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How do you keep your emotions so under control, Nicolas? Even when you're doing things that have to bother you?" She glanced up at him to make certain her question hadn't upset him."I don't do anything unless I believe it is necessary. If it's necessary then there's no reason for me to be bothered by it. The universe has a natural order. I do my best to flow with it and not try to control things outside of myself. The truth is, control is a myth. You can't control another person or even an event. You can only control yourself. So that's what I do.
— Christine Feehan, Mind Game
How dare you? How dare you create a world in which there is such misery that is not our fault? It's not right. It's utterly, utterly evil. Why should I respect a capricious, mean-minded, stupid god who creates a world which is so full of injustice and pain.
— Stephen Fry
As I usually do when I want to get rid of someone whose conversation bores me, I pretended to agree.
— Albert Camus, The Stranger
Live the way life does, love the way they does
— Prashant Joshi
The way we live, decides the meaning of life.And the way we die, tells how much meaningful we made it.
— Shashank Rayal
Travel is useful, it exercises the imagination. All the rest is disappointment and fatigue. Our journey is entirely imaginary. That is its strength.It goes from life to death. People, animals, cities, things, all are imagined. It's a novel, just a fictitious narrative. Littre says so and he's never wrong.And besides, in the first place, anyone can do as much. You just have to close your eyes.It's on the other side of life.
— Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night
He had always imagined that some sort of emotional mental equipment was meant to arrive, when he was forty-five, say, or fifty, a kind of kit that would enable him to deal with the impending loss of a parent. If he were only in possession of this equipment, he would be just fine. He would be noble and selfless, wise and philosophical. Perhaps he would even have kids of his own, and would presumably possess the kind of maturity that comes with fatherhood, the understanding of life as a process.
— David Nicholls, One Day
As we try to envisage what the world will be like for our grandchildren and imagine who will inherit the good and bad we leave behind, we pause to think of those who have shaped our attitudes. We pay homage to those spirits who have expanded our potential for understanding the unique circumstances of our lives and who have given us hope and courage to be strong and live bravely. We will always be fascinated by the thoughts of others, and by the way they have expressed their truths and insights, because they are the real teachers. They have shared with us the truth as they have experienced it.
— Alexandra Stoddard, Grace Notes
Foul cankering rust the hidden treasure frets, but gold that's put to use more gold begets.
— William Shakespeare
I think happiness is a bit like a cake. If you have cake every single day of your life you'll get sick of it. If you're happy everyday, you'll get sick of being happy… That's a good saying actually. Happiness is like a cake. Have too much and you'll get sick of it.
— Karl Pilkington
I think it's early. Early in our lives. Early in the night. Early in the new year. If you're counting, you'll notice the earlys outnumber the lates.
— Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places
We don't think. We think we think.
— Natasha Tsakos
The psychological effects of the sun are strange: it had not yet appeared over the horizon and we already felt comforted, just imagining the heat it would bring.
— Ernesto Che Guevara, The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey
The people there were gods and midgets and knew themselves mortal and so the midgets walked tall so as not to embarrass the gods and the gods crouched so as to make the small ones feel at home.
— Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine
What kind of man will feel depressed at being idle? There is nothing finer than to be alone with nothing to distract him.If you follow the ways of the world, your heart will be drawn to its sensual defilements and easily led astray; if you go among people, your words will be guided by others' responses rather than come from your heart. There is nothing firm or stable in a life spent between larking about together and quarreling exuberant one moment, aggrieved and resentful the next. You are forever pondering pros and cons, endlessly absorbed in questions of gain and loss. And on top of delusion comes drunkenness, and in that drunkenness you dream.
— Yoshida Kenkō, Essays in Idleness and Hôjôki
A well-adjusted person wouldn't talk much. There's not a lot to be said about most of life. Most days, weeks, years, lives, nothing happens... and still we carry on chattering at each other.
— James Ferron Anderson, TERMINAL CITY
May your eyes be the eyes of truthAnd guided from deception
— rassool jibraeel snyman
So the starry sky turns round like a millstone, always bringing some trouble, and men being born or dying.
— Petronius Arbiter, The Satyricon
Here I was alone, and could take my own time. In other parts of the world one always seems to be in a great hurry, tearing from one spot to the other at a gallop, but out yonder, perhaps because distances are so great, time don't seem to matter; you can jog along, breathing fresh air and enjoying the scenery and your own thoughts about women and home and hunting and booze and money and what may lie over the next hill.
— George MacDonald Fraser, Flashman and the Redskins
If he were allowed contact with foreigners he would discover that they are creatures similar to himself and that most of what he has been told about them is lies. The sealed world in which he lives would be broken, and the fear, hatred and self-righteousness on which his morale depends might evaporate.
— George Orwell
Deep down inside we always seek for our departed loved ones
— Munia Khan
If you can see only what light reveals and hear only what sound announces, then in truth you do not see nor do you hear.
— Kahlil Gibran
In the real world, in the grand scheme of life, this year is going to count for exactly nothing. These are the friendships that don't last and the choices that don't count. All those things we freak out about now, like who's going to be class president and are we going to win the game this weekend- there's going to be a time when we can't remember caring about them. In exactly three hundred and sixty five days from right now, wearing your letter jacket will make you look like the lamest of losers.
