Friday, April 3, 2015

91 Quotes





“Penetrate deep into the word "Om". Gradually the word will disappear and only the silence will remain. The word is a support. The meaning is within you. Om brings out that meaning which is hidden in your soul.”
― Amit Ray, Om Chanting and Meditation

 “Silk is a fine, delicate, soft, illuminating, beautiful substance. But you can never rip it! If a man takes this tender silk and attempts to tear it, and cannot tear it, is he in his right mind to say "This silk is fake! I thought it was soft, I thought it was delicate, but look, I cannot even tear it" ? Surely, this man is not in his right mind! The silk is not fake! This silk is 100% real. It's the man who is stupid!”
― C. JoyBell C.

 “He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

“A bird is safe in its nest - but that is not what its wings are made for.”
― Amit Ray, World Peace: The Voice of a Mountain Bird

 “She wondered when her daughter would realise that for the most part, people weren't that different. Young and old, male or female, pretty much everyone she knew wanted the same things: The wanted to feel peace in their hearts, they wanted a life without turmoil, they wanted to be happy. The difference, she thought, was that most young people seemed to think that those things lay somewhere in the future. While most older people believed that they lay in the past.”
― Nicholas Sparks

 “The beauty of collaboration between older and younger generations is that we combine strength with wisdom—a surefire way to accomplish more for the glory of God.”
― Brett Harris


“The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quite alone with the heavens, nature and God.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

 “It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.”
― Oscar Wilde

 “Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession. ”
― George Washington

 “The barrier during self-improvement is not so much that we hate learning, rather we hate being taught. To learn entails that the knowledge was achieved on one's own accord - it feels great - but to be taught often leaves a feeling of inferiority. Thus it takes a bit of determination and a lot of humility in order for one to fully develop.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

 “But then one regrets the loss even of one's worst habits. Perhaps one regrets them the most. They are such an essential part of one's personality.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
                                                                                                                                                                     
 “Wisdom is one of the few things that looks bigger the further away it is.”
― Terry Pratchett, Witches Abroad


“When something seems wrong in your life, the only way to have resolution with it is to let it go. Trying to make it right keeps it wrong.”
― Beth Johnson

 “Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem which it was intended to solve.”
― Karl Popper

 “Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and importance, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.”
― Brian Tracy


“I'm not sure why I've decided to do this. I'm not any stronger than I was, and nothing else has changed. But all the same, this time I'm not going to run away. It's okay to feel weak sometimes. It's okay to be afraid. The important thing is that we face our fears. That's what makes us strong."-Yuki”
― Natsuki Takaya

 “The image isn't reality. Even though we're used to thinking that way  a lot of the time. We show a kid a picture of a dog and say 'This is a doggie' - but it's not. It's just an image.”
― L.J. Smith, The Forbidden Game: Collector's Edition


“Aw I don't wanta go to no such thing, I just wanta drink in alleys.'...
But you'll miss all that, just for some old wine.'
There's wisdom in wine, goddam it!' I yelled. 'Have a shot!”
― Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums

 “Its important to be comfortable with uncertainty.”
― Xiaolu Guo

 “Don't be jealous of anyone. I guarantee you, if everyone walked into a room, and dumped their problems onto the floor, when they saw what everyone else's problems were, they'd be scrambling to get their own problems back before someone else got to them first.”
― Kim Gruenenfelder, A Total Waste of Makeup

 “True kindness isn't something we're born with. It's something we have to work at. Not everyone has it. But I think everyone has the potential. Sometimes you just have to look really close before you can tell it's there."-Kyoko”
― Natsuki Takaya


“He who speaks without an attentive ear is mute.”
― Stephen King, The Dark Tower

 “To become one who believes two become one, you need love in your life.”                                  12


“She thought about her life and how lost she’d felt for most of it. She thought about the way that all truths she’d been taught to consider valuable invariably conflicted with the world as it was actually lived. How could a person be so utterly lost, yet remain living?”
― Douglas Coupland, All Families are Psychotic

 “At first sign of crisis, the ignorant don’t panic because they don’t know what’s going on, and then later they panic precisely because they don’t know what’s going on.
― Jarod Kintz, At even one penny, this book would be overpriced. In fact, free is too expensive, because you'd still waste time by reading it.

 “The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.”
― Brian Tracy

 “Clear thinking at the wrong moment can stifle creativity.”
― Karl Lagerfeld

 “We do learn and develop when we are exposed to those who are greater than we are. Perhaps this is the chief way we mature.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, Two-Part Invention: The Story of a Marriage

 “The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.”
― Socrates


“I may be alive now, but in a series of moments I won’t be. And let it be said about me: He didn’t waste his time talking to conch shells, but he did listen to what they had to say about the ocean.”
― Jarod Kintz

 “In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.”
― Desiderius Erasmus

 “With every part you act, there must be a little of yourself in it. If there isn't, it's not acting. It's lying.”
― Johnny Depp

