Quotes by Authors - Page 8

My stress resulted from not knowing God, not trusting him with my whole heart, seeking peace and purpose from the world instead of from him, and from being so afraid of change that I would rather suffer than obey.

Tracie Miles

Autumn is the time of balance and ofsacrifice, a time when the light is defeated by darkness, a timewhen night takes over and brings the coming winter. Theancient wisdom says that those who long for light must facetheir inner darkness and overcome it.

Tony Riches

The voice that says, “That’s the way I am,” is the voice of knowledge. It’s the voice of the liar living in the Tree of Knowledge in your head. The Toltec consider it a mental disease that is highly contagious because it’s transmitted from human to human through knowledge. The symptoms of the disease are fear, anger, hatred, sadness, jealousy, conflict, and separation between humans. Again, these lies are controlling the dream of our life. I think this is obvious.

Miguel Ruiz

Success is not a doorway it's a staircase.

Dottie Walters

Consider the simple hedgehog, and his neighbor, the opossum...do they waste their energy trying to throw one another into chasms when they face a common enemy, the winter? No!

Ransom Riggs

All humans at some time experience injustice, assault, disqualification, invasion and betrayal. No person is completely shielded. We need not trace our family trees very far back or study for long what life was like for our forbears to uncover humanity's abusiveness. The inherited scars of our multigenerational families exist in our family systems as we know them today. The abuse of the past often exists as the shame of today, and the shame is perpetuated through our patterns of interaction.

Merle A. Fossum

If I open my mouthMy word would be of love and hopeTenderness completing me from inside out

Chimnese Davids

Carry good cheer in the morning;Carry good cheer in the night.Effort is sweeter and living completer,If ever we walk in love's light.

G.B. Williams

We’ had come to identify who was behind all the prodding and the pushing. Everything that happens to you, is really your very own. “Nobody is responsible for ‘you’. ‘You’ are whole and sole responsible for yourself.

Dada Bhagwan

So how's the putrid pile of caca doing?

Kate Carlisle

Masculinity is part of a binary and requires its opposite, since, in the absence of femininity, masculinity would have no meaning.

Sheila Jeffreys

For femmes, that evolving feminist thought reacquainted us with something we kind of knew already: men and women might mistake us for “just girls” when they see our makeup and fashions, but we were/are actually guerrilla warriors, fighting undercover in the war to save women from the continuing campaign to make us irrelevant fluff.

Jewelle L. Gómez

100% commitment is required for any great achievement.

Lailah Gifty Akita

More than anything, I began to hate women writers. Frances Burney, Jane Austen, Elizabeth Browning, Mary Shelley, George Eliot, Virginia Woolf. Bronte, Bronte, and Bronte. I began to resent Emily, Anne, and Charlotte—my old friends—with a terrifying passion. They were not only talented; they were brave, a trait I admired more than anything but couldn't seem to possess. The world that raised these women hadn't allowed them to write, yet they had spun fiery novels in spite of all the odds. Meanwhile, I was failing with all the odds tipped in my favor. Here I was, living out Virginia Woolf's wildest feminist fantasy. I was in a room of my own. The world was no longer saying, "Write? What's the good of your writing?" but was instead saying "Write if you choose; it makes no difference to me.

Catherine Lowell

This look said I was uncomfortably near some line. Nikos had a lot of lines, all hidden. If you shot a marble in on one side of his personality, instead of coming out the other it would bounce on secret internal walls and shoot out in some unpredictable way. I suspected some of those ways were deadly.

Mary Hughes

But I broke your heart,” she whispers. I shrug and kiss her again. “You break it, you buy it.

Autumn Doughton

Don't you bully me with your politeness! Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask any scientist. God is hard to believe, ask any believer. What is your problem with hard to believe?

Yann Martel

The Gay' is not infectious, the world is not coming to an end, and people are happy. Gosh, how about that.

Kelley York

Ambition is like a plague that can only be cured by success.

Terrance Robinson- Artist Educator Scholar Entrepreneur

How youMore people will learn about IBM from Wikipedia in the coming years than from IBM itself.

Thomas L. Friedman

I love you. You’re mine. I’ll kill any bastard who tries to take you from me.

Samantha Young

Anything you dream [can] be yours simply because you've focused on the steps you could take instead of the distance to get there.

A.J. Darkholme

Let’s just say, by the end of her second quarter Beli could walk down the hall without fear that anyone would crack on her. The downside of this of course was that she was completely alone.

Junot Díaz

Tomorrow is promised to no one so live your life fully everyday.