— Jen Klein
The gift within every gift is always opportunity.
— Steindl Rast David
The mind is a flame. Blow it out, or it will blind you.
— Brian Staveley, The Last Mortal Bond
Of course, the abolition of Hell meant that such thoughts were now the merest fantasy. Isobel was agnostic as to what, if anything, lay in store for us after this life; that there was a world of spirit seemed to her to be a possibility that we should not exclude. Consciousness was an elusive entity about which we knew very little, other than that it came into existence when certain conditions were present- a sufficient mass of brain cells operating in a particular way. But could we really say much more than that about where it was located & whether it could survive in other conditions? The fact that a plant grew in one place did not mean that it could not grow in another. And if something lay behind this consciousness, orchestrated it & and the conditions that produced it, then why should we not call this something God?
— Alexander McCall Smith, The Comforts of a Muddy Saturday
Very..." She left the word hanging. Very unfinished, thought Isabel. The woman finished her sentence. "Very beautiful." Oh, really! thought Isabel. The verdict from others was much the same. Oh well, thought Isabel. Perhaps I'm not sufficiently used to the language he's using. Music is not an international language, she thought, no matter how frequently that claim is made; some words of the language may be the same, but not all, and one needs to know the rules to understand what is being said. Perhaps I just don't understand the conventions by which Nick Smart is communicating with his audience.
— Alexander McCall Smith, The Careful Use of Compliments
It's not always wise to assume that just because the surface of the world appears undisturbed, life is where you left it.
— Jan Ellison, A Small Indiscretion
I seen women take this kind a' help from a man with a look a' relief on their faces. I wondered if these women knew how much easier their lives would be if they did all this stuff for themselves.
— Beth  Lewis, The Wolf Road
Better to be a successful failure, than to fail at success.
— Benny Bellamacina, Little Luigi: A Musical Adventure
The people who strive for failure are encouraged by those that failed before them. To do the same
— Jacques S Cantin
Good and evil are a great deal more complex than a princess and a dragon, or a wolf and a scarlet-clad little girl. And is not the dragon the hero of his own story?
— Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus
Love is an operation theatre, where you find the scalpel and the stitches
— عبادة زياد الحمدان, سراج - عشيقة من سحر
Truly, great is pride and blindness, so that the blood dripping from the scaffold would be called justice. - Epigraph to the 5'th chapter
— Sapkowski, Andrzej
No one ever reads a book. He reads himself through books, either to discover or to control himself.
— Romain Rolland
Sometimes I don't feel as if I'm a person at all. I'm just a collection of other people's ideas.
— David Bowie
When I look at my life and at the secret color which it has, I feel as if tears were trembling in my heart. I am just as much the lips that I have kissed as the nights spent in the 'House before the World,' just as much the child brought up in poverty as this frenzied ambition and thirst for life which sometimes carry me away.
— Albert Camus, Notebooks, 1935-1951
We are all in such a hurry, we want everything at once. We believe that all truth can be stated in a few minutes. The answer to that is that it cannot.
— D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Spiritual Depression: Its Causes and Cure
...if the actor gave his performance without knowing that he was in a play, then his tears would be real tears and his life a real life. And whenever I think of this pain and joy that rise up in me, I am carried away by the knowledge that the game I am playing is the most serious and exciting there is.
— Albert Camus, Notebooks, 1935-1951
As I opened my eyes and witnessed the whites
—  my world transformed and I looked at everything in a different light!
We all see the world through the prism of our identity.
— Ethan Hawke
Shallow sorrows and shallow loves live on... The loves and sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plentitude.
— Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
What life is this? Living in a world of hatred and lies, breathing the same air the dead breathed once, knowing we will wake up one day and find ourselves gone from time and space, and yet we still breathe the air without trembling from the thought.
— Nour Zikra
Those who complimented me were those who understood me the least.
— André Gide
Mrs Beaumont shrugged. ‘Dougie travelled light in life,’ she said. ‘He knew it was people who were important.
— Sara Sheridan, Operation Goodwood
Darkness is the natural state of the universe. Light, fleeting, comforting as it may be, may stretch to the very edges of all we know. Yet once it is gone, the darkness always remains.
— Mark T. Barnes, The Obsidian Heart
What is your original face, before your mother and father were born?
— Zen koan
Hayt felt suddenly that he existed in a dream controlled by some other mind, and that he might momentarily forget this to become lost in the convolutions of that mind.
— Frank Herbert
Moments like this occurred more and more frequently, and I think that was the biggest difference between us. That we could look at the same stars in the same sky, but not have the same questions. Not want the same answers.
— Stephanie Oakes, The Sacred Lies of Minnow Bly
Be content with what you have;rejoice in the way things are.When you realize there is nothing lacking,the whole world belongs to you.
— Lao Tzu
How do I know that what I see as blue and what you see as blue are the same thing? Answer: We don't. We take it on faith.
— Barry Lyga, I Hunt Killers
Would that we could choose the last image we see before death closes our eyes forever to this world.
