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Every perfect traveler always creates the country where he travels.
— Nikos Kazantzakis
People who work in an environment where doing their best is recognized have a better chance of feeling good about their work.
— Marilyn Suttle
An artist without ideas is a mendicant; barren, he goes begging among the hours.
— Irving Stone, The Agony and the Ecstasy
Is being burnt a requisite for the making of art? Personally, I don't think it is. But art is poultice for a burn. It is a privilege to have, somewhere within you, a capacity for making something speak from your own seared experience.
— Molly Peacock, The Paper Garden: Mrs. Delany Begins Her Life's Work at 72
A mountain is the best medicine for a troubled mind. Seldom does man ponder his own insignificance. He thinks he is master of all things. He thinks the world is his without bonds. Nothing could be farther from the truth. Only when he tramps the mountains alone, communing with nature, observing other insignificant creatures about him, to come and go as he will, does he awaken to his own short-lived presence on earth.
— Finis Mitchell
We would never call inexplicable little insights 'hunches,' for fear of drawing the universe's attention. But they happened, and you knew you had been in the proximity of one that had come through if you saw a detective kiss his or her fingers and touch his or her chest where a pendant to Warsha, patron saint of inexplicable inspirations, would, theoretically, hang.
— China Miéville, The City & the City
Do an evening review at the end of the day to reflect on what went well, and what you'd do differently next time.
— Marilyn Suttle
Everybody trusts a guy in a raincoat. I don't know why. It's just one of those mystery facts.
— Stephen King, Just After Sunset
People need not fear the unknown if they have a capable of achieving what they need and what
— Paulo Coelho
A traitor commits his crime but once. The rest/is retribution.
— Marie Howe, The Good Thief
Memoria selectiva para recordar lo bueno, prudencia logica para no arruinar el presente y optimismo desafiante para encarar al futuro.
— Jean Shinoda Bolen
It's how we see the world that keeps the darkness beyond at bay. Keeps it from pouring through and devouring us. I think all of us might know that, way down deep.
— Stephen King
Silence is so steadfast, you know. It is so ample, after all.
— Alice Fulton, The Nightingales of Troy: Stories of One Family's Century
Circumstances are the seeds of literature.
— Salvador de Madariaga, Essays with a Purpose
The Spirit of God breathes inspiration, while the carnal mind breeds vanity.
— Fred C. White
The average Bhutanese knows much more about the world than the average American...(for Americans)It is more comfortable to watch fake news about celebrities than to know what's happening in China or southern Sudan. But events happening in China or Sudan affect us so much more because they are real.
— Linda Leaming, Married to Bhutan
The stationary condition is the beginning of the end
— Henri-Frédéric Amiel
take words and make them useful,' she told me. 'drain them of all the crappy meanings they used to mean and make them mean something useful instead.
— Scott Bradfield, The History Of Luminous Motion
Real freedom lies in wildness,not in civilization!!
— Charles Lindberg
You might be looking forward to working, falling in love, marrying, raising a family. You are told that you should expect to find a job paying so much, where your hours are so much, where your responsibilities are so much.That is what is expected of you. And if you live up to it, it will be an awful waste.If you expect that, you will be limiting yourself.
— Adrian Tan
There is no time to waste in life and there is no cut and paste as well, only copy and paste – you can only emulate others
— Bernard Kelvin Clive, Your Dreams Will Not Die
Strong delusions travel like cold germs on a sneeze.
— Stephen King
I think of inspiration as desire infused with spirit and topped with an almost reckless optimism.
— Fred White
The best traveler is one without a camera.
— Kamand Kojouri
Imitation is not inspiration, and inspiration only can give birth to a work of art. The least of man's original emanation is better than the best of borrowed thought.
— Albert Pinkham Ryder
One can't work/by limelight.//A bowlful/right at/one's elbow//produces no/more than/a baleful/glow against/the kitchen table.//The fruit purveyor's/whole unstable/pyramid//doesn't equal/what daylight did.
— Kay Ryan
It is a cliche that human beings are fascinated by size--mountain peaks, high buildings, and whales. We are also amazed by miniatures--a flea on a mouse, a flea on a trapeze, the Last Supper carved on the head of a pin.
— Rosamond Purcell
No matter what the industry you choose to ultimately invest all your time and energy in, be sure you're the owner, founder, and CEO. Remember, if you don't own it, you can't control it nor can you depend on it.
— Brandi L. Bates, Moonshine For The Soul: A Path to Strength, Wisdom, Growth, Health & Happiness
It’s not something he can do anything about, being a bleeder, anymore than a guy with a glass jaw can do something about not having whiskers.
— F.X. Toole
Jeremy and Karl and Elizabeth have known each other since the first day of kindergarten. Amy and Talis are a year younger...Now the five are inseparable; invincible. They imagine that life will always be like this--like a television show in eternal syndication--that they will always have each other. They use the same vocabulary. They borrow each other's books and music. They share lunches, and they never say anything when Jeremy comes over and takes a shower. They all know Jeremy's father is eccentric. He's supposed to be eccentric. He's a novelist.
