«You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.» —
«How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.» —
«All that is necessary for evil to succeed is that good men do nothing.» —
«Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.» —
«Our lack of compassion stems from our inability to see deeply into the nature of things.» —
«Obstacles are those things you see when you take your eyes off the goal.» —
«All thinking men are atheists.» —
«Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.» —
«We Greeks believe that a man who takes no part in public affairs is not merely lazy, but good for nothing» —
«There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession» —
«A man, though wise, should never be ashamed of learning more, and must unbend his mind.» —
«If you care about what you do and work hard at it, there isn't anything you can't do if you want to.» —
«A wise person speaks carefully and with truth, for every word tht passes between one's teeth is meant for something.» —
«Is 'fat' really the worst thing a human being can be? Is 'fat' worse than 'vindictive', 'jealous', 'shallow', 'vain', 'boring' or 'cruel'? Not to me.» —
«Man lives consciously for himself, but serves as an unconscious instrument for the achievement of historical, universally human goals.» —
«Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.» —
«No other sucess can compensate for failure in the home.» —
«Whatever you think, be sure it is what you think; whatever you want, be sure that is what you want; whatever you feel, be sure that is what you feel.» —
«Do your work, then step back. The only path to serenity.» —
«You make your own reality.» —
«The flaw isn't in the plan; it's in our own weakness. The plan offers such promise!» —
«Actually, you can be bad at something...but if you love doing it, that will be enough. - August Boatwright» —
«I would rather make mistakes in kindness and compassion than work miracles in unkindness and hardness.» —
«People who spend most of their time putting out fires are usually also the arsonists.» —
«To every problem, there is a most simple solution.» —
«EVERY DAY IS A STRUGGLE TO WAKE UP, LIVING WITH THE STRESS IN MY LIFE THT BUILDS UP. IT'S LIKE A MOUNTAIN TO HIGH TO CLIMB UP, IF SOMETHINGS AT THE TOP DOES ANYBODY KNOW WHAT?» —
«Even Gods have sought out gurus for themselves.» —
«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.» —
«We may have doubts, but we control the present. We always have the choice to move forward with hope and confidence.» —
«We believe that to govern perfectly it is necessary to avoid governing too much.» —
«Practice radical humility." He (or she)who masters the art of humility cannot be humiliated...» —
«Surely a pen is like a blade; if it is not used then it becomes dull.» —
«Speak when you are angry and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret» —
«The good and the bad. It always happens together, and all you can do is press on. Press on.» —
«Love the moment. Flowers grow out of dark moments. Therefore, each moment is vital. It affects the whole. Life is a succession of such moments and to live each, is to succeed.» —
«Everything in the universe has a purpose. Indeed, the invisible intelligence that flows through everything in a purposeful fashion is also flowing through you» —
«Only with absolute fearlessness can we slay the dragons of mediocrity that invade our gardens.» —
«Can't be a hero if you're afraid of looking stupid.» —
«No wonder of it: sheer plod makes plough down sillion Shine, and blue-bleak embers, ah my dear, Fall, gall themselves, and gash gold-vermilion.» —
«I've done my best, and I begin to understand what is meant by 'the joy of strife'. Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.» —
«A dream without a fight is a nightmare.» —
«He judged the instant and let go; he flung himself loose into the stars.» —
«There is a coherence in things, a stability; something... is immune from change and shines out... in the face of the flowing, the fleeting, the spectral, like a ruby.» —
«You don't always have to kiss a lot of frogs to recognize a prince when you find one - Henrietta Barett» —
«The human heart is a strange vessel. Love and hatred can exist side by side.» —
«They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.» —
«Love me like you'll never see me again.» —
«In the absence of love, we began slowly but surely to fall apart.» —
«If Jack's in love, he's no judge of Jill's beauty.» —
«What if I were smiling and running into your arms? Would you see then what I see now?» —
«love is a hawk with velvet claws love is a rock with heart and veins love is a lion with satin jaws love is a storm with silken reins» —
«Work is not work when you love what you do.L.C. Sonnenberg» —
«Love, and you shall be loved.» —
«Whoever loves much, performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.» —
«In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art.» —
«Love is the cage and the cage is closed and the door is locked and nobody’s home.» —