— Nick Hirst, The Shape of Rain: A conspiracy connecting the Iraq War and the moon landings
If then the power of speech is as great as any that can be named,—if the origin of language is by many philosophers considered nothing short of divine—if by means of words the secrets of the heart are brought to light, pain of soul is relieved, hidden grief is carried off, sympathy conveyed, experience recorded, and wisdom perpetuated,—if by great authors the many are drawn up into unity, national character is fixed, a people speaks, the past and the future, the East and the West are brought into communication with each other,—if such men are, in a word, the spokesmen and the prophets of the human family—it will not answer to make light of Literature or to neglect its study: rather we may be sure that, in proportion as we master it in whatever language, and imbibe its spirit, we shall ourselves become in our own measure the ministers of like benefits to others—be they many or few, be they in the obscurer or the more distinguished walks of life—who are united to us by social ties, and are within the sphere of our personal influence.
— John Henry Newman
Sometimes, one needs another pair of eyes to see things clearly.
— Aguidon
The only difference between a prayer and a curse is the one who stands to profit.
— Paula Wall, The Wilde Women
Some women barter their bodies like whores with wedding bands. Some use sex like a sword. But some women can touch a man and heal like Jesus.
— Paula Wall, The Rock Orchard
You cannot become what you already are.
— John McAfee
It was––how shall I put it?––a painfully solitary building. Let me explain. Say we have a concept. It goes without saying that there will be slight exceptions to that norm. Now, over time these exceptions spread like stains until finally they form a separate concept. To which other exceptions crop up. It was that kind of building, some ancient life form that had evolved blindly, toward who knows what end.
— Haruki Murakami, A Wild Sheep Chase
I think about celestial junk. Like, maybe every planet in this solar system is discarded by giant hands. Each star a crumpled ball of paper, a love letter lit on fire, a smoldering bit of cigarette ash.
— Maria Dahvana Headley, Magonia
People should not confuse opinions and rules with egocentric interests.
— Duop Chak Wuol
God bless the lawn mower, he thought. Who was the fool who made January first New Year’s Day? No, they should set a man to watch the grasses across a million Illinois, Ohio, and Iowa lawns, and on that morning when it was long enough for cutting, instead of ratchets and horns and yelling, there should be a great swelling symphony of lawn mowers reaping fresh grass upon the prairie lands. Instead of confetti and serpentine, people should throw grass spray at each other on the one day each year that really represents Beginning!
— Ray Bradbury
I existed from all eternity and, behold, I am here; and I shall exist till the end of time, for my being has no end.
— Kahlil Gibran
Are we all in fact two people, not one? Are we all One and Another? What I know is that I have an "everyday self," the one who does things, says things, deals with the ins and outs, ups and downs of daily life, and another, an "inner self," the one I think of as my real self, the self who observes everything my everyday self does, comments and judges, praises and dispraises, considers what would be best to do and not to do, and assesses the results.
— Aiden Chambers
Even a cockroach can be legendary by being killed by a legend.
— Munia Khan
If you're going to buy a castle, make sure you get on the property extension ladder.
— Benny Bellamacina, Philosophical Uplifting Quotes volume 2
What remains? Our children? Homer touched the flame of the candle with his fingers. The answer wasn’t easy to find for him,Achmed’s words still hurt him. He himself had been damned to be without children, unable for this kindof immortality, so he couldn’t do anything but choose another path to immortatlity. Again he reached for his pen. They can look like us. In their reflection we mirror ourselves in a mysterious way. United withthose we had loved. In their gestures, in their mimics we happily find ourselves or with sorrow. Friends confirm that our sons and daughters are just like us. Maybe that gives us a certainextension of ourselves when we are no more. We ourselves weren’t the first. We have been made from countless copies that have beenbefore us, just another chimera, always half from our fathers and mothers who are again the half oftheir parents. So is there nothing unique in us but are we just an endless mixture of small mosaic parts that never endingly exist in us? Have we been formed out of millions of small parts to a completepicture that has no own worth and has to fall into its parts again? Does it even matter to be happy if we found ourselves in our children, a certain line that hasbeen traveling through our bodies for millions of years? What remains of me?
— Dmitry Glukhovsky
I'm sure I'll know it by the time I'm 80.
— Margaret Free
The heaviest of burdens is therefore simultaneously an image of life’s most intense fulfillment. The heavier the burden, the closer our lives come to the earth, the more real and truthful they become.
— Mila Kundera
The sky was almost black and then it started hailing. It was so beautiful and scary, I wondered about the science of storms and how sometimes it seemed that a storm wanted to break the world and how the world refused to break.
— Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
The same way a compact disk isn't responsible for what's recorded on it, that's how we are. You're about as free to act as a programmed computer. You're about as one-of-a-kind as a dollar bill
— Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters Remix
This Self is never born, nor does It die. It did not spring from anything, nor did anything spring from It. This Ancient One is unborn, eternal, everlasting. It is not slain even though the body is slain.
