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SilenceIt has a sound, a fullness.It's heavy with sigh of tree,and space between breaths.It's ripe with pause between birdsongand crash of surf. It's golden they say.But no one tells us it's addictive.
— Angela Long
I try hard not to judge anyone, and I try to bless everyone who is a part of my life, particularly anyone with whom I am having any problems
— Jim Henson, It's Not Easy Being Green: And Other Things to Consider
In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.  
— Simone Weil
The dream is to keep surprising yourself, never mind the audience.
— Tom Hiddleston
Notice the difference between being in control and needing control.
— Marilyn Suttle
Optimists enrich the present, enhance the future,challenge the improbable and attain the impossible
— William Arthur Ward
Coincidences give you opportunities to look more deeply into your existence.
— Doug Dillon
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
— William James
There will be another sky, my love, just you wait
— Lori Nelson Spielman, The Life List
There's nothing half so sweet in life as love's young dream. 
— Thomas   Moore
Astraeus,' Aven called out. 'God of the four winds and friend to sailors. Say a little prayer when you look at him, so he will give us what we need to keep our course.'A little prayer?' said Jack. 'To a constellation?'To what it represents,' said Aven.But I don't believe in what it represents,' said Jack.Prayers aren't for the deity,' said Aven. 'They're for you, to recommit yourself to what you believe.'Can't you do that without praying to a dead Greek god?'Sure,' said Aven. 'But how often would anyone do that, if not in prayer?
— James A. Owen, Here, There Be Dragons
Belief isn't supposed to make sense, at least not all the time. In that, it finds its power. It gets to creep up on you and carry you forward. Until you can carry yourself again.
— Laura Dave, The Divorce Party
When you start living the life of your dreams, there will always be obstacles, doubters, mistakes and setbacks along the way. But with hard work, perseverance and self-belief there is no limit to what you can achieve.
— Roy  Bennett
Compassion crowns the soul with its truest victory.
— Aberjhani, The River of Winged Dreams
If you seek creative ideas go walking.Angels whisper to a man when he goes fora walk.
— Raymond I. Myers
A confident woman wears a smile and has this air of comfortability and pleasantness about her.
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu
Is it true, O Christ in heaven, that the highest suffer the most?That the strongest wander furthest and most hopelessly are lost?That the mark of rank in nature is capacity for pain?That the anguish of the singer makes the sweetness of the strain?
— John Milton
Any ideas, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought
— Napoleon Hill
there is one great truth on this planet: whoever you are, or whatever it is that you do, when you really want something, it's because that desire originated in the soul of the universe. It's your mission on earth.
— Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
If the town were a black hole, I was the helpless star being sucked into oblivion. It was an oblivion I craved.
— J.D. Stroube, Caged in Darkness
Make your life like toilet paper. Long and usefull.
— Wolfgang Riebe, 100 Quotes to Make You Think!
You become what you think about
— Napoleon Hill, Success Through A Positive Mental Attitude
Recognize that throughout this beautiful day,you have an incredible amount of opportunities to move your life into the direction you want it to go.
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
We make our own truths and lies....Truths are often lies and lies truths...
— Bernhard Schlink
The ball laughs, radiant, in the air. He brings her down, puts her to sleep, showers her with compliments, dances with her, and seeing such things never before seen his admirers pity their unborn grandchildren who will never see them.
— Eduardo Galeano
Life is now in session. Are you present?
— John C. Maxwell, The 15 Invaluable Laws of Growth: Live Them and Reach Your Potential
La vie est une aventure audacieuse ou alors elle n'est rien.
— Helen Keller
When you depersonalize abrasive behavior and see it as a call for help you become a catalyst for the best kind of change.
— Marilyn Suttle
Hotel rooms inhabit a separate moral universe.
— Tom Stoppard
GIVING - Applied tithing is so rewarding. When you give away your time, talent, and treasures you create a huge shift in your prosperity consciousness. So start where you are as you reach for where it is you want to be.
— Lisa Washington
...we have to surpass ourselves every day, make every day undying. Climb our own personal Everest and do it in such a way that every step is a little bit of eternity. That's what the future is for: to build the present, with real plans, made by living people.
— Muriel Barbery
Wherever you may go; Life is a beautiful thing. Life is like a passing season. It comes and go. Whatever may come, it's better to enjoy the changing seasons.
— Diana Rose Morcilla
Our doubts are traitors and make uslose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt. In other words, awish is a good place to start but then you have to get off your butt and make ithappen. You have to pick up a quill and write your own damn story. (Mimi Wallingford)
— Suzanne Selfors, Saving Juliet
Suffering usually relates to wanting things to be different from the way they are.
— Allan Lokos, Pocket Peace: Effective Practices for Enlightened Living
Always try and be a better person than you were yesterday, cause we aren't guaranteed tomorrow.
— Tina A. Morgan
I've come to realize that sometimes, what you love most is what you have to fight the hardest to keep.
— Kirsten Hubbard, Wanderlove
Everyone wants a prodigy to fail it makes our mediocrity more bearable. 
— Harold Bloom
Music is the beat of a drum that keeps time with our emotions.
