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First, create your ego. Then destroy it. This is all of life.
— Kamand Kojouri
Maybe thinking any one person can show up and give you all you need is as much of a delusion as thinking you can find truth in a bottle. Maybe you can just find what you need in little pieces, in people who show up for one crucial moment - or a whole chain of them - even if they cant solve it all.
— Huntley Fitzpatrick, The Boy Most Likely To
Never judge a person how he died, but how he lived.
— Rudolf Jerome Ragay
A flower blooming in a storm is stronger than a tree blossoming under a rainbow.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Happy is he who marries the woman he wants, happier is he who marries the woman he needs, and happiest is he who marries the woman he wants and needs.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
No matter how tall and wide darkness is, it cannot block the stars.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
We always say that the times change, but truly speaking, the time remains the same, it is we who occur along the timelines.
— Sandeep Sahajpal
The greater the fruit a trees bears, the greater the number of stones thrown at it.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Life constantly challenges us; it’s not personal, just the natural process of growth and evolution.
— Deborah Sandella
Character is defined by what you do when no one is looking, but the visible can shatter any perfect impression.
— Stephanie Ayers
I don't have any special talents, just an ordinary desire to live like a human being.
— Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita
You got to go down a lot of wrong roads to find the right one.
— Bob Parsons
Cheerfulness will help you draw strangers, cleverness will help gain acquaintances, faithfulness will help you keep companions, and kindness will help you multiply friends.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Make your wife happier, children wiser, yourself kinder, and you will make your life better.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Death ends all the miseries in life and springs a new beginning for those who are left behind.
— Rudolf Jerome Ragay
Where the world only sees a seed, an optimist sees a tree.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
One who conquers the sea today is ready to conquer the ocean tomorrow.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
When the sun sets do not despair
—  hope sits with you in the dark.
You have little control over the world around you, but full control over the world within you.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Life is what we make it , we were all born naked.
— Okizona
People should respect those who have the courage to go alone through life.
— Eraldo Banovac
If you tend to a flower, it will bloom, no matter how many weeds surround it.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
We were characters out of a movie. We were thoroughly alive. And we were absolutely beautiful.
— Krystal Sutherland, Our Chemical Hearts
I didn’t want a story—a beginning. Not anymore. I have long ago stopped walking on a road where my dreams walk around. I change my destination a hundred times if I ever see an old wish of mine standing there in its real form. I don’t know them. I don’t want to. They too must not know me. They too must not recognise me as their owner.
— Khadija Rupa, Unexpressed Feelings
A warrior is defined by his scars, not his medals.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Cowards shrink from challenges, weaklings flee from them, and warriors wink at them.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
She was a wonderful teenage girl who had the miraculous power to cure herself from any wound, either physical or mental. With her own salty tears, she would cleanse her raw wounds. And her breaths were given, as though not to breathe but, rather, to fan her sores.
— Khadija Rupa, Unexpressed Feelings
Never give a negative thought an inch or it will take a mile.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
If you surround yourself with people who don't care about you, be prepared for a life of misery.
— Wayne Gerard Trotman
Learn from roses; even when trampled they give off perfume, not despair.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
When you count your blessings, count life twice.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Diamonds are formed in pressure
—  that is why God allows you to go through difficult times.
Spend the beautiful days of your life to someone you want to spend with until your last breath.
— Jonathan Page Acabo
But if ever I try to mend, some other bodies would instantly break, would instantly be fragments.
— Khadija Rupa, Unexpressed Feelings
If you have never walked a mile in someone’s shoes, do not mock the soars on his feet.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
To know and not to do, is not to know.
— S.W. Biddulph
Giving back feeds the heart
—  paying forward feeds the soul.
You are beloved; even if you were the last person on earth, the sun would rise for you.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
When you have the world on your shoulders, God alone can help you carry it.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
A tree is honored for the size of its fruit, not the size of its leaves.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Live in the question...Leave all the answers blank...Let's play with the magic of uncertainty
— Dipin Damodharan
We might not get to choose who we’re born as or where we come from, but only you can decide what becomes of you.
— Reilyn J. Hardy, The Last Chronomancer
One who fishes in shallow waters limits the kind of fish he can catch.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
I'm proud to be a work in progress.
— Hannah Hart, Buffering: Unshared Tales of a Life Fully Loaded
Helping yourself is common sense, helping others is virtue, helping yourself and others is enlightenment.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Life is a thorough university
—  pain and hardship are its distinguished professors.
You don't need my testimony to know God is Good. I pray u have a testimony for yourself.
— Kingsley ofosu-Ampong
Don’t BELIEVE everything you read and see on the socialmedia! Don’t let LIKES & RT brainwash your mind, take control over your time and take you away from your life, family & responsibilities!
