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Children discover and verify their theories in quite the same way that scientists do: through experimentation. They manipulate the world and discover regularities of causation from those manipulations. Why do they do it? The discovery of regularities comes with a pleasurable burst of insight, which all of us, but especially children and scientists, continuously long for like bonbons or opium.
— Matthew M. Hurley
I didn't know the demonsthat walked across your memory.They came from the dustwhen you were at peacein your grave.
— Susie Clevenger, Dirt Road Dreams
I feel like a child who has found a wonderful trail in the woods. Countless others have gone before and blazed the trail, but to the child it's as new and fresh as if it had never been walked before. The child is invariably anxious for others to join in the great adventure. It's something that can only be understood by actual experience. Those who've begun the journey, and certainly those who've gone further than I, will readily understand what I am saying.
— Randy Alcorn, Money, Possessions and Eternity
It was youWho opened meLooked into my soulTo study meYou revealed youTo uncover me.
— David Somorai
Days passing with discovery are the days of real happiness.
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Sara: Tegan just recently discovered that unicorns don’t exist. Tegan: I just thought they were extinct.
— Tegan Quin
Truth is like a vast tree which yields more and more fruit the more you nurture it. The deeper the search in the mind of truth, the richer the discovery of the gems buried there.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Do not ignore inspiration, it is your guide to self discovery.
— E'yen A. Gardner
How my life has been brought to undiscovered lands, and how much richer it gets - all from words printed on a page.... How a book can have 560 pages, but in only three pages change the reader's life.
— Emoke B'Racz
There are plenty of theories to listen to and follow but truth yearns to be discovered. When you find it, there is no doubt where to go.
— E'yen A. Gardner
Visionaries see beyond the boundaries of an eyesight.
— Gift Gugu Mona
The vision is not to see things just as we have imagined them to be. The vision is the freedom to live deliberately every day and that is simply a choice.
— Colleen Mariotti, Livology: A Global Guide to a Deliberate Life
Every good and great idea must have a good window and doors
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
The vision is not to see things just as we have imagined them to be. The vision is the freedom to live deliberately every day and that is a simply a choice.
— Colleen Mariotti, Livology: A Global Guide to a Deliberate Life
People will doubt your VISION for obvious reasons. However, the worse thing that can happen to any man is to doubt his own vision.
— Oscar Bimpong
Trusting the vision without forcing the way is a lesson worth learning in every port.
— Colleen Mariotti, Livology: A Global Guide to a Deliberate Life
It's impossible to hit a target that you can't see. You must visualize your goal, set a plan and work your plan. Don't make excuses. .. Just make time.
— Randa Manning-Johnson
To build you need vision
— to sustain you need strength.
You must take the trouble discover a worthy purpose for being on this ever green earth.
— Saidi Mdala, Know What Matters
It's so funny you judge me arrogant after I succeeded.You didn't help me at all when I was so poor and needy.
— Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
Conservatives say if you don't give the rich more money, they will lose their incentive to invest. As for the poor, they tell us they've lost all incentive because we've given them too much money.
— George Carlin
The intelligent poor individual was a much finer observer than the intelligent rich one. The poor individual looks around him at every step, listens suspiciously to every word he hears from the people he meets; thus, every step he takes presents a problem, a task, for his thoughts and feelings. He is alert and sensitive, he is experienced, his soul has been burned...
— Knut Hamsun, Hunger
I hadn't found out yet that mankind consists of two very different races, the rich and the poor. It took me ... and plenty of other people . . . twenty years and the war to learn to stick to my class and ask the price of things before touching them, let alone setting my heart on them.
— Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night
Expensive clothing is a poor man’s attempt to appear prosperous.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
I was so thin I could slice bread with my shoulderblades, only I seldom had bread
— Charles Bukowski, The Last Night of the Earth Poems
Torch strode over and stared at the fiver"What's this?""Some change for you. Buy your flunkies some decent clothes." I dipped my fingers into the jar and smeared think fragrant paste on my face. Torch frowned, mirroring the expression on my aunt's face."Change?"Oh, for crying out loud. "It's money. We don't use coins as currency now, we use paper money." He stared at me. "I'm insulting you! I'm saying your poor, like a beggar, because your undead are in rags. I'm offering to clothe your servants for you, because you can't provide for them. Come on, how thick do you have to be?"He jerked his hand up. A jet of flame erupted from his fingers, sliding against the ward. I jerked back from the windows on instinct. The fire died. I leaned forward. "Do you understand now?" More fire. "What's the matter? Was that not enough money?
— Ilona Andrews, Magic Bleeds
It is not theft, properly speaking, to take secretly and use another's property in a case of extreme need: because that which he takes for the support of his life becomes his own property by reason of that need
— Thomas Aquinas
Why, Tom - us people will go on livin' when all them people is gone. Why, Tom, we're the people that live. They ain't gonna wipe us out. Why, we're the people - we go on.''We take a beatin' all the time.''I know.' Ma chuckled. 'Maybe that makes us tough. Rich fellas come up an' they die, an' their kids ain't no good, an' they die out. But, Tom, we keep a-comin'. Don' you fret none, Tom. A different time's comin'.
