If you do not learn to deny yourself, you can make no progress in perfection.
JOHN OF THE CROSSYour brand is what other people say about you when you’re not in the room.
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I held you in the square And felt the evening Re-order itself around Your smile.
BEN OKRI -
My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.
MAYA ANGELOU -
Every word or concept, clear as it may seem to be, has only a limited range of applicability.
WERNER HEISENBERG -
What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup.
BORIS PASTERNAK -
If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.
GEORGE ORWELL -
Let your smile change the world! Never let the world change your smile!
SRI SRI RAVI SHANKAR -
I still have my bad days when I think I’m not getting everything I deserve. But those pass quickly once my Mother gets on the phone and says, ‘listen, we used to eat rocks and walk 80 miles a day to school.’
BONNIE HUNT -
I don’t know what people have against Jimmy Carter. He’s done nothing.
BOB HOPE -
Success is remaining faithful to the process God has laid out for you.
ANDY STANLEY -
I was thinking that women should put pictures of missing husbands on beer cans.
STEVEN WRIGHT -
In the silence, hear what can’t be heard.
BEN LEE -
I think there’s something strange about writing a script I’ve written many, many scripts – dozens and dozens of scripts – and every time I start one, I think to myself: ‘why in the world do I think I know how to do this?’
BRIAN HELGELAND -
The gods give that man some profit to whom they are propitious.
PLAUTUS -
Time is an illusion, people say but only until you have to match its pace.
SHILPA GOEL -
Please believe that one single positive dream is more important than a thousand negative realities.
ADELINE YEN MAH -
Crying for someone you love doesn’t make you a weak person.
JESSICA PICKARD -
The most profound and serious indication of the moral implications underlying the ecological problem is the lack of respect for life evident in many of the patterns of environmental pollution.
POPE JOHN PAUL II -
What breaks my heart is suffering of any kind.
ALICIA KEYS -
Now, the country is in a terrible state, and you’ve blamed it on a number of things: Unemployment rate, the value of the pound and all that… wrll, it’s because the national anthem is boring.
BILLY CONNOLLY -
I am not finding pregnancy much of a joy. I am afraid of childbirth, but I am afraid I can’t find a way of avoiding it.
BRIGITTE BARDOT -
I was never going to be a doctor or a lawyer, so being a musician seemed to be the best of what was on offer.
LEMMY -
Sins slowly suffocate the heart, and abandoning sins brings life to the heart.
ABDULLAH IBN MUBARAK -
There is no such thing as “natural law”: this expression is nothing but old nonsense… Prior to laws, what is natural is only the strength of the lion, or the need of the creature suffering from hunger or cold, in short, need.
STENDHAL -
The special virtue of freedom is not that it makes you richer and more powerful but that it gives you more time to understand what it means to be alive.
ADAM GOPNIK -
I made up so many worlds in my head I forgot which One I lived in.
LAUREN EDEN -
If only you could see the whole picture, if you knew the whole story, you would realize that no problem ever comes to you that does not have a purpose in your life, that cannot contribute to your inner growth.
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