 “It takes a lot of rehearsing for a man to be himself.”
― William Saroyan

 “And, at such a time, for a few of us there will always be a tugging at the heart—knowing a precious moment had gone and we not there. We can ask and ask but we can’t have again what once seemed ours for ever—the way things looked, that church alone in the fields, a bed on belfry floor, a remembered voice, a loved face. They’ve gone and you can only wait for the pain to pass. ”
― J.L. Carr, A Month in the Country

 “Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.”
― John Dewey                                                                                                                                   12

 “When you make a choice, you change the future.”
― Deepak Chopra

 “Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.”
― Socrates

 “Re-examine all you have been told. Dismiss what insults your soul.”
― Walt Whitman


“There is no escape—we pay for the violence of our ancestors.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

 “A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.”
― Alexander Pope

 “Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.”
― Franklin D. Roosevelt

 “Life moves very fast. It rushes from Heaven to Hell in a matter of seconds.”
― Paulo Coelho

 “Chase away sorrow by living”
― Melissa Marr, Darkest Mercy

 “More people would learn from their mistakes if they weren't so busy denying them”
― Harold J. Smith

 “Affliction is often that thing which prepares an ordinary person for some sort of an extraordinary destiny.”
― C.S. Lewis

 “The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.”
― Kahlil Gibran

 “How can I be substantial if I do not cast a shadow? I must have a dark side also If I am to be whole”
― C.G. Jung

 “The rule of the universe is that others can do for us what we cannot do for ourselves, and one can paddle every canoe except one's own. ”
― C.S. Lewis

 “If you envy successful people, you create a negative force field of attraction that repels you from ever doing the things that you need to do to be successful. If you admire successful people, you create a positive force field of attraction that draws you toward becoming more and more like the kinds of people that
you want to be like.”                                                                                                                           14


 “We need houses as we need clothes, architecture stimulates fashion. It’s like hunger and thirst — you need them both.”
― Karl Lagerfeld

 “The immature think that knowledge and action are different, but the wise see them as the same.”
― Anonymous, Bhagavad Gita: El Canto del Senor

 “The more credit you give away, the more will come back to you. The more you
help others, the more they will want to help you.”
― Brian Tracy


“The Master said, “A true teacher is one who, keeping the past alive, is also able to understand the present.”
(Analects 2.11)”
― Confucius

 “Entreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: For wither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: Thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God.”
― Anonymous, Holy Bible: King James Version

 “well, sometimes to get what you want the most, you have to do what you want the least.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper


“Take the matter as you find it ask no questions, utter no remonstrances; it is your best wisdom. You expected bread and you have got a stone: break your teeth on it, and don't shriek because the nerves are martyrised; do not doubt that your mental stomach - if you have such a thing - is strong as an ostrich's; the stone will digest. You held out your hand for an egg, and fate put into it a scorpion. Show no consternation; close your fingers firmly upon the gift; let it sting through your palm. Never mind; in time, after your hand and arm have swelled and quivered long with torture, the squeezed scorpion will die, and you will have learned the great lesson how to endure without a sob.”
― Charlotte Brontë


“To wisely live your life, you don't need to know much
Just remember two main rules for the beginning:
You better starve, than eat whatever
And better be alone, than with whoever.”
― Omar Khayyam, Rubaiyat

 “You see, the best thing about wrong decisions is that they don’t prevent you from making the right decisions later on. It’s harder, but it’s not impossible.”
― Siobhan Vivian, Not That Kind of Girl

 “With age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone.”
― Oscar Wilde                                                                                                                       10


“It seems that a profound, impartial, and absolutely just opinion of our fellow-creatures is utterly unknown. Either we are men, or we are women. Either we are cold, or we are sentimental. Either we are young, or growing old. In any case life is but a procession of shadows, and God knows why it is that we embrace them so eagerly, and see them depart with such anguish, being shadows. And why, if this -- and much more than this is true -- why are we yet surprised in the window corner by a sudden vision that the young man in the chair is of all things in the world the most real, the most solid, the best known to us--why indeed? For the moment after we know nothing about him.
Such is the manner of our seeing. Such the conditions of our love.”
― Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room

 “Life is a journey, Frannie darling," Feagan had once told me. "Choose well those with whom you travel."
As always, I've followed Feagan's counsel.”
― Lorraine Heath, Surrender to the Devil

 “I don’t think it would have all got me quite so down if just once in a while—just once in a while—there was at least some polite little perfunctory implication that knowledge should lead to wisdom, and that if it doesn't, it's just a disgusting waste of time! But there never is! You never even hear any hints dropped on a campus that wisdom is supposed to be the goal of knowledge. You hardly ever even hear the word 'wisdom' mentioned!”
― J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey

 “I don’t think man was meant to attain happiness so easily. Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo


“I remember growing up, saying you’re an artist it sounds pretentious but now it’s one of the only dignified things that you can call yourself. ”
― Marilyn Manson


“My next breath may very well be in your lungs. Store it wisely, because my life depends on it.
― Jarod Kintz, This Book Title is Invisible

 “Yeah. I mean, acknowledging is easy. Something happened or it didn't. But understanding... that's where things get sticky.”
― Sarah Dessen, What Happened to Goodbye        
                       

“I would rather be able to appreciate things I cannot have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.”
― Elbert Hubbard

