c2p-cmd/Good-Quotes-Authors huggingface dataset:
Civic imagination and innovation and creativity are emerging from local ecosystems now and radiating outward, and this great innovation, this great wave of localism that's now arriving, and you see it in how people eat and work and share and buy and move and live their everyday lives, this isn't some precious parochialism, this isn't some retreat into insularity, no. This is emergent. The localism of our time is networked powerfully. And so, for instance, consider the ways that strategies for making cities more bike-friendly have spread so rapidly from Copenhagen to New York to Austin to Boston to Seattle. Think about how experiments in participatory budgeting, where everyday citizens get a chance to allocate and decide upon the allocation of city funds. Those experiments have spread from Porto Alegre, Brazil to here in New York City, to the wards of Chicago. Migrant workers from Rome to Los Angeles and many cities between are now organizing to stage strikes to remind the people who live in their cities what a day without immigrants would look like. In China, all across that country, members of the New Citizens' Movement are beginning to activate and organize to fight official corruption and graft, and they're drawing the ire of officials there, but they're also drawing the attention of anti-corruption activists all around the world. In Seattle, where I'm from, we've become part of a great global array of cities that are now working together bypassing government altogether, national government altogether, in order to try to meet the carbon reduction goals of the Kyoto Protocol. All of these citizens, united, are forming a web, a great archipelago of power that allows us to bypass brokenness and monopolies of control.
— Eric Liu
The wyvern swooped, but it was not to rend and tear but rather to bank and stare with one curious beady eye at the bodies of the minds that had touched hers in a way that no human had dared to do for hundreds of years. Such a slender and delicate creature, the wyvern thought, and so young, only a child in her reckoning, and yet with so much power.
— Duncan Harper, Witch of the Fall
Remember the power is not in the leader of the group, but in the Creator of the universe.
— Teresa Hampton, Leading Ladies: Willing Hearts, Willing Hands
The usefulness or otherwise of wealth, status and power to a possessor depends only on a single factor: the nature and strength of his reason.
— Thiruman Archunan
Time is money, money is power, power is pizza, and pizza is knowledge, let's go!
— Aubrey Plaza
Man rarely knows his power.
— Mitch Albom The Time Keeper
236Understand the consequences of counting the moments.
— Mitch Albom The Time Keeper
I’ve learned that you cannot be bitter and happy. You cannot be pitiful and powerful at the same time, you have to choose one of them. If you’ve had a lot of people that have hurt you, then you won’t help yourself by being bitter, resentful and pitiful about it. Forgiveness is freedom, and forgiveness is power.
— Jeanette Coron
I am suprised to a mad extent that people who claim to be intelligent and truth seeking go to church, hear their religious leaders say something, and without vetting it to a reasonable extent swallow it hook and all. Now the church has moved from speaking truth to power but has now aced her game by canvassing for politicians who have no business with God or his people. "by the use of simple propaganda even the most spiritual among us can be sold for the price of an orange," and the church is already falling into this snare. Without sentiments my prayers has been that God should raise us leaders who will futher his enterprise, leaders who will put God and the masses first. So it does not matter if it is Buhari or Jonathan, after all God used Cyrus who was a full blooded gentile(Isaiah 45 verses 1-8) to futher His cause. I strongly urge Nigerians to continue in their prayers for this Jerusalem. Left to some of our religious leaders they will even go the extent of helping God to decide who gets the votes. Let's not allow ourselves to be blinded by the curtains of religion and politics. And instead of using social media to spread bad blood and create feuds, let's encourage and spread the message of peace. Come the D day, we will go out there, vote (at least we have that right), and leave the rest to God. I am a Patriot
— Paul Bamikole
When you have no real power, go public—really public. The public is where the real power is.
— Elizabeth Warren, A Fighting Chance
Your attitudes, action, reactions and expectations are harboured in the power of your thoughts. Think positively and you will smile at the harvest time.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Dream Big!: See Your Bigger Picture!
They’ve kept the truth about Persephone a secret,burying it deep below Hercules’s murdered wifeand all of Zeus’s affairs.It’s dangerous, you see, a spark threatening to ignite a long dead flame.Power.She loved her power,the Queen of the Dead,to forever reign in the fires of hell. She wore her crown like a beacon;a beautiful queen,plotting against her king.They never wanted youto know the hunger of Persephone,how she starved for something other than pomegranates.Control.The primal thirst that burns all women’s throats,denied by eons of men.Listen closely to the voice from hell, sweetheart. “You are a queen;don’t wait for a king.
— Emily Palermo
From the moment I met you, your personality had the most extraordinary influence over me. I was dominated, soul brain and power.
— Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
You are your abilities and they are you. I can't put it to you more plainly. Do you know why I hate this cure? It's a statement that what we are is inherently wrong. It's a punishment for something that isn't our fault - all because they can't control their fear about what we can do, anymore than they can control their resentment that there are people out there stronger and more powerful than they are. They want to strip you of yourself - your ability to protect and enforce your right to make decisions about your life. Your own body. Mark my words: in the end, it won't be a choice. They'll decide this for you.
