Mind - Quotes

At certain times, a silent mind is very important, but ‘silent’ does not mean closed. The silent mind is an alert, awakened mind; a mind seeking the nature of reality. - Lama Yeshe

Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind. - Jeffrey Eugenides

By a tranquil mind I mean nothing else than a mind well ordered. - Marcus Tullius Cicero

Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body. - Marcus Tullius Cicero

Different minds incline to different objects; one pursues the vast alone, the wonderful, the wild; another sighs for harmony and grace, and gentlest beauty. - Mark Akenside

Dispositions of the mind, like limbs of the body, acquire strength by exercise. - Thomas Jefferson

Do not let trifles disturb your tranquillity of mind. The little pin-pricks of daily life when dwelt upon and magnified, may do great damage, but if ignored or dismissed from thought, will disappear from inanition. - Grenville Kleiser 

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment. - The Buddha

Empires will fall – dynasties fade away; but the mind of man will survive the destruction of all inanimate matter – its destiny is eternal. - Edward Counsel

Every human mind is a great slumbering power until awakened by a keen desire and by definite resolution to do. - Edgar F. Roberts

Everything is in the mind. That is where it all starts. Knowing what you want is the first step towards getting it. - Mae West

Failing to understand the workings of one's own mind is bound to lead to unhappiness. - Marcus Aurelius

Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them. It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious. - Alfred Whitehead

Few minds wear out; more rust out. - Christian Nestell Bovee

For me, the adventures of the mind, each inflection of thought, each movement, nuance, growth, discovery, is a source of exhilaration. - Anais Nin

Gallantry of the mind is saying the most empty things in an agreeable manner. - Duc de La Rochefoucauld

Great minds are like eagles, and build their nest in some lofty solitude. - Arthur Schopenhauer

Great minds have purposes, others have wishes. - Washington Irving

Here in your mind you have complete privacy. Here there’s no difference between what is and what could be. - Chuck Palahniuk

I never met one interesting mind that was not richly endowed with inadmissible deficiencies. - Emil Cioran

I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief. - Gerry Spence

If any part of your uncertainty, is a conflict between your heart and your mind – follow your mind. - Ayn Rand

If the human mind naturally produces noisome weeds, it also produces flowers and fruit; and ... the best method to mend the soil in general, is for each of us to cultivate his own particular spot. - Fluke Greville

If the mind is not contrived, it is spontaneously blissful, just as water, when not agitated, is by nature transparent and clear. - Unknown

Love - Quotes

Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; re-made all the time, made new. - Ursula K. Le Guin

The affections are like lightning: you cannot tell where they will strike till they have fallen. - Henri-Dominique Lacordaire

Love, such as it is in society, is only the exchange of two fantasies, and the contact of two bodies. - Sebastien R. N. Chamfort

Love doesn't make the world go 'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Love has the power of making you believe what you would normally treat with the deepest suspicion. - Mirabeau

Love can leave a memory that no one can steal, but love can also leave a pain that no one can heal. - Unknown

You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection. - Buddha

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation. - Kahlil Gibran

To love somebody isn’t just a strong feeling. It is a decision, a judgement and a promise. - Unknown

Ah, cruel 'tis to love, and cruel not to love, but cruelest of all, to love and love in vain. - Anacreon

It doesn't matter who you are or what you look like so long as somebody loves you. - Roald Dahl

It is better to go for someone who loves you, rather than someone who you love. - Unknown

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There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age. - Sophia Loren

There can’t be a perfect replacement for those we lost, whom we love so much. But there’s always a kind replacement, strong and caring enough to take us through those lonely moments. - Terry Mark

The world we have made as a result of the level of thinking we have done thus far creates problems we cannot solve at the same level of thinking at which we created them. - Albert Einstein

In this sad world of ours sorrow comes to all, and to the young it comes with bittered agony because it takes them unawares. The older have learned to expect it. - Abraham Lincoln

Sometimes saying sorry is the most difficult thing on earth. But its the cheapest thing to save the most expensive gift called relationship. - Unknown

To break through the wall of limited thinking, never assume that what is now seen is all that exists. - Vernon Howard

Sometimes, you have to stop being scared and just go for it. Either it will work, or it won’t. That’s life. - Unknown

It is the semi-learned who scorn the ignorant; the learned know too much about them for that. - Henry S. Haskins

