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Strength is Life, Weakness is Death.Expansion is Life, Contraction is Death.Love is Life, Hatred is Death.
— Swami Vivekananda
Tell all the Truth but tell it slant--Success in Circuit liesToo bright for our infirm DelightThe Truth's superb surpriseAs Lightning to the Children easedWith explanation kindThe Truth must dazzle graduallyOr every man be blind--
— Emily Dickinson
When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.
— Henry David Thoreau
One of the great liabilities of history is that all too many people fail to remain awake through great periods of social change. Every society has its protectors of status quo and its fraternities of the indifferent who are notorious for sleeping through revolutions. Today, our very survival depends on our ability to stay awake, to adjust to new ideas, to remain vigilant and to face the challenge of change.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
I have already settled it for myself so flattery and criticism go down the same drain and I am quite free.
— Georgia O'Keeffe
Faster, Faster, until the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death.
— Hunter S. Thompson
It used to be about trying to do something. Now it's about trying to be someone.
— Margaret Thatcher
Sometimes we know in our bones what we really need to do, but we're afraid to do it. Taking a chance and stepping beyond the safety of the world we've always known is the only way to grow, though and without risk there is no reward.
— Wil Wheaton, Just a Geek: Unflinchingly honest tales of the search for life, love, and fulfillment beyond the Starship Enterprise
There are no traffic jams on the extra mile.
— Zig Ziglar
You know me better than you think, you know, and you shall know me better yet.
— C.S. Lewis, The Magician's Nephew
The word 'listen' contains the same letters as the word 'silent'.
— Alfred Brendel
Love was that way. You could not render it in black or white. It always came down to the strange, blended shades of grey.
— Jodi Picoult
In this country we have no place for hyphenated Americans.
— Theodore Roosevelt
You will write if you will write without thinking of the result in terms of a result, but think of the writing in terms of discovery, which is to say that creation must take place between the pen and the paper, not before in a thought or afterwards in a recasting... It will come if it is there and if you will let it come.
— Gertrude Stein
I shut my eyes in order to see.
— Paul Gauguin
There is nothing more important than your eternal salvation.
— Kirk Cameron
Make your interactions with people transformational, not just transactional.
— Patti Smith
We had the experience but missed the meaning. And approach to the meaning restores the experience in a different form.
— T.S. Eliot
Never miss an opportunity to show your love, especially to those close to you, because we are always at our most cautious with them for fear of being hurt.
— Paulo Coelho, Manuscript Found in Accra
I wish I could make him understand that a loving good heart is riches enough, and that without it intellect is poverty.
— Mark Twain, The Diary of Adam and Eve
Seven years, Dawn. Working with the Slayer. Seeing my friends get more and more powerful... a witch. A demon. Hell, I could fit Oz in my shaving kit, but come a full moon, he had a wolfy mojo not to be messed with. Powerful, all of them. And I'm the guy who fixes the windows. They'll never know how tough it is, Dawnie, to be the one who isn't Chosen, to live so near the spotlight and never step in it. But I know. I see more than anybody realizes because nobody's watching me. I saw you last night, and I see you working here today. You're not special; you're extraordinary.
— Joss Whedon
No man is free who is not master of himself.
— Epictetus
Books have a way of finding their way into our lives, usually, right when we need them the most.
— Richard P. Denney
It’s funny, for all it took was a broken heart and that alone was enough, enough for her to do everything she ever dreamed of.
— Robert M. Drake
If I lived a million lives, I would've felt a million feelings and I still would've fallen a million times for you.
— Robert M. Drake
Suddenly, everything was beautiful. The way she viewed the world was nothing more but a reflection of herself.
— Robert M. Drake
Adversity is a natural part of being human. It is the height of arrogance to prescribe a moral code or health regime or spiritual practice as an amulet to keep things from falling apart. Things do fall apart. It is in their nature to do so. When we try to protect ourselves from the inevitability of change, we are not listening to the soul. We are listening to our fear of life and death, our lack of faith, our smaller ego's will to prevail. To listen to your soul is to stop fighting with life--to stop fighting when things fall apart; when they don't go our away, when we get sick, when we are betrayed or mistreated or misunderstood. To listen to the soul is to slow down, to feel deeply, to see ourselves clearly, to surrender to discomfort and uncertainty and to wait.
— Elizabeth Lesser
Don’t allow yourself to become disheartened when the thread doesn’t suit or seems unsightly to you. Wait and watch. Be patient and devoted. As the threads twist and turn, you will begin to understand, and you will see the pattern finally materialize in all its splendor.
— Colleen Houck
In a strong relationship, you should love your companion more than you need them.
— Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.
— Benjamin Disraeli
It`s not how old you are, it`s how you are old.
