«True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.» —
«A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.» —
«Our true wealth is the good we do in this world. None of us has faith unless we desire for our neighbors what we desire for ourselves.» —
«Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.» —
«Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.» —
«Try a little harder to be a little better.» —
«When choosing the lesser of two evils, always remember, it is still an evil.» —
«Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.» —
«It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.» —
«We must begin our practice by walking the narrow path of simplicity, the hinayana path, before we can walk upon the open highway of compassionate action, the mahayana path.» —
«With stillness comes the benediction of Peace.» —
«We are built for the valley, for the ordinary stuff we are in, and that is where we have to prove our mettle.» —
«Surround yourself only with people who are going to take you higher.» —
«Jesus has now many lovers of the heavenly kingdom but few bearers of His cross.» —
«we travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.» —
«But remember, boy, that a kind act can sometimes be as powerful as a sword.» —
«... It is better to proceed with one's duty in the service of others than wallow in the pain attachments bring» —
«The world lies in the hands of those that have the courage to dream and who take the risk of living out their dreams - each according to his or her own talent.» —
«Love so joyfully and freely given can never be taken away. It is never truly gone.» —
«To oppose something is to maintain it... You must go somewhere else; you must have another goal; then you walk a different road.» —
«The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.» —
«There's always a choice,' said Torak, and walked backward off the cliff.» —
«There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled. There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled. You feel it, don't you?» —
«What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?» —
«Life is playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.» —
«The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain!» —
«Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.» —
«Dignity lies not in possessing honors....but in deserving them.» —
«A year from now you will wish you had started today.» —
«Pain and suffering are the soil of strength and courage.» —
«If I stop judging other people, I free myself from being judged, and I can dance!» —
«Those who wait for the right time to act on their life are doing nothing.» —
«Who are they to give stars or dots? They're Wemmicks just like you." Eli to Punchinello (p. 25)» —
«The true meaning of Christ's teaching consists in the recognition of love as the supreme law of life, and therefore not admitting any exceptions.» —
«I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse.» —
«I have the nerve to walk my own way, however hard, in my search for reality, rather than climb upon the rattling wagon of wishful illusions.» —
«All life is an emergency.» —
«Go as far as you can see. When you get there, you can see farther.....~» —
«And people who don’t dream, who don’t have any kind of imaginative life, they must… they must go nuts. I can’t imagine that.» —
«I believe that, with anything in life, if you have the patience, desire and passion, you can do whatever you set your mind to.» —
«Who we are in the present includes who we were in the past.» —
«What we love determines what we seek. What we seek determines what we think and do. What we think and do determines who we are — and who we will become.» —
«To accomplish excellence or anything outstanding, you must listen to that whisper which is heard by you alone.» —
«Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now.» —
«What's right isn't always popular, and whats popular isn't always right.» —
«It is hard to remember that you are a cherished spiritual being when you're burping up apple fritters and Cheetos.» —
«The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.» —
«We can never discover new continents until we have the courage to lose sight of all coasts.» —
«In secret we met - In silence I grieve, That thy heart could forget, Thy spirit deceive. If I should meet thee After long years, How should I greet thee? - With silence and tears» —
«LOVE is a friendship set to music» —
«Why did dusk and fir-scent and the afterglow of autumnal sunsets make people say absurd things?» —
«If I know what love is, it is because of you.» —
«Manufactured--synthetic--even virtual, if that is what you turned out to be--I would love you.» —
«The right mixture of caring and not caring - I suppose that's what love is.» —
«You are my butterfly and refuse to set you free.» —
«It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.» —
«There is always something left to love.» —
«If a thing loves, it is infinite.» —
«If you wanna know the truth, you make or break my day. If you wanna know the truth, I wouldn't have it any other way.» —
«It takes great courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it. And even more courage to see it in the one you love» —
«You roll back to me.» —
«Life needs a constant change, minds needs the constant change, only thing that is permanent in the world is change.» —
«Trouble is a part of your life--if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough.» —