— Lily Amis
Genes come together to construct a magnificent life-form, while neurons come together to form our Illusion of Consciousness.
— Abhijit Naskar, What is Mind?
Ears for wisdom, hands for work, eyes for opportunities, and a mouth for thanks.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
​I wanted to present Neuroscience to people in a way that would diminish their differences.
— Abhijit Naskar, Love, God & Neurons: Memoir of a scientist who found himself by getting lost
Neuroscience makes us connect with each other at an emotional level. It makes us make friends. It makes us dream more positively. It makes us more optimistic about ourselves and the world even in our darkest days. It makes us achieve our goal endowed with strength even through immense miseries. It allows us to attain the subjective reality of our fellow humans. Imbued with the understanding of the mind we can walk in the shoes of other people.
— Abhijit Naskar, Love, God & Neurons: Memoir of a scientist who found himself by getting lost
If you have nothing but joy in this life, you are still rich.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
When your life is stormy, take a refuge to a port: To music or to literature, in short, to art, to any kind of art!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
A bird will only eat from a hand it trusts.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
If you kick a lion when it is down, God help you when it gets up.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
A star doesn’t have to announce its arrival
—  it just shows up and shines.
The sun does not rise to earn praise; it just shines, and the whole world pays homage.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
If beautiful lilies bloom in ugly waters, you too can blossom in ugly situations.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
A lion conquers more in one day than a sheep in a lifetime.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Fear is an assassin; if you let it in your life, it will kill your dreams.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
An uneducated heart competes, a half educated heart cooperates but enlightened heart serves
— Shubha Vilas, OPEN-EYED MEDITATIONS Practical Wisdom for Everyday Life
When you put on your thinking cap make sure it’s clean.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Just because everyone is behaving like a clown, it doesn’t mean you have to join the circus.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
An inch of light can conquer a mile of darkness.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Respect your haters
—  they are always the first to show you that you are better than them.
I woke up this morning as I do every morning, with an attitude of gratitude.
— Tony Williams
Make your own luck, and then share it with others.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Everyone has a story to tell. But the story of your life is only yours and it's uniqueness makes it a real one.
— Premchand Shetty
I didn't say I can change the whole world with all it entirety alone. But I can strike on a lot of things and cause a rift, and bring so many things together.
— Nurudeen Ushawu
Living a short life as a proud person is more worthwhile than living a whole century as a chameleon.
— Eraldo Banovac
Seeds are proof that God sometimes packages miracles in small things.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
When one matures in life is when one knows we never grow up
— Ron Riccota
Never mock a cub
—  one day it will become a lion.
The greater the fruit a tree bears, the greater the number of stones thrown at it.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Diamonds are proof that the most valuable things are sometimes formed in the dark.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
The storm only comes to teach you how to skillfully sail your ship.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
It is in the roots, not the branches, that a tree’s greatest strength lies.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Looking at yourself in a mirror isn't exactly a study of life.
— Lauren Bacall
The early bird gets the first worm, but the wisest bird gets the fastest one.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
There are three things that a beggar and a rich person share every day: the sun, the moon, and the stars.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Life is like a pencil, it can either be wasted; or, be used to create something beautiful.
— Juan F. Cisneros Cisneros
Liars don't lie to those who are innocent, they lie to those who know the truth
— Aireen C. Pontillo
Your brain needs plenty of rest to function at it's optimal level. Go to sleep!
— Lalah Delia
Fall seven times, Stand up eight
— Japanese Proverb
As inside of every seed is the power to rise from darkness, inside of everyone is the power to rise from adversity.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
A rock that perseveres under heat and pressure soon becomes a diamond.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
If the storm forgets to bring a rainbow, paint your own.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Never set fire to a bridge while you are still crossing it.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Learn what you can, teach what you know, live how you ought.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
If you want to double your happiness, pour it into someone else.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
If you have much, be generous; if you have little, be grateful; even if you have nothing, be hopeful.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Soulmates don’t choose each other
—  fate chooses them.
The more you know a person, the less you interfere in his affairs.
— Ramana Pemmaraju
Don’t marry the most beautiful woman in the world
—  marry the woman with the most beautiful deeds.
Whether the glass is half empty or half full, you have the power to fill it up.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
One of the strange things about human beings is that they value only that which has a price.
— Nepoleon Hill
Life is not about reasons, explanations, interpretations, or solutions. It's all about actions and reactions.
— Dipin Damodharan
Tigers cannot afford to care about what sheep think.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Never question yourself to satisfy the comfort of those living blindly by the false masks of life.
— Nikki Rowe
Sometimes you must do crazy things to discover the life beyond your life, to enter the unknown zone beyond your known zone!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Life is as large as you explore it.
