Quotation Explorer - 'Things'

The trick when it comes to dealing with depression is being able to imagine yourself out of it. When you can picture a happier life, you will be determined to work at the things that prevent it from happening. - Keysha Jade

Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things. - Elbert Hubbard

People do not change their most inner selves. They can't. Things just lie quiescent until a particular situation awakens it. - Andrea L'Artiste

Things are what they are, even when you don't know what they are. - Marty Rubin

the old maxim... "there are three things necessary to success in life--Impudence! Impudence! Impudence! - William Hazlitt

May our eyes focus rightly on Christ ... before the need to please others, before church, and before the busyness of Christian life. Those things will surely have their place, but they will be most valuable if put in their proper position. - Traci LaRussa

It's not the tales of Stephen King that I've read,I need protection from the things in my head . . . - Jimmy Buffett

Have the wisdom to perceive all there is to be thankful for, and then be thankful for the wisdom to perceive things so clearly. - Richelle E. Goodrich

To fly deep into the sky, you have to expand your wings by learning new things. - Debasish Mridha

Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one’s never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them. - Aldous Huxley

When kids hit 1 year old, it's like hanging out with a miniature drunk. You have to hold onto them. They bump into things. They laugh and cry. They urinate. They vomit. - Johnny Depp

Nothing, absolutely nothing, happens 'till parents stop clenching their fists around precious things and people, let go, & trust God! - Gary Patton

Misunderstanding of divine truths or lack of understanding are the only things that mayprevent a man from becoming God’s representative on earth - Sunday Adelaja

Sometimes a gloomy street is all a sad person needs! A magical relief may arise from the meeting of the two sad things! - Mehmet Murat ildan

There are two things we must get rid of early in life: a feeling of personal superiority and an exaggerated reverence for the sexual act. - Ayn Rand

True devotion and humility is when you carelessly allow yourself to fall in love with things you consider will make you look inferior, which in essence, makes you superior. - Michael Bassey Johnson

People take ownership of sickness and disease by saying things like MY high blood pressure MY diabetes, MY heart disease, MY depression, MY! MY! MY! Don't own it because it doesn't belong to you! - Stella Payton

Let my heart be broken by the things that break the heart of God. - Bob Pierce

Everyday we can't connect but GOOD THINGS may be connected - Hitesh Chorada

All life is only a set of pictures in the brain, among which there is no difference betwixt those born of real things and those born of inward dreamings, and no cause to value the one above the other. - H.P. Lovecraft

God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that I will never die. - Bill Watterson

When the time is ripe for certain things, these things appear in different places in the manner of violets coming to light in early spring. - Farkas Bolyai

Don't die famous. The things they will say you did and said would make you rise up in anger if you were alive. - Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and adventures are the shadow truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes and forgotten. - Neil Gaiman

Lots of people think they're charitable if they give away their old clothes and things they don't want.

All things are a living message from creation to mankind; all things, even the smallest blade of grass or the smallest insect. Each carries its own message about life and has an understanding of its role and what it is to accomplish during its lifetime. - Janet G Nestor

You can never appreciate the scent of a flower by another's description. Some things are left to experience. Journey of self. - Truth Devour

Are you able to proclaim that you have been through some things and you survived it? You are a survivor. And if you are a survivor you are not a victim. You have to change the language that you give to yourself and then you have to change the conversation that you give to others. - Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.

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

The way of words, of knowing and loving words, is a way to the essence of things, and to the essence of knowing. - John Dunne

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

Very often we sit back thinking good things will happen, knowing that good things take time and hoping that someone else will do it. The world needs us! - Sharad Vivek Sagar

The problem we have in the world is that most people don’t take the time to develop themselves, even though they’ll readily spend that time on many useless and irrelevant things. - King Samuel Benson

Advice from a Romance Writer: Guys, make your woman feel pretty even on an 'off' day. Trust me, good things will come of it. - Michelle M. Pillow

If you exist tomorrow as you do today, that is a miracle! It means that thousands of bad things which may happen did not happen and you are still alive! Existence is always a miracle in this universe of chaos! - Mehmet Murat ildan

And I realized, that the reason why good things were not happening to me as often as wanted them to, was because I in fact was a good thing that needed to happen. I needed to happen to me, to other people and to the world. And so I happened. - C. JoyBell C.

I love things made out of animals. It's just so funny to think of someone saying, "I need a letter opener. I guess I'll have to kill a deer. - David Sedaris

Tennis taught me so many lessons in life. One of the things it taught me is that every ball that comes to me, I have to make a decision. I have to accept responsibility for the consequences every time I hit a ball. - Billie Jean King

Nowadays, the Internet decides if you're good, not the big man in the big office. No matter how important that man thinks he is, everyone else knows that he's not important anymore, and the Internet decides these things, here in the modern age. - Alexei Maxim Russell

It's the pointless things that give your life meaning. Friendship, Compassion, Art, Love. All of them are pointless. But, they're what keeps life from being meaningless. - Tim Winton

At the end of all things, why do lovers break up? Because love is magic. You have to believe, for it to exist. - Timothy Joshua

Power is the ability to control people or things. So, unless you learn to control your own self first, how would you be able to influence anybody else? Now, doesn’t that apply to all of us? - Pulkit Patel

The true Renaissance person is endowed with panoramic attention.... The habit of noticing the ensemble of everything and its constituent parts is a matter of will, not of innate aptitude. It involves the conscious noticing of things and the gaps that separate and connect them. - Christy Wampole

The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things. - Jilly Cooper

We cannot wait for the other shoe to drop, when the road becomes unendurably bumpy. If the aura of truth starts to wane and the light of the sky begins to splinter, only resilience can settle things. (Steaming ahead) - Erik Pevernagie

The blind cannot see, but nothing escapes him. The others can see but them eludes the things the blind can see. - Ben Midland

Though we think we see different things from our windows, in reality we see the same things: Happiness and sorrow! All that is seen from every window! - Mehmet Murat ildan

They have a special confidence in Christ, plus thoughtfulness plus faithfulness plus humility: for there are no things, in all creation, more beautiful, more rare than the so very disciplined and free, joyful and principled daughters of God. - Criss Jami

Being there when things are easy is one of the benefits of being a good friend. Being there when things get difficult is one of the tests. - Nina Guilbeau

To be in between the two things you love is difficult.Somewhat, destiny comes and helps you choose - ranna xxx

The wisest keeps something of the vision of a child. Though he may understand a thousand things that a child could not understand, he is always a beginner, close to the original meaning of life.

One of the things that Christmas reminds us is that Jesus Christ was once a child. - Hark Herald Sarmiento

Humans have been doin’ awful things to each other throughout history. Humanity’s not as great as you make it out to be. I do what needs to be done, and that’s that. We’re about to go to war, Earl. There ain’t no humanity in war. - http sheamagazine.com fiction-afterlife-chapter-24

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things. - Theodore Roosevelt

Suddenly I felt that determination well up, which had helped me to accomplish things in the past, even when I was only six years old. - Gisela Hausmann "Naked Determination 41 Stories About Overcoming Fear"

Now, I believe in life, and I believe in the joy of human existence, but these things cannot be experienced except as we also face the despair, also face the anxiety that every human being has to face if he lives with any creativity at all. - Rollo May

Sad things happen. They do. But we don't need to live sad forever. - Mattie J.T. Stepanek

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt within the heart. - Helen Keller

You will learn most things by looking, but reading gives understanding. Reading will make you free. - Paul Rand

A successful presentation needs to be both buttoned up (orderly) and free-flowing (a conversation). The tension between the two, the fact that both things are happening at once, defines the process. - Dale Ludwig

There will always be one or two things bothering the person next to you. And if that person happens to be looking heavenward, it’s because it helps us to remind ourselves that God is bigger than our problems. - Joyce Rachelle

Your genuine happiness does not come from other people, activities or things, it comes from living a meaningful life - a life that is in alignment with your values and is beneficial. - John Bruna

A lot of things in nature answers to increase which is a law of nature - Sunday Adelaja

Just dabbing pieces of my heart into things that make me shine, my little young simple life. - Nikki Rowe

The main things are the plain things, and the plain things are the main things. - Alistair Begg

I tend to believe simple things are the real things. - Marty Rubin

One day in your prayers, maybe once a month or week, lie back and thank God for the things not given to you. - Rajwant Singh Bachhal

Thus, from admiration of one wise and innocent child, and from a misheard remark, the process that not even Aristotle could codify was triggered. Where do you get your ideas? I purposely mishear things. - Harlan Ellison

He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor. - Menander

The Truly wasting our personal time is:"Caring About the things; we always says " We don't Care About. - Santosh Kumar Pyasa