— Shannon L. Alder
There is no secret ingredient
— Mr Ping, Po's father
Until one is committed there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initative or creation, there is one elementary truth...that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves. too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would otherwise never have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in ones's favor all manner of incidents and meetings and material assistance which no man would have believed would have come his way. Whatever you think you can do or believe you can do, begin it. Action has magic, grace, and power in it.
— W.H. Murray
I called the world of phenomena an illusion, I called my eyes and my tongue and accident, valueless phenomena. No, that is all over; I have awakened, I have really awakened and have just been born today.
— Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
So the next time you see a person with a compose face and a soft voice, remember that inside her mind she might be solving an equation, composing a sonnet, designing a hat. She might, that is, be deploying the powers of quiet.
— Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
But God decided to create a world where free will was more important than no one ever getting hurt. There must be something stunningly beautiful and remarkable about free will that only God can truly grasp, because God hates, literally abhors, evil, yet He created a world where evil could happen if people chose it.
— Dee Henderson, Taken
Personally, I wouldn’t wait around for someone to tell you you’re good enough before you make your own comics. Just make them, always try to improve and care about what you’re doing. Be relentless and never give up.
— Troy Little
Beauty and grace command the world.
— Park Benjamin
Concerning the popularity of vampire books:I don't get it. I think people should read about bloody, heart-singing, mind-searing spirituality. Live your heart’s song, not its drippings.
— Sandy Nathan, Numenon
Malander had an idea and was trying to work it out, but it would take him time. Sometimes people never saw things clearly until it was too late and they no longer had the strength to start again. Or else they forgot their idea along the way and didn't even realise that they forgotten.
— Tove Jansson, The Summer Book
Distance yourself from negative people who try to lower your motivation and decrease your ambition. Create space for positive people to come into your life. Surround yourself with positive people who believe in your dreams, encourage your ideas, support your ambitions, and bring out the best in you.
— Roy  Bennett
Once you have met someone, you never really forget them.
— Hayao Miyazaki
To recognize that the greatest error is not to have tried and failed, but that in trying, we did not give it our best effort
— Gene Kranz
And one fine day the goddess of the wind kisses the foot of man, that mistreated, scorned foot, and from that kiss the soccer idol is born. He is born in a straw crib in a tin-roofed shack and he enters the world clinging to a ball.
— Eduardo Galeano
When Suzie introduced Helen, she told the audience that one of the best things about books is that they are an interactive art form: that while the author may describe in some detail how a character looks, it is the reader's imagination that completes the image, making it his or her own. "That's why we so often don't like movies made from books, right?" Suzie said. "We don't like someone else's interpretation of what we see so clearly." She talked, too, about how books educate and inspire, and how they soothe the soul-"like comfort food without the calories," she said. She talked about the tactile joys of reading, the feel of a page beneath one's fingers; the elegance of typeface on a page. She talked about how people complain that they don't have time to read, and reminded them that if they gave up half an hour of television a day in favor of reading, they could finish twenty-five books a year. "Books don't take time away from us," she said. "They give it back. In this age of abstraction, of multitasking, of speed for speed's sake, they reintroduce us to the elegance-and the relief!-of real, tick-tock time.
— Elizabeth Berg, Home Safe
I’ve stripped my life down,” he told me. “I don’t need much. I have all the company I want to keep right in here.” He shot himself in the head with his fingers. “People don’t understand about the need to live simply. They make appointments all day. They even schedule their own deaths. The first time they’ll have freedom to really be themselves is when they no longer exist. But up here, there’s nothing but me and the sky. A million billion stars.
— Holly Black, Geektastic: Stories from the Nerd Herd
Your husband may not be a wealth of pregnancy information, but he is a wealth of 'you' information. He probably knows you better than anyone else in this world (which means he understands your current neediness pretty well). He also probably loves you more than anyone else in this world. So, while he may not be the person to turn to if you need to know how to soothe breast tenderness, he's the perfect person to turn to when you need a hand to hold.
— Erin MacPherson, The Christian Mama's Guide to Having a Baby: Everything You Need to Know to Survive (and Love) Your Pregnancy
Rise early and seize each day, learn much and use this knowledge well, spend time with those you love, never abuse your pets, use logic to fight the irrational (for it is everywhere), defend the environment and its wildlife as a knight would protect King Arthur, meld mind and heart for greatest creativity, follow your dreams, and become all that you can be.
— Charles Kohlhase
You don’t have to stay trapped in your thoughts just because you think them.
— Doug Dillon
There are no tyrants if there are no slaves.
— José P. Rizal
There's this mental illness, right? It's called 'anhedonia.' It means 'without pleasure.' You can look it up, though all you really need to do is look around." She motioned to the door the other women had disappeared through, and to the world at large. "A good deal of people, mostly women, spend their entire lives in this state. It's a sort of half-death. But if you recognize this, you can fix it...You focus on bliss. Small pleasures. Fill your day with as many as you can fit into twenty-four hours. You devote every possible moment not to fulfilling another person-a man-but yourself."-Suzanne"Sounds hedonistic"- Joanna"But once you can do this, you start attracting everyone to you. You dont need compare yourself to some other girl, no matter how young or firm or perky she is.....Trust me. A woman like this, one at her best? We're the color of the world. We're the light and the beauty. So focus on your pleasure, and the man you want can't help but realize...that he may be a prince...but your a goddess.-Suzanne
— Vicki Pettersson, City of Souls
Compassion is the key to the ultimate survival of our species.
