Famous Quotes

Searching outside of you is Samsara (the world). Searching within you leads to Nirvana.

~ Amit Ray

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.

~ Frank Lloyd Wright

But there were some things I believed in. Some things I had faith in. And faith isn't about perfect attendance to services, or how much money you put on the little plate. It isn't about going skyclad to the Holy Rites, or meditating each day upon the divine. Faith is about what you do. It's about aspiring to be better and nobler and kinder than you are. It's about making sacrifices for the good of others - even when there's not going to be anyone telling you what a hero you are.

~ Jim Butcher

Do not waste time bothering whether you ‘love’ your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him.

~ C.s. Lewis

In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

~ Anthony Robbins

There is no greater insight into the future than recognizing...when we save our children, we save ourselves

~ Margaret Mead

And I remembered something else that makes us human: faith, the only weapon in our arsenal to battle doubt.

~ Jodi Picoult

Souls are like athletes, that need opponents worthy of them, if they are to be tried and extended and pushed to the full use of their powers, and rewarded according to their capacity.

~ Thomas Merton

If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it.

~ Abraham Lincoln

Either you run the day or the day runs you..

~ Jim Rohn

I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious.

~ Vince Lombardi Jr.

That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind

~ Neil Armstrong

Sometimes the best of gods gift's arrive by the shattering of all the window panes.

~ Paulo Coelho

It is better to live one day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep.

~ Benito Mussolini

...most of the time, all you have is the moment, and the imperfect love of the people around you.

~ Anne Lamott

When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.

~ Maurice Maeterlinck

I prefer you to make mistakes in kindness than work miracles in unkindness.

~ Mother Teresa

I am sure it is everyone’s experience, as it has been mine, that any discovery we make about ourselves or the meaning of life is never, like a scientific discovery, a coming upon something entirely new and unsuspected; it is rather, the coming to conscious recognition of something, which we really knew all the time but, because we were unwilling to formulate it correctly, we did not hitherto know we knew.

~ W.h. Auden

I've learned one thing: you can only really get to know a person after a row. Only then can you judge their true character!

~ Anne Frank

Go ahead and believe that no one shines brighter than you. Become amazing, and be happy.

~ Demi Lovato

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.

~ John Lubbock

When I left Queen's my future seemed to stretch out before me like a straight road. I thought I could see along it for many a milestone. Now there is a bend in it. I don't know what lies around the bend, but I'm going to believe that the best does.

~ L.m. Montgomery

I know it is hard for you young mothers to believe that almost before you can turn around the children will be gone and you will be alone with your husband. You had better be sure you are developing the kind of love and friendship that will be delightful and enduring. Let the children learn from your attitude that he is important. Encourage him. Be kind. It is a rough world, and he, like everyone else, is fighting to survive. Be cheerful. Don't be a whiner.

~ Marjorie Pay Hinckley

In my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me.

~ Augustine Of Hippo

It's not whether you got knocked down, it's whether you get back up.

~ Vince Lombardi Jr.

When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the work will finish itself.

~ Karen Blixen

God, send me anywhere, only go with me. Lay any burden on me, only sustain me. And sever any tie in my heart except the tie that binds my heart to Yours.

~ David Livingstone

The future doesn't belong to the light-hearted. It belongs to the brave.

~ Ronald Reagan

Total paranoia is just total awareness.

~ Charles Manson

Leaders live by choice, not by accident.

~ Mark Gorman

I'm not going to die, I'm going home like a shooting star.

~ Sojourner Truth

Bebek berjalan berbondong-bondong, akan tetapi burung elang terbang sendirian.

~ Sukarno

Books didn’t make me wallow in darkness, darkness made me wallow in books.

~ Jackson Pearce

Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.

~ George E. Woodberry

Last nightthe rainspoke to meslowly, saying, what joyto come fallingout of the brisk cloud, to be happy againin a new wayon the earth! That’s what it saidas it dropped, smelling of iron, and vanishedlike a dream of the oceaninto the branchesand the grass below.Then it was over.The sky cleared.I was standingunder a tree.The tree was a treewith happy leaves, and I was myself, and there were stars in the skythat were also themselvesat the momentat which momentmy right handwas holding my left handwhich was holding the treewhich was filled with starsand the soft rain –imagine! imagine! the long and wondrous journeysstill to be ours.

~ Mary Oliver

Light is more important than the lantern,The poem more important than the notebook

~ Nizar Qabbani

Sanctify yourself and you will sanctify society.

~ Francis Of Assisi

For all those that have to fight for the respect that everyone else is given without question.

~ N.k. Jemisin

It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.

~ Isaac Asimov

When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.

~ Alexander Graham Bell