Quotes by American Authors - Page 1684

Abundance is not defined by possessions, but it is defined by inner perceptions.
Debasish Mridha
When we are able to see the choices we make through the eyes of self-acceptance, we are transformed.
Jodi Livon
Get a shot of love to prevent the infection called depression.
Debasish Mridha
We often create problems in our minds because of our collective human perspective of there not being 'enough' – enough love, enough money, enough resources, etc."There is enough. We have enough. If you are on this earth, then each moment you have not only enough of everything – but actually the exact amount you need of it! When we recognize this, we automatically can wipe out many of our so-called problems.
Caroline A. Shearer
I stand now at a crossroads. I see before me the route to virtue, at an intersection with the route to love. Do I step to the left or the right, to the wrong or the right? M foot wavers in the air; where shall I set it down?
Lise Arin
They had to call and callAnd pick the worms off me like sticky pearls.--From the poem "Lady Lazarus", written 23-29 October 1962
Sylvia Plath
Absolution is not the same as understanding.
Justin Cronin
I am a practical girl, and a life is only so long. It should be spent in as much peace and good eating and good reading as possible and no undue excitement. That is all I am after.
Catherynne M. Valente
Now Vegas, while you were asleep your classmates and I were discussing time manipulation. What are your thoughts on the subject?”“Well,” Vegas turned to the class, his captive audience and smiled, “if you can manipulate time so this bell would hurry up and ring, I'd think it’s fabuloso.” The class snickered again, but not everyone since someone else had made a similar joke just several minutes prior. Naturally, Vegas hadn't been able to hear it over the sound of his own snoring.
Charlie Fey
You are born into your family and your family is born into you. No returns. No exchanges.
Elizabeth Berg
The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars nor its great scholars great men.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
I haven't don anything wrong." At least, not for a few hours
Jennifer A. Nielsen
Dissociation is the common response of children to repetitive, overwhelming trauma and holds the untenable knowledge out of awareness. The losses and the emotions engendered by the assaults on soul and body cannot, however be held indefinitely. In the absence of effective restorative experiences, the reactions to trauma will find expression. As the child gets older, he will turn the rage in upon himself or act it out on others, else it all will turn into madness.
Judith Spencer
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
When the magical lights of love touch your heart and soul, you and your world become magical.
Debasish Mridha
Government as we now know it in the USA and other economically advanced countries is so manifestly horrifying, so corrupt, counterproductive, and outright vicious, that one might well wonder how it continues to enjoy so much popular legitimacy and to be perceived so widely as not only tolerable but indispensable. The answer, in overwhelming part, may be reduced to a two-part formula: bribes and bamboozlement (classically "bread and circuses"). Under the former rubric falls the vast array of government "benefits" and goodies of all sorts, from corporate subsidies and privileges to professional grants and contracts to welfare payments and health care for low-income people and other members of the lumpenproletariat. Under the latter rubric fall such measures as the government schools, the government's lapdog news media, and the government's collaboration with the producers of professional sporting events and Hollywood films. Seen as a semi-integrated whole, these measures give current governments a strong hold on the public's allegiance and instill in the masses and the elites alike a deep fear of anything that seriously threatens the status quo.
Robert Higgs
Women are sneaky.
Patricia Briggs
One difference between the Bible and the Constitution is that we can still talk to the author of the Bible to discover original intent.
Ron Brackin
Voyages IIIInfinite consanguinity it bears This tendered theme of you that light Retrieves from sea plains where the sky Resigns a breast that every wave enthrones; While ribboned water lanes I wind Are laved and scattered with no stroke Wide from your side, whereto this hour The sea lifts, also, reliquary hands. And so, admitted through black swollen gates That must arrest all distance otherwise, Past whirling pillars and lithe pediments, Light wrestling there incessantly with light, Star kissing star through wave on wave unto Your body rocking! and where death, if shed, Presumes no carnage, but this single change,- Upon the steep floor flung from dawn to dawn The silken skilled transmemberment of song; Permit me voyage, love, into your hands . .
Hart Crane
Day after day he roamed about in the arctic cold, his soul filled full of bitterness and despair. He saw the world of civilization then more plainly than ever he had seen it before; a world in which nothing counted but brutal might, an order devised by those who possessed it for the subjugation of those who did not.
Upton Sinclair
Documenting little details of your everyday life becomes a celebration of who you are.
Carolyn V. Hamilton
...you have to learn where your pain is. You have to burrow down and find the wound, and if the burden of it is too terrible to shoulder, you have to shout it out; you have to shout for help... And then finally, the way through grief is grieving.
Jane Hamilton
Everything in the seen world is a dim reflection or representation of the unseen world.
Dan Pedersen
If you are too weak to stand being hit and too stupid to avoid it, then you deserve more pain.
Kiersten White
Climax: It's all downhill from here.
Buffy Andrews
Religion is the last cultural barrier to gender equity.
Karen L. Garst
I’m going to take Charity to France. I can look after her there. You can go on with your life here, and I won’t be here to … to bother anyone.”He muttered two quiet words.“What?” she asked in bewilderment, inching forward to hea
Lisa Kleypas
Everything is transient. You must transcend and transform for higher self realization.