— Doug Dillon
Optimists move through life with a happy exterior. What happens on the inside shows up on the outside.
— Marilyn Suttle
Unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall much be required.
— Anonymous, Holy Bible: King James Version
Marijuana enhances our mind in a way that enables us to take a different perspective from 'high up', to see and evaluate our own lives and the lives of others in a privileged way. Maybe this euphoric and elevating feeling of the ability to step outsidethe box and to look at life’s patterns from this high perspective is the inspiration behind the slang term “high” itself.
— Sebastian Marincolo
The universe is made up of stories, not atoms.
— Muriel Rukeyser
When we feel unsafe with someone and still stay with him, we damage our ability to discern trustworthiness in those we will meet in the future.
— David Richo
Calligraphy is a geometry of the soul which manifests itself physically.
— Plato
An intelligent person, looking out of his eyes and hearkening in his ears, with a smile on his face all the time, will get more true education than many another in a life of heroic vigils".
— Robert Louis Stevenson, An Apology for Idlers
Inspiration fires you up motivation keeps you burning. 
— Stuart Aken
When you give appreciation IN ORDER TO get something– it's manipulation and people can sense it. Appreciate genuinely.
— Marilyn Suttle
Perfection is not a destination it's a never-ending process...Enjoy! 
— Jim Bouchard, Think Like a Black Belt
At dawn of man, many words of inspiration.At the end, there will be words of revelation.
— Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
Perseverance is the act of true role models and heroes.
— Liza M. Wiemer
Patience is the direct antithesis of anger.
— Allan Lokos, Pocket Peace: Effective Practices for Enlightened Living
Every mother has to take care of her family.
— Kelly Long, Sarah's Garden
Some women seem so voluptuous in every sense, richly bountiful and fertile with generous gifts of plenty, sensual and confident in their female strength that they are called "earth mothers."—when they are bountiful and fertile with the power of our imagination.
— Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
Doubt is a storm. We either ride it out, or we change our course. Neither is right or wrong--to stay or go. Twenty years ago, should you have really married X, or Y? This college, or that? A life-changing decision one makes becomes the right decision by the fact of simply having been made.
— T.M. McNally
No matter how much you know, your destiny depends on the Wisdom, Knowledge and Understanding you display.
— James C. Uwandu, Almost the Whole Thing
It is the kindness to take in a stranger when the levees break; the selflessness of workers who would rather cut their hours than see a friend lose their job which sees us through our darkest hours. It is the firefighter's courage to storm a stairway filled with smoke, but also a parent's willingness to nurture a child, that finally decides our fate.
— Barack Obama
Give thanks for what you are today and go on fighting for what you gone be tomorrow
— William Shakespeare
The poet is much more the one who inspires,than the one who is inspired.
— Paul Éluard
Falling in love with humans is like walking into a pantry and realizing you're trapped in it without Whip Cream, and Cherries.
— AainaA-Ridtz
The greatest risk to man is not that he aims too high and misses, but that he aims too low and hits.
— Michaelangelo
Every game is winnable if you change your mind about what the prize should be and your perspective about the players at the table.
— Shannon L. Alder
excuse my enthusiasm or rather madness, for I am really drunk with intellectual vision whenever I take a pencil or graver into my hand.
— William Blake, William Blake
Pay attention to the intricate patterns of your existence that you take for granted.
— Doug Dillon
Being a Dream Girl is never going to be about what you look like or how much you weigh. After all, our physical appearances are just reflections of our inner worlds. What makes you a Dream Girl is your emotional sensitivity, your self-awareness, and your ability to communicate who you are effectively and compassionately in the world.
— Jennifer Elisabeth, Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl
Patience is a virtue not a vice.
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu
Life's not the breaths you take, but the moments that take your breath away.
— George Strait
It's an enormous wall that's built between you and your dreams. And if every day, you just chip away... It may take ten years, but eventually you just might see some light.
— Edward Burns
For the scientist, at exactly the moment of discovery—that most unstable existential moment—the external world, nature itself, deeply confirms his innermost fantastic convictions. Anchored abruptly in the world, Leviathan gasping on his hook, he is saved from extreme mental disorder by the most profound affirmation of the real.
— Richard Rhodes, The Making of the Atomic Bomb
The only parts that really matter and take commitment in wedding vows are; worse, sickness and poorer. Better, richer and healthy is pretty easy to deal with.
— Rob Liano
Pain doesn't last. And when it's gone, we have something to show for it. Growth.
— Kamal Ravikant, Live Your Truth
Teachers have three loves: love of learning, love of learners, and the love of bringing the first two loves together.
— Scott Hayden
Pippin glanced in some wonder at the face now close beside his own, for the sound of that laugh had been gay and merry. Yet in the wizard's face he saw at first only lines of care and sorrow; though as he looked more intently he perceived that under all there was a great joy: a fountain of mirth enough to set a kingdom laughing, were it to gush forth.
