Quotes by Authors - Page 3669

Love is the essence, fragrance, and beauty of life.
Debasish Mridha
Satisfaction: it's not something we find, it is something that happens while appreciating what we already have. - Keep your blessings in sight, front & center.
Russell Kyle
My heart was still beating, I was still breathing, but was living something more?
Molly Looby
After a while, though, even the deepest sorrow faltered, even the most penetrating despair lost its scalpel edge.
Richard Matheson
A life is no less valuable or beloved if one lives in an age of decline, than in an age of progress.
Mathew Barrett Gross
Every couple has ups and downs, every couple argues, and that’s the thing—you’re a couple, and couples can’t function without trust.
Nicholas Sparks
It only seems difficult it’s not!
Israelmore Ayivor
Meandering cows, tenacious bicyclers, belching taxis, rickshaws, fearless pedestrians and the occasional mobile ‘cigarette and sweets’ stand all fought our taxi for room on the narrow two-lane road turned local byway.
Jennifer S. Alderson
So you think the best way to prepare kids for the real world is to bus them to a government institution where they're forced to spend all day isolated with children of their own age and adults who are paid to be with them, placed in classes that are too big to allow more than a few minutes of personal interaction with the teacher-then spend probably an hour or more everyday waiting in lunch lines, car lines, bathroom lines, recess lines, classroom lines, and are forced to progress at the speed of the slowest child in class?
Steven James
To think freely--you and only you can liberate yourself from the conformity of your society.
Debasish Mridha
Work is created to be an instrument through which you release your potential
Sunday Adelaja
The meaning of bravery is more than the act of being strong, it is also about letting go of what you cannot control and trusting the unknown.
Steven Cuoco
Sunrise gave birth to our love.
Kristian Goldmund Aumann
Get busy with the issue! In this regard, time is not friendly…nor should it be.
T.F. Hodge
The graces are restless today. They pweet and muss, shuddering their wings so that the feathers stick out at defensive angles. I feel that restlessness too. When the sea is fractious like this – when it chutters and schwaks against the moorings, when it won't talk but only mumbles – it's difficult to think.
Kirsty Logan
Storytelling creates a healing serum. The thematic unguent of our personal story represents a fusion of the ineffable truths that each of us must discover within ourselves.
Kilroy J. Oldster
Then, I guess, I can only hope that you will change your mind. But I will love you, without a doubt, for all eternity.
Angela M. Hudson
Colin decided then and there that the female mind was a strange and incomprehensible organ - one which no man should even attempt to understand. There wasn't a woman alive who could go from point A to B without stopping at C, D, X, and 12 along the way.
Julia Quinn
Maybe what we really need is to change our relationship to what is, to see who we are with the strength of a generous spirit & a wise heart.
Sharon Salzberg
I’m a nice person. I give money to starving babies and properly tip my hairdresser. Why am I the one everyone tries to kill?
Sophie Oak
Headship is the divine calling of a husband to take primary responsibility for Christ-like, servant leadership, protection, and provision in the home.
John Piper
It was good that she remembered him, though it was exhausting to do so.No rest for the weary. Or the dying. Or the dead.
Ryan Graudin
On Alex Rodriguez's difficulty performing in clutch situations, Joe Torre writes, "In key situations, he can't get himself to concern himself with getting the job done instead of how it looks. There's a certain freefall you go through when you commit yourself without a guarantee that it's always going to be good. There's a trust and commitment thing that has to allow yourself fail, allow yourself to be embarrassed, allow yourself to be vulnerable
Tom Verducci
Life makes fools of all of us sooner or later. But keep your sense of humor and you'll at least be able to take your humiliations with some measure of grace. In the end, you know, its our own expectations that crush us.
Paul Murray
It's not the dead even. They're gone. Nothing you can do about that. It's what's left behind - the echo. These woods you're walking through. There are some old timers who think a sound echoes here forever. Makes sense when you think about it. That Billingham kid. I'm sure he screamed. He screams, it echoes, just bounces back and forth, the sound getting smaller and smaller, but never entirely disappearing. Like a part of his is still calling out, even now.
Harlan Coben
Aristotle deemed courage to be the first virtue, because it makes all the other possible.
Jonathan V Last
Of what use was memory anyway than as a template for one's most reassuring self-deceptions!
Ashim Shanker
There’s always a story that people are telling about themselves, and sometimes you can get them to tell it ever so slightly differently.
Caleb Crain
Each night I lie down in a graveyard of memories.
Jerry Spinelli
May all men find grace.
Lailah Gifty Akita
When you pray, you are speaking to yourself. When you take action, you are speaking to God.