— Andrija Jonić, Refren
Life is like a rugby ball. You never know where it bounces next.
— Boniface Sagini, Thrills and Chills: Trudging Through Life
When the sails are strong a ship has no reason to fear turbulence.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot and use it to hang your troubles.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
There are those dreamers who make excuses for why they aren't passionate about or creating anything to match their desires and then there's those dreamers who stay up late just to finish a goal that will get them up the next set of stairs. We all have dreams but not everyone makes it a reality.
— Nikki Rowe
The louder the dogs bark the less a lion feels threatened.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
No one benefits from an empty jar
—  fill yourself first before pouring out to others.
Your end can be greater than your beginning: butterflies are the greatest proof of this.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
In eternityWe live. Come from. Life is one Series of footprints.
— Shashi, Songs of the Mist
We all are designed to survive rather than to be happy.
— Shashi, Songs of the Mist
The kind of stillness of being nothing, and doing things from that emptiness, make one strong.
— Shashi, Songs of the Mist
When the living gets unburdened with needs and desires, the life becomes simple and easy to carry.
— Shashi, Songs of the Mist
Everything that flowers, dies too, but in its dying provides seed of a new beginning. - The Monk (Pg-50)
— Shashi, Songs of the Mist
Don’t be afraid of criticism
—  the tallest trees are always confronted by the strongest winds.
An exceptional Sensei has traits such as patience and integrity. Otherwise, natural fighting ability, cruelty and aggressive behavior may be observed in most animal predators.
— Soke Behzad Ahmadi, CHOKI  MOTOBU   Original MMA Fighter
If to be truthful is to be cruel, then lying must surely be an act of kindness. And so, kindness is a lie.
— Hikigaya Hachiman
The bad chapters of your life lead to the good ones if you keep turning the pages.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
When your past tries to haunt you tell it you don’t believe in ghosts.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
The sun announces its presence with light, not words; do likewise.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
When the world told the caterpillar its life was over, the butterfly objected, “My life has just begun.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Angriness is one the powerful weapon to stand up again.
— viral panchal
Even if I told you what scares me, you wouldn't understand how it feels.So just so you know, I've travelled roads I had no idea where they'd take me to.And maybe I don't know much about life and its horrors but trust me, I know enough.And I can fix everything, like I always have.
— Simran.M.Anthony
When all seems to be against you, remember, a ship sometimes has to sail against the current, not with it.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
An Oak tree is a daily reminder that great things often have small beginnings.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
A bird does not give up flying because it failed on its first attempt.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Hero of Justice? A world where no one is hurt?" Don't be absurd. "Humanity" is the name for an animal that cannot find joy in life without sacrifice. The pretty lie that is "equality" is nonsense spouted by weaklings who cannot look upon the darkness. Nothing but an excuse to cover up life's ugliness.
— Gilgamesh
Be noble like the sun
—  let even those who resent you for shinning benefit from your warmth.
Every seed must rise through dirt to enjoy the sunshine.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Whatever is meant for you in the universe shall be given to you. Do not despair.
— Nurudeen Ushawu
Never allow yourself to be defined by your past; ‘yesterday’ is just a word, not a dictionary.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
If the grass is greener on the other side, try planting better seeds.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Ignore your haters. Resist your fears. Embrace your dreams.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
A daisy blooming in a desert is worth more than a rose blossoming in a rainforest.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
The storm is an artist
—  the rainbow is its masterpiece.
When life gives you a hundred reasons to cry, show life that you have a thousand reasons to smile.
— -Unknown
When night comes do not despair; rejoice instead and say to yourself, “At least now I can see the stars.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
It can’t be done,” they told the caterpillar. “It can,” replied the butterfly.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Amidst the whole peril in the world, here’s why you’re still alive–to find your purpose. Your purpose will ignite hope in others.
— Chinonye J. Chidolue
Dream to reach the stars
—  awaken to reach the edge of the universe.
If they ask you how rich you are, tell them to look inside your heart.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Never let anything be a setback in your life, not even your thoughts, words nor actions.
— Gugu Mona
Success doesn't happen overnight. It takes hard work, dedication and keep your eyes on the prize. Don't look back.
— Timi Nadela, Get To The Top
Life, at its best, is happening right in front of you. You might miss it if you're too busy bee. Live your life with a little bit of spice!
— Timi Nadela, Get To The Top
There is no smarter professor than life, and no wiser sage than experience.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
When you are unique and rare, be prepared to be hated on. Family, so-called friends, and associates will show their true character when they see you succeeding. Words of Wisdom: Stay focused! Don’t allow anybody to rob you of your purpose. Keep on shining! Keep on thriving! Hold your head up high and do the damn thing! Everybody will NOT be happy for you, everybody will NOT rejoice with you, and everybody will NOT believe in you. And that’s okay! Be your OWN personal cheerleader. This is about YOU, not them. Haters don’t deserve your time or energy. Do YOU. Your destiny is yours to keep!
