Quotes by Authors - Page 2597

A Sufi school comes into being in order to flourish and disappear, not to leave traces in mechanical ritual, or anthropologically survivals.
Idries Shah
A man finds he has been wrong at every stage of his career only to deduce the astonishing conclusion that he is at last entirely right.
Robert Louis Stevenson
If we focus on the problems of life, we will be paralysed
Lailah Gifty Akita
I might go anywhere and do any magic I pleased if I were Peter, not Prunella.
Zen Cho
I spend money on convenient, comfortable and luxurious things; I spend money on books too.
Amit Kalantri
One foot in front of the other, more aimless than direct, Bradford left the waiting room for the outside world. Called for a taxi and then dialed Munroe again, desperate for her voice, for one ray of light in the darkness, afraid of what he might say if she did answer, afraid of himself and the inner deadening that pointed to a danger far more lethal than any rage he'd felt.
Taylor Stevens
Teach your kids by modeling what you claim to believe.
Craig Groeschel
Take the initiative with deliberate steps to be a polite person:1.tCover your mouth when you cough or sneeze.2.tReciprocate a thoughtful word or a good deed in kind.3.tSay "excuse me" when you bump into someone, unintentionally violate someone’s space, or need to get someone’s attention.4.tApologize when you’ve made a mistake or are in the wrong.5.tLive by the "Golden Rule" and treat others the way you would like to be treated.6.tWhen dining at home or in a restaurant, wait until everyone is served before eating your meal.7.tAcknowledge notable events like birthdays, weddings, and anniversaries.8.tReply to invitations, regardless of whether you will be able to attend. 9.tAcknowledge and show gratitude for gifts and gestures of hospitality.10.tPut things back where they belong. Leave the world a better place than how you found it.
Susan C.Young
Some of you, we all know, are poor, find it hard to live, are sometimes, as it were, gasping for breath. I have no doubt that some of you who read this book are unable to pay for all the dinners which you have actually eaten, or for the coats and shoes which are fast wearing or are already worn out, and have come to this page to spend borrowed or stolen time, robbing your creditors of an hour. It is very evident what mean and sneaking lives many of you live, for my sight has been whetted by experience; always on the limits, trying to get into business and trying to get out of debt, a very ancient slough, called by the Latins aes alienum, another's brass, for some of their coins were made of brass; still living, and dying, and buried by this other's brass; always promising to pay, promising to pay, tomorrow, and dying today, insolvent; seeking to curry favor, to get custom, by how many modes, only not state-prison offences; lying, flattering, voting, contracting yourselves into a nutshell of civility or dilating into an atmosphere of thin and vaporous generosity, that you may persuade your neighbor to let you make his shoes, or his hat, or his coat, or his carriage, or import his groceries for him; making yourselves sick, that you may lay up something against a sick day, something to be tucked away in an old chest, or in a stocking behind the plastering, or, more safely, in the brick bank; no matter where, no matter how much or how little.
Henry David Thoreau
Never wait people to thank you , God is the only one who would reward you …
Ibnoulkhatib Yahya
You are sheep among wolves; be wise as serpents, yet innocent as doves.
Anonymous
Life has no meaning, the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.
Jean-Paul Sartre
Leaders are intentionally lucky.
Alin Sav
What you are prepared to do in order to achieve what you want is the only cost involved in achieving that goal.
Steven Redhead
It's a little hard not to worry when my best friend keeps on dying.
Kristin Cast
Be at peace with your choices.They all serve you.
Alan Cohen
how these words, wait to diein the arms of all the poetry..yet to be written.
Sanober Khan
Not your eyes but the capacity of your mind determines how well you see the things happening around you!
Mehmet Murat ildan
My kiss is my promise written in my heart with color of your love.
Debasish Mridha
Heaven is the place we call home.
J.R. Rim
the table of elements does not contain one of the most powerful elements that make up our world, and that is the element of surprise.
Lemony Snicket
Be blessed.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Most people miss their whole lives, you know. Listen, life isn't when you are standing on top of a mountain looking at a sunset. Life isn't waiting at the alter or the moment your child is born or that time you were swimming in a deep water and a dolphin came up alongside you. These are fragments. 10 or 12 grains of sand spread throughout your entire existence. These are not life. Life is brushing your teeth or making a sandwich or watching the news or waiting for the bus. Or walking. Every day, thousands of tiny events happen and if you're not watching, if you're not careful, if you don't capture them and make them COUNT, your could miss it. You could miss your whole life.
Toni Jordan
...that was Bud Caldwell's Rules and Things to Have a Funner LIfe and Make a Better Liar Out of Yourself Number 83...If a Adult Tells You Not to Worry, and You Weren't Worried Before, You Better Hurry Up and Start 'Cause You're Already Running Late.
Christopher Paul Curtis
Someone may have a broken heart or someone may have a broken ego. Such people will have to suffer tremendously because of that.
Dada Bhagwan
Potential is not an endpoint but a capacity to grow and learn.
Eileen Kennedy-Moore
Everyone, at some point in their lives, wakes up in the middle of the night with the feeling that they are all alone in the world, and that nobody loves them now and that nobody will ever love them, and that they will never have a decent night's sleep again and will spend their lives wandering blearily around a loveless landscape, hoping desperately that their circumstances will improve, but suspecting, in their heart of hearts, that they will remain unloved forever. The best thing to do in these circumstances is to wake somebody else up, so that they can feel this way, too.