— Alexandra Bracken, In The Afterlight
If you want to have the time of your life, change how you use the time in your life.
— Tim Fargo
Music is more powerful than reason in the soul. That is also why Plato made music the very first step in his long educational curriculum: good music was to create the harmony of soul that would be a ripe field for the higher harmony of reason to take root in later. And that is also why he said that the decay of the ideal state would begin with a decay in music. In fact, one of your obscure modern scholars has shown that social and political revolutions have usually been preceded by musical revolutions, and why another sage said, 'Let me write the songs of a nation and I care not who writes its laws.
— Peter Kreeft
A man’s character is most evident by how he treats those who are not in a position either to retaliate or reciprocate.
— Paul Eldridge
Rebuild your world, rebuild your race, rebuild your empire. Rebuild it all. But make sure you rebuild your ideals too. Rebuild the principles that made you a great and honorable galactic power in the first place. Don't prey on the weak. Don't steal from the helpless. Don't murder the innocent. Be a force for good, not a force for yourself.
— Dan Abnett, Doctor Who: The Silent Stars Go By
That was the lure of wealth, he'd discovered: a throaty whisper in your ear that you were special, that it was all - this wine, this woman, this world - for you. That it in some way existed only so that you might partake of it.
— Marcus Sakey, Brilliance
Is power like the vis viva and the quantite d’avancement? That is, is it conserved by the universe, or is it like shares of a stock, which may have great value one day, and be worthless the next? If power is like stock shares, then it follows that the immense sum thereof lately lost by B[olingbroke] has vanished like shadows in sunlight. For no matter how much wealth is lost in stock crashes, it never seems to turn up, but if power is conserved, then B’s must have gone somewhere. Where is it? Some say ‘twas scooped up by my Lord R, who hid it under a rock, lest my Lord M come from across the sea and snatch it away. My friends among the Whigs say that any power lost by a Tory is infallibly and insensibly distributed among all the people, but no matter how assiduously I search the lower rooms of the clink for B’s lost power, I cannot seem to find any there, which explodes that argument, for there are assuredly very many people in those dark salons. I propose a novel theory of power, which is inspired by . . . the engine for raising water by fire. As a mill makes flour, a loom makes cloth and a forge makes steel, so we are assured this engine shall make power. If the backers of this device speak truly, and I have no reason to deprecate their honesty, it proves that power is not a conserved quantity, for of such quantities, it is never possible to make more. The amount of power in the world, it follows, is ever increasing, and the rate of increase grows ever faster as more of these engines are built. A man who hordes power is therefore like a miser who sits on a heap of coins in a realm where the currency is being continually debased by the production of more coins than the market can bear. So that what was a great fortune, when first he raked it together, insensibly becomes a slag heap, and is found to be devoid of value. When at last he takes it to the marketplace to be spent. Thus my Lord B and his vaunted power hoard what is true of him is likely to be true of his lackeys, particularly his most base and slavish followers such as Mr. Charles White. This varmint has asserted that he owns me. He fancies that to own a man is to have power, yet he has got nothing by claiming to own me, while I who was supposed to be rendered powerless, am now writing for a Grub Street newspaper that is being perused by you, esteemed reader.
— Neal Stephenson, The System of the World
It lent a Man a certain peace of mind... to ride through threats and terrors unhearing: it even lent a man a certain real protection, for he could not hear temptation and bad advice to be swayed by it, but it was no protection at all when power reached out with tangible results and brought down the lightning.
— C.J. Cherryh, Fortress of Dragons
Redesign your image, make it brighter! You can’t wait for any other time, any other person or any other skill. Once you are convinced about your personal power, you can enter the race and change the course of flow.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Dream Big!: See Your Bigger Picture!
We live in an age fit for heroes. No time has ever offered such perils or prizes. Man can provide a full life for humanity – or he can destroy himself with the problems he has created. The test of this century will be whether man confuses the growth of wealth and power with the growth of spirit and character.…
— Vince Lombardi Jr., What It Takes to Be Number One: Vince Lombardi on Leadership
Command and obedience are but unfortunate necessities of human life: society in equality is its normal state.
— John Stuart Mill
If you have nothing to write your power of imagination is lost.
— Kishore Bansal
My definition for GOD that works for me is “Pure Energy, Supreme Consciousness.” The highest resolution of pure energy we use is the sensation we call “love.
— Stanley Victor Paskavich, Stantasyland: Quips Quotes and Quandaries
Love” is only a one syllable word but it’s the most powerful one mankind’s ever heard.
— Stanley Victor Paskavich, Stantasyland: Quips Quotes and Quandaries
Every day in life we’re told who this is and who that is. But when we sit we’re all the same when we remove our hat.
— Stanley Victor Paskavich, Stantasyland: Quips Quotes and Quandaries
One needs to be beyond love and above humanity to wield power, or so I sometimes think.
— Hock G. Tjoa, Agamemnon Must Die
I strike terror among men, I can't be bothered by what they think.
