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Do not waste the precious moments of this, your present reality, seeking to unveil all of life's secrets. Those secrets are a secret for a reason. Grant your God the benefit of the doubt. Use your NOW moment for the Highest Purpose- the creation and the expression of WHO YOU REALLY ARE. Decide who you are- who you want to be-and then do everything in your power to be that.It is not nearly so important how well a message is received as how well it is sent. You cannot take responsibility for how well another accepts your truth; you can only ensure how well it is communicated. And by how well, I don't mean merely how clearly; I mean how lovingly, how compassionately, how sensitively, how courageously, and how completely.If you think your life is about DOINGNESS, you do not understand what you are about. Your soul doesn't care what you do for a living-and when your life is over, neither will you. Your soul cares only about what you're BEING while you're doing whatever you're doing. It is a state of BEINGNESS the soul is after, not a state of doingness.
— Neale Donald Walsch
Believe me, It would be better if we didn't meet again. Go back to school. Go back to your life. And next time they ask you, say no. Killing is for grown-ups and you're still a child.
— Anthony Horowitz, Stormbreaker
If they give you ruled paper, write the other way.
— Juan Ramón Jiménez
The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
— Walter Bagehot
Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Maybe your country is only a place you make up in your own mind. Something you dream about and sing about. Maybe it's not a place on the map at all, but just a story full of people you meet and places you visit, full of books and films you've been to. I'm not afraid of being homesick and having no language to live in. I don't have to be like anyone else. I'm walking on the wall and nobody can stop me.
— Hugo Hamilton, The Speckled People: A Memoir of a Half-Irish Childhood
Forgive yourself before you die. Then forgive others.
— Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie
I gave myself permission to care, because there are a lot of people in this world who are afraid of caring, who are afraid of showing they care because it’s uncool. It’s uncool to have passion. It’s so much easier to lose when you’ve shown everyone how much you don’t care if you win or lose. It’s much harder to lose when you show that you care, but you’ll never win unless you also stand to lose. I’ve said it before. Don’t be afraid of your passion, give it free reign, and be honest and work hard and it will all turn out just fine.
— Tom Hiddleston
know what you want, work to get it, then value it once you have it.
— Nora Roberts, Morrigan's Cross
Perfect is the enemy of good.
— Voltaire
It’s not over if you’re still here,” Chronicler said. “It’s not a tragedy if you’re still alive.
— Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear
Life is going to give you just what you put in it. Put your whole heart in everything you do, and pray, then you can wait.
— Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Status quo, you know, is Latin for 'the mess we're in'.
— Ronald Reagan
Every person has a right to risk their own life for the preservation of it.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Don't chase people. Be yourself, do your own thing and work hard. The right people - the ones who really belong in your life - will come to your. And stay.
— Will Smith
God uses broken things. It takes broken soil to produce a crop, broken clouds to give rain, broken grain to give bread, broken bread to give strength. It is the broken alabaster box that gives forth perfume. It is Peter, weeping bitterly, who returns to greater power than ever.
— Vance Havner
You are a cosmic flower. Om chanting is the process of opening the psychic petals of that flower.
— Amit Ray, Om Chanting and Meditation
God has given us more than fourteen billion cells and connections in our brain. Why would God give us such a complex organ system unless he expects us to use it?
— Ben Carson
Avoid loud and aggressive persons,they are vexations to the spirit.
— Max Ehrmann, Desiderata - A Poem for a Way of Life
I believe that God is in me as the sun is in the colour and fragrance of a flower - the Light in my darkness, the Voice in my silence.
— Helen Keller
Do not yearn to be popular; be exquisite. Do not desire to be famous; be loved. Do not take pride in being expected; be palpable, unmistakable.
— C. JoyBell C.
Go out in the woods, go out. If you don't go out in the woods nothing will ever happen and your life will never begin.
— Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype
Beauty is not who you are on the outside, it is the wisdom and time you gave away to save another struggling soul like you.
— Shannon L. Alder
Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.
— Kahlil Gibran
Only when I fall do I get up again.