Stories carry things. A lesson or moral. Information or a take-home message. - Jonah Berger

Pick the things you do in this day wisely. - Summerlyn Guthrie

Some of the most beautiful things we have in life comes from our mistakes. - Surgeo Bell

Some things a heart won't listen to, I'm still holding out for you - SHeDAISY

Well, they each seem to do one thing well enough, but fail to realize that literature depends on doing several things well at the same time. - Julian Barnes

that your power of commandwith simple language wasone of the magnificent things ofour century.(from the poem: result) - Charles Bukowski

There are things that life demands of every person living on the surface of the earth. - Sunday Adelaja

God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other. - Reinhold Niebuhr

Order is what exists before you start arranging things. - Marty Rubin

When I stood there, looking out the window at the raindrops and thinking of everything I lost, I forgot everything I have. When I remembered the things I have, I forgot I lost anything at all. - Jenna Alatari

be at your best when things are at their worst. - Elhachemi Sabi

Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace. - Albert Schweitzer

Lord Vetinari in a meeting: what people said was what they wanted him to hear. He paid a lot of attention to the spaces outside the words, though. That’s where the things were that they hoped he didn’t know and didn’t want him to find out. - Terry Pratchett

Take the things from America that speak to you, that excite you, that inspire you, and be the Americans we all want to know; then cook it up and sell it back to them for $28.99. Cue Funk Flex to drop bombs on this. All my peoples from the boat, let 'em know: WEOUTCHEA. - Eddie Huang

Poetry is a way of coming to know the realness of things; fiction is a way of coming to know the world of relationships; nonfiction is a way of coming to know the world of the mind. - Kelly Cherry

So many people spend years (and money) studying to be doctors, lawyers, actors, dancers, business executives and scientists - when you're an author, you can be any of these things, and you don't need a degree or certificate; all you need is an imagination, a dream and an open mind. - Rebecca McNutt

Nobody, said Humboldt, had a destiny. One simply decided to feign one until one came to believe in it oneself. But so many things didn't fit in with it, one had to really force oneself. - Daniel Kehlmann

In terms of doing things I take a fairly scientific approach to why things happen and how they happen. I don't know if there's a god or not... - Bill Gates

Every once in a while, people need to be in the presence of things that are really far away. - Ian Frazier

Good things come to those who love; better things come to those who act with love. - Debasish Mridha

We must seek spirituality above all things. - Lailah Gifty Akita

What's God saying to you now? "All things are possible to him who worries?" No. "All things are possible to him who attempts to work it out?" No. "All things are possible to him who believes. --Man to Man: Chuck Swindoll Selects His Most Significant Writings for Men - Charles R. Swindoll

To feel successful, you must be able to be honest about the things that are really important to you. - Daniel G. Amen

By walking on the path of unhappiness you can learn the things that can never be learned on the path of happiness! He who knows well only the light is very poor; he who knows well the darkness besides the light is very rich! - Mehmet Murat ildan

Herodotus says, "Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all: the conscientious historian will correct these defects. - Mark Twain

People and things do not upset us, rather we upset ourselves by believing that they can upset us. - Albert Ellis

Always give chance for the things you don't want. Cause sometimes they turn out to be the great things you'll ever have. - Elyn Balongcas

Your mind is a magic pot, from which you pick the things, and manifest life out of it. If you don’t tell your mind, your priorities, it will be easier for your mind, to pick anything, to serve you with your life. - Roshan Sharma

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

You know the horrible life of the alarm clock – it’s a monster that has always appalled me because of the number of things its eyes project, and the way that good fellow stares at me when I enter a room. - Jacques Vaché

They said a lot of things to each other that night, but nothing that involved words. - Michael Grant

There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people. - Muhammad Ali

My imagination longs to dash ahead and plan developments; but I have noticed that when things happen in one's imagination, they never happen in one's life. - Dodie Smith

You will find that it is necessary to let things go; simply for the reason that they are heavy. So let them go, let go of them. I tie no weights to my ankles. - C. JoyBell C.

There are three things I love, three things I spend time with, three things I treat alike: family; friends; and books. - Ogwo David Emenike

The most beautiful of human things are born in the shadows and thrive there and are endangered by light - Prabhukrishna M

To accomplish great things, we must not only act but also dream, not only plan, but also believe! - Anatole France

We’ve all made mistakes, we all have struggles, and we‘ve done things we don’t even want to remember. All these things are in the past, but you are here NOW with the power to shape your day and your future. - Ane Krstevska

Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is a nobler art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials. - Lin Yutang

An Englishman is a person who does things because they have been done before. An American is a person who does things because they haven't been done before. - Mark Twain

First things first, but not necessarily in that order. - Doctor Who

To cease to wonder is to fall plumb-down from the childlike to the commonplace—the most undivine of all moods intellectual. Our nature can never be at home among things that are not wonderful to us. - George MacDonald

Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason. - André Gide

Poison!" Grover yelped. "Don't let those things touch you or...""Or we'll die?" I guessed."Well...after you shrivel slowly to dust, yes.""Let's avoid the swords," I decided. - Rick Riordan

You can change any status quo, stand out, walk by faith and not by sight and things will definitely go well with you. - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be but a challenge to others. - Amelia Earhart

Don't let things go, if you truly don't want them to go, trying again is far better than regret. - Magith Noohukhan

He could add something to the list of things you weren't supposed to do. Don't get hurt, don't get dirty, don't get drunk, don't get scared, don't count on it. You ended up doing all of them. - Virginia Euwer Wolff

Thoughts Become Things... Choose The Good Ones! - Mike Dooley

Whatever you do, it will be a path. Life does not work like a light switch - on/off, fat/skinny, miserable/happy, crazy/sane. All things take time, patience, and practice. Anyone who tells you different is profiting off your fearful ignorance of the truth. - Vironika Tugaleva

There are things you do sometimes, actions that you take by obeying sudden impulses, without stopping for even a fraction of a second to think, and then you spend the rest of your life either lamenting it or thanking yourself for it. They are rare, unique, and perfect moments. - Irene Gonzalez Frei

People never forget two things, their first love and the money they wasted watching a bad movie. - Amit Kalantri

Imagination is a very high sort of seeing, which does not come by study, but by the intellect being where and what it sees, by sharing the path, or circuits of things through forms, and so making them translucid to others. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

One of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth. - Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Sometimes it seems like "pain" is too obvious a place to turn for inspiration. Pain isn't always deep, anyway. Sometimes it's awful and that's it. Or boring. Surely other things can be as profound as pain. - Ellen Forney

I make honorable things pleasant to children." A teacher from Sparta - David Brooks

If you know the art of being happy with simple things, then you know the art of having maximum happiness with minimum effort! - Mehmet Murat ildan

The greatest truths are the simplest things in the world, simple as your own existence. - Swami Vivekananda

There's a bit of magic in everything, and some loss to even things out.

We’re making our decisions … or so we think. Yet in truth, ignorance, greed, and the scourge of immediate gratification are often the things that are making them. So if we’re going to truly live well, maybe the first thing we need to decide is who’s deciding. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

I love the smell of rain and growing things. - Serina Hernandez

Birth our night into dayAnd bathe it clean,So that beloved things can glowTogether in a litter of light. - Scott Hastie

I think people should put more emphasis on love, family, and caring for other people. We focus so much on the negative and bad in life, we need to focus more on the positive and happy things. - Delano Johnson

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

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

Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.. - Pablo Casals

I don't know where my ideas come from. I will admit, however, that one key ingredient is caffeine. I get a couple cups of coffee into me and weird things just start to happen. - Gary Larson

Why must man not marry?" "He cannot marry. He cannot marry," he said angrily. "If he is to lose everything, he should not place himself in a position to lose that. He should not place himself in a position to lose. He should find things he cannot lose. - Ernest Hemingway

It is always easier for a person to befriend a lot of people by doing things wrong than saying things right. - Anuj Somany

Humility, gratitude, and generosity – three things you can never go wrong with. - Kevin J. Donaldson

You'd be surprised how easy some things can be, things you never thought you'd do, when you take self-respect out of the equation. - Sarah Addison Allen

One only needs two tools in life: WD-40 to make things go, and duct tape to make them stop.

At the end of the day, your relationships with the people in your life will be greater assets than any material things. Take time. Be present. You'll thank yourself for it later. - Vironika Tugaleva

It is better to pay attention than to have ideas about things. - Marty Rubin

Just because things are not going the way as they should, doesn't mean they are going wrong, sometimes things are setting up in a new way & taking us towards better things. So never give up..! - Ridhdhesh Jivawala

Words are not meant to stir the air only: they are capable of moving greater things. - Natsume Soseki

There are things that humans cannot stop a human's will, dream, and the change of an era. As long a humans long for freedom he surely cannot stop these things - Monkey D. Dragon

Mistakes and disappointment make the sweet things in life that much sweeter.

