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Reason is the inextinguishable impulse to philosophize with whose destruction reason itself is destroyed.
— Karl Jaspers
The existence of broccoli does not in any way affect the taste of chocolate".
— John Green
There will come a timewhen the space will compress itself,and the body shall go.But, till that day I'll live ebullientlyand grow.
— Shahan Sud
If the existentialists are right, that life is meaningless, and if we acknowledge that, we are better equipped to find pleasure in small things.
— Chloe Thurlow, A Girl's Adventure
There are no losers,Only those that do not know what they won.
— Anthony Hincks
The absence of dissent does not necessarily imply acceptance
—  just tolerance.
They prised open the door in the morning. The beatific expression on hisface was exactly what one would find in a temple deity or the just dead - anunsmiling smile. The absurdity and humour was there if one could just seeit, the question and answer staring one in the face.
— Srividya Srinivasan
Time's up! Tomorrow just arrived.
— LM Fields
Chance created the situation
—  genius made use of it.
If you never understand my silence, you will never understand my words.
— Ireno
Other things being roughly equal, that man lives most keenly who lives in closest harmony with nature. To be wholly alive a man must know storms, he must feel the ocean as his home or the air as his habitation. He must smell the things of earth, hear the sounds of living things and taste the rich abundance of the soil and sea.
— James A. Michener, Return to Paradise
When a problem or a difficult situation arises, say to yourself, as if you already believe it: "This is for my benefit.
— Chris Prentiss, Be Who You Want, Have What You Want: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life
Man lives consciously for himself but unconsciously he serves as an instrument for the accomplishment of historical and social ends.
— Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
My Favorite rapper Tupac Shakur.. Philosophical... The emotional depth of his lyricism. Rest in peace. So sad when I listen your music. I understand the struggle, I know exactly how you feel... Been there a million times. Wanting to change the world and Everytime you speak up, only your echo answers you back
— Crystal Evans
It may seem contradictory, but in the languid tropics one spends more time contemplating those great good things of sound and sight and smell.
— James A. Michener, Return to Paradise
What is the meaning to this life?” is a wrong question? A blank paper doesn’t contain any meaning till we don’t write anything meaningful on it. Similarly this universe doesn’t contain any meaning without this beautiful life. So life gives meaning to this universe and we should respect it.
— Brajesh Kumar
Civilization – and by this I do not mean talking cinemas and tinned food, nor even surgery and hygienic houses, but the whole moral and artistic organization of Europe – has not in itself the power of survival. It came into being through Christianity, and without it has no significance or power to command allegiance…That is the first discovery, that Christianity is essential to civilization and that it is in greater need of combative strength than it has been for centuries.
— Evelyn Waugh
Aha! #20 It's not what happens to you in life, it's what you do with what happens that counts.
— Barbara Burke, The Napkin The Melon  The Monkey: How to Be Happy and Successful by Simply Changing Your Mind
There are two sides to the life of every man: there is his individual existence which is free in proportion as his interests are abstract; and his elemental life as a unit in the human swarm, in which he must inevitably obey the laws laid down for him.
— Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
Perhaps I lost sight of my dreams when I became an adult and resigned myself to acting the way adults were supposed to act.
— The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari
Man is created for happiness, that happiness lies in himself, in the satisfaction of simple human needs; and that all unhappiness is due, not to privation but to superfluity.
— Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
The fragile nature of youth is at last hardened by the agony of experience.
— Joel T. McGrath
When you move on in life, you always leave behind some things- some myths and some mysteries, that cannot be fathomed by the heart, without going back to the past and visiting yourself again; in that time, at that place. You can only understand such things and solve such riddles if, in your imagination, you can live the life again and be in that place again, where you left a part of you.
— Q.M. Sidd
i know for sure,to be a leader i have to be a good reader
— Faiz Triumph
i know for sure,to be a leader i have to be a reader
— Faiz Triumph
Time:"I spend everybody yet foolish humans tel tat they spend time without knowing that they spend only them
— GANESH
We never earned righteous to last long, why are we trying to earn it among same kind.
— GANESH
The definition of a good story is one that remains with you long after you've turned that last page.
— T.A. Uner
The work of great poetry is to aid us to become free artists ourselves...The art of reading poetry is an authentic training in the augmentation of consciousness, perhaps the most authentic of healthy modes.
— Harold Bloom, The Best Poems of the English Language: From Chaucer Through Frost
We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
We can reach untainted experiential freedom, by living in the moment as it is—without contemplation. Here we find the possibility of freedom—of just being—living as our authentic self. We are our true nature. We are one and whole.
— Jacqueline Simon Gunn
I like cigarettes, Miss Taggart. I like to think of fire held in a man’s hand. Fire, a dangerous force, tamed at his fingertips. I often wonder about the hours when a man sits alone, watching the smoke of a cigarette, thinking. I wonder what great things have come from such hours. When a man thinks, there is a spot of fire alive in his mind-and it is proper that he should have the burning point of a cigarette as his one expression.
— Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
He who cannot swim should neither chase the dolphins nor play with sharks. For him disaster awaits like sunrise.
— J. Loren Norris
when you make mistakes,take your time to make corrections;that which helps in building up your INTELLIGIENCE but when you compromise in making corrections,you may end up being a FAILURE
— faroun olamilekan ayomide
Life can be difficult at times and many questions have no answers. The determination it takes to go on and the resiliency required of the human spirit to find joy is an integral part of existing as human. Running is symbolic of this struggle. The joy and satisfaction come from meeting the challenge head on, and realizing that just when you think you cannot go on anymore, if you pull deep from within yourself,you will find strength beyond anything imaginable.