— Jules Renard
Nobody sees a flower - really - it is so small it takes time - we haven't time - and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time.
— Georgia O'Keeffe, Georgia O'Keeffe
The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want for nothing. He makes me lie down in the green pastures. He greases up my head with oil. He gives me kung-fu in the face of my enemies. Amen
— Stephen King, The Stand
I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances. a
— Martha Washington
One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds. Much of the damage inflicted on land is quite invisible to laymen. An ecologist must either harden his shell and make believe that the consequences of science are none of his business, or he must be the doctor who sees the marks of death in a community that believes itself well and does not want to be told otherwise.
— Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac
The victim mindset dilutes the human potential. By not accepting personal responsibility for our circumstances, we greatly reduce our power to change them.
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
Let us pick up our books and our pens,” I said. “They are our most powerful weapons. One child, one teacher, one book and one pen can change the world.
— Malala Yousafzai, I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
Do you train for passing tests or do you train for creative inquiry?
— Noam Chomsky
You must remember what you are and what you have chosen to become, and the significance of what you are doing. There are wars and defeats and victories of the human race that are not military and that are not recorded in the annals of history. Remember that while you're trying to decide what to do.
— John  Williams, Stoner
The wise warrior avoids the battle.
— Sun Tzu, The Art of War
Life consists of what man is thinking about all day.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
the moment you don't feel like praying, get on your knees. And the moment you don't feel like reading your bible, you'd better get that Book open.
— Lori Wick, Where the Wild Rose Blooms
You do not have to sit outside in the dark. If, however, you want to look at the stars, you will find that darkness is necessary. But the stars neither require nor demand it.
— Annie Dillard, Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters
You told me once of the plants that lie dormant through the drought, that wait, half-dead, deep in the earth. The plants that wait for the rain. You said they'd wait for years, if they had to; that they'd almost kill themselves before they grew again. But as soon as those first drops of water fall, those plants begin to stretch and spread their roots. They travel up through the soil and sand to reach the surface. There's a chance for them again.
— Lucy Christopher, Stolen: A Letter to My Captor
You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore
— André Gide
It may not feel too classy, begging just to eat But you know who does that?Lassie, and she always gets a treat So you wonder what your part is Because you're homeless and depressed But home is where the heart is So your real home's in your chest Everyone's a hero in their own way Everyone's got villains they must face They're not as cool as mine But folks you know it's fine to know your place Everyone's a hero in their own way In their own not-that-heroic way So I thank my girlfriend Penny Yeah, we totally had sex She showed me there's so many different muscles I can flex There's the deltoids of compassion, There's the abs of being kind It's not enough to bash in headsYou've got to bash in minds Everyone's a hero in their own way Everyone's got something they can do Get up go out and fly Especially that guy, he smells like poo Everyone's a hero in their own way You and you and mostly me and you I'm poverty's new sheriff And I'm bashing in the slums A hero doesn't care if you're a bunch of scary alcoholic bums Everybody! Everyone's a hero in their own way Everyone can blaze a hero's trail Don't worry if it's hard If you're not a friggin 'tard you will prevail Everyone's a hero in their own way Everyone's a hero in their...
— Joss Whedon, Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog: The Book
there is no moment more precious than the exact moment you are living now
— Obert Skye, Leven Thumps and the Gateway to Foo
I was good and bad, but never wicked.
— Anne Rice
Tough times don't last, tough people do, remember?
— Gregory Peck
The major work of the world is not done by geniuses. It is done by ordinary people, with balance in their lives, who have learned to work in an extraordinary manner.
— Gordon B. Hinckley
I don't believe in hate. To me it wastes too much time. People who hate waste so much of their life hating that they miss out on all the other stuff out here.
— Jaycee Dugard, A Stolen Life
Our men think earning money and ordering around others is where power lies. They don't think power is in the hands of the woman who takes care of everyone all day long, and gives birth to their children.
— Malala Yousafzai, I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
Time is what keeps things from happening all at once.
— Ann Brashares, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
And if these mountains had eyes, they would wake to find two strangers in their fences, standing in admiration as a breathing red pours its tinge upon earth's shore. These mountains, which have seen untold sunrises, long to thunder praise but stand reverent, silent so that man's weak praise should be given God's attention.
— Donald Miller, Through Painted Deserts: Light, God, and Beauty on the Open Road
None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you have the guts to be yourself, other people'll pay your price.
— John Updike, Rabbit, Run
Do what you love, think what you feel and live the way you want.
— Santosh Kalwar, Quote Me Everyday
The dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. work is the key to success, and hard work can help you accomplish anything.
— Vince Lombardi Jr.
God only allows us to see such things when he wants something to change
— Paulo Coelho, Aleph
It does not matter how long you live, but how well you do it.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
If your life is worth thinking about,it is worth writing about.