— John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
The poor are always prophetic. As true prophets always point out, they reveal God's design. That is why we should take time to listen to them. And that means staying near them, because they speak quietly and infrequently; they are afraid to speak out, they lack confidence in themselves because they have been broken and oppressed. But if we listen to them, they will bring us back to the essential.
— Jean Vanier, Community And Growth
Stealing it, in a sick kind of sense, was like earning it.
— Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
It's easy to be humble when your life's prosper.Nothing could be denigrated when life's so poor.
— Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
The mass of the rich and the poor are differentiated by their incomes and nothing else,and the average millionaire is only the average dishwasher dressed in a new suit.
— George Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London
Indolent and unworthy the beggar may be—but that is not your concern: It is better, said Joseph Smith, to feed ten impostors than to run the risk of turning away one honest petition.
— Hugh Nibley, Approaching Zion
You will never be able to live with two kinds of people
—  greedy rich and arrogant poor.
Compromise is low class. I don't have anything against the poor, but being low class is the root of all evil
— Novala Takemoto, Missin' (Novel)
The weak are the most treacherous of us all. They come to the strong and drain them. They are bottomless. They are insatiable. They are always parched and always bitter. They are everyone’s concern and like vampires they suck our life’s blood.
— Bette Davis, The Lonely Life
Mother Teresa would seek no other pulpit than the hovels of the poor, and no other sermon than her works of love, performed for the unloved, in God's name.
— Joseph Langford, Mother Teresa's Secret Fire: The Encounter That Changed Her Life, and How It Can Transform Your Own
Stop the poverty! Where do they think they are going?!
— Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land
God commands both individuals and the society in which they live to be generous and always take care of the poor. In such a community, shalom has a chance to thrive. In such a community, God will actually be glad to assign his name and dwell.
— Randy S. Woodley
Dont let people apply their poor standards on you, never ever let anybody do it. Just because they cant do or get certain things in life and they want to apply the same to you, you need to rebuke that. Their standard is their standard and yours is beyond their imagination.. Period
— Tare Munzara
[A man], who is in prosperity, while he sees that others have to contend with great wretchedness and that he could help them, thinks: What concern is it of mine? Let everyone be as happy as Heaven pleases, or as he can make himself; I will take nothing from him nor even envy him, only I do not wish to contribute anything to his welfare or to his assistance in distress! Now no doubt, if such a mode of thinking were a universal law, the human race might very well subsist, and doubtless even better than in a state in which everyone talks of sympathy and good-will, or even takes care occasionally to put it into practice, but, on the other side, also cheats when he can, betrays the rights of men, or otherwise violates them. But although it is possible that a universal law of nature might exist in accordance with that maxim, it is impossible to will that such a principle should have the universal validity of a law of nature. For a will which resolved this would contradict itself, inasmuch as many cases might occur in which one would have need of the love and sympathy of others, and in which, by such a law of nature, sprung from his own will, he would deprive himself of all hope of the aid he desires.
— Immanuel Kant, Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals
Poor men ... always make love better than those who are rich, because, having less to care about, and not being puffed up with their own consequence, they are not so selfish and think much more of the lady than of themselves.
— Frederick Marryat, The Pirate
There is nothing lower than the poor stealing from the poor. It's hard enough as it is. We sure as hell don't need to make it even harder on each other.
— J.D. Vance, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
Poor People get torchered, rich give money to watch.
— Deyth Banger
Definitely they are poor, but they have all the potential to become rich; they just need a hand to support, and I want to be that hand of them all.
— Tanmaya Guru
Chemicals are available for all classes, poor, average and rich, so far I'm average class and I have the chance and the guds to drink chemical for 1.89$.
— Deyth Banger
If I were rich, I would buy him a new black suit. ... If I had next week's allowance and had not spent this week's on three Cherry Flips ...
— M.F.K. Fisher, Sister Age
Don't think about any poor man, just think he deserves it.
— shuhab
In a city like Paris where there was a way of living well and working, no matter how poor you were, was like having a great treasure given to you.
— Hemmingway, Ernest
Perhaps she had received diamonds, Strike thought; she had always said she didn't care for such things, but when they argued the glitter of all he could not give her had sometimes been flung back hard in his face...
— Robert Galbraith, The Silkworm
The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
We call ourselves poor, that's why we're poor. When we will start calling ourselves rich then we will become rich, even it won't look like that. Self trust is freedom.
— Arefin Bashar Arif
Within a neoliberal discourse there is also an assumption that all social groups will ultimately benefit from the effects of corporate profit, regardless of the fact that in increases the wealth of the already wealthy. Yet, in reality, neoliberal agendas aim to reduce labour costs, decrease public expenditure and make work more flexible...For poor families and the working poor, this means that they are more likely to be exploited as their incomes remain low, and their ability to access services is increasingly compromised.
— kerry H Robinson
Most people which died poor or rich or other types of people knew something they written it and in the near future when they revive they will somehow reach to this knowledge and will start looking from this view...
— Deyth Banger
My behavior last night was poor.""Poor?" Agatha coughed. "You pushed me through a window!
