Insightful Quotes - Page 7

A negative mind will never find success. I have never heard a positive idea come from a person in a negative state.

A maid’s yard, house, wardrobe, fridge, etc. sometimes also serve as her master’s dustbin or dumpsite.

Deep within every blind, absolute love grows a hatred toward the beloved, who now holds the only existing key to happiness

I guess it's funny how life turns out?" she tried. "Not last I checked," Errol said with a snort.

Be the best at what you do or the only one doing it.

Stuff is not enough.

Many of the boys and men who are regarded as immature by some females are so deemed merely because they do not want to get married someday … or soon.

The pursuit of historical revelance is an under appreciated endeavor.

What you are to me is the guy that I’ve been madly in love with since sixth grade. You’re the guy I think about every night when I’m in bed by myself. You’re the one who doesn’t want me but insists on keeping me tied so close that I can’t have anyone else, who keeps one hand on my collar and the other hand up his girlfriend’s skirt. And I can’t do it anymore!” ~ Jordy

I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.

You have to make mistakes to find out who you aren't. You take the action, and the insight follows: You don't think your way into becoming yourself.

Sometimes one is guided by what they say of themselves, and very frequently by what other people say of them, without giving oneself time to deliberate and judge

We, in the interest of the so-called progress, have been persuaded to leave the production and at times the cooking of our food to companies whose owners and employees make a living by exploiting our busyness or laziness and our innate hunger to continue living.

But virtue, by the bare statement of its actions, can so affect men's minds as to create at once both admiration of the things done and desire to imitate the doers of them. The goods of fortune we would possess and would enjoy; those of virtue we long to practise and exercise. We are content to receive the former from others, the latter we wish others to experience from us. Moral good is a practical stimulus; it is no sooner seen, than it inspires an impulse to practice, and influences the mind and character not by a mere imitation which we look at, but by the statement of the fact creates a moral purpose which we form.

The heaviest thing is an empty heart.

Millions of sane people would each be sexually attracted to their own parent or child if they were not related to them.

Perhaps no one has yet been truthful enough about what 'truthfulness' is.

Being bored is the price we pay for not being insane.

Your energy is a valuable resource, distribute it wisely.

Understand that relativity is everywhere, and that we view everything through its lens - rose-colored or otherwise. When you meet someone in a different country or city and it seems that you have magical connection, realize that the enchantment might be limited to the surrounding circumstances.

After having grown up surrounded by so much manufactured beauty, Amara had come to want something different. Something that wasn't necessarily beautiful. Something imperfect, interesting, and perhaps even ugly.

The average adult has had sex innumerable times more than they have formed an opinion of their own.

Some people are each holding on to a lover of theirs who no longer loves them and/or who they no longer love, only because they do not want to have a reason or another reason to be jealous of the person who would eventually be their lover if they let go of them.

Those who have never seen themselves surrounded on all sides by the sea can never possess an idea of the world, and of their relation to it.

Strange... The more I befriend my solitude, the more people desire my company.

Most sane human beings’ chances of being alive in a thousand years’ time are a hundred times higher than their chances of being sincerely happy for at least ten consecutive days.

As we all know, as if forever exploiting or attempting to exploit each other were not enough, a group of sane human beings who have just reached the end of a war against a common enemy of theirs will sooner or later start or continue killing and/or fighting against each other.

One of the main functions of a push-up bra is to lower the number of mothers who seem like mothers.

In the quest for power, truth is always the first thing left behind.

In some cases, you can tell how somebody is being treated by their own boss from the way they are treating someone to whom they are a boss.

‎The stars are like the trees. Each one reminds us that we should still the greed in our heart. Each tree, each star, teaches us the ways of peace.

If you don't know when you're good, how can you know when you're bad?

People don't realize how much they are in the grip of ideas. We live among ideas much more than we live in nature.

There is a difference between failing and failure. Failing is trying something that you learn doesn't work. Failure is throwing in the towel and giving up.

Love is the will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth... Love is as love does. Love is an act of will -- namely, both an intention and an action. Will also implies choice. We do not have to love. We choose to love.

In as much time as it takes to smoke a cigarette, a person's life was changed forever.

If you can imagine a solution, you can make it happen.

Everything's impossible until somebody does it.

Friendship Quote of the Week:"Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together"…Woodrow Wilson, U.S. President and World Leader

We all have problems. Or rather, everyone has at least one thing that they regard as a problem.

I have never met the man I could despair of after discerning what lies in me apart from the grace of God.

Living a good life is like flipping pancakes. If you hesitate, it splatters all over the place.

Change happens internally. That's where books go too. Therein lies the power.

Young, animated, entirely off your guard, and thoughtless of consequences, Imagination took the reins; and Reason, slow-paced, though sure-footed, was unequal to the race of so eccentric and flighty a companion. How rapid was then my Evelina's progress through those regions of fancy and passion whither her new guide conducted her!-She saw Lord Orville at a ball,-and he was the most amiable of men! -She met him again at another,-and he had every virtue under Heaven!

Experiences teaches us that to love is not to gaze at one another but to gaze together in the same direction.

Phil Needle stood in the parking lot, suddenly grasping that this was so, that nothing is lost in a world utterly mapped, that nothing is rogue with everything cross-pollinated, as the shouts on the beach lured him across the street to the sand.

I fail to remember, the mind has fuses.

Shyness is only the effect of a sense of inferiority in some way or other. If I could persuade myself that my manners were perfectly easy and graceful, I should not be shy

The joy of disruption comes from accepting that we all live in a temporal state.

She herself had grown up without any one spot of earth being dearer than another: there was no center of earth pieties, of grave endearing traditions, to which her heart could revert and from which it could draw strength for itself and tenderness for others.

You think it's all obvious and straightforward, this world. But really, it's all in who is doing the looking.

There's a fine line between career criminals and career professionals because most of us fall somewhere in between.

A man in love does not notice the cut of the dress, but rather a face of a beloved.

Some of us were brought into this troubled world primarily or only to increase our fathers’ chances of not being left by our mothers, or vice versa.

You make yourself too hard, you make yourself brittle too. Crack once, crack all to pieces

There’s nothing you could do to make me any more or less gay, Dad. It’s who I am.”“It’s not who you are. It’s part of who you are, but it’s not who you are. You’re so much more than just that, and I’m proud of you. All of you." ~ Lucas' Father

A seemingly simple task like taking a bath or wearing a condom feels like multitasking to someone who suffers from hemiplegia or has only one hand.

A good man can be destroyed by the association with men of evil character. A wise man can learn from them

In the Catskills, nostalgia runs backwards. The upwardly mobile Jewish masses of the 1950s and 1960s have been replaced by the Jews of 19th century Poland.