Quotes by Authors - Page 3265

Never compare your insides to someone else's outsides.
Rob Lowe
Relentless enthusiasm keeps us young.
Debasish Mridha
There are far too many silent sufferers.  Not because they don't yearn to reach out, but because they've tried and found no one who cares.
Richelle E. Goodrich
The deepest yearning of human beings seems to be a constellation in which the two poles (motherliness and fatherliness, female and male, mercy and justice, feeling and thought, nature and intellect) are united in a synthesis, in which both sides of the polarity lose their antagonism and, instead, color each other.
Erich Fromm
...[M]y inner self moved; my spirit shook its always-fettered wings half loose. I had a sudden feeling as if I, who never yet truly lived, were at last about to taste life.
Charlotte Brontë
Don't treat your husband the way he deserves, but as Christ expects.
Ngina Otiende
He felt his heart pounding fiercely in his chest. How strange that in his dread of death, it pumped all the harder, valiantly keeping him alive. But it would have to stop, and soon. Its beats were numbered. How many would there be time for, as he rose and walked through the castle for the last time, out into the grounds and into the forest?
J.K. Rowling
The religion I am talking about here is plain everyday humanism. That’s exactly what the person named Jesus attempted to spread, but due to innate psychological reasons, his pupils ended up constructing yet another orthodox circle with its own distinct beliefs, ideals and fantasies.
Abhijit Naskar
We didn't try to force God's hand or do the "I just heard a sermon about David and Goliath so I need to quit my job right this second" leap of faith that's so popular in Christian circles. We took our time with the decision, like another guy in the Bible, named Jesus. He spent thirty years in obscurity before he started his adventure. Often, we're not willing to spend thirty minutes in preparation, never mind thirty years, especially when we come home from a conference and find our day jobs waiting for us on Monday morning. I'm not sure why Christians sometimes think the maturation of our own missions will be radically shorter than that of Jesus. But it happens and in the past I've certainly wanted to take wild, unplanned, possibly-not-inspired-by-God leaps of faith.
Jon Acuff
I think war is a dangerous place.
George W. Bush
... you sometimes had to force people to say things they would rather not articulate, just so they could hear their own words. It was interesting the way people could know things and not know them at the same time. Denial, he said, was like a thick stone wall.
Nell Freudenberger
Don't pretend to be what you're not, instead, pretend to what you want to be, it is not pretence, it is a journey to self realization.
Michael Bassey Johnson
He continues to smile expectantly. I take a step back. I don't want to catch whatever he has. He is a disturbing out-of-uniform Santa.
Augusten Burroughs
I'm convinced that responsibility is some kind of psychological disease.
Brandon Sanderson
I try to learn one new thing a week to balance the one thing I forget a week but lately I forget three things a week.
Joseph Gies
The She-dragon called Ghleanna had been standing behind him. She grabbed his hair and yanked the old dragon forward while ramming the blade of her sword into his snout. Bram glanced down at Kachka and smiled. “Isn’t she glorious?”Ghleanna pulled the old dragon off her sword and focused on the soldiers. “Kill all of them!” she screamed, and dragons dropped from the skies, landing hard on the soldier dragons.“The royals always forget,” Bram murmured. “Cadwaladrs never fight alone.
G.A. Aiken
Your universe is not out there. You create it every moment and every day with your thoughts, ideas, perceptions, and imaginations.
Debasish Mridha
I only wish to read, think and write.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Sebastian is in love with his own childhood. That will make him very unhappy.
Evelyn Waugh
Until you raise the bar on yourself people will treat you as a commodity
Bernard Kelvin Clive
I have the soul of a white man, the soul of a black man, the soul of an Asian man; the soul of every man.
Matshona Dhliwayo
We can possess great land by faith.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Life goes on, and deadlines arrive,even when it seems the world should stopout of respect for a shattered self-esteem.
Kelly Bingham
He'd been told that women were sensitive about such things, as if a scar could somehow ruin their beauty, but scars were just stories told in flesh...
Larry Correia
Assumptions are unopened windows that foolish birds fly into, and their broken bodies are evidence gathered too late.
Bryan Davis
Your life experience is a moving picture, of which you are writer, director, performer, producer and critic.
T.F. Hodge
Wherever your thoughts and beliefs can take you, you can go there.
Debasish Mridha
To make a child laugh, you don’t have to do something spectacular because they have already the ability to make themselves happy almost out of nothing!
Mehmet Murat ildan
One should take care of one’s own [True] Self and do supervision of everything else.
Dada Bhagwan
The only way you can write is by the light of the bridges burning behind you.
Richard Peck
The priceless gift of life, strength and time is our greatest wealth.
Lailah Gifty Akita
The thought crossed my mind that this could be dangerous. Not the ill-advised sex with the just-out-of-his-teens pop star, but the cuddling. The lying there, drinking in his scent, watching his chest rise and fall, allowing myself to bask in my own happiness. I could fall in love this way.
Robinne Lee
To learn how to swim, observe fish; how to hunt, observe lions; how to work, observe bees, and how to live, observe sages.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Forgiveness does not mean I approve of or condone what transpired.
Sharon E. Rainey
Alexa's face whitens. The coil of hair loosens itself from her finger. "You did it for me. You never fought back. Because you thought you were keeping me safe."I pull up my gaze to meet hers. "Yeah.""I--" It's a strangled, high-pitched sound, laced with shock and grief. Then she bites her lips shut. Her chin trembles, just once, before she turns away.