— Soman Chainani, The School for Good and Evil
They stole from rich merchants and temples and kings. They didn't steal from poor people; this was not because there was anything virtuous about poor people, it was simply because poor people had no money.
— Terry Pratchett, Interesting Times
So the swallow flew over the great city, and saw the rich making merry in their beautiful houses, while the beggars were sitting at the gates. He flew into dark lanes, and saw the white faces of starving children looking out listlessly at the black streets...
— Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Tales
What do you see from your window? Mostly the things you have been taught to you! And so your view is poor and so you too! To be rich, let the things which have not been taught to you reach you too!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
The astounding natural beauty of the USA is offset by its extremely poor social security system that is clearly apparent when driving around the country.
— Steven Magee
Some steal, earn a lot of money, but lose their honour and become very poor; some work, earn a little money, but gain a good honour and become very rich!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
The best way to become poor is to give nothing.
— Sunday Adelaja
Being rich and coming from a distinguished family background doesn't guarantee happiness, Abby. In fact, it might make happiness harder to find because you have to live up to akk that expectation.
— V.C. Andrews, Pearl in the Mist
There is today a division of labor between the elite and the masses. In medieval Europe aristocrats spent their money carelessly on extravagant luxuries whereas peasants lived frugally minding every penny. Today the tables have turned. The rich take great care managing their assets and investments, while the less well-heeled go into debt buying cars and televisions they don't really need.
— Yuval Noah Harari, קיצור תולדות האנושות
As far as I was concerned, the best thing one could do for the poor was to not add one’s self to their number.
— Ken MacLeod, Descent
A rich person is just a poor person with a crown and elaborate clothing, and a poor person is just a rich person with a crownless head and ragged clothing.
— Zanjabil
The members of the functional and socially mobilized under class must, in some very real way, be seen as the architects of their own fate. If not, they could be, however marginally, on the conscience of the comfortable. There could be a disturbing feeling, however fleeting, of unease, even guilt.
— John Kenneth Galbraith, The Culture of Contentment
Globalization means standardization. The very rich and the very poor must want the same things, but only the rich can have them.
— Arundhati Roy, The Checkbook and the Cruise Missile: Conversations with Arundhati Roy
When the middle classes get passionate about politics, they're arguing about their treats—their tax breaks and their investments. When the poor get passionate about politics, they're fighting for their lives. Politics will always mean more to the poor. Always. That's why we strike and march, and despair when our young say they won't vote. That's why the poor are seen as more vital, more animalistic. No classical music for us—no walking around National Trust properties or buying reclaimed flooring. We don't have nostalgia. We don't do yesterday. We can't bear it. We don't want to be reminded of our past, because it was awful: dying in means, and slums, without literacy, or the vote. Without dignity. It was all so desperate then. That's why the present and the future is for the poor—that's the place in time for us: surviving now, hoping for better later. We live now—for our instant, hot, fast treats, to pep us up: sugar, a cigarette, a new fast song on the radio. You must never, never forget when you talk to someone poor, that it takes ten times the effort to get anywhere from a bad post code. It's a miracle when someone from a bad post code gets anywhere, son. A miracle they do anything at all.
— Caitlin Moran, How to Build a Girl
A rich person who has no love in his heart is poorer than a poor person who has no money in his pocket.
— Debasish Mridha
Say goodbye to the IMF once and for all as the IMF's conditions enriches the rich and impoverishes the poor.
— Imran Khan
The poor are very well off, at least the agricultural poor, very well off indeed. Their incomes are certain, that is a great point, and they have no cares, no anxieties; they always have a resource, they always have the House. People without cares do not require as much food as those whose life entails anxieties. See how long they live!
— Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil, or the Two Nations
Those who are rich cannot see reasons for poor becoming poorer and those who are poor cannot see reasons for rich getting richer.
— Santosh Kalwar
We are born rich, it is for us to decide between materialistic poorness or building upon intellectual richness.
— Vishwas Chavan
The excluded when on living on the fringe, like lepers, of whom true leper are only the illustration ordained by god to make us understand this wondrous parable, so that in saying “lepers” we would understand “outcast, poor, simple, excluded, uprooted from the countryside, humiliated in the cities” but we did not understand; the mystery of leprosy has continued to haunt us because we have not recognized the nature of the sign. Excluded as they were from the flock, all of them were ready to hear, or to produce, every sermon that, harking back to the words of Christ, would condemn the behaviour of the dogs and shepherds and would promise their punishment one day. The powerful have always realised this. The recovery of the outcasts demanded a reduction of the privileges of the powerful, so the excluded who became aware of their exclusion had to be branded as heretics, whatever their doctrine. This is the illusion of heresy. Everyone is heretical, everyone is orthodox. The faith a movement proclaims doesn’t count: what counts is the hope it offers.
— Umberto Eco
The doorbells of Heaven were designed for the prayers of the poor.
— Felix Wantang, Face to Face Meetings with Jesus Christ 2: Preparing for God's Paradise
Turn thy crown upside down! You need to feel how it is to kneel as those less fortunate than your noble deal.
— Stanley Victor Paskavich, Stantasyland: Quips Quotes and Quandaries
Last breath is rare, therefore expensive. However, we prefer to stay poor ... (Dernier soupir est rare, donc cher. - Pourtant, on préfère rester pauvre...)