What is evil? Killing is evil, lying is evil, slandering is evil, abuse is evil, gossip is evil, envy is evil, hatred is evil, to cling to false doctrine is evil; all these things are evil. And what is the root of evil? Desire is the root of evil, illusion is the root of evil. - Gautama Buddha

Memories are never as true as the things one forgets. - Marty Rubin

Open your eyes that you might see that all things are possible through you (with God's help) - Robert A. Schuller

Deadlines are things that we pass through on the way to finishing.

The heart is the anchor to all things, be it love to hate, or light to dark. - T.A. Cline

I once complained to my father that I didn't seem to be able to do things the same way other people did. Dad's advice? 'Margo, don't be a sheep. People hate sheep. They eat sheep.' - Margo Kaufman

Things you Do to live a Happy life, shouldn't ruin others'. - Mohith Agadi

Trust remains the coin of the realm in politics. A President who is trusted, by the people, by the congress, by the press, by foreign countries, is a President who can get a lot of good things done. - David Gergen

The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well. - Horace Walpole

Homo voluntatis cannot explain why some things that can be done should not be done. - George Weigel

Individuals have rights and there are things no person or group may do to them (without violating their rights). - Robert Nozick

Unless you have a crystal ballyou don’t know how thefuture is going to unfold.Focus on the things you caninfluence and don’t fretover the rest. - Domonique Bertolucci

As soon as she says this, I realize she is just like everyone else, and wish I was back at home so that all the things I do not understand could be the same as they always are. - Claire Keegan

Things don't fall apart. Things hold. Lines connect in thin ways that last and last and lives become generations made out of pictures and words just kept. - Lucille Clifton

Sand did not suddenly come into being because we had need for glass and silicone. Neither did wild flowers suddenly spring up because a bunch of environmentalists in Texas wanted alternative ways of helping the world without dumping more chemicals into it - these things were already there. - Stephen Richards

There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science. - Louis Pasteur

Sure, I could tell you I am no longer a lesbian or that I am no longer attracted to women and am straight, or I could even tell you the moon is made of cheese. I could tell you many things, but the moon will still not be made of cheese, and I will still not be attracted to men. - Cristina Marrero

Of course, things will go wrong. Move on! Don’t let the little snags affect the progress of your life. - RVM

I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can't touch with decay. - Bob Dylan

The first secret of success: Believe in Yourself. Nothing changes in your life until you believe you can do things that are important to you. And if you have a low opinion of yourself, nobody else is likely to raise it. - Steve Goodier

There are oceans of things to discover, to explore, to learn, to invent, to create in this world; especially with its modern possibilities offered. So, I don't understand when people complain they’re bored and have nothing to do. - Sahara Sanders

Unity in things necessary, liberty in things doubtful, charity in everything. - Anonymous

Things aren't magically better if that's what you're hoping for. It's not that simple. - Randy K. Milholland

But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain. - William Shakespeare

I esteem understanding and subtlety highly, but I consider that they have been put to ill use in the greater part of work, where the author studies things of little use...{Writing about Isaac Newton} Christiaan Huygens - his

Family is the theatre of the spiritual drama, the place where things happen, especially the things that matter. - G.K. Chesterton

One thing is clear to me. You can't know everything you'd like to know. You can't do everything you'd like to do. You can't read everything you'd like to read. You must hold onto some things and let go of others. Learning to make that choice is one of the big lessons of this life. - Gordon Atkinson

The mind has greater power over the emotions, and is less subject thereto, insofar as it understands all things to be necessary. - Baruch Spinoza

The greatness comes not when things go always good for you. But the greatness comes when you're really tested, when you take some knocks, some disappointments, when sadness comes. Because only if you've been in the deepest valley can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain. - Richard M. Nixon

Do the things that make your spirit soar. Be fearless.Cultivate the interests that inspire you. Nourish your curiosity and embrace what comes back to you as your gift for taking aleap forward. - The Free Spirited Woman

Being afraid of things going wrong, doesn't help them go right. - Sue Fitzmaurice

You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive. - James Baldwin

I believe that Gandhi’s views were the most enlightened of all the political men in our time. We should strive to do things in his spirit: not to use violence in fighting for our cause, but by non-participation in anything you believe is evil. - Albert Einstein

It’s not ever easy telling a person what they don’t want to hear. Because we love them! There will be times; we have to do things in life that will break our own heart. - Ron Baratono

Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were. - David Rockefeller

Many of our efforts to intentionally craft and subsequently force our limited vision on life has more often than not resulted in some degree of cataclysm or schism or division or any number of other things that aren’t all that savory. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

We must think things not words, or at least we must constantly translate our words into the facts for which they stand, if we are to keep to the real and the true. - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

People in science fiction flicks always seemed to know useful things about the places time travel took them. But what if the time traveler had been only an average history student? What then? - Tad Williams

As things stand the "intellectuals" only come out to lick the bones left over by the tyrant. - Nilantha Ilangamuwa

There are worse things than looking stupid. Sleeping through life is one of them. - Laura Preble

The real ugliness lies in the relationship between people who produce the technology and the things they produce, which results in a similar relationship between the people who use the technology and the things they use. - Robert M. Pirsig

Why is it that none of the things I construct ever make me feel safe? The answer lies in the fact that safety can’t be created. It can only be found. And the only thing I've found that’s never been created is God. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

There's no short-cut in life but with right knowledge, you can fast-track things to come to pass. - Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

The most important things in life aren't things.

It is now how things are in the world that is mystical, but that it (the world) exists at all..... - Ludwig Wittgenstein

Believe in yourself, Follow your dreams, and all things are possible! - Garry E. Lewis

Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Clearly he had his own strange way of judging things. I suspect he acquired it from the gospels. - Victor Hugo

True wisdom is seeing what is beneficial to your eternal life, and managing your life according to that. You do this when you not only know these things and grasp them with your understanding, but also will and do them. - Emanuel Swedenborg

You need three things to become a successful novelist: talent, luck and discipline. Discipline is the one element of those three things that you can control, and so that is the one that you have to focus on controlling, and you just have to hope and trust in the other two. - Michael Chabon

Things to know from books to read - Kip Koehler

Freedom's just a word todayFreedom's just a wordWhen someone takes your word awayIt's seldom ever heardSo take a sentence full of things you're not supposed to sayCarry on, but don't write them down or you'll be gone - Stone Sour

From one thing, know ten thousand things. - Miyamoto Musashi

It may not make sense to you, now, but when you get older you'll understand that sometimes things have to be done. Hard things. But everyone will hate the person who finally does them. But if they do them anyway, that's the mark of true honor. - Rhiannon Held Silver

Energy and persistence conquer all things. - Benjamin Franklin

There’s something about being naïve. Really interesting things come because you don’t know what the rules are, what you can and can’t do. - Steve Buscemi

We outgrow love like other things and put it in a drawer, till it an antique fashion shows like costumes grandsires wore. - Emily Dickinson

Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously.... Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us. - Jane Austen

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. - George S. Patton

When you start liking pain things start to get interesting. - Jenny Holzer

To be agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you already know. - Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord

Each time, before you intercede, be quiet first, and worship God in His glory. Think of what He can do, and how He delights to hear the prayers of His redeemed people. Think of your place and privilege in Christ, and expect great things! - Andrew Murray

It’s perfectly understandable, in my opinion, to find good things in the teachings of Jesus Christ or any other figure, mythical or otherwise. But to base your life on the teachings of Jesus as they are portrayed in the Bible and claim that you are not religious is disingenuous. - David G. McAfee

You don't have to wait for things to happen to live your life. - Zach Sobiech

I see a lot of people complaining about the things they can fix, and a lot of people being accepting of the things they cannot change. Maybe tragedy really is the catastrophic event, for the way people view their lives. I would rather be wise, than nieve. - Nikki Rowe

Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I suppose that's the secret. If you're ever wishing for things to go back to the way they were, you just have to look up. - Lauren Oliver

Gratitude means to recognize the good in your life, be thankful for whatever you have, some people may not even have one of those things you consider precious to you (love, family, friends etc). Each day give thanks for the gift of life.You are blessed - Pablo

The reason that the little things are more important than the big ones, turns out to be very simple: one can fake the big things in one’s behaviour, but not the little things. The little things lack the three f’s: feigning, fabrication, fakeness. Plus the most important c: contrivance. - Nicos Hadjicostis