 “He who acts, spoils; he who grasps, lets slip.”
― Lao Tzu

 “Veganism is not about giving anything up or losing anything; it is about gaining the peace within yourself that comes from embracing nonviolence and refusing to participate in the exploitation of the vulnerable”
― Gary L. Francione                                                   10

 “What happens to people living in a society where everyone in power is lying, stealing, cheating and killing, and in our hearts we all know this, but the consequences of facing all these lies are so monstrous, we keep on hoping that maybe the corporate government administration and media are on the level with us this time.
Americans remind me of survivors of domestic abuse.
This is always the hope that this is the very, very, very last time one's ribs get re-broken again. ”
― Inga Muscio, Cunt: A Declaration of Independence

 “It can be difficult to leave a long-term relationship, even when our inner-wisdom tells us it's time to let go. At this point, we can choose let go and endure the intense pain of leaving behind the familiar to make way for a new chapter in our life. Or we can stay and suffer a low-grade pain that slowly eats away at our heart and soul, like an emotional cancer. Until we wake up, one day and realize, we are buried so deep in the dysfunction of the relationship that we scarcely remember who we were and what we wanted and needed to be.”
― Jaeda DeWalt

 “Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know—and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance. It is better to know—even if the knowledge endures only for the moment that comes before destruction—than to gain eternal life at the price of a dull and swinish lack of comprehension of a universe that swirls unseen before us in all its wonder. That was the choice of Achilles, and it is mine, too.”
― Isaac Asimov


“We do not need to eat animals, wear animals, or use animals for entertainment purposes, and our only defense of these uses is our pleasure, amusement, and convenience.”
― Gary L. Francione

 “Non-judgment quiets the internal dialogue, and this opens once again the doorway to creativity.”
― Deepak Chopra

 “God is the supreme uncreated light of which Wisdom is born, but there was never a time when God's Wisdom did not exist.”
― Merritt Y. Hughes, Ten Perspectives on Milton

 “We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.”
― H.L. Mencken, A Mencken Chrestomathy

 “I was tired of seeing the Graces always depicted as beautiful young things. I think wisdom comes with age and life and pain. And knowing what matters.”
― Louise Penny, A Fatal Grace
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 “There are many goals but one path - the path of compassion.”
― Amit Ray, Nonviolence: The Transforming Power

 “When in doubt, choose to live.”
― Terry Pratchett, Thief of Time

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 “Conquer the angry one by not getting angry; conquer the wicked by goodness; conquer the stingy by generosity, and the liar by speaking the truth. [Verse 223]”
― Gautama Buddha, The Dhammapada

“You can't dwell on what might have been...and it's not fair to condemn him for something he hasn't done.”
― Wendelin Van Draanen, Flipped

 “I have lived with several Zen masters -- all of them cats.”
― Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

“Whatever happens to your body, your soul will survive, untouched...”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

 “If one makes a mistake, then an apology is usually sufficient to get things back on an even keel. However-and this is a big ‘however’- most people do not ever know why their apology did not seem to have any effect. It is simply that they did not make a mistake; they made a choice…and never understood the difference between the two.”
― Andy Andrews, The Noticer: Sometimes, All a Person Needs Is a Little Perspective

 “You don't have to make something that people call art. Living is an artistic activity, there is an art to getting through the day.”
― Viggo Mortensen

 “Wisdom ain't a virtue I ever aspired to.”
― Moira Young, Blood Red Road

 “Life is boring. People are vengeful. Good things always end. We do so many things and we don’t know why, and if we do find out why, it’s decades later and knowing why doesn’t matter any more.”
― Douglas Coupland

 “If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development.”
― Brian Tracy

 “Once the writer in every individual comes to life (and that time is not far off), we are in for an age of universal deafness and lack of understanding.”
― Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

 “I believe life is constantly testing us for our level of commitment, and life's
greatest rewards are reserved for those who demonstrate a never-ending
commitment to act until they achieve. This level of resolve can move mountains, but it must be constant and consistent. As simplistic as this may
sound, it is still the common denominator separating those who live their
dreams from those who live in regret.”
― Anthony Robbins

 “All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.”
― Brian Tracy
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Thursday, February 26, 2015

Quotes Of More Than A Hundred

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
-Benjamin Franklin

When you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite.
-Winston Churchill

In the end, it's not going to matter how many breaths you took, but how many moments took your breath away
♥♥       - shing xiong

A great attitude becomes a great day which becomes a great month which becomes a great year which becomes a great life.
♥♥       — Mandy Hale

It’s kinda like being on a roller coaster. If you don’t get on the ride, you won’t experience the adventure.
♥♥       — Mariah Carey

In this life, people will love you and people will hate you and none of that will anything to do with you.