— J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
the joy that you give to others is the joy that comes back to you
— John Greenleaf Whittier
For a true artist, difficulties become opportunities and clouds become solid present.
— Alejandro Jodorowsky
I didn't know I had it in me. There's more to all of us than we realize. Life is so much bigger, grander, higher, and wider than we allow ourselves to think. We're capable of so much more than we allow ourselves to believe.
— Queen Latifah, Put on Your Crown: Life-Changing Moments on the Path to Queendom
The opposite of interpersonal trust is not mistrust. It is despair. This is because we have given up on believing that trustworthiness and fulfillment are possible from others. We have lost our hope in our fellow humans.
— David Richo
Your father, Jo. He never loses patience,--never doubts or complains,--but always hopes, and works and waits so cheerfully, that one is ashamed to do otherwise before him. He helped and comforted me, and showed me that I must try to practise all the virtues I would have my little girls possess, for I was their example. It was easier for your sakes than for my own; a startled or surprised look from one of you, when I spoke sharply, rebuked me more than any words could have done; and the love, respect, and confidence of my children was the sweetest reward I could receive for my efforts to be the woman I would have them copy.
— Louisa May Alcott, Little Women or Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy
You can dramatize your ideas in business or in any other aspect of your life. It’s easy
— Dale Carnegie
Every woman should see herself looking uniquely breathtaking, in something tailored to celebrate her body, so that she is better able to appreciate her own beauty and better equipped to withstand the ideals of our narrow-waisted, narrow- minded culture.
— Susan Jane Gilman
Evil does not exist; once you have crossed the threshold, all is good. Once in another world, you must hold your tongue.
— Franz Kafka
If I never got to make a living doing what I loved, I'd still do it--for fun and for free.
— Susan E. Isaacs, Angry Conversations with God: A Snarky but Authentic Spiritual Memoir
There is no communication in this world except between equals.
— Ken Burns
We are all too often told by someone that we are too old, too young, too different, too much the same, and those comments can be devastating.
— Sharon Salzberg, The Force of Kindness: Change Your Life with Love & Compassion
Even in climes/without snow/one cannot go/foward sometimes./Things test you./You are part of/the Donners or/part of the rescue:/a muleteer in/earflaps a/formerly hearty/Midwestern farmer/perhaps. Both/parties trapped/within sight/of the pass. 
— Kay Ryan
The satisfactions/of agreement are/immediate as sugar--/a melting of the/granular, a syrup/that lingers, shared/not singular./Many prefer it.
— Kay Ryan
Never allow the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game!
— Babe Ruth
Don't be distracted by criticism. Remember ~ the only taste of success some people have is when they take a bite out of you.
— Zig Ziglar
Mindfulness helps us get better at seeing the difference between what’s happening and the stories we tell ourselves about what’s happening, stories that get in the way of direct experience. Often such stories treat a fleeting state of mind as if it were our entire and permanent self.
— Sharon Salzberg, Real Happiness: The Power of Meditation
To become a master at any skill, it takes the total effort of your: heart, mind, and soul working together in tandem.
— Maurice Young
... human beings fear the unknown. So, whatever's freaking you out, grab it by the balls and say hello.
— Justin Halpern, I Suck at Girls
YOU are your love of a lifetime.
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
I make music for ears, not eyes
— Adele
An intelligent woman is a goldmine! She has the ability to learn, reason and understand things better and faster than her contemporaries. She is competent, alert and can reason out stuffs easily.
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu
This is your life – not your parents’, teachers’ or significant other’s. If you ever find yourself on a path that just doesn’t feel safe anymore, you have every right to stop the car, get out – change your shoes and start walking.
— Jennifer Elisabeth, Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl
One doesn't have to be religious to lead a moral life or attain wisdom.
— Allan Lokos, Pocket Peace: Effective Practices for Enlightened Living
No man is ever just one thing.
— Michael Scott, The Enchantress
You do it for yourself. You don’t expect to change the world. You don’t even expect to influence your family or your friends. You do it because you can’t not do it and be who you are. Or who you’re meant to be.
— Martin Sheen
If pain is a pot of boiling water, humor can be the rising steam.
— Cameron Conaway, Caged: Memoirs of a Cage-Fighting Poet
Contrary to what we've been told, life is simple. We complicate matters with our choices.
— Michelle Richardson
Aim for what u want and the year will all make a sense.
— Cecelia Ahern
I am not afraid of tomorrow for I have seen yesterday, I have today and I know Him who holds tomorrow so I know tomorrow will be beautiful for me.
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu, The Best Option
Directing the mind to stay in the present can be a formidable task.
— Allan Lokos, Patience: The Art of Peaceful Living
‎"With each experience we grow and become more aware of the inner beauty that lies within us. Ultimately we are truly our own leader. We lead the connection and flow of life that is our inheritance.
— Rabbi Yossi
Each one of us holds the promise of greatness within our heart, minds, and souls. Our potential and where it leads us are as unique as our fingerprints, yet the way to access what is possible is universal. Affirm your life; find joy every day, even in the mundane; and embrace your strengths and use them better yourself and the world.