— Stephanie Lahart
True success is not the end of the journey; true success is a journey without an end. So many people relax after achieving something and they forget the undone. They neglect their untapped destiny and they halt their journey of life not reaching their real and true destination. Whilst we have life, we must live life. Whilst we have life, we must give a true meaning to life. Whilst we have life, we must dare to do the undone; though the road is weary; though we may be having a sense of fulfillment, and though we might have done something! Let us awake and pursue with all zeal and tenacity until we get to the real end of our true purpose and destiny, such that long after we are gone, the voice of our footprints will speak to inspire, build and raise a generation of champions !
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
You are as the sun; the world is your stage; even without an audience, shine.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
In a world full of daisies dare to be a rose.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
When you look up and don’t see the stars, the universe may have cleared the sky for you to replace them.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
While the whole world was asleep, the caterpillar was awake, working towards becoming a butterfly.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
A rose does not answer its enemies with words, but with beauty.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Don’t let mediocre people talk you out of your dreams
—  lions have little in common with sheep.
If seeds despaired in their darkest hours, they would never rise to enjoy their brightest days.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Change can be beautiful
—  butterflies are the greatest proof of this.
The universe sees your beauty
—  now see the beauty in others.
Darkness is a prison from which only light escapes.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Living honestly is a prerequisite for a clear conscience.
— Eraldo Banovac
Today’s storms usher in tomorrow’s sunshine.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Honesty is a great thing, if tempered with love.
— Osama Sarwar
say positive stay positive
— Rajesh Walecha
Hate is a parasite that will eat all compassion.
— Grandaddy BAD
I am but a man learning his way in this crazy life.
— Grandaddy BAD
They will turn you over, toss you about, fob you off, take you less seriously, because to get there, you must walk on your own feet.
— Chinonye J. Chidolue
Live your best and leave the rest
— Chinonye J. Chidolue
From all I learned about life, you can’t lose yourself in others to discover yourself. You will get lost forever.
— Chinonye J. Chidolue
Sorry I'm late, I'm afraid I got lost on the path of life-Kakashi Sensei
— Masashi Kishimoto
When a rock transforms into a diamond, lesser stones will not speak of its beauty, but speak of its unpolishedness.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Roses do not bloom hurriedly; for beauty, like any masterpiece, takes time to blossom.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
The larger the bricks your enemies throw at you the larger the palace you are going to build.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
To model the path of love, is to model the representation of God in your life.
— Wayne Chirisa
The happiest people in the world are those who give happiness to others.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Sorry I'm late, I'm afraid I got lost on the path of life
— Kakashi Sensei
They ask little, for they know it is little they will receive for all their asking, but what little is so dear, as it always is to the autumn-hearted who know life is pitiful and infinitely sweet.
— William Alexander Percy
Do you pray for our world or just your world? If all your prayers were answered, would it change our world or just your world?
— T S. Edwards
The road to Heaven is ascension
—  always climb upward.
Thou art but a feeble flower in the garden of the universe, yet thou hath a purpose much greater than thyself.
— Raneem Kayyali
Smile, just to infuriate those who envy you.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
In the bigger scheme of things, we are two pawns... waiting for life to make its move.#Fatalist
— Saru Singhal
Once upon a time, there was a world. It had three types of people in it. Those who walked a path of fear. Those who walked a path of faith and those who were lost. There were two realities; one that was visible to the senses and the other visible to the soul. Those on a path of fear, would see all things worldly. Those on a path of faith would feel the beauty. Those who were lost were incapable of neither seeing or feeling.
— Elise Icten
This reality requires you to bury your nature and conform. This is the only way to survive. It is within this reality one often shares a minuscule of what one could share. Competition and scarcity dominate the mind and the heart shuts down. The lure with which one acquires is left with with subsequent hollowness. There was nothing to be had as all it was, was appearance. The conqueror leaves empty-handed. During a lonely moment, one can go and touch inside. It is here that the spirit shows how life is wasted by living a lie.
— Elise Icten
And so in this reality, everything came unseen but perfectly felt. Here, everything shared possessed intensity. The vibrancy of energy moved from one good deed to another. Here one was bigger than his circumstances and here every interaction was multiplied. Here there was no work as every undertaking was a talented blessing.
— Elise Icten
Your deepest scars tell the world of your greatest triumphs.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
When people try to bury you, remind yourself you are a seed.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Don’t be afraid of being alone
—  a lion does not rule the jungle with sheep at its side.
