«Daily Mantra: "Who has not found the heaven below Will fail of it above. God's residence is next to min, His furniture is love.» — Emily Dickinson
«Oh, you hate your job? Why didn't you say so? There's a support group for that. It's called EVERYBODY, and they meet at the bar.» — Drew Carey
«Life is sweet when you pay attention. When it doesn't seem sweet, put a sticker on your nose and do a funky dance.» — Whitney Scott
«How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.» — Wayne W. Dyer
«You're either going to walk through life and experience it fully or you're going to be a voyeur. And I'm not a voyeur.» — Nicole Kidman
«There is only one world the world pressing against you this minute.» — Storm Jameson
«Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, "Make me feel important." Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life.» — Mary Kay Ash
«But to believe that getting stuff is the purpose and aim of life is madness.» — Hubert Selby Jr.
«you have to love life to have life, and you need to have life to love life» — Thorton Wilder
«You have to have life to love life, and you have to love life to have life» — Thorton Wilder
«The material you work with is that which you will come to resemble. That which you work against will always work against you, including yourself.» — Henry Rollins
«According to Hannah, real life just happens, whereas stories make sense. When you put real life in print, she says, you show it up for the pointless mess it really is.» — Jincy Willett
«First we eat, then we do everything else.» — M.F.K. Fisher
«Life was cruel and hilarious all at once.» — Sandra Cisneros
«Now I'll follow my own way, and I'll Live on to another damn day,» — 3 Doors Down
«What we like to think of ourselves and what we really are rarely have much in common.» — Stephen King
«Youth offers the promise of happiness, but life offers the realities of grief.» — Nicholas Sparks
«I leave before being left. I decide.» — Brigitte Bardot
«If you haven't confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.» — Marcus Garvey
«The very stone one kicks with one's boot will outlast Shakespeare.» — Virginia Woolf
«The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.» — Ann Landers
«Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.» — Benjamin Franklin
«reality is perception perception change....reality is fluid so if by reality you mean reliably tangible objects and immutable events then theres no such thing» — Dean Koontz
«The challenge of creation reduces us to the inevitable. Our lives are full of tiny disasters.» — Floriano Martins
«Poor creatures. What did we do to you? With all our schemes and plans?» — Kazuo Ishiguro
«Human beings have neither kindness, nor faith, nor charity beyond what serves to increase the pleasure of the moment.» — Virginia Woolf
«The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life.» — Sigmund Freud
«There is no good and evil; only power and those too weak to see it.» — J.K. Rowling
«What else do I have to offer? Nothing happens to me anymore. That’s the reality of getting old, and I guess that’s really the crux of the matter. I’m not ready to be old yet.» — Sara Gruen
«I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions.» — James A. Michener
«Nothing's a better cure for writer's block than to eat ice cream right out of the carton.» — Don Roff
«Against the disease of writing one must take special precautions, since it is a dangerous and contagious disease. -- Letter 8 to Heloise» — Peter Abelard
«I stand in the mist and cry, thinking of myself standing in the mist and crying, and wondering if I will ever be able to use this experience in a book.» — Erica Jong
«For me, I think it was a little easier to write thinking that nobody was listening.» — Dan Kennedy
«Writing is magic, as much the water of life as any other creative art. The water is free. So drink. Drink and be filled up.» — Stephen King
«Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing.» — E.L. Doctorow
«Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself...It's a self-exploratory operation that is endless. An exorcism of not necessarily his demon, but of his divine discontent.» — Harper Lee
«If a story is in you, it has to come out.» — William Faulkner
«I write for the same reason I breathe ... because if I didn't, I would die.» — Isaac Asimov
«...I have to write to discover what I am doing. Like the old lady, I don't know so well what I think until I see what I say; then I have to say it again.» — Flannery O'Connor
«When writing a novel a writer should create living people, not characters. A character is a caricature.» — Ernest Hemingway
«I know writers have to be crazy. But more than that that, they have to get made and stay mad. If things don't make a writer mad, he'll end up writing Flopsy, Mopsy, and Cottantail.» — Leon Uris
«...writing is not a performance but a generosity.» — Brenda Ueland
«Write a lot and hit the streets. A writer who doesn't keep up with what's out there ain't gonna be out there.» — Toni Cade Bambara
«Assuming you can write clear English sentences, give up all worry about communication. If you want to communicate, use the telephone.» — Richard Hugo
«Every scene should be able to answer three questions: "Who wants what from whom? What happens if they don't get it? Why now?» — David Mamet
«A book is a suicide postponed.» — Émile Michel Cioran
«Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.» — Alice Walker
«The job of the writer isn't to answer questions. The job of the writer is to ask the questions for which there are no answers.» — Jens Porup
