Quotation Explorer - 'Up'

Never settle for half the story, and make-up and imagine the rest. Get the full Story! - RYCJ

No book dropped from "up there". If it did, you say, then something is screwed up somewhere between your neck, and the top of your head. - Fakeer Ishavardas

Disruption is, at its core, a really powerful idea. - Clayton M. Christensen

Living a life without setting goals is like sailing a ship without a planned course. You are likely to end up somewhere you didn’t intend to go! - Derric Yuh Ndim

Language is fossil poetry. As the limestone of the continent consists of infinite masses of the shells of animalcules, so language is made up of images, or tropes, which now, in their secondary use, have long ceased to remind us of their poetic origin. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Gratitude is born in hearts that take time to count up past mercies. - Charles E. Jefferson

From the port of ideas, not only the most clever ones put out to sea and conquer the world but also the most stupid ones do this! - Mehmet Murat ildan

Violence is a disease, a disease that corrupts all who use it regardless of the cause. - Chris Hedges

The notion that writings created at a time when men huddled in superstitious terror from an eclipse can possibly be a credible representation of the Creator (whatever that word means to each person) is so absurd as to border on delusional. - Dave Champion

There’s always a reason to look up. - A.D. Posey

If we head in the direction of our dreams and accept the winds and rains that will test our resolve, we can experience the deep satisfaction of looking back upon the path of a life well lived. - Jeffrey H Ryan

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye. - Miss Piggy

Because a superior fried-chicken restaurant is often the institutional extension of a single chicken-obsessed woman, I realize that, like a good secondhand bookstore or a bad South American dictatorship, it is not easily passed down intact. - Calvin Trillin

Get your "MENTAL" weight up, it stays FOREVER, money has no staying power! - L. Michelle

I don't think we can afford to emulate the beauty editors of fashion magazines, airbrushing out blemishes and hawking a political ideal in which progressive people have no acne, no stupid remarks. - Anna Bondoc

The truth is helpless when up against perception - Zack W. Van

Disruptive innovation is entrepreneurs changing their industry with unique creativity. - Onyi Anyado

Its easier to feel a little more spiritual with a couple of bucks in your pocket. - Craig Ferguson

The truth of the world is that in every group you will find some good and some bad people - which is why i am keenly aware that no group is ALL bad, just as no group is ALL good. - Christina Engela

A mother’s love is like an everlasting bed of roses, that continues to blossom. A mother’s love bears strength, comfort, healing and warmth. Her beauty is compared to a sunny day that shines upon each rose petal and inspires hope. - Ellen J. Barrier

You can't use up creativity. The more you use the more you have. - Maya Angelou

You never push a noun against a verb without trying to blow up something. - H.L. Mencken

If the creation of the Universe was left up to a atheist, we would still have nothing. - Josko J. Sestan

When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am grown up, they call me a writer. - Isaac Bashevis Singer

Academics have given up trying to recover an honest picture of the past and have decided that their history-writing should be simply an instrument of moral hand-wringing. - Gordon S. Wood

It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation which give happiness. - Thomas Jefferson

The world is full of wonderful things you haven't seen yet. Don't ever give up on the chance of seeing them. - J.K. Rowling

HAPPINESS is based on externals; it fluctuates up and down every day. JOY, on the other hand, is internal; it can be cultivated and nurtured. We can be joyful even in the midst of a chaotic, unpredictable world. - Laurie Buchanan, PhD

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

BeastlyIt's okay to be differentIt's up to you to be magnificentYou are the one that mattersDon't allow yourself to be shatteredDo allow yourself to silence the noiseFeel everything including the joysBeastly doesn't have to be uglyIt's up to you to make it lovely - Stace Lee

Septimus fu cât pe ce să zică ,,și rămânem aici pe viață", dar se opri. Își aduse aminte ce îi spusese Mătușa Zelda, și anume că, după ce le-ai rostit, lucrurile se împlinesc mai repede... - Angie Sage

Sometimes things happen in our lives that wake us up to the truth, about how short life is. It’s then we wonder why we spent so much wasted time looking too far into the future. - Ron Baratono

By the time the Somnambulist had set her creaking bones to rest on their assigned landing pad, Holden had lost all patience with human stupidity.So, of course, it came out to meet him. - James S.A. Corey

We are not to be occupied with our feelings or symptoms,or our faith or lack of faith,but only with what God has said - Gordon Lindsay

As parents, the most important part of our job isn't to keep children out of trouble or to prevent them from making mistakes. It's to stand by and support them as they learn and grow from those they need to make. - Taiki Matsuura

By studying Bhagavad-gītā, one can become a soul completely surrendered to the Supreme Lord and engage himself in pure devotional service. As the Lord takes charge, one becomes completely free from all kinds of materialistic endeavors. - A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

Those who say life is knocking them down and giving them a tough time are usually the first to beat themselves up. Be on your own side. - Rasheed Ogunlaru

Focus on relationships in your communities and God will come up spiritual conversations will emerge and real needs will come to light. - Matt Smay

Time sneaks up on you like a windshield on a bug. - John Lithgow

There is no way to undo something already done, or to dress up a naked truth. - Dixie Waters

I don't understand this irony - valuable things like cars, gold, diamond are made up of hard materials but most valuable things like money, contracts and books are made up of soft paper. - Amit Kalantri

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

The only thing that comes to a sleeping man are dreams. - Tupac Shakur

GORGON, n. The Gorgon was a maiden bold Who turned to stone the Greeks of old That looked upon her awful brow. We dig them out of ruins now, And swear that workmanship so bad Proves all the ancient sculptors mad. - Ambrose Bierce

When a child studies hard, it seems that he is going to be an industrious and in service; but if a child studies hardly, then wondering why it seems that he is going to be a big industrialist on growing up. - Anuj Somany

Success slavery slowly so do not give up you will succeed - blasio kajuna

I was in the supermarket the other day, and I met a lady in the aisle where they keep the generic brands. Her name was 'woman. - Steven Wright

"Where there is a will there is a way," is an old and true saying. He who resolves upon doing a thing, by that very resolution often scales the barriers to it, and secures its achievement. To think we are able, is almost to be so - to determine upon attainment is frequently attainment itself. - Samuel Smiles

There was not a moving up into vacated places; there was simply an anachronistic staying on between a vanishing past and an incalculable future. - F. Scott Fitzgerald

[They] pervert the course of nature [by saying] the sun does not move and that it is the earth that revolves and that it turns.[ illustrating his opposition to heliocentrism in a sermon due to the Bible's support of geocentrism] - John Calvin

I woke up one morning thinking about Turkish drummers, but it didn't last long, because I didn't know much about Turkish drummers. - Bruce Cockburn

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

Some of us teach ourselves and our children to love the superficial outer; our looks, hair, skin, clothes rather than the greater beauty that resides within whereas it is that inner beauty that really defines you and who you truly are - rassool jibraeel snyman

Life has no remote , so wake up and change it. - Sushil Singh

The core of your true self is never lost. Let go of all the pretending and the becoming you've done just to belong.Curl up with your rawness and come home. You don't have to find yourself; you just have to let yourself in. - D. Antoinette Foy

Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. - Ronald Reagan

Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion. - Martha Graham

Stupidity is to have amnesia over your own faults when the person you hate makes theirs. - Shannon L. Alder

Nothing is going to work out unless you step up and make it happen. - Auliq-Ice

your life mustn't be a closet for dirty laundry coz you will have a smelly and messy life...Yeah no matter how much you trying to clean up,the smell won't go away until you put away the "dirty laundry - Duinkie Tracey Ncitha

Life is like a blanket too short. You pull it up and your toes rebel, you yank it down and shivers meander about your shoulder; but cheerful folks manage to draw their knees up and pass a very comfortable night.

The road to success leads through the valley of humility, and the path is up the ladder of patience and across the wide barren plains of perseverance. As yet, no short cut has ever been discovered.