— Tairrie B.
To be undefeated, to primer is to learn the game for not just your talents but for the game itself.
— K. Abernathy Can You Action Past Your Devil's Advocate
Do not settle; open up yourself by surrendering to creating your own kind of success ALL THE WAY! Whether you have superior or less-than-average skills, you will cultivate your success story through determination and consistency.
— K. Abernathy Can You Action Past Your Devil's Advocate
Pray that your marriage is one in which you both agree & that God will be in the center of it
— Stormie Omartian, The Power of Praying: Help for a Woman's Journey Through Life
Be united like a rain
—  be powerful like an ocean.
Entrepreneurs are innovators, visionaries—generators of new ideas turning into coinage
— K. Abernathy Can You Action Past Your Devil's Advocate
Power has a social function.
— Moisés Naím
Jesus didn’t die to forgive me of my sin but leave me in it. He died to forgive and to free me from the power of sin.
— Paula Hendricks
Desire for power is a kind of greed indulged by the unfulfilled
— Michael Foley
Implore yourself to continue to Action Past Your Devil’s Advocate.
— K. Abernathy Can You Action Past Your Devil's Advocate
Your power to choose can never be taken from you. It can be neglected and it can be ignored. But if used, it can make all the difference.
— Steve Goodier
As I am an honest man, I thought you had received some bodily wound. There is more sense in that than in reputation. Reputation is an idle and most false imposition, oft got without merit and lost without deserving.
— William Shakespeare, Othello
Knowledge becomes power when you share it.
— Debasish Mridha
What if deep down inside you...you knew you were more amazing and magnificent than you thought you were?
— Roger James McDonald
When you lived on the wrong side of the law, information, however vague or apparently meaningless, was everything. It gave you leverage. And leverage was power.
— Dougie Brimson, Top Dog
Love is the source of great power and great strength.
— Debasish Mridha
Compassion is even more powerful than courage. Sure, with courage you can conquer a world - but only with compassion can you heal and build it.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
There’s nothing wrong with accumulating wealth, receiving recognition for your efforts, and having some power and status--what’s wrong is when you think that’s who you are.
— Morton Shaevitz, Refire! Don't Retire: Make the Rest of Your Life the Best of Your Life
There are five people you meet in heaven," the Blue Man suddenly said. "Each of us was in your life for a reason. You may not have known the reason at the time, and that is what heaven is for. For understanding your life on Earth."Eddie looked confused."People think of heaven as a paradise garden, a place where they can float on clouds and laze in rivers and mountains. But scenery without solace is meaningless."This is the greatest gift God can give you: To understand what happened in your life. To have it explained. It is the peace you have been searching for.
— Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven
Through action anti-advocates are made believers, even though that isn’t a goal, Right! Your goal is and should always be to fulfill your own expectations and exceed them.
— Through action anti-advocates are made believers even though that isn t a goal Right Your goal is an
I've heard many say "I'll sell my soul to the Devil"in hopes of gaining money, power or fame.Why do they think that they have that much worth over any other person?And the Devil if there is one wouldn't simply wait for them to condemn themselves on their own
— Stanley Victor Paskavich
Truth begets knowledge and knowledge begets power.
— Slade Combs, The Choice: Death Is Just The Beginning
Be true to your authenticity and innovate with brave ammunition.
— K. Abernathy Can You Action Past Your Devil's Advocate
The main reason why God gave us imaginations is to allow us to have a specific power that can help us make realistic decisions.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Dream Big!: See Your Bigger Picture!
Be thankful for your achievements; be thankful for your accomplishments, no matter how big or small. Be thankful for the mind to complete the accomplishments. Be thankful for your past, present, and future. And know that if you are creating success stories you will find that average is how you began, above average is then where you will stand! Lest you forget the strong develop and improve; the weak get frantic, digress and deviate.
— K. Abernathy Can You Action Past Your Devil's Advocate
If you believe that you are not omnipresent, omniscient, and ultimately omnipotent, then you are deluded.
— Kevin Michel, Moving Through Parallel Worlds To Achieve Your Dreams
Keep the change," he smiled. Was there ever a more empowering phrase than "Keep the change"?
— David Nicholls, One Day
There are opportunities for all of us, we just have to open our eyes and hold ourselves completely accountable
— K. Aberanthy Can You Action Past Your Devil's Advocate
Lest you forget the strong develop and improve the weak get frantic digress and deviate
— K. Abernathy Can You Action Past Your Devil's Advocate
All porn stars on Animal Farm are equal but some porn scenes are more unequal than others.
— Brian Spellman
..be able and willing to action regardless of all trauma, all the No’s, and non-supporters one could headache and pain on.
— K. Abernathy Can You Action Past Your Devil's Advocate
We all have a little entrepreneur inside of us. Wanting to leverage it is what gives us an entrepreneurial spirit and an entrepreneurial mind. Actually doing it makes one an entrepreneur.
— K. Abernathy Can You Action Past Your Devil's Advocate
if you are not a fan of great consumer service, then you are not a fan of business ultimately not making you a fan of money.