Debasish Mridha
Any man can work when every stroke of his hands brings down the fruit rattling from the tree ... but to labor in season and out of season under every discouragement... that requires a heroism which is transcendent.
Henry Ward Beecher
Do you have the courage? Do you have the courage to bring forth this work? The treasures that are hidden inside you are hoping you will say yes." (quoting Jack Gilbert)
Elizabeth Gilbert
Live life while you have it; the fact that you have it is highly improbable, the fact that you will lose it is guaranteed.
Philip DeFranco
You're surprised at all the blood.He looks over at you, eyes wide, mouth dropping open, his face almost as white as his shirt.He's surprised, too.
Charles Benoit
When time passes, it's the people who knew you whom you want to see; they're the ones you can talk to. When enough time passes, what's it matter what they did to you?
John Irving
The reason people will attack you never really has anything to do with you. It stems from their OWN evil thoughts that they entertain and from wanting and not getting their way.
Sandra M. Michelle
‎"Life's book is hard to understand: Why couldst thou not remain atschool?
Charles Hanson Towne
Our worth is determined by the good deeds we do rather than by the fine emotions we feel.
Elias L. Magoon
Learn to pray. Pray often. Pray in your mind, in your heart. Pray on your knees. Prayer is your personal key to heaven. The lock is on your side of the veil. And I have learned to conclude all my prayers with ‘Thy will be done’ (Matthew 6:10; see also Luke 11:2; 3 Nephi 13:10).
Boyd K. Packer
My feeling is this whole country is founded on the principle of 'if you are not hurting anyone, and you're not fucking with someone else's shit, and you are paying your taxes, you should be able to just do what you want to do.' It's the freedom and the independence.
Adam Carolla
It always struck me in years after how bizarre it was, how two people could look at one another with such tenderness and complete love, and how quickly that could dissolve into nothing but bitterness.
Hannah Harrington
I do a weird thing when I am nervous where I tilt my head back like I am super confident. This is my attempt to fake it until I make it, or at the very least make it easier for someone to slit my throat.
Amy Poehler
I was used to being the smartest guy in the room, and then God dropped me in a place that was well beyond me. It was painfully awesome.
Matt Chandler
Action is the spark that ignites potential.
John Long
I don't see money as evil or good: how can illusion be evil or good? But I don't see heroin or meth as evil or good, either. Which is more addictive & debilitating, money or meth? Attachment to illusion makes you illusion, makes you not real. Attachment to illusion is called idolatry, called addiction.
Daniel Suelo
I look upon the gift of my life as a wondrous journey.
Maureen Brady
Because sometimes you just have to dance like a madman in the Self-Help section of your local bookstore.
David Levithan
If you can continue to smile through hardship and pain, then your moment will come…just be patient.
Charles F. Glassman
Once you break someone’s heart, you are forever its master.
Roy L. Pickering Jr.
... to travel is worth any cost or sacrifice.
Elizabeth Gilbert
She must love me, to worry about me. She must still be capable of love.
Veronica Roth
Scream at the mangled leather carcass lying at the foot of the stairs, and my parents would roar with laughter. "That's what you get for leaving your wallet on the kitchen table.
David Sedaris
Each stroke of your fingers is a different word that describes the story. By itself it’s meaningless, but—” I pushed down on a few fingers helping her play a few notes. “String them together and you have a melody. You have a story. So, Saylor, what story do you want to tell?
Rachel Van Dyken
I am not the Juliet to his Romeo. I am not the lodestar around which he orbits. I am not the trade wind by which he sets the course of his sails. I am not essential or exceptional.I was his Monday girl. Shitty, really, since he was my whole damn week.
Julie Johnson
God is not a being but an atom where all the power, attraction, information, and beauty resides.
Debasish Mridha
There is no secret formula--only a life committed to a close walk with God.
Dillon Burroughs
I would advise anyone who aspires to a writing career that before developing his talent he would be wise to develop a thick
Harper Lee
The sun was still out, wouldn’t even start to set for an hour, but the early evening still had that “magic hour” feeling. The air was warm and breezy. The houses looked sparkling with windows reflecting the still bright sun.
Victoria Kahler
Charlestonians had a particularly vicious and cunning game, developed after the War. They treated outsiders with so much graciousness and consideration that their politeness became a weapon. 'Visitors end up feeling as if they're wearing shoes for the first time in their lives. It's said that only the strongest ever recover from the experience. The Chinese never developed a torture to match it, although they're a very subtle people.
Alexandra Ripley
The river flows to the sea, whatever the wind says about it
Naomi Novik
She sighed. Loudly. "Physical appearance is not what is important."Yeah right. Tell that to any girl who hasn't bothered to put on a presentable shirt or fix her hair because she's only running into the grocery store to get a quart of milk for her grandmother, and who does she see tending the 7-ITEMS-OR-LESS cash register but the guy of her dreams, except she can't even say hi—much less try to develop a meaningful relationship—since she looks like the poster child for the terminally geeky.
Vivian Vande Velde
You never push a noun against a verb without trying to blow up something.
H.L. Mencken