Famous Quotes

REMEMBER YOUR GREATNESSBefore you were born,And were still too tiny forThe human eye to see,You won the race for lifeFrom among 250 million competitors.And yet,How fast you have forgottenYour strength,When your very existenceIs proof of your greatness.You were born a winner,A warrior,One who defied the oddsBy surviving the most gruesomeBattle of them all.And now that you are a giant,Why do you even doubt victoryAgainst smaller numbers,And wider margins?The only walls that exist,Are those you have placed in your mind.And whatever obstacles you conceive,Exist only because you have forgottenWhat you have alreadyAchieved.Poetry by Suzy Kassem

~ Suzy Kassem

If I’d stayed there, would I always have been happy? No, I suppose not. People move away, grow older, die, and the bright belief that there will be another marvelous thing around each corner fades. It is now or never; we must snatch at happiness as it flies.

~ J.l. Carr

We should always be clear that animal exploitation is wrong because it involves speciesism. And speciesism is wrong because, like racism, sexism, homophobia, anti-semitism, classism, and all other forms of human discrimination, speciesism involves violence inflicted on members of the moral community where that infliction of violence cannot be morally justified. But that means that those of us who oppose speciesism necessarily oppose discrimination against humans. It makes no sense to say that speciesism is wrong because it is like racism (or any other form of discrimination) but that we do not have a position about racism. We do. We should be opposed to it and we should always be clear about that.

~ Gary L. Francione

I had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss

~ Maya Angelou

The light of compassion opens the petals of the heart. When the petals of the heart unfold fragrance spreads across the valley.

~ Amit Ray

Don’t let mental blocks control you. Set yourself free. Confront your fear and turn the mental blocks into building blocks.

~ Roopleen

Aren't you, like me, hoping that some person, thing, or event will come along to give you that final feeling of inner well-being you desire? Don't you often hope: 'May this book, idea, course, trip, job, country or relationship fulfill my deepest desire.' But as long as you are waiting for that mysterious moment you will go on running helter-skelter, always anxious and restless, always lustful and angry, never fully satisfied. You know that this is the compulsiveness that keeps us going and busy, but at the same time makes us wonder whether we are getting anywhere in the long run. This is the way to spiritual exhaustion and burn-out. This is the way to spiritual death.

~ Henri J.m. Nouwen

The sun always shines above the clouds.

~ Paul F. Davis

Common sense will nearly always stand you in better stead than a slavish adherence to the conventions.

~ M.m. Kaye

At the end of the day, the questions we ask of ourselves determine the type of people that we will become.

~ Leo Babauta

My father taught me that you can you read a hundred books on wisdom and write a hundred books on wisdom, but unless you apply what you learned then its only words on a page. Life is not lived with intentions, but action.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Remember, whatever you focus upon, increases...When you focus on the things you need, you'll find those needs increasing. If you concentrate your thoughts on what you don't have, you will soon be concentrating on other things that you had forgotten you don't have-and feel worse! If you set your mind on loss, you are more likely to lose...But a grateful perspective brings happiness and abundance into a person's life.

~ Andy Andrews

Soldiers live. He dies and not you, and you feel guilty, because you're glad he died, and not you. Soldiers live, and wonder why.

~ Glen Cook

Forget the place you're trying to get to and see the beauty in right now...

~ Evanescence

Yoga is the cessation of the movements of the mind. Then there is abiding in the Seer's own form.

~ Patañjali

A clear vision, backed by definite plans, gives you a tremendous feeling of confidence and personal power.

~ Brian Tracy

It don't do you no nevermind to tell nobody nothing.

~ Thomas Mcguane

All you can do is make your decisions based on what you know now.

~ Malinda Lo

What good is power when you're too wise to use it?

~ Ursula K. Le Guin

The man armed with knowledge has a better chance of survival than the man who is simply the fittest. Knowledge is the true strength. Muscle is where the myth is.

~ Suzy Kassem

All that sadness. All that anger. It is the smoke that gets into your eyes. If you do not blow it away, how can you hope to see?

~ Anthony Horowitz

We can no more justify using nonhumans as human resources than we can justify human slavery. Animal use and slavery have at least one important point in common: both institutions treat sentient beings exclusively as resources of others. That cannot be justified with respect to humans, it cannot be justified with respect to nonhumans—however “humanely” we treat them.

~ Gary L. Francione

Old words are reborn with new faces.

~ Criss Jami

Behaviour is a mirror in which every one displays his own image.

~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

A knavish speech sleeps in a fool's ear.

~ William Shakespeare

Education is beautification of the inner world and the outer world.

~ Amit Ray

People are always worried about what's happening next. They often find it difficult to stand still, to occupy the now without worrying about the future. People are generally not satisfied with what they have; they are very concerned with what they are going to have.

~ Garth Stein

Everybody wants to be on the mountaintop, but if you'll remember, mountaintops are rocky and cold. There is no growth on the top of a mountain. Sure, the view is great, but what's a view for? A view just gives us a glimpse of our next destination-our next target. But to hit that target, we must come off the mountain, go through the valley, and begin to climb the next slope. It is in the valley that we slog through the lush grass and rich soil, learning and becoming what enables us to summit life's next peak.

~ Andy Andrews

If everyone helps to hold up the sky, then one person does not become tired.

~ Askhari Johnson Hodari

He was one of the numerous and varied legion of dullards, of half-animated abortions, conceited, half-educated coxcombs, who attach themselves to the idea most in fashion only to vulgarize it and who caricature every cause they serve, however sincerely.

~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Despite popular belief to the contrary, there is absolutely no power in intention. The seagull may intend to fly away, may decide to do so, may talk with the other seagulls about how wonderful it is to fly, but until the seagull flaps his wings and takes to the air, he is still on the dock. There’s no difference between that gull and all the others. Likewise, there is no difference in the person who intends to do things differently and the one who never thinks about it in the first place. Have you ever considered how often we judge ourselves by our intentions while we judge others by their actions? Yet intention without action is an insult to those who expect the best from you.

~ Andy Andrews

I've learned .... That opportunities are never lost, someone will take the ones you miss.

~ Andy Rooney

There's a divinity that shapes our ends,Rough-hew them how we will.

~ William Shakespeare

Dreams are the bright creatures of poem and legend, who sport on earth in the night season, and melt away in the first beam of the sun, which lights grim care and stern reality on their daily pilgrimage through the world.

~ Charles Dickens

Wit seduces by signaling intelligence without nerdiness.

~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.

~ Baltasar Gracián

Knowledge is marvelous, but wisdom is even better.

~ Kay Redfield Jamison

The future will be what it will, and fretting about it will only make your fears more likely to come true.

~ Christopher Paolini

Your biggest opportunity probably lies under your own feet, in your current job, industry, education, experience or interests.

~ Brian Tracy

This is what we are like. Collectively as a species, this is our emotional landscape. I met an old lady once, almost 100 years old, and she told me, There are only two questions that human beings have ever fought over, all through history. How much do you love me? And Who's in charge? Everything else is somehow manageable. But these two questions of love and control undo us all, trip us up and cause war, grief, and suffering.

~ Elizabeth Gilbert