«[She] knew that it was not precisely a body that one loved. One loved the man who shone out through the eyes and used its mouth to smile and speak.» —
«It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.» —
«She breathed in the vast world of suffering and pure, dark love, and as she did, a well of compassion began to flow in her.» —
«Everytime you smile, I smile And everytime you shine, I'll shine for you.» —
«The first stab of love is like a sunset, a blaze of color -- oranges, pearly pinks, vibrant purples...» —
«He had been my almost. My might-have-been. I was afraid of what I wanted most - His kiss. Still, I collected kiss stories. -Susie Salmon» —
«It doesn't matter how long you've known him. If he had you smiling since day one, don't ever lose him.» —
«The moment we decide to throw more energy into fighting for our mate than with him, the crack of a fist on the enemy's jaw splits the ears of angels.» —
«At the center of non-violence stands the princepal of love» —
«He was a fugitive, lurking soul, James Leer. He didn't belong anywhere, but things went much better for him in places where nobody belonged.» —
«Live simply so others may simply live.» —
«Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, 'Where have I gone wrong'. Then a voice says to me, 'This is going to take more than one night.» —
«Life isn't fair, it's just fairer than death, that's all.» —
«All evil is good become cancerous.» —
«HOBBES: If you don't get a goodnight kiss you get Kafka dreams.» —
«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.» —
«I believe when life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade...and try to find someone whose life has given them vodka, and have a party.» —
«How bad does it have to be before you do something about it?» —
«You know you are truly alive when you’re living among lions.» —
«If you have nothing in life but a good friend, you're rich.» —
«All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.» —
«The best way to avoid responsibility is to say, 'I've got responsibilities.» —
«If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.» —
«Dancers are the athletes of God.» —
«Remember that life's a great balancing act...» —
«Life is Pain so is Love.» —
«The hardest thing about the road not taken is that you never know where it might have led.» —
«No human being is illegal.» —
«Never work.» —
«I ought to write funny books. Life is really too horribly funny, but unless one`s an outsider looking on, it`s all such a bore.» —
«There's more to life then living, so hold on.» —
«The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.» —
«He that refuses to try has already failed» —
«I'm an amateur at life. I'll let you know when I go pro.» —
«I have often had a retrospective vision where everything in my past life seems to fall with significance into logical sequence.» —
«Your "I CAN" is more important than your IQ.» —
«People were always getting ready for tomorrow. I didnt believe in that. Tomorrow wasnt getting ready for them. It didnt even know they were there.» —
«Let us work without reasoning,' said Martin; 'it is the only way to make life endurable.» —
«A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.» —
«There is no wealth but life» —
«Live your life crazy and love every part of it» —
«Sometimes it's the smallest decisions that can change your life forever.» —
«Muscles aching to work, minds aching to create - this is man.» —
«Poems are never finished - just abandoned» —
«CALVIN: Our hero regains consciousness at the feet of a sarcastic alien.» —
«Don't classify me, read me. I'm a writer, not a genre.» —
«There is a long time in me between knowing and telling.» —
«When all the details fit in perfectly, something is probably wrong with the story.» —
«When the last dime is gone, I'll sit on the curb outside with a pencil and a ten cent notebook and start the whole thing over again.» —
«Writing is the only thing that when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.» —
«Loafing is the most productive part of a writer's life.» —
«The world requires me to re-write its wretched dialogue!» —
«Get black on white.» —
«You are either born a writer or you are not.» —
«I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.» —
«It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.» —
«Language is a finding-place not a hiding place.» —
«If you don’t write the book you have to write, everything breaks.» —
«A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down. If it is a good book nothing can hurt him. If it is a bad book nothing can help him.» —
«Making a decision to write was a lot like deciding to jump into a frozen lake.» —
«I write because I hate. A lot. Hard.» —
«You don't write about the horrors of war. No. You write about a kid's burnt socks lying in the road.» —
«A Piece of writing has to seduce the reader, it has to suspend disbelief and earn the reader's trust» —
«The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book.» —
«There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island and best of all, you can enjoy these riches every day of your life.» —