Steve Maraboli
Kindness is a magical spell—performed by enlightened beings—meant to enchant hearts and lift weary souls that they might fly.
Richelle E. Goodrich
Deliberately plan to be exciting and to be excited.
Archibald Marwizi
Never give up on yourself.
Lailah Gifty Akita
What is freedom? It consists in two things: to know each his own limitations and accept them – that is the same thing as to know oneself, and accept oneself as one is, without fear, or envy, or distaste; and to recognise and accept the conditions under which one lives, also without fear or envy, or distaste. When you do this, you shall be free.
Ann Bridge
Ian nodded his approval. “I've always liked a woman that understood the value of getting out of my bed just as quick as she'd jumped in it.
Rose Wynters
Domestic abusers and the abused need to develop healthy support systems...
Asa Don Brown
Life is for happiness and we feel it with appreciation and kindness.
Debasish Mridha
...intimacy isn't something men talk about. They may talk about politics, literature, stocks, or sports, depending on the man, but about their love lives they keep silent, even to their dying breath.
Michel Houellebecq
History existed to be retold, with more panache but not necessarily greater accuracy.
Stacy Schiff
You cannot lead and follow a herd at the same time.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The vision is not to see things just as we have imagined them to be. The vision is the freedom to live deliberately every day and that is a simply a choice.
Colleen Mariotti
To conquer anxiety, love everything and fear nothing.
Debasish Mridha
Adamant," Doren said proudly, handing over the shield. "We fished it out of the tar pit where we found the shirt of mail.""Probably all belonged to the same careless adventurer," Newel speculated. "Too much money, not enough talent.
Brandon Mull
Odessans' worst fear is change, because what if we make a change and our situation gets worse?
Janet Skeslien Charles
Growing up in a religious environment, children learn what not to do sexually. They learn that some practices or ideas, such as homosexuality, lust, masturbation, and pornography are sinful. These ideas are embedded in the minds of children years before they are ready for marriage, so it's no surprise that many religious people have little or no experience with sex and know little about their sexuality.The guilt cycle that results from this training creates a form of self-censorship. Because so many sex acts and ideas are liable to lead to eternal damnation, people have a strong incentive to avoid expressing or discussing secretly held ideas and interests. Fear leads to hidden thoughts and activities and prevents normal, appropriately channeled sexual expression.
Darrel Ray
Young people: They care. They know that this is the world that they're going to grow up in, that they're going to spend the rest of their lives in. But, I think it's more idealistic than that. They actually believe that humanity, human species, has no right to destroy and despoil regardless.
David Attenborough
Nothing restricts your peace and happiness more than your limiting self-beliefs and fears.
Maddy Malhotra
Imagine you come upon a house painted brown. What color would you say the house was?""Why brown, of course.""But what if I came upon it from the other side, and found it to be white?""That would be absurd. Who would paint a house two colors?"He ignored my question. "You say it's brown, and I say it's white. Who's right?""We're both right.""Non," he said. "We're both wrong. The house isn't brown or white. It's both. You and I only see one side. But that doesn't mean the other side doesn't exist. To not see the whole is to not see the truth.
Megan Chance
The only difference between me and a madman is that he has the certification
Josh Stern
Loyalty, respect for authority and some degree of sanctification create a more binding social order that places some limits on individualism and egoism.
Jonathan Haidt
As a student I thought there was a formula of some kind that I would get hold of somewhere, and thereby become and artist. There is a formula, but it has not been in books. It is really plain old courage, standing on one's own feet, and forever seeking enlightenment; courage to develop your way, but learning from the other fellow; experimentation with your own ideas, observing for yourself, a rigid discipline of doing over that which you can improve.
Andrew Loomis
Of course I do, Jack! You have to beLIEve me!
Raymond Benson
She already loved me too much to see me as I was.
André Gide
Had it been the object or the intention of Jesus Christ to establish a new religion, he would undoubtedly have written the system himself, or procured it to be written in his life time. But there is no publication extant authenticated with his name. All the books called the New Testament were written after his death. He was a Jew by birth and by profession.
Thomas Paine
Don't tell your friend you are fighting with your wife, it gives him pleasure
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Every morning do not go to work, but go to actualize your desire filled dreams.
Debasish Mridha
What’s success? Having lots of money? No, this is part of the practicalities of life. It is not success. Success is having two daughters who grow into fine ladies, two boys who grow into fine gentlemen. Success is waking up next to the loved one dumbstruck at your luck of meeting them.
Carol Vorvain
Pain rises. From the heart to the head pain rises.
Stephen King
Greatness emanates through endurance and triumph over the difficulties in life.
Lailah Gifty Akita