— K. Abernathy Can You Action Past Your Devil's Advocate
Ultimately, having what we want is our liability. It is no one else’s. Purge the blame game. Everyone has a legitimate reason why they CAN’T get something done. It’s the will to get it done REGARDLESS.
— K. Abernathy Can You Action Past Your Devil's Advocate
Exceed, succeed, outdo, overdo, all with a smile.
— K. Abernathy Can You Action Past Your Devil's Advocate
I think in the corridors of power these dangerous kinds of orders are issued in a much more vague way, passed down two or three levels of command before they're given to the assassin.
— Eddie Campbell
Entrepreneurs, let’s begin to turn our desire and design into reward.
— K. Abernathy Can You Action Past Your Devil's Advocate
Pick the paper off the floor, throw it in the trash, study—even if you think you already know the subject, say thank you for an act of kindness, and be the support you want to receive. You want to become a master of the mundane, making it easier to be a sorcerer of success.
— K. Abernathy Can You Action Past Your Devil's Advocate
If you are lucky, there is a moment in your life when you have some say as to what your currency is going to be. I decided early on it was not going to be my looks.
— Amy Poehler
The lion does not need the whole world to fear him, only those nearest where he roams.
— A.J. Darkholme, Rise of the Morningstar
As she sustained wound after wound...the fairy should have fallen, but instead, she danced. This was Titania, the Fairy Queen.
— Hiro Mashima
Our emotions hold more power over us than blade or poison alike. To embrace freely the entire spectrum of our emotions is to allow a multitude of Trojan horses containing hidden emotional poisons to circumvent the walls of rationalization – walls we need to protect our trust, confidence, understanding, and self-control.
— A.J. Darkholme, Rise of the Morningstar
There is no neutral position in the Lord. You are either becoming more like Christ every day or you’re becoming less like Him. That’s because whether you realize it or not, you’re never standing still.
— Stormie Omartian, The Power of a Praying Woman
Like tiny gods, all that we say and do holds a power so great that any one of us in any given moment can be responsible for the birth of a new civilization or the collapse of our own.
— A.J. Darkholme, Rise of the Morningstar
No army is comprised of all the same kinds of units or types of troops. There is power in diversity. If you always see only one choice, or use only one option, you will surely lose more than you win.
— A.J. Darkholme, Rise of the Morningstar
Why spend your life working on defense when no defense can be made truly impenetrable? Take the offensive – learn the vulnerabilities of the world around you and be the change you wish to see rather than living in constant fear of what may happen to you instead.
— A.J. Darkholme, Rise of the Morningstar
Always think at least two steps ahead [in everything, with everyone].
— A.J. Darkholme, Rise of the Morningstar
There is immense power in an idea, because it unites people. It motivates them toward change. But the real power lies in their unity, in coming together – if enough can be rallied to a cause, no matter how ridiculous, it will be seen and heard.
— A.J. Darkholme, Rise of the Morningstar
Many people in this country who want to see us the minority, and who don’t want to see us taking too militant or too uncompromising a stand, are absolutely against the successful regrouping or organising of any faction in this country whose thought and whose thinking pattern is international rather than national… There’s a world wide revolution going on, it goes beyond Mississippi, it goes beyond Alabama, it goes beyond Harlem. What is it revolting against? The power structure. The American power structure? No. The French power structure? No. The English power structure? No. Then, what power structure? An international Western power structure.
— Malcolm X
[Everything you write is] not simply a collection of words, but a means of influence not to be taken lightly. Let your recipient's emotions be the gondola, and your words, its gondolier.
— A.J. Darkholme, Rise of the Morningstar
My power is everywhere propping up illusions, but I'm taking it back by letting go of them & just riding the stallion into wonderland. Let's see what you've got to say about the darkness in the mountains, I wonder if you know you can just turn it all to light. As we ride through the valley can you see the same water flowing that I do, or do dust clouds conceal it and block up your nose & throat? You're so thirsty for the end of the journey but I don't want you to miss the magic on the road.
— Jay Woodman
When you give people a choice, they believe they have power.
— A.J. Darkholme, Rise of the Morningstar
To sum up: politically speaking, it is insufficient to say that power and violence are not the same. Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent.
— Hannah Arendt, On Violence
Simplicity gives you the power of freedom.Kindness gives you the power of boldness.Humility gives you the power of acceptance.
— Debasish Mridha
Fear is for the powerless. Fear is for the alone. But as you stand together now, you are neither of those. Together, you amplify each other’s strengths; you nullify each other’s weaknesses.
— A.J. Darkholme, Rise of the Morningstar
The strong will always rule the weak.
— A.J. Darkholme, Rise of the Morningstar
Competition works best in sports, but humans get addicted to stuff.
— Criss Jami, Killosophy
Perspective alone can make an experience positive or negative, but regardless of which you let it become, it can only have as much power over your outlook on life as you give it.
— A.J. Darkholme, Rise of the Morningstar
Poor Ike. He'll say do this and do that and nothing at all will happen.
