Quotes by American Authors - Page 56

Failures and fears are the part of the journey we call life. Don't let them stop you or derail you from your chosen path.
Debasish Mridha
When you empower others to be great, you become a great leader.
Debasish Mridha
The moon has been loving us with her dreamy smile for billions of years, but still she is not tired.
Debasish Mridha
Don't complain but compliment.Don't compete but empower.
Debasish Mridha
Sometimes a simple focused thought can change the whole world.
Debasish Mridha
When you lift up others, you rise up together.
Debasish Mridha
Your life is nothing buy a reflection of your thoughts. Your life will only change when you change your thoughts.
Debasish Mridha
Measure your day by the love you are giving away.
Debasish Mridha
You have to get lost to find your true self.
Debasish Mridha
To find eternal peace, love everyone as if they are your beloved children.
Debasish Mridha
Misery and poverty of a nation does not depend on how fertile their land is but the fertility of their thoughts.
Debasish Mridha
As long as we have life, we keep love and hope alive.
Debasish Mridha
All the stress and misery of life comes from fear of loss. Remember that you can never lose anything without gaining something. To avoid misery, concentrate on what you will gain.
Debasish Mridha
Be solution oriented. Infect everyone with enthusiasm.
Debasish Mridha
Help humanity to help yourself. Love humanity to love yourself.
Debasish Mridha
If a nation blames other nations for their problems, most likely the citizens of the nations will do the same thing.
Debasish Mridha
Find what is beautiful in a person and appreciate it. Ignore what is wrong. Everyone has divine beauty but underneath can be a hidden diabolical ego.
Debasish Mridha
Do not feel alone.You are connected to everyoneyesterday, today, and for days to come connected with a threadless garlandthat is love.
Debasish Mridha
Fill yourself with love and happiness, but never give up the desire to love more.
Debasish Mridha
You will never truly realize the value of life until you take your very last breath.
Debasish Mridha
Let us be silent to listen to the heart's songs of eternity. Let us be kind to feel the beauty of tranquility. Let us vanish to belong and be nothing.
Debasish Mridha
Let us be loving, be kind, be simple, be silly, be happy.
Debasish Mridha
You make yourself happy while talking to someone. You will cease to talk when you lose the desire to impress that person.
Debasish Mridha
Nothing lasts for long. Even moments of beauty transcend and transform.
Debasish Mridha
Be happy with yourself to encourage others.
Debasish Mridha
Get lost in the beauty and tranquility of nature to find your true self again and again.
Debasish Mridha
Remember to be kind. Always.
Debasish Mridha
Loving is like any other art-craft where the masters have carefully practiced and where the novices have languished in their carelessness.
Bryant McGill
The best yardstick for our progress is not other people, but ourselves. Am I better than I was yesterday? This is the only question worth asking. As long as you go to bed at night a better practitioner than the one who woke up that morning, you have succeeded. Your worth should have nothing to do with how your progress stacks up relative to another.
Chris Matakas
Mastery lies on an infinite continuum, and as a result we will never reach the end. We can, however, see to it that we are as far along that continuum as our circumstance allows.
Chris Matakas
If you are fortunate enough to have a particular activity with which you find greatest joy and technical success, it is your responsibility as a growing human being to continue that study. Whatever your endeavor, if you can expand upon the knowledge in your strongest subject, that new found understanding of all things will trickle down to every other area of your life.
Chris Matakas
Most people in the world are Christ lovers. And then there are Christ haters. But all of them are fixated on Christ, and he perpetuates for ever.
Marilyn Monroe
We become weirder parents when we fall more and more in love with Christ.
Craig Groeschel
I do not politicize Christianity nor my discipleship as Jesus did not politicize either His divinity nor his humanity.
R. Alan Woods
You know after any truly initiating experience that you are part of a much bigger whole. Life is not about you henceforward, but you are about life.
Richard Rohr
A question is far more subversive, biblically, than a statement.
Os Guinness
We are to be generous not just in the results of our work, but also IN our work.
Matt Perman
True love is generative. It is the only kind that makes more of itself as it goes along.
Timothy J. Keller
you turn into a shrewd tactician, making a series of cautious semicommitments without really surrendering to some larger purpose. You lose the ability to say a hundred noes for the sake of one overwhelming and fulfilling yes.
David Brooks
As you call people to submit to the Person of Christ, you can trust the Spirit of Christ to lead them to salvation.
David Platt
Pandering candidates often promise that they can make the pain go away.
Gail Collins
According to Aquinas, effort may not be the best measure of our virtue.
Jen Pollock Michel
Commercial comedy's often set up to feature an ironist makingdevastating sport of someone who's naive or sentimental or pretentious orpompous.
