Quotes by Authors - Page 4928

The Awakening Land" p628-629 Hardship and work, that's what his mother always harped on. Once when he had refused to work on the lot, she had said, "You're going to live longer than I do, Chancey. Watch for all kinds of new-fangled notions to take away folks' troubles without their having to work. That's what folks today want and that's what will ruin them more than anything else." Could there be something after all in this hardship-and-work business, he pondered. He had thought hardship and work the symptoms of a pioneer era, things of the past. He believed that his generation had outlived and outlawed them, was creating a new life of comfort, ease and peace. And yet war, the cruelest hardship of all, war between brothers, was on them today like a madness. Did it mean that the need for strength and toughness was to be always with them; that the farther they advanced, the more brilliant and intelligent they became, the more terrible would be the hardship that descended upon them, and the more crying the need of hardihood to be saved.
Conrad Richter
The world is like a brute beast, you teach it how it should behave towards you
Bangambiki Habyarimana
When you attain the highest wisdom, you will disappear physically because people will start seeing only your ideas and thinking about only your wisdom; you will die physically and you will turn into an empty chair full of universe simply!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Fear was wisdom in a situation like this, and he was pleased that Folly was obviously intelligent enough to know it. He hoped that she would use the fear to make her cleverer, rather than more foolish, but that was asking much of a human, relatively odd or not.
Jim Butcher
Promise me this. When you find yourself in need of inspiration, bypass the roses that will clamor aimlessly for attention. And focus on the souls who have actually 'lived' among the thorns.
Alfa H
To enter the land of wisdom, firstly start changing the angles you look at the things!
Mehmet Murat ildan
When you are in his sort of business - now my business - you are not defined by who you are but who you are not.
Anthony Horowitz
Know your worth and love yourself in such a way that anyone who is no good for you, wont be able to reach you.
Nikki Rowe
I also saw under the sun this example of wisdom that greatly impressed me: There was once a small city with only a few people in it. And a powerful king came against it, surrounded it and built huge siege works against it. Now there lived in that city a man poor but wise, and he saved the city by his wisdom. But nobody remembered that poor man.
King Solomon Son of David
When I applied my mind to know wisdom and to observe the labor that is done on earth—people getting no sleep day or night-- then I saw all that God has done. No one can comprehend what goes on under the sun. Despite all their efforts to search it out, no one can discover its meaning. Even if the wise claim they know, they cannot really comprehend it.
King Solomon Son of David
It's difficult being an intellectual in a bread and butter sort of town.
Anonymous
Midnight's the only time where you can be both in the past, present, and future.
Rachel Van Dyken
If I read inspirational words, they better have some pain to back them up. My strength for moving forward has never been sparked by flowery prose calling me and Angel. Tell me how you swallowed Hell, and lived to tell the tale... the 'pain' and your transformation - will inspire me to soar. And I promise you, I will listen.
Alfa H
It is unwise to be part of what reduces you to less than yourself
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
Destiny is purpose seen from the other end of life.
Michael Meade
The greatest virtue consists in flourishing to the greatest of our capacities.
Annabel Lyon
When we are young we squander time as though it were unlimited; When we grow older, then like beggars we wish for crumbs of remembrance...
Nanette L. Avery
Those whodisrespect youwith their mouthdon't deserveyour ear.
Curtis Tyrone Jones
I know there are days when even one single positive thought feels like too much effort, but you must develop an unconditional love for life. You must never lose your childish curiosity for the possibilities in every single day. Who you can be, what you can see, what you can feel and where it can lead you. Be in love with your life, everything about it. The sadness and the joys, the struggles and the lessons, your flaws and strengths, what you lose and what you gain.
Charlotte Eriksson
Celui qui se relève de ses faux pas aura gagné l'estime des dieux. De toutes les couleurs qu'on lui en a fait voir, il construira un arc-en-ciel.
Yasmina Khadra
They say watch the breathing, watch the diet and for God’s sake make that kid go quiet. But they never say: “I am wrong and you are right”, because the self –pride they always want to hide! But in time, like the truth it shall come to surface and all those lies, that awful misery they always boast about will be extinct, whilst their conscience filled with guilt.
Mircea Popister
We rely on our education, on our judgment and our intuition to make decisions, but sometimes we find ourselves in the most dangerous scenario we can be in as individuals or as team, when we don’t know that we don’t know but we believe we do know.