If you have the power to put a smile on one person’s face, you have the power to change the world.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Be like seeds; do not see dirt thrown at you as your enemy, but as ground to grow.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
When people try to pull you down, remember, they had to look up to do so.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Stop thinking you can't do something. All those thoughts you have going on in your head are made up lies. What are you afraid of? Success? Failure? No such thing as failure. You don't fail at anything. You experience, learn and grow.
— Iva Ursano, The Shear Truth: 10 Things Your Hairstylist Really Wants You to Know.
Thoughts are powerful; before you were born, you were one.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
The beauty all around you is insignificant in comparison to the beauty within you.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
I am lost in the paradigm of life, death and time. The only thing I have learnt about this paradigm is that the time is running between life and death and with every passing day we are getting closer to the death and truth is that time is running for Good.
— AnkitMishra
I've learned a lot of things this year...not everyone who smiles at you is your friend. Fear really is terrifying but when you face it, the feeling is euphoric. I can say no and not feel guilty. I can say yes and not feel guilty. I know when to walk away from anything that isn't good for me, but the best thing I learned is that happiness is inside of me and always has been.
— Iva Ursano, The Shear Truth: 10 Things Your Hairstylist Really Wants You to Know.
Standing alone is better than standing with people who don't appreciate you.
— Iva Ursano, The Shear Truth: 10 Things Your Hairstylist Really Wants You to Know.
Life is sweet till a bitter reality comes and hits us! After that, if you are a strong person, life will continue being sweet!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
You trails are part of your life because the trails are the reasons to receive the life.
— Dariush Youkhaneh
The rainbow’s colors are hidden in the storm.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
A star would lose its value if it tried to be something else
—  just be yourself.
Don't run with the crowd
—  fly with the stars.
The darkest part of the storm paints the brightest part of the rainbow.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
It is what it is because you let it be so.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Your mind is a ship
—  it can sail across the universe as long as you don't allow negative thoughts to sink it.
Be thankful to those painful moments of your life, because that has what shaped you to become who you are now.
— Pradeepa Pandiyan
Live to revel in just another twilight. Life may sink and disappear along with the sunset never to rise again
— Munia Khan
Stars don’t beg the world for attention
—  their beauty forces us to look up.
I prefer male enemies to female ones
—  I can survive a dog’s bite better than a scorpion’s sting.
A book is the only vehicle that can take you around the world in one hour.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
To be knowledgeable, sit before scholars; to be wise, sit before life.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
There are three impossibilities in life: God cannot lie, God cannot change and finally, I cannot be a poor man.
— Ikechukwu Izuakor, Great Reflections on Success
You don’t choose the music your enemies play, but you choose which songs you dance to.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Yesterday, I was clever, I wanted to be rich. Today, I am wise, I want to be happy.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Be alive. Feel it, and be happy of it.
— Olivia Sinaga
The world accommodates you for fitting in, but only rewards you for standing out.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Big obstacles shrink when you confront them
—  small obstacles expand when you dodge them.
When excellence comes in at the door, failure flies out the window.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
God hides treasure in dirt, so that only those humble enough to dig through it find it.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.
— Virginia Woolf
Being a woman is a terribly difficult trade since it consists principally of dealings with men.
— Joseph Conrad, Chance
I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.
— Anaïs Nin
There are no good girls gone wrong - just bad girls found out.
— Mae West
As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.
— John Lennon
Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.
— Nora Ephron
A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.
— Coco Chanel
When a man gives his opinion, he's a man. When a woman gives her opinion, she's a bitch.
— Bette Davis
I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.
— Jane Austen, Persuasion
How wrong is it for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself?
— Anaïs Nin
No woman really wants a man to carry her off
—  she only wants him to want to do it.
In politics, If you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman.
— Margaret Thatcher
Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
— Virginia Woolf
Any fool knows men and women think differently at times, but the biggest difference is this. Men forget, but never forgive; women forgive, but never forget.
— Robert Jordan
There is more to sex appeal than just measurements. I don't need a bedroom to prove my womanliness. I can convey just as much sex appeal, picking apples off a tree or standing in the rain.
— Audrey Hepburn
A girl should be two things: who and what she wants.
— Coco Chanel, The Gospel According to Coco Chanel: Life Lessons from the World's Most Elegant Woman
As a woman I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman, my country is the whole world.
— Virginia Woolf
A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.
— Oscar Wilde
Feminism is the radical notion that women are human beings.
— Cheris Kramarae
Dress shabbily and they remember the dress
—  dress impeccably and they remember the woman.
The most beautiful makeup of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.
— Yves Saint-Laurent
And people tended not to bother a woman with a book.