♥♥       — Abraham Hicks

You can get more of what you want with a kind word and a gun than you can with just a kind word.
-Al Capone

And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.
-John F. Kennedy

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
-Winston Churchill

All violence, all that is dreary and repels, is not power, but the absence of power.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

When a man wants to murder a tiger, it's called sport; when the tiger wants to murder him, it's called ferocity.
-George Bernard Shaw

Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
-Mark Twain

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
-Albert Einstein

All government -- indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act -- is founded on compromise and barter.
-Edmund Burke

A reasonable man adapts himself to suit his environment. An unreasonable man persists in attempting to adapt his environment to suit himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
-George Bernard Shaw

A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you.
-Bert Leston Taylor

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny, but in ourselves.
-William Shakespeare

Realize that if you have time to whine and complain about something then you have the time to do something about it.
-Anthony J. D'Angelo


Trouble is part of your life -- if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough.
-Dinah Shore

When the world has once begun to use us ill, it afterwards continues the same treatment with less scruple or ceremony, as men do to a whore.
-Jonathan Swift

If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.
-Samuel Goldwyn

I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left.
-Voltaire

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
-Mark Twain

Anxiety is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.
-Arthur Somers Roche

Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Love is the answer. But while you're waiting for the answer, sex brings up some pretty good questions.
-Woody Allen

My advice to you is to get married. If you find a good wife, you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher.
-Socrates

The heart has its reasons that reason knows nothing of.
Blaise Pascal

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.
-Mother Teresa

There is only one happiness in life: to love and be loved.
-George Sand

When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.
-George Bernard Shaw


And in today already walks tomorrow. ~Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The past can't see you, but the future is listening. ~Terri Guillemets

8 Powerful Ways to Stop Wasting Your Life
When you feel like you are wasting your life, it’s a sure sign you should change your path. It’s easy to get stuck in a job you hate, because you need those money to pay off your debts or simply raise a family. You are tired of hanging out with people who make you feel miserable. You are tired of trying to save your unhealthy relationship. You have to do many things you don’t want to do because you think it’s your responsibility. If any of these sounds familiar to you, stop for a minute. Do you really have time to waste your life? Unfortunately, we can’t live forever, which is why it’s so important to stop wasting your life right now. 1. End any unhealthy relationship Do you have a toxic friend? Are you in an abusive relationship? End any unhealthy relationship for good and don’t waste your time on people who make you feel bad about yourself. Don’t let them ruin your life and don’t try to ruin their lives. On this matter, I really love this powerful quote by Matareva Pearl: “Don’t waste your time on revenge. Those who hurt you will eventually face their own karma.” Let go of toxic people today to feel and live happier tomorrow.
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I never think of the future - it comes soon enough. ~Albert Einstein

Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future. ~Ruth Benedict

The future is called "perhaps," which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the only important thing is not to allow that to scare you. ~Tennessee Williams, Orpheus Descending, 1957

We should all be concerned about the future because we will have to spend the rest of our lives there. ~Charles F. Kettering

Disasters work like alarm clocks to the world, hence God allows them. They are shouting, 'Wake up! Love! Pray!
Criss Jami, Killosophy

If the entire world sought to make itself worthy of happiness rather than make itself happy, then the entire world would be happy.
Criss Jami, Venus in Arms

A choir is made up of many voices, including yours and mine. If one by one all go silent then all that will be left are the soloists.
Don’t let a loud few determine the nature of the sound. It makes for poor harmony and diminishes the song.
Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

It's very dramatic when two people come together to work something out. It's easy to take a gun and annihilate your opposition, but what is really exciting to me is to see people with differing views come together and finally respect each other.
Fred Rogers, The World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember



“In religion and politics people’s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing.”
― Mark Twain

 “I think you have every right to cherry-pick when it comes to moving your spirit and finding peace in God. You take whatever works from wherever you can find it, and you keep moving toward the light.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert

 “Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.”
― Fulton J. Sheen

 “Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.”
― Fulton J. Sheen

 “One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests.”
― Thomas Paine


“We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love.”
― David Mitchell,

 “It turned out I was pretty good in science. But again, because of the small budget, in science class we couldn't afford to do experiments in order to prove theories. We just believed everything. Actually, I think that class was called Religion. Religion class was always an easy class. All you had to do was suspend the logic and reasoning you were being taught in all the other classes.”
― George Carlin,

 “I don't try to imagine a personal God; it suffices to stand in awe at the structure of the world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it.”
― Albert Einstein

 “I don't try to imagine a personal God; it suffices to stand in awe at the structure of the world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it.”
― Albert Einstein

 “I want to write a book so long that it will take the average person their whole life to read. It will be exactly the same length as the Bible.”
― Jarod Kintz

 “For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible.”
― Stuart Chase

 “For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible.”
― Stuart Chase

 “Your daily life is your temple and your religion.”
― Kahlil Gibran

 “Here's an easy way to figure out if you're in a cult: If you're wondering whether you're in a cult, the answer is yes.”
― Stephen Colbert,

 “Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either -- but right through every human heart -- and through all human hearts. This line shifts. Inside us, it oscillates with the years. And even within hearts overwhelmed by evil, one small bridgehead of good is retained. And even in the best of all hearts, there remains ... an unuprooted small corner of evil.
Since then I have come to understand the truth of all the religions of the world: They struggle with the evil inside a human being (inside every human being). It is impossible to expel evil from the world in its entirety, but it is possible to constrict it within each person.”
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