«I attempted briefly to consecrate myself in the public library, believing every crack in my soul could be chinked with a book.» —
«A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed with you.» —
«Sidda can't help herself. She just loves books. Loves the way they feel, the way they smell, loves the black letters marching across the white pages...» —
«Surprise!-FitzChivalry» —
«that the grace of fable stirs the mind"...and..."that the perusal of excellent books is, as it were, to interview with the noblest men of past ages» —
«Books are for nothing but to inspire» —
«Resist much. Obey little.» —
«I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still.» —
«I live not in myself, but I become Portion of that around me: and to me High mountains are a feeling, but the hum of human cities torture.» —
«I know many lives worth living.» —
«Poetry is the scholar's art.» —
«I don't like a kind of workshop that is about editing--I don't want to sit there and be an editor. I don't want to tell someone how to "fix" a poem.» —
«Two girls discover the secret of life in a sudden line of poetry.» —
«Mute in that golden silence hung with green, Come down from heaven and bring me in your eyes Remembrance of all beauty that has been, And stillness from the pools of Paradise.» —
«I really believe, or want to believe, really I am nuts, otherwise I'll never be sane.» —
«I remain Mistress of mine own self and mine own soul» —
«Art too is just a way of living.» —
«I like the imp / in impossibility» —
«Poets and intellectuals...are the ones the tyrants go after first.» —
«Every beginning has an end and every end has a new beginning, don't worry, broken soul, life will one day come to an end.» —
«Come windless invader I am a carnival of Stars, a poem of blood.» —
«I don't want to be a tree; I want to be its meaning.» —
«You may lie with your mouth, but with the mouth you make as you do so you none the less tell the truth.» —
«We only accept the love we think we deserve." 'The Perks of Being A Wallflower» —
«I would rather be an opportunist and float than go to the bottom with my principles around my neck.» —
«How great for rulers that men do not think...» —
«You only live twice: Once when you're born And once when you look death in the face.» —
«Sin, death, and hell have set their marks on him, And all their ministers attend on him.» —
«And thus we all are nighing The truth we fear to know: Death will end our crying For friends that come and go.» —
«Killing is not so easy as the innocent believe.» —
«Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living.» —
«Everybody has an angel hiding inside. When you die, your angel comes out. You can die, but not your angel. Your angel never dies.» —
«And i could have died right then. And considering how thiings went, I really should have.» —
«You can disagree with another person's opinions. You can disagree with their doctrines. You can't disagree with their experience.» —
«The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending; and to have the two as close together as possible.» —
«A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.» —
«Everyone must come out of his Exile in his own way.» —
«Some folks are happier not being saved.» —
«He prays because he knows he doesn't control it. He's at the mercy of it.» —
«If I were asked for a one-sentence sound bite on religion, I would say I was against it.» —
«Religious people fear hell -- Spiritual people have walked thru it.» —
«To understand Jesus when he stated that he was the way, the truth and the life, one must first recognize his manner of a walk and believe firmly that his manner is true.» —
«Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.» —
«History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.» —
«I hear my silence talked of in every lane; The suppression of a cry is itself a cry of pain.» —
«If I am right, Thy grace impart Still in the right to stay; If I am wrong, O, teach my heart To find that better way!» —
«He, who thought it necessary to maintain himself in her good graces, strove to console her under her disappointment by committing a little violence upon truth.» —
«Sometimes a clearly defined error is the only way to discover the truth» —
«Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.» —
«Then I realized that most of the world's problems stemmed from macho dickheadism, and if I cold defeat that I could save the world.» —
«A good man is as strong as the right woman needs him to be.» —
«May I have a few friends and many books - both true.» —
«That truth should be silent I had almost forgot. (Enobarbus)» —
«There are times when it is appropriate, even preferable, to get an erection when someone's face is in close proximity to your penis. This was not one of those times.» —
«Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.» —
«the past is only the future with the lights on.» —
«Music is to the soul what words are to the mind.» —
«My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.» —
