A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.

Author: Henry David Thoreau

Author: Henry David Thoreau

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Don't let life's challenges discourage you. Some things are just out of your control. Make it work f

Author: Carlos Wallace
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But when the world is, indeed, in chaos, then an affirmation of cosmos becomes essential.

Author: Madeleine L'Engle
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Tragically we’ve forgotten the reason we’re even here at all.Worst still, we remember it’s just that

Author: Anthem Lights
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Distance starts in hearts,confirms in mind & actions from tongue....

Author: Adil Adam Memon
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According to Madam Pomfrey, thoughts could leave deeper scars than almost anything else.

Author: J.K. Rowling
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Chasing your dreams is like running a race in the dark, you may quit disheartened, not knowing you w

Author: Prerna Kumar
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For the way of the comets is the poet's way.

Author: Marina Tsvetaeva
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He could’ve penned a rendition of Moby Dick in Pig Latin and he wouldn’t have been the wiser.

Author: Kelly Moran
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Despite the restrictions, we are safe within (the Box). But – and here is the problem – once we iden

Author: Heidi Reagan
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Is there any soul without any struggle?

Author: Unknown
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You cannot demonstrate an emotion or prove an aspiration.

Author: John Morley
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Everything that I hold will eventually be gone. Subsequently, the quality of my life will depend on

Author: Craig D. Lounsbrough
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Space is a windless silent place, just like the mind of a wise man!

Author: Mehmet Murat ildan
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I like the outdoors and the natural world. Environmental issues.

Author: Mackenzie Crook
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I sounded like Horton the Elephant. "A person is a person no matter how small." What the hell was I

Author: Laurell K. Hamilton
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Mistakes are like bad loves, the more you learn from them, the more you wish they’d never happened.

Author: Gregory David Roberts
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Hope is not logical. It always comes as a surprise, just when you think all hope is lost. Hope is th

Author: Anne Lamott
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Oh, you mean fairy gossip, Eric,” she giggled. “I get the picture,” she said fluttering her lacy win

Author: Caz Greenham
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They throw their stones at you not expecting that you would catch them with a smile. But a wise soul

Author: Seja Majeed
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Happiness and unhappiness are contagious.

Author: Mensah Oteh
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Whom the gods would destroy, they first subsidize.

Author: George Charles Roche III
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'Free Fallin' is a very good song. Maybe it would be one of my favorites if it hadn't become this hu

Author: Tom Petty
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I love a beautiful gown on stage, and luckily I've been fortunate to wear some amazing dresses.

Author: Leona Lewis
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Contention in our families drives the Spirit of the Lord away. It also drives many of our family mem

Author: Ezra Taft Benson
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Law never made men a whit more just; and, by means of their respect for it, even the well-disposed a

Author: Henry David Thoreau
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To find true peace, forgive those who fill your mind with hatred and instead show them the path of l

Author: Debasish Mridha
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Learning was a by-product of her search for pleasure

Author: David Brooks
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If we will turn to God in prayer, and if we will seek His comfort through His Words in the Bible, we

Author: Unknown
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(Canada) - the most parochial nationette on earth ... I have been living in this sanctimonious icebo

Author: Wyndham Lewis
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If we do not desire to work in order to receive these things, God will be powerless to help us

Author: Sunday Adelaja
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Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection not in books alone but in every leaf in springtim

Author: Martin Luther
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And trust dies from ifs and buts

Author: Aidan Chambers
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Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Author: William Arthur Ward
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A real friend isn't capable of feeling sorry for you.

Author: Jodi Picoult
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We only have one life to live, and must go on with it to the end, that if we feel it is meaningless,

Author: Susan Moody
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She did not care very much for other little girls, but if she had plenty of books she could console

Author: Frances Hodgson Burnett
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There is little evidence that our individual intelligence has improved through recorded history.

Author: James Lovelock
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I have such a hopeless dream of walking or being there at night, nothing happens, I just pass, every

Author: Jack Kerouac
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He is an old bore even the grave yawns for him.

Author: Herbert Beerbohm Tree
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When you've made up your mind, no use lagging behind, go ahead and no relenting,Let your youth have

Author: Nikos Kazantzakis
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She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.

Author: Louisa May Alcott
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YOU are becoming a new species. The vibrations in and around you are increasing in speed. YOU are al

Author: Elaine Seiler
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Ritual and ceremony are powerful bonding tools. They result in a sense of community, a feeling of un

Author: Del Suggs
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A good quote: A timeless capsule of truth.

Author: Garry Fitchett
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Sometimes, it takes more courage to be weak.

Author: Tom Courter
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If you are frustrated with the elite of your society, do something about it.

Author: Sunday Adelaja
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We are witnessing an enormous shift of collective consciousness throughout the world. We are at the

Author: Zachary Quinto
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It is possibly worth mentioning at this point that Mr. Young thought that paparazzi was a kind of It

Author: Terry Pratchett
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Human for love and things for use But now days people use humans and love things

Author: Mohammed Zaki Ansari
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If I were John LennonAnd my feelings for you grew,I'd have left The BeatlesTo spend all my time with

Author: Lisa Swerling
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It isn't a bit of use my pretending I'm not crying, because I am... Pause to mop up. Better now.Perh

Author: Dodie Smith
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I drew a chair up beside her and sang. All I do is dream of you the whole night through . . . It was

Author: Helen Oyeyemi
Quote #306657

I'd rather die tomorrow than live a hundred years without knowing you.