 “One man's theology is another man's belly laugh.”
― Robert A. Heinlein

 “One man's theology is another man's belly laugh.”
― Robert A. Heinlein

 “An atheist believes that a hospital
should be built instead of a church.
An atheist believes that deed must
be done instead of prayer said.
An atheist strives for involvement in life
and not escape into death.
He wants disease conquered,
poverty vanished, war eliminated.”
― Madalyn Murray O'Hair

 “I think, well, I've had a shit of a life, all things considered. It wasn't fair. Everyone I've ever loved is dead, and my leg hurts all the bloody time... But I think, any God that can do sunsets like that, a different one every night... 'Strewth, well, you've got to respect the old bastard, haven't you?”
― Neil Gaiman,

“I don't pray because it doesn't work. Prayer doesn't fix anything. Bad things happen anyway.”
― Nicholas Sparks

 “The Bible tells us to be like God, and then on page after page it describes God as a mass murderer. This may be the single most important key to the political behavior of Western Civilization.”
― Robert Anton Wilson

“Yes I am, I am also a Muslim, a Christian, a Buddhist, and a Jew.”
― Mahatma Gandhi


“Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.”
― Pope John Paul II

“Now, the invention of the scientific method and science is, I'm sure we'll all agree, the most powerful intellectual idea, the most powerful framework for thinking and investigating and understanding and challenging the world around us that there is, and that it rests on the premise that any idea is there to be attacked and if it withstands the attack then it lives to fight another day and if it doesn't withstand the attack then down it goes. Religion doesn't seem to work like that; it has certain ideas at the heart of it which we call sacred or holy or whatever. That's an idea we're so familiar with, whether we subscribe to it or not, that it's kind of odd to think what it actually means, because really what it means is 'Here is an idea or a notion that you're not allowed to say anything bad about; you're just not. Why not? - because you're not!”
― Douglas Adams

 “Aim at Heaven and you will get Earth 'thrown in': aim at Earth and you will get neither.”
― C.S. Lewis,


“There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations - these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub and exploit - immortal horrors or everlasting splendors. This does not mean that we are to be perpetually solemn. We must play. But our merriment must be of that kind (and it is, in fact, the merriest kind) which exists between people who have, from the outset, taken each other seriously - no flippancy, no superiority, no presumption.”
― C.S. Lewis

 “Words do not express thoughts very well; every thing immediately becomes a little different, a little distorted, a little foolish. And yet it also pleases me and seems right that what is of value and wisdom of one man seems nonsense to another.”
― Gautama Buddha

 “Many religions now come before us with ingratiating smirks and outspread hands, like an unctuous merchant in a bazaar. They offer consolation and solidarity and uplift, competing as they do in a marketplace. But we have a right to remember how barbarically they behaved when they were strong and were making an offer that people could not refuse.”
― Christopher Hitchens


“Doubt isn't the opposite of faith; it is an element of faith.”
― Paul Tillich

“...legitimate powers of government reach actions only, & not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,' thus building a wall of separation between Church & State. Adhering to this expression of the supreme will of the nation in behalf of the rights of conscience, I shall see with sincere satisfaction the progress of those sentiments which tend to restore to man all his natural rights, convinced he has no natural right in opposition to his social duties.”
― Thomas Jefferson

 “A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.”
― Carl Sagan

 “Peace is present right here and now, in ourselves and in everything we do and see. Every breath we take, every step we take, can be filled with peace, joy, and serenity. The question is whether or not we are in touch with it. We need only to be awake, alive in the present moment.”
― Thích Nhất Hạnh


“It was my first clue that atheists are my brothers and sisters of a different faith. Like me, they go as far as the legs of reason will carry them - and then they leap. I'll be honest about it. It is not atheists who get stuck in my craw, but agnostics. Doubt is useful for awhile. We must all pass through the garden of Gethsemane. If Christ played with doubt, so must we. If Christ spent an anguished night in prayer, if He burst out from the Cross, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" then surely we are also permitted doubt. But we must move on. To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.”
― Yann Martel

 “But very quickly they all became grave again: for, as you know, there is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.”
― C.S. Lewis,

 “It is not about doing what we feel like. It is about doing what God says.”
― Joyce Meyer

 “I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously.”
― Douglas Adams

 “This is what I believe: That I am I. That my soul is a dark forest. That my known self will never be more than a little clearing in the forest. That gods, strange gods, come forth from the forest into the clearing of my known self, and then go back. That I must have the courage to let them come and go. That I will never let mankind put anything over me, but that I will try always to recognize and submit to the gods in me and the gods in other men and women. There is my creed.”
― D.H. Lawrence


“If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it.”
― Thomas Carlyle

 “There was a time when religion ruled the world. It is known as the Dark Ages.”
― Ruth Hurmence Green


“Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

 “It's so hard to believe in anything anymore. I mean, it's like, religion, you really can't take it seriously, because it seems so mythological, it seems so arbitrary...but, on the other hand, science is just pure empiricism, and by virtue of its method, it excludes metaphysics. I guess I wouldn't believe in anything anymore if it weren't for my lucky astrology mood watch.”
― Steve Martin

