Quotes by Authors - Page 580

A deep kiss can put you in an emotional state of coma, sometimes in a reckless vulnerability, we lose virginity and sanity, and maybe our bond of love becomes strong or weak.
Michael Bassey Johnson
But one must do something about the past. It doesn’t just cease to be. It goes on existing and affecting the present, and in new and different ways, as if in some other dimension it too were growing.
Iris Murdoch
There is a saying in Tibetan, 'Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.'No matter what sort of difficulties, how painful experience is, if we lose our hope, that's our real disaster.
Dalai Lama XIV
So often I'm like, No, thanks, to all of that stuff, just give me the room to exist both in the shit and stars . . . We have to fight to be understood as being distinct and incongruent. But I think it is worth fighting for.
Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah
The only person to influence the direction and purpose of your life is the one who gave it. God!
Israelmore Ayivor
I have grown up listening to my grandparents’ stories about ‘the other side’ of the border. But, as a child, this other side didn’t quite register as Pakistan, or not-India, but rather as some mythic land devoid of geographic borders, ethnicity and nationality. In fact, through their stories, I imagined it as a land with mango orchards, joint families, village settlements, endless lengths of ancestral fields extending into the horizon, and quaint local bazaars teeming with excitement on festive days. As a result, the history of my grandparents’ early lives in what became Pakistan essentially came across as a very idyllic, somewhat rural, version of happiness.
Aanchal Malhotra
Christ broke the bonds of death by His resurrection, and from that moment on, Satan was a defeated foe.
Billy Graham
A MAN WHO SUFFERS BEFORE IT IS NECESSARY,SUFFERS MORE THAN NECESSARY!
Abha Maryada Banerjee
It's not that there is no small talk...It's that it comes not at the beginning of conversations but at the end...Sensitive people...'enjoy small talk only after they've gone deep' says Strickland. 'When sensitive people are in environments that nurture their authenticity, they laugh and chitchat just as much as anyone else.
Susan Cain
Things falling apart is a kind of testing and also a kind of healing. We think that the point is to pass the test or to overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don’t really get solved. They come together and they fall apart. Then they come together again and fall apart again. It’s just like that. The healing comes from letting there be room for all of this to happen: room for grief, for relief, for misery, for joy.
Pema Chödrön
Most people just want to be left in peace to eat their bacon, not realising that there is no peace behind bacon.
Mango Wodzak
Forget seizing the moment. Seize the opportunity.
Tim Fargo
Tears aren't just for babies. They're proof that you feel something and aren't afraid to show it. It's those that won't ever allow themselves to cry that are the weak ones.
Morgan Rhodes
Bfore Venus, censorious; before Mars, timid.
Michael Walzer
There was an ocean above us, held in by a thin sac that might rupture and let down a flood at any second.
Stephen King
How well you do something determines how well you will be rewarded by it.
Matshona Dhliwayo
As long as a self is driven by an id to a Thou, it is not a matter of love, either. In love the self is not driven by the id, but rather the self chooses the Thou.
Viktor E. Frankl
He did not look up because he knew how senseless the landscape would appear. It takes energy to invest life with meaning, and at present this energy was lacking.
Paul Bowles
Time is a valuable treasure.
Lailah Gifty Akita
The purity of intention repels fear.
Toba Beta
He is a Shadowhunter,” said Jocelyn. “His loyalty will be to Clave and Covenant.”“He’s my friend,” said Magnus coldly. “His loyalty is to me.
Cassandra Clare
Science is not about making predictions or performing experiments. Science is about explaining.
Bill Gaede
A true man never frets about his place in the world but just slides into it by the gravitation of his nature and swings there as easily as a star.
Edwin H. Chapin
There is no social stigma attached to the frenzy, no peer motivation to slow us down. Rather it is the opposite; busy is popular currency, traded among members of modern society like a precious commodity. Busy is the silkiest cloth at the emporium, the most well-travelled spice. Living with a full schedule speedily typed into a pinging, vibrating device is a highly valued state of being. And, as with any addiction, it becomes self-perpetuating. We feel a rush from being in a rush; we take pride in the breakneck pace at which we travel through our days.
Gillian Deacon
If you do not carry out your mission, the world will lose what God created you to do
Sunday Adelaja
Love: a hybrid emotion made up of various other emotions collaged by some weak individual's mind to try to quell a particular horror that's not been wiped out by more standardized symbols like Christ, etc. Nietzsche, right? Whatever.
Dennis Cooper
Mistakes wreck your life. But they make what you have. It's kind of all one. You know what Hester told me when we were working the sheep one time? She said it's no good to complain about your flock, because it's the put-together of all your past choices.
Barbara Kingsolver
In the modern world, if you want to travel off the beaten path, stay off the beaten media path.