Science makes people reach selflessly for truth and objectivity; it teaches people to accept reality, with wonder and admiration, not to mention the deep awe and joy that the natural order of things brings to the true scientist. - Lise Meitner

The best things in life are things you have to fight for. - Mila Gray

Some things I never learned to like. I didn't like to kiss babies, though I didn't mind kissing their mothers. - Pierre Trudeau

A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things. - Barack Obama

Privacy and security are those things you give up when you show the world what makes you extraordinary. - Margaret Cho

Sometimes all we have to do is to trust. Let go of things is an easy job but to stay with a strong heart full of trust is even much more important then all . - Arfa Zainab

I will not call myself a perfectionist, but I love to present things with my best effort. - Debasish Sinha

There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other. - J. K. Rowling

Life ups the self-esteem of a low-paid man by giving him things that the high-paid man that he envies cannot buy (intellect, looks, sex appeal, etc.). - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

When you do things with love,it is a song of your heart. - Debasish Mridha

Nobody’s life is perfect.Rather than wishingfor things you don’t have,make the most of thethings you do have. - Domonique Bertolucci

Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are. - Marianne Williamson

The resentment I felt inside was not hatred for being imprisoned or for Victor who had betrayed me but something deeper: a rebellion against the very way of things that condemned men to be imprisoned inside their own identities. - MacDonald Harris

Obsessions are the only things that matter. - Patricia Highsmith

A friend can tell you things you don't want to tell yourself - Frances Ward Weller

Cordelia: I personally don't think it's possible to come up with a crazier plan.Oz: We attack the Mayor with hummus.Cordelia: I stand corrected.Oz: Just keeping things in perspective. - Mutant Enemy/ Joss Whedon

We can remember minutely and precisely only the things which never really happened to us. - Eric Hoffer

Some things take so longBut how do I explainWhen not too many peopleCan see we're all the sameAnd because of all their tearsYour eyes can't hope to seeThe beauty that surrounds themNow, isn't it a pity - George Harrison

There are things in life worth dying for. Toothpaste isn't one of them. - Samantha Addison, Not Another Superhero

How come I have too many things to do all the time...?? - Hiroko Sakai

The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it. - Carl Jung

A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done. - Dwight D. Eisenhower

Unless their use by readers bring them to life, books are indeed dead things. - Lawrence Clark Powell

When a person asks a queer person why they like the things they do, you can't help but think that it's a little rude for them to be asking, because there is no answer, we were just born that way. Just like straight people, you were born the way you were born. So leave it. - Mekiah Johnson

In love there are two things - bodies and words. - Joyce Carol Oates

If words allow themselves to be handled, it is with the help of infinite carefulness. One has to welcome them, listen to the, before asking any service of them. Words are living things closely involved with human life. - Paul Nougé

…Every day I discover even more beautiful things. It is intoxicating me, and I want to paint it all - my head is bursting… - Claude Monet

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

Something in me whispered that I needed to stop thinking, that I should above all not go too farwith thinking. But that never worked; I always thought things through to the end, to their mostextreme consequence. - Herman Koch

If I believe the same things today I did yesterday I've learned nothing. - A.E. van Vogt

There are greater things to be achieved in every new year, and each and everyone must prepare themselves to be great, not by words of the mouth, but by alot of sacrifices. - Michael Bassey Johnson

Isn't it amazing how we always have to put our mark on things? And how, from the natural world, we find evidence over and over again that reminds us, not so much of the birds, but of our own stories and our own kinds of art? - Rosamond Purcell

I can't play bridge. I don't play tennis. All those things that people learn, and I admire, there hasn't seemed time for. But what there is time for is looking out the window. - Alice Munro

See things in terms of Potential. Recognize:Your Amazing Potential. - Akiroq Brost

The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, is to understand things by intuition. - Baruch Spinoza

To the wonders of all things, we fall and then we are reborn - Micheline Jean Louis

Do you wait for things to happen, or do you make them happen yourself? I believe in writing your own story. - Charlotte Eriksson

You have a valid complaint, and I do recognize it ... but you are reading into things a little bit. Just the same, I will do my best to make horrible things happen to a bunch of white people before something else so graphic hits a minority character. - Robert Kirkman

The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things. - Leonardo Da Vinci

Nurture your relationships and all good things will come to you. - Malti Bhojwani

I also think you should take care of yourself. You can crack up a little when these things go on for so long. You've got to bring a healthy self in here. That will help him most. He needs to feel your strength. And you need to do what you have to keep it. - Elizabeth Berg

We have constructed an artifice, a Potemkin village of an ecosystem where we perpetrate the illusion that the things we consume have just fallen off the back of Santa’s sleigh, not been ripped from the earth. The illusion enables us to imagine that the only choices we have are between brands. - Robin Wall Kimmerer

There is a divine grace available for you to accomplish far greater things than you could ever imagine nor dream of. - Lailah Gifty Akita

All divine power is within you to accomplish great things. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Essential to life, is desiring the things that you need, than needing the things you desire. - Anthony Liccione

The more emphasis we put on wanting things to change, the more unpeaceful we will be. The more emphasis we put on accepting and having gratitude for 'What is' the closer we are to arriving at Nirvana. - Matthew Donnelly

Songs. Books. Poetry. Paintings. These things reveal truth. I believe lies and truth are tangled together. - Brenda Sutton Rose

The two most abundant things in the universe are Hydrogren and stupidity. - Harlan Ellison

Around here, however, we don't look backwards for very long. We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things, because we're curious...and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths. - Walt Disney Company

Have you ever wondered how your life would be if you will stop gossiping about people and using your words to bring people down? Try that today, speak only the good things you know about people and encourage others to do the same, - Ane Krstevska

Two great things happened to me. One was that I survived. The other was that I met you, because I knew why - Kamand Kojouri

Sometimes people do things that hurt and it's not because they mean to. They just do. It doesn't necessarily have anything to do with you, but you end up hurt because of it. - Randy K. Milholland

Don't let your past cloud your judgement for the things that are happening in the present. Past is nothing but a distant memory. Fear of something that has happened in the past will ruin your present happiness. - Ashbeel Roy

The industrial mind is a mind without compunction; it simply accepts that people, ultimately, will be treated as things and that things, ultimately, will be treated as garbage. (A Defense of the Family Farm, 1986) - Wendell Berry

Don't try to impress a loser because If one is not happy about the things happening in their life, one cannot be happy about the things happening in someone else's life. - Michael Bassey Johnson

In the Soviet Union we have a saying, a pessimist is someone who believes things can't get any worse. An optimist thinks maybe they can. - Abel Aganbegyan

Man kills, the things he love the most, sometimes by the virtue of hatred, crime, anger and war and sometimes by dramatizing his activities. But he is not aware that his killings are his own self-image. - Santosh Kalwar

Big flashy things have my name written all over them. Well... not yet, give me time and a crayon. - Matt Smith

When we can say "no" not only to things that are wrong and sinful, but also to things pleasant, profitable, and good which would hinder and clog our grand duties and our chief work, we shall understand more fully what life is worth, and how to make the most of it.

No matter how much we try to keep things in order, life seems determined to scatter Legos under our bare feet. - Sammy Rhodes

There are so many more important things to worry about than how you're perceived by strangers. - Dennis Lehane

It is characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things. - Henry David Thoreau

If [we] have a good, miserable day once in a while, or several in a row, stand steady and face them. Things will straighten out. There is great purpose in our struggle in life. - Boyd K. Packer

Well, normally I’m against big things. I think the world is going to be saved by millions of small things. Too many things can go wrong when they get big. — (on how he felt about attending his big 90th birthday bash last year) - Pete Seeger

A person can do incredible things if he or she has enough hope. - Shannon K. Butcher

A bitter awareness that everything is a sensation of mine and at the same time something external, something not in my power to change. Ah, how often my own dreams have raised up before me as things, not to replace reality but to declare themselves its equal - Pessoa

Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed. - Francois De La Rochefoucauld

There are two things needed in these days; first, for rich men to find out how poor men live; and second, for poor men to know how rich men work.