— Kelly Link, Pretty Monsters: Stories
Think the tree that bears nutrition:though the fruits are picked, the plant maintains fruition.So give all the love you have.Do not hold any in reserve.What is given is not lost; it shall return.
— Kamand Kojouri
Today is a gift that will be taken from you at day's end. Don't waste a moment, a chance, a lesson. You'll never live today again.
— Toni Sorenson, The Great Brain Cleanse
Unity is the intentional inclination to corporately control our destination. In other words, achieving the dream takes a team!
— DeWayne Owens, How to Get Rich on Purpose: Secrets to Prosperity and Controlling Your Destiny
You can grow like a tall tree, when you enjoy the sun, wind, rain, storms and the stars in the dark nights.
— Amit Ray
If a picture paints a thousand words, then a let a picture inspire a thousand words.
— Nicholas Boyd Crutchley
Suffering is the noblest art, the quieter the better.
— Chang-rae Lee, Native Speaker
A poet, you see, is a light thing, and winged and holy, and cannot compose before he gets inspiration and loses control of his senses and his reason has deserted him.
— Plato
There is hero in everyone.Never doubt who you are.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
He talked about the future with such certainty, he might have been talking about the past.
— Michael Dobbs
If there's a definition of freedom, I think it's this: living life on your terms.
— Kamal Ravikant, Live Your Truth
Whatever you dream of, there will be fulfillment.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Don't plant a seed just a day before you need the fruit. ~ Aarush Kashyap
— Kirtida Gautam, #iAm16iCan
If careful attention is paid to the reality, we will see clearly, the real shortage is of the right skills, rather than of jobs. If the right skills are developed, the right start-ups and other enterprises will emerge and provide the jobs needed. It’s always the horse before the cart, not the other way round. At a personal level, it will require the realisation of the need for the acquisition of required skills, the discipline to pursue it and the commitment to push through. These will require a great deal of personal courage and effort. But then, the benefit will be immeasurable.
— Emi Iyalla
Stop worrying about someone taking your spot. God already have it reserved. Do the work to get there and fill it!
— Yvonne Pierre, The Day My Soul Cried:  A Memoir
He who does not see the light in others does not see the light in himself.
— Doreen DeVore
The little boy nodded at the peony and the peony seemed to nod back. The little boy was neat, clean and pretty. The peony was unchaste, dishevelled as peonies must be, and at the height of its beauty.(...) Every hour is filled with such moments, big with significance for someone.
— Robertson Davies, What's Bred in the Bone
Every negative...Has a positive side...
— Nelson M. Lubao
The ultimate source of comfort and peace is within ourselves.
— Dalai Lama XIV
Don't ask for directions if you're not going to start the car.
— Rob Liano
Trust your inner voice.
— Lynn A. Robinson
But while the urban tribe helps us survive, it does not help us thrive. The urban tribe may bring us soup when we are sick, but it is the people we hardly know - those who never make it into our tribe - who will swiftly and dramatically change our lives for the better.
— Meg Jay, The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter--And How to Make the Most of Them Now
Believe that life is taking you down a wonderful path!
— Lynn A. Robinson
Writers are creatures of habit, as are humans, but writers aren’t necessarily human, are they?
— Alyssa Hubbard
To soar, we must leave anything that weighs us down...
— Saru Singhal, Rousing Cadence
Every negative...Jas a positive side...
— Nelson M. Lubao
Take the breath of the new dawn and make it part of you. It will give you strength.
— Hopi Nation
Some ghosts or felt presences may simply be the essence of another living person projected outward while sleeping.
— Doug Dillon
Hope gives us a reason to live and to make plans for our future. But common sense gives us knowledge that God has control over our life. Life is a journey. We hope and plan our future as we travel each day.
— Ellen J. Barrier
Još uvijek silno vjerujem u umjetnost kao medikament!
— Jasna Horvat, Pismo u pismu
The higher knowledge, the higher responsibility
— Muhammad Ahkam A
Anything is Possible!
— Sealove
Your inspiration taps hidden reserves of promise that sustain people through times that induce despair. You enable people to envision a future that sustains the best from their past while also holding out new possibilities.
— Ronald A. Heifetz, The Practice of Adaptive Leadership: Tools and Tactics for Changing Your Organization and the World
Un archeologo è il miglior marito che una donna possa avere: più lei diventa vecchia, più lui s'interessa a lei.
— Agatha Christie
Quitting is not giving up, it's choosing to focus your attention on something more important. Quitting is not losing confidence, it's realizing that there are more valuable ways you can spend your time. Quitting is not making excuses, it's learning to be more productive, efficient and effective instead. Quitting is letting go of things (or people) that are sucking the life out of you so you can do more things that will bring you strength.
— Osayi Emokpae Lasisi, Impossible Is Stupid
Be a King. Dare to be Different, dare to manifest your greatness.
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu, The Prince and the Pauper
Don't die without fulfilling your purpose.
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu, The Prince and the Pauper
God is never tired of bringing the sun out every morning, taking it in the evenings and bringing out the moon.
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu, The Prince and the Pauper
Dare to be different. Represent your maker well and you will forever abide in the beautiful embrace of his loving arms.