— Jacqueline Simon Gunn
What's in a view? The world, by any other, would remain just as it is, just as wonderful :-)
— Abhimanyu Jha
When life gets rough,don't panic! Just let it be! Life is leading you to still waters!
— Dr. Vivencio Ballano
One person's garbage is another person's commodity.
— Aleksandar Hemon, The Lazarus Project
There is only one way to achieve lasting happiness. That is simply: Be happy.
— Chris Prentiss, Zen and the Art of Happiness
What follows is the sum and substance of a remarkable year in a great artist’s life—Alexander Wainwright. He was at the pinnacle of his career when his art took a strange turn and I began to fear he had become possessed by some devil. But I was only beginning to understand the power of his passionate and hungry spirit, which nearly devoured him in his search for his new art—and his new life.James Helmsworth, [art dealer for Alexander Wainwright] in The Drawing Lesson. Enter for the giveaway of ten autographed copies of The Drawing Lesson, the first in The Trilogy of Remembrance starting on July 31st until August 31st, 2014.
— Mary E. Martin, The Drawing Lesson
As far back as history records people thinking, thinking peoplehave been befuddled by the mysteries of life and existence.
— Lewis N. Roe, From A To Theta: Taking The Tricky Subject Of Religion And Explaining Why It Makes Sense In A Way We Can All Understand
In his landscapes, Alex expresses the totality of everything in the universe. At the same time, within each leaf, each drop of water or human hair, he conveys a light or glow, which seems to come—how shall I put this—from another dimension. And each brushstroke contains every ounce of his own life and vitality.From The Fate of Pryde, the second in The Trilogy of Remembrance. Enter the giveaway to win one of ten personalized, autographed copies of this novel starting July 31st to August 31st. You can sample the first fifty pages of it on my page. Also, for the same time period, The Drawing Lesson, the first in the trilogy is offered as a giveaway.
— Mary E Martin
Introducing a great artist, Alexander Wainwright in THe Fate of Pryde.In his landscapes, Alex expresses the totality of everything in the universe. At the same time, within each leaf, each drop of water or human hair, he conveys a light or glow, which seems to come—how shall I put this—from another dimension. And each brushstroke contains every ounce of his own life and vitality.From The Fate of Pryde, the second in The Trilogy of Remembrance. Enter the giveaway to win one of ten personalized, autographed copies of this novel starting July 31st to August 31st. You can sample the first fifty pages of it at my page.
— Mary E.Martin
Yes live like there is no tomorrow but not because you don't want a tomorrow.
— Kaelo
Embrace it. Live it. Life's too short. Even looking at it from my end, when I've had more chances than many, I wish--actually even more so now--that I could go back and tinker with a few things...do a little more of this, a little less of that. But the things about which I feel no regret are those that I did with passion. Those things I remember in living colour. The good and the bad. The rest have faded to black and white. They don't matter. Maybe they never did.
— Ella J. Fraser, wwwEB OF LIES
What's in a view? A world, by any other, would remain just as it is, just as wonderful :-)
— Abhimanyu Jha
Most people would rather die than think and many of them do!
— Bertrand Russell, The ABC of Relativity
Never say never. You never know when never may come.
— T.A. Uner, The Leopard Stratagem
The human heart needs only the bare elements to survive, the human brain wants to the limitlessness of tolerance. Finding yourself is a matter of pitching your tent in the middle.
— Zephyr McIntyre
Be as good as you can be, there you will find happiness.
— Cody McGuire
The darkest of all hells resides in ones mind
— rassool jibraeel snyman
Truth  * I had a long heart-to-heart talk with a politician and a 14 month old baby the baby spoke more truth  than the politician _________________ 2014(c)rassool jibraeel snyman "The Poetic Assassin
— rassool jibraeel snyman
Maybe the question isn't whether God exists, but how we act. If we all act like God doesn't exist, then for all intents and purposes God doesn't. But if we act like God does exist, then in essence, She does.
— Chris Hollenback, Sleep When You're Dead
Your greatest adventure is written inside of you
— rassool jibraeel snyman
Do as you would be done by
— Anonymous I think
Each second melts like ice.Each second cloats like blood.
— Dr. Prathap Kamath from Ekalavya
Don’t worry,” he said, that grandfatherly smile spreading across his face once more, “I’ve been fishing for over forty years.  You’ve got plenty of time to catch up, maybe even pass what I’ve done.  You’re a perspicacious piscatorial pursuer, and I’m sure you’ll catch the big ones.
— S. Bradley Stoner, Fishing and Other Misadventures
Time is a daunting thing; it’s inescapable. Some moments pass unobserved and others stay with us, remaining frozen, lasting a lifetime...
— Jacqueline Simon Gunn
He who has no dreams has no hope and thus lives in a hell of his own making - rjs
— rassool jibraeel snyman
It is the nature of my dreams that determine the fabric of my existence - rjs
— rassool jibraeel snyman
It isn't what happens that is important . . . it's how you deal with it Always J T Coombes Global Magna Carta Returning Power to teh 99% . . . If they want it!