Author: Walt Disney Company
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But only a few have the will -- be it born of courage or recklessness, folly or sublime wisdom -- to

Author: Ed Tarkington
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O God — please give him back! I shall keep asking You.

Author: John Irving
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The real war is not between the West and the East. The real war is between intelligent and stupid pe

Author: Marjane Satrapi
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I'd love to go back to space, I don't know any astronaut who doesn't want to.

Author: Helen Sharman
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Ethics is not about platitudes, let alone tautologies, logic or mathematics, but about difficult cho

Author: Martin Cohen
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But once an original book has been written-and no more than one or two appear in a century-men of le

Author: Pierre Boulle
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The momentum of freedom in our world is unmistakable - and it is not carried forward by our power al

Author: George W. Bush
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Your talent is a seed; cultivate it, and in no time, you will harvest success.

Author: Matshona Dhliwayo
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I wonder if Blue knows she’s repainting her room.I wonder if he’s asking if she wants a ride to the

Author: Victoria Scott
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The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays

Author: Bertrand Russell
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Do not wallow in your mistakes. Do not grovel and prostrate yourself in hopes of forgiveness. We all

Author: Bryant McGill
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I'm done waiting. Done doing things the easy way and letting things happen as they will."Her heart c

Author: Jill Shalvis
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My dad just imprinted in my mind from a very young age that you always do what you say you're gonna

Author: Bob Corker
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To that movement, consecrated by religious principle, sustained by an awful sense of justice, and ch

Author: George Ripley
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You are people with a present and with a future. Don't muff the ball. Be excellent.

Author: Gordon B. Hinckley
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I have heard several people justify working long hours and getting home from work late it night by s

Author: Daniel Willey
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I met Ashley two weeks before I married him. It was a joke-the most ridiculous thing I've ever done.

Author: Shannen Doherty
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Unfortunately, in today's world we have to be reminded that the power of an oath derives from the fa

Author: James L. Buckley
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But freedom starts with honesty. We aren’t doing ourselves any favors by defining our- selves as goo

Author: Judah Smith
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I've fixed my feelings into durable wordswhen they could have been spent on tenderness

Author: Jorge Luis Borges
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I couldn't help thinking how well Cain had prospered after killing his brother: he founded the first

Author: Philip Gourevitch
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Think positive, Butch.

Author: Horace Dade Ashton
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Sometimes you learn, grow and give far more when your back's against the wall.

Author: Rasheed Ogunlaru
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We should live our lives Christ was coming this afternoon!

Author: Tony Narams
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I am a child of the American Century, and I feel a genetic commitment to understanding why it happen

Author: Hunter S. Thompson
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Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and of true progress.

Author: Nicholas Murray Butler
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I sang everything - R&B slow jams, Spanish slow jams, romantic reggaeton - and I really didn't care

Author: Prince Royce
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Why can't people just love each other and be happy?

Author: Debasish Mridha
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The mind of man is capable of anything - because everything is in it all the past as well as all th

Author: Joseph Conrad
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When we ... devote ourselves to the strict and unsparing performance of duty then happiness comes o

Author: Wilhelm von Humboldt
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You should totally get implants," she said admiringly in the mirror. I shake my head. "I don't yet k

Author: Emma McLaughlin
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I am a student of life, and don't want to miss any experience. There's poetry in this sort of thing,

Author: H.P. Lovecraft
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With strength you can move rocks.With faith you can move mountains.With love you can move the world.

Author: Matshona Dhliwayo
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Minutes are worth more than money. Spend them wisely.

Author: Thomas P. Murphy
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It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are still alive. There are certain

Author: George Eliot
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Ah, sarcasm. The final refuge of the desperate.

Author: Ashlyn Macnamara
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There are no words that can describe the euphoria you feel when your baby recognizes you for the fir

Author: Jared Padalecki
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Creativity is thinking up new things. Innovation is doing new things.

Author: Theodore Levitt
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I was certain t find the familiar sting of salt, but what I needed to know was what kind: kitchen, s

Author: Monique Truong
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A lion conquers more in one day than a sheep in a lifetime.

Author: Matshona Dhliwayo
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Someday, we’ll run into each other again, I know it.Maybe I’ll be older and smarter and just plain b

Author: Gabrielle Zevin
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Kindness is the best style that you can wear anytime and anywhere.

Author: Debasish Mridha
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Inch by inch it's all a cinch, by the yard it's hard. Go for it -- no matter how slow or long the pr

Author: Mardi Ballou
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The best way to move forward is to stop

Author: Benny Bellamacina
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I had a dream about you. I licked your cone of ice cream. It was envelope flavored.

Author: Melody Sohayegh
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May I be awoken by the thunder of Zeus & touched by his lighting. It only need strike once. Once is

Author: Truth Devour