— Charles de Leusse
A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilisation
— Samuel Johnson
I want to live like a poor man with lots of money.
— Pablo Picasso
No, its the poor I tell you, and the poor only, as does such things for the poor. Don't think to come over me with th' old tale, that the rich knows nothing of the trials of the poor; I say, if they don't know, they ought to know. We're their slaves as long as we can work; we pile up their fortunes with the sweat of our brows, and yet we are to live as separate as if we were in two worlds..." Chap. 1, p. 12
— Elizabeth Gaskell, Mary Barton
Be sure that you give the poor the aid they most need, though it be your example which leaves them far behind. If you give money, spend yourself with it, and do not merely abandon it to them.
— Henry David Thoreau, Walden
The poor makes good morals. The rich always gives them way to be brain. say Bhutta
— M.K. Bhutta
Thoughtout life, we all live our lives assuming two roles, the role of a slave and the role of a master. It only depend on an individual which role he assumes first
— Nathanael Kanyinga
Do not inquire he name if him who asks a shelter of you. The very man who's embarrassed by his name is the one who needs shelter
— Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
It’s a full-time job being homeless. It’s a full-time job being poor.
— John Connolly, The Wolf in Winter
If you had a lot of money and you were miserable, you’d be miserable poor.
— Glen Duncan, By Blood We Live
He buys Playboy magazines and looks through them once, then gives them to me. That’s what it’s like to be rich.Here’s what it’s like to be poor. Your wife leaves you because you can’t find a job because there aren’t any jobs to find. You empty the jar of pennies on the mantel to buy cigarettes. You hate to answer the phone; it can’t possibly be good news. When your friends invite you out, you don’t go. After a while, they stop inviting. You owe them money, and sometimes they ask for it. You tell them you’ll see what you can scrape up.Which is this: nothing.
— Tom Franklin, Poachers
The poor manufacture the engines of their own destruction, but it's the rich who sell them.
— Sebastian Japrisot
There are many different ways to be poor in the world but increasingly there seems to be one single way to be rich.
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah
There are two things you should know about the poor: they tend to smell, and they are ungrateful.
— Dorothy Day
The ones who are always on your side, or so they think, are the ones who keep you down. Everything they do keeps you down. They'll forgive you for anything. Rob, rape, pillage, and kill, and they'll defend you to yourself. They understand all outrages, and all your failings and faults, too. Perfect! You can go on that way forever. What do they care? Excuse me: they do care. They want it that way.  How would they make a living, these servants of the poor, if there were no poor? What enabled me to rise above all the people who don't know enough to come in out of the rain is that one day I looked face to face at a man who hated half of everything I was and had the courage to tell me so. I remember his very words. He said, 'What you're doing is hideous--a perfect way to die young. Unless you want to live sweetly only in the hereafter, you ought to learn how to do the right thing.'" The doctor stopped what he was doing, dropped his hand to his sides, and looked directly at Peter Lake. "I hate the poor. Look what they do to themselves. How could you not hate them, unless you thought that they should be like this.
— Mark Helprin, Winter's Tale
If you want to help a hungry poor man sleeping on the bench, don’t ever wake him up; put the food on the bench, put some money and leave the place without looking at your back!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
If money is all that a man makes, then he will be poor — poor in happiness, poor in all that makes life worth living.
— Herbert N. Casson
As my father always says, there’s no shame in being poor, but it can be damned inconvenient.
— Christine Pope, Breath of Life
It's never better to make somebody poorer, even if they're rich.
— Ziad K. Abdelnour, Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics
Poors are Gift of Rich And Politics
— Santosh More
The streets are a poor kid’s PlayStation™
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Life humbles the rich by giving them problems that money can’t resolve, or, dissolve.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
It's not hard to marginalize people when they've already done it to themselves.
— Seanan McGuire, Rosemary and Rue
Think about it: If you have saved just enough to have your own house, your own car, a modicum of income to pay for food, clothes, and a few conveniences, and your everyday responsibilities start and end only with yourself… You can afford not to do anything outside of breathing, eating, and sleeping.Time would be an endless, white blanket. Without folds and pleats or sudden rips. Monday would look like Sunday, going sans adrenaline, slow, so slow and so unnoticed. Flowing, flowing, time is flowing in phrases, in sentences, in talk exchanges of people that come as pictures and videos, appearing, disappearing, in the safe, distant walls of Facebook.Dial fast food for a pizza, pasta, a burger or a salad. Cooking is for those with entire families to feed. The sala is well appointed. A day-maid comes to clean. Quietly, quietly she dusts a glass figurine here, the flat TV there. No words, just a ho-hum and then she leaves as silently as she came. Press the shower knob and water comes as rain. A TV remote conjures news and movies and soaps. And always, always, there’s the internet for uncomplaining company.Outside, little boys and girls trudge along barefoot. Their tinny, whiny voices climb up your windowsill asking for food. You see them. They don’t see you. The same way the vote-hungry politicians, the power-mad rich, the hey-did-you-know people from newsrooms, and the perpetually angry activists don’t see you. Safely ensconced in your tower of concrete, you retreat. Uncaring and old./HOW EASY IT IS NOT TO CARE
— Psyche Roxas-Mendoza
Wealth is relative. Some people aren’t really rich
—  they just have poor neighbors.