— Marianna Olszewski
Fear is what keeps the walls up, so open the gate and let what you want, in when you want
— Joshua Wright
You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control the way you think about all the events. You always have a choice. You can choose to face them with a positive mental attitude.
— Roy  Bennett
As Dostoevski said: 'Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.
— Dorothy Day
To die is nothing, but to live with purpose and integrity, that's something
— Elle Newmark, The Book of Unholy Mischief
And the second [thing about the CBS EVENING NEWS that stands out in the mind of Michael J. Fox] was something Katie did later in the interview, as the drugs kicked in and the tremors segued into the jerkiness of dyskinesias. Somewhere in the contortions of making a point, my left arm detached the microphone clip from my jacket lapel. With no fuss and hardly a break in conversation or eye contact, she calmly leaned over and refastened it. Neither of us commented on it, but it was such an empathetic gesture, so far from anything patronizing or pitying, a simple kindness that allowed me the dignity to carry on making a point more important than the superficiality of my physical circumstance......One thing was abundantly clear though, whether or not she was able to forget how much she liked me: with that single act of consideration, she made it abundantly clear how much she loved her father.
— Michael J. Fox
When I observe Gram, I see how fragile the notion of tradition can be. If I take my eyes off the way she kneads her Easter bread, or if I fail to study the way she sews a seam in suede, or if I lose the mental image I have of her when she negotiates a better deal with a button salesman, somehow, the very essence of her will be lost. When she goes, the responsibility for carrying on will fall to me. My mother says I’m the keeper of the flame, because I work here, and because I choose to live here. A flame is a very fragile thing, too, and there are times when I wonder if I’m the on who can keep it going.
— Adriana Trigiani
One need not believe in Pallas Athena, the virgin goddess, to be overwhelmed by the Parthenon. Similarly, a man who rejects all dogmas, all theologies and all religious formulations of beliefs may still find Genesis the sublime book par excellence. Experiences and aspirations of which intimations may be found in Plato, Nietzsche, and Spinoza have found their most evocative expression in some sacred books. Since the Renaissance, Shakespeare, Rembrandt, Mozart, and a host of others have shown that this religious dimension can be experienced and communicated apart from any religious context. But that is no reason for closing my heart to Job's cry, or to Jeremiah's, or to the Second Isaiah. I do not read them as mere literature; rather, I read Sophocles and Shakespeare with all my being, too.
— Walter Kaufmann
Consider what really makes up your self-worth—like your caring heart or your ability to stand tall in the face of adversity
— Susan Bernstein
In a world so redolent with wonder, how can we allow ourselves to conduct our daily lives with so little insight, such absence of dignity?
— Bruce Sterling
Surprise is where creativity comes in.
— Ray Bradbury
I know a woman who gets tattoos all the time. She acquires new tattoos the way I might buy a new pair of earrings. She wakes up in the morning and announces, "I think I'll go get a new tattoo today." If you ask her what kind of tattoo she's planning on getting, she'll say casually, "I dunno….I'll figure it out when I get to the tattoo shop. Or I'll just let the artist surprise me."Now, this woman is not a teenager. She's a grown woman with adult children, and she runs a successful business. She's also really cool, uniquely beautiful, and one of the freest spirits I've ever met.When I asked her how she could mark up her body so casually and so permanently, she said, "Oh, but you misunderstand: It's not permanent! It's temporary."Confused, I asked, "You mean, all your tattoos are temporary?"She smiled like a sexy rock 'n roll Buddha and said, "No, honey. My tattoos are permanent — it's my BODY that's temporary. And so is yours. We're here on earth for a very short while. I just want to decorate my temporary self as playfully and beautifully as I can, while I still have time."I love this so much, I can't even tell you.I myself am not covered with tattoos. (Although I do have two of them. Before I went traveling for Eat, Pray, Love, I had two words written into my forearms in white ink: COURAGE and COMPASSION.) But I do want to live the most vividly decorated temporary life I can. I don't just mean physically. I mean emotionally, spiritual, intellectually. I don't want to be afraid of bright colors, or big love, or major decisions, or new experiences, or risky creative endeavors, or sudden changes, or even great failure.
— Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
The urge to create a fictional narrative is a mysterious one, and when an idea comes, the writer's sense of what a story wants to be is only vaguely visible through the penumbra of inspiration.
— Adam Johnson
Let it be told to the future world that in the depth of winter, when nothing but hope and virtue could survive, that the city and the country, alarmed at one common danger, came forth to meet it.
— Barack Obama
In this walk to freedom, we must, without question obtain hearts of honesty and a tongue of truthfulness.
— The Tru Sum, Excerpts To Exodus
You alone have the power to determine your value. Don’t let somebody else paste a discount sticker on you. You’re priceless.
— Toni Sorenson
Do you wait for things to happen, or do you make them happen yourself? I believe in writing your own story.
— Charlotte Eriksson
Cancer gave me an understanding of the point of all this. To survive. Most of our lives it is easy but for the moments when it becomes difficult, when accident or sickness or sadness strikes, it's just about remembering one thing. You must simply survive.
— Shaun Hick
I never want you to deny anything about yourself because you have grown up thinking it’s unacceptable or inconvenient for the people around you.