— J T Coombes
It is not only the hostility of others that may prevent us from questioning the status quo. Our will to doubt can be just as powerfully sapped by an internal sense that societal conventions must have a sound basis, even if we are not sure exactly what this may be, because they have been adhered to by a great many people for a long time. It seems implausible that our society could be gravely mistaken in its beliefs, and at the same time, that we would be alone in noticing the fact. We stifle our doubts, and follow the flock, because we cannot conceive of ourselves as pioneers of hitherto unknown difficult truths. It is for help in overcoming our meekness that we can turn to the philosopher.
— Alain de Botton
The truth is: Everyone will judge you. But this depends upon your intellectual capacity whether you are able to distinguish constructive criticism between an insult coming from other people's opinions about you.
— Anonymous
The Native Americans know that wolves are mirrors for humans. What they show us are our strengths and weaknesses... When I lived with the wolves, I was proud of the reflection of myself. But when I came back, I always paled in comparison.
— Jodi Picoult, Lone Wolf
A clear conscience is due to a poor memory.
— R.J. Newman
What we gain in the world, we lose in the world, forgotten in death. We must rather fancy what we brought into the world, for therein lives our story, our legend.
— Palle Oswald
You are who you are what you say you are to people, but who are you when no one is watching?
— Anonymous
Sometimes an impulse is more rewarding than a calculation.
— Dale Renton
If I were a bean,... I wouldn't sulk all day long.
— Edna Stewart, Carpe Diem
Things don't just happen the way they happen for your its own Creator,Mentor and Destroyer
— Abhishek Sundarraman
Your life on earth will be graded by the effect of the footprints you leave behind
— Olufemi Olumide
Ignorance is bliss, but Enlightenment is nirvana
— Alejandro C. Estrada
Everything is an appreciation, even an insult provided you look at it with that angle.
— Vipin Behari Goyal
A kite only flies if it’s tethered.
— Victor Robert Lee, Performance Anomalies
Things, relationship, and ideas are so transparently impermanent, we are ever made unhappy by them...Things are impermanent, they wear out and are lost; relationship is constant friction and death awaits; ideas and beliefs have no stability, no permanency. We seek happiness in them and yet do not realize their impermanency. So sorrow becomes our constant companion and overcoming it our problem.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
Hungry for what? Money? No. Power? Over people? That was like having power over clams.
— Victor Robert Lee, Performance Anomalies
Knowledge is the comprehensive embodiment of imagination that surfaces in observation and finally ripens through the reinforcement of experience thereby inculcating knowledge. This in fact is the short story of life.
— Q.M. Sidd, A Dance in Melancholy: A Collection of My Articles and Memoirs
An opportunity fordoing an injury happens a hundred times a day, hut for doing good not once a year," says Zoroaster.
— Voltaire
It’s only a cut, a reminder of this day. A reminder to ask every day, Why am I doing this?
— Victor Robert Lee, Performance Anomalies
In life things are only free after you've paid for them.
— T.A. Uner
I take very few people seriously, and I'm not one of them.
— Cian Beirdd, Kediak of the Biainili
I'm lazy, I like to do it right the first time.
— Cian Beirdd, Kediak of the Biainili
There isn't music without rhythm
—  have a soul that won't leave your lips without a song.
IMAGES : THEY EITHER GUIDE/MISGUIDE YOU . IT IS THE ORIENTATION / ALIGNMENT OF MIND THAT NEEDS TO BE TUNED TO FRAME THE TRUE IMAGES.
— MITESH
The Truth Is That I Was Recognized For Stubbornness And Not Goodness. Even, Though I Was Very Intelligent And Sent To School By A Little Few Supports From Sponsors And My Mother. My Brain Was Never Ever Cool. Due To All The Mistakes I Saw From A Very Tender Age From All Those Whom I Looked Upon As Elders And Shinning Examples. Although They Where Some Good Examples Which Still Live On. Still The Early Damaged As Already Been Done. So It Led Me Dropping Out Of School In To Working And Using The Great Ancient Vedic Philosophies I Have Been Hearing From The Very Beginning Of My Conception In My Mother Womb Till The Day I Was Born And Forever. I Used Them All To Materialize Many Of My Dreams And Practice Mysticism Coupled With Spiritualism To Keep My Self Secured And Keep Cool Depending On God.
— Baba Tunde Ojo-Olubiyo
A man's final query is determined by how well he acts under pressure. If man can control his demeanor under extreme stress, he will be judged in a positive way.
— Angela Khristin Brown
Success does not bring happiness. Success brings success.
— Joanie Holzer Schirm, Adventurers Against Their Will: Extraordinary World War II Stories of Survival, Escape, and Connection-Unlike Any Others
For a scientist, this is a good way to live and die, maybe the ideal way for any of us - excitedly finding we were wrong and excitedly waiting for tomorrow to come so we can start over.
— Norman Maclean
Everyone tells us to be one in a million... What they don't tell us is that being one in a million also means being one against a million.
— Saahil Prem
And he recalled the ancient adage: Who must do the harsh things? He who can.
— Trevanian, Shibumi
Is that man's fate: to spend his closest hours to truth longing for a lie?
— Tom Robbins, Another Roadside Attraction
Thoughts thoughts. Are they not mine?I think, I write, I type.Thoughts. Are they wise?Let truth be told in words, compiled together, create a page, a book. Thoughts. Are they master piece?Is it a prize winner?...An Alfred Nobel?Thoughts. Are they not mine? Gift of God?they are not mine.
— Edna Stewart, The Call of the Christmas Pecan Tree
Life, at its best, is a flowing, changing process in which nothing is fixed.
