Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Every human being on this planet has their pain and their heartache and it's up to all of us to find our way back to the light.
Sometimes we do not hear the Whisperer even at her loudest because she speaks in our own voice, the one we most often discount.
There is literally no such thing as an idea that cannot be expressed well and articulately to today's voters in thirty seconds.
All of journalism is a shrinking art. So much of it is hype. The O.J. Simpson story is a landmark in the decline of journalism.
No one is demonizing or even saying anything as intemperate as Donald Trump has said about blacks living in squalor conditions.
There is no instinct that has been so maligned, suppressed, abused, and distorted by religious teaching as the instinct of sex.
"If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all," was how I was raised, and how I lived for most of my life.
Tea beckons us to enjoy quality time with friends and loved ones, and especially to rediscover the art of relaxed conversation.
Winters are so long in northern Michigan - nearly nine months of gray skies and deep snow - that summer comes as a fresh burst.
To consciously evolve, we require clear vision of a compassionate future that draws out our enthusiastic participation in life.
My books start almost before I realise it. Once in a while, some accident causes an idea to rise to the surface and say: 'now.'
It is only in the morning that one should marry, read unfavourable reviews, make one's will, beat one's servants, and so forth.
We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light.[so we can see the bright side of everything]
Discontent, blaming, complaining, self-pity cannot serve as a foundation for a good future, no matter how much effort you make.
The sun never sets. It is only an appearance due to the observer's limited perspective. And yet, what a sublime illusion it is.
The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present.
Enlightened groups can exist, as long as the individuals' sense of identity is not derived from a mentally defined image of us.
When you are suffering, when you are unhappy, stay totally with what is Now. Unhappiness or problems cannot survive in the Now.
The ego wants to want more than it wants to have. And so the shallow satisfaction of having is always replaced by more wanting.
In visions of the dark night I have dreamed of joy departed-- But a waking dream of life and light Hath left me broken-hearted.
None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry.
Humankind will not be free until the last Kremlin commissar is strangled with the entrails of the last Pentagon chief of staff.
What is the purpose of the giant sequoia tree? The purpose of the giant sequoia tree is to provide shade for the tiny titmouse.
The "terror" of the French Revolution lasted for ten years. The terror that preceded and led to it lasted for a thousand years.
Every experience, however bitter, has its lesson, and to focus one's attention on the lesson helps one overcome the bitterness.
I have learned as a journalist that if you look long enough and hard enough and carefully enough, most truths are discoverable.
Is the distinction between living for Christ and dying for Him so great? Is not the second the logical conclusion of the first?
Holiness has never been the driving force of the majority. It is, however, mandatory for anyone who wants to enter the kingdom.
'Pnin' by Vladimir Nabokov, which is a literally small book, fit right in my common law book. I would sit in class and read it.
I love theater. I love sitting in an audience and having the actors right there, playing out what it means to be a human being.
Poul Anderson's 'The High Crusade' may have had a greater impact on my development as a writer than any other book I ever read.
In any leadership, whenever you're facing a tough challenge, find ways to bring people together and get them to serve together.
Divorce is my generation's coming of age ceremony - a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.
There's another part of getting older that's just wonderful. Which is you see the way the stories turn out with peoples' lives.
I have learned as much about writing about my people by listening to blues and jazz and spirituals as I have by reading novels.
Have you ever considered that your perception of reality could be wrong? If you haven't, this is a pretty good sign that it is.
When you need something tedious done, and don't have time for it, give it to a workaholic. This way, both of you will be happy.
When we seek the gaze of another, it isn't always our partner we're turning away from, but the person we have ourselves become.
Indeed, learning to write may be part of learning to read. For all I know, writing comes out of a superior devotion to reading.
Egyptian Proverb: The worst things: To be in bed and sleep not, To want for one who comes not, To try to please and please not.
An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.
It is not necessarily poverty of spirit that makes a woman surround herself with life - it can be a superabundance of interest.
I inhale loneliness like it is the sweet smell of virgin earth conquered by fiery rain drops. Within me, I'm a thousand others.
When it's my time to go, I'll go, but the only time that's going to be for 'Teen Mom' is when the network takes it off the air.
People fail you, children disappoint you, thieves break in, moths corrupt, but an Order of the British Empire goes on for ever.
One [New York] eatery is a remodeled diner that looks like what Busby Berkeley would have done if only he hadn't had the money.
Now the culture is made of old things, it's a collage. Art made out of art is not art. You're supposed to make art out of life.
Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast, the disk jockey is not allowed to talk.
You’re a peach full of poison, you know that?" Mosca snapped back, but could not quite keep a hint of admiration from her tone.
Fortunately, any kind of setback has represented a challenge to do better, rather than an acceptance of inferiority on my part.