— Robin S. Sharma
Quit being so hard on yourself. We are what we are
—  we love what we love. We don't need to justify it to anyone... not even to ourselves.
A daily dose of daydreaming heals the heart, soothes the soul, and strengthens the imagination.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway
A child fish asks mother fish, 'Mother, why cannot we live on the Earth?' Mother fish replied, 'Dear… it is not the place for fish, it is the place for selfish
— Santosh Kalwar
Loyalty and obedience to wisdom and justice are fine; but it is still finer to defy arbitrary power, unjustly and cruelly used--not on behalf of ourselves, but on behalf of others more helpless.
— Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South
You are a human with one life and its up to you to make it the best life you can.
— Dan Howell
If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth writing.
— Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack
I would not sit waiting for some vague tomorrow, nor for something to happen. One could wait a lifetime, and find nothing at the end of the waiting. I would begin here, I would make something happen.
— Louis L'Amour, Sackett's Land
People who love themselves come across as very loving, generous and kind; they express their self-confidence through humility, forgiveness and inclusiveness.
— Sanaya Roman, Living with Joy: Keys to Personal Power and Spiritual Transformation
Inner peace is impossible without patience. Wisdom requires patience. Spiritual growth implies the mastery of patience. Patience allows the unfolding of destiny to proceed at its won unhurried pace.
— Brian L. Weiss, Muchas Vidas, Muchos Maestros
Some days are like this. And the only way to get through them is to remember that they are only one day, and that every day ends.
— David Levithan, Six Earlier Days
when you're cool for twenty,you get paid for twenty-one.
— Miguel Piñero
Appreciate the moment of a first kiss
—  it may be the last time you own your heart.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
— John Quincy Adams
And the only way to do great work is to love what you do.... Don't settle
— Steve Jobs
If you're really listening, if you're awake to the poignant beauty of the world, your heart breaks regularly. In fact, your heart is made to break; its purpose is to burst open again and again so that it can hold evermore wonders.
— Andrew Harvey
If you can't do great things, do small things in a great way.
— Napoleon Hill
Death is nothing at all. It does not count. I have only slipped away into the next room. Nothing has happened. Everything remains exactly as it was. I am I, and you are you, and the old life that we lived so fondly together is untouched, unchanged. Whatever we were to each other, that we are still. Call me by the old familiar name. Speak of me in the easy way which you always used. Put no difference into your tone. Wear no forced air of solemnity or sorrow. Laugh as we always laughed at the little jokes that we enjoyed together. Play, smile, think of me, pray for me. Let my name be ever the household word that it always was. Let it be spoken without an effort, without the ghost of a shadow upon it. Life means all that it ever meant. It is the same as it ever was. There is absolute and unbroken continuity. What is this death but a negligible accident? Why should I be out of mind because I am out of sight? I am but waiting for you, for an interval, somewhere very near, just round the corner. All is well. Nothing is hurt; nothing is lost. One brief moment and all will be as it was before. How we shall laugh at the trouble of parting when we meet again!
— Henry Scott Holland, Death Is Nothing at All
The world takes us to a silver screen on which flickering images of passion and romance play, and as we watch, the world says, “This is love.” God takes us to the foot of a tree on which a naked and bloodied man hangs and says, “This is love.
— Joshua Harris, I Kissed Dating Goodbye
A man can't soar too high, when he flies with his own wings.
— William Blake
Love me or hate me I promise that it will never make or break me...<3
— Tyra Banks, Tyra's Beauty Inside  Out
Understanding is the reward of faith. Therefore, seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.
— Augustine of Hippo
So, have we solved the secret of happiness?"I believe so," he saidAre you going to tell me?"Yes.Ready?"Ready."Be satisfied."That's it?"Be greatful."That's it?"For what you have.For the love you receive.And for what God has given you."That's it?He looked me in the eye.Then he sighed deeply."That's it.
— Mitch Albom, Have a Little Faith: a True Story
Never give up. It's like breathing—once you quit, your flame dies letting total darkness extinguish every last gasp of hope. You can't do that. You must continue taking in even the shallowest of breaths, continue putting forth even the smallest of efforts to sustain your dreams. Don't ever, ever, ever give up.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway
Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.
— Oswald Chambers
When someone is trying very hard to get something, they don't. And when they're running away from something as hard as they can, it usually catches up with them.
— Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
You only get one life. Live it to the fullest. All your miseries will be forgiven when you will be dead.
— Santosh Kalwar
Always be like a water. Float in the times of pain or dance like waves along the wind which touches its surface.
— Santosh Kalwar
There is no point in keeping vengeance or stubbornness. These things" -he sighed- "these things I so regret in my life. Pride. Vanity. Why do we do the things we do? Morrie Schwartz
— Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie
The summit of happiness is reached when a person is ready to be what he is.