— Vincent van Gogh
Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
How are you coming with your home library? Do you need some good ammunition on why it's so important to read? The last time I checked the statistics...I think they indicated that only four percent of the adults in this country have bought a book within the past year. That's dangerous. It's extremely important that we keep ourselves in the top five or six percent. 	In one of the Monthly Letters from the Royal Bank of Canada it was pointed out that reading good books is not something to be indulged in as a luxury. It is a necessity for anyone who intends to give his life and work a touch of quality. The most real wealth is not what we put into our piggy banks but what we develop in our heads. Books instruct us without anger, threats and harsh discipline. They do not sneer at our ignorance or grumble at our mistakes. They ask only that we spend some time in the company of greatness so that we may absorb some of its attributes.You do not read a book for the book's sake, but for your own.You may read because in your high-pressure life, studded with problems and emergencies, you need periods of relief and yet recognize that peace of mind does not mean numbness of mind.You may read because you never had an opportunity to go to college, and books give you a chance to get something you missed. You may read because your job is routine, and books give you a feeling of depth in life.You may read because you did go to college.You may read because you see social, economic and philosophical problems which need solution, and you believe that the best thinking of all past ages may be useful in your age, too.You may read because you are tired of the shallowness of contemporary life, bored by the current conversational commonplaces, and wearied of shop talk and gossip about people.Whatever your dominant personal reason, you will find that reading gives knowledge, creative power, satisfaction and relaxation. It cultivates your mind by calling its faculties into exercise.Books are a source of pleasure - the purest and the most lasting. They enhance your sensation of the interestingness of life. Reading them is not a violent pleasure like the gross enjoyment of an uncultivated mind, but a subtle delight.Reading dispels prejudices which hem our minds within narrow spaces. One of the things that will surprise you as you read good books from all over the world and from all times of man is that human nature is much the same today as it has been ever since writing began to tell us about it.Some people act as if it were demeaning to their manhood to wish to be well-read but you can no more be a healthy person mentally without reading substantial books than you can be a vigorous person physically without eating solid food. Books should be chosen, not for their freedom from evil, but for their possession of good. Dr. Johnson said: "Whilst you stand deliberating which book your son shall read first, another boy has read both.
— Earl Nightingale
If the only prayer you say throughout your life is "Thank You," then that will be enough.
— Elie Wiesel
When they say the sky's the limit to me that's really true
— Michael  Jackson
They say that every snowflake is different. If that were true, how could the world go on? How could we ever get up off our knees? How could we ever recover from the wonder of it?
— Jeanette Winterson
Don't ever give up. Don't ever give in. Don't ever stop trying. Don't ever sell out. And if you find yourself succumbing to one of the above for a brief moment, pick yourself up, brush yourself off, whisper a prayer, and start where you left off.But never, ever, ever give up.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Eena, The Tempter's Snare
Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle.
— Christian D. Larson
I am Me. In all the world, there is no one else exactly like me. Everything that comes out of me is authentically mine, because I alone chose it -- I own everything about me: my body, my feelings, my mouth, my voice, all my actions, whether they be to others or myself. I own my fantasies, my dreams, my hopes, my fears. I own my triumphs and successes, all my failures and mistakes. Because I own all of me, I can become intimately acquainted with me. By so doing, I can love me and be friendly with all my parts. I know there are aspects about myself that puzzle me, and other aspects that I do not know -- but as long as I am friendly and loving to myself, I can courageously and hopefully look for solutions to the puzzles and ways to find out more about me. However I look and sound, whatever I say and do, and whatever I think and feel at a given moment in time is authentically me. If later some parts of how I looked, sounded, thought, and felt turn out to be unfitting, I can discard that which is unfitting, keep the rest, and invent something new for that which I discarded. I can see, hear, feel, think, say, and do. I have the tools to survive, to be close to others, to be productive, and to make sense and order out of the world of people and things outside of me. I own me, and therefore, I can engineer me. I am me, and I am Okay.
— Virginia Satir
It's very dramatic when two people come together to work something out. It's easy to take a gun and annihilate your opposition, but what is really exciting to me is to see people with differing views come together and finally respect each other.
— Fred Rogers, The World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember
A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.
— George Bernard Shaw
A young outcast will often feel that there is something wrong with himself, but as he gets older, grows more confident in who he is, he will adapt, he will begin to feel that there is something wrong with everyone else.
— Criss Jami, Killosophy
Life might take you down different roads. But each of you gets to decide which one to take.
— Gayle Forman, If I Stay
Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.
— Maria Robinson
Is there any real purpose in being alive if all we are going to do is get up every day and live only for ourselves?Live your life to help others. Give & live selflessly.
— Joyce Meyer
Peace is present right here and now, in ourselves and in everything we do and see. Every breath we take, every step we take, can be filled with peace, joy, and serenity. The question is whether or not we are in touch with it. We need only to be awake, alive in the present moment.
— Thich Nhat Hanh, Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life
Your own Self-Realization is the greatest service you can render the world.
— Ramana Maharshi
If you are still breathing maybe it is not such a bad day after all...
— Darren E. Laws
Death twitches my ear;'Live,' he says... 'I'm coming.
— Virgil
There is only one day left, always starting over: It is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
Forgive me for being so ordinary while claiming to know so extraordinary a God.
— Jim Elliot
Anything that makes weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.