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu, The Prince and the Pauper
Your words are powerful so what you say goes a long way to either establish or destroy you; this is why you should say things that God has said concerning you, not things that situations or circumstances say.
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu, The Prince and the Pauper
Someone is always going to try to knock you down and take your place. It is up to you to fight for what you want.
— Teresa Mummert
There is a power that can be created out of pent-up indignation, courage, and the inspiration of a common cause, and that if enough people put their minds and bodies into that cause, they can win. It is a phenomenon recorded again and against in the history of popular movements against injustice all over the world.
— Howard Zinn, You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times
Imagination is the true magic carpet.
— Norman Vincent Peale, Norman Vincent Peale: Three Complete Books: The Power of Positive Thinking; The Positive Principle Today; Enthusiasm Makes the Difference
Crises marked by anxiety, doubt, and despair have always been those periods of personal unrest that occur at the times when a man is sufficiently unsettled to have an opportunity for personal growth. We must always see our own feelings of uneasiness as being our chance for "making the growth choice rather than the fear choice.
— Sheldon B. Kopp, If You Meet the Buddha on the Road, Kill Him: The Pilgrimage Of Psychotherapy Patients
Whatever it is you are really desiring, give it away. If it's companionship, give it to someone else, and just listen to them and be there. If it's money, give it to someone who is less fortunate. If it's encouragement, give it to others. If it's friendship, become the best friend you can be to others. If it's time, serve others with your time. You will be amazed to see how much more of everything you have when you are willing to freely give.
— Osayi Emokpae Lasisi
Life is a constellation, the individual moments in our lives seem so pointless sometimes; but when you look at the whole picture, you can see that those little moments formed memories.
— Alex Rogers, I'm Only Human After All
Fear is the Fatal killer of Desire.
— Zig Ziglar
The difference between vampires and angels? Angels are real.
— Lisa Grace
Emotions are like muscles. Most of them go highly unattended, it's usually the weaker, undefined ones that cause injury to the rest, and there is most certainly memory response in play.
— Erica Goros
The philosophies of men surround us. The face of sin today often wears the mask of tolerance. Do not be deceived; behind that facade is heartache, unhappiness, and pain. You know what is right and what is wrong, and no disguise, however appealing, can change that. Be the one to make a stand for right, even if you stand alone. Have the moral courage to be a light for others to follow.
— Thomas S. Monson
Each day begins a new journey of life, for if we awake, there is a reason.
— Bethanie Armstrong
No one should ever despair because the entrance to his or her chosen career path is clogged. There is an ancient saying: "The persistent drip wears through stone.
— Kentetsu Takamori, Something You Forgot...Along the Way: Stories of Wisdom and Learning
Phantasie ist wichtiger als Wissen, denn Wissen ist begrenzt.
— Albert Einstein
Do not look down with disdain on what Christ spent so much to achieve for you.
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu, The Prince and the Pauper
But if as you read this book you're saying to yourself: "I'd rather be miserably married than be alone." Well young lady, take out your clown shoes and buckle your seat belt - it's going to be a very bumpy one-woman circus.
— Osayi Emokpae Lasisi, Impossible Is Stupid
With a lump forming in his throat, he thoughtabout all the hopes and dreams that he had for his son. More thananything, he prayed his boy would not grow up to be a screw uplike his dad when it came to love and marriage.
— Michelle Sutton, Decision to Love
This is the new year the new you. You can pass through another year, coasting on cruise control. Or you can step out of your comfort zone, trying things you have never done before, & make 2012 as the year that you elevate from where you are & soar high. Make it happen!
— Pablo
Time was a film run backward. Suns fled and ten million moons fled after them.
— Ray Bradbury, A Sound of Thunder and Other Stories
First of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself - nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
Because the development of inner calm & energy happens completely within & isn’t dependent on another person or a particular situation, we begin to feel a resourcefulness and independence that is quite beautiful—and a huge relief.
— Sharon Salzberg, Real Happiness: The Power of Meditation
Lee’s hand shook as he filled the delicate cups. He drank his down in one gulp. “Don’t you see?” he cried. “The American Standard translation orders men to triumph over sin, and you can call sin ignorance. The King James translation makes a promise in ‘Thou shalt,’ meaning that men will surely triumph over sin. But the Hebrew word, the word timshel—‘Thou mayest’— that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in the world. That says the way is open. That throws it right back on a man. For if ‘Thou mayest’—it is also true that ‘Thou mayest not.’ Don’t you see?
— John Steinbeck
The problem is not that you have problems the problem is that you see having problems as a problem. 
— Maurice Makalu, The Goddess Who Lost Her Weight: Inspiration For Enlightenment With Abundance, A Spiritual Guide To Weight Loss
Of course, there will always be those who look only at technique, who ask 'how', while others of a more curious nature will ask 'why'. Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.
— Man Ray
The whole concatenation of wild and artificial things, the natural ecosystem as modified by people over the centuries, the build environment layered over layers, the eerie mix of sounds and smells and glimpses neither natural nor crafted- all of it is free for the taking, for the taking in. Take it, take it in, take in more every weekend, every day, and quickly it becomes the theater that intrigues, relaxes, fascinates, seduces, and above all expands any mind focused on it. Outside lies utterly ordinary space open to any casual explorer willing to find the extraordinary. Outside lies unprogrammed awareness that at times becomes directed serendipity. Outside lies magic.