Lemony Snicket
There is mighty force, energy, ability inside of us that has not yet been noticed by the world
Sunday Adelaja
The boy was growing bored and this was a form of growing up.
Miranda July
With a smile of grim satisfaction, he bellowed his call. And the rebels surged forward in an act that would be remembered for ten thousand years.
Brian Herbert
Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.
Dorothy Parker
Harry — I think I've just understood something! I've got to go to the library!”And she sprinted away, up the s
J.K. Rowling
You'll always be the deepest scar on my heart.
Cassia Leo
Men do not long continue to think what they have forgotten how to say.
C.S. Lewis
Fate lies in our hands, its just that we need to be brave enough to read it & desire enough to change it
Anamika Mishra
The imagination needs moodling,--long, inefficient happy idling, dawdling and puttering.
Brenda Ueland
God’s purpose for us is that we ought to beconformed to the image of His Son. The world may exert its pressure to deform us, but we are told to “be transformed” [Romans 12:2 NIV].
Billy Graham
Come on," I say, "let's go be star-crossed lovers and court disaster.
Sangu Mandanna
Christ did not die to save people, but to teach people how to save each other. This is, I have no doubt, a grave heresy, but it is also a fact.
Oscar Wilde
Sometimes I feel as if I'm only a doorman awaiting the arrival of her royal majesty.
Carew Papritz
It is hard to be true to yourself because it is hard to be yourself.
Jenny Hubbard
Poor fellow! I think he is in love with you.'I am not aware of it. And to me it is one of the most odious things in a girl's life, that there must always be some supposition of falling in love coming between her and any man who is kind to her... I have no ground for the nonsensical vanity of fancying everybody who comes near me is in love with me.
George Eliot
I have all the power, but you will destroy me. “Only your walls, Lark.” He deepened the kiss, licking into my mouth as if he knew he’d find me there hiding from him.
Amy Harmon
Dissimilar from acquiring riches and fame, which are largely products of providence, we self-manufacture our own lot of goodness. If we ground everything we do upon a moral principle and especially love, affection, and compassion, we might not accomplish all the goals that we hoped to achieve, but we will not be hampered with unyielding regret or remorse for the effort expended. If we approach each stage in life with true passion, then each step along a broken or straight path is at least honest. If we honor the commitments that we make to ourselves and act to honor all our personal obligations with other people by devoting our entire intelligence, drive, and vital life force, and do not waste our effort on greedy, wanton, or wasteful activities, we shall grow stronger. Judicious deployment of personal resources ensures that we shall experience a sense of renewal at each important milepost along the way. If we maintain our vow of faith and love people freely, an internal lightness will guide us in our time of uncertainly.
Kilroy J. Oldster
No man can demonstrate peace and cling to unhappiness.
Ernest Holmes
Rich must thank poor; if poor unite, rich will have no place to hide.
Vinita Kinra
Truth has nothing to do with the conclusion, and everything to do with the methodology.
Stefan Molyneux
Vision is defined as a program for restoring the human.
Harold Bloom
If everyone bows in front of your wisdom, your greatest wisdom will be to tell them not to bow!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The memories that really matter don't live in the mind.
Jessica Brody
The Worst thing that Good could do to Evil was ignore it...
Michael K. Bialys
Freedom is ability to resist any harmful action.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Let me implore the reader to try to believe, if only for a moment, that God, who made these deserving people, may really be right when He thinks that their modest prosperity and the happiness of their children are not enough to make them blessed: that all this must fall from them in the end, and if they have not learned to know Him they will be wretched. And therefore He troubles them, warning them in advance of an insufficiency that one day they will have to discover. The life to themselves and their families stands between them and the recognition of their need; He makes that life less sweet to them.If God were proud He would hardly have us on such terms: but He is not proud, He stoops to conquer, He will have us even though we have shown that we prefer everything else to Him, and come to Him because there is 'nothing better' now to be had.
C.S. Lewis
Now if you gentlemen,” she looked at Briec, “and whateveryou are, will excuse me.
G.A. Aiken
I write because it's a beautiful habit
Anamika Mishra
Black and white is heaviest of vibrant and at the same time lightest of achromatic.
Vikrmn
When my mother passed away several years ago—well, wait a minute. Actually, she didn’t ‘pass away.’ She died. Something about that verb, ‘to pass away’ always sounds to me as if someone just drifted through the wallpaper. No, my mother did not pass away. She definitely died.
Steve Allen
A good novel begins with a small question and ends with a bigger one.
Paula Fox
I call [fourth-wave feminism] fainting–couch feminism, a la the delicate Victorian ladies who retreated to an elegant chaise when overcome with emotion. As an equality feminist from the 1970s, I am dismayed by this new craze. Women are not children. We are not fragile little birds who can’t cope with jokes, works of art, or controversial speakers. Trigger warnings and safe spaces are an infantilizing setback for feminism—and for women.
Christina Hoff Sommers
It is not commercial success but originality and proof of autonomy which are admired.
Angela Phillips