— Jennifer Elisabeth, Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl
Don't try to follow trends. Create them.
— Simon Zingerman, We All Need Heroes: Stories of the Brave and Foolish
A child’s imaginary playmate just might actually be there.
— Doug Dillon
Stay present for the “now” of your life. It’s your “point of power.
— Doug Dillon
Perhaps just to have loved was enough - just to have seen this world,and known it,through the eyes of love.
— Rosie Alison, The Very Thought of You
When inspiration is silent reason tires quickly.
— Roger Zelazny, Trumps of Doom
Mëso të mos e shkatërrosh me fjalë atë çfarë ke ndërtuar me heshtje.
— Charles Bukowski
Everyday of your life is a another lesson. If you learn the lesson well and apply it; whether positive or negative, you determine what happens in your tomorrow.
— David Kofi Awusi
Seek your own answers in life, and not what others dictate to you.
— Jemina Akhtar, Veil of Lies
We will never have a perfect world, but it’s not romantic or naïve to work toward a better one.
— Steven Pinker
The choice to make good choices is the best choice you can choose. Fail to make that choice and on most choices you will lose.
— Ryan Lilly
Associate yourself with people who think positively. You cannot surround yourself with negative people and expect positive outcomes.
— Roy  Bennett
Live like there’s no tomorrow and learn as if your life depends on it
— Omar Kiam
Focus on your goals, not your fear.
— Roy  Bennett
Forgiveness means letting go of the hope for a better past.
— Lama Surya Das
To realize one's destiny is a person's only real obligation and when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.
— Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
Have you realized that today is the tomorrow you talked about yesterday? It is your responsibility to change your life for the better.
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu, The Prince and the Pauper
When we are aware of our weaknesses or negative tendencies, we open the opportunity to work on them.
— Allan Lokos, Pocket Peace: Effective Practices for Enlightened Living
Man is a slow, sloppy, and brilliant thinker; computers are fast, accurate, and stupid.
— John Pfeiffer
Mindfulness, also called wise attention, helps us see what we’re adding to our experiences, not only during meditation sessions but also elsewhere.
— Sharon Salzberg, Real Happiness: The Power of Meditation
There is only one you for all time. Fearlessly be yourself.
— Anthony Rapp
I learned long ago that when change comes, you gotta slow down and take note of it. In the midst of that change is all the possibility in the world.
— Bertice Berry, Jim and Louella's Homemade Heart-fix Remedy
Where would we have been without the discoveries of our predecessors, and where are we going without your discoveries?
— Ogwo David Emenike
Second half of the year starts NOW July 1st with the next 6 months being MORE important than the last 6 months. I Your Name promise to do all that I can to achieve my Goal . I will not sit on a corner wait I will seek my opportunity. I promise to go after my Goal with passion knowing that the clock is ticking… Sign and date
— Pablo
One more thing...
— Steve Jobs
People turn to meditation because they want to make good decisions, break bad habits & bounce back better from disappointments.
— Sharon Salzberg, The Power of Meditation: A 28-Day Programme for Real Happiness
Watch what you ask for you just might get it.
— Marylin Schirmer
The practice of lovingkindness can uplift us & relieve sorrow & unhappiness.
— Allan Lokos, Pocket Peace: Effective Practices for Enlightened Living
You never know what will save you.
— Abbey Wilson
You're never going to walk around fear. You're only going to walk through it. I have to do all those things I am afraid of, but I do them constantly renewing my mind.
— Suzanne D. Williams, Fearless
In a time when I need a little hope I look at a photo of where I call home and think of the moment I'll have when I go back with my trials and struggles carried in a box able to be let free and turn into achievements and happiness.
— Cassandra Shea
It's not about what I SEE for our future, or humanity; It's about what I DO for our future and humanity.
— Steve Maraboli
What is more yours than what always holds you back?
— James Richardson
Knowledge does not come to us by details, but in flashes of light from heaven.
— Henry David Thoreau, Walden and Other Writings
Writing is the thing that props me up.
— Horton Foote
People will find transformation and transcendence in a McDonald's hash brown if it's all they've got.
— Patton Oswalt, Zombie Spaceship Wasteland
Getting carried away is stupid, it won't get me anywhere.-Nana Komatsu
— Ai Yazawa
Anguish is the universal language
— Alice Fulton
When you enter a grove peopled with ancient trees, higher than the ordinary, and shutting out the sky with their thickly inter-twined branches, do not the stately shadows of the wood, the stillness of the place, and the awful gloom of this doomed cavern then strike you with the presence of a deity?
— Seneca
we tend to steer our lives in the direction of the lessons we need to learn
— Don Campbell
In life there is reality and there is what you want in life. If you took a moment to step back and forget about everything that is going on that doesn't really mean that much anyway, you might be able to figure out how to get what you want and what has been stopping you. For every problem there is a solution, for every... need God has provided the answer, and for every want there is a way. Reality is what you make it.
— Joshua Hartzell
But can one actually see beauty with eyes blurred by the lack of almost everything a human being needs?