«Writing about music is like dancing about architecture - it's really a stupid thing to want to do.» —
«There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship's smoke on the horizon. You are only coming through in waves. Your lips move but I can't hear what you're sayin'.» —
«If you've lost your faith in love and music then the end won't be long.» —
«Only time will set you free, just like me» —
«Oh, I can't help quoting you, because everything that you said rings true.» —
«My love, wherever you are - whatever you are - don't lose faith. I know it's gonna happen someday to you.» —
«Music is what tell us that the human race is greater than we realize.» —
«Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.» —
«The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.» —
«Mirrors that hide nothing hurt me. But this is the hurt of purging and precious renewal - and these are the mirrors of dangerous grace.» —
«A path is made by walking on it.» —
«We will never be more that we have been destined to be!» —
«No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.» —
«We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.» —
«God is a concept by which we measure our pain.» —
«Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.» —
«The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!» —
«God put us here, on this carnival ride. We close our eyes never knowing where it'll take us next.» —
«Kissing - and I mean like, yummy, smacking kissing - is the most delicious, most beautiful and passionate thing that two people can do, bar none. Better than sex, hands down.» —
«Vampires. Honestly, they're like children sometimes.» —
«She had not made a decision to give up sex, only the clamor of romance, because it was exhausting her, doing her no good and too much harm...» —
«One can't fight with oneself, for this battle has only one loser.» —
«Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.» —
«Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.» —
«Emotional states are fairly quick bursts of neuronal gossip. Traits, on the other hand, are more like the neuronal equivalent of committed relationships.» —
«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.» —
«If we long for our planet to be important, there is something we can do about it. We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and by the depth of our answers.» —
«You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.» —
«Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.» —
«We live for books.» —
«A censor is an expert in cutting remarks. A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.» —
«But a reader's ambition knows no bounds.» —
«We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading» —
«Reading was a joy, a desperately needed escape -- I didn't read to learn, I was reading to read.» —
«There’s nothing as cozy as a piece of candy and a book.» —
«Do the children who prefer books set in the real, ordinary, workaday world ever read as obsessively as those who would much rather be transported into other worlds entirely?» —
«Maybe you're one of those people who writes poems, but rarely reads them. Let me put this as delicately as I can: If you don't read, your writing is going to suck.» —
«Nature is a haunted house--but Art--is a house that tries to be haunted.» —
«The only honest art form is laughter, comedy. You can't fake it... try to fake three laughs in an hour - ha ha ha ha ha - they'll take you away, man. You can't.» —
«The urge to destroy is also a creative urge.» —
«Self-consciousness is the enemy of all art, be it acting, writing, painting, or living itself, which is the greatest art of all.» —
«If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.» —
«Every now and then one paints a picture that seems to have opened a door and serves as a stepping stone to other things.» —
«Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.» —
«No more good must be attempted than the nation can bear» —
«The difference between a politician and a statesman is that a politician thinks about the next election while the statesman think about the next generation» —
«The major problem» —
«If we would learn what the human race really is at bottom, we need only observe it in election times.» —
«Politics is not a picture on a wall or a televisions sitcom that you can decide you don't much care for.» —
«In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.» —
«I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.» —
«Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.» —
«Well, you know, there are limits to the sacred claims of friendship.» —
«A true friend is a gift from God. Since God doesn't exist, guess what? Neither do true friends.» —
«however rare true love maybe , it is less so than true friendship» —
«He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare.» —
«It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.» —
«The good Watson had at that time deserted me for a wife, the only selfish action I can recall in our association. I was alone.» —
«friend is someone you can trust and admits you whatever you are» —