— John R. Stilgoe
We train the mind so that we can enjoy greater peace, happiness, wisdom & equanimity.
— Allan Lokos, Pocket Peace: Effective Practices for Enlightened Living
When gangs took over the [abandoned public land in Philadelphia] and the neighborhood took a turn for the worse, horses became a way of saving lives. By getting boys interested in raising a horse rather than killing another human being, these cowboys gave the youth something positive: father figures, focus, and the ability to stand tall.
— G. Neri, Ghetto Cowboy
The road to wealth is sown with false starts and failures that should in no way discourage the poor who make good or our neighbors with new found riches. We have to give it our all.
— Roberto Bolaño
I'm not particularly in favor of doctrine or creed, ordination, the elevation of holy texts, the institution of church, or, for that matter, Christianity. Like most religions, it has irreconcilable shortcomings and an unforgivable history. What I do favor is the attempt to make sense of things by living within a story. The Christian story, for good or ill, is my inheritance.
— Elizabeth Jarrett Andrew, On The Threshold: Home, Hardwood, and Holiness
Amida's unimpeded light is the sun of wisdom that destroys the mind of darkness.(Preface in Teaching, Practice, Faith, Enlightenment)
— Kentetsu Takamori, You Were Born for a Reason: The Real Purpose of Life
The heart of a person only beats when it's surrounded by blood, by family.
— Erica Goros, The Daisy Chain
There will come a time in every girl's life when she realizes that your ex-girlfriend wasn't crazy. Actually, she was right (about you).
— Nakia R. Laushaul
Never let what you cannot do, stop you from doing what you can do!
— Stephen Pierce
His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
People say, 'It's hard to forgive...et al'. I think it's much harder to live peacefully. So, forgive and focus on living peacefully.
— m.ralte
It's hard to tell where reality ends and illusions begins. They blend - then they separate
— Lind Goodman
Sang waktu tidak akn pernah berbaik hati pada kelalaian
— Atik
The effects you will have on your students are infinite and currently unknown; you will possibly shape the way they proceed in their careers, the way they will vote, the way they will behave as partners and spouses, the way they will raise their kids.
— Donna Quesada, Buddha in the Classroom: Zen Wisdom to Inspire Teachers
Spiritual literature can be a great aid to an aspirant, or it can be a terrible hindrance. If it is used to inspire practice, motivate compassion, ad nourish devotion, it serves a very valuable purpose. If scriptural study is used for mere intellectual understanding, for pride of accomplishment, or as a substitute for actual practice, then one is taking in too much mental food, which is sure to result in intellectual indigestion. (152)
— Prem Prakash, The Yoga of Spiritual Devotion A Modern Translation of the Narada Bhakti Sutras
It may be escapist, but if I have a choice between watching the news or reading a book which gets me to see the world through different eyes, I will always choose the latter!
— Christina Westover
Most ideas are born and lost in isolation.
— Scott Belsky, Making Ideas Happen: Overcoming the Obstacles Between Vision and Reality
Palestine is the anvil of our souls.
— Clovis Maksoud
On the second floor was the office in which Houston pounded an ancient typewriter with two fingers, always setting an example of unceasing hard work for his admiring students. They had no hint of the fact that their hard-driving dean had contracted tuberculosis while serving as a GI in France in Word War I. Houstan always seemed vibrant and impassioned in the chase for justice as he tried to expose his students to everything relating to the law that might give them an advantage.. . ."I never worked hard until I got to the Howard Law School and met Charlie Houston," Marshal told me. "I saw this man's dedication, his vision, his willingness to sacrifice, and I told myself, 'You either shape up or ship out.' When you are being challenged by a great human being, you know that you can't ship out."So Houston rescued Marshall and launched him into a career as one of the greatest lawyers in American history.
— Carl T. Rowan, Dream Makers, Dream Breakers: The World of Justice Thurgood Marshall
To be saved is here, local and mortal
— A.R. Ammons
Whatever harm I would do to another, I shall do first to myself.As I respect and am kind to myself, so shall I respect and be kind to peers, to elders, to kits.I claim for others the freedom to live as they wish, to think and believe as they will. I claim that freedom for myself.I shall make each choice and live each day to my highest sense of right.
— Richard Bach
Each of us suffers with envy/for the forgiven.
— Marie Howe, The Good Thief
We as authors sign a pact with our readers they'll go on reading because they trust us to play fair with them and deliver what we've promised. 
— Pamela Glass Kelly, From Inspiration to Publication: How to Succeed as a Children's Writer: Advice from 15 Award Winning Writers
The erruption of feelings & emotions that follows a near-death exerience, or any event that causes us to stop & look deeply at the reality of our lives, is ripe with the potential for insight & clarity.