You can count the seeds from one apple, but you can’t count the apples from one seed. - Unknown

Of all the aspects of social misery nothing is so heart-breaking as unemployment. - Jane Addams

Sometimes, you have to take a step back to move forward. - Erika Taylor

To the pure all things are pure! - Marcel Proust

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Relationship - Quotes

Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others. - Wayne Dyer

Relationships are not exams to pass or fail and not a competition to win or lose, but it’s a feeling in which you care for someone more than yourself. - Unknown

Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person. - Brian Tracy

Relationships don’t always make sense. Especially from the outside. - Sarah Dessen

The best thing to spend on your relationship is time, conversation, understanding, and honesty. - Unknown

The best you can hope for in a relationship is to find someone whose flaws are the sort you don't mind. It is futile to look for someone who has no flaws, or someone who is capable of significant change; that sort of person exists only in our imaginations. - Scott Adams

The more you move in rhythm with someone, the closer you become with that person. - George Leonard

The most important relationship you have is with yourself. Everything happening in you life results from the way you treat yourself through thoughts, words and actions. - Roxana Jones

The most powerful relationship you will ever have is the relationship with yourself. - Steve Maraboli

The one who loves least controls the relationship. - Unknown

The present relationship existing between husband and wife, where one claims a command over the actions of the other, is nothing more than a remnant of the old leaven of slavery. It is necessarily destructive of refined love; for how can a man continue to regard as his type of the ideal a being whom he has, be denying an equality of privilege with himself, degraded to something below himself? - Herbert Spencer

The Relationship you have with yourself is the most important relationship of all. - Unknown

The scariest thing about distance is you don’t know if they’ll miss you or forget about you. - Nicholas Sparks

The world has no meaning apart from relationships. Some are just messier than others, some are seasonal, others are difficult, and a few are easy, but every one of them is important. - WM. Paul Young

We can find reasons to dislike anyone. But it's what you focus on and appreciate in a person that cultivates a positive relationship. - David J. Lieberman

We die to each other daily. What we know of other people is only our memory of the moments during which we knew them. And they have changed since then. To pretend that they and we are the same is a useful and convenient social convention which must sometimes broke. We must also remember that at every meeting we are meeting a stranger. - T. S. Eliot

We have to recognise that there cannot be relationships unless there is commitment, unless there is loyalty, unless there is love, patience, persistence. - Cornel West

Well, it seems to me that the best relationships – the ones that last – are frequently the ones that are rooted in friendship. You know, one day you look at the person and you see something more than you did the night before. Like a switch has been flicked somewhere. And the person who was just a friend is… suddenly the only person you can ever imagine yourself with. - Gillian Anderson

When in a relationship, a real man doesn’t make his woman jealous of others, he makes others jealous of his woman. - Steve Maraboli

When we face pain in relationships our first response is often to sever bonds rather than to maintain commitment. - Bell Hooks

You bring all you ever were and are to any relationship you have today. - Fred Rogers

You can be happy in a relationship, but you don’t need a relationship to be happy. - Unknown

You can’t just give up on someone because the situation’s not ideal. Great relationships aren’t great because they have no problems. They’re great because both people are enough about the other person to find a way to make it work. - Unknown

You can't build a relationship with a hammer. - Unknown

You’ll know when a relationship is right for you. It will enhance your life, not complicate your life. - Brigitte Nicole

All About You - Quotes

Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own. - Carl Gustav Jung

If there is a song in your heart, sing it. If there’s love in your soul, show it. If there are dreams in your mind, chase them. Your life is meant for living, don’t ever be afraid to share the real you. - Steven Aitchison

If you are not good for yourself, how can you be good for others. - Spanish Proverb

If you make yourself into a doormat, people will wipe their feet on you. - Belizean Proverb

If you surround yourself with the good and righteous, they can only raise you up. If you surround yourself with the others, they will drag you down into the doldrums of mediocrity, and they will keep you there, but only as long as you permit it. - Mark Glamack

It is when you lose sight of yourself, that you lose your way. To keep your truth in sight you must keep yourself in sight and the world to you should be a mirror to reflect to you your image; the world should be a mirror that you reflect upon. - C. JoyBell C.

Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else’s hands, but not you. - Jim Rohn

Let them judge you. Let them misunderstand you. Let them gossip about you. Their opinions aren’t your problem. You stay kind, committed to love, and free in your authenticity. No matter what they do or say, don’t dare doubt your worth or the beauty of your truth. Just keep shining like you do. - Scott Stable

Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world. - Lucille Ball

Love yourself! Because you’re the only person who’ll be with you your entire life! - Unknown

Never sacrifice who you are just because someone has a problem with it. - Unknown

On your last day on earth, the person you became will meet the person you could have become. - Unknown

People will come and go in life, but the person in the mirror will be there forever. So, be good to yourself. - Unknown

Role models are only of limited use. For no-one is as important, potentially powerful and as key in your life and world as you. - Rasheed Ogunlaru

The cost of not following your heart is spending the rest of your life wishing you had. Don’t let fear or peer pressure determine your path. Be courageous, take risks, make mistakes, and realize that this is your life. The only person’s approval you truly in need of is your own. - Gavin Nascimento

The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset you. - Stephanie Perkins

The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely. - C.G.Jung

There is nothing wrong with taking a break from everything and concentrating on yourself. You are not responsible for fixing everything that is broken. You don’t always have to try making everyone else happy. Make you own happiness and peace of mind a priority. - Unknown

Success - Quotes

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles one has overcome while trying to succeed. - Booker T. Washington

Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility. - Pablo Picasso

It’s very important that people aspire to be successful. The only way you can do it is if you look at somebody who is. - Donald Trump

In all things, success depends on previous preparation, and without such previous preparation there is sure to be failure. - Conficius

Success is not something you achieve, conquer, climb, or complete. Success is a process; it's a way of life. - Anthony Robbins

Most of us go through life borrowing someone else's definition of success rather than coming up with our own! - Tommy Newberry

People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved. - Anne Sullivan

Success does not mean happiness: it means an unusual number of industrious enemies. - Edgar Watson Howe

Success requires enough optimism to provide hope and enough pessimism to prevent complacency. - David G. Myers

If you can find work, stay healthy, find somebody to share it with, you're the ultimate success. - Dick Clark

It wasn’t until I'd met everyone else’s measure of success that I realized I’d failed myself. - Rick Remender

It is not what happens that is success or failure, but what it does to the heart of man. - Bruce Lee

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We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness-and call it love – true love. - Robert Fulghum

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or in the holy name of liberty or democracy? - Mahatma Gandhi

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order to things. - Niccolò Machiavelli

A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun. - Thomas Carlyle

Within our perceived weaknesses and imperfections lies the key to realizing our true strength. - Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

Sometimes, you just outgrow certain people. Don’t try to fix or repair it, just accept it and move on. - Unknown

Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make you peace with that and all will be well. - Jack Kornfield

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself. - Andy Warhol

The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people. - Karl Marx

Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door. - Coco Chanel

To the rational being only the irrational is unendurable. - Epictetus

Sometimes, it’s now or never. - Unknown

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Humour

A lady and her 7-year-old son are eating in a restaurant.

In a moment of playfulness, the boy swallows a coin and chokes. The mother tries slapping his back, rubbing his neck, shaking him hard and everything she could think of without success.

The boy begins to turn blue. The desperate mother starts screaming for help.

A man gets up from a nearby table, and with astonishing tranquility, without saying a word, lowers the boy's pants and squeezes his testicles.

The boy yells and spits out the coin. The gentleman with the same tranquility returns to his table without a word.

Soon, the mother calms down and approaches the gentleman to thank him for saving her son's life.

She asks, "Sir, are you a doctor?"

"No, ma'am," comes the reply. "I'm an Assistant Commissioner of the Inland Revenue Authority. We are trained to squeeze everyone's balls to make them cough up the last penny."

Life - Quotes

Lean forward into your life ... catch the best bits and the finest wind. Just tip your feathers in flight a wee bit and see how dramatically that small lean can change your life. - Mary Anne Radmacher

Life consists in molting our illusions. We form creeds today only to throw them away tomorrow. The eagle molts a feather because he is growing a better one. - Elbert Hubbard

Life doesn’t have a neat beginning and a tidy end; life is always going on. You should begin in the middle and end in the middle, and it should be all there. - V. S. Naipaul

Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another. - Willliam James

Life at the greatest is but a forward child, that must be humor'd and coax'd a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over. - Oliver Goldsmith

Life, too much of it, and not enough. The fear that it will end some day, and the fear that tomorrow will be the same as yesterday. - John Updike

