Quotes by Authors - Page 2581

In a world gushing blood day and night, you never stop mopping up pain.
Aberjhani
Don't be afraid that things are changing, because indeed they always are.
Sharon Weil
Every city, every town, hides beneath a certain amount of glamour that- either intentionally or not- can misdirect the eye or hide something worth finding. Learning to see through those glamours is part of the process of calling any place home.
Kate Milford
How we remember what we remember and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality.
Christina Baldwin
The greater the challenge, the greater the grace of God.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Mars tugs at the human imagination like no other planet. With a force mightier than gravity, it attracts the eye to the shimmering red presence in the clear night sky...
John Noble Wilford
Samantha, you're in my world now. We have standards here."-Jesse
Wendy Ely
Practice unfettered living from the heart, abandoning all self-imposed limitations to emerge a new, creativity unleashed, giving of yourself like never before.
Pooja Ruprell
Prayer should not be merely an act, but an attitude of life.
Billy Graham
Fierce faith, hopeful heart
Lailah Gifty Akita
The advantage to fighting the evils that are in plain sight is the fact that it is quite easy to win-over the "opposition".
Mike Klepper
I have a duty to speak the truth as I see it and share not just my triumphs, not just the things that felt good, but the pain, the intense, often unmitigated pain. It is important to share how I know survival is survival and not just a walk throught the rain.
Audre Lorde
Don't degrade your soul to the extent of believing in curses. No man can curse you except your maker.
Michael Bassey Johnson
I first understood why Christians prayed for a savior in the form of a beautiful man. He had absolved me of the blue-streaked blond.
Hannah Lillith Assadi
She spoke with the usual cadences of the young: sentences curling upward at the end, all statements fading into a smoky, implied question mark, as though nothing could be said with any reasonable certainty.
Laura Kalpakian
Grief is an emotional rollercoaster.You will have your ups and downsand moments of terrorand brief moments of peace.You can only go as fastas the ride will take you.Just remember:It will end and you will be okay.
Kate McGahan
Personally, I could care less about how people chose their graves. What I do care about is that I don’t want to be dragged along into one, especially by someone who has already lived their life to the fullest.
Jeno Marz
I don’t know how we made it to the bed or if the water was ever turned off in the shower. But we were together, our bodies slippery, our wet hair soaking the sheets we were tangled in. And then we were tangled, our legs and arms. His hands were everywhere, paying reverence to the many scars on my body. His lips followed, and I grew reacquainted with the hard muscles of his stomach, the feel of him.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
I realized I needed my own love more than the people I selflessly gave it to.
Alishah Khan
To stand on one leg and prove God's existence is a very different thing from going down on one's knees and thanking him.
Søren Kierkegaard
You create the life you wish by your thoughts, speech and actions.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Good enough may be an acceptable end, but it should never be an acceptable goal.
James Rozoff
Jesus Christ died to save us from our sins; we tend to concentrate on that merciful fact. But isn't it also true He lived to show us a lifestyle free from sin? So, wouldn't following in his footsteps be something like preventative medicine?
Richelle E. Goodrich
the people who love only once in their lives are really the shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination. Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect - simply a confession of failure. a
Oscar Wilde
There's a time in your life when you have to stop looking back and start looking forward because otherwise you're going to walk down the road one day and bump into a lamppost. But it's not easy.
Anna Maxted
Keep thinking back about what Mum said about being real and the Velveteen Rabbit book (though frankly have had enough trouble with rabbits in this particular house). My favorite book, she claims of which I have no memory was about how little kids get one toy that they love more than all the others, and even when its fur has been rubbed off, and it's gone saggy with bits missing, the little child still thinks it's the most beautiful toy in the world, and can't bear to be parted from it.That's how it works, when people really love each other, Mum whispered on the way out in the Debenhams lift, as if she was confessing some hideous and embarrassing secret. But, the thing is, darling, it doesn't happen to ones who have sharp edges, or break if they get dropped, or ones made of silly synthetic stuff that doesn't last. You have to be brave and let the other person know who you are and what you feel.
Helen Fielding
Some people like danger and adventure, some like to be free of civilization, and some like to live by their wits. It was those special people who headed west.
Joy Hakim
One of the most influential aspects of people's psychology is how they perceive the world around them and how they relate to it.
Pearl Zhu
Not to be rich, but to have money; to have money like a wall to put your back to, and then face the world.
Mario Puzo
Like so many of his successors in the language-crank world today, though, (Jonathan) Swift not only loathes (the) banal and common change (language); he ascribes it to moral failing.
Robert Lane Greene
When this world totally fails, the ground for joy remains.
John Piper
Transgender women do not think of themselves as men wearing women's clothing, they ARE women.