— Carl Rogers
Which one is right? Which one is wrong? When you feel you could answer that type of questions, you trapped on your own perception. -Back cover, Andante Part 1, English modified-
— Ida R. Yulia, Andante Part 1: The Fallen Wings
And it was the speed that provided some solace. For if it moved like that, it would always move like that, and somehow, because of it, things change, somehow things end.
— Alexander Maksik, A Marker to Measure Drift
Like simple minded goldfish, we often believe the boundaries of our bowl to be the entire ocean.
— Laren Grey Umphlett, The Power of Perception
It's not that heroes have no fear; it's just that they understand what it takes, to get the job done!!
— Robert Armstrong
The stupidest people suddenly become a little cleverer when we learn that they think well of us
— Jude Morgan, An Accomplished Woman
In that pallid and sullen shadow in which he crawled, whenever he turned his head and endeavoured to raise his eyes, he saw, with mingled rage and terror, forming, massing, and mounting up out of sight above him with horrid escarpments, a kind of frightful accumulation of things, of laws, of prejudices, of men, and of acts, the outlines of which escaped him, the weight of which appalled him, and which was no other than that prodigious pyramid that we call civilization.
— Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
All events/actions create a potential energy that rotate around the doer until releases or neutralized. (From Circles of Reasoning book)
— Reza Assadi
Don't be nervous..be Excited....
— gayan fonseka
There is an inherent unity and harmony in the universe. The divisions and disharmony we find on earth are created by the perception of separateness that people developed over a period of time.
— Thomas Vazhakunnathu, God Does Not Play Dice
If I can give you all of these real answers to the questions you assumed were big unanswerable ones, imagine the depth of the new set of questions awaiting on the other side of resolution.
— Jeremy Vaeni, Urgency.
Whether morality is moral is an open question.
— R.N. Prasher
In life it is difficult to find a way of life, but later is much more difficult to stay on that road... So before any decisions think carefully.
— Nikolic Mihajlo
(...)"Take your time, because thereisn’t a moment to spare,(...) That’s what Stein told me when I had to leave Menakfor the first time. It kind of means that wherever yourdestination is, now is the time to start working towards it,or you will never get there.
— Daniel "Z" Hastings, Soulfire
Whether a man favors crepes and classical or cornbread and country, the complexities of life are all the same.-The Rabbi-
— J. Frank Dunkin, Bones of My Brother
Be your own master, and look at things as a man, as a human being, as a citizen, as a mortal creature.
— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
Honesty is admired, and starves.
— Juvenal, Satires, Book I
If we possess narrative sympathy - enabling us to see the world from other's point of view - we cannot kill. If we do not, we cannot love.
— Richard Kearney, On Stories
Sitting outside on a dark night, under the stars, invites confidences amongst people of all ages, and all walks of life. It invokes an intimacy you don’t find under most other circumstances.
— A.B. Shepherd, Lifeboat
All the evidence of history suggests that man is indeed a rational animal, but with a near infinite capacity for folly. . . . He draws blueprints for Utopia, but never quite gets it built. In the end he plugs away obstinately with the only building material really ever at hand--his own part comic, part tragic, part cussed, but part glorious nature.
— Robert S. McNamara
Some of us teach ourselves and our children to love the superficial outer; our looks, hair, skin, clothes rather than the greater beauty that resides within whereas it is that inner beauty that really defines you and who you truly are
— rassool jibraeel snyman
That was how people got through life, he supposed: by acknowledging death and telling it, “Not today.
— Molly Ringle, Persephone's Orchard
Figuring out what to do with your life is only Half of the equation, the more important half is, whom you are doing it with
— sel
When God lays His finger on your heart it cannot help but be filled with love for others
—  if that doesn't happen there is nothing wrong with God's finger there is something wrong with your heart
Life is like a boxing match, keep on throwing those punches and one of them will land.Kevin Lane - The Shawshank Prevention
— Ken Scott
People get so frightened for no reason, but I'll tell you, to live with no purpose is a far more frightening proposition... You bring yourself to say yes when you always thought the only possible answer was no, and your whole world changes.
— Liz Rosenberg
Try and avoid people who use the word "cant" regularly associate rather with those who say "can" and do
— rassool jibraeel snyman
Even in the privacy of our own thoughts, we can’t sow lies and reap truth.
— Katina Ferguson
We might feel we have achieved a lot. . just take a pause and look back. . We will see only darkness....
— Mahesh shekhar
We are all part of a universal game. Returning to our essence while living in the world is the object of the game. The earth is the game board, and we are the pieces on the board. We move around and around until we remember who we really are, and then we can be taken off the board. At that point, we are no longer the game-piece, but the player; we've won the game.
— Kenny Werner, Effortless Mastery
When the world came to, it came, not to its senses, but to its madness.
— Helen O'Reilly
No matter how far you have gone down the road its never too late to stop and reinvent yourself
— rassool jibraeel snyman
Perhaps we are like cells in the mind of God, contributing to celestial functions beyond our ken, just as our cells unknowingly fashion our thoughts and actions. Perhaps the laws of nature order and constrain even the living and eternal Deity from which they spring, and of which they are a part.
— Robert Christian, Common Sense Renewed
I don't mean to step on anyone's toes, and I don't mean to seem arrogant, but if you want to be foreverly remembered as anything great you have to live your life alone, hated, ignored, and character assassinated, and if you believe this to be true than you truely are a hater.