Therese Crutcher-Marin

Beauty’s not only skin deep. Just because a person is beautifuldoesn’t mean there’s no soul beneath. Doesn’t meanthat person hasn’t suffered like everyone else, doesn’t meanthey don’t hope to still be a good human being in an awfulworld. (Gabriel)

Rachel Cohn

Ah, but I was so much older thenI’m younger than that now

Bob Dylan

This is the future,” Lycan said. “Connecting people to each other directly.

Will McIntosh

The key to successful leadership is influence, not authority.

Kenneth H. Blanchard

Sex and death: the front door and the back door of the world.

William Faulkner

That just seems to be the way we’re built.

IRVIN D.YALOM

Communication is an art form that is crafted throughout our lives.

Asa Don Brown

Doing something brave is much like saying something stupid. You rarely plan on it happening.

Brandon Sanderson

Bad enough to be ill, but to feel compelled to deny the very thing that, in its worst and most active state, defines you is agony indeed.

Sally Brampton

The woman would be beautiful if she wasn't so deceitful, but snakes ofte3n had the most beautiful design on their scales.

Kristin Miller

This entire time I've been thinking about where my home was. At first it was California, then Wisconsin. But in truth, home isn't necessarily where you sleep at night. It's where you feel like yourself. Where you're most comfortable. Where you don't have to pretend, where you can just be you.

Elizabeth Eulberg

This moment is full of miracles.

Lailah Gifty Akita

The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it.

James Thurber

And you do know I’m the one who decides who I date”—she glared at Sam—“not you. If I want to drag this guy into the janitor’s closet and have my way with him, that’s none of your business.”“Drag me into a closet?” Hunter asked, his eyebrows up near his hairline. “Offer to buy me dinner first, then I’m all yours.

Ophelia London

You are a prisoner of your thoughts. Expand your thoughts and get out of the prison.

Debasish Mridha

If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

I look at him and my body reacts in a way that it never has before, even in the throes of passion. I look at him and I start aching so deep inside it takes all I can to think, to breathe, to speak. He’s like the brightest flame and it takes everything in me to resist its call.I know that if I give in, I’ll get burned so deeply, there might be nothing left once I come out the other side.But, god, I want to step into that flame.

D.L. Hess

Praying puriies the heart.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Now she and I sit together in her room and eat chocolate, and I tell her that in a very long time when we both to go heaven, we should try to get chairs next to each other, close to the dessert table.

Anne Lamott

Where to look if you've lost your mind?

Bernard Malamud

Pushing the boundaries and uniting the world: That’s what Mars One is about.

Nico Marquardt

I obscenity in the milk of my shame.

Ernest Hemingway

When you write something down, it stays forever.It's like a little part of you that you're giving to the universe

Emma Abdullah

When the last woman dies, the last man dies!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

At a cardiac arrest, the first procedure is to take your own pulse

Samuel Shem

He who knows more is more responsible.

Alireza Salehi Nejad

Trying to be offensive for the sole purpose of being offensive should always deem one the least offensive of offenders.

Criss Jami

I've always believed that one woman's success can only help another woman's success.

Gloria Vanderbilt

....the increasingly common ideology that assures people they’re right about what they believe.... is, however, socially detrimental . It hijacks conversation and aborts ideas. It engenders a delusion of simplicity that benefits people with inflexible minds. It makes the experience of living in a society slightly worse than it should be.

Chuck Klosterman

Life always begins with one step outside of your comfort zone.

Shannon L. Alder

In what he suffered, as in all true suffering and in true joy, there was the quality of eternity. He could not believe it would ever end.

Elizabeth Goudge

God has called some people to join together in order to complete some task

Sunday Adelaja

Don't forget - no one else sees the world the way you do, so no one else can tell the stories that you have to tell.

Charles de Lint

The doctors are all agreed that I am suffering from want of society. Was never a case like it. First, I did not know that I was suffering at all. Secondly, as an Irishman might say, I had thought it was indigestion of the society I got.

Henry David Thoreau

It's not that racism doesn't exist. Lots of people in New York, and elsewhere, hate because of color and gender, religion and national origin. It's just that I rarely worry about those things because there's a real world underneath all that nonsense; a world that demands my attention almost every second of the day. Racism is a luxury in a world where resources are scarce, where economic competition is an armed sport, in a world where even the atmosphere is plotting against you. In an arena like that racism is more of a halftime entertainment, a favorite sitcom when the day is done.

Walter Mosley

Happiness is not in wealth or splendor, but in passion, perception, and pursuit.

Debasish Mridha

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