«Mawidge is a dweam wiffin a dweam.» —
«Everything turned on the word "we", a synonym for love, the thing that saves us all.» —
«When I think of what life is, and how seldom love is answered by love; it is one of the moments for which the world was made.» —
«Love and a cough cannot be hid.» —
«Honesty and openness is always the foundation of insightful dialogue.» —
«An error of the passions is not the flowering of a great love, and merely the beauty of the human form is not capable of inspiring an eternity of mad attachment.» —
«You have my whole heart. You always did.» —
«Fight for the only thing she knew was good enough, noble enough, powerful enough to be worth risking everything... Love.» —
«...there could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison, no countenances so beloved.» —
«If you have it [love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.» —
«Love is not blind; that is the last thing that it is. Love is bound; and the more it is bound the less it is blind.» —
«Please Mia," he implores. "Don't make me write a song.» —
«Every day People straighten up the hair, why not the heart?» —
«He loves deep... hates hard, ever'thing's that killed what he loves. All great warriors are sich men.» —
«Don't be afraid of enemies who attack you. Be afraid of the friends who flatter you.» —
«The best way to prepare for life is to begin to live.» —
«They haven't left us much to believe in, have they?--even disbelief. I can't believe in anything bigger than a home or vaguer than a human being.» —
«Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.» —
«When a man cannot chose, he ceases to be a man.» —
«I cannot conceive any work of art as having a separate existence from life itself» —
«In order to understand, observe, deduce, man must first be conscious of himself as alive.» —
«Oh, God. What was happening to her, she was turning into a normal person.» —
«Good things never last, bad things never die.» —
«I LOVE living, I have some problems with my LIFE, but living is the best thing they've come up with so far.» —
«Memory can make a thing seem to have been much more than it was.» —
«Life is too short, or too long, for me to allow myself the luxury of living it so badly.» —
«We just had a near-life experience!» —
«In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.» —
«If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.» —
«I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.» —
«No disease is more dangerous than a bad husband, for if a woman catches that Pox, she'll languish from it her entire life.» —
«If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle.» —
«But how could you live and have no story to tell?» —
«How alone everyone is in the vast tomb of the universe!» —
«My idea is to give hope, because where there is no hope, there is no vision, and where there is no vision, people will perish.» —
«Friends always forget those whom fortune forsakes.» —
«Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk.» —
«Used a replica gun to steal a replica sportscar and experienced a replica of remorse» —
«Something about the joy and pain of that moment, something about the excruciating contrast,made me feel that no matter what happens now, my life has been worth it. What a ride.» —
«Don't cry, I'm sorry to have deceived you so much, but that's how life is.» —
«I have never learned from a man who agreed with me.» —
«That each affects the other and the other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one.» —
«There isn’t anyone you couldn’t love once you’ve heard their story.» —
«You have to love what's loveable && hate what's hateable. It takes brain to see the difference.» —
«Life always holds in store surprises that are more complex and unforeseeable than any dream, and the secret is to let them come and not block them with castles in the air.» —
«What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my own burden to bear.» —
«My eyes were glued on life and they were full of tears.» —
«The purpose of life is a life of purpose.» —
«The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.» —
«A good book isn't written, it's rewritten.» —
«The drama of the essay is the way the public life intersects with my personal and private life. It's in that intersection that I find the energy of the essay.» —
«...it is precisely because the world appears to us to be multiple, ambiguous, and paradoxical, that we must strive to speak and write clearly.» —
«To write does not mean to convert the real into words but to make the power of the word real.» —
«If a story is in you, it has to come out.» —
«There is in writing the constant joy of sudden discovery, of happy accident.» —
«Follow the path of your aroused thought, and you will soon meet this infernal inscription: There is nothing so beautiful as that which does not exist.» —
«Don't you wish you had a job like mine? All you have to do is think up a certain number of words! Plus, you can repeat words! And they don't even have to be true!» —
«Personally I think that grammar is a way to attain beauty.» —
«We write from aspiration and antagonism, as well as from experience. We paint those qualities which we do not posses.» —
«When the door to my writing chamber gasps shut and the almost imperceptible sigh of a rose petal falls on my desk, I know that my muse is present.» —
«Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece.» —
