Quotes by American Authors - Page 3260

Bravery is the choice to show up and listen to another person, be it a loved one or perceived foe, even when it is uncomfortable, painful, or the last thing you want to do.
Alaric Hutchinson
Bravery is listening even when you don't want to hear it.
Alaric Hutchinson
Practice bravery every day and the self-worth will come.
Alaric Hutchinson
...books give a man ideas, they make him want to live.
Patricia Engel
You can control the visibility of my name and my popularity, but you cannot control the frequency at which people are quoting me. Truth always rises with time.
Suzy Kassem
Three things have a limited threshold:Time, pain, and death.While truth, love, and knowledge –Are boundless.
Suzy Kassem
Not everyone who loves music can play the tune.Estelle
Nora Roberts
The critical nature of 'choices' -- [the] timing will prove to be an asset or liability; it will reward wisdom or expose stupidity. Either way, we learn from the path of suffering or satisfaction… by choice or by design.
T.F. Hodge
Eventually, it boils down to two choices – do I wish to experience this physical reality primarily through joy or do I want to experience it through suffering? That’s all there is to it. And since each person eventually works their way toward the realization that conscious expansion can happen through joy rather than suffering – enlightenment is a natural byproduct.
Alaric Hutchinson
(God) will always grant us wisdom when we ask. And when we seek Him and obey Him, He works all things out for our good.
Teresa Schultz
Too often, opinion is a lens polished by the grit of bias. And as I stare through my own lens, I might ask how much polish can the grit of bias actually create?
Craig D. Lounsbrough
If there’s one thing that’s irrefutably absurd, it’s believing that we can separate intelligence from wisdom and still have it be intelligence.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
In my experience, it is always worth it to find the love that lives inside you. No matter how deep you have to dig sometimes.
Scott Stabile
There is no saint here. I have attained wisdom from life's experiences... the positive, the negative, the destructive, the nourishing. I have been medicine and I have been poison. I've learned a lot about heaven from aligning with angels and I learned a lot about hell from acting like a devil. I offer my scars... what you call "wisdom"... as insight I have gathered from my comfort of living within both the light and the shadow.
Steve Maraboli
The telling and the hearing of a story is not a simple act. The one who tells must reach down into deeper layers of the self, reviving old feelings, reviewing the past. Whatever is retrieved is reworked into a new form, one that narrates events and gives the listener a path through these events that leads to some fragment of wisdom. The one who hears takes the story in, even to a place not visible or conscious to the mind, yet there. In this inner place a story from another life suffers a subtle change. As it enters the memory of the listener it is augmented by reflection, by other memories, and even the body hearing and responding in the moment of the telling. By such transmissions, consciousness is woven.
Susan Griffin
Let’s face it, life is trivial, and my guess is that dying imparts very little wisdom on those in process.
Sue Grafton
Take a simple idea and take it seriously.
Charlie Munger
You can't change people with love. It doesn't work that way.
A.S. King
Technology has not made humanity any wiser, it has only made us more dangerous.
James Rozoff
If you want to heal or experience more happiness in life, learn to move out of the mental body and be in your heart more. You will know you are "in your head" is when you analyze, control and overthink. When you have run on thoughts, worry, and talk without listening. When you take all the workshops and read all the books, but aren't experiencing it's message in your heart.
Eileen Anglin
Humans are at their best when alleviating the suffering of another living thing.
Eileen Anglin
God brings wonderful people into our lives. He also takes people out to protect us from harm. When we roll with God’s grace, we feel his wisdom.
Ron Baratono
Bir kaplanın sırtında yolculuk etmenin en önemli kuralı, kulaklarını asla bırakmamaktır.
Robert A. Heinlein
Every plant, tree, and animal is a blessing and every person has a purpose for living. Courage, curiosity, and generosity produce noble spirits. Enduring life honorably results in wisdom. Knowledge passed down from one generation to the next along with humankind's tradition of performing charitable and self-sacrificing deeds creates principled legacies for future generations to emulate.
Kilroy J. Oldster
The Fur Person learned then and there that it is better to be a philosopher than to be a king and that, all things considered, wisdom was to be preferred to power.
May Sarton
Başkalarının işine burnunu sokmamak insanın sahip olabileceği bilgeliğin yüzde seksenidir... kalan yüzde yirmi de pek önemli değildir zaten.
Robert A. Heinlein
With God, there’s always an appointed time for things, and when you put Him first, trust in His timing, and keep the faith, miracles happen!
Germany Kent
Things becomes invisible at the very moment I refuse to grant them importance. And while I am utterly ashamed to admit it, many of the most important things in my life are invisible.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
The foundation of wisdom is knowing how to tell when you are totally clueless, lost, and in need of assistance.