Though the vicious can sometimes pour affliction upon the good, their power is transient and their punishment certain; and that innocence, though oppressed by injustice, shall, supported by patience, finally triumph over misfortune! - Ann Radcliffe

Ladies and gentlemen, when you paint your lips, eyes, nails, hair, side-beards, or whatever, to look beautiful or handsome, don't forget your up stairs, if you don't go up there to put things in order, then, consider the former attributes null and void. - Michael Bassey Johnson

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

Breaking up is a natural evolution when you try to figure out what you want in life. If you’re with an individual who isn’t moving in the same direction and at the same rate that you are, it ain’t going to work. - Usher Raymond

Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry. Worry never fixes anything. - Mary Hemingway

Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them. - John Updike

We have many windows to build up our career, but we can look after our career successfully from one window - Ahsan

Things we carry from home shows where we hail from ~ courtesy, respect, and gratitude - Rupali Desai

I have no right to say or do anything that diminishes a man in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him but what he thinks of himself. Hurting a man in his dignity is a crime. - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Geniuses and supergeniuses always make their own rules about sex as on everything else; they do not accept the monkey customs of their lessers. - Robert A. Heinlein

The world must be all fucked up," he said then, "when men travel first class and literature goes as freight. - Gabriel García Márquez

Thoughts are funny little things,They can make paupers or make kings. - Sidney Madwed

I have seen gross intolerance shown in support of tolerance. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Many obese people spend a significant amount of their energy on suppressing the urge to tell some of the people who are staring at them that they do not eat as much and as frequently as they seem to. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

When life gives you lemons ask it for sugar and water too. Otherwise your final product would be some acidic lemon juice! - priyavrat gupta

It is always possible that society you live in might go backwards, towards the land of ignorance and darkness! While this tragedy and stupidity happening, you must move forward! You must walk forward, towards the light and wisdom, to the land of reason! - Mehmet Murat ildan

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Just thinking of your laughter gives me courage. . . - Rosamund Lupton

Money is like a child—rarely unaccompanied. When it disappears, look to those who were supposed to be keeping an eye on it while you were at the grocery store. You might also look for someone who has a lot of extra children sitting around, with long, suspicious explanations for how they got there. - Lemony Snicket

Spiritual riches supersede material riches. - Matshona Dhliwayo

To resist the social pressure now put even on one's leisure time, requires a tougher upbringing and a more obstinate willfulness about going one's own way, than ever before. - Robert Graves

Time cannot be changed, but time can change you. - -YakupAdar

[Addiction's] not about placating the bad dog - it's about feeding the good dog. You still have to feed the bad dog, but only enough so that the ASPCA doesn't bring you up on charges. - Robert Downey Jr.

Failure is a mindset, not a circumstance. I let my experiences strengthen me. You think I fell on my face, but I’m down here doing pushups. - Steve Maraboli

What is chemistry in a relationship, Really? Chemistry can be spontaneous combustion that excites, incites, often harms. But not understood. Chemistry can also be that which is studied, intentional, and knows how to be repeated and improved upon. Do you have the right chemistry? - Lucille Anderson

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

...you do yourself no favour if you let your sense of doubt-mistrust-scepticism to rise up within you to the point where you must look every gift horse in the mouth... - Isabella koldras

It's early on a beautiful winter morning. The house is quiet. The sun is shining. I'm thankful. I'm happy. My cup runneth over. Now there's coffee everywhere. - Mindy Levy

10Sometimes life is getting so complicated; yet you have to STAND UP gallantly and SURVIVE your life. Allah has written your ENDING GOAL, and he wants you to do your BEST for getting His blessing. - itsnaini

The man who gives up accomplishes nothing and is only a hindrance. The man who does not give up can move mountains.

"Well, now, hold onta yer horses, there, Frazier. I mean, as a psychiatrist, isn't it your job to, uh, `seek and uphold the truth'?""Oh, get real, Cliff."

Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time. - Terry Pratchett

Those who, while they disapprove of the character and measures of a government, yield to it their allegiance and support are undoubtedly its most conscientious supporters, and so frequently the most serious obstacles to reform. - Henry David Thoreau

You must have taken great pains, sir; you could not naturally been so very stupid. - Samuel Johnson

Emotion... a weird sense of human....strong handling make us numb....loose handling make us dumb... - Upasana Banerjee

​Until your inner teacher wakes up, all worldly teachings are worthless. - Abhijit Naskar

When we grow up we all will understand that we have made mistakes which we are not proud of, but some of those are worth committing all. - M.F. Moonzajer

Jahan mein ehle-e-imaan soorat-e-khursheed jeetay hain,Idhar doobey, udhar nikley; udhar doobey, idhar nikleyIn this world, men of faith and self-confidence are like the sun,They go down on one side to come up on the other. - Allama Iqbal

So rapid is the flight of dreams upon the wings of imagination. - Alexandre Dumas

Svaki novi ajet koji naučiš napamet, ti si ustvari sebi kupio deredžu u džennetu. - Dževad Gološ

You always supposed to have that i'm number 1 mentality,don't let anyone make you feel like you is number 2 when they not even worth being number 1 !!! - jojo1980

Prayer is the key that opens heaven; the favors we ask descend upon us the very instant our prayers ascend to God. - Augustine of Hippo

Smile is the only way when your face makes curve upwards. So keep smiling & let’s spread positive energy in and surround - krvishal

When I go up there, which is my intention, the Big Judge will say to me, Where are your wounds? and if I say I haven’t any, he will say, Was there nothing to fight for? I couldn’t face that question. - Alan Paton

Writing is such a solitary occupation that it takes a long time to build up a group of professional peers with whom you genuinely identify. - Sara Sheridan

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

I have always pictured accupuncture like falling into a box of sewing needles, and then standing up refreshed and free of pain. - Neil Leckman

Don’t give up on your daydream! That little voice inside is telling you how to live your life with intent & purpose. - Dawn Gluskin

On n'est jamais content là où l'on est. - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

If you believe in something, then you shouldn’t give up on it. - Harry Styles

On a group of theories one can found a school; but on a group of values one can found a culture, a civilization, a new way of living together among men.

Imagination just wasn't up to the task of understanding unique and foreign sensations. It knew only how to dampen or augment what it already knew. - Juliette, Pg. 139 - Hugh Howey

Don't keep your Muse locked up in the closet. Set them free to dance across the page and what they create will be a masterpiece. - Michelle C. Hillstrom

Get this in mind early: We never grow up. - Richard Bach

What the world stigmatizes as romantic is often more nearly allied to the truth than is commonly supposed. - Anne Brontë

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

The formal scientific definition of theory is quite different from the everyday meaning of the word. It refers to a comprehensive explanation of some aspect of nature that is supported by a vast body of evidence. - National Academy of Sciences

Authentic joy is not a euphoric state or a feeling of being high. Rather, it is a state of appreciation that allows us to participate full in our lives. We train in the rejoicing in the good fortune of self and others. - Pema Chödrön

Shut up and write. - K.A. Laity

You only fail when you give up. - Dave Salmoni

Someday you will wake up feeling 51 percent happy and slowly, molecule by molecule, you will feel like yourself again. - Amy Poehler

When facing the world always remember stand tall back straight chin up and always put a smile on your face - Joyce Guo

A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom. - Martin Luther King Jr.

Getting carried away is stupid, it won't get me anywhere.-Nana Komatsu - Ai Yazawa

When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale. - John W. Gardner

Make love an another human compulsion and you will fortify its limitation. Acquire it like knowledge and you will understand everything - Ashutosh Gupta

One man may hit the mark, another blunder; but heed not these distinctions. Only from the alliance of the one, working with and through the other, are great things born. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

To be a futurist, in pursuit of improving reality, is not to have your face continually turned upstream, waiting for the future to come. To improve reality is to clearly see where you are, and then wonder how to make that better. - Warren Ellis

In order to put an end to our conflicts; we must put an end to the religions people stupidity. - M.F. Moonzajer

Fate had a cruel sense of humor. It had been all his fault, anyway, whatever Mick or Gillia told him. Careless preoccupation and utter stupidity. Boyhood ignorance and negligence. He was only getting what he deserved, over and over again, for the rest of his life. If only in his dreams. - V.S. Carnes

It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small. - Neil Armstrong

Luck, bad if not good, will always be with us. But it has a way of favoring the intelligent and showing its back to the stupid. - John Dewey

In my imagination, the Editor meditated in a mountain-cave, espoused the rules of grammar, and frowned upon speculative fiction. - Josh Malerman

All children are heartless. They have not grown a heart yet, which is why they can climb tall trees and say shocking things and leap so very high that grown-up hearts flutter in terror. Hearts weigh quite a lot. That is why it takes so long to grow one. - Valente, Catherynne

Her screams spiraled up into the night air - Holly Black

A loving relationship is one in which the loved one is free to be himself -- to laugh with me, but never at me; to cry with me, but never because of me; to love life, to love himself, to love being loved. Such a relationship is based upon freedom and can never grow in a jealous heart - Leo Buscaglia

I, a woman, find wearing high heels agreeable only on the very rare occasion that (1) I will be ferried between destinations upon a palanquin or (2) I am going to a cocktail party and, at five feet two, don't want to spend the evening discussing the latest movies with somebody's nipples. - Lauren Collins

His ideas assumed a kind of stupefied and mechanical quality which is peculiar to despair. - Victor Hugo

Then there was LSD, which was supposed to make you think you could fly. I remember it made you think you couldn't stand up, and mostly it was right.