— Paulo Lins, City of God
Stories are the collective wisdom of everyone who has ever lived. Your job as a storyteller is not simply to entertain. Nor is it to be noticed for the way you turn a phrase. You have a very important job--one of the most important. Your job is to let people know that everyone shares their feelings--and that these feelings bind us. Your job is a healing art, and like all healers, you have a responsibility. Let people know they are not alone. You must make people understand that we are all the same.
— Brian  McDonald, The Golden Theme: How to Make Your Writing Appeal to the Highest Common Denominator
Opposition can be your friend. Opposition can be the fire that tempers the better sword, as well as the ice that cools a fiery temper. Don't ever run from it; learn from it!
— Jack R. Rose, The Cedar Post
Isn't it amazing how we always have to put our mark on things? And how, from the natural world, we find evidence over and over again that reminds us, not so much of the birds, but of our own stories and our own kinds of art?
— Rosamond Purcell
Momentum builds success.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Dissatisfaction can be a source of inspiration if you learn to control it.
— Tadahiko Nagao
Moving forward implies MOTION when in all actuality it may be simply standing STILL and seeing the salvation of the Lord.
— John Paul Warren
Seek first the kingdom of heaven WITHIN, whereby lies an abundance of treasures and resources that you need
— Lisa Washington
In the height of the gusts, in my high position, where the seas did not break, I found myself compelled to cling tightly to the rail to escape being blown away. My face was stung to severe pain by the high-driving spindrift, and I had a feeling that the wind was blowing the cobwebs out of my sleep-starved brain. 
— Jack London, The Mutiny of the Elsinore
Scientists used to do an experiment whereby a dog’s repeated reward for performing a task was unaccountably replaced by punishment. The dog, knowing it would be penalized for doing well or doing badly, would become melancholic and inactive. This and other unforeseeable results were funded by taxing up to sixty percent of people’s earnings. People became strangely melancholic and inactive
— Steve Aylett
So many people will tell you ”no”, and you need to find something you believe in so hard that you just smile and tell them ”watch me”. Learn to take rejection as motivation to prove people wrong. Be unstoppable. Refuse to give up, no matter what. It’s the best skill you can ever learn.
— Charlotte Eriksson
The excitement of dreams coming true is beyond the description of words.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Can you identify the source preventing you from feeling good every single day, from loving yourself unconditionally and making your dreams come true? Is it a voice in your head or a gut wrenching ache that compromises your inner peace and doesn’t allow you to accept the love around you? Is there one thing, or maybe many things, keeping you from forgiving your past and moving forward, tormenting you with lies like “You don’t deserve real love so just settle for whatever you can get,” “You’re not smart enough to achieve your dream so don’t even try,” or “Look at your past… you should hate yourself way more than you actually do!”?Welcome to your Little Monster.
— Jennifer Elisabeth, Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl
There are Tantrics who deliberately seek to do more active forms of renunciation, so transgression of social norms and breaking of taboo, and breaking of social taboos especially, is a form of renunciation.
— Zeena Schreck
Happiness depends on your mindset and attitude. Happiness is in your mind, not in the circumstance.
— Roy  Bennett
Even if we try to conform to ideals and strive for perfection, we will always be pulled back to our core identity because it’s the path of least resistance for our souls – an energy force that wants nothing more than for us to honor and accept who we are and discover what we’re meant to do in the world.
— Jennifer Elisabeth, Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl
Don't let your emotions get in the way of rational decision making.
— Roy  Bennett
To conquer fear is the best way to gain your self-confidence.
— Roy  Bennett
It's not about perfect. It's about effort. And when you bring that effort every single day, that's where transformation happens. That's how change occurs.
— Jillian Michaels
When love dies, the heart's ashes do not leave on the wind—they rest on the mantelpiece of the soul, darkening the sunrise we once saw to be beautiful.
— Angela M. Hudson
Reading is like travel, allowing you to exit your own life for a bit, and to come back with a renewed, even inspired, perspective.
— Laurie A. Helgoe, Introvert Power: Why Your Inner Life Is Your Hidden Strength
Bad luck with women is a determined man's road to success. For every affliction, he makes, out of indignation, yet another advancement in order to exceed the man that the woman chose over him. This goes to show that great men are made great because they once learned how to fight the feeling of rejection.
— Criss Jami, Venus in Arms
You have a masterpiece inside you, you know. One unlike any that has ever been created, or ever will be. If you go to your grave without painting your masterpiece, it will not get painted. No one else can paint it. Only you.
— Gordon MacKenzie
That's why it's called a practice. We have to practice a practice if it is to be of value.
— Allan Lokos, Patience: The Art of Peaceful Living
Support and encouragement are found in the most unlikely places.
— Raquel Cepeda
Nothing is born into this world without labor.
— Rob Liano
The only difference between a grown-up's mistake and a child's is the size of the consequence.
— Teresa R. Funke, Doing My Part
When you face a new challenge, remember the skills, talent, guts and resources that got you through before.
— Lynn A. Robinson
Sometimes you must stand still in order to get moving to where GOD wants you to go.
— D.A. McBride
There can be no forced inspiration.
— Dejan Stojanovic
When a man finds this kind of woman, he will go all out for her knowing that she will not be a letdown.