— Erasmus
Fairness does not mean everyone gets the same. Fairness means everyone gets what they need.
— Rick Riordan, The Red Pyramid
Never follow the crowd.
— Bernard M. Baruch
Have love for your inner Self and everything else is done for you.
— Amit Ray
We are not helpless...Many times in our lives we’ve been powerless, but not this night. Right now we have the power to choose the manner in which we die. If you have been a master of nothing else in all your days, you are now a master of this moment. And I for one am going to give such an answer to this insult that others will dearly regret not being by my side to see it!
— Jeaniene Frost, At Grave's End
And so I ask myself: 'Where are your dreams?' And I shake my head and mutter: 'How the years go by!' And I ask myself again: 'What have you done with those years? Where have you buried your best moments? Have you really lived? Look,' I say to myself, 'how cold it is becoming all over the world!' And more years will pass and behind them will creep grim isolation. Tottering senility will come hobbling, leaning on a crutch, and behind these will come unrelieved boredom and despair. The world of fancies will fade, dreams will wilt and die and fall like autumn leaves from the trees. . . .
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, White Nights
Most people think happiness is about gaining something, but it's not. It's all about getting rid of the darkness you accumulate.
— Carolyn Crane
I feel infinite.
— Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Society will always be too fragile to accept us for all that makes us beautiful.
— Robert M. Drake
We have all forgotten what we really are. All that we call common sense and rationality and practicality and positivism only means that for certain dead levels of our life we forget that we have forgotten. All that we call spirit and art and ecstasy only means that for one awful instant we remember that we forget.
— G.K. Chesterton
Caminante, no hay puentes, se hace puentes al andar. (Voyager, there are no bridges, one builds them as one walks.) 
— Gloria E. Anzaldúa
Hearts can't be broken because they're made of marzipan.
— Kerstin Gier, Smaragdgrün
Madness and chaos are self-destructing but over thinking is the suicide.
— Robert M. Drake
The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention…. A loving silence often has far more power to heal and to connect than the most well-intentioned words. 
— Rachel Naomi Remen
You don't need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!
— John Lennon
That's a misconception, Lennie. The sky is everywhere, it begins at your feet.
— Jandy Nelson, The Sky Is Everywhere
The motive behind criticism often determines its validity. Those who care criticize where necessary. Those who envy criticize the moment they think that they have found a weak spot.
— Criss Jami, Killosophy
You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.
— Woodrow Wilson
If we tend to the things that are important in life, if we are right with those we love, and behave in line with our faith, our lives will not be cursed with the aching throb of unfulfilled business. Our words will always be sincere, our embraces will be tight. We will never wallow in the agony of ‘I could have, I should have’. We can sleep in a storm. And when its time, our goodbyes will be complete.
— Mitch Albom, Have a Little Faith: a True Story
The difference we wanna make is number one to let these kids know that they’re not alone, that they’re actually not that messed up and that they can do whatever they want; they can express themselves however they want, without being persecuted or called a faggot or some kind of racist thing. You know, really just to get people to get over their stuff so they can live.
— Gerard Way
You can't go home again
— Thomas Wolfe
To read is to empower,To empower is to write,To write is to influence,To influence is to change,To change is to live".
— Jane Evershed
Fear not the path of Truth for the lack of People walking on it.
— Robert F. Kennedy
Keep me up till five because all your stars are out, and for no other reason…Oh dare to do it Buddy! Trust your heart. You’re a deserving craftsman. It would never betray you. Good night. I’m feeling very much over-excited now, and a little dramatic, but I think I’d give almost anything on earth to see you writing a something, an anything, a poem, a tree, that was really and truly after your own heart.
— J.D. Salinger, Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters & Seymour: An Introduction
What is grander than a country and more valuable than gold? Strength of heart.
— Cornelius Elmore Addison, Tom Thorneval: Dream Merchant Extraordinaire
You learn to write by writing, and by reading and thinking about how writers have created their characters and invented their stories. If you are not a reader, don't even think about being a writer.
— Jean M. Auel
How strange is man that when he is afraid of something he runs away from it, but when he is afraid of Allah, he gets closer to Him.
— Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S
Faith is like radar that sees through the fog -- the reality of things at a distance that the human eye cannot see.
— Corrie ten Boom
Again and again I will suffer
—  again and again I will get back on my feet. I will not be defeated. I won't let my spirit be destroyed.
It is when things are at worst you will get the best.
— Santosh Kalwar, You Can
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
— Albert Einstein
If you're serious about sanctification, you can expect to experience heart-wrenching moments that try your faith, your endurance, and your patience.