Khang Kijarro Nguyen
He never realized how noisy American silence was until all the gadgets died.
Marcus Sakey
Grace is freely given by God.
Lailah Gifty Akita
My inner waters are healthy, balanced, and full of bliss for all time.
Amy Leigh Mercree
SEE what you think.
Lois Farfel Stark
Everyone has temptations but some folks entertain them . . .Get your eyes off the temptation and onto Christ!
Billy Graham
If you're ever wishing for things to go back to the way they were. You just have to look up
Lauren Oliver
On of the reasons that I wanted to study literature was because it exposed everything. Writers looked for secrets that had never been mined. Every writer has to invent their own magical language, in order to describe the indescribable. They might seem to be writing in French, English, or Spanish, but really they were writing in the language of butterflies, crows, and hanged men.
Heather O'Neill
The only time you've been under me is when I've been inside of you and even then, you're never truly under me. I always remain under you.
Kenya Wright
Failures and mistakes are lessons, keep study school doesn't deserv a penny to give what you remember from school is just the worst stuff.
Deyth Banger
Everyone wants a little bit of something beautiful.
Kristin Cashore
Sometimes women scare the hell out of me.
Michael Crichton
Loss taught me the strength of faith. Faith in a God who understands. Faith in a Saviour who gave His all. Faith in a Comforter who walked by my side.
Nana Awere Damoah
The secret of domestic happiness is to let God, the party of the third part in the marriage contract, have His rightful place in the home. Make peace with Him and then you can be a real peacemaker in the home.
Billy Graham
It is so easy to forget the importance of emotional self-care. Especially when we have obvious symptoms of mental and physical illness. Emotions seem irrelevant, unrelated, invisible. But when we look at a giant oak tree, the seed that bore it is invisible too.
Vironika Tugaleva
Early sweats make up later pleasures
Israelmore Ayivor
Be happy while you live life.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Truly being authentic is knowing what matters to you, on the deepest level of who you are, and committing always to act from that authentic center.
Richie Norton
It's been so long since I've let myself feel anger that I don't just feel it. It covers my mouth and I swallow it down, the taste sharp and metal as though I'm gnawing through foilware.
Ally Condie
For many of us, especially being so fortunate to live in a first-world country, the vast majority of pain we experience is due to the seriousness with which we identify with our thoughts.
Chris Matakas
Among the things she said: "Women seem to possess all the natural gifts essential to a good portraitist ... such as personality, patience and intuition. The sitter ought to be the predominating factor in a successful portrait. Men portraitist are apt to forget this; they are inclined to lose the sitter in a maze of technique luxuriating in the cleverness and beauty of their own medium.
Whitney Otto
Cultivating daily calm, even for a few minutes, yields a core of centered wellness.
Amy Leigh Mercree
Twenty million people are underfed but literally everyone in England has access to a radio. What we have lost in food we have gained in electricity. Whole sections of the working class who have been plundered of all they really need are being compensated, in part, by cheap luxuries which mitigate the surface of life.Do you consider all this desirable? No, I don't. But it may be that the psychological adjustment which the working class are visibly making is the best they could make in the circumstances. They have neither turned revolutionary nor lost their self-respect; merely they have kept their tempers and settled down to make the best of things on a fish-and-chip standard. The alternative would be God knows what continued agonies of despair; or it might be attempted insurrections which, in a strongly governed country like England, could only lead to futile massacres and a regime of savage repression.
George Orwell
The over-weight and out of shape guy who owned the house had apparently decided that having a half-million dollar house meant that he couldn’t afford to hire someone to clean out his gutters. Now he was dead with what looked to me like a broken neck after the ladder had slipped. He’d taken the plunge into his fancy landscaping—complete with rock garden. But hey, his fucking gutters were clean.
Diana Rowland
Satan’s inquisitiveness would eventually be inherited by the offspring of Adam and Eve. The inquisitiveness was the original sin.
Tomichan Matheikal
Heated is what you get when you rub faith and instinct together.
Cornelia "Connie" DeDona
As he drifted off, his father came to visit him, clothed in all his possible shapes.
Dexter Palmer
If you fall for someone, make sure they’re there to catch you.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Although we presume that we act because of the way we feel, in fact we often feel because of the way we act.
Gretchen Rubin
So many today want merely to be familiar with Jesus in contrast to being intimate with Him.
John Paul Warren
That's the crazy thing about lies. You start to fall for them, yourself.
Jodi Picoult
I am too perfect for Evening," Adam volunteers. "But that's all right." He smiles shyly at Aislin. "I am not too perfect for Aislin.
Michael Grant
You must stop been so carnal and learn to say no to people, if it concerns the things of God
Sunday Adelaja