It’s over before you know it. It all goes by so fast. Yeah, the bad nights take forever, and the good nights don't ever seem to last. - Tom Petty

Let us all so live as we shall wish we had lived when we come to die; for that only is well, that ends well. - Benjamin Whichcote

Life itself is your teacher, and you are in a state of constant learning. - Bruce Lee

Life isn't about getting and having, it's about giving and being. - Kevin Kruse

In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back. - Charles M. Schulz

It’s your life – but only if you make it so. - Eleanor Roosevelt

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When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader. - Plato

Willpower is not some mythical force that we either have or don't have. Willpower is our decision to use higher-mind thinking instead of lazing around in the clutches of our primal mind. - A. B. Curtiss

Lost – yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered, for they are gone forever. - Horace Mann

In order to be free, we must learn how to let go. Release the hurt. Release the fear. Refuse to entertain the old pain. - Mary Manin Morrissey

Do not rely completely on any other human being, however dear. We meet all life’s greatest tests alone. - Agnes McPhail

Only those who look with the eyes of children can lose themselves in the object of their wonder. - Eberhard Arnold

Sometimes, someone says something really small and it just fits right into this empty place in your heart. - Unknown

We are too inattentive or too much occupied with ourselves to understand each other. - Luc de Clapiers

Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish. - Quintilian

Purity in the heart is like medicine in the body, it expels disease. - Ich Dien

When nothing is sure, everything is possible. - Margaret Drabble

You cannot put the same shoe on every foot. - Publilius Syrus

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Suffering - Quotes

Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep; thus little by little they train man by force and dispose him to wisdom in spite of himself. Man must learn to think of himself as a limited and dependent being; and only suffering teaches him this. - Simone Weil

All the suffering that humanity ever knew can be traced to the one fact that no man in the history of the Galaxy ... could really understand one another. Every human being lived behind an impenetrable wall of choking mist within which no other but he existed. - Isaac Asimov

As in labour, the more one doth exercise, the more one is enabled to do, strength growing upon work; so with the use of suffering, men's minds get the habit of suffering, and all fears and terrors are not to them but as a summons to battle, whereof they know beforehand they shall come off victorious. - Sir Philip Sidney

It is not permanence that makes us suffer. What makes us suffer is wanting things to be permanent, when they are not. - Thich Nhat Hanh

Many people suffer because they are caught in their views. As soon as we release those views, we are free and we don’t suffer any more. Mindfulness helps you come home to the present. Life is available only in the present. - Thich Nhat Hanh

Our suffering comes from our attachment to people and things, our repeated attempts to find something lasting where there is nothing lasting to be found. - Philip Martin

The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering. - Ben Okri

The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive. - John Green

Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life. - Angelina Jolie

If you had not suffered as you have, there would be no depth to you as a human being, no humility, no compassion. - Eckhart Tolle

Technology - Quotes

All attempts to adapt our ethical code to our situation in the technological age have failed. - Max Born

All of our exalted technological progress, civilization for that matter, is comparable to an axe in the hand of a pathological criminal. - Albert Einstein

All of the biggest technological inventions created by man – the airplane, the automobile, the computer – says little about his intelligence, but speaks volumes about his laziness. - Mark Kennedy

All this modern technology just makes people try to do everything at once. - Bill Watterson

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. - Arthur C. Clarke

Anything that is theoretically possible will be achieved in practice, no matter what the technical difficulties are, if it is desired greatly enough. - Arthur C. Clarke

Before you become too entranced with gorgeous gadgets and mesmerizing video displays, let me remind you that information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom, and wisdom is not foresight. Each grows out of the other, and we need them all. - Arthur C. Clarke

Can you avoid knowledge? You cannot! Can you avoid technology? You cannot! Things are going to go ahead in spite of ethics, in spite of your personal beliefs, in spite of everything. - Jose M. R. Delgado

Flight from and hatred of technology is self-defeating. The Buddha, the Godhead, resides quite as comfortably in the circuits of a digital computer or the gears of a cycle transmission as he does at the top of a mountain or in the petals of a flower. To think otherwise is to demean the Buddha – which is to demean oneself. - Robert M. Pirsig

History demonstrates that the advancement of technology is not a steady upward curve. There are flat periods, upwards spurts, and even reversals. - Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson

I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I’ve invented. - R. Buckminster Fuller