Both spouses are equal, yet different. One of the most beautiful things about a relationship is that the feminine energy can feed a masculine man’s heart. And, the masculine energy can totally light up the feminine energy. - Renee Wade

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

Dear billion dollar eyes they are a paupers dream - Amit Abraham

An old, tired man. That is what I am. What became of the old fire, drive, ambition? There were dreams once upon a time, dreams now all but forgotten. On sad days I dust them off and fondle them nostalgically, with a patronising wonder at the naivete of the youth who dreamed them. - Glen Cook

Faites que le rêve dévore vortre vie afin que la vie ne dévore pas votre rêve. - Antione de Saint-Exupery

You are enough exactly as you are, whether you believe it or not. - Pooja Ruprell

Beware of wolves in sheep's clothing, for they will feed you delicious morsels that they may later feast upon your tender flesh. - Michele Faison

The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large. - Confucius

Life is short; live it up.

Any impatient student of mathematics or science or engineering who is irked by having algebraic symbolism thrust upon him should try to get along without it for a week.

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

Burnout, beat-up and broken down we may limp away from a failed relationship, job or environment, but we will be better equipped to follow our hearts...thoughtfully. Our ability to see the potential in ourselves and others will determine our success. - Steve Knox

Out in the fjord I dragged myself up at once, wet with fever and exhaustion, and gazed landwards, and bade farewell for the present to the town – to Christiania, where the windows gleamed so brightly in all the homes. - Knut Hamsun

The desert, when the sun comes up...I couldn't tell where heaven stopped and the Earth began. - Tom Hanks

A lot of things you do to cover up insecurities can be just as harmful to you as anything else. - Tyler Joseph

In order to pick something up, you've got to put something down. - Todd Stocker

When you feel like giving up, you feel like your at the end of the road, you feel defeated, look up. When you look up there is almost always a light somewhere however faint, go for it, never give in, never give up, you are not truly defeated until you die. - Satuin Segi

Life is a balanced system of learning and evolution. Whether pleasure or pain; every situation in your life serves a purpose. It is up to us to recognize what that purpose could be. - Steve Maraboli

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

Stacks on deckPatrone on iceAnd we can pop bottles all nightAnd baby you could have whatever you likeLate night sex so wet so tightI'll gas up a jet for you tonightAnd baby you could go where ever you like - T.I.

I could watch him do this until morning — never asking questions and never interrupting his work. I worship quietly — his intense focus and attention to detail and then, out of no where, I realize the inconvenient, inappropriate truth: ‘I love this man… and it has swallowed me. - Jennifer Elisabeth

I thought upon the way in which we'd always shared each other's happiness, believing it would make the moment burn brighter and longer, but sadness can be shared too, perhaps sharing makes is burn briefer and less bright. - Tom Rob Smith

A man who tosses worms in the river isn’t 't necessarily a friend of the fish. All the fish who take him for a friend, who think the worm’s got no hook in it, usually end up in the frying pan. - Malcolm X

I am not upset that you don't love me, I am very happy to know that you are still living in my heart, in my love. - Debasish Mridha

This nation is like all the others that have been spewed upon the earth--ready to shout for any cause that will tickle its vanity or fill its pocket. What a hell of a heaven it will be when they get all these hypocrites assembled there!- Letter to J. H. Twichell, 1/29/1901 - Mark Twain

People come up to me and say, "Emo, do people really come up to you?" - Emo Phillips

If you are completely surrounded by the enemies, this proves that you are damn stupid in matters of making friends and such a stupidity, such a miserable clumsiness is your biggest enemy! - Mehmet Murat ildan

An intricate string made up of infinite knots and curls. Taking a step back, it really did seem so fragile. As if the smallest breeze of opportunity would cause it to snap. It held strong though, fastened to me and you as a line of steel. - Hubert Martin

Democracy: stored up in heaven; but unhappily has not yet been communicated to us. - Bernard Crick

My whole career can be summed up with 'Ignorance is bliss.' When you do not know better, you do not really worry about failing. - Jeff Foxworthy

Aside from velcro, time is the most mysterious substance in the universe. You can't see it or touch it, yet a plumber can charge you upwards of seventy-five dollars per hour for it, without necessarily fixing anything. - Dave Barry

She isn’t a dream... I set her body free but I have caged her mind inside my universe and uplifted her soul beyond that - Konstantinos Kyriakou.K.K

El hombre se eleva sobre el animal al arriesgar la vida, no al darla, por eso la humanidad acuerda superioridad al sexo que mata y no al que engendra. - Simone de Beauvoir

As white snowflakes fall quietly and thickly on a winter day, answers to prayer will settle down upon you at every step you take, even to your dying day. The story of your life will be the story of prayer and answers to prayer. - Ole Hallesby

Everyone helping out was supposed to make me feel better, but it actually made me feel more like a screw up. - Kathy Bryson, Fighting Mad

If your government keep making big mistakes and in return you keep supporting your government, then you are the biggest mistake for your country! - Mehmet Murat ildan

The Supreme Court has ruled that they cannot have a nativity scene in Washington, D.C. This wasn't for any religious reasons. They couldn't find three wise men and a virgin. - Jay Leno

It is too easy to call the church political. The nature of fallen people is political. And they happen to make up the church. So the church is innately political. This cannot be helped. But it can be navigated if not always stomached. - Mea McMahon

Societal peer pressure to conform runs strong, but as more of us continue to think and act for ourselves, rather than be under the influence of group-think, we begin to make more effective choices. - Evita Ochel

We are supposed to call poison medicine and we wonder why we're always sick. - Stefan Molyneux

He made me question what was, when for a whole lifetime up till that moment, I accepted the world’s excuses. - Walter Mosley

They support freedom for themselves and slavery for everyone else, and they use the freedom of the market to disguise this fact. Economic coercion is just a different form of force, which they couple with the fraud of calling it freedom. I was like them, but I will never be like them again. - Robert Peate

Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results. - John Dewey

You can't beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you don't even try to. - William Faulkner

After all it was for one justice which is short..., but the journey up to this justice was very long.(Red 2008 Film) - Deyth Banger

Men write many fine and plausible arguments in support of monarchy, but the fact remains that where every man has a voice, brutal laws are impossible. - Mark Twain

God is the source of my supply. His riches flow to me freely, copiously, and abundantly. All my financial and other needs are met at every moment of time and point of space; there is always a divine surplus. - Joseph Murphy

That's the trouble with a politician's life-somebody is always interrupting it with an election. - Will Rogers

You tend to become like that, what you want most. It is up to you to make it happen. Expect the best and work hard. Dedicate yourself to full success. - Mark F. LaMoure

If you're going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you're going to be locked up. - Hunter S. Thompson

It is hard not to see into the future, faced with today's blind architecture - a thousand times more stupid and more revolting than that of other ages. How bored we shall be inside! - André Breton

You become strong by lifting others up, not pulling them down. - Matshona Dhliwayo

The real tradegy is the tragedy of the man who never in his life braces himself for his one supreme effort-he never stretches to his full capacity, never stands up to his full stature. - Arnold Bennett

Every now and then I like to lean out my window, look up and smile for a satellite picture. - Steven Wright

I have come to value liberated minds as the supreme good of life on earth. - J. Frank Dobie

Any feeling, emotion or impulse that originates from the 'mind' can never be suppressed. - Deep Trivedi

I am always chilled and astonished by the would-be writers who ask me for advice and admit, quite blithely, that they "don't have time to read." This is like a guy starting up Mount Everest saying that he didn't have time to buy any rope or pitons. - Stephen King

The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it. - Chinese Proverb

The wine urges me on, the bewitching wine, which sets even a wise man to singing and to laughing gently and rouses him up to dance and brings forth words which were better unspoken. - Homer

Your primary goal should be to have a great life. You can still have a good day, enjoy your child, and ultimately find happiness, whether your ex is acting like a jerk or a responsible person. Your happiness is not dependent upon someone else.

Intelligent individuals learn from every thing and every one; average people, from their experiences. The stupid already have all the answers. - Socrates

Between the dark and the daylight, When the night is beginning to lower, Comes a pause in the day's occupations, That is known as the Children's Hour. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

History is important. If you don't know history it is as if you were born yesterday. And if you were born yesterday, anybody up there in a position of power can tell you anything, and you have no way of checking up on it. - Howard Zinn

Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think. - Dale Carnegie

Men are so stupid and concerned with their present needs, they will always let themselves be deceived.

Make yourself do something stupid, so when you really do something stupid you won't feel so bad.

I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior. - Hippolyte Taine

Superior might does not guarantee success, especially in a war where political considerations dominate. - Richard H. Shultz Jr.