— Sheri Dew, If Life Were Easy, It Wouldn't Be Hard: And Other Reassuring Truths
The reward of a thing well done is having done it.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The truth is I didn’t need therapy
—  I just needed to feel loved and know that someone out there craved my attention.
The institutions of human society treat us as parts of a machine. They assign us ranks and place considerable pressure upon us to fulfill defined roles. We need something to help us restore our lost and distorted humanity. Each of us has feelings that have been suppressed and have built up inside. There is a voiceless cry resting in the depths of our souls, waiting for expression. Art gives the soul's feelings voice and form.
— Daisaku Ikeda
You must learn to take a step back and visualize the whole piece. If you focus only on the thread given to you, you lose sight of what it can become. 
— Colleen Houck
Maybe we've lived a thousand lives before this one and in each of them we've found each other... I know I've spent each life before this one searching for you. Not someone like you but you, for your soul and mine must always come together.
— Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
If through a broken heart God can bring His purposes to pass in the world, then thank Him for breaking your heart.
— Oswald Chambers
Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold.
— Joseph Campbell
If you can't be honest with your friends and colleagues and loved ones, then what is life all about?
— Sophie Kinsella, Can You Keep a Secret?
Sad stories make good books
— Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
What is demanded of man is not, as some existential philosophers teach, to endure the meaninglessness of life, but rather to bear his incapacity to grasp its unconditional meaningfulness in rational terms.
— Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning
For the future, the motto is, "No days unalert.
— Robert Greene, The 48 Laws of Power
I realized then that even though I was a tiny speck in an infinite cosmos, a blip on the timeline of eternity, I was not without purpose.
— R.J. Anderson, Ultraviolet
The terrible thing, the almost impossible thing, is to hand over your whole self--all your wishes and precautions--to Christ. But it is far easier than what we are all trying to do instead. For what we are trying to do is to remain what we call "ourselves," to keep personal happiness as our great aim in life, and yet at the same time be "good.
— C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
The wish to travel seems to me characteristically human: the desire to move, to satisfy your curiosity or ease your fears, to change the circumstances of your life, to be a stranger, to make a friend, to experience an exotic landscape, to risk the unknown..
— Paul Theroux, The Tao of Travel: Enlightenments from Lives on the Road
You have to rise above the squabbling and chaos, and keep believing. You have to always keep your goals in mind.” -Hera, goddess of marriage 
— Rick Riordan
That's chess!" snapped Ron. "You've got to make some sacrifices!
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
There are people who have money and people who are rich.
— Coco Chanel
What fire does not destroy, it hardens
— Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery. It is far better to be free, to leave the forts and barricades of fear, to stand erect and face the future with a smile. It is far better to give yourself sometimes to negligence, to drift with wave and tide, with the blind force of the world, to think and dream, to forget the chains and limitations of the breathing life, to forget purpose and object, to lounge in the picture gallery of the brain, to feel once more the clasps and kisses of the past, to bring life's morning back, to see again the forms and faces of the dead, to paint fair pictures for the coming years, to forget all Gods, their promises and threats, to feel within your veins life's joyous stream and hear the martial music, the rhythmic beating of your fearless heart. And then to rouse yourself to do all useful things, to reach with thought and deed the ideal in your brain, to give your fancies wing, that they, like chemist bees, may find art's nectar in the weeds of common things, to look with trained and steady eyes for facts, to find the subtle threads that join the distant with the now, to increase knowledge, to take burdens from the weak, to develop the brain, to defend the right, to make a palace for the soul. This is real religion. This is real worship
— Robert G. Ingersoll, The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. IV
Courage to me is doing something daring, no matter how afraid, insecure, intimidated, alone, unworthy, incapable, ridiculed or whatever other paralyzing emotion you might feel. Courage is taking action....no matter what.  So you're afraid? Be afraid.  Be scared silly to the point you're trembling and nauseous, but do it anyway!
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway
Sameron adion asoI shall sing a sweeter song tomorrow
— Theocritus
Don't think of introversion as something that needs to be cured...Spend your free the way you like, not the way you think you're supposed to.
— Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Child, you have to learn to see things in the right proportions. Learn to see great things great and small things small.
— Corrie ten Boom
‗In life, at sometime or another we come to a point where all relationships cease—where there is only us and Allah. There are no parents, brother or sister, or any friend. Then we realise that there is no earth under us nor is there sky above, but only Allah who is supporting us in this emptiness. Then we realise our worth – it is not more than a grain of sand or the leaf of a plant. Then we realise our existence is only confined to our being. Our demise makes not a whit of difference to the world around us, nor to the scheme of things.