— Allan Lokos, Pocket Peace: Effective Practices for Enlightened Living
But Alonso kept smiling that smile and nothing made any sense with that smile looking you in the face. 'Jim, don't tell me that, you know, brother-shit. I have been through it all. Take, you know, advice. There is only one thing and that is the kick, the Now. Nothing else counts. Get yours. Get it because, you know, no one cares and they will always put you down in the end, Jim, and the only word that counts is, you know, Now. Not that foolish brother and bopping jazz, Jim. Now. Because if it all don't go up in any, you know, twenty minutes; up, all gone; then they are going to put you down and keep you down. Now.
— Sol Yurick, The Warriors
If you’re honest with yourself as a writer, trying to tell the best story you can, your story will be an honest one. And your values will come out, no matter how hard you try to disguise them.
— Joe Clifford Faust
You are not here merely to making a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement.
— Woodrow Wilson
Inspiration comes unawares, from unaccountable sources that have nothing to do with planning or intelligence. Let it cool ever so slightly, and you are left, pen or brush in hand, with no inspiration at all. Gifted people need not, therefore, make a song and dance about being or supposing themselves superior. They simply happened to be born with that fortunate, subconscious equipment of theirs, and the mystery exists independently of intelligence or ambition.
— Maurice Chevalier, Bravo Maurice!: A compilation from the autobiographical writings of Maurice Chevalier
Sometimes a short cut is just a short cut to disaster.
— Ethan Trex
Each store will fulfil some of your needs, but no individual store can meet all of your needs. Learning how to set realistic expectations now and in future relationships requires you to examine each of the existing stores to see what they can offer.
— Janet Crain
I'm a Midwesterner, and everyone in Ohio is excited. I'm also a New Yorker, and a New Jerseyan, and an American, plus I'm an African-American, and a woman. I know it seems like I'm spreading like algae when I put it this way, but I'd like to think of the prize being distributed to these regions and nations and races.
— Toni Morrison
Humility is not weakness but a price for greatness. Be humble for CHRIST sake and watch GOD take you to places you never dreamt.
— James C. Uwandu, Almost the Whole Thing
The mist just keeps on lifting and soon I'll be able to see all the way, as far as the earth's curvature allows. It's a blessing, that curvature, that hidden hemisphere-if we could take it all in at one, why move?
— Walter Kirn
Wizards are always hungry.
— Kelly Link, Pretty Monsters: Stories
These people will try to manipulate you, try to bring you down but remember baby girl you are a queen, own your crown.
— Nikki Rowe
Everyone knows that wizards are pigheaded and come to bad ends.
— Kelly Link, Pretty Monsters: Stories
Neatness and cleanliness is not a function of how rich or poor you are but that of mentality and principle.
— Ikechukwu Izuakor, Great Reflections on Success
Inspiration moves one from Pessimism to Optimism, from Doubt to Faith, from Despair to Hope, and from Darkness to Light!- RVM
— RVM
To be vulnerable, to be raw, to virtually expose your guts, I like doing that.
— Lana Parrilla
We must work together on a common vision and a common goal.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
She's Devine.She's Magic. And she didn't have to wait for anyone to tell her in order for her to believe that about herself. And that's what made her so magically beautiful.
— C.R. Bittar
Love is my drug of choice, even if it comes laced with pain and disaster.
— Jennifer Elisabeth
I understood the life around me better, not from love, which everybody acknowledges to be a great teacher, but from estrangement, to which nobody has attributed the power of reinforcing insight
— Nirad C. Chaudhuri
Speed is not always a constituent to great work, the process of creation should be given time and thought.
— E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
We sometimes have a flash of understanding that amounts to the insight of genius, and yet it slowly withers, even in our hands - like a flower. The form remains, but the colours and the fragrance are gone.
— Robert Musil, The Confusions of Young Törless
Pain is such a useful thing. It corrects us when we're wrong. It shapes our character. It teaches us that we're alive.
— C.J. Redwine, Deception
Realize your youth while you have it. Don’t squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or giving away your life to the ignorant, the common, and the vulgar. These are the sickly aims, the false ideals, of our age. Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing
— Oscar Wilde
There's a difference between being alive and living.
— Gabrielle Zevin, All These Things I've Done
La luz del pasillo iluminaba débilmente mi rostro que se reflejaba de modo fantasmal en el cristal de la ventanilla y me hacía recordar el que tuve en la infancia, el que naufragó para siempre en la despedida, como si aquel niño se hallara agazapado en algún lugar de mi interior esperando un descuido mío para emerger de nuevo en las aguas fangosas del pasado con su sonrisa feliz y sus ojos brillantes.
— Elia Barceló, El secreto del orfebre
Individually, every grain of sand brushing against my hands represents a story, an experience, and a block for me to build upon for the next generation.
— Raquel Cepeda, Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina
She preferred the quiet solitary atmosphere, to create in her own world of paint and colour, the thrill of anticipating how her works would turn out as she eyed the blank sheets of paper or canvas before starting her next masterpiece. How satisfying it was to mess around in paint gear, without having to worry about spills, starch or frills, that was the life!