— Swami Vivekananda
Dead yesterdays and unborn tomorrows, why fret about it, if today be sweet.
— Omar Khayyám
I am not afraid... I was born to do this.
— Jeanne d'Arc
My experiences have taught me that things rarely improve with a simple change of scenery.
— Pittacus Lore, The Power of Six
You are doing the best you can, and that best results in good to yourself and to others. Do not nag yourself with a sense of failure. Get on your knees and ask for the blessings of the Lord;then stand on your feet and do what you are asked to do.
— Gordon B. Hinckley
You are beautiful. Know this. Anyone who tells you otherwise is simply lying. You are beautiful.
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
We all can be only who we are, no more, no less.
— Terry Goodkind, Stone of Tears
There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
— G.K. Chesterton
Congratulations!Today is your day.You're off to Great Places!You're off and away!
— Dr. Seuss, Oh, The Places You'll Go!
Whatever you see you gotta keep a sense of humor
—  you gotta be able to smile through all the bullshit.
To have regret is to be disappointed with yourself and your choices. Those who are wise, see their life like stepping stones across a great river. Everyone misses a stone from time to time. No one can cross the river without getting wet. Success is measured by your arrival on the other side, not on how muddy your shoes are. Regrets are only felt by those who do not understand life’s purpose. They become so disillusioned that they stand still in the river and do not take the next leap.
— Colleen Houck
Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.
— Robert Bloch
I know in my heart that man is good, that what is right will always eventually triumph, and there is purpose and worth to each and every life.
— Ronald Reagan
I am not worried, Harry," said Dumbledore, his voice a little stronger despite the freezing water. "I am with you.
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
What the soul hardly realizes is that, unbeliever or not, his loneliness is really a homesickness for God.
— Dom Hubert Van Zeller
Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.
— William James, The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy
To be kind, honest and have positive thoughts; to forgive those who harm us and treat everyone as a friend; to help those who are suffering and never to consider ourselves superior to anyone else: even if this advice seems rather simplistic, make the effort of seeing whether by following it you can find greater happiness.
— Dalai Lama XIV
I'd heard of Evergreen Care Center before. Cass and I had always made fun of the stupid ads they ran on TV, featuring some dragged-out woman with a limp perm and big, painted-on circles under her eyes, downing vodka and sobbing uncontrollably. "We can't heal you at Evergreen", the very somber voiceover said. "But we can help you to heal yourself." It had become our own running joke, applicable to almost anything. "Hey Cass, "I'd say, "hand me that toothpaste." "Caitlin," she'd say, her voice dark and serious. "I can't hand you the toothpaste. But I CAN help you hand the toothpaste to yourself.
— Sarah Dessen, Dreamland
Happiness comes when your work and words are of benefit to others.
— Gautama Buddha
The road to enlightenment is long and difficult, and you should try not to forget snacks and magazines.
— Anne Lamott, Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith
For, after all, every one who wishes to gain true knowledge must climb the Hill Difficulty alone, and since there is no royal road to the summit, I must zigzag it in my own way. I slip back many times, I fall, I stand still, I run against the edge of hidden obstacles, I lose my temper and find it again and keep it better, I trudge on, I gain a little, I feel encouraged, I get more eager and climb higher and begin to see the widening horizon. Every struggle is a victory. One more effort and I reach the luminous cloud, the blue depths of the sky, the uplands of my desire.
— Helen Keller, The Story of My Life
Boredom can be a lethal thing on a small island.
— Christopher Moore, Island of the Sequined Love Nun
Pet names are a persistant remnant of childhood, a reminder that life is not always so serious, so formal, so complicated. They are a reminder, too, that one is not all things to all people.
— Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake
What the society thinks is of no interest to me. All that's important is how I see myself. I know who who I am. I know the value of my work.
— Robin S. Sharma, The Leader Who Had No Title: A Modern Fable on Real Success in Business and in
Small is the number of them that see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.
— Albert Einstein
90% of the game is half mental.
— Yogi Berra, The Yogi Book : I Really Didn't Say Everything I Said
Read. Read anything. Read the things they say are good for you, and the things they claim are junk. You'll find what you need to find. Just read.
— Neil Gaiman
They alone live, who live for others.
— Swami Vivekananda
God helps those who strut their stuff.
— Dan Sofer, A Love and Beyond
These people fail to realize that it is on the inside that God must be defended, not on the outside. They should direct their anger at themselves. For evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out. The main battlefield for good is not the open ground of the public arena but the small clearing of each heart.
— Yann Martel, Life of Pi
I give myself a good cry if I need it. But then I concentrate on the good things still in my life. I don't allow myself any more self-pity than that. A little each every morning, a few tears, and that's all.
— Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie
The purpose of life is not to be happy—but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you lived at all.
— Leo Rosten
There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.
— Henry David Thoreau, Walden, or Life in the Woods
Although I am a typical loner in my daily life, my awareness of belonging to the invisible community of those who strive for truth, beauty, and justice has prevented me from feelings of isolation.
— Albert Einstein
Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind.
— Earl Nightingale
My dear Watson," said [Sherlock Holmes], "I cannot agree with those who rank modesty among the virtues. To the logician all things should be seen exactly as they are, and to underestimate one's self is as much a departure from truth as to exaggerate one's own powers.
— Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter
you don't have to be great to get started, but you have to get started to be great.
— Les Brown
Undisturbed calmness of mind is attained by cultivating friendliness toward the happy, compassion for the unhappy, delight in the virtuous, and indifference toward the wicked.
— Patañjali, The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
Most people die with their music still locked up inside them.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Hard work beats talent when talent fails to work hard.
— Kevin Durant
It is the useless things that make life worth living and that make life dangerous too: wine, love, art, beauty. Without them life is safe, but not worth bothering with.
— Stephen Fry, Moab Is My Washpot
There is force in the universe, which, if we permit it, will flow through us and produce miraculous results.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Friends can make you feel that the world is smaller and less sneaky than it really is, because you know people who have similar experiences.
— Lemony Snicket, The Austere Academy
The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a courtroom, be he any color of the rainbow, but people have a way of carrying their resentments right into a jury box. As you grow older, you'll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don't you forget it - whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, that white man is trash.
— Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
Death comes to us all
—  we can only choose how to face it when it comes.
The shell must break before the bird can fly.
— Alfred Tennyson
Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. If the dispositions of the parties are ever so well known to each other or ever so similar beforehand, it does not advance their felicity in the least. They always continue to grow sufficiently unlike afterwards to have their share of vexation; and it is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life.
— Jane Austen, Pride And Prejudice
In the deepest hour of the night, confess to yourself that you would die if you were forbidden to write. And look deep into your heart where it spreads its roots, the answer, and ask yourself, must I write?
— Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
Make every effort to change things you do not like. If you cannot make a change, change the way you have been thinking. You might find a new solution.
— Maya Angelou, Letter to My Daughter
The best kind of humans are the ones who stay.
— Robert M. Drake
It had never occurred to me that our lives, which had been so closely interwoven, could unravel with such speed.
— Kazuo Ishiguro
You don't always have to kiss a lot of frogs to recognize a prince when you find one -Henrietta Barett
— Julia Quinn, Minx
I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself
— D.H. Lawrence
If we don't change the direction we are headed, we will end up where we are going.
— Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes
I am fallen, flawed and imperfect. Yet drenched in the grace and mercy that is found in Jesus Christ, there is strength
— Adam Young
Libraries store the energy that fuels the imagination. They open up windows to the world and inspire us to explore and achieve, and contribute to improving our quality of life. Libraries change lives for the better.
— Sidney Sheldon
We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.
— Oswald Chambers
Those who travel to mountain-tops are half in love with themselves, and half in love with oblivion.
— Robert Macfarlane, Mountains of the Mind: A History of a Fascination
Books. They are lined up on shelves or stacked on a table. There they are wrapped up in their jackets, lines of neat print on nicely bound pages. They look like such orderly, static things. Then you, the reader come along. You open the book jacket, and it can be like opening the gates to an unknown city, or opening the lid of a treasure chest. You read the first word and you're off on a journey of exploration and discovery.
— David Almond
A child may not know how to feed itself, or what to eat, yet it knows hunger.
— Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon
Not only is there often a right and wrong, but what goes around does come around, Karma exists, chickens do come home to roost, and as my mother, Phyllis, liked to say, “There is always a day of reckoning.” The good among the great understand that every choice we make adds to the strength or weakness of our spirits—ourselves, or to use an old fashioned word for the same idea, our souls. That is every human’s life work: to construct an identity bit by bit, to walk a path step by step, to live a life that is worthy of something higher, lighter, more fulfilling, and maybe even everlasting.
— Donald Van de Mark, The Good Among the Great: 19 Traits of the Most Admirable, Creative, and Joyous People
May my heart be kind, my mind fierce, and my spirit brave.
— Kate Forsyth, The Witches of Eileanan
And I think that's what our world is desperately in need of - lovers, people who are building deep, genuine relationships with fellow strugglers along the way, and who actually know the faces of the people behind the issues they are concerned about.