— Umera Ahmed, پیر کامل
Life is All About How you Handle Plan BPlan A is always my first choice.You know, the one whereEverything works out to beHappily ever-after.But more often than not,I find myself dealing withThe upside-down, inside-out version --Where nothing goes as it should.It's at this point that the realTest of my character comes in..Do I sink, or do I swim?Do I wallow in self pity and play the victim,Or simply shift gearsAnd make the best of the situation?The choice is all mine...Life is all about how you handle Plan B.
— Suzy Toronto, The Sacred Sisterhood Of Wonderful Wacky Women
I had to learn to live without you and I couldn't make sense of it, because I left so much of me inside of you.
— Robert M. Drake
Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery it is. In the boredom and pain of it, no less than in the excitement and gladness: touch, taste, smell your way to the holy and hidden heart of it, because in the last analysis all moments are key moments, and life itself is grace.
— Frederick Buechner, Now and Then: A Memoir of Vocation
When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons.
— Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 4: 1944-1947
Don't try to fix me, I'm not broken...
— Evanescence
I believe that everything that you do bad comes back to you. So everything that I do that's bad, I'm going to suffer from it. But in my mind, I believe what I'm doing is right. So I feel like I'm going to heaven
— Tupac Shakur
You can feel the whole world and still feel lost in it. So many people are in pain-- no matter how smart or accomplished--they cry, they yearn, they hurt. But instead of looking down on things, they look up, which is where I should have been looking, too. Because when the world quiets to the sound of your own breathing, we all want the same things: comfort, love and a peaceful heart.
— Mitch Albom
I believe in the hands that work, in the brains that think, and in the hearts that love...I believe in sunshine, fresh air, friendship, calm sleep, beautiful thoughts.
— Elbert Hubbard
Love, being in love, isn’t a constant thing. It doesn’t always flow at the same strength. It’s not always like a river in flood. It’s more like the sea. It has tides, it ebbs and flows. The thing is, when love is real, whether it’s ebbing or flowing, it’s always there, it never goes away. And that’s the only proof you can have that it is real, and not just a crush or an infatuation or a passing fancy
— Aidan Chambers, This is All: The Pillow Book of Cordelia Kenn
Be wary of strong drink, it can make you shoot at the tax collector...and miss.
— Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love
Dive deep. Drown willingly
— Ted Dekker, White: The Great Pursuit
You cannot stay on the summit forever; you have to come down again. So why bother in the first place? Just this: What is above knows what is below, but what is below does not know what is above. One climbs, one sees. One descends, one sees no longer, but one has seen. There is an art of conducting oneself in the lower regions by the memory of what one saw higher up. When one can no longer see, one can at least still know.
— René Daumal
To save all we must risk all.
— Friedrich Schiller, Fiesco; or, the Genoese Conspiracy
There are two things that men should never weary of, goodness and humility; we get none too much of them in this rough world among cold, proud people.
— Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped
There are only two forces at work in this world- black and white. Only people are grey.
— Chris Heimerdinger, Gadiantons and the Silver Sword
The fallen angel becomes a malignant devil. Yet even that enemy of God and man had friends and associates in his desolation
—  I am alone.
It's a beautiful day in this neighborhood,A beautiful day for a neighbor.Would you be mine?Could you be mine?...It's a neighborly day in this beauty wood,A neighborly day for a beauty.Would you be mine?Could you be mine?...I've always wanted to have a neighbor just like you.I've always wanted to live in a neighborhood with you.So, let's make the most of this beautiful day.Since we're together we might as well say:Would you be mine?Could you be mine?Won't you be my neighbor?Won't you please,Won't you please?Please won't you be my neighbor?
— Fred Rogers
He was talking about the sign that said 'THE COMPLICATED FUTILITY OF IGNORANCE.''All knew was that I didn't want my daughter or anybody's child to see a message that negative every time she comes into the library,' he said. 'And then I found out it was you who was responsible for it.''What's so negative about it?' I said.'What could be a more negative word than "futility"?' he said.'"Ignorance,"' I said.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Hocus Pocus
I've done my best, and I begin to understand what is meant by 'the joy of strife'. Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.
— L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
Watch for the thing that will show itself to you. Because that thing, when you find it, will be your future.
— Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha
Me with nothing left to lose, plotting my big revenge in the spotlight. Give me violent revenge fantasies as a coping mechanism.
— Chuck Palahniuk
True beauty lies in purity of the heart.
— Mahatma Gandhi
In the mist of Difficulty lies Opportunity.
— Oprah Winfrey
Like a missing tooth, sometimes an absence is more noticeable than a presence.
— Jodi Picoult, Lone Wolf
You kick ass Sam. And don't forget it
— Pittacus Lore, The Power of Six
There is nothing frightening in the dark if you just face it.
— L.J. Smith, The Captive Part II / The Power
Enjoy the limitless bliss consciousness here and now. The reality of you lies much beyond your sensory perceptions and boundaries.