«Literary detection and firearms don't really go hand in hand; pen mighter than the sword and so forth.» —
«Most books are so well written they barely have any effect on the reader’s senses» —
«In my fool hardy youth, when my friends were dreaming of heroic deeds in the realms of engineering and law, finance and national politics, I dreamt of becoming a librarian.» —
«Books hold no passports. There's only one true literary tradition: the human. (Interview with Three Monkeys Online, October 2008, )» —
«A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.» —
«Stories, A Portal to Anywhere but Here.» —
«Blood was its Avatar and its seal.» —
«Even ivory towers need central heating.» —
«and sometimes I sit down at my typewriter and I think not of someone cause there isn't anyone to think about and i wonder is it worth it» —
«The ring comes whenever it will because it's dark where the mountains mother and being stuck in one spot is something to ring bells about» —
«We left you there, lonely, Beauty your power, Wisdom your watchman, To hold the clay tower. from 'The Tale of the Tiger Tree» —
«...the tortured try of local drivers to accelerate their lives.» —
«Always our wars have been our confessions of weakness» —
«My Muse sits forlorn She wishes she had not been born She sits in the cold No word she says is ever told.» —
«We returned to our palaces, these Kingdoms, but no longer at ease here in the old dispensation, with an alien people clutching their gods. I should be glad of another death.» —
«Always learn poems by heart. They have to become the marrow in your bones. Like fluoride in the water, they'll make your soul impervious to the world's soft decay.» —
«[I'm]a freak user of words, not a poet.» —
«The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful.» —
«So much depends upon a blue car splattered with mud speeding down the road.» —
«I don't want to because boys don't write poetry. Girls do.» —
«Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.» —
«Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.» —
«The map is not the territory.» —
«We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.» —
«I am my world.» —
«/It's/ much more pleasant to be obsessed over how the hero gets out of his predicament than it is over how I get out of mine.» —
«Returning home is the most difficult part of long-distance hiking; You have grown outside the puzzle and your piece no longer fits.» —
«Don't think, but look! (PI 66)» —
«It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.» —
«To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.» —
«Dead. Never been that before. Not even once.» —
«[Children] just cannot be sad too long, it is not in them, as children mourn in little bits here and there like patchwork in their lives.» —
«Can you do it? When the time comes? When the time comes there will be no time. Now is the time. Curse God and die.» —
«When I think of Simone now, I think of butterfly wings. Beautiful and excruciatingly delicate. Touch them once and they might disintegrate.» —
«The cries of the dead are terrible indeed; you should try not to hear them.» —
«The Death's Field is the mirror which allows us the knowledge of the world we living in.» —
«What is a man's life but a prelude to his death? And what is death but a long sleep, a most welcome forgetfulness.» —
«Life versus Death becomes, as Montaigne pointed out, Old Age versus Death.» —
«We're standing here, beat to shit, walking away from a crime scene where either or both of us could have bought it, and you're asking me to marry you?" "Perfect timing.» —
«And i could have died right then. And considering how thiings went, I really should have.» —
«In a world where death is the hunter, my friend, there is no time for regrets or doubts. There is only time for decisions.» —
«In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.» —
«Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning...» —
«I did not marry the first girl that I fell in love with, because there was a tremendous religious conflict, at the time. She was an atheist, and I was an agnostic.» —
«Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee And I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.» —
«We should live our lives as though Christ was coming this afternoon.» —
«The tempter or the tempted, who sins most?» —
«for what is religion if not a kind of madness, and what is madness without a touch of religion?» —
«The minute you get a religion you stop thinking. Believe in one thing too much and you have no room for new ideas.» —
«Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.» —
«I cannot love a man who cannot protect me.» —
«To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues.» —
«There is a tragic clash between Truth and the world. Pure undistorted truth burns up the world.» —
«It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.» —
«A day without laughter is like living in darkness; you try to find your way around, but you can't see clearly.» —
«That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the truth.» —
«The truth was stranger than the official fiction.» —
«What the hell is instant? Nothing is instant. Instant rice takes five minutes, instant pudding an hour. I doubt that an instant of blinding pain feels particularly instantaneous.» —
«Ignorance is bliss. One-ended confrontation is just pure stupidity» —
«It's so trendy, almost bleeding to death. All the cool girls are doing it. -Ed» —