David Foster Wallace
The first rule of improvisation is AGREE. Always agree and SAY YES. When you're improvising, this means you are required to agree with whatever your partner has created. So if we're improvising and I say, 'Freeze, I have a gun,' and you say, 'That's not a gun. It's your finger. You're pointing your finger at me,' our improvised scene has ground to a halt. But if I say, 'Freeze, I have a gun!' and you say, 'The gun I gave you for Christmas! You bastard!' then we have started a scene because we have AGREED that my finger is in fact a Christmas gun.
Tina Fey
Nobody ever goes to that store to shop because it’s too crowded.
Sol Luckman
Well, bloody noses." I hug his coat tighter. "Those are definitely hot.
Stephanie Perkins
We got there without being spotted. I pulled her in, then shut the door, pressing my back to it and exhaling like an epileptic pilot who'd just landed a cargo plane full of dynamite.
Brandon Sanderson
The human race has the capacity to render itself extinct unless alternatives are found to the patterns of intraspecific warfare that have dominated civilized history. Ours has long been a predatory species. Living, for humans, depends upon the ability to kill as clearly as it does for lions or wolves. But lions and wolves, like almost all predatory species, normally limit their killing to prey animals, and they are equipped with elaborate ritual precautions to prevent the destruction of their own kind. Humans appear to be unique among predators in their enthusiasm to destroy members of their own species. Perhaps this unusual behavior can be attributed to some genetic deficiency which may lead humans ultimately to join the rest of nature's failures in the biological graveyard of extinction. Or perhaps our willingness to kill ourselves, like so many of our other problems, is something we have devised by misusing our enlarged brains.
Joseph W. Meeker
Haley and I would talk for hours about which member of 'N Sync we'd want to marry. After long deliberation, the answer was always J. C. Chasez. JoeyFatone's last name was going to be “Fat One” no matter how great he was, and even though they didn't know at theirage that Lance Bass was gay outright, they sensed he'd make a better good friend and confidante. As for Justin Timberlake, well, JT was the coolest and hottest, but too flashy, so we couldn't trust him to be faithful. J. C. Chasez was the smart compromise.
Mindy Kaling
To call that writing, madam, is an insult to quills and ink across the world.
Julia Quinn
Are you all right?” he asked Olivia. His heart was still racing with terror that she’d been hurt. “I heard a woman scream.”“Ah, that would have been me,” Sebastian said.Harry looked down on his cousin, face frozen in disbelief. “You made that noise?”“It hurt,” Sebastian bit off.Harry fought not to laugh. “You scream like a leettle girl.
Julia Quinn
Reach deep within, and reconnect with the essence of your being.
Bryant McGill
Gray is not a substitute for black and white. You don’t bump into people without saying you’re sorry. When you shake hands, it’s supposed to mean something. If someone is in trouble, you reach out.
Jon M. Huntsman Sr.
Is it possible that future generations will regard our present agribuisness and eating practices in much the same way we now view Nero's entertainments or Mengele's experiments? My own initial reaction is that such a comparison is hysterical, extreme - and yet the reason it seems extreme to me appears to be that I believe animals are less morally important than human behings; and when it comes to defending such a belief, even to myself, I have to acknowledge that (a) I have an obvious selfish interest in this belief, since I like to eat certain kinds of animals and want to be able to keep doing it, and (b) I haven't succeeded in working out any sort of personal ethical system in which the belief is truly defensible instead of just selfishly convenient.
David Foster Wallace
Life in a box was unbearable.How did humans stand it?
Patrick Jennings
As a result of its investigation, the NIH said that to qualify for funding, all proposals for research on human subjects had to be approved by review boards—independent bodies made up of professionals and laypeople of diverse races, classes, and backgrounds—to ensure that they met the NIH’s ethics requirements, including detailed informed consent. Scientists said medical research was doomed. In a letter to the editor of Science, one of them warned, “When we are prevented from attempting seemingly innocuous studies of cancer behavior in humans … we may mark 1966 as the year in which all medical progress ceased.
Rebecca Skloot
Leadership responsibility is multidimensional and cannot be described in one or two words. It is personal, interpersonal, environmental and societal.
Linda Fisher Thornton
You can do what's right, or you can do what you are told.
Phil Ochs
...moral relativism, a position many find attractive only until they are faced with someone who is doing something really, really wrong.
Peter Singer
It is interesting, in this context, to think again of our earlier argument that membership of the species Homo sapiens does not entitle a being to better treatment than a being at a similar mental level who is a member of a different species. We could also have said – except that it seemed too obvious to need saying – that membership of the species Homo sapiens is not a reason for giving a being worse treatment than a member of a different species. Yet in respect of euthanasia, this needs to be said. If your dog is ill and in pain with no chance of recovery, the humane thing to do is take her to the vet, who will end her suffering swiftly with a lethal injection. To ‘allow nature to take its course’, withholding treatment while your dog dies slowly and in distress over days, weeks or months, would obviously be wrong. It is only our misplaced respect for the doctrine of the sanctity of human life that prevents us from seeing that what it is obviously wrong to do to a dog, it is equally wrong to do to a human being who has never been able to express a view about such matters.
Peter Singer