— The Upanishads
Be not afraid life with all its despair, pain and unhappiness is just a crucible wherein your brighter dreams are conceived, shaped and born
— rassool jibraeel snyman
It is indeed a curse to dream as you walk amongst the dreamless
— rassool jibraeel snyman
At the railroad station he noted that he still had thirty minutes. He quickly recalled that in a cafe on the Calle Brazil (a few dozen feet from Yrigoyen's house) there was an enormous cat which allowed itself to be caressed as if it were a disdainful divinity. He entered the cafe. There was the cat, asleep. He ordered a cup of coffee, slowly stirred the sugar, sipped it (this pleasure had been denied him in the clinic), and thought, as he smoothed the cat's black coat, that this contact was an illusion and that the two beings, man and cat, were as good as separated by a glass, for man lives in time, in succession, while the magical animal lives in the present, in the eternity of the instant.
— Jorge Luis Borges, Collected Fictions
For there is a general desire to be endlessly remembered and endlessly repeatable.
— Vilém Flusser, Towards a Philosophy of Photography
Don't believe in coincidence. There is nothing unplanned in this universe ~ Levon Peter Poe
— Levon Poe
...something important is lost if this man has been forced to deny his own nature.
— Veronica Roth, Allegiant
I’ve always been driven, unfortunately not always in the right direction.
— Benny Bellamacina, The King of Rhyme
I must have missed the fine print disclaimer in my school textbooks while learning about the Declaration of Independence and U.S. Constitution. It must have read: Warning – by learning this material it will make you a future enemy of the state.
— LibertasIntel
Conscience is the most sacred of all property in which our contemporary government of criminals aspires to plunder from our compatriots by the means of unconstitutional surveillance.
— LibertasIntel
Alternately in our lives come black and white.Nothing is visible through the silent dark hole:no light, no life, no meandering respitein the tunnel of death, journeys the eternal soul.
— Taranum, Rhythmic Hues
The moon shines in my body, but my blind eyes cannot see it:The moon is within me, and so is the sun.The unstruck drum of Eternity is sounded within me; but my deaf ears cannot hear it.So long as man clamors for the I and the Mine, his works are as naught:When all love of the I and the Mine is dead, then the work of the Lord is done.For work has no other aim than the getting of knowledge:When that comes, then work is put away.The flower blooms for the fruit: when the fruit comes, the flower withers.The musk is in the deer, but is seeks it not within itself: it wanders in quest of grass.
— Kabir
It is better to make an irrational noise in a bush than in a desert.
— Duop Chak Wuol
Shukhov stared at the ceiling and said nothing. He no longer knew whether he wanted to be free or not...it had gradually dawned on him that people like himself were not allowed to go home but were packed off into exile. And there was no knowing where the living was easier – here or there. The one thing he might want to ask God for was to let him go home. But they wouldn't let him go home.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
The secret is...good and evil are a myth. There is only the selfish, selfless, and those in between.﻿
— Belart Wright
I am doubtful myself about the undertaking. Part of the attraction of the L.R. is, I think, due to the glimpses of a large history in the background: an attraction like that of viewing far off an unvisited island, or seeing the towers of a distant city gleaming in a sunlit mist. To go there is to destroy the magic, unless new unattainable vistas are again revealed. Also many of the older legends are purely 'mythological', and nearly all are grim and tragic: a long account of the disasters that destroyed the beauty of the Ancient World, from the darkening of Valinor to the Downfall of Numenor and the flight of Elendil.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
You cannot create the life you need unless you pass through the death of the life you no longer want … it's just not possible. Deconstruction always comes before reconstruction.
— Alan Forrest Smith, Escape From Zoomanity
Time is a tease
— André Breton
I had everything summed up in a nutshell unfortunately I lost the nut.
— Benny Bellamacina, Philosophical Uplifting Quotes volume 2
So oft it chances in particular menThat for some vicious mole of nature inthem—As in their birth (wherein they are not guilty,Since nature cannot choose his origin),By the o'ergrowth of some complexion,Oft breaking down the pales and forts ofreason,Or by some habit that too much o'erleavensThe form of plausive manners—that thesemen,Carrying, I say, the stamp of one defect,Being nature’s livery or fortune’s star,Their virtues else (be they as pure as grace,As infinite as man may undergo)Shall in the general censure take corruptionFrom that particular fault. The dram of evilDoth all the noble substance of a doubtTo his own scandal.
— William Shakespeare
If you knew in advance that something momentous and terrible would happen you’d make an effort to imprint it all in your mind, wouldn’t you, every detail. But of course you don’t know. And perhaps that’s just as well.
— Kathy Shuker, Silent Faces, Painted Ghosts
Men are like rivers: the water is the same in each, and alike in all; but every river is narrow here, is more rapid there, here slower, there broader, now clear, now cold, now dull, now warm. It is the same with men. Every man carries in himself the germs of every human quality, and sometimes one manifests itself, sometimes another, and the man often becomes unlike himself, while still remaining the same man.
— Leo Tolstoy
Cheap things are real. Cheap things are accessible. Cheap things are made for us because we don’t have any money, and even though we’d like to think we’ll have it someday, we know we don’t now.