Try not to have a good time...this is supposed to be educational. - Charles M. Schulz

The two dark faces, In front of red sky, beside the water bodies, under the shadow, upon the way ! makes the world to feel that we are not failures ! we are brothers - DINESH DEVIREDDY

Just because we grew up with the Internet, we think that the Internet is all grown up. - Patrik Svensson

Giddy up. - Emily Au

When you wake up to kingdom realities, you find that you are tracing the steps of both the Israelites and Jesus himself into the wilderness. . . . The wilderness is the place where God meets his people, Satan attacks, and kingdom allegiances are revealed. [Ed Welch, Running Scared, 118] - Edward T. Welch

The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

If in thirst you drink water from a cup, you see God in it. Those who are not in love with God will see only their own faces in it. - Jalaluddin Rumi

We should ask God to increase our hope when it is small, awaken it when it is dormant, confirm it when it is wavering, strengthen it when it is weak, and raise it up when it is overthrown. - John Calvin

There’s a fine line between support and stalking and let’s all stay on the right side of that. - Joss Whedon

Inspiration fires you up; motivation keeps you burning. - Stuart Aken

When you are in troubled and worried and sick at heartAnd your plans are upset and your world falls apart,Remember God's ready and waiting to shareThe burden you find much to heavy to bear--So with faith, "Let Go and Let GOD" lead your wayInto a brighter and less troubled day - Helen Steiner Rice

I wake up to find magic, I seek dreams and I crave imagination. This is my creed. - Anastasia Bolinder

The purpose of influence is to "speak up for those who have no influence." (Pr.31:8) It's not about you. - Rick Warren

KEEP, v.t. He willed away his whole estate, And then in death he fell asleep, Murmuring: "Well, at any rate, My name unblemished I shall keep." But when upon the tomb 'twas wrought Whose was it? -- for the dead keep naught. Durang Gophel Arn - Ambrose Bierce

Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright. - Bible

Sometimes, life uppercuts those who look down on other people. - Jorge P. Guerrero

Wellness Salute! - SupaNova Slom

Writers of novels live in a strange world where what's made up is as important as what's real. - Sara Sheridan

Some girls want to be a princess when they grow up. I wanted to be in a bad bitch girl gang. - Natalia Kills

The MistakeHe left his pants upon a chair:She was a widow, so she said:But he was apprehended, bare,By one who rose up from the dead. - Theodore Roethke

It is easier to set a limit for yourself, but if you do so you will never reach your true potential. You have an obligation to live up to your potential. - Debasish Mridha

Among a people generally corrupt, liberty cannot long exist. - Edmund Burke

I married a German. Every night I dress up as Poland and he invades me. - Bette Midler

A word to the wise ain't necessary, it's the stupid ones who need advice. - Bill Cosby

What I adore is supreme professionalism. I’m bored by writers who can write only when it’s raining. - Noël Coward

One of the (many) problems with government is that they are usually so preoccupied with whether or not they can do something that they fail to consider whether or not they should. - Michel Templet

The secret of a good memory is attention, and attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it. We rarely forget that which has made a deep impression on our minds. - Tryon Edwards

It's better to shut up and give the impression that you're stupid than to say something and erase all doubt. - Auliq Ice

When you're tired, sleep. Don't watch stupid tv or play games on your phone. Sleep, and then get up early, and do the stuff you hope you'll be known for after you die. - Maggie Stiefvater

I regard the Klan, the Anglo-Saxon clubs and White American societies, as far as the Negro is concerned, as better friends of the race than all other groups of hypocritical whites put together. - Marcus Garvey

Beauty is not about make up it’s about what it makes you to be from within. - Amit Abraham

Only those who are empty within, seek to suppress those around them - Dara Reidyr

The flickering candlelight conspired with the silence, and we only interrupted each other’s reading to share a casual delight. - Keith Donohue

People are always trying to [mess] up other people's live's by telling lies about 'em. You wanna really [mess] somebody's life up? Tell the truth about 'em. They ain't never gonna be the same. - Brian Buckner

Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I'm afraid it did. - Bette Davis

I could give up, it's the easiest optionBut what would I achieve? Many sleepless nights holding regretOf all I didn't seek, That option will never exist to me; My dreams are far too real, Down the hard road I findMy place in the world; the closest To home Ill ever feel. - Nikki Rowe

Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior. - Socrates

Back of every creation, supporting it like an arch, is faith. Enthusiasm is nothing: It comes and goes. But if one believes, then miracles occur. - Henry Miller

Always look up to the better. They tell you where to go but never look down upon inferior because you know, you were once there. - Prashant Balan

You have the love and support of God and the angels, but only you can take responsibility for your life, for your dreams. Only you can make the daily choices needed that create the life you want to live. - Eileen Anglin

If you're brave enough to love, and forgive, and call up the factofabulous memories... there's no curse in the world that has any power over you. - Natalie Lloyd

You Hang on to your pain like it means something; like it's worth something. Well, let me tell you, it's not worth shit, so let it go. Infinite Possibilities and all you can do is whine.""Well, what am I supposed to do?""What do you think? You can do anything, you lucky bastard; You're alive! - Nancy Oliver

Does that count as an argument? Can we kiss and make up now?"It was only half an argument.Fine. Then, you kiss and I’ll make up.I laughed until he effectively shut me up with his lips. - Colleen Houck

CORPORAL, n. A man who occupies the lowest rung of the military ladder. Fiercely the battle raged and, sad to tell, Our corporal heroically fell! Fame from her height looked down upon the brawl And said: "He hadn't very far to fall." Giacomo Smith - Ambrose Bierce

It isn't for the moment you are struck that you need courage, but for that long uphill climb back to sanity and faith and security. - Anne Morrow Lindbergh

The past wasn’t a guest you could ask to leave when you tired of its company. No, the past put up its feet and meant to stay. - Sonja Yoerg

If you get all tangled up, just tango on. - Al Pacino in Scent of Woman

What keeps you confident in a healthy way is knowing that everyone else around you is going to support you and teach you and you're going to learn from them. I just feel open to learning from people. - Elizabeth Olsen

People have a hunger to experience the spectacular, but the Lord is supernatural. - Sherry K. White

As if there were safety in stupidity alone. - Henry David Thoreau

I didn't cry when they buried my father - I wouldn't let myself. I didn't cry when they buried my sister. On Thursday night, with my family asleep upstairs, my eyes filled as Agassi and Marcos Baghdatis played out the fifth set of their moving second-round match. - Greg Garber

Simply having the courage to say senseless things made me euphoric. I was free, with no need to seek or to give explanations for what I was doing. This freedom lifted me to the heavens - where greater love, one that forgives everything and never allows you to feel abandoned, once again enveloped me. - Paulo Coelho

Maybe to feel superior in struggle was sensed, When people were aware to fight for identity. - Marieta Maglas

Preservation of the past has been one of humankind’s chief preoccupations for centuries, although I am not convinced much of it is worth preserving. - Chris Flynn

It's sad to see the world live in ignorance full of pain only enjoyed luxuriously by the few stupid greedy ones. - Auliq Ice

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen. - John Steinbeck

Ukhuwah itu tidak bisa dihapus dalam satu perintah, walaupun yang memerintah adalah seorang raja yang mempunyai banyak prajurit. Ukhuwah juga bukan sesuatu yang bisa diminta. Allah lah yang telah menghadirkan ukhuwah di antara kita.. bukan aku, kamu, dia.. dan mereka. - Sasdanu Priambodo

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

We look up to see if it is day or night. If stars burn cool and moon does shine, We take to smoke divine and wine.If breath of sun does belch its heat,we boil coffee and prepare to eat. - Roman Payne

The ABC's success by Bob Proctor is one powerful book, such books are rare. Even sometimes it's hard to find a book which is based on somebody's experience... fantasy??For god sake, one drop truth which is about from 10% up to 20% and the other from 80% up to 90% it's a lie. - Deyth Banger

It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his job depends on not understanding it. - Upton Sinclair

It was the word 'late' that did it. Such a stupid word to use of the dead, implying that they would be with us today if they hadn't happened to be delayed in traffic somewhere... - Emma Donoghue

A constitution, as important as it is, will mean nothing unless the people are yearning for liberty and freedom. - U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg

A family is a group of people who keep confusing you with someone you were as a kid. - Robert Brault

In my mind, Martha, you are buried in cement right up to your neck. No… right up to your nose… that’s much quieter. - Edward Albee

The Pythagorean ... having been brought up in the study of mathematics, thought that things are numbers ... and that the whole cosmos is a scale and a number. - Aristotle

And people get all fouled up because they want the world to have meaning as if it were words... As if you had a meaning, as if you were a mere word, as if you were something that could be looked up in a dictionary. You are meaning. - Alan W. Watts

It's impossible to walk through solid rock... You have to walk between the molecules that make up the rock. - J.M. Dattilo

I didn't have all the answers, but at least I had a goal. Revenge. Who cared if it would eat me up inside and leave me hollow? - Brandon Sanderson

LITIGANT, n. A person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bones. - Ambrose Bierce

Even the blind man can see the beauty as it rides upon the sound of a voice, edge itself between the lines on his fingerprints to be spread upon the smooth snippets of life he touches. - Adri Sinclair

But I, when I undress meEach night, upon my kneesWill ask the Lord to bless meWith apple-pie and cheese. - Eugene Field

The way people want to get respect for their culture and language, it is critical to reciprocate the same to other else you don't have any right to condemn others - Pankaj Gupta