— B.L. Kennison
Within us all are sages, warriors and fools; we more often that not choose the fools
— rassool jibraeel snyman
There is no Success or Failure in "LOVE", by itself is a Victory !!
— Mahesh shekhar
I’m just here to remind you that every human life is a bold and delicate projection of the eternal into the temporal.
— Paul Kijinski, The 11:15 Bench
The pursuit of historical revelance is an under appreciated endeavor.
— Michael Dwinnell
You think because you face situations not of your making that you exercise no choice? That you are helpless? To the contrary, child. Your whole life has been full of choices. Hiding from a hard truth is a choice. Surrender - even to the inevitable - is a choice. Even in death there is a choice. You may have no control over the time or manner of your death, but you can choose how you face it.
— C.L. Wilson, Queen of Song and Souls
Every day I add to the list of things I refuse to discuss. The wiser the man, the longer the list.
— Nicolas Chamfort, Maximes et pensées : Caractères et anecdotes
So much of life, it seems, is determined by pure randomness.
— Sidney Poitier
He feels a second pang now for the existence of perfection, the stubborn existence of perfection in the most vulnerable of things and in the face of his refusal-logical-admirable refusal-to engage with this existence in his heart, in his mind. For the comfortless logic, the curse of clear sight, no matter which string he pulls on the same wretched knot: (a) the futility of seeing given the fatality in a place such as this where a mother still bloody must bury her newborn, hose off, and go home to pound yam into paste; (b) the persistence of beauty, in fragility of all places!, in a dewdrop at daybreak, a thing that will end, and in moments, and in a garden, and in Ghana, lush Ghana, soft Ghana, verdant Ghana, where fragile things die.
— Taiye Selasi, Ghana Must Go
Nature is the supreme cradle of life, and must be protected and treated with the highest respect and care.
— Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason
As human beings, our first commandment is:Something needs to happen
— Chuck Palahniuk, Haunted
Don`t let a little fear stop you from getting what you want
— Mahmoud Reda
Life is a path to reach destination.However once it is reached ,implies Life had all kind of sharp turns one time or other for all
— N.Manoj
Whether we realize it or not, most of us define ourselves by opposing rather than by favoring something or someone. To put it another way, it is easier to react than to act. Nothing arouses a passion for dogma more than a good antagonist. And the more unlikely, the better. … It’s difficult to hate an idea. … It’s much easier to hate someone with a recognizable face whom we can blame for everything that makes us feel uncomfortable. It doesn’t have to be an individual character. It could be a nation, a race, a group … anything.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Angel's Game
It is quite futile to argue that man is small compared to the cosmos
—  for man was always small compared to the nearest tree.
Things are neither good nor bad , all that matters is our thinking....!
— M.H. Rakib, The Cavalier
In any given situation you will find only what you bring with you...
— Christopher Earle
One's mutual responsibility to any individual determines the role of one person who he is.
— Ghumakkad Agantuk Ram
Experience is the treasure of any persona.
— Ghumakkad Agantuk Ram
Be such that people get to know of you as you are rather than comparing to others.
— Ghumakkad Agantuk Ram
Keep burning the flame of discontent within you until you get the joy of satisfaction.
— Ghumakkad Agantuk Ram
Prophecy is nothing but only just an estimation based on regularities of the Nature.
— Ghumakkad Agantuk Ram
The elements of life do not segregate themselves, unless they are human.
— Zephyr A. McIntyre
nO thing is yOur's except yOur "bOdy" -&- nO one is yOurs except yOur "sOul
— Prateek Vyas
The impatient idealist says: 'Give me a place to stand and I shall move the earth.' But such a place does not exist. We all have to stand on the earth itself and go with her at her pace.
— Chinua Achebe, No Longer at Ease
To make a change, you must be: willing to commit, willing to change, willing to have an open mind, and willing to take action!
— Tae Yun Kim, The Silent Master: Awakening the Power Within
Your own thoughts can be your worst enemy!
— Tae Yun Kim, The Silent Master: Awakening the Power Within
My life seemed like a glass tunnel, through which I was moving faster every year, and at the end of which there was darkness. When I changed my view, the walls of my glass tunnel disappeared. I now live in the open air.
— Derek Parfit, Reasons and Persons
The illusion of the seventh veil was the illusion that you could get somebody else to do it for you. To think for you. To hang on your cross. The priest, the rabbi, the imam, the swami, the philosophical novelist were traffic cops, at best. They might direct you through a busy intersection, but they wouldn't follow you home and park your car.
— Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All
But life does not consist of words.Life consists of reality.
— Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
It is this idea 'decency' should be attached to wealth -and 'indecency'' to poverty - that forms the core of one strand of skeptical complaint against the modern status-ideal. Why should failure to make money be taken as a sign of an unconditionally flawed human being rather than of a fiasco in one particular area if the far larger, more multifaceted, project of leading a good life?Why should both wealth and poverty be read as the predominant guides to an individual's morals ?
— Alain de Botton, Status Anxiety
Freedom is your birthright!
— Tae Yun Kim, The Silent Master: Awakening the Power Within
I just know that I don't want cheating. I refuse. I deepened myself but I don't believe in myself because my thought is invented.
— Clarice Lispector, The Stream of Life
Hey, if it's a good philosophy, it works. Death is imminent. Live every day like it's your last.