It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity. - Albert Einstein

New technology is the true friend of full employment; the indispensable ally of progress; and the surest guarantee of prosperity. - Margaret Thatcher

Once a new technology rolls over you, if you’re not part of the steamroller, you’re part of the road. - Stewart Brand

Our entire much-praised technological progress, and civilization generally, could be compared to an axe in the hand of a pathological criminal. - Albert Einstein

Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate. - Alvin Toffler

Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards. - Aldous Huxley

Technology feeds on itself. Technology makes more technology possible. - Alvin Toffler

Technology gives us power, but it does not and cannot tell us how to use that power. Thanks to technology, we can instantly communicate across the world, but it still doesn’t help us know what to say. - Jonathan Sacks

Technology is an inherent democratizer. Because of the evolution of hardware and software, you’re able to scale up almost anything. It means that in our lifetime everyone may have tools of equal power. - Sergey Brin

Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born. - Alan Kay

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important. - Bill Gates

Technology is the engine; the humanities are the steering wheel and the brakes. The humanities don't create nearly as much force for getting things done as technology does, but technology is just plain lousy at directing its energy or managing itself. - James Alan Garnder

Technology should have freed mankind from the burdens of life. Instead, it created new ones. - Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson

The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency. - Bill Gates

The number one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. It lets people be creative. It lets people be productive. It lets people learn things they didn’t think they could learn before, and so in a sense it is all about potential. - Steve Ballmer

There will always be humans, lots of them, who provide the data that makes the networked realization of any technology better and cheaper. - Jaron Lanier

We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works. - Douglas Adams

Food for Thought

I think of the trees and how simply they let go, let fall the riches of a season, how without grief (it seems) they can let go and go deep into their roots for renewal and sleep.... Imitate the trees. Learn to lose in order to recover, and remember that nothing stays the same for long, not even pain, psychic pain. Sit it out. Let it all pass. Let it go. - May Sarton

Being rude is easy. It does not take any effort and is a sign of weakness and insecurity. Kindness shows great self-discipline and strong self-esteem. Being kind is not always easy when dealing with rude people. Kindness is a sign of a person who has done a lot of personal work and has come to a great self-understanding and wisdom. Choose to be kind over being right, and you’ll be right every time because kindness is a sign of strength. - Unknown

Many people cannot allow themselves the time to sit and do nothing but breathe. They consider it to be uneconomical or a luxury. People say “time is money.” But time is much more than money. Time is life. The simple practice of sitting quietly on a regular basis can be profoundly healing. Stopping and sitting is a good way to focus on mindful breathing and nothing else. - Thich Nhat Hanh

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Happiness - Quotes

The way to happiness: Keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Scatter sunshine, forget self, think of others. Try this for a week and you will be surprised. - Norman Vincent Peale

We all know by theory that there is no permanent happiness in this life: But the weight of the precept is not felt in the same manner as when it is confirmed to us by a heavy calamity. - Samuel Richardson

Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak. - August Strindberg

Happiness is natural, happiness is a birthright, happiness is free, happiness is a choice, happiness is within, and happiness is being. - Robert Holden

If you search the world for happiness, you may find it in the end, for the world is round and will lead you back to your door. - Robert Brault

Happiness is inward, and not outward; and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are. - Henry Van Dyke

Happiness does not depend upon surroundings, but upon disposition. - Charles Edward Jerningham

It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor. - Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling. - Margaret Lee Runbeck

You cannot always have happiness, but you can always give happiness. - Unknown

Happiness is just how you feel when you don't feel miserable. - John Lennon

There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness. - Lady Blessington

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Quote Worthy

It is ever thus that the things which we do wrong – although they may seem little at the time, and though from the hardness of our hearts we pass them lightly by – come back to us with bitterness. - Bram Stoker

We spend so much time creating a façade of what we want to project to the world, we almost forget what we ourselves are truly about in the process. - Jason R. Thrift

Above all, the only thing you have to heal is the present thought. Get that right and the whole picture will change into one of harmony and joy. - Eckhart Tolle

In all affairs it’s a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted. - Bertrand Russell

When you have the power to screw people over and you don't – well, that's when you get to show who you really are. - Joseph Finder

Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others. - Barry Bonds

At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation, and prejudice. - Gore Vidal