Not every happy person is rich, and, Not every rich person is happy.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
An afro is a poor man’s haircut.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
If we marry we stay too poor to educate, and when we educate, it would be too late to enjoy the life.
— M.F. Moonzajer
If love was Jesus's greatest commandment, why dont more christians do so? This is the greatest sin, if Jesus in fact gave us one and only commandment and we dont follow! GIVE YOUR LIFE FOR SOMEONE ELSE, LIKE I DID FOR YOU!!! THAT IS CHRISTIANITY, SERVE THE POOR...
— Haggai Jeffers
You've got that eternal idiotic idea that if anarchy came it would come from the poor. Why should it? The poor have been rebels, but they have never been anarchists; they have more interest than anyone else in there being some decent government. The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn't; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht. The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all. Aristocrats were always anarchists
— G.K. Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare
Once the demands of necessity and propriety have been met, the rest that one owns belongs to the poor.
— Pope Leo XIII
If you have two shirts in your closet, one belongs to you and the other to the man with no shirt.
— Ambrose of Milan
The patience and forbearance of the poor are among the strongest bulwarks of the rich.
— C.L.R. James, The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution
My God, rich people have the time to praise You if they want to, but the poor people are so busy, accept their work as praise because, my God, they don’t have time for everything.
— Garrison Keillor, Lake Wobegon Days
Frequently give up some of your property by giving it with a generous heart to the poor ... It is true that God will repay us not only in the next world but even in this.
— Francis de Sales
I thought of Sammy Glick rocking in his cradle of hate, malnutrition, prejudice, suspicions, amorality, the anarchy of the poor; I thought of him as a mangy puppy in a dog-eat-dog world. I was modulating my hate for Sammy Glick from the personal to the societal. I no longer even hated Rivington Street but the idea of Rivington Street, all Rivington Streets of all nationalities allowed to pile up in cities like gigantic dung heaps smelling up the world, ambitions growing out of filth and crawling away like worms. I saw Sammy Glick on a battlefield where every soldier was his own cause, his own army and his own flag, and I realized that I had singled him out not because he had been born into the world anymore selfish, ruthless and cruel than anybody else, even though he had become all three, but because in the midst of a war that was selfish, ruthless and cruel Sammy was proving himself the fittest and the fiercest and the fastest.
— Budd Schulberg, What Makes Sammy Run?
You know you're down and out when Okies laugh at you,' she said. With our garbage bag taped window, our tied down hood, and art supplies strapped to the roof, we'd out-Okied the Okies.
— Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle
A society which has poor people on its streets is a failed society!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Cheerful poor is rich with a smile, sulky rich is poor with a bullion of gold.
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Actors never say they're poor. They're always broke. It's always just temporary. 'Broke' is 'poor with hope'.
— Alison Arngrim, Confessions of a Prairie Bitch: How I Survived Nellie Oleson and Learned to Love Being Hated
Some of you, we all know, are poor, find it hard to live, are sometimes, as it were, gasping for breath. I have no doubt that some of you who read this book are unable to pay for all the dinners which you have actually eaten, or for the coats and shoes which are fast wearing or are already worn out, and have come to this page to spend borrowed or stolen time, robbing your creditors of an hour. It is very evident what mean and sneaking lives many of you live, for my sight has been whetted by experience; always on the limits, trying to get into business and trying to get out of debt, a very ancient slough, called by the Latins aes alienum, another's brass, for some of their coins were made of brass; still living, and dying, and buried by this other's brass; always promising to pay, promising to pay, tomorrow, and dying today, insolvent; seeking to curry favor, to get custom, by how many modes, only not state-prison offences; lying, flattering, voting, contracting yourselves into a nutshell of civility or dilating into an atmosphere of thin and vaporous generosity, that you may persuade your neighbor to let you make his shoes, or his hat, or his coat, or his carriage, or import his groceries for him; making yourselves sick, that you may lay up something against a sick day, something to be tucked away in an old chest, or in a stocking behind the plastering, or, more safely, in the brick bank; no matter where, no matter how much or how little.
— Henry David Thoreau, Walden
Don't let a bad day make you feel like you have a bad life.
— Unknown
People live inside the stories they tell themselves. Others see about you the things that you believe.
— C.D. Bell, Chimera: A Weregirl Novel
Thus began a long intimate relationship with God, a true Father, and not some mean guy up in the sky with a hammer. But a caring Father who loved me and had a powerful plan for my life. As I lovingly held my newborn daughter Teresa I realized God loved me like I loved my new baby. Amazing.
— Shelley Lubben, Truth Behind the Fantasy of Porn: The Greatest Illusion on Earth
...I was a Champion living the Champion life where nothing was impossible and everything was an opportunity. With my ugly past behind me, I boldly stepped onto my new street and breathed in the fresh cool air.
— Shelley Lubben, Truth Behind the Fantasy of Porn: The Greatest Illusion on Earth
Romans 8: 28: And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.