 “Let my heart be broken by the things that break the heart of God.”
― Bob Pierce

 “There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.”
― George Gordon Byron

 “The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom the emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand wrapped in awe, is as good as dead —his eyes are closed. The insight into the mystery of life, coupled though it be with fear, has also given rise to religion. To know what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, which our dull faculties can comprehend only in their most primitive forms—this knowledge, this feeling is at the center of true religiousness.”
― Albert Einstein

 “Grace is the pleasure of God to magnify the worth of God by giving sinners the right and power to delight in God without obscuring the glory of God.”
― John Piper

 “I like a cook who smiles out loud when he tastes his own work.
Let God worry about your modesty; I want to see your enthusiasm.”
― Robert Farrar Capon

 “Happiness is the object and design of our existence; and will be the end thereof, if we pursue the path that leads to it; and this path is virtue, uprightness, faithfulness, holiness, and keeping all the commandments of God.”
― Joseph Smith Jr.

 “The Savage interrupted him. "But isn't it natural to feel there's a God?"
"You might as well ask if it's natural to do up one's trousers with zippers," said the Controller sarcastically. "You remind me of another of those old fellows called Bradley. He defined philosophy as the finding of bad reason for what one believes by instinct. As if one believed anything by instinct! One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them. Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasons–that's philosophy. People believe in God because they've been conditioned to.”
― Aldous Huxley


“[Saint Anthony] said, in his solitude, he sometimes encountered devils who looked like angels, and other times he found angels who looked like devils. When asked how he could tell the difference, the saint said that you can only tell which is which by the way you feel after the creature has left your company.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert


“Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.”
― David Hume,

 “But, first, remember, remember, remember the signs. Say them to yourself when you wake in the morning and when you lie down at night, and when you wake in the middle of the night. And whatever strange things may happen to you, let nothing turn your mind from following the signs. And secondly, I give you a warning. Here on the mountain I have spoken to you clearly: I will not often do so down in Narnia. Here on the mountain, the air is clear and your mind is clear; as you drop down into Narnia, the air will thicken. Take great care that it does not confuse your mind. And the signs which you have learned here will not look at all as you expect them to look, when you meet them there. That is why it is so important to know them by heart and pay no attention to appearances. Remember the signs and believe the signs. Nothing else matters.”
― C.S. Lewis,

 “You will face your greatest opposition when you are closest to your biggest miracle.”
― Shannon L. Alder

 “To live by grace means to acknowledge my whole life story, the light side and the dark. In admitting my shadow side I learn who I am and what God's grace means.”
― Brennan Manning

“The hardest thing of all is to find a black cat in a dark room, especially if there is no cat.”
― Confucius

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
-Khalil Gibran

You can't do sketches enough. Sketch everything and keep your curiosity fresh.
-John Singer Sargent

To love another person is to see the face of God.
-Victor Hugo

Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-Oscar Wilde

If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.

-George Bernard Shaw

“Beauty is the only human aspect which cannot be captured on any canvas howsoever hard an artist tries. At the most, the undaunted artist can replicate the beauty on paper but what is a replica in comparison to the original! The humbling resemblance can only be respected, not truly adored.
Beauty cannot be imprisoned in the lens of a camera. The images of beauty are a moment of its essence. Beauty cannot be displayed to evoke pleasure for all on a cinema screen. Those are just its imprints, mere illusions of its existence. Beauty cannot be described by words; it cannot be written or read about. There are no suitable words in all the languages of the world, ancient or modern to hold it between a paper and a pen or a script and an eye. Beauty can only be experienced from far, its delightful aroma can only be tasted through one’s eyes and its pleasurable sight can only be felt from the soul.
Beauty can only be best described at its origin through a befuddling silence, the kind that leaves one almost on the verge of a pleasurable death, just because one chooses beauty over life. There is nothing in this world to hold something so pure, so divine except a loving heart. And it is the only manner through which love recognises love; the language of love has no alphabet, no words.”
― Faraaz Kazi


 “When I say ‘I love you’ I don’t mean that I love what being with you does for my career, or I love how often you’re willing to shag. I mean I love you. I love making you laugh, and seeing how you react to things, and getting to know the little things about you. I love who I am with you, and I’m trusting you not to hurt me.”
― Christina Lauren

 “It’s too bad if a heart lacks fire,
and is deprived of the light
of a heart ablaze.
The day on which you are
without passionate love
is the most wasted day of your life.”
― Omar Khayyam


 “And you're right, I do love you Eden. I will follow you into eternity, or until after this weekend when we all die gruesome, painful deaths... But with every breath I have left, I will use it to love you. Because, Eden, I want this... You; I want you more than life, more than anything. There was a time when I didn't think I was strong enough to face you again, or what is between us. I was too afraid of the heartache, of being shattered again. But now, it doesn't matter, nothing matters except you. I will take an eternity of hardship, of war or fighting my father, or anything, just to hold your love again. You are everything to me, my sun, my moon, the air I breathe. Nothing exists accept you. I love you.”
― Rachel Higginson