A.E. Samaan
One of my rules in consulting is simple: never solve the problem I am asked to solve. Why such a counter-intuitive rule? Because, invariably, the problem I am asked to solve is not the real, fundamental, root problem.
Don Norman
In hindsight, events seem logical
Don Norman
It’s not that I’ve been invited to the hole I’m standing in. It’s that I accepted the invitation.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
A compass calibrated by my greed is a rather shrewd way to legitimize my agenda. However, true north on a compass such as this is a straight line to the edge of a really big cliff.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
Imagination envisions what could be. Reality states what is. And when my journey is shaped by one of these at the exclusion of the other, I will eventually wake up on some road facing the ‘reality’ that I’m far more lost than I could have ‘imagined’.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
Just when you think you have it all figured out, an epiphany arrives at the higher level of one's consciousness.
Terry a O'Neal
GPS has saved countless relationships because us men do not like to ask for directions. Now if women could only come with relationship GPS we would be one step closer to world peace.
Ken Poirot
I embrace my experience and value my wisdom.
Amy Leigh Mercree
Embrace wisdom and relentlessly pursue joy, and you can live agelessly.
Amy Leigh Mercree
I care as much as I can, but I don’t spend energy caring about things I cannot resolve.
Gregory Maguire
Is a self help or personal development book ruining your life?
Ken Poirot
Life doesn't revolve around youIt revolves around those you love
Richard L. Ratliff
Stored personal memories along with handed down collective memories of stories, legends, and history allows us to collate our interactions with a physical and social world and develop a personal code of survival. In essence, we all become self-styled sages, creating our own book of wisdom based upon our studied observations and practical knowledge gleaned from living and learning. What we quickly discover is that no textbook exist how to conduct our life, because the world has yet to produce a perfect person – an ideal observer – whom is capable of handing down a concrete exemplar of epistemic virtues. We each draw upon the guiding knowledge, theories, and advice available for us in order to explore the paradoxes, ironies, inconsistencies, and the absurdities encountered while living in a supernatural world. We mold our personal collection of information into a practical practicum how to live and die. Each day we define and redefine who we are, determine how we will react today, and chart our quest into an uncertain future.
Kilroy J. Oldster
Spread love. Hug the people you care about and make sure they know that you care and appreciate them. Make it known to your friends and family that you love them.
Germany Kent
Don't follow blindly; focus on strengths, not weaknesses
Don Norman
Youth is wasted on the young. If it was me, you can be sure I wouldn't be lazing around thinking I had the right woman. I'd make damn sure and then do whatever it took to make sure she thought the same, too.
Avery Flynn
There's just as much wisdom in knowing when to keep quiet as there is in knowing when to speak up. Use your voice wisely.
Scott Stabile
I can arrogantly brag that the doors I choose in life open wide and grant me unobstructed passage. But the widest doors tend to lead to the worst places.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
A stupid question asks about things so fundamental that everyone assumes the answer is obvious.
Don Norman
So many people set off in a direction in life but don’t think things completely through first.
John Sonmez
You may never live long enough to discover who you are, but by the time you reach middle age you will hopefully realize who you are not.
James Rozoff
Be humble: have the courage to speak the truth.
Ken Poirot
The world you are in –Is the true hell.The journey to Truth itselfIs what quickens the heart to become lighter.The lighter the heart, the purer it is.The purer the heart, the closer to light it becomes.And the heavier the heart,The more chained to this hellIt will remain.
Suzy Kassem
Patience is born to all cats. They just don't care to deploy it where others are concerned.
James Qualls
It will never be all that I want it to be…But it is always twice what I expected.
James Qualls
Women have been trained in our culture and society to ask for what we want instead of taking what we want. We've been really indoctrinated with this culture of permission. But that time has passed.
Ava DuVernay
Your crown has been bought and paid for. Put it on your head and wear it.
Maya Angelou
Do your thoughts continue and repeat a cycle Seed, growth, bloom, and seed again
Richard L. Ratliff
All the things that are worth doing, take time.
Mos Def
Syl Anagist's assimilation of the world had been over a century before I was ever made; all cities were Syl Anagist. All languages had become Sylanagistine. But there were none so frightened, or so strange in their fear, as conquerors. They conjure phantoms endlessly, terrified that their victims will someday do back what was done to them - even if, in truth, their victims couldn't care less about such pettiness and have moved on. Conquerors live in dread of the day when they are shown to be, not superior, but simply lucky.
N K Jemisin
D'you know, Georgie," he said, settling back comfortably in the deep grass, that there song you've been a-singin' at all day - it ain't much of a song and it ain't much of a tune, but there's real good *sense* to it, though you probably don't know it. And I'll tell you why - because there always *is* new Folks comin', that's why. There's always new Folks comin' and always new times comin'.
Robert Lawson