— Nate Ragolia, There You Feel Free
We are, now, just as valuable, intelligent, and real as Eliot or any of his contemporaries. Our ideas and experiences are just as sound and true. Our passion to save our world from what we see it becoming is just as authentic. We are always the Lost Generation, but with different accoutrements.
— Nate Ragolia, There You Feel Free
Doing something once can be addicting. Doing it twice is admitting it.
— Paul Morabito, Poetic Delusions
The mentality of who is your uncle—an ethnocentric way of thinking, is one of the leading causes of South Sudan’s internal conflicts.
— Duop Chak Wuol
Every day the world subtracts from itself and nothingis immune.
— Luanne Castle, Doll God
Every human creates his own imagined version of the world, and of himself. Every human is therefore Brahma, creator of his own aham.Aham Brahmasmi, I am Brahma. Tat tvam asi, so are you.
— Devdutt Pattanaik
It is logical to look for a green fowl in a dark room even if you know the chance of finding a green fowl in a dark room is slim.
— Duop Chak Wuol
There is a difference between the truth and what we wish were true.
— Patrick Rothfuss, The Slow Regard of Silent Things
You can't judge a book by its cover," he said. "No," said Watts. "But you can tell how much it's gonna cost!
— David Bischoff, Some Kind of Wonderful
Of all the things I expected to find in my lunch, a live snake wasn't one of them.
— Peter James West
The Dark Ages gradually ended six centuries ago with the Renaissance, which seeded new ideas for a different world. The Renaissance ideal dominated our culture until three centuries ago, from the 14th to the 18th century, when it was superseded by modernism. Not surprisingly, this human ideal has almost been forgotten in our culture. The Renaissance, literally "re-birth", was a revival and rediscovery of classical Greek and Roman culture following the decline of culture, trade, and technology during the Dark Ages.
— Jacob Lund Fisker
Best that all mischief be undertaken behind a squeaky door
— Benny Bellamacina, Philosophical Uplifting Quotes and Poems
When you reach the middle of your career ladder, turn it the other way around and slide down to the top
— Benny Bellamacina, Philosophical Uplifting Quotes and Poems
Love your body, love your sexuality, and realize that you are a bad human being only if you are unkind and cruel and do harm unto others and not because of your sex life.
— Roxana Shirazi
The incarnation is not a soul into a body, it is an illusory world known as a life into consciousness.
— One Iam, Maximum Meditation: Getting Off and Out
Life is like a double-blind experiment. And the Observer is the only One in on the Know.
— Solange nicole
This isn’t lust. Lust wants, does the obvious, and pads back into the forest. Love is greedier. Love wants round-the-clock care; protection; rings, vows, joint accounts; scented candles on birthdays; life insurance. Babies. Love’s a dictator.
— David Mitchell, The Bone Clocks
Terrible times breed terrible things, my lord.
— George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings
The truth about life is complicated, indefensible and embarrassing.
— Alex Weinle, The Decapaphiliac: Or Love in the Time of Cappuccinos
metaphors are dangerous. Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor can give birth to love
— Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Some things happen to us from which we never recover, and they disrupt the normalcy of our lives. That's how life is. Human nature has a tendency to try to reconstruct old ways and pick up where we left off. If we're wise, we won't continue to go back to the way things were (we can't anyway). We must instead forget the old standard and accept a 'new normal.
— Don Piper, 90 Minutes in Heaven: A True Story of Death and Life
Money Value of Time" is more valuable than "Time Value of Money", you will know it by time.
— Hasan M. Makky
WISEGod decides different paths for us,That a single soul to follow.He trains us through our journeys to earth,And gives us misery and sorrow.Sufferings or happiness, none stay forever,They come and go like waves,A wise treats both as gifts of God,Balanced he always behaves.From : RAINS OF GEMSISBN : a) Softcover : 978-1-4828-1304-3 b) Ebook : 978-1-4828-1303-6
— Dipak Mukhopadhyay, Rains of Gems
All his life he would cherish the memory of an endless caravan of camels alongside the railway line, the laden beasts plodding patiently through the snow, ignoring the twentieth century as it hurtled past them in a clash of iron and a shriek of steam.
— Ken Follett, Fall of Giants
One of the protestor's sign catches my eye. HOMISEXUALITY IS THE DEVIL'S WORK, it says. And once again I think about how people use the devil as an alias for the things they fear. The cause and effect is backward. The devil doesn't make anyone do anything. People just do things and blame the devil after.
— David Levithan, Every Day
To be depressed or neurotic is passive. It has happened to all of us
—  we are it's victim and we have no control over it.
If you want to know what's going on, keep your mind in the fridge or it might go off.
— Benny Bellamacina, Philosophical Uplifting Quotes and Poems
Better to have too much time to manage, than too much money that manages all your time
— Benny Bellamacina, Philosophical Uplifting Quotes and Poems
Running Doesn't Change Anything...Dying Does.
— Gaurav Dashputra, The Blood On My Hands..
--perhaps a soul is what you have spent your life making, not a piece of metaphysical equipment shipped ready-made from the factory, another myth like original sin, which you were outfitted with at birth and could somehow lose, like men high and low sometimes lost their humanity--
— Bob Shacochis, The Woman Who Lost Her Soul
Hiding things is the most foolish thing that annihilates correlation.