«My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.» — Abraham Lincoln
«We note our place with bookmarkers That measure what we've lost.» — Simon and Garfunkel
«Don't mark up the Library's copy, you fool! Librarians are Unprankable. They'll track you down! They have skills!» — Charles Ogden
«It [the book] was spinning a magic spell around her heart, sticky as a spider's web and enchantingly beautiful..» — Cornelia Funke
«Librarians are your very best friend. And don't ever think otherwise.» — Rett MacPherson
«Books are to me as homemade tattoos are to an inmate. Can't get enough of them.» — Laurie Notaro
«Lolita is famous, not I. I am an obscure, doubly obscure, novelist with an unpronounceable name.» — Vladimir Nabokov
«Poetry = Anger x Imagination» — Sherman Alexie
«Souls grow on bones but die beneath bankers' hours...» — Gabriel Thy
«Poetry is the sound of the human animal.» — Suniti Namjoshi
«Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice?» — Virginia Woolf
«Poetry is eternal graffiti written on the hearts of everyone.» — Lawrence Ferlinghetti
«Like a sculptor, if necessary, carve a friend out of stone. Realize that your inner sight is blind and try to see a treasure in everyone.» — Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi
«Listen, real poetry doesn't say anything; it just ticks off the possibilities. Opens all doors. You can walk through anyone that suits you.» — Jim Morrison
«What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!» — Gustave Flaubert
«One could say that artists are people who think naturally in highly patterned ways.» — Helen Vendler
«In the high country of the mind one has to become adjusted to the thinner air of uncertainty...» — Robert M. Pirsig
«Don't think, but look! (PI 66)» — Ludwig Wittgenstein
«So? He was stupid. If I killed everyone who was stupid, I wouldn't have time to sleep.» — Tamora Pierce
«My heart knows what my mind only think it knows.» — Noah Benshea
«No lake so still but it has its wave. No circle so perfect but that it has its blur. I would change things for you if I could; As I can't you must take them as they are.» — Confucius
«If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.» — G.K. Chesterton
«If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl.» — H.L. Mencken
«Dead, we are revealed in our true dimensions, and they are surprisingly modest.» — Michael Cunningham
«Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.» — Horace Mann
«I held her close for only a short time, but after she was gone, I'd see her smile on the face of a perfect stranger and I knew she would be there with me all the rest of my days.» — Brian Andreas
«What is a man's life but a prelude to his death? And what is death but a long sleep, a most welcome forgetfulness.» — Lisa M. Klein
«But spending your life concentrating on death is like watching a whole movie and thinking only about the credits that are going to roll at the end. It’s a mistake of emphasis.» — Nicholson Baker
«Alive. Alive in the way that death is alive.» — John Fowles
«How do you tell if something's alive? You check for breathing?» — Markus Zusak
«In a world where death is the hunter, my friend, there is no time for regrets or doubts. There is only time for decisions.» — Carlos Castaneda
«In all of living, have much fun and laughter. Life is to be enjoyed, not just endured.» — Gordon B. Hinckley
«The danger is that in reaction to abuses and distortions of an idea, we'll reject it completely. And in the process miss out on the good of it, the worth of it, the truth of it.» — Rob Bell
«Any civilization where the main symbol of religious veneration is a tool of execution is a bad place to have children.» — Charles Stross
«People may say what they like about the decline of Christianity; the religious system that produced green Chartreuse can never really die.» — Saki
«Religion is different from everything else; because in religion seeking is finding.» — Willa Cather
«If Christ taught us anything it is this -- not to let our fear of death keep us from doing the good thing.» — Robert Fanney
«When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.» — Gibran Khalil Gibran
«History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.» — James Joyce
«Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.» — Orson Scott Card
«To tell the truth is very difficult, and young men are rarely capable of it.» — Leo Tolstoy
«I love the stars. Because they can't say anything. I love the stars. Because they do not judge anyone.» — Natsuki Takaya
«We are willing to believe anything other than the truth.» — Carlos Ruiz Zafón
«Personal perception of perfection is like that. You see what you want to see. After awhile you just see what you need to.» — Matthew Good
«If truth is not acceptable, it becomes the imagination of others.» — Patrick White
«You're so easy to read but the book is boring me.» — Emilie Autumn
«Lies run sprints, but the truth runs marathons.» — Michael Jackson
«What I am telling you, before you begin my story, is this -- two things: I crave truth. And I lie.» — Tana French
«I'm not going to have some reporters pawing through our papers. We are the president.» — Hillary Rodham Clinton
«How is it that music can, without words, evoke our laughter, our fears, our highest aspirations?» — Jane Swan
«An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger.» — Dan Rather
«I leave behind this hurricane of f***ing lies» — Green Day
«People haven't always been there for me but music always has.» — Taylor Swift
«Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.» — Gibran Khalil Gibran
«There is no such thing as happy music.» — Franz Schubert
