Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Every day, in every moment, you make the choice whether to love and harness the positive force - or not.
All your power is in your awareness of that power, and through holding that power in your consciousness.
As long as we believe in sequential time, we see becoming instead of being. Beyond time, we are all one.
To fly as fast as thought, to anywhere that is, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived.
Jonathan sighed. The price of being misunderstood, he thought. They call you devil or they call you god.
The one thing we fear most is the one thing that is not possible: We cannot die, we cannot be destroyed.
What is it that makes us suppose that we can more easily do twice tomorrow what we didn't do once today!
I have done every job in the Theatre apart from wardrobe. I was out of work more times than I was in it.
I know of no manner of speaking so offensive as that of giving praise, and closing it with an exception.
Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going.
mixing comes natural. i just ought to. not am i mixed to perfection, i have aptitude for art and colors.
We need to think less NIMBY (Not In My Back Yard), and more SWIMBY (Something Wonderful In My Back Yard)
Young women today, as in the fifties, find themselves entering the big world and having to make choices.
We pamper the present like a spoiled child, obeying its superficial demands but ignoring its real needs.
We're wired somehow to want to be part of something bigger. And we quest to understand what our role is.
It's better to live with a sad truth than with all the happy progress talk you get up here in the North.
I love to create interesting textures with language. You can do it as long as it seems like a discovery.
Grey has no agenda. . . . Grey has the ability, that no other colour has, to make the invisible visible.
The only books that work are those which fly through the air - the ones you let happen, not make happen.
This is a brief life, but in its brevity it offers us some splendid moments, some meaningful adventures.
Adam was a gardener, and God, who made him, sees that half of all good gardening is done upon the knees.
Progress! Progress through everybody dying and their kids eventually not caring who their parents hated!
his thumbs ran over my cheeks. Our foreheads touched. My dreamscape scorched. He set fire to the poppies
Recreation is not the highest kind of enjoyment, but in its time and place is quite as proper as prayer.
Every human being whose mind is not debauched, will be willing to give all that he has to get knowledge.
Assertion is not argument; to contradict the statement of an opponent is not proof that you are correct.
It is the just doom of laziness and gluttony to be inactive without ease and drowsy without tranquility.
I had done all that I could, and no Man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little.
The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction.
A transition from an author's book to his conversation, is too often like an entrance into a large city.
This man [Chesterfield], I thought, had been a Lord among wits; but I find he is only a wit among Lords.
Sir, they are a race of convicts, and ought to be thankful for any thing we allow them short of hanging.
The balls of sight are so formed, that one man's eyes are spectacles to another, to read his heart with.
It is incident to physicians, I am afraid, beyond all other men, to mistake subsequence for consequence.
Few moments are more pleasing than those in which the mind is concerting measures for a new undertaking.
In a Man's Letters you know, Madam, his soul lies naked, his letters are only the mirrour of his breast.
No mind is much employed upon the present; recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments.
Diligence in employments of less consequence is the most successful introduction to greater enterprises.
I do not envy a clergyman's life as an easy life, nor do I envy the clergyman who makes it an easy life.
Everybody loves to have things which please the palate put in their way, without trouble or preparation.
The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery.
Our minds should not be empty because if they are not preoccupied by good, evil will break in upon them.
I wish you would add an index rerum, that when the reader recollects any incident he may easily find it.
Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.
There would be no supporting life were we to feel quite as poignantly for others as we do for ourselves.
The World, thinking itself affronted by superior merit, takes delight to bring it down to its own level.
I cannot lie on the beach or by a swimming pool. I think I'm too Nordic to like a lot of relentless sun.
I'm slightly obsessed with women's history, so I'd love to talk to Emily Dickinson or Louisa May Alcott.
I don't think secrets are a good thing. I think they are a cancer of the soul. So I decided to come out.
When I came out in September 1994, I was, as far as I know, the only out lesbian in British public life.