Start focusing your attention on the people that God puts you with, even if they hate you, even if they persecute you and speak bad things about you. Work with them and pray for them! - Pastor Adelaja Sunday

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

Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things. - Ray Bradbury

No doubt alcohol, tobacco, and so forth, are things that a saint must avoid, but sainthood is a thing that human beings must avoid. - George Orwell

Some things you do because you want to. Some things you do because of the needs of others in your family. - Gordon Atkinson

We cannot approach beauty. Its nature is like opaline doves'-neck lustres, hovering and evanescent. Herein it resembles the most excellent things, which all have this rainbow character, defying all attempts at appropriation and use. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

The best things are never arrived at in haste. God is in no hurry; His plans are never rushed. - Michael R. Phillips

A dream is a seed.Vision plants it.Imagination nurtures growth.Opportunities create blooms.Thoughts become things! - Donna McGoff

Nothing changes until people decide to do the things they must, in order to bring about peace. - Shannon L. Alder

Things are only impossible until they're not. - Hannah Louise Shearer

How things look on the outside of us depends on how things are on the inside of us

Life was mostly made up of things you couldn't control, full of surprises, and they weren't always good. Life wasn't what you made it. You were what life made you. - Sara Zarr

When you help people, don't wait around to hear them say, "Thank you." A lot of times we do good things, but in the back of our mind we're hoping to get some appreciation. But if you make your intentions pure, and you expect only from Allah, He will take more care of you than you could ever imagine. - Nouman Ali Khan

You can't let terrible things to happen before you realize the things you could have done. - Jayson Engay

Funny how things work themselves out. Things happen that split up family and friends, then things happen that bring them back together. Everyone is in your life for a reason. My hope is for all the reasons to be good. Those who love you never lose touch, are always consistent, and unquestionable. - April Mae Monterrosa

We buy our way out of jail but we can't buy freedom, We buy a lot of clothes when we don't really need them, Things we buy to cover up what's inside. - Kanye West

There are not many things that are more powerful than love. - Debasish Mridha

When you accidentally assert power over someone or something, one of two things will happen: 1) you will be respected; or 2) you will be hated - Katie Renee Ward

Such things as are good simply because they have been commanded or instituted, or as being symbols of something good, are mere shadows which cannot be reckoned among actions that are the offspring, as it were, or fruit of a sound mind and of intellect. - Baruch Spinoza

For how long will insult hurt a person? For as long as he covets self-importance. For as long as one covets temporary [non eternal] things. - Dada Bhagwan

There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second. - Logan Pearsall Smith

Whatever it is you want in this life, be it material things, a place you want to be, or an experience you want to have, you must first make it real in the realm of your consciousness. - Brandi L. Bates

The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want. - Ben Stein

Don't do things half-assed. If a thing is worth doing at all, it's worth doing as well as you can possibly do it. Pick out something you think is worthwhile and do it or work at it with passion. Do it with all your might.

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex ... it takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction. - Albert Einstein

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.

You shouldn't imagine things that you haven't a shred of proof happened... - Susan Meissner

Loving is effortless.. while Relationships, they require your time and patience... the two things we all lack.. - Sanhita Baruah

Many things have been written and will be written for dream. Dreams are nothing but our unclear expectations. - Santosh Kalwar

People look like crazy, they do crazy things and they love their crazy life; stop inspiring them with your supernatural world and let them be who they chose to be. - M.F. Moonzajer

Showing respect for others when they don’t agree with you, and during the times when you don’t agree with them as well, helps to avoid arguments that serve no good purpose. This approach can lead to getting things accomplished peacefully. - Ellen J. Barrier

The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people. - Karl Marx

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

Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent. - Neil Gaiman

Things always become obvious after the fact - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Friendship is not a remedy for loneliness. Loneliness is part of our experience, and if we are looking for relief from loneliness in friendship, we are only going to frustrate the friendship. Friendship, camaraderie, intimacy, all those things, and loneliness lived together in the same experience. - Rich Mullins

Do you think that the things people make fools of themselves about are any less real and true than the things they behave sensibly about? They are more true: they are the only things that are true. - George Bernard Shaw

Much silence and a good disposition, there are no two things better than these.

One of the things about being a grown-up is learning how to act right even when you feel wrong. - Sean Stewart

Be effective not just efficient. Do right things not just things right. - Prabakaran Thirumalai

To lift up the hands in prayer gives God glory, but a man with a dungfork in his hand, a woman with a slop pail, give Him glory, too. God is so great that all things give Him glory if you mean that they should. - Gerard Manley Hopkins

The power of the human mind is unstoppable. It can make bad things Great and good things Worst! Use it accordingly. - myselfRMD - Rose De Matta

Facts are stupid things. - Ronald Reagan

Ah, when to the heart of man Was it ever less than a treason To go with the drift of things, To yield with a grace to reason, And bow and accept the end Of a love or a season? - Robert Frost

Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle. - Abraham Lincoln

Effective leadership is doing important things first. Effective management is knowing what is important. - Debasish Mridha

People are crazy and times are strangeI'm locked in tight, I'm out of rangeI used to care, but things have changed - Bob Dylan

This is a new year. A new beginning. And things will change. - Taylor Swift

It’s because our friendships – female friendships are just a hop to our sisterhood, and sisterhood can be a very powerful force, to give the world … the things that humans desperately need - Tanja Taaljard

The really magical things are the ones that happen right in front of you. A lot of the time you keep looking for beauty, but it is already there. And if you look with a bit more intention, you see it. - Vik Muniz

Do things for people not because of who they are or what they do in return, but because of who you are - Harold S. Kushner

There is a language in the world that everyone understands. The language of enthusiasm, of things accomplished with love and purpose, and as part of a search for something believed in and desired.

There is only one optimist. He has been here since man has been on this earth, and that is "man" himself. If we hadn't had such a magnificent optimism to carry us through all these things, we wouldn't be here. We have survived it on our optimism.

Good things don’t happen in bulk, they take ample time. You have to have patience. - Evan Smith

To say that 'prayer changes things' is not as close to the truth as saying, 'prayer changes me and then I change things.' God has established things so that prayer, on the basis of redemption, changes the way a person looks at things. - Oswald Chambers

In business, three things are necessary: knowledge, temper, and time. - Owen Felltham

Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance. - Samuel Johnson

Real leaders are people who help us overcome the limitations of our own individual laziness and selfishness and weakness and fear and get us to do better, harder things than we can get ourselves to do on our own. - David Foster Wallace

I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw some things back. - Maya Angelou

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

In the pursuit of acquiring Treasures, we lose the ONE treasure that we truly possess—Life. Let us not lose Life in the wild pursuit of other things. - RVM

Of all things, I liked books best. - Nikola Tesla

Simple things make us Happy but we pursue the complicated. We get caught in a maze and Happiness remains a Distant Dream. - RVM

I pondered all these things, and how men fight and lose the battle, and the thing that they fought for comes about in spite of their defeat, and when it comes turns out not to be what they meant, and other men have to fight for what they meant under another name. - William Morris

When dreams become words to share with others - amazing things can happen. - Richard A. Hackett Jr.

Silence can symbolize many things; fear, anger, sadness, or shame. But one thing that silence cannot symbolize is happiness because silence is dark, silence is quiet, silence is everything happiness should not acquire. - Keysi

Well there's these things called books.... They are like TV for smart people. - Robert Redford

Personally, I think, so what? Money's just a thing and things change. That's what I've found. One minute something's really there, right next to you, and you can cuddle up to it. The next it just melts away, like a Hershey's kiss. - Frank Cottrell Boyce

Let's hope that for every time that we get hurt or break our heart, there is something somewhere being written to make up for it, to make the happiness due even bigger and laughters even merrier, for after all good things must happen to good people. - Mansi Soni

Sometimes the measure of friendship isn't your ability to not harm but your capacity to forgive the things done to you and ask forgiveness for your own mistakes. - Randy K. Milholland

Good things don't end in 'eum,' they end in 'mania'...or 'teria'. - Matt Groening

LOVE, RESPECT AND CARE are the things if you will give it; you will get it - Wrushank Sorte

With God, all things are possible - Matthew 19:26

Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done. - Andy Rooney

Memories are strange things. Without being something I can hold in my hand, they wield a beguiling power over me. Like a mirage in the noontime heat of summer they dance before my inner eyes and beckon me to find water where there is no water. - Joy Sikorski

The 'Mind' in it's nature is conditioned to 'label'. From people, to situations, and circumstances to everything in between. When we allow the mind to shut down we let things be as they are. - Matthew Donnelly

There are many things evil people can take from you. However, they can never steal your ability to laugh and laugh loud. - Shannon L. Alder

Politicians are like little cats: They are never serious; they always mess up the things; they are fainthearted and spoilt. And when they look at the mirror, they see a tiger there, till the hammer of reality break that mirror very harshly! - Mehmet Murat ildan

Many things that don't really mean so much of anything, are wonderful. - C. JoyBell C.