«Im not crazy, Im just a little unwell.» — Rob Thomas
«When you've got nothing, you've got nothing to loose.» — Bob Dylan
«To me you are a work of art, and I would give you my heart - that's if I had one.» — Morrissey
«I don't stand for the black man's side, I don' t stand for the white man's side.I stand for God's side.» — Bob Marley
«The rock and roll business is pretty absurd, but the world of serious music is much worse.» — Frank Zappa
«The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.» — Abigail Van Buren
«Always choose the future over the past. What do we do now?» — Brian Tracy
«Every minute you spend in planning saves 10 minutes in execution; this gives you a 1,000 percent Return on Energy!» — Brian Tracy
«You think money can solve any problem, but all it s good for is buying the things it can, and leaving you free to pursue the things it can't.» — Ann Herendeen
«Wisdom is knowing I am nothing, Love is knowing I am everything, and between the two my life moves.» — Nisargadatta Maharaj
«For this feeling of wonder shows that you are a philosopher, since wonder is the only beginning of philosophy.» — Plato
«They [Nazi captors]had more liberty, more options to choose from in their environment; but he [Viktor Frankl] had more freedom, more internal power to exercise his options.» — Stephen R. Covey
«The most wonderful and the strongest things in the world, you know, are just the things which no one can see.» — Charles Kingsley
«The confidence essential to effective habit-making comes as a rule from knowledge of previous and related successes.» — Ralph Alfred Habas
«Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.» — Aristotle
«There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.» — Patrick Rothfuss
«Because God has made us for Himself, our hearts are restless until they rest in Him.» — Augustine of Hippo
«Prayerlessness is an insult to God. Every prayerless day is a statement by a helpless individual, 'I do not need God today.» — Ben Jennings
«I seemed to hear God saying, "Put down your gun and we'll talk.» — C.S. Lewis
«It is impossible to enslave, mentally or socially, a bible-reading people. The principles of the bible are the groundwork of human freedom.» — Horace Greeley
«God's love for his people is so great that it turns God against himself, his love against his justice.» — Pope Benedict XVI
«With God, all things are possible. 19:26» — Matthew
«It may not always be easy, convenient or politically correct to stand for truth and right, but it is the right thing to do. Always.» — M. Russell Ballard
«To love someone is to desire and work toward their becoming the best version of themselves. The one person in all the universe who can do this perfectly for you is God.» — John Ortberg
«Love is photogenic, it develops in the dark.» — Lorraine Gokul
«One can't fight with oneself, for this battle has only one loser.» — Mario Vargas Llosa
«One possibility is: G-d is nothing but the power of the universe to organize itself.» — Lee Smolin
«Science is a tool of Common Sense. When we insist that all valid information come from science or doctors, Common Sense becomes uncommon or lost forever.» — Richard Diaz
«I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.» — Arthur C. Clarke
«Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.» — Immanuel Kant
«People wrap themselves in their beliefs. And they do it in such a way that you can't set them free. Not even the truth will set them free.» — Michael Specter
«People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.» — Logan Pearsall Smith
«Reading brings us unknown friends» — Honoré de Balzac
«He started to look at me in a manner I recognized: it was the way I looked at a new book, one I had never read before, one that surprised me with all it had to say.» — Alice Hoffman
«I just got out of the hospital. I was in a speed-reading accident. I hit a bookmark.» — Steve Wright
«Despereaux was reading the story out loud to himself. He was reading from the beginning so that he could get to the end...» — Kate DiCamillo
«Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.» — David Mitchell
«He who works with his hands is a laborer. He who works with his hands and his head is a craftsman. He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist.» — Francis Of Assisi
«Though a living cannot be made from art, art makes life worth living. It makes starving, living.» — John Sloan
«In the world there exists no aesthetic plane, not even the aesthetic plane of goodness.» — Clarice Lispector
«If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.» — Émile Zola
«Art isn't a product. It's an experience» — Lori Lansens
«A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on.» — William S. Burroughs
«There is nothing political about American literature.» — Laura Bush
«While there is a lower class, I am in it, while there is a criminal element, I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free. Eugene V. Debs» — Eugene Victor Debs
«The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.» — Eleanor Holmes Norton
«If you're looking to get silly, you better go back to from where you came. because the cops don't need you and man they expect the same.» — Bob Dylan
«Donald Rumsfeld. Love him or hate him, you've gotta admit: a lot of people hate him.» — Jon Stewart
«The dead should not rule the living» — Thomas Jefferson
«There are plenty of good reasons for fighting, I said, but no good reason ever to hate without reservation, to imagine that God Almighty Himself hates with you, too.» — Kurt Vonnegut
«In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.» — John Churton Collins