Everyone changes so slowly, they don't even know that they have. And everyone likes to pretend that things are just the same yet they look at you like you could bring something back that's supposed to already be here. But home is a time. Not just a place. - Iain Thomas

He that lives upon hope will die fasting. - Benjamin Franklin

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

Everything is going well "Day One" book up to page 137, planning som new movies to watch in the near future, close to awesome and powerful quotes. Some new and awesome events... - And that's life, that's how it must be! - Deyth Banger

for the disproportionate fear that the statistically and historically minimal group of women who were both angry and had hairy legs have inculcated both in their detractors and in their wannabe-successors, we should salute them as often as possible - Nina Power

I don’t understand how I could have believed you were a warm, affectionate, and tenderhearted person! You’re obviously as prickly as a porcupine and any man who comes close to you will end up with a face full of quills! - Colleen Houck

Religious liberty might be supposed to mean that everybody is free to discuss religion. In practice it means that hardly anybody is allowed to mention it. - G.K. Chesterton

If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid. - Epictetus

I feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system. - Ann Richards

Mungu ndiye aliyetengeneza ubongo. Ni vizuri kuamini kwamba Yeye ndiye anayetupa maarifa, kupitia malaika wema, kuhusu maisha yetu na kuhusu siri ya uumbaji wake. - Enock Maregesi

It was vision that dulled trust. It was vision that uplifted trust. Let them see how. - Ray McFarland

Every morning I wake up and thank God that I don't believe in him. - Mike Malloy

When in prayer, there is no need to implore, beg or repeat. You have been heard, and your wishes will be granted perfectly at the right time. Relax, be patient and do not fret. - Pooja Ruprell

One time I actually cleaned out my closet so good I ended up on the cover of Time magazine. - Ellen DeGeneres

Morality is just a fiction used by the herd of inferior human beings to hold back the few superior men. - Friedrich Nietzsche

People who are always making allowances for themselves soon go bankrupt. - Mary Pettibone Poole

All goes onward and outward, nothing collapses, And to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier. - Walt Whitman

The way the early Protestants taught on the other hand is that everybody is a full time minister in their various places of work. They went to the extent of saying, your job, profession, occupation is your calling - Sunday Adelaja

Don’t sit! Stand up and jump on the reality! - Mehmet Murat ildan

Tears only dry up as a result of hardness of the heart, and the hearts only harden as a result of frequent sinning. - Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S

A man only has the right to look down at another when he helps him to lift himself up. - Gabriel García Márquez

To fly up to the sky and watch the earth is beautiful; to fly down to the earth and watch the sky is even more beautiful! - Mehmet Murat ildan

A lot of people come up here and they thank Jesus for this award. I want you to know that no one had less to do with this award than Jesus. He didn't help me a bit. If it was up to him, Cesar Millan would be up here with that damn dog. So all I can say is, 'suck it, Jesus! This award is my God now'! - Kathy Griffin

Consider too, how deep the abyss between life and death; across this, my power can build a bridge, but it can never fill up the frightful chasm. - Johann Ludwig Tieck

Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them. - Joseph Heller

Those who are lifting the world upward and onward are those who encourage more than criticize.

It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us. It is easier to give a cup of rice to relieve hunger than to relieve the loneliness and pain of someone unloved in our home. Bring love into your home for this is where our love for each other must start. - Mother Teresa

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

The places and people in the following stories have been represented accurately to the best of my ability; yet my writing is supposed to be a tale, and as in any historical novel, my own imagination has blended with fact to create poetical reality. - Eric Sloane

I will say nothing... against the course of my existence. But at bottom it has been nothing but pain and burden, and I can affirm that during the whole of my 75 years, I have not had four weeks of genuine well-being. It is but the perpetual rolling of a rock that must be raised up again forever. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

When you really want something, and you couple that with an understanding of your nature, of your spiritual being, and the law that govern you, you will keep going, regardless of what's happened. Nothing will stop you. - Bob Proctor

I, too, have to end up worshipping at the altar where God’s name is truth. - Philip Novak

Have your one good cry, pick your chin up, smile, and move on to the positive. - Auliq Ice

Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change. - Confucius

Thought is the supreme power. The right question will have the right answer. - Debasish Mridha

It is never late to earn a degree, masters or doctorate. Learning has no age limit. All age groups are welcome to the act of learning. - Lailah Gifty Akita

When sorrow's cup is filled up to the brim,the slightest touch of memory can cause tears to spill again. - John Mark Green

Once upon a time, is how stories begin... - N'Zuri Za Austin

God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right, even though I think it is hopeless. - Chester Nimitz

Made up of some holy freaking atoms. - Sirio Berati

Forced connections are the worst. Stop tryna force people to love you, to like you, to be in ya life etc. You just gon end up emotionally exhausted. If they not putting in the same effort as you, leave em alone. - Amal Fh

[Mankind] is governed by minorities, seldom or never by majorities. It suppresses its feelings and its beliefs and follows the handful that makes the most noise. Sometimes the noisy handful is right, sometimes wrong, but no matter, the crowd follows it. - Mark Twain

It is a friend's duty that he does not leave his friend in a difficult position but provide intimacy and support to him. In difficulty who leaves is a false and the one not quitting is a true friend. - Acharya Mahapragya

Learn to set the pace for your relationship as a couple...not how the world thinks but how God designed it to be. - Kemi Sogunle

This is my sin for giving in to my own weaknesses. My heart just couldn't keep up with the gigantic gap between dreams and reality. -Jellal Fernandes - Hiro Mashima

Your father is the only God. You can also become god but you must follow a simple rule and let that rule be made up of love. - Santosh Kalwar

Judge, criticize, object before you decide to believe something; but once you believe, you're but an idiot if you need to be scrupulous any more. - Raheel Farooq

TRUTH, n. An ingenious compound of desirability and appearance. Discovery of truth is the sole purpose of philosophy, which is the most ancient occupation of the human mind and has a fair prospect of existing with increasing activity to the end of time. - Ambrose Bierce

Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Sit down, have a nice cup of coffee read a book in another language - the fountain of youth! - Stephen D. Krashen

The inability to open up to hope is what blocks trust, and blocked trust is the reason for blighted dreams. - Elizabeth Gilbert

The world exists to end up in a book. - Stéphane Mallarmé

Superior poets say what they really feel. Mediocre poets say what they decide to feel. Inferior poets say what they think they should feel. - Álvaro de Campos

When you wake up each morning with a burning passion to accomplish a goal, you've already won the day. - George Alexiou

It's not in how many times you fall down, what matters is how many times you get back up.

If you don't do anything, you simply end up overwhelmed by something happening. - Matsuri Hino

Up, lad: thews that lie and cumberSunlit pallets never thrive;Morns abed and daylight slumberWere not meant for man alive. - A.E. Housman

So many love affairs doesn't survive, because the couple has been very loving to each other but with the time they stop respecting each other. - Amit Kalantri

We gave ourselves for lost men, and prepared for death. Yet we did lift up our hearts and voices to God above, who "showeth His wonders in the deep". - Francis Bacon

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

A friend of mine told a story about a date with a guy she was really excited about: He stood her up. He then called her, begging her forgiveness and giving some excuse. She told him to get lost, telling him that he only gets one shot with her, and he blew it. - Greg Behrendt

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened. - Winston S. Churchill

When the souls rise up in glory, yours shall not be shunned nor sunderered, but shall be the prize of the gods' gardens. Even your darkness shall be treasured then, and all your pain made holy. - Lois McMaster Bujold

My journey has begunand the direction is upwards. I am shooting for the stars and will come back with a shine like never before. I am blessed beyond measure. - Positive Attitude

The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, "How's the President?" - Will Rogers

We lose the understanding that death always begets life of some sort, and that life is always an opportunist, persistently standing ready to build something out of the smoldering ashes and raise something up out of the tangled carnage. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

Dr. Morris believes, and I strongly agree, that couples are most likely to bond securely when they have not rushed the dating experience. Time is the critical ingredient. - James C. Dobson

Our generation is realistic, for we have come to know man as he really is. After all, man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those gas chambers upright, with the Lord's Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips. - Viktor E. Frankl

You know, when you're young, you have moments of such happiness, you think you're living in someplace magical, like Atlantis must have been. Then we grow up, and our hearts break in two."Ted Brautigan, Hearts in Atlantis - Deyth Banger

Rais wa Tume ya Dunia hakuchaguliwa kupata sifa ya madaraka na hivyo kunyanyasa na kudharau watu kwa sababu ya madaraka yake, bali alichaguliwa kuleta mabadiliko katika dunia kama Rais wa Tume ya Dunia kutetea afya na amani ya dunia nzima kwa unyenyekevu na heshima kwa binadamu wenzake. - Enock Maregesi

Why, that dog is practically a Phi Beta Kappa. She can sit up and beg, and she can give her paw -- I don't say she will but she can. - Dorothy Parker

We wait upon finite minds to validate infinite things— this is evidence of human stupidity. - C. JoyBell C.