— Cherie Priest, Dreadnought
Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.
— Mae West, Wit & Wisdom of Mae West
The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it. 
— Roseanne Barr
No woman gets an orgasm from shining the kitchen floor. 
— Betty Friedan
I'm no model lady. A model's just an imitation of the real thing.
— Mae West
The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing - and then marry him.
— Cher
A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.
— Gloria Steinem
Ladies who play with fire must remember that smoke gets in their eyes.
— Mae West
As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.
— Virginia Woolf, Orlando
Dispute not with her: she is lunatic.
— William Shakespeare, Richard III
A witty woman is a treasure
—  a witty beauty is a power.
What’s the worst possible thing you can call a woman? Don’t hold back, now.You’re probably thinking of words like slut, whore, bitch, cunt (I told you not to hold back!), skank.Okay, now, what are the worst things you can call a guy? Fag, girl, bitch, pussy. I’ve even heard the term “mangina.”Notice anything? The worst thing you can call a girl is a girl. The worst thing you can call a guy is a girl. Being a woman is the ultimate insult. Now tell me that’s not royally fucked up.
— Jessica Valenti, Full Frontal Feminism
Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.
— Katharine Hepburn
Like a compass needle that points north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. Always.
— Khaled Hosseini
Women only nag when they feel unappreciated.
— Louis de Bernières, Corelli's Mandolin
you boys can keep your virgins give me hot old women in high heels with asses that forgot to get old.
— Charles Bukowski, Love Is a Dog from Hell
There is a special place in hell for women who don't help other w
— Madeleine K. Albright
there is always one woman to save you from another and as that woman saves you she makes ready to destroy
— Charles Bukowski, Love Is a Dog from Hell
Perhaps if we saw what was ahead of us, and glimpsed the follies, and misfortunes that would befall us later on, we would all stay in our mother's wombs, and then there would be nobody in the world but a great number of very fat, very irritated women.
— Lemony Snicket
Tampon commercial, detergent commercial, maxi pad commercial, windex commercial - you'd think all women do is clean and bleed.
— Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl
Why does a woman work ten years to change a man, then complain he's not the man she married?
— Barbra Streisand
But when a woman decides to sleep with a man, there is no wall she will not scale, no fortress she will not destroy, no moral consideration she will not ignore at its very root: there is no God worth worrying about.
— Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera
I am two women: one wants to have all the joy, passion and adventure that life can give me. The other wants to be a slave to routine, to family life, to the things that can be planned and achieved. I'm a housewife and a prostitute, both of us living in the same body and doing battle with each other.
— Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes
Yes, we praise women over 40 for a multitude of reasons. Unfortunately, it's not reciprocal. For every stunning, smart, well-coiffed, hot woman over 40, there is a bald, paunchy relic in yellow pants making a fool of himself with some 22-year old waitress. Ladies, I apologize. For all those men who say, "Why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free?", here's an update for you. Nowadays 80% of women are against marriage. Why? Because women realize it's not worth buying an entire pig just to get a little sausage!
— Andy Rooney
Build a house?" exclaimed John."For the Wendy," said Curly."For Wendy?" John said, aghast. "Why, she is only a girl!""That," explained Curly, "is why we are her servants.
— J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.
— Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own
Wherever you find a great man, you will find a great mother or a great wife standing behind him -- or so they used to say. It would be interesting to know how many great women have had great fathers and husbands behind them.
— Dorothy L. Sayers, Gaudy Night
So avoid using the word ‘very’ because it’s lazy. A man is not very tired, he is exhausted. Don’t use very sad, use morose. Language was invented for one reason, boys - to woo women - and, in that endeavor, laziness will not do. It also won’t do in your essays.
— N.H. Kleinbaum, Dead Poets Society
I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat, or a prostitute.
— Rebecca West, Young Rebecca: Writings, 1911-1917
To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman. If by strength is meant brute strength, then, indeed, is woman less brute than man. If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior. Has she not greater intuition, is she not more self-sacrificing, has she not greater powers of endurance, has she not greater courage? Without her, man could not be. If nonviolence is the law of our being, the future is with woman. Who can make a more effective appeal to the heart than w
— Mahatma Gandhi
A living poem" had always been the words that came to mind when he tried to describe her to others.
— Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
You see, women are like fires, like flames. Some women are like candles, bright and friendly. Some are like single sparks, or embers, like fireflies for chasing on summer nights. Some are like campfires, all light and heat for a night and willing to be left after. Some women are like hearthfires, not much to look at but underneath they are all warm red coal that burns a long, long while.
— Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind
You will manage to keep a woman in love with you, only for as long as you can keep her in love with the person she becomes when she is with you.
— C. JoyBell C.