If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth. - E. O. Wilson

Putting off an easy thing makes it hard. Putting off a hard thing makes it impossible. - George Horace Lorimer

Sometimes, the person you’d take a bullet for ends up being the one behind the gun. - Unknown

Wise men learn by others' harms; fools by their own. - Benjamin Franklin

You are a leaf that doesn’t know that it is part of a tree. - Unknown

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Reading - Quotes

A peasant that reads is a prince in waiting. - Walter Mosley

Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. - G. M. Trevelyan

He that loves reading has everything within his reach. - William Godwin

I think you can tell when you meet someone whether they read novels. There’s some hollowness if they don’t. - Philip Hensher

If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write. - Stephen King

In our daily lives, where we’re bombarded by the fake and the trivial, reading serves as a way to stop, shut out the noise of the world, and try to grab hold of something real, no matter how small. - Maureen Corrigan

Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one’s hand. - Ezra Pound

Once you learn to read, you will be forever free. - Frederick Douglass

Read. Read all the time. Read as a matter of principle, as a matter of self-respect. Read as a nourishing staple of life. - David McCullough

Reading ... the best state possible in which to keep absolute loneliness at bay. - William Styron

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. - John Locke

Reading makes a full Man, Meditation a profound Man, Discourse a clear Man. - Benjamin Franklin

Reading supplies bread for imagination to feed on and bones for it to chew on. - Alex Osborn

Stories you read when you’re the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called. Sometimes you’ll forget precisely what happened, but if a story touches you it will stay with you, haunting the places in your mind that you rarely ever visit. - Neil Gaiman

The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive. - Malcom X

The first lesson reading teaches is how to be alone. - Jonathan Franzen

The man who has not the habit of reading is imprisoned in his immediate world. - Lin YuTang

The more imagination the reader has ... the more he will do for himself. He will, at a mere hint from the author, flood wretched material with suggestion and never guess that he is himself chiefly making what he enjoys. - C. S. Lewis

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go. - Dr. Seuss

To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark. - Victor Hugo

What is reading but silent conversation. - Walter Savage Landor

Proverbs / Maxims / Idioms ...

The person who gets stuck on petty happiness, will not attain great happiness. - Tibetan Proverb

The hardest person to awaken is the person already awake. - Tagalog Proverb

The lion believes that everyone shares his state of mind. - Mexican Proverb

The higher the monkey climbs, the more he shows his tail. - John Wycliffe

What good is running when you're on the wrong road. - German Proverb

The hand that rocks the cradle, rules the world. - William Ross Wallace

The person afraid of bad luck will never know good. - Russian Proverb

The only thing that's certain is that nothing is for certain. - Joe Dubois

The frog enjoys itself in water but not in hot water. - African Proverb

The crab that walks too far, falls into the pot. - Haitian Proverb

Sorrow doesn't kill, reckless joy does. - West African Proverb

The honey is sweet but the bee has a sting. - Benjamin Franklin

The leopard does not change his spots. - William Shakespeare

Sorrow is to the soul, as worm is to wood. - Turkish Proverb

Tap even a stone bridge before crossing it. - Korean Proverb

The blind person is not afraid of ghosts. - Burmese Proverb

The fall of a leaf is a whisper to the living. - Danish Proverb

The bad ploughman quarrels with his ox. - Korean Proverb

What cannot be cured must be endured. - Edmund Spenser

The person sins, then blames Satan for it. - Afghan Proverb

The master of the people is their servant. - Yemeni Proverb

The second word makes the quarrel. - Japanese Proverb

Spending is quick; earning is slow. - Russian Proverb

The house of the loud talker, leaks. - African proverb

The mind is willing, but the flesh is weak. - Bible

Love - Quotes

Love is the willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you. - Wagne Dyer

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Sensuality often hastens the growth of love so much that the roots remain weak and are easily torn up. - Friedrich Nietzschie

In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing. - Mignon McLaughlin

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart. - Washington Irving

Love is the only thing that we can carry with us when we go, and it makes the end so easy. - Louisa May Alcott

Love life seems to be that factor which requires the largest quantity of magical tinkering. - Isaac Asimov

Love makes a few weeks so rich that all the rest of our lives seems poor in comparison. - Christian Nestell

Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own. - H. Jackson Brown

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost. - G. K. Chesterton

Love is not enough. But, it is the rock on which all else stands. - Nora Roberts

Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words. - Jerome Cummings

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