So many things I had thought forgottenReturn to my mind with stranger pain:Like letters that arrive addressed to someoneWho left the house so many years ago. - Philip Larkin

I'm not sure what happened to me over the last few days. I lost myself, I think. I sank down into a hole for a while. They're tricky things, holes. You don't know you're in one until you get out. - Kevin Brooks

Nights without beginning that had no end. Talking about a past as if it'd really happened. Telling themselves that this time next year, this time next year, things were going to be different. - Raymond Carver

We have to change our thoughts before things can change. - Debasish Mridha

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power. - David Brin

If you appreciate the small things, you're likely to get the big ones. - Jonas Eriksson

As to diseases make a habit of two things - to help, or at least, to do no harm. - Hippocrates

If you want something to happen, you must make it happen, because if you really don't want it, it's not going to happen without you. You can't make other people do things for you. You can't wait for people to come and give it to you. You must go out and get it. - Olga Custodio

Know your biggest WHY? Why do you joined network marketing business. Why do you want to change your life? It is your WHY that pushes you and edges you towards the crown of glory in the industry. Discover your why and get things done quickly, - Olawale Daniel

One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking things. - Henry Miller

Every day we do things, we are things that have to do with peace. If we are aware of our life..., our way of looking at things, we will know how to make peace right in the moment, we are alive. - Thich Nhat Hanh

When the person you love can't see your love for them beneath the painful things you say when they reject you, remember this: Love is blind. - Shannon L. Alder

God isn't about making good things happen to you, or bad things happen to you. He's all about you making choices--exercising the gift of free will. God wants you to have good things and a good life, but He won't gift wrap them for you. You have to choose the actions that lead you to that life. - Jim Butcher

7 Principles of a Happy MarriageAlways listenBe thereCompromise is necessaryBuild up trustA kiss before sleep, a kiss after wakingNever keep scoreDo things together - Steven Aitchison

Your life is your teacher and whatever comes to you is the work of your soul. Things are never as they appear on the surface. Your lessons are woven into your losses and challenges and only you can figure out what they mean and allow them to change you. - Karen Clark

Every now and then one paints a picture that seems to have opened a door and serves as a stepping stone to other things. - Pablo Picasso

Be kind! Give small things with great love. - Debasish Mridha M.D.

Tomorrow will be a better day, we shall be safe ...only if we are safe today to reach tomorrow, things would change with a brighter light. - Auliq-Ice

We are so made that we can derive intense enjoyment only from a contrast and very little from a state of things. - Sigmund Freud

Mind is like an archaeologist, it can only dissect and research dead things, events on how, when, where & why. It can never be on the NOW. Only BEING is capable to be in the NOW and EXPERIENCE! - Ramana Pemmaraju

Becoming a lake has put a lot of things in perspective for me. - Heather Christle

Behavioral economics tells us that people often focus too much on the wrong things, and tend to focus on aspects of the job that are salient. So, for example, the pay is salient, especially the starting pay. - Alan Krueger

In essentials, unity; in non-essentials, liberty; in all things, charity. - Rupertus Meldenius

Goodbyes are on of the hardest things about life. One way or another people were always leaving... Always moving on. - Karen Kingsbury

The hype cheapens the hyped, as right things are then made wrong by exaggeration. - Criss Jami

Victory & failure are second things but at least you tried that's more important..!! - Ridhdhesh Jivawala

Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way. - Jane Austen

You will certainly not be able to take the lead in all things yourself, for to one man a god has given deeds of war, and to another the dance, to another lyre and song, and in another wide-sounding Zeus puts a good mind. - Homer

Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. - Bible

Let nothing disturb you,Let nothing frighten you,All things are passing away:God never changes.Patience obtains all things.Whoever has God lacks nothing;God alone suffices. - Teresa of Ávila

Live near to God, and so all things will appear to you little In comparison to eternal realities.-- - Robert Murray McCheyne

I love Edit. He gives me tons of second chances to make things just right between us. - Buffy Andrews

It's my job to play this role that I'm cast in to the very best of my ability, the same as any other actor. You can't possibly be yourself in the public eye. All the little things that make us human don't stand up under the scrutiny of the camera. [on being a public figure] - Adrian Lamo

Say all the bad things you can imagine so they won't happen. - Anonymous

History repeats itself. That's one of the things wrong with history. - Clarence Darrow

Success doesn’t happen by accident. You make it happen. But before you reach that road to victory, some things about yourself have to be changed. - Kevin J. Donaldson

What is the point of our lives? There isn't any. I can't seem to decide how much horror and how much joy lies within that simple truth, but I know it is both of those things at once. - Ashly Lorenzana

If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things. - Norman Douglas

Don't waste your time chasing things that will never be beneficial to your future. - April Mae Monterrosa

Goodness is richer than greatness. It consists not in the outward things we do, but in the inward thing we are. - Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Women worry about the things that men forget; Men worry about the things that women remember. - Ziad K. Abdelnour

This is bullshit, things which are shown to us are totally opposite it is not the Hero with the feelings but the villain who have a reason to destroy the world and not only a reason but a real reason. - Neymat Khan

He who still finds enjoyment in those fun things he once did as a child, will for certainly live a happy and wealthy life. - Andrea L'Artiste

They take their drama firsthand, in the real world, while I prefer the drama of fictional characters–in worlds where things happen for a reason, where questions are answered, where conflicts are always resolved. - Kat O'Keeffe

A lot depends on the small things - Pastor Adelaja Sunday

We are changed by the things we try to change. - Marty Rubin

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view. - Harper Lee

Because the horror of Communism, Stalinism, is not that bad people do bad things — they always do. It's that good people do horrible things thinking they are doing something great."[Six Questions for , Harper's Magazine, November 11, 2011] - Slavoj Žižek

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

Every night I tell my children all of the things that I love about them. I tell them how proud I am of their accomplishments and how much better our lives have been since they were born. I hope they will always realize how much they are loved and valued. I feel so blessed that they are in my life. - Tom Giaquinto

Life doesn't change when you meet a guy and life doesn't fall apart when you break up with one. We are teaching young female readers the wrong things through books not only expressing this point, but also using these two concepts as turning plot points of novels. - Meghan Blistinsky

Young things like you don't need any ornaments but those you wear to-night: youth, health, intelligence, and modesty. - Louisa May Alcott

It is a great paradox and a great injustice that writers write because we fear death and want to leave something indestructible in our wake and, at the same time, are drawn to all the things that kill: whiskey and cigarettes, unprotected sex, and deep-fried burritos. - Ariel Gore

In order to stay happy, You must learn from your wins and fails and accept all things that come your way as they are. - Auliq Ice

The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it. - Terry Pratchett

We all have a revolution inside us. For one thing or another!! It is a nature for us to be like this, we want things to be like God created them to be, and when it doesn't go that way, we fight for our Lord as warriors and soldiers. God is alive and we need him to change this world. Elena~ - Elena Toledo

More often than not, the foolishness of our humanity drives us to destroy the very things that we need to keep ourselves from destroying ourselves. And because that’s the case, God will never allow us to destroy Christmas. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

We should not take our ‘Humanity’ for granted. We should love and respect things as if they were ourselves. - Sandranil Biswas

Americans have different ways of saying things. They say `elevator', we say `lift'...they say `President', we say `stupid psychopathic git'....

Nature is not cruel, pitiless, indifferent. This is one of the hardest lessons for humans to learn. We cannot admit that things might be neither good nor evil, neither cruel nor kind, but simply callous -- indifferent to all suffering, lacking all purpose. - Richard Dawkins

Men who accomplish great things in the industrial world are the ones who have faith in the money producing power of ideas.