— Amit Ray
Prayer is the sign of your weakness. Rely on your inner strength. You will be the winner.
— Amit Ray
I never loved another person the way I loved myself.
— Mae West
One of the pitfalls of childhood is that one doesn't have to understand something to feel it. By the time the mind is able to comprehend what has happened, the wounds of the heart are already too deep.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
The greatest challenge of the day is: how to bring about a revolution of the heart, a revolution which has to start with each one of us?
— Dorothy Day
Do you know the hallmark of a second rater? It's resentment of another man's achievement. Those touchy mediocrities who sit trembling lest someone's work prove greater than their own - they have no inkling of the loneliness that comes when you reach the top. The loneliness for an equal - for a mind to respect and an achievement to admire. They bare their teeth at you from out of their rat holes,thinking that you take pleasure in letting your brilliance dim them - while you'd give a year of my life to see a flicker of talent anywhere among them. They envy achievement, and their dream of greatness is a world where all men have become their acknowledged inferiors. They don't know that that dream is the infallible proof of mediocrity, because that sort of world is what the man of achievement would not be able to bear. They have no way of knowing what he feels when surrounded by inferiors - hatred? no, not hatred, but boredom - the terrible, hopeless, draining, paralyzing boredom. Of what account are praise and adulation from men whom you don't respect? Have you ever felt the longing for someone you could admire? For something, not to look down at, but up to?""I've felt it all my life," she said.
— Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
Love stories are written in millimeters and milliseconds with a fast, dull pencil whose marks you can barely see, they are written in miles and eons with a chisel on the side of a mountiantop
— Gabrielle Zevin, Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac
What I stand for is what I stand on.
— Wendell Berry
It's a sad day when you find out that it's not accident or time or fortune, but just yourself that kept things from you.
— Lillian Hellman
If you just sit and observe, you will see how restless your mind is. If you try to calm it, it only makes it worse, but over time it does calm, and when it does, there's room to hear more subtle things - that's when your intuition starts to blossom and you start to see things more clearly and be in the present more. Your mind just slows down, and you see a tremendous expanse in the moment. You see so much more than you could see before. It's a discipline; you have to practice it.
— Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs
Accept whatever comes to you woven in the pattern of your destiny, for what could more aptly fit your needs?
— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
It's not about finding ways to avoid God's judgment and feeling like a failure if you don't do everything perfectly. It's about fully experiencing God's love and letting it perfect you. It's not about being somebody you are not. It's about becoming who you really are.
— Stormie Omartian, The Power of a Praying Woman
Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great, you can be that generation
— Nelson Mandela
This first glance of a soul which does not yet know itself is like dawn in the heavens
—  it is the awakening of something radiant and unknown.
Sugar, it's no parade but you'll get down the street one way or another, so you'd just as well throw your shoulders back and pick up the pace.
— Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible
Faith don't come in a bushel basket, Missy. It come one step at a time. Decide to trust Him for one little thing today, and before you know it, you find out He's so trustworthy you be putting your whole life in His hands.
— Lynn Austin, Candle in the Darkness
Evil exists in us all, Torak. Some fight it. Some feed it. That's how it's always been.
— Michelle Paver
And a beautiful world we live in, when it is possible, and when many other such things are possible, and not only possible, but done-- done, see you!-- under that sky there, every day.
— Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals. And so when I hear about negative and false attacks, I really don't invest any energy in them, because I know who I am.
— Michelle Obama
Under Adverse conditions - some people break down,some break records
— Shiv Khera, You Can Win: A Step by Step Tool for Top Achievers
Grace isn't a little prayer you chant before receiving a meal. It's a way to live.
— Jacqueline Winspear
So that's my wish for you, and all of us, and my wish for myself. Make New Mistakes. Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody's ever made before. Don't freeze, don't stop, don't worry that it isn't good enough, or it isn't perfect, whatever it is: art, or love, or work or family or life.
— Neil Gaiman
I would court you, with all the grace and courtesy that you deserve,
— C.S. Pacat, Kings Rising
Searching outside of you is Samsara (the world). Searching within you leads to Nirvana.
— Amit Ray, Yoga and Vipassana: An Integrated Life Style
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
— Frank Lloyd Wright, Truth Against the World: Frank Lloyd Wright Speaks for an Organic Architecture
But there were some things I believed in. Some things I had faith in. And faith isn't about perfect attendance to services, or how much money you put on the little plate. It isn't about going skyclad to the Holy Rites, or meditating each day upon the divine. Faith is about what you do. It's about aspiring to be better and nobler and kinder than you are. It's about making sacrifices for the good of others - even when there's not going to be anyone telling you what a hero you are.
— Jim Butcher, Changes
Do not waste time bothering whether you ‘love’ your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him.