— Shelley Lubben, Truth Behind the Fantasy of Porn: The Greatest Illusion on Earth
I'm neither extrovert nor introvert. I'm just an imperfect example of an ambivert.
— Irfa Rahat
But Pescatore wasn’t leading a seminar on the morality of abortion. She wanted the jury to focus on the legal requirements for abortion providers in Pennsylvania. “The number one thing is the twenty-four-hour waiting period,” she told them. “It’s not like you can walk in and say, ‘I want an abortion,’ and you get it. A woman has a right to go in and be counseled before she has an abortion.” But Gosnell had flatly ignored the twenty-four-hour waiting period. He ignored the law, Pescatore said, out of simple greed. “Money. That was the only law that Dr. Gosnell knew,” she said. “You went to 3801 Lancaster Avenue where no laws were followed. None, zero.” The facts would show that Gosnell didn’t do “normal, legal abortions” largely because it was both cheaper and easier for him to induce labor, wait for the woman to give birth, and then kill the baby outside of the womb with scissors.
— Ann McElhinney, Gosnell: The Untold Story of America’s Most Prolific Serial Killer
Your mind is a Microcosm of strength and power. There’s all the magic you need in it. When all else fails, search within!
— Chinonye J. Chidolue
I'm always relieved when someone is delivering a eulogy and I realize I'm listening to it.
— George Carlin
Make happiness your ultimatum goal in life, and only then you will live an inspired life. Ana Maria Frith, Limitless Change Your Life
— Ana M Frith
...I've had a lot of time to think about this, and yes, we could go down your route. The difficult, painful one, because, let's face it, Ellie, you're a fan of the hard way through. Or, we could, slowly but surely, try to forgive each other for all the mistakes we've made and the hurt we've caused each other. None of us sitting here is innocent...
— Harper Bliss, At the Water's Edge
Everything comes to you when you ready. If it did not come to you then know that you not yet ready, build yourself to it. Ana Maria Frith, from: Limitless: Change Your Life
— Ana M Frith
Helping others, you will find that you help your-self.  Ana Maria Frith, from: Limitless Change Your Life
— Ana M Frith
Believe in you because you are powerful.Ana Maria Frith, Limitless Change Your Life
— Ana M Frith
Earthly life is a temporary phenomenon only”, Jesus said thoughtfully. “Death comes sooner or later to all mortals. It is honour that is the eternal thing. I asked you not about your life, but about your honour and your good name.
— Viktor Shel, Why He Betrayed Jesus
That happens in life sometimes, doesn't it? Something terrible happens and you think it's the worst thing ever and then it turns out to be the best.
— Sarah Morgan, Miracle on 5th Avenue
I almost trust her to burn the bridges while standing at the cliff herself. She hardly agrees to be on the same page as others, either ahead of all or all in a different book.
— Parul Wadhwa, The Masquerade
The emotion I'd held back for years assaulted me with staggering intensity. Everything. All of it. I cried for Clay, for the lost years with Courtney, but most of all for myself and the cowardly person I'd become. They were right. I was a shell of who I used to be and lived a lonely little life. I'd been certain that protecting my heart had been the right way to go. That Courtney and I didn't mix in the long term. That love was not for me. I'd been wrong on all counts.
— Melissa Brayden, Strawberry Summer
No matter how different we are on the outside, the love we have within us is the same.
— Lorri Faye
Huh,” groaned Father Gabe. “I sympathize with you, Tommy. Relationships can be a crap shoot. You think you’re going to roll a seven and up pops snake eyes.
— Robert Hobkirk, Tommy in the Promised Land
The most important thing in life is to stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will
— Charles Dickens
When you're a 20-something-year-old athlete and you're getting a six-figure check every week, you're not thinking about next week. You're not thinking, 'I'm going to be broke,' or 'I'm going to need another job.' But I'll tell you, there are a lot of broke athletes out there - I know plenty - and I didn't want to end up as one.
— Michael Strahan
This outburst caused Vexis to tremble and reach up to her neck. Fox groaned and glared at them exasperated. ‘Shut up! Stop blaming yourselves! You think you’re these big heros going around doing good, saving the world? Does it make you feel good? Well, you’re not. You can’t change much, you can do a bit of good here and there, but you can’t blame yourselves for every wrong you failed to right!'~Fox FletcherDeathsworn Arc 5: The Temple of the Mad God- Martyn Stanley
— Martyn Stanley
We don't need inspiration to do something, we just need interest.
— SanviWords
You only need one ray of light to chase all the shadows away.
— Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove
Because a time comes in every man's life when he decides what sort of man he's going to be: the kind who lets other people walk all over him, or not.
— Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove
My readers time is as important as mine
— Brenda Kay Winters
She's really gone, then. The little girl with the back of her shirt sticking out like a duck tail, the one who needed help reaching the dishes, and who begged to see the frosted cakes in the bakery window. Time and tragedy have forced her to grow too quickly, at least for my taste, into a young woman who stitches beeding wounds and knows our mother can hear only so much.
— Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay
Looking at Prim's face, it's hard to imagine she's the same frail little girl I left behind on reapimg day nine months ago. The combination of that ordeal and all that has followed - the cruelty in the district, the parade of sick and wounded that she often treates herself now if my mother's hands are too full - these things have aged her years. She's grown quite a bit, too; we're practically the same height now, but that isn't what makes her seem so much older.
— Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire
And then it hits me. They already have. They have kiled her father in those wretched mines. They have sat by as she almost starved to death. They have chosen her as a tribute, then made her watch her sister fight to the death in the Games. She has been hurt far worse than I had at the age of twelve. And even that pales in comparison with Rue's life.
— Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire
We write for the same reason that we walk , talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans - because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings. That's why we paint, that's why we dare to love someone - because we have the impulse to explain who we are.
— Maya Angelou
Gossip, slander and jealousy have caused more pain than many wars.
— Heather Wolf
it’s funny how I’m encouraged to go to school so much, but I’ve learned more valuable things on google then from school.
— James Jean-Pierre
Hate destroys EVERYTHING except itself. Everything. Including you.
— Tanya Masse
Honour, in her modern self-confidence, had grown up never having to face actual raw, passionate, drop-down-dead-hostility. She didn't really understand what was going to happen,
— Ruth Ahmed, When Ali Met Honour
I pay ZERO attention to what you say. But your actions have my undivided attention.
— Sotero M Lopez II
To err is human. To count other people's errors is humane
— Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land
In the world of oratory, the cunning atheist declares himself a believer so as to preserve access to the rich fund of tales from religious texts and to powerful concepts like God, fate, angels, the soul, & the afterlife.
— Agona Apell, The Success Genome Unravelled: Turning Men from Rot to Rock
Sometimes we look at life from the perspective of our own problems and, in so doing, ignore how fortunate we are.
— The Prophet of Life
My heart longs for the day when there will be no more suffering, no more hatred or violence, only love and a child will be able to grow up in a world without ever having to know the pain and anguish of an empty belly.
— Heather Wolf, Kipnuk the Talking Dog
If there is ONE THING that you do today, let it be this...Don't take life WAY too seriously.
— Tanya Masse
I wish to get you out of my veins, but you are my third skin; I can't rub you off.
— Sheeba Shamsudeen
If you judge a person that you don't even know by the tattoos they have, the piercings they have, the way they dress or by how they look to you in general, YOU are the one with the issue, not them. Stop the hate. Live and let live.
— Tanya Masse
Contrary to the common misconception that loving yourself equates to being self-absorbed and lacking empathy or consideration for others, the true meaning of self-love is about caring, respecting and knowing yourself, taking responsibility for your life, and ultimately, your happiness.
— Miya Yamanouchi, Embrace Your Sexual Self: A Practical Guide for Women
It is by no means your past that determines or dictates your present or your future; it is what you think and what you say, which then results in what you feel and what you do.
— Miya Yamanouchi, Embrace Your Sexual Self: A Practical Guide for Women
Boredom is your soul's way of telling you to step up and do what you were born to.
— Miya Yamanouchi
Bending according to circumstances in not weakness, it's wisdom.
— Saru Singhal
The true principle to promotion and advancement is generosity.The giving of oneself… your time, talent and substance. Today, I choose to be a giver.
— Kathy McClary
We know not through our intellect but through our Experience
— Maurice Merleau-Ponty
You know it’s the 21st Century when someone TEXTS you from the washroom to ask you to bring them a roll of toilet paper.
— Tanya Masse
Water IS the most important element on the face of the earth, because without water, there would be no WINE and without WINE I would be living in a PADDED CELL!
— Tanya Masse
If you have something genuine to say to another person that would make them feel super awesome about themselves and make their day... SAY IT! The world needs more of that! But no fake BS... the world doesn't need more of that. No.
— Tanya Masse
Focus on the POSITIVERecognize the BLESSINGSFind the HUMORHope for the BEST&Brace yourself for the worst.
— Tanya Masse, Stairway to Awesomeness!: 30 Fundamental Steps to Living a Life of Awesomeness!
OVERREACTING" sounds like "OVARYACTING" Coincidence? I think NOT!!
— Tanya Masse
There is an animal joy to being young that you can only appreciate when you are old.
— C Mack Lewis
How is it that food STILL contains calories that make you gain weight in the 21st CENTURY?! It’s like scientists aren’t even trying!
— Tanya Masse
...Be friend with Thief ... he will make you understand what is wrong doing ...
— Bhavya Palia
There are only two kinds of people in this world
—  those who have a conscience and those who do not.
Eliminate all unnecessary negativity from your life and watch it change for the better.
— Tanya Masse
Nothing limits you like not knowing your limitations.
— Tom Hayes
Life is not just about surviving, it’s about finding fulfillment.
— Sharon Law Tucker, How to Be a BadAss - A Survival Guide for Women
You are that blue-white diamond, so treat yourself like a Tiffany.
— Sharon Law Tucker, How to Be a BadAss - A Survival Guide for Women
Love and laughter are stronger than cancer.
— Tanya Masse
Lives are a lot like money
—  there are a lot of people who want to spend yours.