These pages testify to the discovery of uhnlikely gifts when we stay in community--especially when we stay after things get hard. - Christopher Heuertz

Let others lead small lives, but not you.. Let others argue over small things, but not you.. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you.. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you. - Jim Rohn

The hands of man can manufacture many things both penetratingly brilliant and utterly astounding. Yet, despite their amazing dexterity and profound skill they cannot manufacture hope. Such a masterpiece as that is left for the hands of God and a manger crafted by those hands. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

Who are we, who is each one of us, if not a combinatoria of experiences, information, books we have read, things imagined? - Italo Calvino

There are few things better than losing yourself in a book. And if you're lucky enough to have that adventure continue in a series, it's like chocolate ganache on the icing on the cake. - Richelle E. Goodrich

Guts are important. Your guts are what digest things. But it is your brains that tell you which things to swallow and which not to swallow. - Austin Dacey

If your kids are the generation Y there are only two things you parents are worried about..What your daughters are uploading on the internet and what your sons are downloading from the internet - Joshua Siranjofu

When you see things through your heart, there is no right or wrong, true or false, only there is love to share. - Debasish Mridha

I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened. - Mark Twain

As any distance we take from things give us an outside perspective, so does taking a geographical distance—offering us a new vantage point over our lives. - lauren klarfeld

You experience true happiness when the things you desire rise up to the level of the things you deserve. - Robert J. Braathe

Luther looks at all the jobs that are out there and he says, These are the masks of God, behind which He wants to remain concealed, and do all things. Christians have to be profoundly appreciative of good work done on absolutely everything. - Timothy J. Keller

It's asking a great deal that things should appeal to your reason as well as your sense of the aesthetic. - W. Somerset Maugham

My two favourite things in life are libraries and bicycles. They both move people forward without wasting anything. The perfect day: riding a bike to the library. - Peter Golkin

Beauty is one of the rare things which does not lead to doubt of God. - Jean Anouilh

When things get unbearable, I wrap myself into a tight ball and shut my eyes. Every muscle in my body is tense. I open my eyes and I'm still where I was when I closed them to escape. Nothing's changed. - Elizabeth Wurtzel

No matter how old you are, simple things can still bring you smile - Raven San Jose

does a sick society get so used to its illness that it can't remember being well? what if the memory is too dangerous for the people who like things the way they are? - Neal Shusterman

The people reign over the American political world as God rules over the universe. It is the cause and the end of all things; everything rises out of it and is absorbed back into it. - Alexis De Tocqueville

Mankind is like ocean, we only see the things which comes up! If we wanna know someone better we need a deeper dive. - Irfa Adam

Your perception is your habitual perspective. The way you consciously choose to see life on a regular basis. The moment that you are aware of your perspective and detach to see things from a different point of view (Even SLIGHTLY) is the moment that your entire complexity from within you changes. - Matthew Donnelly

This is the new year the new you. You can pass through another year, coasting on cruise control. Or you can step out of your comfort zone, trying things you have never done before, & make 2012 as the year that you elevate from where you are & soar high. Make it happen! - Pablo

When you think what happened to you is the end of the world, just hold your head up and look around you, you will see that the world is there, ready to give you new things! - Mehmet Murat ildan

Three things will make you happy: always have happy thoughts, be honest to yourself, and express unconditional love for everything. - Debasish Mridha

The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we have of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us. - Quentin Crisp

Believing there is no God gives me more room for belief in family, people, love, truth, beauty, sex, Jell-O and all the other things I can prove and that make this life the best life I will ever have. - Penn Jillette

It is looking at things for a long time that ripens you and gives you a deeper meaning. - Vincent Van Gogh

I can do All things through Christ which strengtheneth me. - Phillipians 4 13

Sometime it's really hardest things to keep yourself alone. - Anuj Kr. Thakur

There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm. - Willa Cather

I don't beg for those things which can be earned. - Amit Kalantri

Fat gives things flavor. - Julia Child

History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history. - Clarence Darrow

I don't argue things being spiritual vs scientific, because I've never met anyone who knows enough about either to be convincing--including myself. - S. Kelley Harrell

Be curious. Read widely. Try new things. What people call intelligence just boils down to curiosity. - Aaron Swartz

She liked books more than anything else, and was, in fact, always inventing stories of beautiful things and telling them to herself. - Frances Hodgson Burnett

Equations are just the boring part of mathematics. I attempt to see things in terms of geometry. - Stephen Hawking

The most vital things in the look of a landscape endure only for a moment. Work should be done from memory; memory of that vital moment. - Robert Henri

Prejudice is the conjurer of imaginary wrongs, strangling truth, overpowering reason, making strong men weak and weak men weaker. God give us the large hearted charity which "bearth all things, believe all things, hope all things, endure all things," which "thinks no evil."

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

One speck of dung will spoil the pot. In order to keep my thoughts on a high level, I put a positive construction on things. - Kathleen Rowland

One of the most difficult things to give away is kindness, for it is usually returned. - Mark Ortman

A painter paints the appearance of things, not their objective correctness. In fact, he creates new appearances of things. - Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power or our will. - Epictetus

God makes all things good; man meddles with them and they become evil. - Jean Jacques Rousseau

Over time, I realized I wasn't necessarily seeing people or things at their best or worst; instead, I was simply seeing things as they were.There didn't seem to be a moral high road to take in most situations, and "What's the right thing to do?" wasn't an easy question. - Dee Williams

We see things not as they are, we see them as WE are. - Morrie Camhi

Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy. - Groucho Marx

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things. - Peter Drucker

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

If you cannot do great things in life, make sure you do the small things in a great way. - Habeeb Akande

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

You have to expect things of yourself before you do them. - Michael Jordan

We have left undone those things which we ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done. - Book of Common Prayer

It is the subtle things in life that you have to look for because the deepest love speaks at a whisper that only two people can hear. - Shannon L. Alder

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. - Aristotle

Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control. - Epictetus

People are strange: They are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a major matter like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to notice. - Charles Bukowski

Three things will last forever — faith, hope, and love — and the greatest of these is love. - Anonymous Holy Bible 1 Corinthians 13 13

Is it not the disparity of wealth that consumes the willing soul. Rather, the golden keys of opportunity clamor softly with fraught anxiety of things which may never come. - Joel T. McGrath

Last night I did things my mother told me not to with the people I shouldn't see in the places that I should not go.. - Nick Santino

I used to think it was awful that life was so unfair. Then I thought, wouldn't it be much worse if life were fair, and all the terrible things that happen to us come because we actually deserve them? So, now I take great comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the universe.

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.

Books—all books—are complicated things, muttering at us in different contradictory voices, refusing to stay the same when we go back to them. Tying them down too much robs of them of the magic. - Andrew Rilstone

‎If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot…reading is the creative center of a writer’s life…you cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you. - Stephen King

When things don’t add up, either you don’t have a calculator or you forgot to use commonsense by simply asking. - Shannon L. Alder

Lots of people say that everything that we possess, experience and want; like books, music, films and holidays are all just a big distraction from death. But I think differently. I think it’s the exact order and presence of these trivial things that make life worthwhile and bearable. - Frieda Robson

Doing good makes you great. Bad things take away from good ones. Practicing Netiquette is all good. NetworkEtiquette.net - David Chiles

Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world's great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs. I am haunted by waters. - Norman Maclean

Ends are not bad things, they just mean that something else is about to begin. And there are many things that don't really end, anyway, they just begin again in a new way. Ends are not bad and many ends aren't really an ending; some things are never-ending. - C. JoyBell C.

Many people place facts above faith and that makes things seem impossible for them - Constancev Chuks Friday

All things are possible to those who believe in themselves. Live a life without limits. Believe in yourself. Break through the ceiling of limitation. Develop high confidence and connect yourself to total success. - Mark F. LaMoure

Smile puts a smile on all the good things in the world - Munia Khan

Things are neither good nor bad but thinking makes it so. - William Shakespeare

You can hide things from the world, but you can never hide things from time. - Kim Dong Hwa

Our Body function in unity,to get things done.The body of the world should learn from out body. - peter irabor

Unhappy people do the oddest, most terrible things, just trying to keep despair at bay. All you have to do is accept them...go around them...take evasive action. - Geraldine McCaughrean

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

Literacy is inseparable from opportunity, and opportunity is inseperable from freedom. The freedom promised by literacy is both freedom from - from ignorance, oppression, poverty - and freedom to - to do new things, to make choices, to learn. - Koichiro Matsuura

The things you let go will someday teach you how to fly. - Jenim Dibie

Our confidence needs to come from within, not without. From the quality of our hearts, not the quantity of things we own. After all, he who dies with the most toys...still dies. - Sean Covey

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things. - T. S. Eliot

I require three things in a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid. - Dorothy Parker

These things happen. - Adrian Lamo

Life is boring. People are vengeful. Good things always end. We do so many things and we don't know why, and if we do find out why, it's decades later and knowing why doesn't matter any more. - Douglas Coupland

EXISTENCE, n. A transient, horrible, fantastic dream, Wherein is nothing yet all things do seem: From which we're wakened by a friendly nudge Of our bedfellow Death, and cry: "O fudge!" - Ambrose Bierce

Many things can prolong your life, but only wisdom can save it. - Neel Burton

I cannot call to mind a single instance where I have ever been irreverent, except toward the things which were sacred to other people. - Mark Twain

Poetry?"..."No, just thoughts, glimpses, things running through my head. - Mary E. Pearson

Demonstrative proof is lacking, but if we thought only about those things about which such proof were available, our minds would be empty most of the time. - Theodore Dalrymple

Be contented with the things of the world. Develop greed for God. - Radhe Maa

We lose ourselves in things we love. We find ourselves there, too. - Kristin Martz