— Shane Claiborne, The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical
We crave for new sensations but soon become indifferent to them. The wonders of yesterday are today common occurrences
— Nikola Tesla, My Inventions
It’s funny. I met a man once who did a lot of mountain climbing. I asked him which was harder, ascending or descending? He said without a doubt descending, because ascending you were so focused on reaching the top, you avoided mistakes.The backside of a mountain is a fight against human nature,” he said. “You have to care as much about yourself on the way down as you did on the way up.
— Mitch Albom, For One More Day
Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourslef or to gossip about others. Use your power of your word in the direction of truth and love.
— Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
We humans do not understand compassion. In each moment of our lives, we betray it. Aye, we know of its worth, yet in knowing we then attach to it a value, we guard the giving of it, believing it must be earned, T’lan Imass. Compassion is priceless in the truest sense of the wold. It must be given freely. In abundance.
— Steven Erikson, Memories of Ice
Act as if! Act as if you're a wealthy man, rich already, and then you'll surely become rich. Act as if you have unmatched confidence and then people will surely have confidence in you. Act as if you have unmatched experience and then people will follow your advice. And act as if you are already a tremendous success, and as sure as I stand here today - you will become successful.
— Jordan Belfort, The Wolf of Wall Street
For the world is in a bad state, but everything will become still worse unless each of us does his best.
— Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning
Don't turn over the rocks if you don't want to see the pale creatures who live under them.
— Janet Fitch, White Oleander
It is one of the beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Were I a Roman Catholic, perhaps I should on this occasion vow to build a chapel to some saint, but as I am not, if I were to vow at all, it should be to build a light-house.[Letter to his wife, 17 July 1757, after narrowly avoiding a shipwreck; often misquoted as "Lighthouses are more helpful than churches."]
— Benjamin Franklin, Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin
Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.
— Confucius, The Analects
The question is very understandable, but no one has found a satisfactory answer to it so far. Yes, why do they make still more gigantic planes, still heavier bombs and, at the same time, prefabricated houses for reconstruction? Why should millions be spent daily on the war and yet there's not a penny available for medical services, artists, or for poor people?Why do some people have to starve, while there are surpluses rotting in other parts of the world? Oh, why are people so crazy?
— Anne Frank
The doubters said, "Man can not fly," The doers said, "Maybe, but we'll try," And finally soared In the morning glow While non-believers Watched from below.
— Bruce Lee
Kung matatakot kang harapin ang totoo at sabihin ang talagang nararamdaman mo dahil baka masaktan ka, isa lang ibig sabihin noon: ipinagkait mo na sa sarili mo ang pagiging masaya at kinarir mo ang magpakatanga.
— Bob Ong
By hook or by crook, I hope that you will possess yourselves of money enough to travel and to idle, to contemplate the future or the past of the world, to dream over books and loiter at street corners and let the line of thought dip deep into the stream
— Virginia Woolf
Arrange whatever pieces come your way.
— Virginia Woolf
You are old beyond your years Zoeybird. Believe in yourself and you will find a way. But remember darkness does not always equate to evil just like light does not always bring good.
— P.C. Cast, Marked
You have a unique gift to offer this world. Be true to yourself, be kind to yourself, read and learn about everything that interests you and keep away from people who bring you down. When you treat yourself kindly and respect the uniqueness of those around you, you will be giving this world an amazing gift... YOU!
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
Aslan: You doubt your value. Don't run from who you are.
— C.S. Lewis, Prince Caspian
Most don't deserve your tears... and the ones that do will never make you cry.
— T. Rafael Cimino, Table 21
Let's start a new tomorrow, today.
— Neil Gaiman, Anansi Boys
If I am truly to become an autonomous woman, then I must take over that role of being my own guardian...I not only have to become my own husband, but I need to be my own father, too.
— Elizabeth Gilbert
What I’ve realized is that life doesn’t count for much unless you’re willing to do your small part to leave our children — all of our children — a better world. Any fool can have a child. That doesn’t make you a father. It’s the courage to raise a child that makes you a father.
— Barack Obama
Day after day, day after day,We stuck, nor breath nor motion;As idle as a painted shipUpon a painted ocean.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Feel your emotions,Live true your passions,Keep still your mind.
— Geoffrey M. Gluckman
Rogerson," I asked him sweetly as we sat watching a video in the pool house, "where would I find the pelagic zone?""In the open sea," he said. "Now shut up and eat your Junior Mints.
— Sarah Dessen, Dreamland
If you hear how wonderful you are often enough, you begin to believe it, no matter how you try to resist it.
