Quotes by Authors - Page 404

People loved you in the way they knew how - and often it was not the way you knew. Or needed.
Josh Lanyon
I wish i could tell you what i feel for you... nothing seems right not even you... i wish i could ask him to make everything normal...
shivangi lavaniya
Set a daily solitude time for reflection and rethinking.
Lailah Gifty Akita
You’ve got a big ego, Fuentes.”“That’s not all I’ve got.
Simone Elkeles
If your enemy offers you two targets, strike at a third.
Robert Jordan
A calm night is open to all the truths.
Mehmet Murat ildan
Well,” Lynx said once the man was dead. “That was…uneventful.”“You’re as fickle as an old woman,” Zeus told Lynx. “One minute too much carnage, the next not enough.
Shay Rucker
I earnestly wish to point out in what true dignity and human happiness consists. I wish to persuade women to endeavor to acquire strength, both of mind and body, and to convince them that the soft phrases, susceptibility of heart, delicacy of sentiment, and refinement of taste, are almost synonymous with epithets of weakness, and that those beings are only the objects of pity, and that kind of love which has been termed its sister, will soon become objects of contempt.
Mary Wollstonecraft
The mind is the mine of man, wherein he digs out good or evil.
Ogwo David Emenike
He wanted to go home to the place that he hated.
Katherine Boo
For all its accolades and celebrated recognition as sound guidance, I have personally noticed that sometimes, 'follow your heart,' is really bad advice.
Steve Maraboli
Everywhere he went he saw this same phenomenon—parents unmindful of their children, their attention fixed on little glass windows in the palms of their hands, mesmerized like drug addicts, longing for some artificial connection while their own flesh and blood careened wildly through a chaotic and violent world behind their backs. The writer was even worse. He invented false worlds and peopled them with ghosts while his motherless son scanned the horizon for a human connection. It was shameful. What did a man need to lose to be shaken from his immersion in a dream? What terminal force could liberate him from the pursuit of phantoms and engage him in the living world around him?
Douglas Wynne
Shifting perspective(s) and being proactive are essential to your our life paths, progress and possibilities: "Just because a door appears closed it does not mean that it is locked - nor that it will not open with the right heart, call or touch
Rasheed Ogunlaru
The time is now, the person is you; better your life and become a name to conjure with in this day and age.
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
Now, in their love, which was stronger, there were the seeds of hatred and fear and confusion growing at the same time: for love can exist with hatred, each preying on the other, and this is what gives it its greatest fury.
T.H. White
Maybe this was what Aunt Peg meant all along - returning was a weird thing. You can never visit the same place twice. Each time, it's a different story. By the very act of coming back, you wipe our what came before.
Maureen Johnson
I couldn’t have dreamed you into existence because I didn’t even know I needed you. You must have been sent to me.
Kamand Kojouri
There is too much emphasis on being positive, to the detriment of being real.
Colleen Chen
Toate familiile fericite se aseamănă între ele. Fiecare familie nefericită este nefericită în felul ei.
Leo Tolstoy
You are a great deal of trouble, Jace herondale. “So I’ve been told” jace said
Cassandra Clare
Hell is empty, and all the devils are here.”t“Unfortunately,” he said as gently as he knew how, “it would appear so.
Thea Harrison
Once you discover freedom, you want to capture it, never let it go.
Geneen Roth
Our society has tried to make death invisible, thinking that if we ignore it long enough it will go away. Often we as family and loved ones are so afraid of death that even mentioning the word to terminal patients is taboo. We think the dying are oblivious to what is happening to them. Sadly, a dying person frequently feels afraid to bring it up him or herself. When I enter a hospital room I often hear a sigh of relief. At last, someone is here to help the family come to terms with what is playing out before them. Death has too long been the elephant in the living room, while everyone awkwardly discusses the weather.
Megory Anderson
The man who seeks to educate himself must first read and then travel in order to correct what he has learned.
Giacomo Casanova
I do not know by what extraordinary mental accident modern writers so constantly connect the idea of progress with the idea of independent thinking. Progress is obviously the antithesis of independent thinking. For under independent or individualistic thinking, every man starts at the beginning, and goes, in all probability, just as far as his father before him. But if there really be anything of the nature of progress, it must mean, above all things, the careful study and assumption of the whole of the past.
G.K. Chesterton
You are the hybrids of golden worlds and ages splendidly conceived.
Aberjhani
You can't give a Dementor the old one-two!
J.K. Rowling
...seeking refuge from a world in which huge and mysterious forces were let loose to destruction.
Diana Gabaldon
When a child hits a child, we call it aggression.When a child hits an adult, we call it hostility.When an adult hits an adult, we call it assault.When an adult hits a child, we call it discipline.
Haim G. Ginott
Her name, said the Oracle, will this time be Ama, a female that sleeps in every one of us, Yin of Creation, a wisdom guide that with her purity extinguishes thirst for spiritual longings. She is the one that stands on a crescent moon with stars in her hair, pouring water from jars of her soul into lakes of emotions, awakening compassion for humankind and its Chaos, nourishing Earth and Her constant renewal.
Nataša Nuit Pantović
This form of love is like the painof childbirth: so intenseit's hard to remember afterwards,
Margaret Atwood
Everything about the man spoke of virility--his quick reaction, his calm control now that danger had passed. And she'd never seen a man wield a gun in real life--it was kind of a turn-on to know that he'd protected her. Of course he had protected everyone, but he _had_ sort of singled her out by heaving her to the floor.
Stephanie Bond
What I am searching for is the gaps - the silences. This is how I see the past: as an excavation. You sift through the rubble, pick up one fragment here, another there, label it and record where you found it, noting the time and date of discovery. It is not just the foundations I am looking for but something at once more and less tangible.