If you meet a woman of whatever complexion who sails her life with strength and grace and assurance, talk to her! And what you will find is that there has been a suffering, that at some time she has left herself for hanging dead.
— Sena Jeter Naslund, Ahab's Wife, or The Star-Gazer
The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity. 
— Virginia Woolf
She wore her sexuality with an older woman's ease, and not like an awkward purse, never knowing how to hold it, where to hang it, or when to just put it down.
— Zadie Smith
The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.
— Alice Walker
I have been crying," she replied, simply, "and it has done me good. It helps a woman you know, just as swearing helps a man.
— Horace Annesley Vachell, The Romance of Judge Ketchum
Learn this now and learn it well. Like a compass facing north, a man’s accusing finger always finds a woman. Always. You remember that, Mariam.
— Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns
They sicken of the calm who know the storm.
— Dorothy Parker, Sunset Gun: Poems
The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.
— Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own
No woman can call herself free who does not control her own body.
— Margaret Sanger
The Creator made women to please the eye, and to boggle the mind.
— Robert Jordan, The Wheel of Time: Boxed Set
Don't laugh at the spinsters, dear girls, for often very tender, tragic romances are hidden away in the hearts that beat so quietly under the sober gowns, and many silent sacrifices of youth, health, ambition, love itself, make the faded faces beautiful in God's sight. Even the sad, sour sisters should be kindly dealt with, because they have missed the sweetest part of life, if for no other reason.
— Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
Any woman who is sure of her own wits, is a match, at any time, for a man who is not sure of his own temper.
— Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White
I'd much rather be a woman than a man. Women can cry, they can wear cute clothes, and they are the first to be rescued off of sinking ships.
— Gilda Radner
Women make up one half of society. Our society will remain backward and in chains unless its women are liberated, enlightened and educated.
— Saddam Hussein, The Revolution and Woman in Iraq
She was sensible and clever, but eager in everything; her sorrows, her joys, could have no moderation.
— Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility: The Screenplay
We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.
— Margaret Atwood
When you meet a man who is broken, pick him up and carry him. When you meet a woman who’s broken, put her all into your arms. Cause we don’t know where we come from … we don’t know where we are. 
— Laurie  Anderson
Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting.
— Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.
— Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd
It's called civilization. Women invented it, and every time you men blow it all to bits, we just invent it again.
— Orson Scott Card, The Folk of the Fringe
Let us leave pretty women to men with no imagination.
— Marcel Proust, The Captive & The Fugitive
If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.
— Plato, The Republic
Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.
— Gloria Steinem
When a woman says, ‘I have nothing to wear!’, what she really means is, ‘There’s nothing here for who I’m supposed to be today.
— Caitlin Moran, How to Be a Woman
The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I'm thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but of Anais Nin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and of course Sappho. You cannot divide creative juices from human juices. And as long as juicy women are equated with bad women, we will err on the side of being bad.
— Erica Jong
At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky, manages to achieve somewhere in the later seventies.
— P.G. Wodehouse, Uneasy Money
Often those that criticise others reveal what he himself lacks.
— Shannon L. Alder
Hate to sound sleazy, but tease me, I don't want it if it's that easy
— Tupac Shakur
Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke . . . She will need her sisterhood.
— Gloria Steinem
Woman's degradation is in mans idea of his sexual rights. Our religion, laws, customs, are all founded on the belief that woman was made for man.
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Responsibility to yourself means refusing to let others do your thinking, talking, and naming for you; it means learning to respect and use your own brains and instincts; hence, grappling with hard work.
— Adrienne Rich
It was her habit to build up laughter out of inadequate materials.
— John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.
— Rudyard Kipling, Plain Tales from the Hills
Some guy said to me: Don't you think you're too old to sing rock n' roll?I said: You'd better check with Mick Jagger.
— Cher
Women are the bloodthirsty sex," said Ric sadly. "We get the reputation, but it is only because the women stand behind us, and say, 'Kill it. Squish it.
— Patricia Briggs, Hunting Ground
As they passed the rows of houses they saw through the open doors that men were sweeping and dusting and washing dishes, while the women sat around in groups, gossiping and laughing.What has happened?' the Scarecrow asked a sad-looking man with a bushy beard, who wore an apron and was wheeling a baby carriage along the sidewalk.Why, we've had a revolution, your Majesty -- as you ought to know very well,' replied the man; 'and since you went away the women have been running things to suit themselves. I'm glad you have decided to come back and restore order, for doing housework and minding the children is wearing out the strength of every man in the Emerald City.'Hm!' said the Scarecrow, thoughtfully. 'If it is such hard work as you say, how did the women manage it so easily?'I really do not know,' replied the man, with a deep sigh. 'Perhaps the women are made of cast-iron.