— Justina Chen, North of Beautiful
We’re beings towards death, we’re featherless two-legged linguistically conscious creatures born between urine and feces whose bodies will one day be the culinary delight of terrestrial worms. That’s us.
— Cornel West
Iron deficiency can lead to a wardrobe full of crumpled clothes
— Benny Bellamacina, Philosophical Uplifting Quotes and Poems
To send men to the firing squad, judicial proof is unnecessary. These procedures are an archaic bourgeois detail. This is a revolution! And a revolutionary must become a cold killing machine motivated by pure hate. We must create the pedagogy of the paredón [execution wall].
— Ernesto Che Guevara
In any given culture and at any given moment, there is always only one 'episteme' that defines the conditions of possibility of all knowledge, whether expressed in theory or silently invested in a practice.
— Michel Foucault, The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences
There's no tragedy in nature, only process -- and therefore no triumph, either.
— Dean Koontz, By the Light of the Moon
Dreams are a beautiful bride that holds our hands to enter a world more gloriousthan this one.
— Subhan Zein
I think about that centurion from time to time and wonder, had he retired to a farm in Campagna, happy with his harvest of grapes and grandchildren, or had he fallen amongst his comrades on some distant, ruined field, defending the honor and the ever-expanding borders of the Republic? What we foreigners have failed to comprehend over the centuries is that the proud centurion would have found either fate equally satisfying. This is why Rome grows, and the rest of the world shrinks.
— Andrew Levkoff, A Mixture of Madness
Character depends on characters. Few people are character. Other's should try to opt one but they don't, they lose.
— Vikram Roy
We’re beings toward death, we’re … two-legged, linguistically-conscious creatures born between urine and feces whose body will one day be the culinary delight of terrestrial worms.
— Cornel West
Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much
— Blaise Pascal
To quench my longing I bent me low By the streams of the spirits of Peace that flow In that magical wood in the land of sleep.
— Sarojini Naidu
There is a certain proper and luxurious way of lying in bed. Confucius, that great artist of life, "never lay straight" in bed, "like a corpse", but always curled up on one side. I believe one of the greatest pleasures of life is to curl up one's legs in bed. The posture of the arms is also very important, in order to reach the greatest degree of aesthetic pleasure and mental power. I believe the best posture is not lying flat on the bed, but being upholstered with big soft pillows at an angle of thirty degrees with either one arm or both arms placed behind the back of one's head.
— Lin Yutang, The Importance of Living
Sometime we forget to value the small things, that inspire us more than the large! We should learn from daily than planning stupid future.
— Vikram Roy
Happiness for me is largely a matter of digestion.
— Lin Yutang, The Importance of Living
The May sunshine makes both the trolls and the elves disappear, he thought. They burst like soap bubbles. Only human beings remain, for a little while. We are a brief song beneath the sky, laughter in the wind that ends in a sigh. Then we too are gone.
— Johan Theorin, Blodläge
If only yesterday could be my tomorrow then today wouldn't even matter.
— Carroll Bryant
Find your truth, live your truth.
— J. T. OWENS
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
— Henry Kaiser
There are so many simple things getting unnoticed in me, it makes me feel I am a robot!
— Vikram Roy
Often times, "shame" is the word that best describes reality.
— Carroll Bryant
When a traveler from the future must talk, he does not talk but whimpers. He whispers tortured sounds. He is agonized. For if he makes the slightest alteration in anything, he may destroy the future. At the same time, he is forced to witness events without being part of them, without changing them. He envies the people who live in their own time, who can act at will, oblivious of the future, ignorant of the effects of their actions. But he cannot act. He is an inert gas, a ghost, a sheet without soul. He has lost his personhood. He is an exile of time.
— Alan Lightman
The widespread willingness to rely on thermonuclear bombs as the ultimate weapon displays a cavalier attitude toward death that has always puzzled me. My impression is that...most of the defenders of these weapons are not suitably horrified at the possibility of a war in which hundreds of millions of people would be killed...I suspect that an important factor may be belief in an afterlife, and that the proporttion of those who think that death is not the end is much higher among the partisans of the bomb than among its opponents.
— Thomas Nagel, The View from Nowhere
When you will have to search for long to collect other nine players to organize your usual five-a-side football match..you will realize to be old...
— Gaetano De Coubertin
The ritual works. The forms overcome doubts. We have learned over the centuries to weave meaning around emptiness and pain. A meaning and a pattern. We have been practising that for a very long time.
— Håkan Nesser, Der unglückliche Mörder
When you're already going through a rough patch of life
—  a slight wave from past thrash you down so gracefully that journey bcms an unending shore !
There is a wilderness we walk aloneHowever well-companioned
— Stephen Vincent Benét, Western Star
I love you just the way you arebut you don't see you like I do.You shouldn't try so hard to be perfect.Trust me, perfect should try to be you.
— Bo Burnham, Egghead: Or, You Can't Survive on Ideas Alone
Poetry can be dangerous, especially beautiful poetry, because it gives the illusion of having had the experience without actually going through it.
— Jalaluddin Rumi, The Book of Love: Poems of Ecstasy and Longing
Sometimes when I'm aloneI Cry, Cause I am on my own.The tears I cry are bitter and warm.They flow with life but take no formI Cry because my heart is torn.I find it difficult to carry on. If I had an ear to confide in, I would cry among my treasured friend, but who do you know that stops that long, to help another carry on.The world moves fast and it would rather pass by.Then to stop and see what makes one cry, so painful and sad. And sometimes...I Cry and no one cares about why.