— Ben Carson
the purpose of life is the life of purpose
— Robin S. Sharma, The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari
The downfall of the attempts of governments and leaders to unite mankind is found in this- in the wrong message that we should see everyone as the same. This is the root of the failure of harmony. Because the truth is, we should not all see everyone as the same! We are not the same! We are made of different colours and we have different cultures. We are all different! But the key to this door is to look at these differences, respect these differences, learn from and about these differences, and grow in and with these differences. We are all different. We are not the same. But that's beautiful. And that's okay.In the quest for unity and peace, we cannot blind ourselves and expect to be all the same. Because in this, we all have an underlying belief that everyone should be the same as us at some point. We are not on a journey to become the same or to be the same. But we are on a journey to see that in all of our differences, that is what makes us beautiful as a human race, and if we are ever to grow, we ought to learn and always learn some more.
— C. JoyBell C.
The Man who says he can, and the man who says he can not.. Are both correct
— Confucius
Why am I compelled to write?... Because the world I create in the writing compensates for what the real world does not give me. By writing I put order in the world, give it a handle so I can grasp it. I write because life does not appease my appetites and anger... To become more intimate with myself and you. To discover myself, to preserve myself, to make myself, to achieve self-autonomy. To dispell the myths that I am a mad prophet or a poor suffering soul. To convince myself that I am worthy and that what I have to say is not a pile of shit... Finally I write because I'm scared of writing, but I'm more scared of not writing.
— Gloria E. Anzaldúa
Though we tremble before uncertain futuresmay we meet illness, death and adversity with strengthmay we dance in the face of our fears.
— Gloria E. Anzaldúa
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
— Mother Teresa
The primary thing when you take a sword in your hands is your intention to cut the enemy, whatever the means. Whenever you parry, hit, spring, strike or touch the enemy's cutting sword, you must cut the enemy in the same movement. It is essential to attain this. If you think only of hitting, springing, striking or touching the enemy, you will not be able actually to cut him.
— Miyamoto Musashi, The Book of Five Rings
Your opinion is not my reality.
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
After all, if you do not resist the apparently inevitable, you will never know how inevitable the inevitable was.
— Terry Eagleton, Why Marx Was Right
impossible is not a word
— Obert Skye, Leven Thumps and the Gateway to Foo
Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
— Abraham Lincoln, The Gettysburg Address
The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.
— T.S. Eliot
To every problem, there is a most simple solution.
— Agatha Christie, The Clocks
If we bear all this suffering and if there are still Jews left, when it is over, then Jews, instead of being doomed, will be held up as an example.
— Anne Frank
Yes, terrible things happen, but sometimes those terrible things- they save you.
— Chuck Palahniuk, Haunted
As for what it's against - the story is against those who pervert and misuse religion, or any other kind of doctrine with a holy book and a priesthood and an apparatus of power that wields unchallengeable authority, in order to dominate and suppress human freedoms.
— Philip Pullman, His Dark Materials
I don’t want anyone to hold back who they are. It’s not okay… it’s not a good thing
— Connor Franta
Don't go on discussing what a good person should be. Just be one.
— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
Vote for the man who promises least
—  he'll be the least disappointing.
Successful people have libraries. The rest have big screen TVs
— Jim Rohn
Storms make trees take deeper roots.
— Dolly Parton
We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.
— Alan Turing, Computing machinery and intelligence
When I try, I fail. When I trust, He succeeds.
— Corrie ten Boom
The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.
— Amelia Earhart
Mother is a verb. It's something you do. Not just who you are.
— Cheryl Lacey Donovan, The Ministry of Motherhood
Do not fear the thorns in your path, for they draw only corrupt blood.
— Kahlil Gibran
To me, when someone wrongs you, you both share the burden of that wrongdoing - the pain of it weighs on both of you. Forgiveness, then, means choosing to bear the full weight all by yourself. Caleb's betrayal is something we both carry, and since he did it, all I've wanted is for him to take its weight away from me. I am not sure that I'm capable of shouldering it all myself - not sure that I am strong enough, or good enough.
— Veronica Roth, Allegiant
She was broken, I think it’s because she loved too much and she was always blind to the fact that love too is sometimes broken.
— Robert M. Drake
We cannot have a world where everyone is a victim. "I'm this way because my father made me this way. I'm this way because my husband made me this way." Yes, we are indeed formed by traumas that happen to us. But then you must take charge, you must take over, you are responsible.
— Camille Paglia
It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible gods and goddesses, to remember that the dullest most uninteresting person you can talk to may one day be a creature which,if you saw it now, you would be strongly tempted to worship, or else a horror and a corruption such as you now meet, if at all, only in a nightmare. All day long we are, in some degree helping each other to one or the other of these destinations. It is in the light of these overwhelming possibilities, it is with the awe and the circumspection proper to them, that we should conduct all of our dealings with one another, all friendships, all loves, all play, all politics. There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations - these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, and exploit - immortal horrors or everlasting splendors.
— C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory
So long as you fight the darkness, you stand in the light.