«Matt would stare at Andrew for 10 minutes. It's depressing that people are different. Everyone should be one person, who should then kill itself in hand-to-hand combat.» —
«Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.» —
«Opera is where a guy gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings.» —
«The lower the class of the affair, the more likely the band will be invited to eat.» —
«In every heart there is a room, A sanctuary safe and strong, To heal the wounds from lovers past, Until a new one comes along» —
«Music is the soul of language.» —
«Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth» —
«Close your eyes and I'll kiss you, Tomorrow I'll miss you.» —
«Anger exceeding limits causes fear and excessive kindness eliminates respect.» —
«The act of taking the first step is what separates the winners from the losers.» —
«People know what they do; frequently they know why they do what they do; but what they don't know is what what they do does.» —
«I will no longer mutilate and destroy myself in order to find a secret behind the ruins.» —
«Magic is always impossible, said the magician. It begins with the impossible and ends with the impossible and is impossible in between. That is why it is magic» —
«Many's the man/ who thought himself wise/ but what he needed/ he did not know...» —
«What the soul hardly realizes is that, unbeliever or not, his loneliness is really a homesickness for God.» —
«Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.» —
«The soul is like an uninhabited world that comes to life only when God lays His head against us.» —
«It is said that God has created man in his own image. But it may be that humankind has created God in the image of humankind.» —
«Spirituality is not about being fixed; it is about God's being present in the mess of our unfixedness. (Messy Spirituality)» —
«gray hair is gods graffiti» —
«If God didn't want you to be a dreamer, He wouldn't go around handing out dreams! That's a clue!» —
«And he took her in his arms and kissed her under the sunlit sky, and he cared not that they stood high upon the walls in the sight of many.» —
«You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.» —
«You keep runnin that mouth and I'm goin to take you back there and screw you.» —
«Time is a drug. Too much of it kills you.» —
«Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.» —
«If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a non-working cat.» —
«Einstein said that if quantum mechanics were correct then the world would be crazy. Einstein was right - the world is crazy.» —
«Maybe if I had to boil it down to one easy sentence, it would be this: I believe in evolution, and I believe in God. I just haven't worked out the details yet.» —
«Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.» —
«Individual organ of human brain makes individual decision for working of brain and driving behavior in humans.» —
«Men are not potatoes!» —
«In other studies you go as far as other have gone before you, and there is nothing more to know; but in a scientific pursuit there is continual food for discovery and wonder.» —
«Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.» —
«I have good reason to be content, for thank God I can read and perhaps understand Shakespeare to his depths.» —
«I just loved making words into stories by the sound of my voice.» —
«The most essential and fundamental aspect of culture is the study of literature, since this is an education in how to picture and understand human situations.» —
«Just handle the books gently and you’ll get along fine.» —
«A book you finish reading is not the same book it was before you read it.» —
«Good books are for consideration after, too.» —
«I thought: pity the poor in spirit who know neither the enchantment nor the beauty of language.» —
«I regained my soul through literature after those times I'd lost it to wild-eyed gypsy girls on the European streets.» —
«When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty........ but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.» —
«One eye sees, the other feels.» —
«You know how writers are... they create themselves as they create their work. Or perhaps they create their work in order to create themselves.» —
«Art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament.» —
«Sculpture is what you bump into when you back up to see a painting.» —
«A picture is worth a thousand words.» —
«Everybody is original, if he tells the truth, if he speaks from himself. But it must be from his *true* self and not from the self he thinks he *should* be.» —
«Colour is a power which directly influences the soul.» —
«Some designers think they do Art, but they think other designers do not» —
«Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.» —
«The peace of the celestial city is the perfectly ordered and harmonious enjoyment of God, and of one another in God. (City of God, Book 19)» —
«The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.» —
«Politics is not about big money or power games; it's about the improvement of people's lives» —
«I don't think you fully understand the public, my friend; in this country, when something is out of order, then the quickest way to get it fixed is the best way.» —
«I don't hate Republicans as individuals. But I hate what the Republicans are doing to this country. I really do.» —
«The fields were fruitful, and starving men moved on the roads.» —
«I think I have done well, though I am abandoned, with the curse of Cain upon me.» —
«Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life; let us swear eternal friendship.» —
«We come back to the same people to learn something about how we have changed. We want to be assured that we have changed. We so want our pictures to paint differently than they do.» —
«Men have forgotten this truth,' said the fox. 'But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.» —
«Life gives us choices. You either grab on with both hands and just go for it, or you sit on the sidelines. --Gator Fontenot» —
«You don't need to wait for inspiration to write. It's easier to be inspired while writing that while not writing...» —
«What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others.» —
«Immagination is the highest form of research.» —
«File under "Hard Truths": the creative muse is fiction. If you sit around waiting for the right moment to create, you will die waiting.» —
«Everything in creation has its appointed painter or poet and remains in bondage like the princess in the fairy tale 'til its appropriate liberator comes to set it free.» —
«Think of what starlight And lamplight would lack Diamonds and fireflies If they couldn’t lean against Black. . . .» —
«Every day is a journey filled with twists and turns. Every day, if you smile, you will feel alive, my son.» —
«To be stupid, and selfish, and to have good health are the three requirements for happiness - though if stupidity is lacking, the others are useless.» —
«Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.» —
«The point of simple living, for me has got to be: A soft place to land A wide margin of error Room to breathe Lots of places to find baseline happiness in each and every day» —
«Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.» —
«I don't think that there are any limits to how excellent we could make life seem.» —
«Some guy said to me: Don't you think you're too old to sing rock n' roll? I said: You'd better check with Mick Jagger.» —
«True lovers may never know what love means. A man may love a woman out of his reach. She does not know he loves her, and he will never speak of it.» —
«When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.» —
«Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, but backwards and in high heels.» —
«She still cared for me, and the best way I could make amends to her was to be happy. I do have a knack for finding great women.» —
«War is just demographics in a hurry.» —
«This country was filled with violent children orphaned by war.» —
«Though all the guns be silenced, each soldier in his home, There is no peace till Love comes, till the meek may safely roam.» —
«How can you have a war on terrorism when war itself is terrorism?» —
«Wouldn't want to miss a war, would I?» —
«The rush of battle is often a potent and lethal addiction, for war is a drug.» —
«you do not mean there is danger of peace? cried Jack» —
«I came from a real tough neighborhood. Once a guy pulled a knife on me. I knew he wasn't a professional, the knife had butter on it.» —
«Rhett: If you've made up your mind to impale someone, do it with conviction.» —
«Humor is what happens when we're told the truth quicker and more directly than we're used to.» —
«Doobie always wanted to see the badge. It was shiny, and he was eight.» —
«He's got a chloroform-soaked rag in one hand, and before Judy realizes what's happening, the dude is all over her like fat on cheese.» —
«If I were you, I'd sue my face for slander.» —
«The only thing worse than having a party that no one attends is having a party attended only by two vastly, deeply uninteresting people.» —
«A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.» —
«Everything that is done in this world is done by hope.» —
«In these times I don't, in a manner of speaking, know what I want; perhaps I don't want what I know and want what I don't know.» —
«To be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair convincing» —
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.» —
«When you take the free will out of education, that turns it into schooling.» —
«Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.» —
«Eragon looked back at him, confused. 'I don't understand.' Of course you don't,' said Brom impatiently. 'That's why I'm teaching you and not the other way around....» —
«That is the one eternal education: to be sure enough that something is true that you dare to tell it to a child.» —
«Everywhere I go, I am asked if I think university stifles writers. My opinion is that it doesn't stifle enough of them.» —
«It is my mood which decides the weather, it is my mood which brings the tiny changes to humankind.» —
«The best things are never arrived at in haste. God is in no hurry; His plans are never rushed.» —
«Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.» —
«Each person who gets stuck in time gets stuck alone.» —
«Time is the enemy of identity» —
«There is more time than there is expanse of the world and so any voyage at last will end.» —
«There is nowhere morning does not go.» —
«All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.» —
«knowledge, absolutely sure of its infallibility, is faith» —
«I have one desire now - to live a life of reckless abandon for the Lord, putting all my energy and strength into it.» —
«Why then should witless man so much misweene That nothing is but that which he hath seene?» —
«God is defined by Jesus but not confined to Jesus.» —
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