— Harry Truman
Gaining satisfaction through accomplishments is and will always be a slippery slope, because there will come a time when you realize you have accomplished all that is within your power to accomplish in the realm of good, and will have nowhere else to turn but to the realms of greed and powerlust to find the satisfaction you crave.
— A.J. Darkholme, Rise of the Morningstar
Power and influence: things that should be obtained not for means of greed, nor pride, nor ego, but rather to ensure that in the right moment, when your wisdom and benevolence are required to keep humanity strong and united, you can deliver and orchestrate others toward the greater good.
— A.J. Darkholme, Rise of the Morningstar
Have the courage that you will trample over your I'll struggles of the past till all is settled for your celebrations. You will be victorious in the face of difficulties if only give are courageous!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Dream Big!: See Your Bigger Picture!
Emotional states change like the wind, and to indulge them only gives them more power over a person.
— A.J. Darkholme, Rise of the Morningstar
As her body expanded so did her interior landscape. She imagined minarets, skyscrapers, entire cities being constructed inside her. Thighs thickened, belly became basketball-sized, buttocks deepened with dimples. Even her taste-buds shifted, and she held her tongue out for crushed ice, chalk, charcoal.
— Diriye Osman
There is no bigger weapon than brain, yet the time is more powerful in the World.
— Sam pen
Celaena opened her arms wide, Goldryn burning bright in one hand. “Behold my power, Maeve. Behold what I grapple with in the deep dark, what prowls under my skin.”Celaena exhaled a breath and extinguished each and every flame in the
— Sarah J. Maas, Heir of Fire
To strengthen your power of love,Love those who do not deserve your love.
— Debasish Mridha
My dearest friend Abigail, These probably could be the last words I write to you and I may not live long enough to see your response but I truly have lived long enough to live forever in the hearts of my friends. I thought a lot about what I should write to you. I thought of giving you blessings and wishes for things of great value to happen to you in future; I thought of appreciating you for being the way you are; I thought to give sweet and lovely compliments for everything about you; I thought to write something in praise of your poems and prose; and I thought of extending my gratitude for being one of the very few sincerest friends I have ever had. But that is what all friends do and they only qualify to remain as a part of the bunch of our loosely connected memories and that's not what I can choose to be, I cannot choose to be lost somewhere in your memories. So I thought of something through which I hope you will remember me for a very long time. I decided to share some part of my story, of what led me here, the part we both have had in common. A past, which changed us and our perception of the world. A past, which shaped our future into an unknown yet exciting opportunity to revisit the lost thoughts and to break free from the libido of our lost dreams. A past, which questioned our whole past. My dear, when the moment of my past struck me, in its highest demonised form, I felt dead, like a dead-man walking in flesh without a soul, who had no reason to live any more. I no longer saw any meaning of life but then I saw no reason to die as well. I travelled to far away lands, running away from friends, family and everyone else and I confined myself to my thoughts, to my feelings and to myself. Hours, days, weeks and months passed and I waited for a moment of magic to happen, a turn of destiny, but nothing happened, nothing ever happens. I waited and I counted each moment of it, thinking about every moment of my life, the good and the bad ones. I then saw how powerful yet weak, bright yet dark, beautiful yet ugly, joyous yet grievous; is a one single moment. One moment makes the difference. Just a one moment. Such appears to be the extreme and undisputed power of a single moment. We live in a world of appearance, Abigail, where the reality lies beyond the appearances, and this is also only what appears to be such powerful when in actuality it is not. I realised that the power of the moment is not in the moment itself. The power, actually, is in us. Every single one of us has the power to make and shape our own moments. It is us who by feeling joyful, celebrate for a moment of success; and it is also us who by feeling saddened, cry and mourn over our losses. I, with all my heart and mind, now embrace this power which lies within us. I wish life offers you more time to make use of this power. Remember, we are our own griefs, my dear, we are our own happinesses and we are our own remedies.Take care!Love,Francis.Title: Letter to AbigailScene: "Death-bed"Chapter: The Road To Awe
— Huseyn Raza
Write something simple like water, it will have the power to change you and the world.
— Debasish Mridha
Your ability is your power. Others’ opinions can make it sour.
— Debasish Mridha
With modern technology it is the easiest of tasks for a media, guided by a narrow group of political manipulators, to speak constantly of democracy and freedom while urging regime changes everywhere on earth but at home. A curious condition of a republic based roughly onthe original Roman model is that it cannot allow true political parties to share in government. What then is a true political party: one that is based firmly in the interest of a class be it workers or fox hunters. Officially we have two parties which are in fact wings of a common party of property with two right wings. Corporate wealth finances each. Since the property party controls every aspect of media they have had decades to create a false reality for a citizenry largely uneducated by public schools that teach conformity with an occasional advanced degree in consumerism.
— Gore Vidal
Simplicity and humility, not power or status, will bring you joy and happiness.