— Waqas Bin Ehsan
WISEGod decides different paths for us,That a single soul to follow.He trains us through our journeys to earth,And gives us misery and sorrow.Sufferings or happiness, none stay forever,They come and go like waves,A wise treats both as gifts of God,Balanced he always behaves.From - RAINS OF GEMS ISBN 978-4828-1304-3
— Dipak Mukhopadhyay
Only those exceptional at mimicking others feel at ease in the world.
— Anonymousse
An egoless acceptance of stuckness is a key to an understanding of all Quality.
— Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
Sometimes dreams are wiser than waking.
— John G. Neihardt, Black Elk Speaks: The Complete Edition
There are three kinds of despots. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the body. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul and body alike. The first is called the Prince. The second is called the Pope. The third is called the People.
— Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live. It is asking other people to live as one wishes to live.
— Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism
When it has finished saying it, it no longer is. The longer it is in saying it, the more it can say it at length, the more slowly it melts, the better quality it is.
— Francis Ponge, Soap
Here was one room; there another. Did religion solve that, or love?
— Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway
Pick a man, any man. That man there. See him. That man hatless. You know his opinion of the world. You can read it in his face, in his stance. Yet his complaint that a man’s life is no bargain masks the actual case with him. Which is that men will not do as he wishes them to. Have never done, never will do. That’s the way of things with him and his life is so balked about by difficulty and become so altered of its intended architecture that he is little more than a walking hovel hardly fit to house the human spirit at all. Can he say, such a man, that there is no malign thing set against him? That there is no power and no force and no cause? What manner of heretic could doubt agency and claimant alike? Can he believe that the wreckage of his existence is unentailed? No liens, no creditors? That gods of vengeance and of compassion alike lie sleeping in their crypt and whether our cries are for an accounting or for the destruction of the ledgers altogether they must evoke only the same silence and that it is this silence which will prevail?
— Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West
Behind every wolf in sheep's clothing is a trail of dead sheep - rjs
— rassool jibraeel snyman
This other man he could never see in his entirety but he seemed an artisan and a worker in metal. The judge enshadowed him where he crouched at his trade but he was a coldforger who worked with hammer and die, perhaps under some indictment and an exile from men's fires, hammering out like his own conjectural destiny all through the night of his becoming some coinage for a dawn that would not be. It is this false moneyer with his gravers and burins who seeks favor with the judge and he is at contriving from cold slag brute in the crucible a face that will pass, an image that will render this residual specie current in the markets where men barter. Of this is the judge judge and the night does not end.
— Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West
All our lives we postpone everything that can be postponed; perhaps we all have the certainty, deep inside, that we are immortal and sooner or later every man will do everything, know all there is to know.
— Jorge Luis Borges, Collected Fictions
In true love, one has no reservations.True love is unquestionable,indisputable and totally recognizable.
— I. Alan Appt, The Strength in Knowing
Society says that to free a man from his demons you have to lock him in a cage
—  I say to lock his demons in a cage you have to free the man from society.
Life is like a one rung ladder, some days you can be on the top and bottom of the world at the same time
— Benny Bellamacina, Philosophical Uplifting Quotes and Poems
Thinking is no more or no less than asking questions. To improve your thinking, improve the quality of the questions you ask.
— Stephanie Mbida
Woe to any sheep that hunts with wolves - rjs
— rassool jibraeel snyman
A sheep that walks amongst wolves is called dinner - rjs
— rassool jibraeel snyman
It's been a long time since humans were prey animals. A hundred thousand years or so. But buried deep in our genes the memory remains: the awareness of the gazelle, the instinct of the antelope. The wind whispers through the grass. A shadow flits between the trees. And up speaks the little voice that goes. Shhhh, it's close now. Close.
— Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave
Science tells us what we can know, but what we can know is little, and if we forget how much we cannot know, we become insensitive to many things of great importance.
— Bertrand Russell, A History of Western Philosophy
I should have bailed. That little voice had my back. That little voice is older than I am. It's older than the oldest person who ever lived. I should have listened to that voice.
— Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave
To enjoy a thing exclusively is commonly to exlcude yourself from the true enjoyment of it.
— Henry David Thoreau, Walking
In the "Brihadaranyaka Upanishad" it is said that it is not the physical person who is attractive, but it is the Atman residing in that person which attracts us. It is that which provides all our delights. Love for someone, the delight experience in that love, both come from the source we call God.
— Swami Ritajananda, The Practice of Meditation
For the salvation of his soul the Muslim digs a well. It would be a fine thing if each of us were to leave behind a school, or a well, or something of the sort, so that life would not pass by and retreat into eternity without a trace.
— Anton Chekhov
Ability does catches my attention, but its a politeness in the person that I remember.
— Amit Kalantri
I am a rock in a sea of despair and yearning. Take hold of me and together we may form an island of hope and plenty.
— Christopher Earle
It only takes one person, one voice from somewhere beyond, to save a life.
— Kirsten Arcadio, Borderliners
What he saw seemed to be the very idea of a city, barnacled and thick with itself.
