Quotes by Authors - Page 1492

joy is not just about being happy. Joy is a rigorous spiritual practice of saying yes to life on life’s terms
Mark Matousek
To possess something and not know its value is torturous.
Sunday Adelaja
The best way to not die with vacation time on the books is to stop worrying about what you shoulda done. Stop worrying about what you woulda done. Stop worrying about what you coulda done.
Andrea Goeglein
The worst enemy in life is resentment.
Debasish Mridha
A good problem is something you don't know how to solve. That's what makes it a good puzzle and a good opportunity.
Paul Lockhart
The problem with the 'masculinity crisis' is not that women have excelled too much and therefore created a crisis for men, but that we have such a stein inability to let go of what it has traditionally meant to be a man...As long as we perpetuate the myth that men have inherent qualities that make them more suitable than women for certain types of work, the shifting nature of the economy (and women's attainment of better jobs) is going to continue to be interpreted as a crisis of masculinity.
Samhita Mukhopadhyay
Some primal force roared inside him, his possessive streak taking charge. He cupped the back of her head, her hair falling over the back of his hand like silk, and tightened his grip. The moment she softened against him, he took control.
Leah Braemel
I am a man, and men are animals who tell stories. This is a gift from God, who spoke our species into being, but left the end of our story untold. That mystery is troubling to us. How could it be otherwise? Without the final part, we think, how are we to make sense of all that went before: which is to say, our lives?So we make stories of our own, in fevered and envious imitation of our Maker, hoping that we'll tell, by chance, what God left untold. And finishing our tale, come to understand why we were born.
Clive Barker
It's helpful to always remind yourself that meditation is about opening and relaxing withwhatever arises, without picking and choosing.
Pema Chödrön
Man is not, by nature, deserving of all that he wants. When we think that we are automatically entitled to something, that is when we start walking all over others to get it.
Criss Jami
When the sun riseth first, the beams over-gild the tops of green mountains that look toward the east, and the world cannot hinder the sun to rise: some are so near heaven, that the everlasting Sun hath begun to make an everlasting day of glory on them; the rays that come from his face that sits on the throne, so over-goldeth the soul, that there is no possibility of clouding peace, or of hindering daylight in the souls of such.
Samuel Rutherford
I hated him for making me stop hating him
Tim O'Brien
If you really want to do something, you'll find a way. If you don't, you'll find an excuse.
Jim Rohn
You are the author of your life. If you don't like how it goes, write it differently.
Iva Kenaz
Always carry what is beautiful in your heart.
Will Advise
You should write about take no-shit women like me. Girls need to know they can break the rules" p.79
Gloria Steinem
Why do people who read Shakespeare still spend hours watching shitty TV or staring out of the window or arguing about whose dinner party to go to?
Glen Duncan
A very wise man once told me that you can't look back-you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your future.
Jodi Picoult
The mightiest flame of fire lies in positive mindset.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Immorality is the word we use to describe people that are not sinning the same way we are.
Shannon L. Alder
The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible
Arthur C. Clarke
The job is what you do when you are told what to do. The job is showing up at the factory, following instructions, meeting spec, and being managed.Someone can always do your job a little better or faster or cheaper than you can.The job might be difficult, it might require skill, but it's a job.Your art is what you do when no one can tell you exactly how to do it. Your art is the act of taking personal responsibility, challenging the status quo, and changing people.I call the process of doing your art 'the work.' It's possible to have a job and do the work, too. In fact, that's how you become a linchpin.The job is not the work.
Seth Godin
The only education is enlightenment.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Christmas is holy celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ. And God’s great love is the divinity of birth: the spirit of love, joy and hope.
Lailah Gifty Akita
May your spirit be empower divine power.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Wolves directly affect the entire ecosystem, not just moose populations, their main prey, because less moose equals more tree growth
Rolf Peterson
Freedom isn't hard to lose - but it's a hard thing to win back once it's been lost.
Christina Engela
There was something unmistakably exultant about the mess that Rosa had made. Her bedroom-studio was at once the canvas, journal, museum, and midden of her life. She did not “decorate” it; she infused it.
Michael Chabon
It is sometimes said that the tragedy of an artist's life is that he cannot realize his ideal. But the true tragedy that dogs the steps of most artists is that they realize their ideal too absolutely. For, when the ideal is realized, it is robbed of its wonder and its mystery, and becomes simply a new starting point for an ideal that is other than itself. This is why music is the perfect type of art. Music can never reveal its ultimate secret.
Oscar Wilde
Other thoughtful year-round gestures to staff included silver picture frames for wedding anniversaries, flowers to ailing spouses, additional checks for medical bills and even a pet dog
Estella M. Chung
I’ve seen it happen over and over again: a black person gets killed just for being black, and all hell breaks loose. I’ve Tweeted RIP hashtags, reblogged pictures on Tumblr, and signed every petition out there. I always said that if I saw it happen to somebody, I would have the loudest voice, making sure the world knew what went down.Now I am that person, and I’m too afraid to speak.