— Debasish Mridha
You are my loveMy source of joyYou are the joy You are the love Every chamber of your heart is like a flower, blooming and blooming Spreading love with the wind of thoughts I am floating in those divinely pure thoughts and feeling the happinessWhen I am in deep love, I gain the power of love, When I feel beloved, I feel divine happiness.
— Debasish Mridha
We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
We must not lose our trust in the power of kindness.
— Debasish Mridha
The mystery of seeking God is that HE is the One who finds you.
— Kingsley Opuwari Manuel
The seductive power of sex and money is nothing compared to that of words.
— Marty Rubin
Use our memories as an asset not as a liability. Don't let it be our inner curse but share them as a rare gift.
— Angelica Hopes, Landscapes of a Heart, Whispers of a Soul
Lao Tzu's first paragraph in the book "Tao Te Ching" is that the Tao that can be told is not the absolute Tao.Lao Tzu has his own logic, the logic of paradoxes, the logic of life.To understand Tao, you will have to create eyes.Lao Tzu believes in the unity of opposites, because that is how life is.The Tao can be communicated, but it can only be communicated from heart to heart, from being to being, from love to love, from silence to silence.Truth is always realized in silence. In silence, the truth is realized.You reach to truth through silence.All spiritual books tries to say something that can not be said in the hope that a thirst, a longing, is created in your heart to know the truth.Tao is totality. Life exists through the tension of the opposites, the meeting of the opposites.Lao Tzu says that the opposite poles of life are not really opposites, but complementaries.Thinking is always of opposites. Lao Tzu says: drop the split attitude. Be simple.And when you are simple, you do not choose. Lao Tzu says: be choiceless, let life flow.Enjoy both poles in life, and then your life becomes a symphony of opposites.How to drop the mind: do not choose. If you do not choose, the mind drops.Live life as it comes - float. Float with life. Enjoy the moment in its totality,It is to live as part of the whole, to live as part of existence.If you become silent and empty, everything will come on it's own accord.When you live without any desire for power, position, fame or success, the whole existence pours down into your emptiness.
— Swami Dhyan Giten
And that's the point; not even girls want to be girls so long as our feminine archetype lacks force, strength and power. Not wanting to be girls, they don't want to be tender, submissive, peace-loving as good women are. Women's strong qualities have become despised because of their week ones.
— Jill Lepore
You have to be a dead-eyed dirty-souled maniac to want to spend your extended life trading punches with other maniacs. Once you've seized that power, there's no getting off the merry-go-round. You fight like hell just to hold on or you get shoved off.
— Scott Lynch, Rogues
Agrarians are committed to preserving both communities and the material means of life, to cultivating practices that ensure that the essential means of life suffice for all members of the present generation and are not diminished for those who come after. Agrarianism in this sense is, and has nearly always been, a marginal culture existing at the edge or under the domination of a larger culture whose ideology, social system, and economy are fundamentally different. So agrarian writers, both ancient and modern, always speak with a vivid awareness of the threat posed by the culture of the powerful.
— Ellen F. Davis
Every deal can be closed. Every prospect can become a buyer. Every no can turn into a yes. In any market. In any economy. There is always an angle. There is always another attempt. There is no law against how much you can prospect, or how many times you can try to close a deal. There are more than enough ideas and millions of resources and billions of people out there to make any dream that you want, a reality. The only mental chain that will ever imprison you in a life of scarcity, is a belief that there is not enough, or that there is not a way to make what you want possible.  This chapter is going to awaken and stir up a monster of influence and achievement inside you. This monster works by being totally aware of all the resources that you have at your disposal, and not being afraid to any means to influence. ”Excerpt From: “Unlimited Influence: Sell Any Idea One On One - Chapter: Gun To Your Head
— Jonathan DeCollibus, Unlimited Influence: Sell Any Idea One on One
Taking risks, choosing growth, challenging ourselves, and asking for promotions (with smiles on our faces, of course) are all important elements of managing a career. One of my favorite quotes comes from author Alice Walker, who observed, "The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any."Do not wait for power to be offered. Like that tiara, it might never materialize. And anyway, who wears a tiara on a jungle gym?
— Sheryl Sandberg
A man is no more than breath until his breath fashions the words that others cannot forget.
— A.J. Darkholme, Rise of the Morningstar
The power to give everything or take it all away is the inborn power contained in every confident woman’s grasp – the only way for a man to regain that power, is to keep her happy enough that she forgets she even has it.
— A.J. Darkholme, Rise of the Morningstar
The power of an idea is never to be underestimated. Many a thought has survived long after its host has ceased to be. It is the power of an idea that no shield can defend against, nor sword divide, nor poison infect. As such, we must aspire to create ideas, rather than preserve life. In a sense, this is how we achieve true immortality and live on past our time.
— A.J. Darkholme, Rise of the Morningstar
Bring forth a spiritual idea that will never fade.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
The Power of the Pen is not in the color of ink it spills
—  but the power of the word it spells
Jesus’ incarnation and ministry thus present us with the final critique of strategic religion; on the cross, where we see God almost deliberately ‘lose’ – as if duped into being strung up by a scheming, fearful group of clerics – we see the end of power games. God will not play. I sincerely believe that if the Church allows itself to be tied up in strategies, into ‘winning’ people for Christ, it will end inexorably moving towards power-politics, towards support for wars, and away from genuine concern for the ‘other’.
