Quotes by Authors - Page 3212

We were characters out of a movie. We were thoroughly alive. And we were absolutely beautiful.
Krystal Sutherland
The irrevocable events of our lives happen in seconds, sometimes fractions of seconds.
Greg Iles
It's your way of fighting. You refuse to engage and then you can't lose.
Christine Feehan
The worst form of inequality, is the inequality of ideals A people united by the same ideal, irrespective of religion, social status, race, political preference or sexual, would have the strength to fight for a fairer country.
Marcela Re Ribeiro
Schizoid behavior is a pretty common thing in children. It's accepted, because all we adults have this unspoken agreement that children are lunatics.
Stephen King
The definition of a person who practices visualization and positive thinking, without taking action: a broke loser.
Robert Rolih
A prudent person profits from personal experience a wise one from the experience of others.
Dr. Joseph Collins
We are all echoes of each other. We are all humans and feel both despair and happiness. Our similarities, as a species, are staggering. And our mental fragility is directly tied up with our humanity. We have nothing to be ashamed of in being human, any more than a tree should be ashamed of having branches. Let’s accept our own nature. Let’s be kind to ourselves and to each other. Let’s never add to the pain by blaming ourselves. We are all so weird that, really, none of us are. There are seven billion versions of strange on this freak wonder of a planet. We are all part of that. All freaks. All wonderful.
Matt Haig
Awareness is the fuel that powers change
Theresa French
Maybe there is no one way to deal with grief, but knowing that we're not totally alone is the best we can do.
Ann Benjamin
There is nowhere to arrive except the present moment.
Thich Nhat Hanh
You are the beautiful and elusive pinpoint of radiance that lit up the darkness and called me home.
Sara Humphreys
Cheap grace is the mortal enemy of the church
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Be selfless to be helpful.
Debasish Mridha
There are two motives for writing a book: one, that you may save what you know, the other, that you may share what you know with the public.
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
The world looks too small when you believe in your eyes
saqib abraham
Hope was other people, no matter what the philosophers said. And this was a time that needed hope.
Tiffany Reisz
She began sobbing again. “I’m not ready to die.
T.C. Avey
The only thing that matters is we are here to live our lives.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Women keep a special corner of their hearts for sins they have never committed.
Cornelia Otis Skinner
The transformation of the world takes place in your heart.
Bryant McGill
Another method of handling a perceived negative energy is to temporarily remove yourself emotionally and physically, from the situation.
Kim Ha Campbell
But not just alive like I was yesterday and the day before. Alive like I knew I was alive. Like I could feel the breaths coming into my chest. And I knew I was the person inside my own body.
Matt de la Pena
Every blade in the field - Every leaf in the forest - lays down its life in its season as beautifully as it was taken up.
Henry David Thoreau
Connection is life; disconnection, death.
Deborah Day
She thought it was strange that the mere sensation of savouring the prospect of something could make her think for a while that is must be the prospect of home.
Colm Tóibín
I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it
Stephen Leacock
What would an ocean be without a monster lurking in the dark? It would be like sleep without dreams.
Werner Herzog
Life is a magnificent sacred journey of the soul.
Debasish Mridha
Religious literature from all around the world have an abundance of philosophical teachings as well, which in fact, prove quite helpful to humanity. But a rational human being must examine every single word from the scriptures before accepting it. Otherwise, it would only lead to religious bulimia, which in turn would bring chaos down on earth.
Abhijit Naskar
The power of a man is like a bull’s charge, while the power of a woman moves aslant, like a serpent seeking its prey. Know the particular properties of your power. Unless you use it correctly, it won’t get you what you want.” His words perplexed me. Wasn’t power singular and simple? In the world that I knew, men just happened to have more of it. (I hoped to change this.)
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
The power of prayer is the purity of life.
Lailah Gifty Akita
A happy face is also a source of happiness!
Mehmet Murat ildan
You couldn't teach kindness, she thought. It was something you were born with. People either had it or they didn't.
Elizabeth Brundage
Frickin' hit me with the speeding car, now. Take away my intense craving to force myself against him and taste his lips.
Gretchen de la O
Conventional wisdom may not be wise.Good fortune and bad luck do not exist.Freedom of choice is predetermined.Don’t believe anything you read!
L. Anthony
Sometimes you can see things happen right in front of your eyes and still jump to the wrong conclusions.
Jodi Picoult
Yes.Work is love made visible.
Ama Ata Aidoo
I ain't never done nothin' that wasn't part sin.
John Steinbeck
If you act like you've only got fifteen minutes, it will take all day. Act like you've got all day, it will take fifteen minutes.
Monty Roberts
Turn off the light to enter into the darkness and enlighten the world with the lights of your being.
Debasish Mridha
Who is an elected government in a constitutional democracy to decide it will not tolerate dissent.
Christina Engela
Be you. You are sacred.
Lailah Gifty Akita
The fact is that I hate this city. I've hated it so long I can hardly remember feeling any other way about it.
Margaret Atwood
And so it goes. And so it goes. And so it goes. And so it goes goes goes goes goes tick tock tick tock tick tock and one day we no longer let time serve us, we serve time and we are slaves of the schedule, worshipers of the sun's passing, bound into a life predicated on restrictions because the system will not function if we don't keep the schedule tight.
Harlan Ellison
A good attitude, a positive perspective, a smiling face, a strong laugh are all highly contagious. Why not start spreading them?
Charles F. Glassman
I know you. I know this isn't you. And even if it is, I still love you. As much as I always have. You will always be mine. I will always love you, I promised you that when you left, and it's true now.
Melissa de la Cruz
Yesterday I soared above the clouds. Today I'll walk the earth again.
Anthony T.Hincks
Doing, in a life of balance, should be driven from who you have decided to be.
Patrick Rhone
Sugar and caffeine. My willpower crumbled.
Rick Riordan
Loyalty and dedication can't be bought or paid to go away.
Zelda la Grange
Always be organized in adding value
Sunday Adelaja
Silence is only awkward if one cannot feel a connection with the other.
Dominic Riccitello
Love is a great beautifier.
Louisa May Alcott
You're different. And I'm different too. Different is good. But different is hard. Believe me, I know.
Matthew Quick
A simple way to be grateful is to close your eyes for a minute and think of those who never got a chance to open them.
RVM
I think that, with age, people come to realize that death is inevitable. And we need to learn to face it with serenity, wisdom and resignation. Death often frees us from a lot of senseless sufferings.
Paulo Coelho
Just as music is noise that makes sense, a painting is colour that makes sense, so a story is life that makes sense.
Yann Martel
Is it possible that future generations will regard our present agribuisness and eating practices in much the same way we now view Nero's entertainments or Mengele's experiments? My own initial reaction is that such a comparison is hysterical, extreme - and yet the reason it seems extreme to me appears to be that I believe animals are less morally important than human behings; and when it comes to defending such a belief, even to myself, I have to acknowledge that (a) I have an obvious selfish interest in this belief, since I like to eat certain kinds of animals and want to be able to keep doing it, and (b) I haven't succeeded in working out any sort of personal ethical system in which the belief is truly defensible instead of just selfishly convenient.
David Foster Wallace
Your purpose is your identity focus your energy on great purposes.
Amit Ray