Azar Nafisi
This love meditation is adapted from the Visuddhimagga by Buddhaghosa, a 5th century C.E. systematization of the Buddha's teaching. We begin by practicing the love meditation on ourselves ("May I"). Until we are able to love and take care of ourselves, we cannot be much help to others. After that, we practice them on others ("May he/she/they") - first on someone we like, then on someone neutral to us, and finally on someone who makes us suffer. May I be peaceful, happy, and light in body and spirit.May I be safe and free from injury.May I be free from anger, afflictions, fear and anxiety.May I learn to look at myself with the eyes of of understanding and love.May I be able to recognize and touch the seeds of joy and happiness in myself.May I learn to identify and see the sources of anger, craving, and delusion in myself.May I know how to nourish the seeds of joy in myself every day.May I be able to live fresh, solid, and free.May I be free from attachment and aversion, but not indifferent.Love is not just the intention to love, but the capacity to reduce suffering, and offer peace and happiness. The practice of love increases our forbearance, our capacity to be patient and embrace difficulties and pain. Forbearance does mean that we try to suppress pain.
Thich Nhat Hanh
Letting go meant you accepted what couldn't be changed. You didn't try to hold on to hope in order to coerce a change in fortune...nor did you battle against superior forces of fate and try to make them capitulate to your will...nor did you beg for salvation because you assumed you knew better. Letting go meant you stared at what was before you with clear eyes, recognizing that unfettered choice was the exception and destiny the rule.
J.R. Ward
How can men boast that they control their own destiny when they cannot solve the problems of war?
Billy Graham
Genius has less to do with the size of your mind than how open it is.
Shane Snow
One foot in front of the other, wasn't that the grownup way of solving problems? Surely he ought to be a grownup at his age.
Lois McMaster Bujold
I had a good time that night, too," Michael said, "but I kept thinking, This is forever. This is forever. You will have this good time again and again, a million times over, until it will be like a play in which you and Laura and a few fugitive lives sit around an imaginary fire and talk and sing songs and love each other and sometimes throw imaginary brands at the eyes blinking beyond the circle of imaginary firelight. And then I thought - and this is where I sounded just like a real philosopher - And even when you admit that you know every line in the play and every song that will be sung, even when you know that this evening spent with friends is pleasant and joyful because you remember it as pleasant and joyful and wouldn't change it for the world, even when you know that anything you feel for these good friends has no more reality than a dream faithfully remembered every night for a thousand years - even then it goes on. Even then it has just begun.
Peter S Beagle
Once you are a warrior, you must live like one. You can't be afraid to fight against and destroy anything that fights against what is right.
Melita Tessy
I think Peter was murdered because of what he found out about the company.
James Frazee
I'm an invisible monster. I'm incapable of loving anybody. You don't know which is worse.
Chuck Palahniuk
Humans are the villains, they are the killers. That's the truth.... for god sake!
Deyth Banger
Islamophobia defines whether a person is really a thinking and sentient sapiens or an ignorant caveman.
Abhijit Naskar
We go from one war to another; we go from one terrorist group to another and we go from one calamity to another, but there is a pattern there if you know where to look.It's amazing how one when one war is about to end, another miraculously pops its head up.Coincidence? Hmmm...I'm highly skeptical.However, a lot of money seems to go into these 'wars' and there always seems to be little change left at the end of it.Like I said in my other quote..."War! Someone's making a hell of a lot of money!
Anthony T.Hincks
It's the people who aren't scared who die young.
Stephen King
A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
George Eliot
Intuition becomes increasingly valuable in the new information society precisely because there is so much data.
John Naisbitt
But my lazy lack of faith, my in-vogue atheism, has taken away the safety net hanging beneath our children's lives.
Rosamund Lupton
Don't try to be different, that's not you, but just try to be yourself & that will make all the difference.
Michael Moses
Armed neutrality makes it much easier to detect hypocrisy.
Criss Jami
For when all else is done, on­ly words re­main. Words en­dure.
Kate Mosse
The past is but an untraceable footfallIt appears in intervals and pushes us back in time,In those moments of grief and then suddenly vanishes.It’s often dark and ruthless.It baffles our thoughts and seizes our peace of mind.By making us recollect our failures, our buried expectationsAnd our shattered dreams It only gives way to fleeting tears, leaving us with fruitless guilt.It wrecks our present and ruins our futureAnd thus should be left where it is meant to beIt should be left behind …
Chirag Tulsiani
The real battle is within yourself.
Abhijit Naskar
Mankind Is Created To Restore God’s Glory-His Kingdom To Earth
Sunday Adelaja
No matter where you are, just be grateful for your life and all of the beauty that surrounds you.
Debasish Mridha
As a king can wear a crown, a crown can also weary a king.
Anthony Liccione
She fucking turns me inside out.""Women who matter have a way of doing that." Lucas scowled. "We sound like a couple of women, talking about feelings. I think Sascha's having a bad influence on me.""You started it.
Nalini Singh
Pain is a pesky part of being human, I've learned it feels like a stab wound to the heart, something I wish we could all do without, in our lives here. Pain is a sudden hurt that can't be escaped. But then I have also learned that because of pain, I can feel the beauty, tenderness, and freedom of healing. Pain feels like a fast stab wound to the heart. But then healing feels like the wind against your face when you are spreading your wings and flying through the air! We may not have wings growing out of our backs, but healing is the closest thing that will give us that wind against our faces.
C. JoyBell C.
Happiness is an inner perception, inner joyfulness. We are happy when we express our kindness unconditionally. We are happy when we love some one unconditionally. By becoming the source of happiness for some one we become happy. Happiness is the purpose of every creation.
Debasish Mridha