— Kester Brewin, Other: Loving Self, God And Neighbour In A World Of Fractures
5 words of advice to reduce stress - "Connect with your Soul's power" or "Change your reality through Coaching".
— Jay Woodman
Your level of audacity affects how well they perceive your idea.  Audacity in asking means that you ask for what you actually want. When you are in the heat of the conversation, and things are getting real, and the yes and no affects your bank account, you will sometimes feel a temptation to be safe, rather than... sorry.  What a bullshit phrase, by the way. I’d rather die in the pursuit of my peak potential, than live forever in a mediocre, average way.”Excerpt From: “Unlimited Influence: Sell Any Idea One On One.
— Jonathan DeCollibus, Unlimited Influence: Sell Any Idea One on One
But in this case,” he continues, tracing the line of the plasterwork with one finger, “I feel that there is one cliché that sums up my position so admirably that it would be pure egotism to attempt a more interesting periphrasis. Plain speaking, therefore, there is to be.“There is undoubtedly a strong possibility, notwithstanding the vagaries of contingency and misfortune, that my son mighthave fallen—or might, we could say, have voluntarily jumped, in accordance with the ethical codes with which he has been brought up—for a play you have made with some success, although, as I am persuaded you would concede, very little originality.”Plain speaking if you’re Henry James, perhaps.
— Deborah Meyler, The Bookstore
Escape from reality. In some instances, dissociation induces people to imagine that they have some kind of mastery over intractable environmental difficulties. Dissociation is often implicated in magical thinking or self-induced trance states. This aspect of dissociation is frequently found in abuse survivors. It is not uncommon for abused children to engage in magical thinking to retain an illusion of control over the situation (e.g., believing that they "cause" the perpetrator to act out).
— Marlene Steinberg
Laws decide wich forms of oppression are allowed, Lord. And because of that, those laws are servants to those in power, for whom oppression is given as a right over those who have little or no power.
— Steven Erikson
Power rarely ends up in the hands of those who start a revolution, or even those who further it; power sticks to those who bring it to a conclusion
— Robert Greene
I do not think that a man's rise to power is necessarily the climax of his life or that his loss of office should be equated with his fall.
— Isaac Deutscher, The Prophet Armed: Trotsky, 1879-1921
We have the power to change voluntarily, and there is something wonderful and awe-inspiring about that power.
— Lawren Leo, Dragonflame: Tap Into Your Reservoir of Power Using Talismans, Manifestation, and Visualization
I belong to no one. On this night, I swear to you that I will rise above everything you’ve ever taught me. I will become a force that this world has never known. I will come into such power that none will dare hurt me again.
— Marie Lu
Women, you have all this power, I’m telling you. In business, you have something called an inferred fiduciary duty to yourself. Look at the other hugely successful women in industry, commerce, science and everywhere else and you’ll see women who are feminine, beautiful but also do not rely on men for their self-empowerment.
— Gene Simmons
The vanities of life:pleasure, possession, position and power.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
You can speak truth to power, . . . but when you speak truth to weakness, weakness gets mad and queasy. It accuses you of its own insecurity.""The Off Season: A Victorian Sequel
— Jack Cady
Don’t be so vain to think that you ruined me,that you wrecked me,destroyed me.I am the only one who has the power to do that.—Amanda Helm,
— Amanda Helm
Power is responsibility. Don't take advantage. Respect.
— Lesley Howarth, MapHead: No.2
Access to unlimited funds by a government, not surprisingly, leads to an unlimited government.
— Orrin Woodward
If you want to succeed in making a son of Africa stupid, simply give him power or money. But If you intend to make him more stupid, then give him the two.
— Oppong Amankwaa
Everyone says "i will never" and "one should never" but, actually, "No one can Resist Miss-using Power (at-least ones) when they have it".
— honeya
Power and control are more dangerous than any weapons.
— Aisha Mirza
Wealth is not money. Wealth lies in men. This is where true power lies, the power we value. This is what has convinced us to direct all our resources to building the individual, and to using the wealth which God has provided us in the service of the nation.
— Sheikh Zayed Al Nahyan
When weakness becomes power, it leads you to success.
— Junaid Raza
You have the power to shape your life the way that you want it to be. Every thought, every word, every action guides you with a purpose. And that purpose is to fulfill your destiny. Some may say you're just a dreamer, but everything imagined begins with a dream.
— Amaka Imani Nkosazana, Sweet Destiny
With kings and queens inside his bag. Hulaki was a man of power.
— Mahesh Poudyal, Hulaki
Power is lonely. Power stands apart. I have power. Therefore, I'm lonely.
— Lesley Howarth
The nature of power is such that it can never be understood.
— Lesley Howarth, MapHead: No.2
Respect of power is Important, But it shouldn't turn to Cowardice.
