Thought Provoking Quotes - Page 2

I have never, I think, wanted to 'belong' to a group whose interests were not mine, nor have I resented exclusion. Why should thet accept me? All I have ever asked is that others should go their way and let me go mine.

W.H. Auden

Once you are a butterfly,you can really love – thekind of love that makes anew life. It’s better than allthe hugging caterpillars cando.

Trina Paulus

If Lord Duryodhana was an evil man, why did great men like Bhishma, Drona, Kripa, Karna, entire army of Krishna fight war on his side??

Anand Neelakantan

Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are

Mason Cooley

If you have to think about relaxing, are you really relaxing?

Janice Thompson

Everything that isn't permitted by The Law is forbidden.

Ayn Rand

I have watched the tears of frustration of a stroke victim or the autistic child who struggles to communicate a need or thought, but no one understands. Eventually, the soul grows quiet and gives up. At every stage of life, and in every circumstance, we search for someone who understands what we are going through.

Donna Mull

One of the first lessons a warrior is taught is that denial of one's circumstances only results in failure to recognize real danger.

Karen Marie Moning

It seems to me that really crazy people don't think they're crazy. Why would you?

Elizabeth Chandler

A life is no less valuable or beloved if one lives in an age of decline, than in an age of progress.

Mathew Barrett Gross

How many of us would ever explore the dark extremities of our own humanity were we not from time to time thrown into them involuntarily? 'Necessity is laid upon me,' wrote the apostle Paul; and mostly it is only of necessity, through the inescapability of life's misfortunes, and not in free discipleship or loving service, that we enter into solidarity with those who suffer and die, often in despair and hope. One there was who set his face toward Jerusalem, a shepherd who of his own accord laid down his life for sheep. For the rest of us, not as volunteers but conscripts, not in freedom but in the chains of accident or sickness, do we make our Easter Saturday graves with the wretched or the wicked.

Alen E. Lewis

Alone in the worn mahogany paneled library surrounded by hundreds of books that filled every shelf and lined every wall from floor to ceiling, Lady Butler contemplated, How odd it is that a room filled with millions of words can be so silent.

Lance Taubold

If we are interested in a writing life - as opposed to a writing career - then we are in it for the process and not the product - for the body of work and not for the quick hit of one well-realised piece.

Julia Cameron

That's a lot of what the ghetto is, a reflection of poor self esteem

Michele McKnight Baker

How many young men fear that there is a monster inside them? People are supposed to fear others, not themselves. People are supposed to aspire to become their fathers, not shudder at the thought.

Veronica Roth

Life is going to beat you up, it wouldn't be fair if you didn't throw some punches back at it

Bradley Bowman

Sometimes when we’re standing at the edge, we don’t need anyone to talk us down...we just need a push.

Buffi Neal

At what point in life should we stop searching for a better one?

Buffi Neal

And some looked even more like each other than they did like themselves.

Norton Juster

Is a dream the ultimate freedom, or the ultimate prison?

Buffi Neal

No one has yet tested the pencilTo see how many words it can write

Xi Chuan

It's tempting to ask why if you fed your neighbors during the time of the earthquake and fire, you didn't do so before or after.

Rebecca Solnit

Yes, I still believe in God. That hasn't changed. I just needed some time away.”“Ah.” Inspector Carrola clicked his tongue. “For your sake, I hope that God does not need some time away from you.

Richard Devin

Don't turn over rocks if you don't want to see the pale creatures who live under them.

Janet Fitch

Re-examine all that you have been told, dismiss that which insults your soul.

Walt Whitman

Around the lunch table everyone seems to have given something up---dairy, meat, gluten, sugar, carbs. Only in a land of plenty could people voluntarily go without so much.

J.C. Carleson

Anytime a group of people assemble for a common cause, amazing things can happen.

DeiAmor Verus

bottom of page 33:We all want to feel needed, and we also want to be with people who can manage on their own, if needbe.

Sara Eckel

... if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was hurricane.

John Green

Suddenly they were both leaping around him, shouting 'Traitor!' and 'Thought-criminal!', the little girl imitating her brother in every movement. It was somehow slightly frightening, like the gamboling of tiger cubs which will soon grow up into man-eaters.

George Orwell

Talk To God Ch 13 p. 90: No it doesn't have to be a prayer. It could be someone just concentrating extremely hard, wishing or hoping that will create "the vibe" if they are so moved. And that vibe, as you will learn, becomes extremely powerful beyond earth. That vibe drives the universe. But don't confuse this. Forget about prayers. You don't need to pray to communicate with others. That's a religious definition, not a human or a God thing. When you are concentrating on your wishes, focusing on something you desire or wish to share, your soul and spirit are reaching out to all other humans near you, using your brain as the communicator and returning the support to you. If people near you are aware and are moved to respond, they will. And that response is a powerful, electric, spirited response that carries with it the ability to give that person the supporting power, the strength and the ability to assist them in doing whatever it is they desire. And what all humans desire, and the energy that is exchanged with one another, in human terms, is love.

DeiAmor Verus

An entire aisle of cereal...hundreds of choices....Of course I had eaten cereal before. I'm not a savage....Cereal was a small, affordable luxury. An effort. A point of pride. Something special....Those crates of cereal meant that we deserved what others do not.... Here the choices that stand before me in the store aisles seem to exist only to mock me. Cereal isn't a luxury...the boxes laugh at me...Two aisles down I count 27 varieties of peanut butter....it is really necessary?