He's the thrilling, scary Boyfriend who's going to dare you to do things you'd never dreamed of, shower you with unreasonable presents, and show up uninvited at the most embarrassing times. Then he's going to stick with you, refusing to take the hint when you don't answer his calls. - Sara Miles

Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Forgiveness opens your life for an abundance of positive things. - Tara Estacaan

Most difficult problems become very easy when we learn how to put things into perspective. - Debasish Mridha

So, you’ve failed many times at many things. That’s okay! Learn, grow, and move forward. With the right attitude and mindset, you can learn a lot from failure. Pay attention and keep on striving! You’ve got this! - Stephanie Lahart

The devil can get you through your flesh. He knows the button to press on your flesh and have a way into your mind. The flesh becomes a transport medium for evil things if not killed for God. If Christ makes a home in your mind, satan can't get there. - Israelmore Ayivor

Writers are not here to conform. We are here to challenge. We're not here to be comfortable—we're here, really, to shake things up. That's our job. - Jeanette Winterson

Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all easy; and he that riseth late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night; while laziness travels so slowly, that poverty soon overtakes him. - Benjamin Franklin

He who begins many things finishes but few. - Italian Proverb

If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet. - Isaac Bashevis Singer

Gratitude was never meant to be an excuse for giving up on the obstacles God has put before you. Some of the most magical things he can bring us require faith and a lot of planning. - Shannon L. Alder

Think of Today, not Tomorrow. It’s time to be Happy, not live a Life of Sorrow. Find out those things that make you Glad & eliminate those that make you Sad. - RVM

Sometimes the very things that we’re expending our lives to sustain are the very things that are killing our ability to live. And against our blind and frequently raging protests, these are the very things that God let’s die so that we can live. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

Don't let little things ruin your day. - CR Risk Advisory

Wolves, and stars, and snow: Those things made sense. - Katherine Rundell

I was so scared that all the big things I wanted would never be anything more than wants. - Julie Murphy

The greatest things to have can't be possessed, they exist within yet can be shared, like freedom, love, trust, integrity, fun, dreams, creativity, wisdom, peace. - Jay Woodman

Sometimes the best goal you can set is just to get out of bed every day. If you can succeed at this, then other things become possible. - Cynthia Patterson

Your mind believes what you tell it, so tell it positive things - Jen Milius

We can never know the impact a simple smile has on another. Smiling is one of the easiest things we can do. Is there a simpler, more effortless way to give everyone you meet a moment of joy, even a sense of worth? - Steve Goodier

God, grant me the serenity to stop beating myself up for not doing things perfectly, the courage to forgive myself because I’m working on doing things better, and the wisdom to know that You already love me just the way I am. - Eleanor Brownn

Beautiful things were sometimes mixed up with treacherous things, they could even happen at the same time, or one could lead to the other, I thought. - Norman Ollestad

All things want to float. - Rainer Maria Rilke

There are some things in life that we try to ignore, thinking that maybe if we don't see the problem, it won't see us when in reality, it's only getting bigger. - Caitlyn Paige

There are five important things for living a successful and fulfilling life: never stop dreaming, never stop believing, never give up, never stop trying, and never stop learning. - Roy Bennett

It often happens that we blurt out things that may in some kind of way be harmful to us, but we are silent about things that may make us look ridiculous; because in this case effect follows very quickly on cause. - Arthur Schopenhauer

Since when did Christians started fearing ghost, witches and wizards, demons, sicknesses and Death ? Don't you get it? these things are far below you. What did Jesus die for ? ALL THINGS WORK TOGETHER FOR YOUR GOOD - Mary Tornyenyor

Veganism is an act of nonviolent defiance. It is our statement that we reject the notion that animals are things and that we regard sentient nonhumans as moral persons with the fundamental moral right not to be treated as the property or resources of humans. - Gary L. Francione

How different things might be if, rather than saying "I think I'm in love," we were saying "I've connected with someone in a way that makes me think I'm on the way to knowing love.." Or if instead of saying "I am in love" we said "I am loving" or "I will love. - bell hooks

Nothing is less real than realism. Details are confusing. It is only by selection, by elimination, by emphasis, that we get at the real meaning of things. - Georgia O'Keeffe

It is the artist who tries to gradually accustom people to the possibilities of a better state of things. - C.A. Dawson Scott

Money and material things may well sustain you physically. But it is only living life from/with love & compassion - and the hearts and lives that you touch - that will truly nourish you emotionally and in spirit. - Rasheed Ogunlaru

There is no excuse for being derogatory or dismissive about other's beliefs, paths, choices. Everyone is where they need to be at the right time to learn the right things for them and their personal journey through life. - Jay Woodman

Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing. - Camille Pissarro

Why is it that the beautiful things are entwined more deeply with death than with life? - Sui Ishida

It's often a matter of sitting in front of the computer and worrying. It's what writing comes down to--worrying that things aren't going to work out. - Khaled Hosseini

I have things in my head that are not like what anyone taught me — shapes and ideas so near to me, so natural to my way of being and thinking. - Georgia O'Keeffe

You have played, (I think) And broke the toys you were fondest of, And are a little tired now; Tired of things that break, and— Just tired. So am I. - E.E. Cummings

In rivers and bad governments, the lightest things swim at the top. - Benjamin Franklin

School is learning things you don't want to know, surrounded by people you wish you didn't know, while working toward a future you don't know will ever come. - Dave Kellett

As a rule, Americans are big on that word choice and some souls can be captured simply by dangling before the creature a continual, lifelong supply of things from which to choose. - Geoffrey Wood

HAPPINESS comes from within. To be happy is to know oneself. It's not in the material things that we own, it's the love we have and show to the world. - Angie karan

Whenever pastors assume people in their congregation know certain things, they miss opportunities to teach. If a pastor makes assumptions year after year, then a whole generation has never heard [that truth] for the first time. If we assume too much, we communicate too little. - Andy Stanley

Change your perception about things and the things you perceive changes. - Ane Krstevska

Do pleasant things yourself, but unpleasant things through others. - Baltasar Gracian

Love is so many things, but it is not safe. - Shannon L. Alder

I think perfection is ugly. Somewhere in the things humans make, I want to see scars, failure, disorder, distortion. - Yohji Yamamoto

We should be agnostic about those things for which there is no evidence. We should not hold beliefs merely because they gratify our desires for afterlife, immortality, heaven, hell, etc. - Julian Huxley

I tell people not to be afraid of their fears; because their fears are not there to scare them, they're there to let them know that something is worth it. Yet I am often afraid. I guess that means in my life, lots of things have been worth it! - C. JoyBell C.

Life is going to give you things that you deserve instead of what you plan or want. Always thank God for your profits and losses. Because God plans best for us. - Syed Mustafa Faraz Ahmad

My reality isn't as gracious as it use to be, so I create things that are. - Nikki Rowe

The greatest beauty is organic wholeness, the wholeness of life and things, the divine beauty of the universe. - Robinson Jeffers

Men make history, and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better. - Harry S Truman

We as humans tend to overlook lesser beings and things, but we should instead come to love and respect them. - Sandranil Biswas

…it’s not just learning that’s important. It’s learning what to do with what you learn and learning why you learn things that matters. - Norton Juster

I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so. - Michel de Montaigne

We tend to teach mathematics as a long list of rules.You learn them in order and you have to obey them, because if you don't obey them you get a C-.This is not mathematics. Mathematics is the study if things that come out a certain way because there is no other way they could possibly be. - Jordan Ellenberg

A man is not for you when all he knows is to slam your back on the bed and ram into you like a wild fool. The interested ones are the ones so interested that they become very interested in only interesting things about you. - Michael Bassey Johnson

For every summer & every summer after.Promise your-self to bare a bit more.To take things to a new level.To reinvent. To reflect back.To keep things humble.To tie up loose ends &Let the Sparks Fly... - Jennifer Pierre

Things of the world are not in a ‘seed’ form; they are in a form of a ‘fruit’. One has come with a ready farm; all he has to do is harvest the fruits now. - Dada Bhagwan

Sometimes it's not enough to know what things mean, sometimes you have to know what things don't mean. - Bob Dylan

Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better. - King Whitney Jr.

I remember my own childhood vividly..I knew terrible things. But I knew I mustn't let adults know I knew. It would scare them. (In conversation with Art Spiegelman, The New Yorker, September 27, 1993) - Maurice Sendak

I think that the best thing we can do for our children is to allow them to do things for themselves, allow them to be strong, allow them to experience life on their own terms, allow them to take the subway... let them be better people, let them believe more in themselves. - C. JoyBell C.

The power of weapons is transient and destroys everything. The power of love is everlasting and creates all things. - Debasish Mridha

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