— E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
War crimes, you say?No matter how many policies you put on paper, in reality, there are no rights and wrongs in war. War itself is a crime. War cannot be justified. I believe, the only people, in this world, whose opinions matter, are the ones who go the extra mile to help other people expecting nothing in return. Soldiers who fight fiercely for their country, the doctors in Sri Lanka's public hospitals attending to hundreds of patients at a time for no extra pay , the nuns who voluntarily teach English and math to children of refugee camps in the north, the monks who collect food to feed entire villages during crises, they are the people worth listening to, their opinion matters. So find me one of them who will say: they wish the war didn't end in 2009, that they wish Sri Lanka was divided into two parts. Find me one of them who agrees with the international war crime allegations against Sri Lanka, and I will listen. But I will not listen to the opinions of those who are paid to find faults in a war they were never a part of, a war they never experienced themselves. I will not listen to the opinions of those who watched the war on tv or read about it on the internet or were moved by a documentary on Al Jazeera. The war is over. The damage is done. Let Sri Lanka move on. So our children will never have to see what we've seen.
— Thisuri Wanniarachchi
What would you say to yourself if you could actually meet a younger you?
— Doug Dillon
Goal Of LIFE Is patience,Goal Of Patience Is LIFE!
— Sujit Lalwani, Life Simplified!
Art builds upon art, builds upon art...nothing is purely original. We're all inspired by something...or someone. It's a never-ending chain of ideas...and it's magical.
— Shannon Taylor Hodnett
It isn't the subjects we write about but the seriousness and subtlety of our expression that determines the worth of or effort.
— Joyce Carol Oates
Life Is ‘Simple’ By Nature...The deeper you try to study, the more you complicate it.Just believe in it’s simplicity & it shall show you it is far too Simple actually!
— Sujit Lalwani, Life Simplified!
What You were Once, Was Also Because You Were Someone Else Before that
— Sujit Lalwani, Life Simplified!
The harder you work, the luckier you are, and I worked like hell.
— Gerald R. Ford
Love begets glory,Work begets story.LOVED WORK Begets A Story of Glory!
— Sujit Lalwani, Life Simplified!
Without the desire to be patient patience doesn't happen, Just like without the desire to grow, LIFE doesn't happen!
— Sujit Lalwani, Life Simplified!
Follow Your Heart & The world Shall Follow YOU!Reject it and It stops beating!
— Sujit Lalwani, Life Simplified!
Life is a chain of events executed in a way which is - most convenient to ‘you’, ‘your’ dreams & people ‘you’ desire to be with & people you have been put up to live with...
— Sujit Lalwani, Life Simplified!
The 4 pillars Of the Greatest Religion ever Are Love Trust Character & Brotherhood...
— Sujit Lalwani, Life Simplified!
Que les poètes morts laissent la place aux autres. Et nous pourrions tout de même voir que c'est notre vénération devant ce qui a été déjà fait, si beau et si valable que ce soit, qui nous pétrifie, qui nous stabilise et nous empêche de prendre contact avec la force qui est dessous, que l'on appelle l'énergie pensante, la force vitale, le déterminisme des échanges, les menstrues de la lune ou tout ce qu'on voudra.
— Antonin Artaud, The Theater and Its Double
Coincidences link us to the unknown and weave us into it.
— Doug Dillon
The physical world we live in is just the beginning.
— Doug Dillon
If Aphrodite chills at home in Cyprus for most of the year, then Fez must be the goddess’s playground.
— Raquel Cepeda, Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina
Dont eat to be fool,eat to be strong....
— YUSUF OLATUNJI ACUMEN
Goutam Buddha
— Inspiration, A-Z of Bullions
Seize the day...by the throat!
— Courage Wolf
Just about a month from now I'm set adrift, with a diploma for a sail and lots of nerve for oars.
— Richard Halliburton
There is no such thing as a perfect person in this world. We all must become the main characters or the stars of our lives. We are all different and start differently. But from whatever is our circumstances, it is very important that we find the opportunities to try out what we want to do.
— Goo Hye Sun
Don't call yourself discouraged anymoreit's no longer your name. 
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu, The Prince and the Pauper
Don't let any situation intimidate you anymore, don't accept defeat anymore.
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu, The Prince and the Pauper
Weigh whatever you are about to say; what will it do to your hearer - encouragement, edification, disappointment or fear? What will it do to your life - glorify, edify, beautify or weigh you down? Speak well and things will go well.
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu, The Prince and the Pauper
Dominate in your domain You can do it. 
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu, The Prince and the Pauper
In the past, I used to think that it is fundamental and natural to have everything. But I realized that is not true. Instead I realized that those are things to be grateful for. After that realization, I became comfortable. Even if I don’t have it I am grateful. Such a realization also made me understand that is a way to love myself.
— Goo Hye Sun
Don't say negative things about your spouse and children.
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu, The Prince and the Pauper
You recreate your world to your taste with God's Word in your mouth.
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu, The Prince and the Pauper
Sometimes everything breaks up so something new can break through.
— Lynn A. Robinson
Learn to trust yourself and you will create a meaningful life.
— Lynn A. Robinson
You are not permitted to suffer what others suffer, you are not permitted to fail or die young.
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu, The Prince and the Pauper
The more you become aware of and respond to the needs of others, the richer your own life becomes.
— Mollie Marti
Create your world with God's Word in your mouth just say it and it will be accomplished!