— C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
Don't forget your history nor your destiny
— Bob Marley
In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.
— Anthony Robbins
When a man sees you are happy with him but you can be just as happy having nothing to do with him, that’s when he won’t want to leave your side. When you are happy, you are sexy.
— Sherry Argov
There is no greater insight into the future than recognizing...when we save our children, we save ourselves
— Margaret Mead
This is who the fuck I am.
— Lady Gaga
You're not aloneTogether we standI'll be by your side, you know I'll take your handWhen it gets coldAnd it feels like the endThere's no place to goYou know I won't give in
— Avril Lavigne
You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
— Indira Gandhi
And I remembered something else that makes us human: faith, the only weapon in our arsenal to battle doubt.
— Jodi Picoult, Change of Heart
Souls are like athletes, that need opponents worthy of them, if they are to be tried and extended and pushed to the full use of their powers, and rewarded according to their capacity.
— Thomas Merton, The Seven Storey Mountain
If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it.
— Abraham Lincoln
Courtesy costs nothing, but buys everything.
— Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S
This world is your best teacher. There is a lesson in everything. There is a lesson in each experience. Learn it and become wise. Every failure is a stepping stone to success. Every difficulty or disappointment is a trial of your faith. Every unpleasant incident or temptation is a test of your inner strength. Therefore nil desperandum. March forward hero!
— Sivananda Saraswati
Either you run the day or the day runs you..
— Jim Rohn
I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious." 
— Vince Lombardi Jr.
That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind
— Neil Armstrong
Sometimes the best of gods gift's arrive by the shattering of all the window panes.
— Paulo Coelho, Brida
It is better to live one day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep.
— Benito Mussolini
...most of the time, all you have is the moment, and the imperfect love of the people around you.
— Anne Lamott, Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
— Maurice Maeterlinck
I prefer you to make mistakes in kindness than work miracles in unkindness.
— Mother Teresa
If the world is to be healed through human efforts, I am convinced it will be by ordinary people, people whose love for this life is even greater than their fear.
— Joanna R. Macy
I am sure it is everyone’s experience, as it has been mine, that any discovery we make about ourselves or the meaning of life is never, like a scientific discovery, a coming upon something entirely new and unsuspected; it is rather, the coming to conscious recognition of something, which we really knew all the time but, because we were unwilling to formulate it correctly, we did not hitherto know we knew.
— W.H. Auden, Markings
I've learned one thing: you can only really get to know a person after a row. Only then can you judge their true character!
— Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
Go ahead and believe that no one shines brighter than you. Become amazing, and be happy.
— Demi Lovato, Stay Strong
Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.
— John Lubbock, The Use Of Life
When I left Queen's my future seemed to stretch out before me like a straight road. I thought I could see along it for many a milestone. Now there is a bend in it. I don't know what lies around the bend, but I'm going to believe that the best does.
— L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
I know it is hard for you young mothers to believe that almost before you can turn around the children will be gone and you will be alone with your husband. You had better be sure you are developing the kind of love and friendship that will be delightful and enduring. Let the children learn from your attitude that he is important. Encourage him. Be kind. It is a rough world, and he, like everyone else, is fighting to survive. Be cheerful. Don't be a whiner.
— Marjorie Pay Hinckley, Small and Simple Things
In my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me.
— Augustine of Hippo
It's not whether you got knocked down
—  it's whether you get back up.
When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the work will finish itself.
— Karen Blixen
God, send me anywhere, only go with me. Lay any burden on me, only sustain me. And sever any tie in my heart except the tie that binds my heart to Yours.
— David Livingstone
The future doesn't belong to the light-hearted. It belongs to the brave.
— Ronald Reagan
Total paranoia is just total awareness.
— Charles Manson
Sometimes you just have to jump out the window and grow wings on the way down.
— Ray Bradbury
Life is short. Kiss slowly, laugh insanely, love truly and forgive quickly
— Paulo Coelho
I AM THE MASTER OF MY FATE AND THE CAPTAIN OF MY DESTINY.
— Nelson Mandela
Leaders live by choice, not by accident.
— Mark Gorman
I'm not going to die, I'm going home like a shooting star.
— Sojourner Truth
Bebek berjalan berbondong-bondong, akan tetapi burung elang terbang sendirian.
— Sukarno, Indonesia Menggugat: Pidato Pembelaan Bung Karno di Muka Hakim Kolonial
Stories are like genies...They can carry us into and though our sorrows. Sometimes they burn, sometimes they dance, sometimes they weep, sometimes they sing. Like genies, everyone has one. Like genies, sometimes we forget that we do.Our stories can set us free...When we set them free.
— Francesca Lia Block
Books didn’t make me wallow in darkness, darkness made me wallow in books.
— Jackson Pearce
Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
— George E. Woodberry