— Naishadh A. Gajjar
What people instinctively regard as cool is real power - consistency. Pathetic is not cool. Being locked in a tragedy, but not knowing it. That's lameness.
— Cory Duchesne
You can use songs, scriptures and godly pictures to chart your thought-course in the right direction.
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu
Every woman feels that the greater her power over a man, the more impossible it is to leave him except by sudden flight: a fugitive precisely because a queen.
— Marcel Proust, The Captive & The Fugitive
Your thought should be creative and not destructive
—  it should be full of hope and faith for a more excellent future.
How far you go in life and in your career is dependent on how far you can think good thoughts!
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu
You are the guardian and custodian of your heart, remember this always!
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu
Your future is dependent on your thought today, therefore think good and lovely thoughts now!
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu
The positioning of the mind is what makes the difference between the failures and the successes.
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu
When your thought is right, your imaginations will be colourful; you will then dream and not have nightmares!
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu
We are advised to meditate on things that are true, lovely, noble, gracious and bring good report. These should form the basis of our thought pattern.
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu
Structure your thought pattern to what you want to achieve and who you want to become.
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu
Think on blessings and not curses, beauty not ugliness, health not sickness. Meditate on wealth not poverty, success not failure, grace not disgrace!
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu
Use the powerful tool of thought and develop your mindset to believing and knowing you can change anything to your favour; yes, you have God`s Word so fashion your thought according to God`s Word.
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu
You create and plan your thought by seeing, reading and hearing the right things.
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu
You can cream your dream by enriching your thought with clean and desirable things.
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu
Your thought is so important because it has the ability to make or mar you. Your thought will either move you forward or set you backwards.
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu
Learn to live from inside to outside, bring out those magnificent estates within you and live in them.
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu
Live on your good thoughts and they will manifest outwardly.
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu
Kind and lovely thought originate from God while evil and revengeful thoughts are initiated by the devil.
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu
Wrong thoughts pattern your life towards it for we live our thoughts.
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu
Our thoughts create our lifestyle, if you live healthy, it means you think healthy thoughts and if you think unhealthy thoughts, it will reflect in your health and lifestyle too.
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu
Your life today and tomorrow is patterned alongside your thoughts. You are therefore advised to create good and wonderful thoughts today so they will deliver a beautiful tomorrow for you.
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu
You cannot be different from your thought!
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu
Thought is the mental imagery of what you want to do, have or achieve.
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu
Understanding is a power greater then knowledge.
— _Encry
Choose your thoughts, carve them in your mind and fix your gaze on them always.
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu
Democrasy comes into grave danger when truth is no longer spoken to power.
— Paul Bamikole
Your future will definitely head to the same direction with your thoughts
—  this is why planning your thought is so important.
Always set your mind to think thoughts of victory even before the battle begins, this way you will experience limitless possibilities.
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu
Wrong thinking will take your life the wrong way, channeling your thoughts to the right direction will cause you to soar in life.
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu
Banning books is just another form of bullying. It's all about fear and an assumption of power. The key is to address the fear and deny the power.
— James Howe
There may be something going on in your life right now, that seems like a giant, so big that you think it's impossible to conquer. But, remember no matter how gigantic your problems may be, you have everything in you to overcome. You have the power to say to that mountain move, get out my way. Activate your faith, and watch it happen. The victory is yours!
— Amaka Imani Nkosazana
Relinquishing control to another person is like death: it’s only scary until it finally happens.
— Agnostic Zetetic
Often, our misunderstandings about love are born in disruptive family relationships, where someone was either one-up or one-down to an extreme. There is an appropriate and necessary difference in the balance of power between parents and young children, but in the best situations, there should be no power struggles by the time those children have become adults - just deep connection, trust, and respect between people who sincerely care about each other.In disruptive families, children are taught to remain one-up or one-down into adulthood. And this produces immature adults who either seek to dominate others (one-up) or who allow themselves to be dominated (one-down) in their relationships - one powerful and one needy, one enabling and one addicted, one decisive and one confused.In relationships with these people, manipulation abounds. Especially when they start to feel out of control.
— Tim Clinton, Break Through: When to Give In, How to Push Back: The Moment that Changes Everything
There is the pain that made me cry, and then there is the strength that made me stop crying.So I am glad the pain camebecause without it I would not have discovered my strength.
— Moffat Machingura, Life Capsules
Some people believe that it isn’t so much power that is exchanged in TPE, as it is authority. The intrinsic difference between power and authority can best be explained thusly: If we were talking about a car, then power would be what was under the hood. Exercising that power would mean taking the car out for a spin. Having the authority to do so might involve a driver’s license, possessing the keys, or having the title and registration.
— Michael Makai, The Warrior Princess Submissive
Resistance is a simple concept: power, unjust and immoral, is confronted and dismantled. The powerful are denied their right to hurt the less powerful. Domination is replaced by equity in a shift or substitution of institutions. That shift eventually forms new human relationships, both personally and across society.
— Lierre Keith
Femininity is your greatest power. Embrace it!
— Stacey Martino