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu, The Prince and the Pauper
Your mouth is not given to you for feeding alone it is given to you to programme events and circumstance around you. 
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu, The Prince and the Pauper
Worship is the marriage of two Spirits - the Spirit of God and the Spirit of man.
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu
The presence of the Lord destroys a life of struggle. You will struggle until you encounter His presence.
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu, The Prince and the Pauper
Your status has changed. Your Name is changed! You are a new creation.
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu, The Prince and the Pauper
You deserve to have a prosperous and abundant life!
— Lynn A. Robinson
Let your words glorify God and edify your hearers and then beautify your life.
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu, The Prince and the Pauper
I rather now strive to reach rather than wait to receive!
— Jonathan Anthony Burkett
You are not permitted to live and die as a non-entity because you have encountered the greatness that is associated with Christ.
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu, The Prince and the Pauper
The choice is yours. Don't let your pronouncements destroy your destiny rather let them build your future up!
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu, The Prince and the Pauper
Never outgrow your imagination.
— Teresa Mummert
Words are directed to your personalities namely; - God, your hearers, devil and yourself.
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu, The Prince and the Pauper
You have abundance all around you.
— Lynn A. Robinson
Till tomorrow good sir one must but gaze at stars
— Andrew Fisher
When we are connected to the source, we will not be afraid of any task set before us.
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu, The Prince and the Pauper
Cease trying to work everything out with your mind. It will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be a Revelation.
— Eileen Cady
You may not attain the highest height with one leap but my dear you will reach your destination. 
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu, The Prince and the Pauper
God rewards every act of obedience to His Will.
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu, The Prince and the Pauper
Your decision not to join the crowd may be what God is waiting for to grant you revelation on how to deliver your family, your country, business, profession or even your church!
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu, The Prince and the Pauper
You are to make your own way prosperous...Even God cannot do it for you; you will have to do it yourself by doing the right things; taking right decisions, talking right, thinking right, being at the right place with the right-kind of people and by reading the right materials.
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu, The Prince and the Pauper
So cheer up Beloved; for your God is able, He is the maker of all things.
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu, The Prince and the Pauper
The presence of God is so important in the life of believers. There is abundance of all you need to make your life comfortable in His presence.
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu, The Prince and the Pauper
God wants all man's attention, thoughts and focus to be on Him.
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu, The Prince and the Pauper
It is never late, you can start the movement now, the provisions have been made, the price has been paid and the gifts have been packaged. Are you willing to change?
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu, The Prince and the Pauper
Your behavior is the sum total of your action and reaction to issues and people around you.
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu, The Prince and the Pauper
Man is like a bride unto God. God is jealous when man veers away from Him.
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu, The Prince and the Pauper
He is the only option for better living.
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu, The Prince and the Pauper
We cannot prevail by our own might or strength, we need to plug on to the source of our strength so that we will remain resourceful always.
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu, The Prince and the Pauper
When you begin to reason with the Lord, your attitude to the issues of life will change.
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu, The Prince and the Pauper
I am unique...I play by a different set of rules I am not intimidated by anything. 
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu
Metaforen är ett av tankens väsentligaste verktyg. Den belyser vad som annars skulle ligga helt i mörker. Men denna belysning blir ibland så klar att den bländar istället för avslöjar.
— Alasdair Gray, Lanark
Are you the fruit of redemption? If yes, then make a delightful noise unto Him.
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu, The Prince and the Pauper
Another way of remaining in intimacy with God is by remaining in His presence.
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu, The Prince and the Pauper
God is not a thief. That which steals, kills and destroys is the devil - not God!
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu, The Prince and the Pauper
God comes down in the evenings to chat with man, enjoy man's company and find out how man faired in the course of the day.
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu, The Prince and the Pauper
Do you want to make a change?...Do you want this change? Then let's move at God`s pace.
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu, The Prince and the Pauper
The Prince came to give life unto those whose lives were almost being snuffed out by the devil via the cares of this world.
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu, The Prince and the Pauper
You are addressed by the way you dress. Your attire reflects your sense of value or taste and of course, your speech either makes or mars you.
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu, The Prince and the Pauper
Creative thinking encompassed by the Word of God infuses into you the divine ability to turn the seemingly ugly situation around.
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu, The Prince and the Pauper
and what happens around us ,simply happens because we haven't learned to love .Till this moment ,people would have to go through the same paths ,experience similar events ,blinded ,full of wrath,imprisoned and bounded by themselves.They will star at their fellows seeing what they are unable to see on themselves....Themselves!
— Katerina Kostaki, Cosmic Light
You don't need to go running from pillar to post looking for what God looks like.
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu, The Prince and the Pauper
One might almost say that an apparition is human vision corrected by divine love. I do not see you as you really are, Joseph; I see you through my affection for you. The Miracles of the Church seem to me not to rest so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off, but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there about us always.