Where there is evil, brutality and hatred, there is overwhelming courage, strength and kindness. Focus on the good.Stay positive.Stay together.Stay peaceful.Stay strong.
— Tanya Masse
We are often so worried about what is going to happen that we can't enjoy what is happening NOW.
— Tanya Masse
I don’t really want fame and fortune
—  I just want to enjoy playing my music for people that enjoy hearing it.
Faith You have is small but it can change your life
— blasio kajuna
Finding your bliss can make survival seem like a joyous journey. And a strange thing happens along the way when you love what you are doing: you become good at it.
— Sharon Law Tucker
TempleTemple is a place where God stays,In your heart is where God lays.So if you can touch the God inside your heart,Divine bliss shall always become your part.
— Ron Sen, The Verses of Life
You have two choices... You can make the BEST of IT or you can let IT get the BEST of you!
— Tanya Masse
You can’t take anything in life WAY too seriously...Even the serious stuff!
— Tanya Masse
Power of WordsEvery word that you speak,Will either make you feel strong or weak.When you use words, be aware,People who use the right words, well in life they fare.
— Ron Sen, The Verses of Life
Faith helps you to over come all the troubles,If you faith, troubles will blow out like bubbles.So let faith become your strength,As faith will help you to walk the length.
— Ron Sen, The Verses of Life
Expand Your selfReach out to your big mind,Where the treasures of life you shall find.And you can do this by expanding yourself,You will be able to do that when within yourself you delve.
— Ron Sen, The Verses of Life
Make a differenceWhen I live everyday,I ask myself “What did I do today?To make a difference to the world where I live,And that can happen only when I can be selfless and give.
— Ron Sen, The Verses of Life
The "I love you"s are exchanged excessively under our roof. Cancer teaches you how important and critical that is.
— Tanya Masse
I love you"s are exhanged excessively under our roof. Cancer teaches you how important and critical that is.
— Tanya Masse
Nothing has been as instructive in exploring the notion of authenticity as relearning the work of the great philosophers Aristotle and Plato. We are struck by their applicability to our work as we help companies and people develop their brands. Why do these early philosophers have so much to say that is helpful to modern marketers? We believe it is because they were focused on the fundamental issues of authenticity that we all face: Who are we? Why are we? How should we behave? Asking these questions encourages us to deepen our self-awareness. In particular, this issue of “who are we?” is critical. Knowing who we are is the key to elevating our capacities and performance.
— Tom Hayes
To take each day as a separate page, to be read carefully, savoring all of the details, this is best for me, I think.
— Pearl S. Buck, The Eternal Wonder
This LIFE is NOT about a BIG house, VALUABLE things, a FULL bank account or a POWERFUL status. It’s about having a BIG open mind and heart that respects and accepts differences. It’s about VALUING your family, friends & being grateful for the little things.It’s about FILLING your heart and soul full of love and laughter, making the best of each day while you can. It’s about having the POWER to have a positive attitude and show kindness even when you’re dealing with your own adversity. THAT’S what this LIFE is all about!
— Tanya Masse
Positive lessons learned... Blessings recognized... Humor found... No regrets.
— Tanya Masse
Crowds moved wherever he went, across the bridge to Manhattan, in New York, wherever he went, life flowed and eddied, but he was not part of it.
— Pearl S. Buck, The Eternal Wonder
Don't waste any of your precious time or energy on negativity. There's no time for that nonsense.
— Tanya Masse
Whatever came to him was good. It was life. It was knowledge.
— Pearl S. Buck, The Eternal Wonder
Always remember that the most important things in this life are not things. Stay safe, stay strong and stay together.
— Tanya Masse
Too many of us spend too much time worrying about how long we are going to live rather than focusing on how we live. People cannot live forever, but memories can. Remember that with every breath and your life will change.
— Tanya Masse
Not worried about yesterday. No sense worrying about tomorrow. Today, I conquer. Join me. #Namaste #CarpeDiem #Push
— Ace Antonio Hall
I think that those few words were my greatest mistake.
— Anita Brookner, Brief Lives
If you let it bother you, it will bother you.
— Tanya Masse
You can make the best of it or you can let it get the best of you. Those are your two choices.
— Tanya Masse
It's ok to think the way you think, just as long as you respect that it's not the only way.
— Tanya Masse
Long ago, men went to sea, and women waited for them, standing on the edge of the water, scanning the horizon for the tiny ship. Now I wait for Henry. He vanishes unwillingly, without warning. I wait for him. Each moment that I wait feels like a year, an eternity. Each moment is as slow and transparent as glass. Through each moment I can see infinite moments lined up, waiting. Why has he gone where I cannot follow?
— Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife
We should not give away a moment to anyone who does not deserve it.
— Deb Caletti, The Secret Life of Prince Charming
Every moment before this one depends on this one.
— Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Hell-on-skis, can you hear me? This is flying cupcake.
— Joss Stirling, Seeking Crystal
Xav!Got you. Not letting you go.I realised I wasn't alone in mental deep space
—  he had always been there and could pilot me home.
For a split second they stared at each other. A fleeting, lasting moment. One person noticing another person out of a whole crowd of strangers.
— Alexandra Potter, Calling Romeo