— David Edison, The Waking Engine
No one is a good historian of the patent, visible, striking, and public life of peoples, if he is not, at the same time, in a certain measure, the historian of their deep and hidden life; and no one is a good historian of the interior unless he understands how, at need, to be the historian of the exterior also...True history being a mixture of all things, the true historian mingles in everything.
— Victor Hugo
You are the best book you could ever write phi
— rassool jibraeel snyman
Life is like a DVR recording. The story goes on, but you cannot see it until you fast forward through the commercials
— Christopher Earle
The Universe Conspires....to get what you truly desire
— Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
Micro: Letters create words. Words create language. Language, we are told, permits knowledge & expression. Language is what we are. Are we jailed?
— Anthony   North
There's 7 billion 46 million people on the planet and most of us have the audacity to think we matter.
— George Watsky
Happy is the man who is nothing.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
Wandering is never waste, dear boy,' he said. 'While you wander you will find much to wonder about, and wonder is the first step to creation.
— Pearl S. Buck, The Eternal Wonder
Have you paused to consider that there is no way out? Each way out of one situation necessarily being the way into another situation.
— Russell Hoban, The Mouse and His Child
Time plays no role in the life of one man—the subtle consciousness of it floating past me is more than enough. Years, months, days, hours, minutes, seconds—what does it matter? Floating by, it rubs against my skin, face, and hair—wearing me down, yet polishing me all the while. Time is like fine grains of sand in a desert storm. At first, you don’t pay any attention to it, but the more it hits you in the face, the more aware of it you become, the more annoying it gets until, one day, you find yourself suffocating. The weight of it eventually bends your spine, until you are crawling on your hands and knees, unable to stand straight. Then comes the time to crawl back into the womb, crawl inside and wait for rebirth.
— Henry Martin, Eluding Reality
Would you ask a man who bags groceries if he fears death not because it is death but because there are still some interesting groceries he would like to bag?
— Don DeLillo, White Noise
Need doesn't care about being sensible.
— Amit Kalantri
If you can hear the birds singing, you're in the right place
— Benny Bellamacina, Philosophical Uplifting Quotes and Poems
When your diary is full and your life is empty, get a date
— Benny Bellamacina, Philosophical Uplifting Quotes and Poems
Sometimes, the best thing you can do is nothing. Catelyn
— George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords
Only you are yours.
— Susan Trott, The Holy Man
If I breathe, what will my heart think?If I vomit, what will my soul think?
— Xi Chuan, Notes on the Mosquito: Selected Poems
Deep in my heart politeness impresses me more than competence.
— Amit Kalantri
In truth, Liesel was a prisoner too, just held by different kinds of bonds.
— Nicki Elson, Hans & Greta: a Twisted Fairy Tale Novella
It’s important to look at the big picture of life, as long as it’s not through a small screen
— Benny Bellamacina, The King of Rhyme
A lifetime had to be crafted, just like anything else, she thought, it had to be moulded and beaten and burnished in order to get the most out of it.
— Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance
These were innocent people, so innocent that they thought poverty a crime that wealth would allow them to forget. --- from the notebooks of Celal Salik
— Orhan Pamuk, The Museum of Innocence
It is better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a pig satisfied.
— C.S. Lewis
And yet he was in the right! They were wrong and he was right. The obvious, the silly, and the true had got to be defended. Truisms are true, hold on to that! The solid world exists, its laws do not change. Stones are hard, water is wet, objects unsupported fall towards the earth’s centre.
— George Orwell, 1984
In reality, there are as many religions as there are individuals.
— Mahatma Gandhi, Hind Swaraj or Indian Home Rule
Some people, no matter how easy the path they are given on the walk of life, will find a way to mess it all up. Ray Levine was one of those people.
— Harlan Coben, Stay Close
The deepest and darkest dungeons that we are ever flung into are the dungeons of the mind
— rassool jibraeel snyman
Frustration is having a debate with a blind man on shades of red
— rassool jibraeel snyman
Some people build houses others build people
—  of the two I would rather be of the latter
An autobiography is inherently incomplete unless the last page is written on the eve of the author's demise.
— Dan Makaon
As colors are formed by the combination of Red, Green and Blue : Similarly is life which is a combination of Love, Faith and Peace..
— Mahesh shekhar
Designing posters, for me, is not only a commercial pursuit but also a philosophical endeavor.
— Fang Chen
I blame God for all the good things that happened in my life to spite him I will be good to others
— rassool jibraeel snyman
It's our founding knowledge that diverts us from the truth
— Kloby
In the big scheme of things, all's we really need, is a little love
— Benny Bellamacina, Philosophical Uplifting Quotes and Poems
My philosophical heart will not judge thee
— Benny Bellamacina, Philosophical Uplifting Quotes and Poems
The most formidable thing standing between your dreams and you 
—  is you
In the big scheme of things, a little love is all we need
— Benny Bellamacina, Philosophical Uplifting Quotes and Poems
Peace becomes a fantasy when egos are promoted and facts distorted.