— L. Frank Baum, The Marvelous Land of Oz
I think being a woman is like being Irish... Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the time.
— Iris Murdoch
If men could see us as we really are, they would be a little amazed; but the cleverest, the acutest men are often under an illusion about women: they do not read them in a true light: they misapprehend them, both for good and evil: their good woman is a queer thing, half doll, half angel; their bad woman almost always a fiend.
— Charlotte Brontë, Shirley
A woman's perfume tells more about her than her handwriting. 
— Christian Dior
Staying silent is like a slow growing cancer to the soul and a trait of a true coward. There is nothing intelligent about not standing up for yourself. You may not win every battle. However, everyone will at least know what you stood for—YOU.
— Shannon L. Alder
[I]f we revert to history, we shall find that the women who have distinguished themselves have neither been the most beautiful nor the most gentle of their sex.
— Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Only cowards torture women.
— Patricia Briggs, Raven's Shadow
Let me tell you what I think of bicycling. I think it has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world. It gives women a feeling of freedom and self-reliance. I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel…the picture of free, untrammeled womanhood.
— Susan B. Anthony
My gran had always told me that a woman--any woman worth her salt--could do whatever she had to.
— Charlaine Harris, Dead to the World
Women have always been spies.
— Harriet Rubin, The Princessa: Machiavelli For Women
Did it never strike your mind that what every woman says, some women may feel?
— Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D'Urbervilles
We (men) would rather lose an arm out a city bus window than tell you simply, “You’re not theone.” We are quite sure you will kill us or yourself or both—or even worse, cry and yell at us.
— Greg Behrendt, He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys
Whatever you choose, however many roads you travel, I hope that you choose not to be a lady. I hope you will find some way to break the rules and make a little trouble out there. And I also hope that you will choose to make some of that trouble on behalf of w
— Nora Ephron
The best thing a girl can be is a good wife and mother. It is a girl's highest calling. I hope I am ready.
— Nancy E. Turner
As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her daughter, she is perfectly satisfied
— Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
Culture does not make people. People make culture. If it is true that the full humanity of women is not our culture, then we can and must make it our culture.
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, We Should All Be Feminists
There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of a female liver.
— Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Women and Economics
I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior and always have been.
— William Golding, Lord of the Flies
She can't help it,' he said. 'She's got the soul of a poet and the emotional makeup of a junkyard dog.
— Stephen King, Under the Dome
You can't beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you don't even try to.
— William Faulkner
An elegant woman is a woman who despises you and has no hair under her arms.
— Salvador Dalí, The Secret Life of Salvador Dali
Women are never so strong as after their defeat.
— Alexandre Dumas, Queen Margot, or Marguerite de Valois
Taught from their infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.
— Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Sometimes I think illness sits inside every woman, waiting for the right moment to bloom. I have known so many sick women all my life. Women with chronic pain, with ever-gestating diseases. Women with conditions. Men, sure, they have bone snaps, they have backaches, they have a surgery or two, yank out a tonsil, insert a shiny plastic hip. Women get consumed.
— Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects
Courage, sacrifice, determination, commitment, toughness, heart, talent, guts. That's what little girls are made of; the heck with sugar and spice.
— Bethany Hamilton, Soul Surfer: A True Story of Faith, Family, and Fighting to Get Back on the Board
You're so beautiful," said Alice. "I'm afraid of looking at you and not knowing who you are.""I think that even if you don't know who I am someday, you'll still know that I love you.""What if I see you, and I don't know that you're my daughter, and I don't know that you love me?""Then, I'll tell you that I do, and you'll believe me.
— Lisa Genova, Still Alice
Women fake orgasms and men fake finances.
— Suze Orman
Modern paintings are like women, you'll never enjoy them if you try to understand them.
— Freddie Mercury
No sensible man ever engages, unprepared, in a fencing match of words with a woman.
— Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White
There is no forgiveness. For women. A man may lose his honor and regain it again. But a woman cannot. She cannot.
— Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses
What a woman wants is a reaction. What a man wants is a woman.
— Charles Bukowski, The People Look Like Flowers at Last
There are two powers in the world; one is the sword and the other is the pen. There is a great competition and rivalry between the two. There is a third power stronger than both, that of the women.
— Muhammad Ali Jinnah
The most beautiful clothes that can dress a woman are the arms of the man she loves. But for those who haven't had the fortune of finding this happiness, I am there.
— Yves Saint-Laurent
When a man loves a woman, he has to become worthy of her. The higher her virtue, the more noble her character, the more devoted she is to truth, justice, goodness, the more a man has to aspire to be worthy of her. The history of civilization could actually be written in terms of the level of its women.
— Fulton J. Sheen, Life Is Worth Living