A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

Author: Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Author: Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Quote #48078

Future has a scheming, naughty and intelligent mind. It is never fully predictable!

Author: Amit Chatterjee
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So, now I've been to see a drug counselor who told me I need to lay off the drugs and talk about my

Author: Libba Bray
Quote #400118

I'm the master of distractions. A couple of hand gestures and BAM! I'll pull the underwear clean off

Author: Si Robertson
Quote #238275

The end always doesn't justify the means you used to reach there.

Author: Auliq Ice
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One should have expected some terrible enormities charged to those who are excluded from heaven, as

Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe
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...dread invades the living room, finds her on the couch, presses on her, gets inside her where it s

Author: Ann-Marie MacDonald
Quote #258395

...the power of grace can work great things in the human person, greater than we might have dared to

Author: Fr. Timothy Gallagher OMV
Quote #15363

In relationship to God one can not involve himself to a certain degree. God is precisely the contrad

Author: Søren Kierkegaard
Quote #195154

We treat what’s lost, what could have never been, what we could have never dreamed of, again. We tre

Author: Kevin Focke
Quote #148211

Macbeth:If we should fail?Lady Macbeth:We fail?But screw your courage to the sticking place,And we'l

Author: William Shakespeare
Quote #461107

I'm a very, very healthy eater. I eat lots of fish, lots of vegetables, lots of fruit. I don't eat j

Author: Victoria Beckham
Quote #317307

The screen and keyboard account for much of computers' weight. The intelligent part of a computer is

Author: Ted Sargent
Quote #48569

Curious that we spend more time congratulating people who have succeeded than encouraging people who

Author: Neil deGrasse Tyson
Quote #213797

When kindhearted people smile, demons shrink and turn away as if tormented by the gesture. But when

Author: Richelle E. Goodrich
Quote #442372

With my natural communication abilities, I could probably gather a crowd even without the Spirit.

Author: Francis Chan
Quote #135203

He's my family, and you don't just push family aside for some itch you want to scratch. That's not h

Author: Aimee Carter
Quote #138074

And when we have power- when you have power, Jae, you'll need to decide what to do with it. What kin

Author: Becky Allen
Quote #341047

Do not allow criticism to stop you from living your best.

Author: Unknown
Quote #76116

If frienship is your weakest point then you are the strongest person in the world.

Author: Abraham Lincoln
Quote #490361

The Federal government does not have any information about extraterrestrial life to conceal, and the

Author: Orrin Hatch
Quote #153723

If you have a dog, you will most likely outlive it; to get a dog is to open yourself to profound joy

Author: Marjorie Garber
Quote #17227

There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures th

Author: John Keats
Quote #360508

Be a reflection of excellence.

Author: Steve Maraboli
Quote #332711

Keep dreaming, you must never stop dreaming.

Author: Unknown
Quote #388815

People, as curious primates, dote on concrete objects that can be seen and fondled. God dwells among

Author: Stephen Jay Gould
Quote #490570

Every government program needs to be more efficient. Instead of pointing out how other programs can

Author: Michael Enzi
Quote #136003

Assumptions are quick exits for lazy minds that like to graze out in the fields without bother.

Author: Suzy Kassem
Quote #121285

Of course (said Oryx), having a money value was no substitute for love. Every child should have love

Author: Margaret Atwood
Quote #406502

Fairies black grey green and white You moonshine revellers and shades of night.

Author: William Shakespeare
Quote #365388

A lot of highly-educated people have been told what to think, therefore, they think they know it all

Author: Jewel E. Ann
Quote #110899

Only super-efforts count.

Author: G.I. Gurdjieff
Quote #268256

The most astonishing fact of life is that MAN has not only stopped responding to others, but also to

Author: Ramana Pemmaraju
Quote #305536

The only thing that keeps us from a place of joy is an illusion, the illusion of fear.

Author: Molly Friedenfeld
Quote #304761

Focus is the soul of success.

Author: Sandeep Kakkar
Quote #499520

I'm not a proper traveler. I don't like to be challenged or have too much of a change and prefer a w

Author: Karl Pilkington
Quote #298064

His client needs him, he says. Needs him? But isn’t he needed at home?

Author: Beth Kephart
Quote #337274

Rules, laws and codes become obsolete among the self-governed.

Author: T.F. Hodge
Quote #260827

We worked side by side building our sandwiches. Mine, just a few modest layers of meat and cheese, w

Author: Candace Vianna
Quote #63214

All his life, Klaus had believed that if you read enough books, you could solve any problem, but now

Author: Lemony Snicket
Quote #474542

Truth is mysterious, elusive, always to be conquered. Liberty is dangerous, as hard to live with as

Author: Albert Camus
Quote #421807

The more underdeveloped the country the more overdeveloped the women.

Author: J. K. Galbraith
Quote #303430

It was amazing the things you could bring yourself to do when you felt insecure, when you were out t

Author: Rachael Wade
Quote #12393

The only faithfulness people have is to emotions they're trying to recapture

Author: Norman Mailer
Quote #302626

Caregiving will never be one-size-fits-all.

Author: Nancy L. Kriseman
Quote #52367

Be careful whom you choose to love. This decision will impact your future life and happiness in ways

Author: Toni Coleman
Quote #34618

In fact living is dying.

Author: Guy de Maupassant
Quote #479700

Why not premiere movies on Netflix the same day they're opening in theaters? Listen to the consumer

Author: Ted Sarandos
Quote #377070

What is surprising, even deeply disturbing, is the way that many individuals who consider themselves

Author: Rosina Lippi-Green
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Ay me! for aught that I ever could read Could ever hear by tale or history The course of true love

Author: William Shakespeare
Quote #377514

Between roars the lion purrs.