— Sabaa Tahir, A Torch Against the Night
The whole summer lay ahead of us-time to rest, time to wait. And when the future comes-no matter what comes with it-I'll be smarter. I'll be stronger. I'll be ready.
— Ally Carter, Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy
We spend money that we do not have, on things we do not need, to impress people who do not care.
— Will Smith
There isa time to liveand a time to diebut never to reject the moment.
— Lao Tzu
Spirituality is not to be learned by flight from the world, or by running away from things, or by turning solitary and going apart from the world. Rather, we must learn an inner solitude wherever or with whomsoever we may be. We must learn to penetrate things and find God there.
— Meister Eckhart
For those who know the value of and exquisite taste of solitary freedom (for one is only free when alone), the act of leaving is the bravest and most beautiful of all.
— Isabelle Eberhardt, The Nomad: The Diaries of Isabelle Eberhardt
Now you people have names. That's because you don't know who you are. We know who we are, so we don't need names.
— Neil Gaiman, Coraline
I’d rather welcome change than cling to the past.
— Robert T. Kiyosaki, Rich Dad, Poor Dad
Four things to learn in life: To think clearly without hurry or confusion
—  To love everybody sincerely
Dance like you're stamping on a human face forever, love like you've been in a serious car crash that minced the front of your brain, stab like no one can arrest you, and live like there's no such thing as God.
— Warren Ellis
Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. 
— John Wooden
If you don’t have the time to do something right, where are you going to find the time to fix it?
— Stephen King
It's been said that love finds you when you're ready.
— James Patterson
What she had long believed was not true, and now the world was wide open to discover what was.It is like all my life I thought the sky was green.
— Shannon Hale
The universe is big. It's vast and complicated and ridiculous. And sometimes—very rarely—impossible things just happen and we call them miracles.
— Steven Moffat
A great human revolution in just a single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a nation and, further, can even enable a change in the destiny of all humankind.
— Daisaku Ikeda, The Human Revolution
I don't regret the painful times
—  I bare my scars as if they were medals.
When I pictured myself, it was always like just an outline in a colouring book, with the inside not yet completed.
— Sarah Dessen
We never know how high we are till we are called to rise. Then if we are true to form our statures touch the skies.
— Emily Dickinson, Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson
Brimstone once told me that to stay true in the face of evil is a feat of strength.
— Laini Taylor, Days of Blood & Starlight
I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself.
— Robert E. Lee
Be like the flower that gives its fragrance to even the hand that crushes it.
— Ali ibn Abi Talib
People are always telling me that i'm not like other girls...that i dont dress like other girls...that i dont act like other girls. But i'm my OWN person...i go to the beat of my own drum.
— Miley Cyrus
In the end, everything is a gag.
— Charlie Chaplin
So what? You're another person, so of course you look different. What do you need to be ashamed for?
— Yana Toboso
I don't think we get answers to every question. We don't get all the whys. But I think when we look back to the end of our lives, if we do the best we can, and we will see that the things we begged God to take from us, the things we cursed him for, the things that made us turn our backs on him, are the things that were the biggest blessings, the biggest opportunities for growth.
— Amy Harmon, Making Faces
We're called to be faithful, to take those first difficult steps--and to leave the results up to God.
— Alex  Harris
Things will change: you won't feel this way forever. And anyway, sometimes the hardest lessons to learn are the ones your soul needs most.
— Kelly Cutrone, If You Have to Cry, Go Outside: And Other Things Your Mother Never Told You
To separate oneself from the burden, the angst, the anguish that we all encounter everyday. To say I am alive, I am wonderful, I am. I am. That is something to aspire to.
— Garth Stein, The Art of Racing in the Rain
It occurred to me by intuition, and music was the driving force behind that intuition. My discovery was the result of musical perception.
— Albert Einstein
All I have is all I need and all I need is all I have in this moment.
— Byron Katie
Woman is a delicate creature with strong emotions who has been created by the Almighty God to shoulder responsibility for educating society and moving toward perfection. God created woman as symbol of His own beauty and to give solace to her partner and her family.
— Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S
I don't think you should wait. I think you should speak now.
— Taylor Swift, Taylor Swift: Speak Now
A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.
— Yoko Ono, Grapefruit: A Book of Instructions and Drawings
Quiet people have the loudest minds.
— Stephen King
And the fox said to the little prince: men have forgotten this truth, but you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Indeed, the more we find to love, the more we add to the measure of our hearts.
— Lloyd Alexander, The Black Cauldron
God is God. He knows what he is doing. When you can’t trace his hand, trust his heart.
— Max Lucado
Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must — at that moment — become the center of the universe.