They really do occupy a scrumptious little dark corner of my heart! - Geoffrey Wood

In the home begins the disruption of the peace of the world. - Mother Teresa

Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. - George Bernard Shaw

The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play. - Arnold Toynbee

At this time of year it's easy to forget the true meaning of Christianity - the lies, the corruption, the abuse. - Banksy

Morality is only for the middle class, sweet. The lower class can't afford it, and the upper classes have entirely too much leisure time to fill - Lisa Kleypas

When you learn to talk people up, you will never talk yourself down. - Richmond Akhigbe

​The destiny of nations depends upon the manner in which they feed themselves. - Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

I believe that death should not be feared instead we should endure life and give our best even though life isn't always fair we shall always enjoy life the way it comes and if death is upon us its cause its time for us to go knowing that there is something better for us..... - Miguel Angel Puma

This is what Helen has learned: it is possible to be so tired you cannot reach for the sky, you cannot breathe. You can’t even talk. You can’t pick up the phone. You can’t do a dish or dance or cook or do up your own zipper. - Lisa Moore

Knowledge. How curious that a man who closes his hand upon air so often thinks that he has a ruby within his grasp. - Idries Shah

In the morning, a cup of love, kindness and sunshine make my day bright and happy. - Debasish Mridha

The best cure for a stick up your butt is a dog to play fetch with. - Ryan Lilly

We are most alive when we're in love. - John Updike

You can never learn to be strong if you have not fallen and got up by yourself. - Auliq Ice

Falling in love in a Christian way is to say,'I am excited about your future and I want to be part of getting you there. I'm signing up for the journey with you. Would you sign up for the journey to my true self with me? It's going to be hard but I want to get there. - Timothy J. Keller

I think people need to recognize that those of us who have been so much influenced by violence in the media- in particular pornographic violence- are not some kinds of inherent monsters. We are your sons, and we are your husbands. And we grew up in regular families. - James C. Dobson

Defeating depression is like playing the carnival game Whac-a-mole. You have to give it your all and be on target to beat that sucker down when it pops up again and again. If you pay attention, learn from your past efforts, and keep at it, you can win." -Mel. Edwards - Mel Edwards

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean. - Maya Angelou

Never blame men, they have too many responsibilities because they live in a country where they are being taught to take up the burden since they get an erection. - Himmilicious

Truth burns up error. - Sojourner Truth

There are some corrupt Christians who do their business with female donkeys. - Gabriel García Márquez

Sometime a #lie is more #honest than the #truth . At least that lie will guide you to the #path you really believe TO walk" It tells , who U R - Tushar Upreti

Love makes you stronger ... Love gives you courage ... Love destroys youPain destroys you ... Pain gives you courage ... Pain makes you stronger - George Bîrzu

It is so stupid of modern civilization to have given up believing in the devil when he is the only explanation of it.

I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day. - Frank Sinatra

You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him up to a heavy load. - Paul "Bear" Bryant

The best way to get through any challenge is to step back, look up at the sky, breathe deeply in and out, smile if you have to…then dive in. - Waylon H. Lewis

Fall down twice... get up three times. - Found on a button on a curtain

Your outlook upon life, your estimate of yourself, your estimate of your value are largely colored by your environment. Your whole career will be modified, shaped, molded by your surroundings, by the character of the people whom you come in contact everyday. - Orison Swett Marden

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

Who is better off? The one who writes to revel in the voluptuousness of the life that surrounds them? Or the one who writes to escape the tediousness of that which awaits them outside? Whose flame will last longer? - Roman Payne

If the only tool in Willem's arsenal was a silent supplication to an absent almighty, then I might as well be sitting next to a raving radical ready to die for the promise of seventy-two virgins and a couple of camels. - Lisa C. Temple

Faith all grown up is trust. - Adam LiVecchi

As you remove toxic people from your life, you free up space and emotional energy for positive, healthy relationships. - John Mark Green

Self-correction makes me check the ruler of my life against the yardstick of my inner voice. I acknowledge when I don’t measure up. Self-correction is an ongoing process. If done often enough, I can stop myself from straying off the path. - Stella Payton

Quand une chanson vous fait pleurer, mais que vous n'avez plus envie de pleurer, vous cessez de l'écouter.Mais échapper à soi-même, c'est impossible. On ne peut pas décider de ne plus se voir. De couper le son à l'intérieur de sa tête. - Jay Asher

Wearing your feelings on your sleeve will end up being a chip on your shoulder. - John Paul Warren

In other words, we may, by fixing our attention almost fiercely on the facts actually before us, force them to turn into adventures; force them to give up their meaning and fulfill their mysterious purpose. - G.K. Chesterton

There is no limit to stupidity. Space itself is said to be bounded by its own curvature, but stupidity continues beyond infinity.

Let us pray for wisdom not for superstitions. - Debasish Mridha

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

Lawyers, I suppose, were children once. - Charles Lamb

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

God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well. - Voltaire

To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it. - G.K. Chesterton

I find it funny that you could pass the same person on the street, in a store, or even in your neighborhood many times before actually meeting, thinking you’ve never seen them before, but when you are finally introduced, they seem to pop up everywhere. - Courtney Giardina

Limited money and family obligations have never stopped a man who really wanted to do something, although they provide excuses for a man who is not really up to the creative challenge in the first place. Find out today whether you are willing to do what it takes. - David Deida

Excuse me, I feel interrupted and I think I've overdose from the idea of loving you. - Robert M. Drake

If you haven’t the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you. - T.S. Eliot

Most cars on our roads have only one occupant, usually the driver.

People are like pistachios. Some of them open up easily, but there are others who need to be really broken to get into.- - RVM

Being a messenger of love is all about caring for every person in your orbit unconditionally and ceaselessly. The harder the other person makes it for you, the more love you need to send their way. - Pooja Ruprell

When you fall for someone not even reason can help you up. - Matshona Dhliwayo

When children are given spiritual guidance, they grow-up learning to know how to pray and praise God. Even though they might not be a religious person in their later years, those values they were taught are the things they remember in their times of need. - Ellen J. Barrier

I loved you, I trusted you, but you lied to me, deceived my heart and poisoned my life.Now I'm corrupt, I hurt people all in rage of you, but I can't help it.I'm nothing to you now, never was, but your acting still made it hurt. So thanks to you, I hate you too, but my heart will always cry. - blank text

Centrally planned economies are upended by out of control population. Their escape valve is eugenics. - A.E. Samaan

How much of the national news that you report to the public each night consists of information you've actually gone out and dug up on your own?

In a tough situation, don't avoid acting just because it's easier or comfortable. Don't lapse into a passive state. People who give up, die. - Gregory Benford

But it seems that I can tackle the most esoteric of recipes, the most elusive puff pastry, as long as I do not have to count the empty layers of loneliness building up inside. - Kim Sunée

Our mission is not to impose our peculiar institutions upon other nations by physical force or diplomatic treachery but rather by internal peace and prosperity to solve the problem of self-government and reconcile democratic freedom with national stability. - Benjamin Harrison

God is only a word dreamed up to explain the world - Gustave Flaubert

Readers often tell me after they've read the books, they find it difficult to sum up the plot in a simple way. My response is, "It's a story about the love a father shares for his daughter. All the rest is just filler."- MJ Mancini, on his best-selling trilogy, "Revelation". - M.J. Mancini

A revolutionary career does not lead to banquets and honorary titles, interesting research and professorial wages. It leads to misery, disgrace, ingratitude, prison and a voyage into the unknown, illuminated by only an almost superhuman belief. - Max Horkheimer

I was trying to help... The more I try to catch up, the farther I fall behind. - Veronica Rossi

A flock of sheep near the airport or a high voltage generator beside the orchard: these combinations open up my life like a wound, but they also heal it. That's why my feelings always come in twos. - Yehuda Amichai

Do you keep silent to keep a friendship or do you try to lend your support unconditionally, even if what they are doing goes against everything you believe in? Will it be principles over friendship, morality over love? - Donna Lynn Hope

Moonlight drifts from overA hundred thousand milesTo fall upon a cemeteryIt reads a hundred epitaphsAnd then smiles at a nest ofBaby owls - Richard Brautigan

God is but a supernatural spirit. He resides dormant in you, until you awaken to liberate yourself from this ignorance that you are body and mind. - Gian Kumar

In civilized societies, if you are offended by a cartoon, you do not burn flags, take up guns and raid buildings, chant death to your opponents, or threaten suicide bombings. You write a letter to the editor. - Michelle Malkin

Always be nice to people on the way up; because you'll meet the same people on the way down. - Wilson Mizner

Success corrupts character when a person loses the spirit of thankfulness. - Orrin Woodward

Happy COUPLES are those who have passed both chemistry and physics! - Mohith Agadi

