Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Life will give you what you ask of here if only you ask long enough and plainly enough.
You are, at this moment, standing, right in the middle of your own 'acres of diamonds.'
We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within.
Find what you can do best that renders service to others and do it with all your might.
Love, joy, and peace cannot flourish until you have freed yourself from mind dominance.
Presence is needed to become aware of the Beauty, the Majesty, the Sacredness of Nature
Emotion in itself is not unhappiness. Only emotion plus an unhappy story is unhappiness
Life is now. There was never a time when your life was not now, nor will there ever be.
If you completely accept something, it changes. If you completely accept it, it shifts.
The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.
The world is a great ocean, upon which we encounter more tempestuous storms than calms.
Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
The generous Critic fann'd the Poet's fire, And taught the world with reason to admire.
In for ever knowing, we are for ever blessed; but to know all were the curse of a fiend
Uncertainty is the prerequisite to gaining knowledge and frequently the result as well.
When we speak of beauty, we're speaking of something we're more or less indifferent to.
A good writer must have more than vin rosé in his veins, use more than Chablis for ink.
In everything but brains and brawn, women are vastly superior to men. A different race.
My books always make the best-seller lists in Wolf Hole, Arizona, and Hanksville, Utah.
The folly of men not their hard heartedness was the great cause of the world s poverty.
The conditions of praying are the conditions of righteousness, holiness, and salvation.
I think that writers of literary fiction would do well to read more books for children.
At any given time, there are ideas and images that can only be communicated indirectly.
I don't think anyone could write about another culture and get it 100 percent accurate.
If I could read while I was driving, showering, socializing or sleeping, I would do it.
For me, Dracula has always been associated with travel and beautiful historical places.
In my cosmology, indigenous wild deer are more important than exotic ornamental shrubs.
I don't hate anyone. I dislike. But my dislike is the equivalent of anyone else's hate.
I'm running for Governor because we need a political outsider to move Missouri forward.
I was raised to stand up for the little guy, for working families and the middle class.
I actually think it's very important that the Navy SEAL community stay out of politics.
marriage is when a man stops disappointing many women and focuses on disappointing one!
Six-hundred-page biographies of German theologians aren't known to fly off the shelves.
If Donald Trump were elected, it would be the first time a little boy became president.
Yoga ia a way of moving into stillness in order to experience the truth of who you are.
All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.
My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.
The things of the night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exist.
He could beat anything, he thought, because no thing could hurt him if he did not care.
Never write about a place until you're away from it, because that gives you perspective
My training was never to drink after dinner nor before I wrote nor while I was writing.
Attitude is an accurate monitor of where we fall on the spectrum of pride and humility.
For me, the person I was becoming when we left was erased, and another one was created.
Look forward to where you want to be and spend no time complaining about where you are.
I'm fascinated by power, by those that can be publicly generous and privately ruthless.
Wisdom is the art of living skillfully in whatever actual conditions we find ourselves.
There are people who are trying to advance themselves by wrapping themselves in Reagan.
This is the copywriters task: not to create mass desire — but to channel and direct it.
Nothing comes back. The eye sees for a moment, the ear hears, but look, now it is gone.