J.C. Carleson

GOD IS YOUR THOUGHTS

Colin Tegerdine

COMMITMENT WITH WORK IS WORSHIP ATTITUDE BY EXPERTISM SPIRIT IN ALL HUMAN OFFICIAL DEALINGS IS LACKING AROUND IN THIS MODERN CENTURY GLOBE IN SPECIFIC IN YOUTH AND IN GENERAL IN ADULTS.IT IS A DANGEROUS SINGNAL FLASH AND ALARM BELL TO FUTURE WORLD GAME DRIVE.SO,BE READY TO PLUG-UP LOOP-HOLES IN TIME IF NOT?GOD WILL GIVE US A GRAND LESSION SLAP WHAT WE MODERN HUMANS NEED IN THIS CENTURY

Various

Poetry is an awareness of the world, a particular way of relating to reality.

Andrei Tarkovsky

And so she ghosted on, in relentless pursuit of escape, not from society, but from herself.

Robyn Schneider

How could I have thought that I needed to cure myself in order to fit into the 'real' world? I didn't need curing, and the world didn't, either; the only thing that did need curing was my understanding of my place in it. Without that understanding - without a sense of belonging to the real world - it was impossible to thrive in an imagined one.

Jonathan Franzen

Maybe I'm not so different from everyone else after all. It's like somebody gave me a puzzle, but I don't have the box with the picture on it. So I don't know what the final thing is supposed to look like. I'm not even sure if I have all the pieces.

Sharon M. Draper

All I hear is my own grating thoughts. Is there anything more horrid than being trapped inside yourself with nothing but your own insecurities.

Sarah Jio

Sometimes I worry that belief and hope are the same thing, and that truth is something else entirely.

Adi Rule

Because thoughts are energy, energy is matter, and matter never disappears...

Wendy Wunder

Sometimes I wonder if we're all a little like Harold (a rooster). Real life carries on around us while we strut around in our own yards, thinking we're the ones in charge of things.

Suzanne Woods Fisher

If I stood you in front of a man, pressed the cold metal of a gun into your palm and told you to squeeze the trigger, would you do it?''No, sir.''Are you sure?''Of course, sir. No ways!''What if I then told you we'd gone back in time and his name was Adolf Hitler? Would you do it then? Would you?

Jason Wallace

The greatest of all faults is to imagine you have none".

Unknown Author 692

A king may rule the kingdom but the queen still moves the board.

Donna Marie Timney

But what Jamie was saying just mixed it all up, selfish and selfless. I wasn't even sure what the words meant anymore. or if it was possible to be one without the other.

Phoebe Kitanidis

People sometimes forget how to be happy due to a "failure to grasp the simple truth that other people are as real as you. And only in a story could you enter these different minds and show how they had an equal footing. That was the only moral a story must have.

Ian McEwan

Greed and corruption isn't in the world.It's in the people".

Suzanne Collins

The essential ingredients of these struggles for justice are human beings who, if only for a moment, if only while beset with fears, step out of line and do "something", however small. And even the smallest, most unheroic of acts adds to the store of kindling that may be ignited by some surprising circumstance into tumultuous change.

Howard Zinn

Are you a Christian? she said.I answered:I am a Christian, I am a Jew, I am a Catholic, I am Muslim.I am each and everyone of you, look into the mirror and you will see me,as i see you..

Faruk DML

At one point, I began to think that I had a divine doorman. Lenny was the most unlikely incarnation of God I could imagine, and yet, I kept drifting irresistibly towards this absurd conclusion. Despite my staunchly atheistic inclinations, I couldn't explain Lenny any other way. But eventually I came to my senses and realized that he was just one of those game show freaks with an encyclopedic memory. That didn't make him God, did it? Would God proclaim so regularly how much he likes Patsy's Pizza?

Zack Love

I had always been an atheist until I met Lenny. He was too wonderously complex and good for there to be no benevolent and intelligent force behind our marvelous cosmos. Lenny gave me the actual proof my fiercely skeptical mind had always demanded. Not some logical, 37-step proof of God's existence. It was a personal proof. And it was irrefutable.

Zack Love

Are you a Christian? she said.I answered:I am a Christian, I am a Jew, I am a Catholic, I am Muslim. I am each and everyone of you my child, look into the mirror and you will see me,as i see you..

Faruk H.T.

Show me a hero and I'll show you a man enslaved by his competence.

Janny Wurts

What about an amnesiac, who awakes having lost his memories and must learn of his past from scratch? Has he died? How can we be just memories? How does that leave us with enough?

Bernard Beckett

My life is like an O Henry story....the funniest girl in the world and the boy who never laughs.

Rainbow Rowell

Nothing can be cut away. Even the worst of our memories is part of the foundation that keeps us in the world.

Mark Lawrence

We'd stared into Death's eyes and Death blinked first.

Rick Yancey

Is religion defending our physical integrity or is it just opposed to fashion?

Marjane Satrapi

Exactly what good are our eyes if they are not willing to see what's right before us?

Mark W Boyer

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