for a while,only to discover that he, too, was me. - Stephen Dunn

The reason people blame things on previous generations is that there's only one other choice. - Doug Larson

It is possible to be a great novelist - that is, to render a veracious account of your times - and a bad writer - that is, an incompetent practitioner of applied linguistics. - Angela Carter

Newton's laws of physics can rarely be applied to the real world. There is more to life than cause and effect. Things just aren't that simple - Amy Zhang

It is during the worst times of your life that you will get to see the true colors of the people who say they care for you. - Ritu Ghatourey

If you are living in the electrified wireless west, then you are living a very abnormal lifestyle that your genetics has no adaptation to. - Steven Magee

This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more they possess. - Rainer Maria Rilke

Religion is an insult to human dignity. Without it you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things.But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion. - Steven Weinberg

Life is like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters. - Seneca

Who knew Demon Child would have such a normal name? I expected something exotic like Serena or Destiny or the Evil One That Comes in the Night to Make Us Chilly. - Darynda Jones

Time, as such doesn't travel! It's the paradox & uncertainty inside you that makes it travel. - Vishwanath S J

The good Christian should beware of mathematicians. The danger already exists that mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and confine man in the bonds of Hell. - Augustine of Hippo

Death is a friend of ours; and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home. - Sir Francis Bacon

Some people are married to ideas that they do not love, ideas that do not love them in return. They are married to ideas they do not sleep with, ideas that rob them of their sleep. - Justin K. McFarlane Beau

Positiveness is not a god gift. Things are negative when you realize that frog inside you is not able to jump high. - Tanmay Patange

The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar... Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen. - Aldous Huxley

And finally, I've always drawn a great deal of moral comfort from Humpty Dumpty. The part I like the best? 'All the king's horses and all the king's men couldn't put Humpty Dumpty back together again.' That's because there is no Humpty Dumpty, and there is no God. None, not one, no God, never was. - George Carlin

The right things to do are those that keep our violence in abeyance; the wrong things are those that bring it to the fore. - Robert J. Sawyer

We are responsible for our own relationships, their successes, their failures, the good times, the bad times. Take responsibility for creating the relationships that you desire. - Sam Owen

To go and see one druidical temple is only to see that it is nothing, for there is neither art nor power in it; and seeing one is quite enough. - Samuel Johnson

The people that mind don't matter, and the people that matter don't mind. - Dr. Seuss

Before you criticize a man, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, when you do criticize him, you'll be a mile away and have his shoes. - Steve Martin

When someone says you can't do something because of XYZ, is that true? Or are they playing with your life with their good intentions to keep you safe? - Richie Norton

I’ve heard it said that a thousand mile journey to success begins with the first step. Anyone feel like taking a walk with me today? - DeWayne Owens

Anybody that does not value time does not value life - Sunday Adelaja

He had made a fairly unambiguous pass at her, as she was getting out of the cab. But event that had come to nothing. Sheba said that she had sensed something resentful about him, as if he begrudged her for having the power to attract him. - Zoë Heller

There is a horror that sometimes comes with being right. - Samantha

Even a book with completely empty pages will change you because you will start thinking about the reason behind this emptiness and once you enter the thinking territory it means that you entered a territory of change! - Mehmet Murat ildan

Certainly all virtues are very dear to God, but humility pleases Him above all the others, and it seems that He can refuse it nothing. - Francis de Sales

Far better is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory nor defeat. - Theodore Roosevelt

It's not the questions that get us in trouble. It's the answers.

Mankind’s biggest flaw is the fact that he believes that something needs to change in order for him to feel good; it’s his biggest hurdle, his largest demon, his one and only true enemy. - D.S. Luca

Many of your relationship problems are not really relationship problems. They're personal problems that spill over into relationships. - Rick Warren

I see the world in very fluid, contradictory, emerging, interconnected terms, and with that kind of circuitry I just don't feel the need to say what is going to happen or will not happen.

Oh, how scary and wonderful it is that words can change our lives simply by being next to each other. - Kamand Kojouri

This is like teaching queer remedial at the continuation high school. You were fishing, and you caught me. Don't you get that?""Oh, hell no." Tristan just stared. - Z.A. Maxfield

It is not because of setbacks that most entrepreneurs do not reach the finishing line, but because of a lack of willpower and motivation. - Danny Mekić

Hold dear and true friends close to your heart, it matters not where you find them, only that you treat them with love and respect always. - L.M. Fields

Many of us spend our whole lives running from feeling with the mistaken belief that you cannot bear the pain. But you have already borne the pain. What you have not done is feel all you are beyond the pain.

You cannot stand anywhere in the universe that is outside of yourself. - Deepak Chopra

Let's be honest. Sometimes art is dangerous, though. And that's why governments sometimes get nervous about art. But one of the things I truly believe is if you try to suppress the arts, then I think you are suppressing the deepest dreams and aspirations of the people. - Barack Obama

I have now concentrated all my prayers into one, and that one prayer is this, that I may die to self, and live wholly to Him. - Charles Haddon Spurgeon

I was walking after opportunities in my life, but I forgot that every second of my life is an opportunity. - Rishad sakhi

The coolly logical part of her brain noted almost sardonically that Edilio had a superpower after all: being Edilio. - Michael Grant

Story always tells us more than the mere words, and that is why we love to write it, and to read it. - Madeleine L'Engle

Australian Aborigines say that the big stories — the stories worth telling and retelling, the ones in which you may find the meaning of your life — are forever stalking the right teller, sniffing and tracking like predators hunting their prey in the bush. - Robert Moss

If you witness evil men committing evil deeds and do nothing, what does that make you? - K.L. Toth

So those pills that offered painless relief stayed stored on the shelf, out of the strength of her reach, high atop the altar of platitudes. - J.R. Hamantaschen

There's something in our world that makes men lose their heads--they couldn't be fair if they tried. - Harper Lee

An 'Employee of the Month' is a titled given to someone who best helped someone else actualize their dream—in that particular month. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Sometimes you must agree with someones opinion for the sake of being polite and modest, but within you, you know that you are not foolish and crazy. - Michael Bassey Johnson

Seasoned digital daters are like lions who have had their prey killed, butchered, and served to them on a tray in their artificial habitat for so long that they’ve forgotten how to hunt. - Maggie Young

I'm not saying that you have to be a reader to save your soul in the modern world. I'm saying it helps. - Walter Mosely

Some days I feel more like a scribe than a creator. I will have the major points fleshed out, but there is always a turn or two that I didn't see coming, or which came earlier than I expected it to, or not at all... - J. Neven-Pugh

Only when you go beyond Mind, will you be able to respect the energy that inhabits us; until then you will either exploit others with your energy or will deplete your energy, leading a purposeless life! - Ramana Pemmaraju