— Willa Cather, Death Comes for the Archbishop
What is it you do, then? I'll tell you: You leave out whatever doesn't suit you. As the author himself has done before you. Just as you leave things out of your dreams and fantasies. By leaving things out, we bring beauty and excitement into the world. We evidently handle our reality by effecting some sort of compromise with it, an in-between state where the emotions prevent each other from reaching their fullest intensity, graying the colors somewhat. Children who haven't yet reached that point of control are both happier and unhappier than adults who have. And yes, stupid people also leave things out, which is why ignorance is bliss. So I propose, to begin with, that we try to love each other as if we were characters in a novel who have met in the pages of a book. Let's in any case leave off all the fatty tissue that plumps up reality.
— Robert Musil, The Man Without Qualities: Vol. 1
We dropped our troubles into the lap of the storyteller, and they turned into someone else's.
— Naomi Shihab Nye
It has been my personal experience that as I allow the painting to speak I become lost, it is delicious and at the same time frightening. The best ones, to me, have a life of their own.
— Luther E. Vann, Elemental: The Power of Illuminated Love
You honor yourself by acting with dignity and composure.
— Allan Lokos, Patience: The Art of Peaceful Living
We are not strangers in this journey of life…We are connected to each other through this mysterious field of love.
— Banani Ray, Awakening Inner Guru
He who perseveres like an infant that falls down and keeps getting up, shall eventually find the way.”~ Amunhotep El Bey
— Amunhotep El Bey, The Quotations Book of life and Death
Real love is a humble receptivity of a silent heart that is prepared to melt and merge…
— Banani Ray, Awakening Inner Guru
Take your time.Stay away from the easy going.Never take the same way twice.Gunny Arndt's rules for successful reconnaissance Guadalcanal 1942 
— GYSGT Charles C. Arndt
Ish #177 "You never know what you don't know, until you finally know it.
— Regina Griffin
Our tragedy is their beauty. Our pain is their art. The beatific bereavement that is our life captured on a canvas for all the world to see.
— Solange nicole
God is not ecstatic about the lack you are experiencing; He is not delightful over your failures, He is not happy about your stagnancy.
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu
Ish #28 "Give you child a name with meaning.
— Regina Griffin
Intuition represents a concept which is made up from lots of ideas and assumptions, not all of which will be common to everyone.
— Sylvia Clare, Trusting Your Intuition: Rediscover Your True Self to Achieve a Richer, More Rewarding Life
We all have 10,000 bad drawings in us. The sooner we get them out the better.
— Walt Stanchfield
It has always been a happy thought to me that the creek runs on all night, new every minute, whether I wish it or know it or care, as a closed book on a shelf continues to whisper to itself its own inexhaustible tale. So many things have been shown so to me on these banks, so much light has illumined me by reflection here where the water comes down, that I can hardly believe that this grace never flags, that the pouring from ever-renewable sources is endless, impartial, and free.
— Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Write from the soul, not from some notion about what you think the marketplace wants.The market is fickle; the soul is eternal'.
— Jeffrey Carver
what is the use of a book,' thought Alice, 'without pictures or conversations?'"- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland, Ch. 1
— Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
The movie Koyaanisqatsi shows non-commented time-lapse footage and focuses our attention on the very rhythm of our civilized modern life and nature. A marijuana high can do something for a user similar to what this time-lapse footage does. The enhancement of episodic memory and the acceleration of associative streams of memories can alter and enhance our recognition of patterns in our lives in various ways. If we are presented with quick associative chains of past experiences, we can see a pattern in a body of information that is usually not at once presented to our “inner eye” as such.
— Sebastian Marincolo
...Absorbed in the new scents, the sounds, and the sunlight...
— Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
There is no ready vocabulary to describe the ways in which artists become artists, no recognition that artists must learn to be who they are (even as they cannot help being who they are.) We have a language that reflects how we learn to paint, but not how we learn to paint our paintings. How do you describe the [reader to place words here] that changes when craft swells to art?"Artists come together with the clear knowledge that when all is said and done, they will return to their studio and practice art alone. Period. That simple truth may be the deepest bond we share. The message across time from the painted bison and the carved ivory seal speaks not of the differences between the makers of that art and ourselves, but of the similarities. Today these similarities lay hidden beneath urban complexity -- audience, critics, economics, trivia -- in a self-conscious world. Only in those moments when we are truly working on our own work do we recover the fundamental connection we share with all makers of art. The rest may be necessary, but it's not art. Your job is to draw a line from your art to your life that is straight and clear.
— David Bayles, Art and Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking
Writing is like sculpturing words out of a block of imagination. Sentences chisel the story, then characters make it their own.
— Federico Chini, The Sea Of Forgotten Memories
What Waringa tried hard to avoid was looking at the pictures of the walls and windows of the church. Many of the pictures showed Jesus in the arms of the virgin Mary or on the cross. But others depicted the devil, with two cow-like horns and a tail like a monkey's, raising one leg in a dance of evil, while his angels, armed with burning pitchforks, turned over human beings on a bonfire. The Virgin Mary, Jesus and God's angels were white, like European, but the devil and his angels were black.
— Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, Devil on the Cross
There are reasons we congregate in these hot spots- to worship beauty and to feel its effects light up the electrolytes in the bloodstream.
— Frances Mayes, A Year in the World: Journeys of a Passionate Traveller
I didn't learn anything while I was talking.
— Larry King