 “I feel a horror for exaggerated love or friendship. It's just too well demonstrated to me that when the moment comes that one asks something, or has need of something, the responce is not worth a biscuit.”
― Brian Thompson

 “I found that as I flipped the days on the calendar, the worries I had about our relationship had began to diminish.”
― Nicholas Sparks

 “Let love find you. Don’t go looking for it. The best way to attract a mate is to post an ad on Craigslist titled, “Have lube, will travel.”
― Jarod Kintz

 “Do not try to explain feelings. Live everything intensely and treasure what you feel as a gift from God.”
― Paulo Coelho

 “Sonnet 29
When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes,
I all alone beweep my outcast state
And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries
And look upon myself and curse my fate,
Wishing me like to one more rich in hope,
Featured like him, like him with friends possess'd,
Desiring this man's art and that man's scope,
With what I most enjoy contented least;
Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising,
Haply I think on thee, and then my state,
Like to the lark at break of day arising
From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate;
For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings
That then I scorn to change my state with kings.”
― William Shakespeare

 “Be you wise and never sad,
You will get your lovely lad.
Never serious be, nor true,
And your wish will come to you--
And if that makes you happy, kid,
You'll be the first it ever did.”
― Dorothy Parker

 “Love weaves itself from hundreds of threads.”
― David Levithan

 “And by golly, love sure was a battlefield. Benatar was right about that.”
― Charlaine Harris

 “It's delicious to have people adore you, but it's exhausting, too. Particularly when your own feelings don't match theirs.”
― Tasha Alexander

 “Ain't all buttons and charts, little albatross. Know what the first rule of flying is? Well I s'pose you do, since you already know what I'm 'bout to say.
I do. But I like to hear you say it.
Love. Can know all the math in the 'verse but take a boat in the air that you don't love? She'll shake you off just as sure as a turn in the worlds. Love keeps her in the air when she oughta fall down...tell you she's hurtin' 'fore she keens...makes her a home.”
― Joss Whedon

 “I understand why she did all those things, but that doesn't mean we aren't still broken.”
― Veronica Roth

 “She realized all at once the deeper thing that bothered her, the thing that made him not just irritating but intolerable: how he kept loving her blindly when she deserved it so little. ”
― Ann Brashares

 “Mother, who has an absolute belief that it is not the cards that one is dealt in life, it is how one plays them, is, by far, the highest card I was dealt.”
― Kay Redfield Jamison

 “For she had eyes and chose me.”
― William Shakespeare

 “It's not that kind of love. It's the real kind. The unconditional kind. The nonjudgemental kind. Not the physical kind. I love you as a fellow soul who inhabits this earth. I love you as a fellow immortal. I love you because I finally understand what made you the way you are. And if I could change it, I would. But I can't—so I choose to love you instead. And my hope is that my acceptance of you will spur you to do something good too, but if not—" I shrug. "At least I can say I tried.”
― Alyson Noel

 “Love makes you see a place differently, just as you hold differently an object that belongs to someone you love. If you know one landscape well, you will look at all other landscapes differently. And if you learn to love one place, sometimes you can also learn to love another.”
― Anne Michaels


 “Three years? That's a thousand tomorrows, ma'am.”
― Karen Kingsbury

 “In those days, we finally chose to walk like giants and hold the world in arms grown strong with love
And there may be many things we forget in the days to come,
But this will not be one of them.”
― Brian Andreas

 “Don't you know that love isn't just going to bed? Love isn't an act, it's a whole life. It's staying with her now because she needs you; it's knowing you and she will still care about each other when sex and daydreams, fights and futures -- when all that's on the shelf and done with. Love -- why, I'll tell you what love is: it's you at seventy-five and her at seventy-one, each of you listening for the other's step in the next room, each afraid that a sudden silence, a sudden cry, could mean a lifetime's talk is over.”
― Brian Moore

 “I pause a second. He doesn't look at me the way Will, Christina, and Al sometimes do - like I am too small and too weak to be of any use, and they pity me for it.”
― Veronica Roth

“...lies can sound awfully pretty when a girl is in love with the person telling them.”
― Gabrielle Zevin

 “Take my hand and we'll make it - I swear”
― Jon Bon Jovi

“Every now and then, I’d meet a guy and think that we were getting along great, and suddenly I’d stop hearing from him. Not only did he stop calling, but if I happened to bump into him sometime later he always acted like I had the plague. I didn’t understand it. I still don’t. And it bothered me. It hurt me. With time, it got harder and harder to keep blaming the guys, and I eventually came to the conclusion that there was something wrong with me. That maybe I was simply meant to live my life alone.”
― Nicholas Sparks

 “It matters not who you love, where you love, why you love, when you love or how you love, it matters only that you love”
― John Lennon


“My love may be invisible, but that doesn’t mean you can’t taste it. (It tastes like a sonic boom, only not as bitter).”
― Jarod Kintz

 “In the war room, love? What if someone comes in?”
I stood and removed his shirt. “Then they’ll have a good story to tell.”
“Good?” He adopted the pretense of being offended.
“Prove me wrong.”
― Maria V. Snyder