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu
We have a right to decide how we want our bodies to look and feel, but unfortunately we do not exercise these rights. Instead, we tend to drift along, victims of our own ignorance of the fact that we can have what we want, if we are willing to take that first step toward developing the self-discipline to govern our thoughts.
— Holly Mosier
We all have issues & we have usually come by them honestly.
— Allan Lokos, Patience: The Art of Peaceful Living
What have you gained since you haven't prayed? What will you lose if you pray?
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu, The Best Option
Motivation gets you going Inspiration keeps you going. 
— Todd Stocker, Refined: Turning Pain Into Purpose
God doesn't like it when we ask Him for the smallest things, dare to make your dream so big that He can conveniently fit into it and make your dream come true.
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu, The Best Option
There's always that song that brings you back to the past. That makes you pause in the middle of what you're doing just so you could hear it clearly. The words bringing you back to a time that seemed nearly impossible, the words making you think for one moment that time itself has actually stopped. And there's nothing but you & perfect melody that brings you one step closer to what used to be.
— Kira Jeffries
Paranormal events are just edges of the infinite we “happen” to encounter.
— Doug Dillon
Cultivate plants which attract lovely company.
— Kathryn  Hall, Plant Whatever Brings You Joy: Blessed Wisdom from the Garden
Life is real, and you canot live a lie.
— Andrew-Knox B Kaniki
Today is a gift from God. Don't waste it!
— Ruth Kyser
It’s never been easier for audiences to skip, filter, or avoid advertising, so the best ideas are the ones that respect that the audience needs to get something out of the work; it should inspire, satisfy, or motivate them. You can’t just bombard people with messages anymore.
— Ajaz Ahmed
What is lovely never dies, but passes into other loveliness, Star-dust, or sea-foam, flower or winged air.
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
The thing I want you especially to understand is this feeling of divine revelation. I feel that this structure was "out there" all along I just couldn't see it. And now I can! This is really what keeps me in the math game-- the chance that I might glimpse some kind of secret underlying truth, some sort of message from the gods.
— Paul  Lockhart, A Mathematician's Lament: How School Cheats Us Out of Our Most Fascinating and Imaginative Art Form
Do not empower your negative thoughts by giving them “legs” so they can run around your mind, creating worries,frustrations, and anxiety in your life.
— Rodolfo Costa, Advice My Parents Gave Me: and Other Lessons I Learned from My Mistakes
What is more precious: a thousand answers derived from one question? Or, one answer…from a thousand questions?
— G.F. Smith
If you have a painting in you, paint. If you have a song to sing, sing. Don’t judge your creation. Just create it. Banish doubt and fear and step out of your own way if you have to. Write if you’re a writer and invent if you’re an inventor. Do what you were born to do. Only then will you know a remarkable life.
— Toni Sorenson
Loving oneselfIs the most primalOf all survival mechanisms
— Karen Hackel, The Whisper of Your Soul
Anybody with leisure can do that who is willing to begin where everything ought to be begun--that is, at the beginning. Nothing worth calling good can or ever will be started full grown. The essential of any good is life, and the very body of created life, and essential to it, being its self operant, is growth. The larger start you make, the less room you leave for life to extend itself. You fill with the dead matter of your construction the places where assimilation ought to have its perfect work, building by a life-process, self-extending, and subserving the whole. Small beginnings with slow growings have time to root themselves thoroughly--I do not mean in place nor yet in social regard, but in wisdom. Such even prosper by failures, for their failures are not too great to be rectified without injury to the original idea.
— George MacDonald, Weighed and Wanting
Most of us who turn to any subject with love remember some morning or evening hour when we got on a high stool to reach down an untried volume, or sat with parted lips listening to a new talker, or for very lack of books began to listen to the voices within, as the first traceable beginning of our love.
— George Eliot, Middlemarch
Fight ever on: this earthly stuff If used God’s way will be enough. Face to the firing line o friendFight out life’s battle to the end. One soldier, when the fight was red,Threw down his broken sword and fled.Another snatched it, won the day, With what his comrade flung away.
— Edwin Markham
Good men do the most harm.
— Henry Adams
Extend your "best before" date by living a youthful life.
— Lorii Myers, Make It Happen, A Healthy, Competitive Approach to Achieving Personal Success
Being a senior doesn't automatically make one wise but the wise & foolish alike have things to teach us.
— Allan Lokos, Pocket Peace: Effective Practices for Enlightened Living
Meditation is essentially training our attention so that we can be more aware— not only of our own inner workings but also of what’s happening around us in the here & now.
— Sharon Salzberg, The Power of Meditation: A 28-Day Programme for Real Happiness
Think it. Write it. Sell it.
— Dee J. Adams
You know how sometimes you remember a place you once loved, a movie you’ve enjoyed, only to be disappointed when you return to that place or see that movie for a second time? Well, it wasn’t disappointing. She sounds exactly as I remember her—and there is still something so warm and caring about her that it is difficult to hate her for how she abandoned us.
— Christina Westover, Poisoning Sylvie
Your tears only water your weeds
— Red
In this world, people actually don't live a life for themselves but usually live a life for someone they love.
— Vinayak