«It is good to love many things, for therein lies strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done with love is well done.» —
«You'll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.» —
«Societies in decline have no use for visionaries.» —
«Never judge a work of art by its defects» —
«Only those who look with the eyes of children can lose themselves in the object of their wonder.» —
«You are the master of your destiny. You can influence, direct and control your own environment. You can make your life what you want it to be.» —
«The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.» —
«We as authors sign a pact with our readers; they'll go on reading because they trust us to play fair with them and deliver what we've promised.» —
«If you're going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you're going to be locked up.» —
«Happiness is a warm puppy.» —
«It's a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.» —
«To be happy--one must find one's bliss» —
«My God, a moment of bliss. Why, isn't that enough for a whole lifetime?» —
«My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations.» —
«Call no man happy until he is dead.» —
«Holiness leads to wholeness and wholeness leads to happiness.» —
«Money can't buy happiness, but it certainly is a stress reliever.» —
«It was a pity that people did not risk enough to speak out in behalf of one another's happiness and their own.» —
«She was sensible and clever, but eager in everything; her sorrows, her joys, could have no moderation.» —
«Only cowards torture women.» —
«Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation...» —
«Living with a whore--even the best whore in the world--isn't a bed of roses.» —
«When she can't bring me to heal with scolding, she bends me to shape with guilt» —
«They can say whatever I'ma do whatever no pain is forever Yup! you know this Tougher then a lion ain't kno need in trying I live where the sky ends Yup! you kno this» —
«When women hold off from marrying men, we call it independence. When men hold off from marrying women, we call it fear of commitment.» —
«Men read maps better than women because only men can understand the concept of an inch equaling a hundred miles.» —
«To a happy war!' laughter echoed with all the insane glee of an army of psychopaths.» —
«How do you ask a man to be the last man to die in Vietnam? How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?» —
«war does not determine who is right, only who is left» —
«War grows out of ordinary human nature.» —
«Merry Christmas!» —
«Don't call me 'gentleman'. I work for a livin'.» —
«philosophy is not suited for the masses, what they need is holiness.» —
«Half my life is an act of revision.» —
«Never in all her life had she imagined that this idolized millinery could look, to those who paid for it, like the decorations of an insane monkey.» —
«Lord, my hands were made for blessing, but not my feet!» —
«Everywhere's been where it is ever since it was first put there. It's called geography.» —
«There is nothing more important than your eternal salvation.» —
«Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.» —
«What was it about not knowing a person that allowed you to wonder whether she might be the answer to all your problems?» —
«How fortunate we were who still had hope I did not then realise; I could not know how soon the time would come when we should have no more hope, and yet be unable to die» —
«i had a dream when i was 22 that someday i would go to the region of ice and snow and go on and on till i came to one of the poles of the earth» —
«Hope costs nothing.» —
«And the past held only this wisdom; that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion.» —
«To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.» —
«I go to school, but I never learn what I want to know.» —
«The education of all children, from the moment that they can get along without a mother's care, shall be in state institutions.» —
«It is clearly absurd to limit the term 'education' to a person's formal schooling.» —
«Your sweet thank-you touches my heart, take my breath away, my only love. This day is only I have got.» —
«There will be time, there will be time To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet.» —
«Satire is tragedy plus time. You give it enough time, the public, the reviewers will allow you to satirize it. Which is rather ridiculous, when you think about it.» —
«The years teach much the days never know.» —
«Time and space are awash here. ~Count Tolstoi» —
«The friend of time doesn't spend all day saying: 'I haven't got time.' He doesn't fight with time. He accepts it and cherishes it.» —
«Life is doubt, And faith without doubt is nothing but death.» —
«knowledge, absolutely sure of its infallibility, is faith» —
«Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.» —
«Doubts are the ants in the pants of faith. They keep it awake and moving.» —
«99% of the time fear is unfounded because faith alters outcomes.» —
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