Quotes by American Authors - Page 2448

The experience of pleasant, unpleasant, or neutral is the consequences of perception.
Allan Lokos
I am not here, I am somewhere else, my body is here but mind is in the skyflying with the clouds, spreading her wings of imagination to find the rainbow of happiness and joy.
Debasish Mridha
Jack Speight undid me, then I almost undid myself. But I've undone some of the bad, too, some of the damage. With help. With luck and love.
Wally Lamb
Everyone knew that bugs traveled in packs. Only the stupid ones got caught. The smart ones lay in wait for her to go to sleep so they could attack.
Jill Shalvis
Wisdom is the reward for surviving our own stupidity.
Brian Rathbone
An envy of that one consummate partSwept me, who mock. Whether I laugh or weep, Some inner silences are at my heart.
Léonie Adams
Did you wake him?""If I say yes, will you spank me?"Syn rolled his eyes. "You're horrible, Mari.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
I love to see those paragliders weaving softly around Moon Point, their legs floating above you in the air. When they drift in for a landing, their feet touch the ground and they trot forward from the continued motion of the glider, which billows down like a setting sun. I never get tired of watching them and I've seen them thousands of times. I always wondered what that kind of freedom would feel like.
Deb Caletti
having someone who likes you so much that they think everything you say is the truth has got to be a liar’s paradise
Christopher Paul Curtis
Your life may not have gone the way you planned it, but it will go the way it's supposed to.
Jeanette Coron
A real job can kill a real dream, chase your real dreams
Fabrizio Moreira
I gave up many times but I never quit.
Ken Poirot
I don’t mind hot and spicy. Actually find that appealing in a girl. And chicken wings.
Julie James
Every time, he breaks your hearts. And every time, he expects me to pick up the pieces.
Rainbow Rowell
Everything is possible. You once told me not too long ago we should always have hope and I do.
T.S. Krupa
A sweet life is a sweaty life.
Toni Sorenson
It is beautiful, it is endless, it is full and yet seems empty. It hurts us.
Jackson Pearce
A little creativity can make something ordinary, extraordinary, and something extraordinary that much more so.
Scott Stabile
I've been ignored by prettier women than you, but none who carried the heavy pitchers of silenceso far, without spilling a drop.
Jeffrey McDaniel
I have rare moments of competence.
Peter V. Brett
Islam is not unusual in having a tradition of martyrs. What is unique to Islam is the tradition of murderous martyrdom, in which the individual martyr simultaneously commits suicide and kills others for religious reasons.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
If we really want to live we'd better start at once to try.
W.H. Auden
Peace happens - It begins with me.
Catherine Marie Bergman
I so desperately wanted to be his gravity, to hold him on this earth and keep him from leaving me.
Whitney Barbetti
Of course we need to accept ourselves as we are, but we can't stop there. We also need to value ourselves enough make needed changes.
Steve Goodier
Being in love with yourself will teach how to love others.
Debasish Mridha
When we do cross paths with people whose beliefs and attitudes conflict with our own, we are rarely challenged.
Thomas Gilovich
In the morning, smile like the morning sun and give the best gift of a smile filled with the warmth of love.
Debasish Mridha
Denial is the lid on our emotional pressure cooker: the longer we leave it on, the more pressure we build up. Sooner or later, that pressure is bound to pop the lid, and we have an emotional crisis.
Susan Forward
When a goal matters enough to a person, that person will find a way to accomplish what at first seemed impossible.
Nido Qubein
you know what her punishment is for tormenting you way back when?" he said.I looked at him.He said, "her punishment is being her,
Curtis Sittenfeld
If you don't imagine, nothing ever happens at all
John Green
Flo Owens: You liked him, didn't you Helen? Helen Potts: Yes, I did. I got so used to things as they were: Everything so prim, the geranium in the window, the smell of mama's medicines. And then he walked in, and it was different! He clomped through the place like he was still outdoors. There was a man in the place and it seemed good!
Daniel Taradash
Anything which is just born, which has just come into existence, has no past behind it. Birth, in other words, is the condition of having no past. And likewise, anything which now dies, which has just ceased to be, has no future left in front of it. Death is the condition of having no future. But we have already seen that this present moment has both no past and no future simultaneously. That is, birth and death are one in this present moment. This moment is just now being born—you can never find a past to this present moment, you can never find something before it. Yet also, this moment is just now dying — you can never find a future to this moment, never find something after it. This present, then, is a coincidence of opposites, a unity of birth and death, being and non-being, living and dying. As Ippen put it, "Every moment is the last moment and every moment is a rebirth.
Ken Wilber
True confession: The reason we don't talk about race is because we do not speak a common language.
Jodi Picoult
Throughout my life, I never sought retribution against those who hurt me because I believe in forgiveness. I have practiced forgiving, just as I want to be forgiven. Only God knows what's in a person's heart, his true intentions. He sees and hears all things.
Muhammad Ali
and the boy's eyes are searching hers with something like loneliness, like the very last thing he wants is to be left behind right now.