Cheryl B. Evans
It's impossible to make your eyes twinkle if you aren't feeling twinkly yourself
Roald Dahl
Bach's simple and basic themes ultimately engage and appeal to my adolescent side while the seemingly complex arrangements, though perhaps patronizingly in some cases, also reflect my juvenile perception of what looks and sounds 'grown-up,' intelligent, refined and sophisticated. There were few composers and musicians in my youth that I could say understood me and really got me, almost all were classical. J. S. Bach was one one of them.
Anastasia Lily
It is foolish to regret anything form one's past.
Mary Balogh
They hate you not because of what you have done but because of who you are; you are different from who they are, and you are occupying the ground they want for themselves.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Surround yourself with human beings, my dear James. They are easier to fight for than principles.
Ian Fleming
It takes a hell of a lot of courage to walk into your own story, but to be the hero of your own life you have to rescue yourself.
Shannon L. Alder
It is lack of vision and passion on the part of his redeemed children that keeps the nations bound in darkness
Sunday Adelaja
The thing about old friends is not that they love you, but that they know you. They remember that disastrous New Year's Eve when you mixed White Russians and champagne, and how you wore that red maternity dress until everyone was sick of seeing the blaze of it in the office, and the uncomfortable couch in your first apartment and the smoky stove in your beach rental. They look at you and don't really think you look older because they've grown old along with you, and, like the faded paint in a beloved room, they're used to the look. And then one of them is gone, and you've lost a chunk of yourself. The stories of the terrorist attacks of 2001, the tsunami, the Japanese earthquake always used numbers, the deaths of thousands a measure of how great the disaster. Catastrophe is numerical. Loss is singular, one beloved at a time.
Anna Quindlen
I've heard that the best way to help poor people is to make sure you don't become one of them
Robin S. Sharma
I am prone to envy. It is one of my three default emotions, the others being greed and rage. I have also experienced compassion and generosity, but only fleetingly and usually while drunk, so I have little memory.
Augusten Burroughs
The word 'experienced' often refers to someone who's gotten away with doing the wrong thing more frequently than you have.
Laurence Gonzales
Healing is that place where we step into 20 seconds of insane courage because we need to either close that door or hold it open. Regardless of the outcome, the truth is what sets you free never the fear of not knowing.
Shannon L. Alder
It occurred to me that no words by the tongue of man can express the simplicities of a quiet land, so I returned to the river.
Daniel J. Rice
Mindset is your beliefs about your potential, skills, strength, intelligence and choices. Through mindfulness you can change your mindset.
Amit Ray
Ideas begin their life as small seeds, so light they may drift through the air like dust motes. If a human is fortunate enough to catch one, when the light is right, it can be planted, just like a seed. With fertile soil, it may grow into a flower or tree, which will re-seed, thus producing a whole field or forest.
Rahma Krambo
Do you know how wizards like to be buried?""Yes!""Well, how?"Granny Weatherwax paused at the bottom of the stairs."Reluctantly.
Terry Pratchett
We will not open healed wounds!""My wounds are not healed!" I stated just as firmly. "They will never be healed until justice is done!
V.C. Andrews
The trees show definitions of themselves subtly like the face of a man.
Daniel J. Rice
If you are a path-creator, you don’t need a path!
Mehmet Murat ildan
As her analyst had told her: the deeper buried the distress, the further into the body it went. The digestive system was about as far as it could go to hide.
Richard Matheson
For his mourners will be outcast menAnd outcasts always mourn...
Oscar Wilde
Keep your heart and mind in perfect sync while bring the conscious and subconscious into unison.
Steven Redhead
I will gladly go to exhaustion waiting for him. Waiting for his discipline. Waiting for his affection. Waiting for the unknown.
Pam Godwin
You do realize that getting down on one knee generally refers to a proposal, right?” Sidneycontinued. “A marriage proposal?”His eyes, a warm green-gold, daringly held hers as he softly sang the next line of the song. “‘Yousmiled . . . and then the spell was cast.’”Okay, he pretty much just melted her heart right there.
Julie James
Men are made for happiness, and he who is completely happy has the right to say to himself, 'I am doing God's will on earth.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
All across the world, people are loyal to their tribe. --- (Pirio)
Elisabeth Elo
A neon-pink 3 flickered and instantly disappeared again into the dark. The sight of it on my own device now made me sick. I held my finger down on the menu screen; each little app logo began to vibrate. I deleted the 3. I contemplated deleting everything. Cleaning it all away. The idea had a charm, a self-cancellation, many little suicides, a way to dispatch myself without actually going anywhere.
Olivia Sudjic
I know I've got no reason to be crying;I know that there is nowhere left to run.I know that there's no reason to be hiding,I'm just mad at everyone; mad at everyone.
Margo T. Rose