Angie Thomas
I have found that sitting in a place where you have never sat before can be inspiring.
Dodie Smith
We can learn to work and speak when we are afraid in the same way we have learned to work and speak when we are tired.
Audre Lorde
In our spreading materialist wasteland, more and more people thirst for contemplation, including political wheel-dealers, tycoons, and military top brass, stressed out by the rigors of their professions. Are we to suppose that everyone doing deep breathing on a meditation pillow is communing with the God of Christians? Not necessarily. What unites us to God is the practice of love. If prayer, or any other religious act, is not grounded in that, it is an offense to God.
Dean Brackley
Many contemporary critics of higher education similarly posit a Golden Age but no one knows when it was supposed to exist.
Mark C. Carnes
When we can accept reality as it is and are okay with it without needing to change it, we then can begin to take steps toward creating a brighter reality for ourselves and others, coming from a place of understanding. But when we are motivated to change reality due to our discomfort with it, we do not think clearly. The reason that there is so much suffering in the world is because people are too busy judging everyone and everything, and through the judgments they perpetuate the suffering. People are so focused on changing outside conditions, all the while forgetting the judgment and separation within their own heart.
Alaric Hutchinson
There are moments on stage when everything comes together. Then the kid in the front row coughs.
Connie Brockway
Love is alive when there's music in your heart.
A.D. Posey
The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.
John Green
Step back in perspective, open your heart and welcome transition into a new phase of life.
Linda Rawson
There are a lot of things I can't control. I don't know what's going to happen in the next few days.I don't want what I am going to face, what kind of choices I am going to have to make. I can't predict it. I can't control it. It's too big.' I nodded at my shovel. 'But that, I can predict. I know that if I pick up that shovel and clear the snow from the walkways, it's going to make my neighbors safer and happier.' I glanced at him and shrugged. 'It's worthwhile to me.
Jim Butcher
Live for Your Life not for others...
boddu subbarao
Friendship is a strange animal. It only thrives in voluntary enjoyment of each other's company, in the pleasure of nonobligatory connection. I repeat: You owe me nothing.
Kate Christensen
God's grace is a gift just as life is a gracious breath.
Lailah Gifty Akita
If you suffer and make your loved ones suffer, there is nothing that can justify your desire.
Thich Nhat Hanh
We always have to go backward to move forward. Whether it’s to face our own missteps or reach the end of our lives with a final mistake... We always have to go back to pull ourselves out of ignorance or cast ourselves deeper into revenge.
Amy Rachiele
We were afraid of so many things: Of our children, who lived in their own world of casually lurid pleasures, zombies and cartoon killers and thuggish music. Of our neighbors, who were buying gold and ammunition and great quantities of freeze-dried food, and who were organizing themselves into angry tribes recognizable to one another by bumper stickers.
Jean Thompson
Meekly swallowing and assimilating the customs of the more powerful has always been a strategy by which the less powerful have tried to fit in.
Maureen Corrigan
All right," Harry said coldly. "I'll answer your original question, then. You asked why Dark Wizards are afraid of death. Pretend, Headmaster, that you really believed in souls. Pretend that anyone could verify the existence of souls at any time, pretend that nobody cried at funerals because they knew their loved ones were still alive. Now can you imagine destroying a soul? Ripping it to shreds so that nothing remains to go on its next great adventure? Can you imagine what a terrible thing that would be, the worst crime that had ever been committed in the history of the universe, which you would do anything to prevent from happening even once? Because that's what Death really is - the annihilation of a soul!
Eliezer Yudkowsky
What she remembered is undoubtedly something so radically different from the image I gave to her memory that the two may be incompatible.
Siri Hustvedt
Out of the military, out of the war, out of the only life they knew. Team Fear took the fall.
Cindy Skaggs
There is no old age. There is, as there always was, only you.
Carol Grace
While God desires salvation for everyone, God owes salvation to no one.
Evan Minton
In any culture, subculture, or family in which belief is valued above thought, and self-surrender is valued above self-expression, and conformity is valued above integrity, those who preserve their self-esteem are likely to be heroic exceptions.
Nathaniel Branden
It rewrites the contract, I'd read somewhere. Your self's no longer central. This thing comes out of you and drags half your soul along after it like a blanket.
Glen Duncan
The string slices into the skin of his fingers and no matter how tough the calluses, it tears. But this beat is fast and even though his joints are aching, his arm's out of control like it has a mind of its own and the sweat tat drenches his hair and face seems to smother him, but nothing's going to stop Tom. He;s aiming for oblivion.
Melina Marchetta
Primitive humans could not comprehend the vastness of infinity and eternity, so as a trick of self-preservation they came up with the perception of survival of the soul after death and its recurring incarnations.
Abhijit Naskar
The truest smiles are those which spread across our faces when no one's watching us.
Minhal Mehdi
But an artist, he realized. Or rather so-called artist. Bohemian. That's closer to it. The artistic life without the talent.
Philip K Dick
Men are cruel but man is kind.
Rabindranath Tagore