2,687 quotes found
“I do have a religion”
“It’s hillbilly urine”
“FIREFLAKES: The stars”
“Forgiveness is local.”
“Principle comes first”
“We sometimes fail to realise that when we pray to Allah we are in fact performing a great act of ibadah (worship). On the surface it might seem as if we are asking out of self-interest, but we are ...”
“We typically misunderstand what's wrong about consumerism. It's not that it makes us love material things too much. To be a good consumer, you have to desire to get lots of things, but you must not...”
“Thoughts, words, emotions & deeds not coming from love are likely coming from fear.”
“Perfection is fragile”
“Courage isnt instinctive or genetic”
“When you're a kid all you know is that your dad puts on his suit or overalls and vanishes from your life until nightfall. Sometimes my pops came back exhausted and scarlet-eyed, as if he'd been eng...”
“No matter what gifts you have, practice is the only way to get better at anything."If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery it would not seem so wonderful at all - Michael Angelo”
“Fear will always be a tenant in your mind, but do not make fear the landlord of your mind.”
“If your dreams are so simple and easy to attain, why dont you walk straight to them and take them?”
“Most will do whats comfortable because, lets face it, we all like guarantees. Working a draining 9-to-5 will guarantee that your rent is paid on time, itll guarantee that your loans will be taken c...”
“I love you," he whispered, and that was the moment he knew what he was going to do. When you loved someone, you put their needs before your own. No matter how inconceivable those needs were; no mat...”
“He is sure to be more happy who has eaten well and slept well and has besides a little money in his jeans. Such men are rare to find for the simple reason that most men are incapable of appreciatin...”
“There are some things, after all, that Sally Owens knows for certain: Always throw spilled salt over your left shoulder. Keep rosemary by your garden gate. Add pepper to your mashed potatoes. Plant...”
“Talent alone does nothing”
“Arguments for preservation based on the beauty of wilderness are sometimes treated as if they were of little weight because they are "merely aesthetic". That is a mistake. We go to great lengths to...”
“Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness”
“Marry me, Kiara, he blurts out in front of everyone.Why? she asks, challenging him.Because I love you, he says, walking up to her and bending down on one knee while he takes her hand in his, and I ...”
“How could he convey to someone who'd never even met her the way she always smelled like rain, or how his stomach knotted up every time he saw her shake loose her hair from its braid? How could he d...”
“I felt the full breadth and depth of the ocean around the sphere of the Earth, back billions of years to the beginning of life, across all the passing lives and deaths, the endless waves of swimmin...”
“Life (like love) is forgiving and hopeful and, like a bold flower pushing out from the narrow crevice in a rock, will take any gap we allow. However small or large.”