— Tupac Shakur
All things want to float.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
All that we see and seem is but a dream within a dream.
— Edgar Allan Poe
The clouds above us join and separate,The breeze in the courtyard leaves and returns.Life is like that, so why not relax?Who can stop us from celebrating?
— Lu Yu
For what is a dream if not love first felt and what is mystery if not life itself
— Giselle V. Steele
Take the blinders from your visiontake the padding from your earsand confess you've heard me crying and admit you've seen my tears.
— Maya Angelou
When I talk of taking a trip I mean forever.
— Adrienne Rich
Eggshells become hard to break after walking on them for so long.
— Mia Castile
To do something very common, in my own way.
— Adrienne Rich
A robin redbreast in a cagePuts all heaven in a rage.A dove-house fill'd with doves and pigeonsShudders hell thro' all its regions.A dog starv'd at his master's gatePredicts the ruin of the state.A horse misused upon the roadCalls to heaven for human blood.Each outcry of the hunted hareA fibre from the brain does tear.A skylark wounded in the wing,A cherubim does cease to sing.The game-cock clipt and arm'd for fightDoes the rising sun affright.Every wolf's and lion's howlRaises from hell a human soul.- "Auguries of Innocence
— William Blake, The Complete Poems
I will arise and go now, for always night and day I hear lake water lapping...I hear it in the deep heart's core.
— W.B. Yeats
Only union with you gives joy. The rest if tearing down one building to put up another.
— Jalaluddin Rumi, The Big Red Book
I’m going to become a beat poet and a lesbian!
— Benjamin R.  Smith, June Cleaver Sexual Deviant
I feel my griefs too, and there scarce is groundUpon my flesh t'inflict another wound.Yet dare I not complain, or wish for deathWith holy Paul; lest it be thought the breathOf discontent; or that these prayers beFor weariness of life, not love of thee.
— Ben Jonson, Epigrams; And, the Forest
PricklyWhen I'm feelingporcupine-y,I get nasty,I get whiny.Stay away orI might stick you.My sharp words arequills to prick you.
— Laura Purdie Salas, Stampede!: Poems to Celebrate the Wild Side of School
I eat the hearts of girls and puke slugs and snails.
— Raegan Butcher, End of the World Graffiti
Even the simplest poemMay destroy your immunity to human emotions.All poems must carry a Government warning. WordsCan seriously affect your heart.
— Elma Mitchell
i carry your heart with me(i carry it inmy heart)i am never without it(anywherei go you go,my dear;and whatever is doneby only me is your doing,my darling)
— E.E. Cummings
Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky,The flying cloud, the frosty light;The year is dying in the night;Ring out, wild bells, and let him die.Ring out the old, ring in the new,Ring, happy bells, across the snow:The year is going, let him go;Ring out the false, ring in the true.
— Alfred Tennyson, A Key To Tennyson's In Memoriam
He who mocks the infant's faithShall be mock'd in age and death.He who shall teach the child to doubtThe rotting grave shall ne'er get out.He who respects the infant's faithTriumphs over hell and death.The child's toys and the old man's reasonsAre the fruits of the two seasons.- "Auguries of Innocence
— William Blake, The Complete Poems
I is for immortality, which for some poets is a necessary compensation. Presumably miserable in this life, they will be remembered when the rest of us are long forgotten. None of them asks about the quality of that remembrance--what it will be like to crouch in the dim hallways of somebody's mind until the moment of recollection occurs, or to be lifted off suddenly and forever into the pastures of obscurity. Most poets know better than to concern themselves with such things. They know the chances are better than good that their poems will die when they do and never be heard of again, that they'll be replaced by poems sporting a new look in a language more current. They also know that even if individual poems die, though in some cases slowly, poetry will continue: that its subjects, it constant themes, are less liable to change than fashions in language, and that this is where an alternate, less lustrous immortality might be. We all know that a poem can influence other poems, remain alive in them, just as previous poems are alive in it. Could we not say, therefore, that individual poems succeed most by encouraging revisions of themselves and inducing their own erasure? Yes, but is this immortality, or simply a purposeful way of being dead?
— Mark Strand, The Weather of Words: Poetic Inventions
Reluctant hero, drafted again each Fourthof July, I'll bow and remember you. Whoshall we follow next? Who shall we killnext time?
— William Stafford, The Way It Is: New and Selected Poems
PoetTo mask the fiery thought,in simple words succeeds.For still the craft of genius is,To mask a king in weeds
— Ralph Waldo Emerson, Selected Essays, Lectures, and Poems
The stars are but tears shed by a miriad of unrequited dreams
—  each sparks with fire and guides its light homeward when a dream is revealed
Thoughts as warm as a silky summer rain, flowing over the edge of my soul's gentle.not tides returning them along the shoreline to laughing gulls.
— Basith
fortune has no era finer than this moment
— J. Lavan
It is right it should be so;Man was made for joy and woe;And when this we rightly know,Thro' the world we safely go.Joy and woe are woven fine,A clothing for the soul divine.Under every grief and pineRuns a joy with silken twine.- "Auguries of Innocence
— William Blake, The Complete Poems
The emmet's inch and eagle's mileMake lame philosophy to smile.He who doubts from what he seesWill ne'er believe, do what you please.- "Auguries of Innocence
— William Blake, The Complete Poems
Oh, the summer night / HAS A SMILE OF LIGHT / And she sits on a sapphire throne.