— Elie Wiesel
I believe in some blending of hope and sunshine sweetening the worst lots. I believe that this life is not all
—  neither the beginning nor the end. I believe while I tremble
What you do is what matters, not what you think or say or plan.
— Jason Fried, Rework
How does one become a butterfly? They have to want to learn to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar.
— Trina Paulus, Hope for the Flowers
Never let anybody guess that you have a mind of your own. Above all be pure
— Virginia Woolf
We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
— Jonathan Swift
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.
— Benjamin Franklin
I do like the world quite a lot.
— Shannon Hale, Book of a Thousand Days
Onward and Upward! To Narnia and the North!
— C.S. Lewis, The Horse and His Boy
Go and get your things,' he said. 'Dreams mean work.
— Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
— John Cage
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times -- always with the same person.
— Mignon McLaughlin
Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
But there's always a first time for everything
— Melissa de la Cruz, Blue Bloods
A graceful refusal is better than a lengthy promise.
— Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S
This was not a fearie tale. This was not the movies. This was life. It hurt more. It was excruciating. It was excruciatingly beautiful.
— Francesca Lia Block, Violet & Claire
I can tell you I love you as many times as you can stand to hear it, but all it does is remind us that love is not enough. Not even close.
— Mark Andrus
No matter who we are, no matter what our circumstances, our feelings and emotions are universal. And music has always been a great way to make people aware of that connection. It can help you open up a part of yourself and express feelings you didn't know you were feeling. It's risky to let that happen. But it's a risk you have to take-because only then will you find you're not alone.
— Josh Groban
In your own life it's important to know how spectacular you are.
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
It is this belief in a power larger than myself and other than myself which allows me to venture into the unknown and even the unknowable.
— Maya Angelou
You have forgotten the Onewho doesn't care about ownership,who doesn't try to turn a profitfrom every human exchange.
— Jalaluddin Rumi, The Essential Rumi
The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.
— Socrates
God is whispering in your heart, in the whole existence, just tune your ears.
— Amit Ray, Meditation: Insights and Inspirations
Hard times build determination and inner strength. Through them we can also come to appreciate the uselessness of anger. Instead of getting angry nurture a deep caring and respect for troublemakers because by creating such trying circumstances they provide us with invaluable opportunities to practice tolerance and patience.
— Dalai Lama XIV
When God had made The Man, he made him out of stuff that sung all the time and glittered all over. Some angels got jealous and chopped him into millions of pieces, but still he glittered and hummed. So they beat him down to nothing but sparks but each little spark had a shine and a song. So they covered each one over with mud. And the lonesomeness in the sparks make them hunt for one another.
— Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God
Self-esteem comes from being able to define the world in your own terms and refusing to abide by the judgments of others.
— Oprah Winfrey
Nobody gets praised for the right reasons.
— Diana Wynne Jones, Castle in the Air
I am an optimist... I choose to be. There is a lot of darkness in our world, there is a lot of pain and you can choose to see that or you can choose to see the joy. If you try to respond positively to the world, you will spend your time better.
— Tom Hiddleston
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?
— Robert H. Schuller
Can a dream be wrong? Aren't dreams God's way of telling you things?
— Ellen Hopkins
The cause of most of man's unhappiness is sacrificing what he wants most for what he wants now.
— Gordon B. Hinckley
The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison, was the miracle.
— Anaïs Nin
Truth builds trust.
— Marilyn Suttle
Here lies one whose name was writ on water.
— John Keats
Until you have suffered much in your heart, you cannot learn humility.
— Thaddeus of Vitovnica, Our Thoughts Determine Our Lives:  The Life and Teachings of Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica
The atheist staring from his attic window is often nearer to God than the believer caught up in his own false image of God.
— Martin Buber
We are constantly invited to be what we are.
— Henry David Thoreau
Sometimes success isn't about making the right decision, it's more about making some decision.
— Robin S. Sharma, The Leader Who Had No Title: A Modern Fable on Real Success in Business and in Life
May the fleas of a thousand camels invade the crotch of the person that ruins your day. And may their arms be to short too scratch
— Keisha Keenleyside
Life doesn't just happen to you
—  youreceive everything in your life based on what you've given.
I am not a victim. No matter what I have been through, I'm still here. I have a history of victory.
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
Living never wore one so much as the effort not to live.
— Anaïs Nin
A truth that no one knows is still the truth.
— Sharon Shinn, Jenna Starborn
If you remember nothing else, remember this: Inspiration from outside one's self is like the heat in an oven. It makes passable Bath buns. But inspiration from within is like a volcano: It changes the face of the world.
— Alan Bradley, The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag
We live out our lives as we are meant to live them-with some choice, with some chance, but mostly as a result of the persons we are.
— Terry Brooks, The Druid of Shannara