Rich people don't elicit much sympathy.It is not about how to save, invest, spend, hide and give away money, but unmasking the true nature of money, how it works.Be the one to create the system that supports the kind of society we desire for ourselves and the future generation. - Prince Akwarandu

Time is something that cannot be bought, it cannot be wagered with God, and it is not in endless supply. Time is simply how you live your life. - Craig Sager

Kissing is something that makes up for a whole lot of the other crap you have to put up with in school, and as a teenager in general - Maureen Johnson Name of the Star

There was a disturbance in my heart, a voice that spoke there and said, I want, I want, I want! It happened every afternoon, and when I tried to suppress it it got even stronger. - Saul Bellow

If you lose one battle, don’t give up. Get up again, you have a war to win. - Sira Masetti

. . . it’s okay if we get mad at each other?Yeah, Buddy, it’s OK, as long as we don’t stay mad, and as long as we forgive each other when we mess up.from upcoming book, "When I Am in Your Arms. - Charlotte Snead

There is nothing that teaches you more than regrouping after failure ad moving on. Yet most people are stricken wth fear. They fear failure so much that they fail. - Charles Bukowski

When I am with you, we stay up all night.When you're not here, I can't go to sleep.Praise God for those two insomnias!And the difference between them. - Jalaluddin Rumi

A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world. - Dorothy L. Sayers

Forgiveness frees up your heart to allow more positivity into your life. Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself. - Eileen Anglin

Live each day like you are celebrating your birthday—that is what life wants for you. Engage with family and friends. Indulge in good food, music and dance. You are precious to life. - Pooja Ruprell

The odds of finding the one you truly love above all else, is about 1 in 4 billion. The odds that the person you love, loves you back... don't even dream about it, it's not going to happen. Most couples today do not revolve around real love. - Dylan West

A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past. - Eric Hoffer

Let us, then be up and doing, With a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labour and to wait. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I like any reaction I can get with my music. Just anything to get people to think. I mean if you can get a whole room full of drunk, stoned people to actually wake up and think, you're doing something. - Jim Morrison

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it. - Thomas Paine

If you know one thing very well and the rest only superficially, that one thing will always appear to be more 'unique. - Piero Scaruffi

An atheist is a person who has nobody to blame when he screws up. - Fakeer Ishavardas

Unnecessary Counter arguments. Can expose your ignorance and stupidity. - Talees Rizvi

God never gives you more than you can handle. It's your choice on how you deal with what he gives you. You can either grow from it, or you can lie down and give up. - Kendra Sedgwick

My formula for life is very simple: in the morning, wake up; at night, go to sleep. In between I try and occupy myself as best I can. - Cary Grant

Most of our censure of others is only oblique praise of self, uttered to show the wisdom and superiority of the speaker. It has all the insidiousness of self-praise, and all the ill-desert of falsehood.

Time has laid its healing hand upon the wound when we can look back at the the pain we once fainted under, and no bitterness or despair arises in our heart. - Jerome K. Jerome

If you're lost and aloneOr you're sinking like a stoneCarry on...May your past be the soundOf your feet upon the groundCarry on - Fun

Failure is the ultimate motivator, the supreme teacher, and the definitive guarantee of life. Failure is what makes success so addictive. - Noel DeJesus

In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S. Thompson

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

The cupidity centered on bank statements and shareholdings is more difficult to understand than the avarice of an Elizabethan trader. - Penelope Lively

The stork is voiceless because there is really nothing to say. - Will Cuppy

I pushed him against his Jeep, looked him dead in the eye and kissed him. He asked if he could come up, and I just walked up the steps and said, not yet. That was the moment I knew I loved him. - Dominic Riccitello

Trust is a delicate idea, held up by time and togetherness. But one person slips and the whole thing shatters. Like glass. and young girls' hearts. - Anonymous

You think I'm giving up. I'm not. I'm giving in. - Kamand Kojouri

Encouragement is the most effective way to change someone’s behavior. When you see the best in them you encourage them to become that and they will want to live up to your high opinion of them. - Kimberly Giles

PORTABLE, adj. Exposed to a mutable ownership through vicissitudes of possession. His light estate, if neither he did make it Nor yet its former guardian forsake it, Is portable improperly, I take it. Worgum Slupsky - Ambrose Bierce

I don’t want to accidentally end up looking back on my life to find that I’m ashamed of myself, I want to live a life I can be proud of. - Alice Bag

She'd not known grief would come in waves, brought on by the smallest of things. Nor had she realized that ordinary acts of living would continue even after the loss of a love and that it would remain possible to get caught up in the moment of a simple pleasure before remembering. - Tess Thompson

Complexity in life is to do with coming out of comfort zone, taking no risk is risk of all you take. Strive for more, either you end up with victory or a lesson to victory! - Praveen Chenna

Over time, I discovered that learning new things doesn't always liberate you. Instead it makes you wonder if your pants are on backward or if the trees are holding the sky up - it makes you question all of your assumptions and conventions. - Dee Williams

Where love and wisdom drink out of the same cup, in this everyday world, it is the exception.

It takes far less courage to kill yourself than it takes to make yourself wake up one more time. It is harder to stay where you are than to get out.

We thought we were running away from the grown-ups, and now we are the grown-ups.

If you ask what's your problem, most people won't be able to tell, yet they live miserable lives. - Saurabh Gupta Earth5R

I'm so in love with you I can't stand up. - Kim Addonizio

When you can no longer tell the difference between being yourself and being love, you are not far from waking up. - Eric Micha'el Leventhal

We don't beat the Grim Reaper by living longer, we beat the Reaper by living well and living fully, for the Reaper will come for all of us. The question is what do we do between the time we are born and the time he shows up. It's too late to do all the things that you're gonna kinda get around to. - Randy Pausch

If I am always standing at the bottom of the mountain longingly looking up, in all probability it is because I have heeded the pillaging dogma of mediocrity which persistently tells me that the dream is not worth the climb. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

Sometimes we need to just brush away our pride, break down the walls around our hearts, and open up to those we truly care for. - Imania Margria

Most people don't grow up. Most people age. They find parking spaces, honor their credit cards, get married, have children, and call that maturity. What that is, is aging. - Maya Angelou

The foreign policy aim of ants can be summed up as follows: restless aggression, territorial conquest, and genocidal annihilation of neighboring colonies whenever possible. If ants had nuclear weapons, they would probably end the world in a week. - Bert Hölldobler, Edward Wilson

No one has something original or important to say will willing we run the risk of being misunderstood; people who write obscurely are either unskilled in writing or up to mischief - William Zinsser

No Matter what path in Life you take... It's up to you to Finish the Journey - Frederick E. Owen Jr.

sometimes i wake upin the middleof the nightand findpoetry splatteredall over my bed. - Sanober Khan

Master the difference between somebody wanting to get into your business vs. somebody wanting to be of support to you, everyone is not out to destroy you - Tammie Beard

We are anointed for our assignment on earth because the anointed King lives in us--He is fulfilling His will through us. - E.N. Supen

AIM, n. The task we set our wishes to. "Cheer up! Have you no aim in life?" She tenderly inquired. "An aim? Well, no, I haven't, wife; The fact is -- I have fired." G.J. - Ambrose Bierce

PATRIOT, n. One to whom the interests of a part seem superior to those of the whole. The dupe of statesmen and the tool of conquerors. - Ambrose Bierce

As men and women we need to occupy our space as Kings and Queens; move into our new reality. It only requires mindset. - Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.

Exactly when will you give up?When things will seem out of your hands ?When situations will seem out of your control?Will you try to control them? Or will you let go?Will you give up then? Or will you keep holding on?Don't tell me that I gave up; I didn't.Because I didn't let go; I just let it be. - Sanhita Baruah

Business is Ideas only notRupees or Dollars - Aboobacker Amani

We tend to live up to our expectations. - Earl Nightingale

the fact that every people feel itself threatened by the others gives the state it's definite unifying powers; it depends upon the instinct of self-preservation of society itself; the latent external crisis enables it to get the upper hand in internal crises - Martin Buber

This is our purpose: to make as meaningful as possible this life that has been bestowed upon us; to live in such a way that we may be proud of ourselves; to act in such a way that some part of us lives on. - Oswald Spengler

A cannonball travels only two thousand miles an hour; light travels two hundred thousand miles a second. Such is the superiority of Jesus Christ over Napoleon. - Victor Hugo

I believe writing is a gift God gave us to share His thoughts poured out upon us! Writing is a talent needing care and comfort; open up and let the Lord inspire you! - Mary Kate

Progress always involves risk; you can't steal second base and keep your foot on first. - F.W. Dupee

What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do. - Bob Dylan

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

Stand up, tall, like a tower... Then I fall just like a domino. - The Dead Weather

I don't wanna change the world,I just wanna leave it colder..Light the fuse and burn it up,Take the path that leads to nowhere.. - Breaking Benjamin

It's misleading to suppose there is any basic difference between education and entertainment. - Marshall McLuhan

Fed by plants, fed up with the world - Evan Baldonado

Faith goes up the stairs that love has built and looks out the windows which hope has opened. - Charles Haddon Spurgeon

I'll fall for you, if you fall for me"that's not how love's supposed to be;its when you seek solace in pain and love retains without complaints. - Kashish Gurung

I wasn't born of a whistle or milked from a thistle at twilightNo I was all horns and thorns sprung out fully formed, knock-kneed and upright. - Joanna Newsom

To be a hero is to become a paradox. The very act of wanting to be a hero implies that you wish danger upon others in order to save them, for one cannot be a hero with needing someone to save. - Brandon Varnell

Creative powers can just as easily turn out to be destructive. It rests solely with the moral personality whether they apply themselves to good things or to bad. And if this is lacking, no teacher can supply it or take its place - Carl Jung

When it comes to things such as sugar and rice, most people believe that brown is superior to white. But when it comes to human beings, they believe that the opposite is true. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

Fascism is capitalism plus murder. - Upton Sinclair

Every divine promise is built upon four pillars; God's justice or holiness, which will not suffer Him to deceive; His grace or goodness, which will not suffer Him to forget; His truth, which will not suffer Him to change; and His power, which makes Him able to accomplish.