— Barry Cornwall
So, the world happens twice--once what we see it as;second it legends itselfdeep, the way it is.
— William Stafford, The Way It Is: New and Selected Poems
People are looking for chimes and resonances. Chimes leave echoes, and that's what rhyme is. Poetry is about leaving an echo imprint in somebody else's head, in the dark snow of their mind.
— Diana Georgeff
Unlike the bough that shook off her dead leaves violentlylike a wet terrier,unlike the beating of the butterfly, her wings, against the cocoon, some dreams never made a move.
— V.S. Atbay
. . . distant as the death of grocery chickens.
— Rodney  Jones, Salvation Blues: One Hundred Poems 1985-2005
The morning slathers its whateveracross the thing.
— Michael Robbins
Blessed is the covenant of love, the covenant of mercy, useless light behind the terror, deathless song in the house of night.
— Leonard Cohen, Book of Mercy
Blessed are you who circled desire with a blade, and the garden with fiery swords, and heaven and earth with a word.
— Leonard Cohen, Book of Mercy
Poetry should be like 'Uh-huh. Baby has to have it.
— Chelsey Minnis
O to be self-balanced for contingencies, to confront night, storms, hunger, ridicule, accidents, rebuffs, as the trees and animals do.
— Walt Whitman
Should I get lost, just point me in the direction of a poem.
— Betty Bleen
Though I love your company, your instructions are wasted her. I will always choose the woman who caries me off, I will always sit with the family of loneliness.
— Leonard Cohen, Book of Mercy
The greatness of poetry comes from its struggle to express the rapture of the soul in the contemplation of beauty.
— Anthony S. Maulucci
If I wouldn't of spent so much time shooting spit wads at my English teacher I'd know how to punctuate good thing I normally write poetry.
— Stanley Victor Paskavich
I'd rather write poetry than watch TV it allows me to share the wide screen in me.
— Stanley Victor Paskavich
Some poems are written great, some poems are written swell. But then there are poems that could win a prize in Hell.
— Stanley Victor Paskavich
the light too brief to finish any work —the woman seeks to amplify the dark
— Leatha Kendrick
I have a book of poetry I believe many should read but in each verse you'll discover it wasn't written for greed.
— Stanley Victor Paskavich
Des Menschen Kraft, im Dichter offenbartThe human power is revealed by poetIl potere dell'umanità si rivela nel poeta
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
When you are lost in the right way, you don't go back to being found in the wrong way.
— Melody  Lee, Moon Gypsy
They say she is too much to handle, but when the moon pulls the tide and the wolves howl her name, blessed are the ones who have been taken by her wild.
— Nicole  Lyons
Some people wait to get flowers while others grow gardens.
— Chris McGeown
Decide if a poem is a question or a declaration, a meditation or an outcry.
— Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Poetry as Insurgent Art
Etched In Bone-At night I engrave my bones with poems.Scratching.Carving.Etching.During the day I feel every notch and ridgehidden inside me.I repeat them to myself.In time others will read them tooand know me.
— Keelie Breanna
I am a hoarder of words, a giver of them, too
— Amanda Linsmeier, Like Waves
By noon, silence arrives one last time, flowing into every space of her room. And before long, silence swallows sound and color and seconds and equations and entire stanzas of old poetry, leaving new words. The sheets are breathless. The room is bruised.My mother is still warm.
— Brenda Sutton Rose
Poetry, to me, is a type of shamanistic chant capable of chasing away the darkness within us.
— Leila Samarrai
Poetry is an old wise serpent which only occasionally comes out to catch the sun (and scare people).
— Leila Samarrai
Man is in his own microcosm akin to a personal box, with poetry as its lid which it can defend itself from the world
— Leila Samarrai
Some people are like the fragrance of flowers!
— Avijeet Das
Why do I love poetry? It's more than word play, less about the pay. Let's just say that for the first time in along while I stopped running, stared back at my darkest worst and said, 'Come here, you belong with me
— Evy Michaels
Why do I love poetry? It's more than word play, less about the pay. Let's just say that for the first time in a long while I stopped running, stared back at my darkest worst and said, 'Come here, you belong with me
— Evy Michaels
Over the mountain growths, disease and sorrow,	 An uncaught bird is ever hovering, hovering,High in the purer, happier air.
— Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
Now came still evening on, and twilight grayHad in her sober livery all things clad;Silence accompany'd; for beast and bird,They to their grassy couch, these to their nests,Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale;She all night long her amorous descant sung;Silence was pleas'd. Now glow'd the firmamentWith living sapphires; Hesperus, that ledThe starry host, rode brightest, till the moon,Rising in clouded majesty, at lengthApparent queen unveil'd her peerless light,And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw.
— John Milton, Paradise Lost
I never understood desire until i felt your hands around my throat.
— Michael Faudet, Dirty Pretty Things
Cliche is Truth's most loyal friend...
— Rafael  Reyes
... time is how you spend your love ...
— Nick Laird
Naked PoetryWhen it comes to undressing poetry,we are often required to placenude pics of our soulsin virtual ink!
— Dblankportrait
Poetry is the yearning of the soul to break free!
— Avijeet Das
You're Times New Roman, but I'm more Comic Sans.
— Kestral M. Gaian, Counterweights
A man does not become a real man by showing his physical domination over women. A man becomes a real man by loving, respecting and protecting women.
— Avijeet Das