Clara Kensie
I entered the water as naked as when my mother bore me. When I first touched the cold water I felt a shudder go through me, then the shudder was transformed into a sensation of wakefulness.
Tayeb Salih
Then they began saying, "Get hold of him. Put him in Mercury." Now as you know I have two sculptures by Brancusi and several pretty things and I did not want them to start getting rough, so I said, pacifically, "Dear sweet clodhoppers, if you knew anything of sexual psychology you would know that nothing could give me keener pleasure than to be manhandled by you meaty boys. It would be an ecstasy of the very naughtiest kind. So if any of you wishes to be my partner in joy come and seize me. If, on the other hand, you simply wish to satisfy some obscure and less easily classified libido and see me bathe, come with me quietly, dear louts, to the fountain.
Evelyn Waugh
This is what happens when an outlaw kidnaps a scholar of myths and legends.
Doris Egan
Patience is a virtue not a vice.
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
I had to learn how to love myself and trust me it’s not the type of thing that happens over night.
Crystal L. Swain
When I stop [working] the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm working.
Tennessee Williams
As part of an effort to prod college seniors to get tetanus shots, a group of students was given a lecture meant to educate them about the dangers of tetanus and the importance of getting inoculated against it. A large majority of those students reported that they were convinced and planned to get their shots, but in the end only 3 percent got them. Bu another group of students, who were presented with the same lecture, had a 28 percent inoculation rate. The difference? The second group was given a map of the campus and asked to plan their route to the health center and pick a date and time to go. Sometimes, you see, motivation isn't our problem. Rather, we need to identify life's everyday mental obstacles - regret, fatigue, overconfidence, fear, to name just four - and put ourselves into position to hurdle them.
Gary Belsky
Let your light shine as an inspiration to humanity and BE THE REASON someone believes in the goodness of people.
Germany Kent
When you are able to create values in yourself or in others then you have won the race.
Sunday Adelaja
Ellen had said that her mother was afraid of the ocean, that it was too cold and too big. The sky was, too, thought Annemarie. The whole world was: too cold, too big. And too cruel.
Lois Lowry
Perhaps one day someone from a distant land will listen to this story of mine. Isn't this what lies behind the desire to be inscribed in the pages of a book? Isn't it just for the sake of this delight that sultans and viziers proffer bags of gold to have their histories written?
Orhan Pamuk
The country has turned its loyal inhabitants into wanderers similar to the survivors of an apocalypse.
Rami Ollaik
Breath is the finest gift of nature. Be grateful for this wonderful gift.
Amit Ray
No president likes leaks, but it’s worth noting candidate Trump’s path to power was tread on a road of leaks. He didn’t have a problem with leaks then. It’s not a moral position if you only hold it when it applies to you.
Jake Tapper
The night has already turned on that imperceptible pivot where two A.M. changes to six A.M. You know this moment has come and gone, but you are not yet willing to concede that you have crossed the line beyond which all is gratuitous damage and the palsy of unraveled nerve endings. Somewhere back there you could have cut your losses, but your rode past that moment on a comet trail of white powder and now you are trying to hang on to the rush.
Jay McInerney
There is no escape for me now, I know. Everything is over. I had my run. I was a murderer, a beautiful one, but I lived in a house of cards all my life and now it's all coming back to punish me, and there is no escape.
Katherine Ewell
To keep clear of concealment to keep clear of the need of concealment to do nothing that he might not do out on the middle of Boston Common at noonday -I cannot say how more and more that seems to me to be the glory of a young man's life. It is an awful hour when the first necessity of hiding anything comes. The whole life is different thenceforth. When there are questions to be feared and eyes to be avoided and subjects that must not be touched then the bloom of life is gone. Put off that day as long as possible. Put if off forever if you can.
Phillips Brooks
In the culture people talk about trauma as an event that happened a long time ago. But what trauma is, is the imprints that event has left on your mind and in your sensations... the discomfort you feel and the agitation you feel and the rage and the helplessness you feel right now.
Bessel A. van der Kolk
Suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of scarifice
Viktor E. Frankl
Who wants to pluck roses must love their thorns.
Sir Kristian Goldmund Aumann
I'm thinking that it will be autumn soon," she said, lifting her gaze to his. "Autumn is my absolute favorite season. Spring is overrated. It's soggy and the trees are still bare from winter. Winter drags on and on, and summer is nice, but it's all the same. Autumn is different. I mean, is there any perfume in the world that can compare with the smell of burning leaves?" she asked with an engaging smile. Matt thought she smelled a hell of a lot better than burning leaves, but he let her continue. "Autumn —is thexincgitsinagrechanging. It's like dusk." "Dusk?""Dusk is my favorite time of day, for the same reason. When I was young, I used to walk down our driveway at dusk in the summer and stand at the fence, watching all the cars going by with their headlights on. Everyone had a place to go, something to do. The night was just beginning ..." She trailed off in embarrassment. "That must sound incredibly silly.""It sounds incredibly lonely.
Judith McNaught
I'll be around my whole life. That's a long time to me.
Jodi Meadows
Your strength lies in knowledge, your power lies in wisdom, your treasure lies in understanding, and your wealth lies in life.
Matshona Dhliwayo
...the older I get, the more I believe that if love is to be judged by most of its visible effects, it looks more like hatred than friendship.
Paul Hoffman
Honesty and integrity are the yardsticks by which we measure our intrinsic value.
Orly Wahba