Love is being stupid together. - Paul Valery

Racists are everywhere, but historically speaking the real danger came from Progressives that desired the power of the state to engineer society upon a racial lines. - A.E. Samaan

Gay diversity is like the Village People. You can all wear different stupid outfits as long as you sing the same stupid song. - Jack Malebranche

An honest religious thinker is like a tightrope walker. He almost looks as though he were walking on nothing but air. His support is the slenderest imaginable. And yet it really is possible to walk on it. - Ludwig Wittgenstein

when the presence is like thunderstorm , the absence prevail deep dark silence. - Upasana Banerjee

If you're not quite cognizant of your madness, then you're deliberately blindfolded to your supposedly fake reality - Menna Anwar

Kinko's is the soup kitchen for the technologically disadvantaged. - Paul Orfalea

Yesterday, the president met with a group he calls the coalition of the willing. Or, as the rest of the world calls them, Britain and Spain - Jon Stewart

Good Morning! Wake up and smile like the morning sun. - Debasish Mridha

As llamas have never heard of oxygen, they do not miss it. - Will Cuppy

As regards moral courage, then, it is not so much that the public schools support it feebly, as that they suppress it firmly. - G.K. Chesterton

Time is running faster than watch.Life is running faster than Time.We are running faster than Life.In this race, relations are being left behind - Pankaj Gupta

Our goodness, our badness all develop from social experience, the company we keep, the things we're taught when we're young. We start with a clean slate. It's everyone else who fucks us up. - S. Walden

Through powerful and heartfelt communication with the universe, you can create a new world everyday-you can be proud of. - Pooja Ruprell

Anything that’s human is mentionable, and anything that is mentionable can be more manageable. When we can talk about our feelings, they become less overwhelming, less upsetting, and less scary. The people we trust with that important talk can help us know that we are not alone. - Fred Rogers

I preach darkness. I don't inspire hope—only shadows. It's up to you to find the light in my words. - Charles Lee

Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic. - Dan Rather

The minute your group gets so big you don't know anybody in it and they don't know you, there's hell to pay. - Dorothy Canfield Fisher

Laurie herself was more focused on the years when her kids were little, when she felt so necessary and purposeful, a battery all charged up with love. Every day she used it up and every night it got miraculously replenished. Nothing had ever been as good as that. - Tom Perrotta

I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. - Thomas Jefferson

Gratitude is uplifting and helps you glow, stay beautiful, and feel eternally young as it churns up zeal and undying enthusiasm. - Pooja Ruprell

No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them - Elie Wiesel

Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public. - Robert Morley

When you're young your reality is accepted by most. When you're older, your reality changes and that seems to upset most people. - Solange nicole

If the day ever comes that it (Deep Space Nine) isn't safe for kids to run around this station we all need to pack up and go home. - Una McCormack

It's easy to grow old if you haven't grown up - John Hively

When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many things I sought, And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste. - William Shakespeare

Packed up the Dylan and the Man Ray and the JoyceI left a note that said well I guess I got no choiceScuse me girl while I'm kicking it to the curbLeaving with all I need but less than I deserve - Walter Becker

Mormons invented themselves just as other religious and ethnic groups invented themselves. But Mormons did so in such a singularly impressive way that we will probably always remain baffled as to how exactly it happened. - Laurence Moore

It’s been a tough couple of years for condescending nerds. And if bookstores fall, Jon, America will be inundated with a wandering, snarky underclass of unemployable purveyors of useless and arcane esoterica. - John Hodgman

It's not vanity to know your own good points. It would just be stupidity if you didn't; It's only vanity when you get puffed up about them. - L. M. Montgomery

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

Causes for attachment are created at the very time abhorrence occurs. Familiarity (acquaintance) up to a certain point will result in attachment and if it reaches ‘ridge point’ & goes past further, it will result in abhorrence. - Dada Bhagwan

A paucity of material can open up just as many possibilities. - Sara Sheridan

A large vessel will never fill up no matter how small the leak is. - Matshona Dhliwayo

While we have very serious problems with the universe, it is most illogical and most stupid to make wars among ourselves! Let there be peace on earth so that we can fight with the real enemy: The ever-changing unreliable universe! - Mehmet Murat ildan

The stupid neither forgive or forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget. - Thomas Szasz

When man meets himself upon the reflexion of the mirror, it is always advisable to ask the question "Who are you?". If an unsatisfactory answer comes forth, then one must delve into the far reaches of Self and understand why he failed to answer this simple, yet transcending question. - Pablo Andrés Wunderlich Padilla

It might behoove us to realize that isolation is the absence of all the senseless clutter, and all the incessant racket that would keep God from having ample room to show up and sufficient silence to be heard. Therefore, isolation may actually be the place where we are least isolated. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

Years wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.

Estoy bajo el agua y los latidos de mi corazón producen círculos en la superficie. - Milan Kundera

Of the gladdest moments in human life, methinks, is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands. Shaking off with one mighty effort the fetters of Habit, the leaden weight of Routine, the cloak of many Cares and the slavery of Civilization, man feels once more happy. - Richard Francis Burton

I've tried that love thing for the last time. My heart says no, no! Nobody's supposed to be here, but you came along and changed my mind - Deborah Cox

Shut up he explained. - Ring Lardner

Only some people get what they want. Those are the people who show up to get it. - Dianne Houston

All my happiness seems caught up in one of your smiles. - Jered Mandeville, 'Upon a Wicked Time - Karen Ranney

You will recognize your own path when you come upon it because you will suddenly have all the energy and imagination you will ever need. - Sara Teasdale

Galbūt Viešpats suprato, kad žmogaus valia atsispirti pagundai turi ribas - Herbjørg Wassmo

This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four. - Mark Twain

I find pain, rather beautiful. It has a chaotic way of shaking up Everything we once ignored, To empower us to move past Anything that doesn't serve the best of us anymore. - Nikki Rowe

The relentless onslaught of this stupefying imagery that pounds our inner landscapes flat, a carpet-bombing of the mind. The language of the world, that overwhelms us. - Alan Moore

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

Never support two weaknesses at the same time. It's your combination sinners - your lecherous liars and your miserly drunkards - who dishonor the vices and bring them into bad repute. - Thornton Wilder

You are an unusual, brilliant child who has not seen enough of life to grasp the full measure of human stupidity. - Ayn Rand

There's always a puppet and a puppeteer in a relationship. Take your time to find out which one you are. - Alamvusha

Sometimes breaking down is the only solution to stepping up. - Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana, Ph.D, MBA

I was brought up Christian, then I was agnostic and then I realized I was atheist... This movie [Agora] is about fundamentalism and hate. - Alejandro Amenábar

If circumstances are always the rulers, the shallow existence of instant gratification will keep us as mere spectators of our lives. Get up! Clarify! Get in the game and live! - Claudia Simon

Feelings are really your GPS system for life. When your supposed to do something, or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know. - Oprah Winfrey

...you must always be yourself, and do things at your own pace. Someday, you'll catch up. - Natsuki Takaya

You wake up oneday and it's different, not so much in a physical way but in the way you look at things. I think when you reach that primary moment in your life, you finally have the courage to let go of the human attachments and start to live in a way that compliments your heart and soul. - Nikki Rowe

With hurricanes, tornados, fires out of control, mud slides,flooding, severe thunderstorms tearing up the country from oneend to another, and with the threat of bird flu and terroristattacks, "Are we sure this is a good time to take God out ofthe Pledge of Allegiance? - Jay Leno

Benedict sets up a community, a family. And families, the honest among us will admit, are risky places to be if perfection is what you are expecting in life. - Joan D. Chittister