Jennifer E. Smith
I wanted to crawl in between those black lines of print, the way you crawl through a fence, and go to sleep under that beautiful big green fig-tree.
Sylvia Plath
You're lucky. You're getting this over with now. You only fall in love for the first time once.""That's very Taylor Swift of you," I say.
Jennifer Salvato Doktorski
I see Sarah framed in the light of her doorway and it is like looking at a painting that emanate a mixture of wishes and truths about someone I loved - from a time I can already vividly remember. I wonder if this is a hazard of being a writer: a sense of detachment that sometimes makes the present seem like it is already past.
Annie Rogers
I've accepted the fact I have mental illness but when my imaginary friends start calling me crazy that's where I draw the line
Stanley Victor Paskavich
I think it's exactly like that. When you think you can't do it anymore. You have to ignore it and keep going. Trust in your training.
Amy Jo Cousins
All relationship systems become anxious. People put together and inevitably anxiety will arise. Anxiety can be infectious. We can give it to others or catch it from them. What precisely triggers anxiety is unique to each system. Common Activators are significant changes and losses. They upset the stable patterns and balance of the system.
Peter L. Steinke
fear is something i don't you experience unless you have a choice. If you have a choice, you're liable to be afraid. But without a choice, what is there to be afraid of? You just go along and do what has to be done.".,
Mitchell Zuckoff
They implicitly trust that their thoughts, beliefs, and feelings are their own, and fail to recognize that they may be “channeling” someone else’s thoughts and feelings.
Lisa Firestone
Hey, Carlos," the Professor says when he walks in. "How was REACH?""It sucked.""Can you be more specific?" my guardian asks."It really sucked," I elaborate, sarcasm dripping from every word.
Simone Elkeles
A doctor is advertised by the bodies he cures. My business is advertised by the minds I stimulate. And let me tell you that the book business is different from other trades. People don't know they want books. I can see just by looking at you that your mind is ill for lack of books but you are blissfully unaware of it!
Christopher Morley
The conscious attempt to be a good person without Christ is as legalistic as an attempt to make it into Heaven through empty religiosity.
Criss Jami
Every single voice—no matter how soft the peep—longs to be heard.
Richelle E. Goodrich
The best teachers have showed me that things have to be done bit by bit. Nothing that means anything happens quickly--we only think it does. The motion of drawing back a bow and sending an arrow straight into a target takes only a split second, but it is a skill many years in the making. So it is with a life, anyone's life. I may list things that might be described as my accomplishments in these few pages, but they are only shadows of the larger truth, fragments separated from the whole cycle of becoming. And if I can tell an old-time story now about a man who is walking about, waudjoset ndatlokugan, a forest lodge man, alesakamigwi udlagwedewugan, it is because I spent many years walking about myself, listening to voices that came not just from the people but from animals and trees and stones.
Joseph Bruchac
Many people who live with animals have noticed that their cat or dog becomes solicitous of them when they are feeling unwell. A cat who is normally aloof may come sit in the sick person's lap; a normally rambunctious dog may tone himself down when his human friend isn't up to romping or running. In some cases, the ability of animals to sense illness in a human has been lifesaving.
Linda Bender
Before I could flinch, he planted his warm lips against mine, wrapping his arms around my waist. I didn't know what to do with my hands. I thought about putting them in his hair, stopping inches away from his head. I thought about putting them around his neck, but I stopped myself midflight. So there I was, being kissed by a boy I was falling hopelessly in love with and making a complete fool of myself, because I looked like I was flagging someone down with my hands." Concealed
Sang Kromah
There's definitely one person in this world I know I can count on. She's there in the mirror.
E. Katherine Kottaras
Let Love Move You...If you can’t stop thinking of her, it’s because her essence has left an imprint on your heart… on your soul...Don’t be afraid of this feeling; be nourished by it...Let it stir your entire being…Let it help release your greatest self...Let it inspire you to be loving… to be respectful… to be romantic… to be intelligent… to be passionate… to be a good listener… to be appreciative…Let this wonderful feeling move you to become a passionate love maker… a ravenous seducer...Do not be afraid of this deep love! Let it reveal the best of you…Let this feeling encourage you to behave in an honest and sincere manner…So that you may be more than a person she would settle for… so that you may be a person she would yearn for.
Steve Maraboli
Dropping in and out of your own life (for psychotic breaks, or treatment in a hospital) isn’t like getting off a train at one stop and later getting back on at another. Even if you can get back on (and the odds are not in your favor), you’re lonely there. The people you boarded with originally are far, far ahead of you, and now you’re stuck playing catch-up.
Elyn R. Saks
Sex is one of the nine reasons for reincarnation. The other eight are unimportant
Henry Miller
God's ways are higher than our ways not because he is less compassionate than we are but because he is more compassionate than we can ever imagine.
Rachel Held Evans
Doors of my heart are always open with love and kindness.
Debasish Mridha
It is the curse of the powerful to be blind to their own faults.
Robert Fanney
Every minute you spend in planning saves 10 minutes in execution; this gives you a 1,000 percent Return on Energy!
Brian Tracy