Dragos Bratasanu
It doesn't matter how old you are," Lila said. "What matters is how you live.
Anat Talshir
One spirit, one shepherd
Lailah Gifty Akita
We don't even know we are one family, one faith!
Lailah Gifty Akita
Can I help you?" he said, in a manner which indicated very clearly that not only did he not wish to help them, but also that he resented the implication that he ought to
Graham Austin-King
You think it's time for a new beginning. You long to start from scratch, so you seek new things - trying like hell to reinvent yourself. Out with the old and in with the world's new. But you'll never create a version of yourself that is as magical and unique as the original. So... just be you.
Alfa H
Wisdom is knowing when you have enough.
Marty Rubin
And because Eddie knew that was only the truth, he said nothing.
Stephen King
Most people like to talk about themselves, so get them going and you’ll make new friends quickly!
Amber Hurdle
Because I started investing in wiserrelationships, I am now an absurdly wealthy woman—if blessings,fulfillment & joy are measured as wealth.
Amber Hurdle
Anybody have the right to defend himself by carrying a gun but nobody have the right to kill others because he is carrying a gun
Hisham Fawzi
A humble heart, a friendly look, a smile on the face is really what you need to break the ice, not a very big axe.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Life is a travel through time.
Lailah Gifty Akita
You gain inner peace when you become comfortable with the reality of death.
Steven Magee
Her eyes, full of ancient, sacred wisdom. Her bones, deposits of inherited bravery. She is a proud descendant of strong, courageous women who went to the stakes fighting for their truths.
Melody Lee
True knowledge makes a man reject the wrong , by chosen what is right.
Lailah Gifty Akita
It's not about how fast you are during any race but it's about your ability to dodge the obstacles in front of you.
Ezzeldin S. Gomaa
Wisdom is not making life any harder than it has to be.
Marty Rubin
The holiest place on Earth, is not a temple or a church, but our relationship to one another.
Dragos Bratasanu
THE MOST HURTFUL BELIEF: We live in a world where we are taught that we get by taking.
Dragos Bratasanu
With every dream and with every love, you have to die to the old, and be reborn to the new. You must leave what you know behind, and surrender to the unknown.
Dragos Bratasanu
If we don’t express truth and love in relationships, they simply become a state of isolation with somebody (some body) still around.
Dragos Bratasanu
For thousands of years humanity has been trying to answer the question: “Do we have life after death?” Maybe for the first time you must now answer the question: “Do I really have a life before death?
Dragos Bratasanu
He who has little problems, shows little love. He who has overcome huge problems, has giant love. Because he understands what it means and won’t have others suffer like he did.
Dragos Bratasanu
Our task is not to find love but to remove all blocks that we have built against it.
Dragos Bratasanu
Our heart calls us one way, the mind pulls us the other way, and we do the opposite. We cannot find peace when the mind rages war against the heart, when we fight with our thoughts the pull of our love.
Dragos Bratasanu
Focus on the win and you lose the battle, focus on the battle and you win.
Toni Sorenson
Don't trust your head, Samwise, it is not the best part of you.
J.R.R. Tolkien
Fettered feet in the presence of friends is better than living in a garden with strangers.
Idries Shah
How noble is the journey of each human being, from Divine to dust and back again. How brave to enter a body and dance the dance of existence only to lose everything imagined to be true in the moment of death.
Annie Kagan
Your commitment shakes the very foundation of this universe. (from The Amazing You movie)
Dragos Bratasanu
In the pursuit of dreams, we all have different beginnings. Your past is not negotiable. You must let go of the hope for a better past.
Dragos Bratasanu
It's always your assumptions about you, about others, about future that make reality worse than it actually is.
Dragos Bratasanu
In moments of great change we suffer, somehow hoping deep down that our emotions and our dramas can change the future or prevent it from happening. Future happens regardless.
Dragos Bratasanu
The only barrier that's blocking us from living an abundant life is our unwillingness to share what we have
Dragos Bratasanu
Fear is not the end. But only a transition.
Dragos Bratasanu
The reason why we get the same partners is not because people are the same, but because we pull the dark shadow of past hurts over our eyes and we live the same all over again. We change the actors, but never the masks we give them in our play.
Dragos Bratasanu
Beauty becomes beautiful only when it is shared with others.
Dragos Bratasanu
The most tragic and deviant behaviour of all is that we live our lives like we will never die, and nonetheless we never live at all.
Dragos Bratasanu