“Love is like quicksand; once you're in it's difficult to get out.”
― C.B. Smith

 “A bond between souls is ancient - older than the planet.”
― Dianna Hardy

 “Maybe I'll be like that man in "The Hanging Tree'. Still waiting for an answer.”
― Suzanne Collins

 “Love is the only freedom in the world because it so elevates the spirit that the laws of humanity and the phenomena of nature do not alter its course.”
― Kahlil Gibran

 “In the silence, she felt the past and the present shift and mix, but that was a mirage. There was no way to comfort the lost boy he'd been back then.
But she had the grown male.
She had him right in her arms, and for a brief moment of whimsy, she imagined that she was never, ever going to let him go.”
― J.R. Ward

“He's looking at the wall and at the floor and at the bedsheets and at the way his knuckles look when he clenches his fist but no not at me he won't look at me and his next words are so, so soft.
"Because they're dead, love. They're all dead.”
― Tahereh Mafi

 “When you meet someone so different from yourself, in a good way, you don't even have to kiss to have fireworks go off. Its like fireworks in your heart all the time.”
― Lisa Schroeder

 “Doubt thou the stars are fire
Doubt thou the sun doth move
Doubt truth to be a liar
But never doubt I love”
― William Shakespeare

 “You were born together, and together you shall be for evermore...But let there be spaces in your togetherness...Love one another, but make not a bond of love. Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. Fill each other's cup but drink not from one cup. Give one another of your bread but eat not of the same loaf. Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone, Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music.”
― Kahlil Gibran

 “I was born when you kissed me. I died when you left me. I lived a few weeks while you loved me.”
― Dorothy B. Hughes

 “Tereza knew what happens during the moment love is born: the woman cannot resist the voice calling forth her terrified soul; the man cannot resist the woman whose soul thus responds to his voice.”
― Milan Kundera

 “Our time together feels like a storm, like wild wind and rain, like something too big to handle but too powerful to escape. It blows around me and tangles my hair, leaves water on my face, makes me know that I am alive, alive, alive. There are moments of calm and pause as there are in every storm, and moments when our words fork lightening, at least for each other.”
― Ally Condie

 “Kakabog ang dibdib mo, kikiligin ang kalamnan mo at kikirot ang puso mo. Kabog, kilig, kirot. Kapag naramdaman mo ang tatlong K, umiibig ka.”
― Ricky Lee

 “Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, to yielding.”
― Bette Davis

 “There is no religion without love,
and people may talk as much as
they like about their religion, but
if it does not teach them to be good
and kind to man and beast,
it is all a sham.”
― Anna Sewell

 “I vow I am, and always will be, constant and faithful in my love for you, Anais. Nothing you or anyone else does shall alter these feelings. I am forever loving, forever waiting, forever yearning...forever yours.”
― Charlotte Featherstone

 “If he can't handle you at your worst then he does not deserve you at your best. Real love means seeing beyond the words spoken out of pain, and instead seeing a person's soul.”
― Shannon L. Alder

 “Just because love don't look the way you think it should, don't mean you don't have it.”
― Leslye Walton

 “In my crazy world, above all others...you were the only one who was the ugliest. And you were the only one...who was the most beautiful.... This is the unspoken truth.”
― Kaori Yuki


“And here, finally here in this place, in these circumstances, I will really have to kill him. And Snow will win. Hot, bitter hatred courses through me. Snow has won too much already today. It's a long shot, it's suicide maybe, but I do the only thing I can think of. I lean in and kiss Peeta full on the mouth. His whole body starts shuddering, but I keep my lips pressed to his until I have to come up for air. My hands slide up his wrists to clasp his. "Don't let him take you from me." Peeta's panting hard as he fights the nightmares raging in his head. "No. I don't want to..." I clench his hands to the point of pain. "Stay with me." His pupils contract to pinpoints, dilate again rapidly, and then return to something resembling normalcy. "Always," he murmurs.”
― Suzanne Collins

“If you are careful,' Garp wrote, 'if you use good ingredients, and you don't take any shortcuts, then you can usually cook something very good. Sometimes it is the only worthwhile product you can salvage from a day; what you make to eat. With writing, I find, you can have all the right ingredients, give plenty of time and care, and still get nothing. Also true of love. Cooking, therefore, can keep a person who tries hard sane.”
― John Irving

 “Love has no limitations. It cannot be measured. It has no boundaries. Although many have tried, love is indefinable.”
― Steve Maraboli

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Wednesday, February 4, 2015

Can We Switch?



I don't want to eat but my head tells me to eat.

She bit once, the chicken leg still whole, a tiny bite is all there is.

In my mind,  I wish I eat like her so I won't have to worry about my weight.

She is growing up, she should eat like me, she needs all of it. I, on the other hand - a full grown man who wants to lose weight, yet eats the most food and lose control.

I wish, if only we can switched our way of eating. I would be skinny and she would be chubby. As time goes by, she'll shed the excess, and as she grows upward to become a lady, she'll be taller than me and skinny.
Then I do not have to worry, my weight will be okay and she will be.


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