«I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.» — Helen Keller
«There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.» — P.G. Wodehouse
«.. a friend is someone who inspires, who challenges, who sends you in search of some truer sense of yourself..» — Steve Lopez
«True friends are always together in spirit. (Anne Shirley)» — L.M. Montgomery
«There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.» — Henry David Thoreau
«Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death.» — Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi
«Silently, one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven, Blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels» — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
«The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing.» — Eric Berne
«If you will practice being fictional for a while, you will understand that fictional characters are sometime more real than people with bodies and heartbeats.» — Richard Bach
«Fear is inevitable, I have to accept that, but I cannot allow it to paralyze me.» — Isabel Allende
«If I never got to make a living doing what I loved, I'd still do it--for fun and for free.» — Susan E. Isaacs
«In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.» — Simone Weil
«Any ideas, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought» — Napoleon Hill
«The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.» — Martha Washington
«Really high-minded people are indifferent to happiness, especially other people's.» — Bertrand Russell
«Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.» — Boethius
«...please believe that things are good with me, and even when they're not, they will be soon enough. And i will always believe the same about you.» — Stephen Chbosky
«For the likes of you, the path to happiness is one mean son of a bitch of a path.» — Dean Koontz
«Very little is need to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.» — Marcus Aurelius
«If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself ~ all that runs over will be yours.» — Charles Caleb Colton
«Woman's degradation is in mans idea of his sexual rights. Our religion, laws, customs, are all founded on the belief that woman was made for man.» — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
«I am sick of women who love one. Women who hate one are much more interesting.» — Oscar Wilde
«Men trust God by risking rejection. Women trust God by waiting.» — Carolyn McCulley
«I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be but a challenge to others.» — Amelia Earhart
«Modern paintings are like women: You'll never enjoy them, if you try to understand them.» — Freddie Mercury
«I am woman, hear me roar.» — Helen Reddy
«All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal.» — John Steinbeck
«You cannot choose your battlefield, God does that for you; But you can plant a standard where a standard never flew.» — Stephen Crane
«it is well that war is so terrible, otherwise we would grow too fond of it» — Robert E Lee
«Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian.» — Robert Orben
«Once I pulled a job, I was so stupid. I picked a guy's pocket on an airplane and made a run for it.» — Rodney Dangerfield
«If you neglected to warn Djetth beforehand that you were going to shoot him down, Your Highness, he may consider you in breach of contract... -- Rhett» — Rowena Cherry
«We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn't obey the rules.» — Alan Bennett
«Yes, you may ask my name but only if you can tell me: are your thighs as fine as a fresh, crisp morning in early July?» — Robert Clark
«It's only human nature for dogs to chase motorbikes» — Peter Tinniswood
«With every mistake, we must surely be learning.» — Harrison
«Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures.» — Leon Trotsky
«Go make your mark on the world. Be a world changer! Live bold for Christ no matter the cost.» — Crystal Woodman Miller
«…a cynic who was still saddened whenever his jaundiced view of mankind was confirmed...» — Sharon Kay Penman
«We all give up great expectations along the way.» — Carlos Ruiz Zafón
«If the ass of Jesus be taken to Mekkah He will on his return still be an ass.» — Sa'di
«In the end, it's not what we keep our children from that will save them. It's what we put into them in the first place.» — Marc Parent
«The only things you learn are the things you tame» — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
«You never really learn much from hearing yourself speak.» — George Clooney
«Education isn't for getting a job. It's about developing yourself as a human being.» — Liz Berry
«There is more to life than increasing its speed.» — Mahatma Gandhi
«Time can be a greedy thing-sometimes it steals the details for itself.» — Khaled Hosseini
«There was a sudden stillness like the gap between ticks on a clock, but the next tick never coming.» — Sadie Jones
«When the tides of life turn against you and the current upsets your boat, don't waste those tears on what might have been, just lie on your back and float.» — Ed Norton
«There comes a time when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your own heart. So you'd better learn the sound of it. Otherwise you'll never understand what it's saying.» — Sarah Dessen
«All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust.» — J.M. Barrie
«You have as much laughter as you have faith.» — Martin Luther
«How do we remain faithful to our own spiritual imagination and not betray what we know in our own bodies? The world is holy. We are holy. All life is holy.» — Terry Tempest Williams
No comments:
Post a Comment