Author: William Stafford
Quote #10860

She had lost herself in this old work, her personality dissolving into it, so that she had been set

Author: Iain Pears
Quote #186870

Footsteps of success,   are trailed by fading footprints,     of failures past..

Author: J. Benson
Quote #244827

The good and bad are indistinguishable in the dark.

Author: Alexandra Sirowy
Quote #264142

Money is a tool we use to reach certain ends. Nothing more, nothing less. It’s hard to come by, thou

Author: Michael Monroe
Quote #377257

Birth and Death are words we chose to describe the doorways in and out of a cycle. This cycle is con

Author: Franklin Gillette
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It is the cry of the separate self, ‘What about me?’ As long as we keep acting from that place, it d

Author: Charles Eisenstein
Quote #361607

No one can see very clearly inside the heavy fog, no one but the fog himself!

Author: Mehmet Murat ildan
Quote #33155

Darkness should never be an excuse to quit, for with God, darkness is the exact stuff that light was

Author: Craig D. Lounsbrough
Quote #14278

It always strikes me, and it is very peculiar, that, whenever we see the image of indescribable and

Author: Vincent van Gogh
Quote #418776

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving and that's your own self.

Author: Aldous Huxley
Quote #411345

Immortality is the glorious discovery of Christianity.

Author: William Ellery Channing
Quote #362449

I am old enough to enjoy a bit of nostalgia, but wise enough to know that there haven't been any "go

Author: Ron Brackin
Quote #290725

SOMETIMES TO BE HEALTHY, ALL YOU NEED IS TO BE CLEAN SYSTEM.

Author: DAVE SANTI
Quote #288781

Aamir discussed the emotional journey he embarks on with each film.

Author: Anupama Chopra
Quote #299795

There will never be another woman for me, Alexandra. You are my eternity. -Michael

Author: Lynn Viehl
Quote #406934

It appears there's a little too much chlorine in their gene pool.

Author: Anonymous
Quote #9954

He recognized with absolute certainty the empty fragility of even the noblest theorizings as compare

Author: Unknown
Quote #399041

Sometimes it's better to be with the devil u know than the angel u didn't know

Author: Al Pacino
Quote #482663

We must weed out corruption and build a strong system of justice that the people can trust.

Author: Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
Quote #375651

She was a goddamn unicorn of selfishness.

Author: Victoria Dahl
Quote #504202

And in that time, I lost my dad and had kids of my own. It was like, OK, I get it now. I know what f

Author: Paul Reiser
Quote #274258

It is not a god that makes us more human, it is we human that make Gods.

Author: M.F. Moonzajer
Quote #409423

The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.

Author: Samuel Johnson
Quote #70614

Tell me about those days, when you stood on a thin line between dreams and reality, watching it get

Author: Akshay Vasu
Quote #269945

I would say about 80% of my writing (including posts and blogs), has to do with unresolved anger and

Author: Lori Lesko
Quote #437125

I want someone who can keep me on my toes, has a good sense of humor and a good heart.

Author: Carmen Electra
Quote #181863

He was intrigued by the power of words, not the literary words that filled the books in the library

Author: Robert Cormier
Quote #367198

Home is where the heart is. That's what they always say. But where does home begin,If you have lost

Author: Peace Gypsy
Quote #12367

Kropp on the other hand is a thinker. He proposes that a declaration of war should be a kind of popu

Author: Erich Maria Remarque
Quote #7771

What is Man? Man is a noisome bacillus whom Our Heavenly Father created because he was disappointed

Author: Mark Twain
Quote #31725

Somewhere fate laughs in her far-off country, because now I am the human and it is Grace I will lose

Author: Maggie Stiefvater
Quote #304244

I am a writer. Imagining what someone would say or do comes to me as naturally as breathing.

Author: Joan Didion
Quote #268556

Social media has infected the world with a sickening virus called vanity.

Author: Kellie Elmore
Quote #151260

I don't write to escape reality, but to show others how to better embrace it. ~ KAL

Author: Keturah Lamb
Quote #180009

Its a sign of weakness to lament about things which you entirely have no control over.

Author: Auliq Ice
Quote #163148

And why is it all men thinkeverything a woman writes is trivial or trashy-or just plain sillydrivel?

Author: V.C. Andrews
Quote #267924

I wonder if there are soft-spoken voices who deliver assignments to all of us in various times ... I

Author: W.P. Kinsella
Quote #418166

Very few men are wise by their own counsel or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only t

Author: Ben Johnson
Quote #156232

Every year, we have 365 chances to begin a new lifetime.

Author: C. JoyBell C.
Quote #395444

Cultural legacies are powerful forces. They have deep roots and long lives. They persist, generation

Author: Malcolm Gladwell
Quote #244409

So...have you ever thought about dyeing your hair punk-rocker-chick black? As I'm sure you've heard,

Author: Gena Showalter
Quote #391693

Balance how much you give of youself, including volunteer activities.You won't do anyone any good yo

Author: Monika Kristofferson
Quote #149918

Having a passion for Christ and that's really what gives life a true meaning.

Author: Chris Chacko
Quote #391634

In each of us lie good and bad, light and dark, art and pain, choice and regret, cruelty and sacrifi

Author: Libba Bray
Quote #116384

Winning cannot become your habit unless defeats have torn you apartand you sit in the battle field s

Author: Chetan M. Kumbhar
Quote #6391

Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into th

Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Quote #402079

Most people are afraid of failing. I think there's nothing wrong in failing.

Author: Mark N. Cohen
Quote #414842

I just want to be an ordinary girl.

Author: Unknown
Quote #402626

When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half.

Author: Grade Allen