— Duop Chak Wuol
You think that the world we live in is ordinary. We make noise and static to fill the empty spaces where ghosts live. We let other people grow our food, bleach our clothes. We seal ourselves in, clean the dirt from our skins, eat of animals whose blood does not stain our hands. We long ago left the ways of our ancestors, oracles and blood sacrifice, traffic with the spirit world, listening for the voices out of stones and trees. But maybe sometimes you have felt the uncanny, alone at night in a dark wood, or waiting by the edge of the ocean for the tide to come in. We have paved over the ancient world, but that does not mean we have erased it.
— Sarah McCarry, All Our Pretty Songs
I am smart because I know I nothing.
— Plato
Always recycle wasted time
— Benny Bellamacina, Philosophical Uplifting Quotes and Poems
When the Devil goeth about like a roaring lion, he goeth about in a shape by which few but savages and hunters are attracted. But, when he is trimmed, smoothed, and varnished, according to the mode: when he is aweary of vice, and aweary of virtue, used up as to brimstone, and used up as to bliss; then, whether he take to the serving out of red tape, or to the kindling of red fire, he is the very Devil.
— Charles Dickens, Hard Times
The trouble with life is that we lead it forwards and understand it backwards.
— N. Lombardi Jr.
The mind is a vast place and its hungers far sharper than the body's
— Edward W. Robertson, The White Tree
Even the highest branches cannot deny that they have roots in a common bond.
— K.M. Tepe
With domineering hand she moves the turning wheel,Like currents in a treacherous bay swept to and fro:Her ruthless will has just deposed once fearful kingsWhile trustless still, from low she lifts a conquered head;No cries of misery she hears, no tears she heeds,But steely hearted laughs at groans her deeds have wrung.Such is a game she plays, and so she tests her strength;Of mighty power she makes parade when one short hourSees happiness from utter desolation grow.(A Consolation of Philosophy, Book II, translated by V.E. Watts)
— Boethius - Queen Elizabeth I translation
It is hard to hear the truth from people who get paid to distort it.
— Sean S. Kamali
Hate is bait for the devil, love is the gate to god
— Benny Bellamacina, Philosophical Uplifting Quotes and Poems
There's only one thing you can do: Toss your pebble in the river, watch it ripple, and know you have moved the ocean.
— K.M. Douglas, Cities of Blood
Our faith in others betrays that we would rather have faith in ourselves. Our longing for a friend is our betrayer. And often with our love we want merely to overcome envy. And often we attack and make ourselves enemies, to conceal that we are vulnerable.
— Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Yesterday I thought about why I felt the need to get up at exactly the same time as the day before and do everything I did the day before. Why? What compels any of us to do the things we do when deep down a part of us just wants to break free from it all?
— J.A. Redmerski, The Edge of Never
Knowing you don't have much time left changes things. You get kind of philosophical. And you figure things out-more like, they figure themselves out-and everything gets real clear.
— Kami Garcia, Beautiful Chaos
Do you know how a pearl comes to be?""Oysters make them, from a bit of sand.""Aiyah. From a bit of sand." He rolled the pearl between his fingers. "All pearls begin as something unpleasant that the oysters cannot expel from themselves, even though they may want to. So they embrace these things that will not leave them, shaping them and smoothing away the sharp edges, until over time, they make of these unwanted things great treasures.
— C.L. Wilson, Lady of Light and Shadows
The games we play are lessons we learn. The assumptions we make, things we ignore, and things we change make us what we become.
— Terry Pratchett, Dodger
Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide against your conviction is to be an unqualified and excusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country, let men label you as they may.
— Mark Twain
The best way to move forward is to stop
— Benny Bellamacina, Philosophical Uplifting Quotes and Poems
We are all only men, defined by our choices.
— I.E. Castellano, Bow of the Moon
Perhaps it is a good thing that we don't live long enough to realize how redundant things seem :)
— G.E.GRAVES
I have also figured out that for many people death is a difficult subject, not at all as simple as it is for me.
— Maija Haavisto, The Atlas Moth
A Pause tends the existence of any definition to its end.
— Ghumakkad Agantuk Ram
I charge thee, fling away ambition. By that sin fell the angels.
— William Shakespeare, Henry VIII
We can't escape history, anymore than we can recapture it." Master Kai
— Eleni Papanou, Unison
(Speaking about ponies engaging in a game of running around and chasing a ball with "imaginary riders")Along with everything else about it, it seemed to be a parable for life. Going forwards and backwards and round in circles, striving ever forward only to have to run like crazy backwards to get the ball again, realizing that your enemy is after the same goal and you're actually helping him toward it and getting roughed up and possibly killed while you're at it but still feeling the comradeship of being in the game all together.
— Susan Trott, The Holy Man
In Unity we can be enslaved, and in Unity we can also come together as individuals." Old Woman
— Eleni Papanou, Unison
Learn to recognize omens, and follow them
— Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
What are you thinking?""Just how different everything down there is now, you know, now that I can see.""Everything down there is exactly the same," he said. "You're the one that's different.
— Cassandra Clare, City of Bones
Only gravity can hold me down
—  only myself can hold me back.” ~ Amunhotep El Bey
What the hell is instant? Nothing is instant. Instant rice takes five minutes, instant pudding in an hour.
— John Green, Looking for Alaska