A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.

Author: Horace

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I thought how you can never tell just by looking at them what they were thinking or what was happeni

Author: David Almond
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Life is a bubble in the ocean of time. At the same time, it can hold all the water of the ocean in h

Author: Debasish Mridha
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Always remember, difficult situations are thrust upon those who have the power to influence events.

Author: T.A. Uner
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Our vision is so limited we can hardly imagine a love that does not show itself in protection from s

Author: Elisabeth Elliot
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Every man has a certain sphere of discretion which he has a right to expect shall not be infringed b

Author: William Godwin
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When I became poet laureate, I was in a slightly uncomfortable position because I think a lot of poe

Author: Billy Collins
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Whoever changes one life, changes the whole world.

Author: Michele Amitrani
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When many astronauts go to space, they see the insignificant size of the earth and vastness of space

Author: Cat Stevens
Quote #257698

The church has lost its ability to discipline members who live openly in sin. Consequently, we have

Author: Billy Graham
Quote #32700

In order to achieve positive results, one must work for them, not hope for them.

Author: Bobby Knight
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I know that I'm going to die and that you're going to die. I can't do anything about that. But I can

Author: Chuck Palahniuk
Quote #124829

You can’t have it both ways. Either I’m Irish and can talk, or I’m a man and I can’t.

Author: Kathy Bryson
Quote #115400

If you can learn to endure pain, you can survive anything. Some people learn to embrace it- to love

Author: Sarah J. Maas
Quote #119738

I'm tired again, I've tried again, and now my heart is full.And I just can't explain...so I won't ev

Author: Morrissey
Quote #329157

Take the universe and grind it down to the finest powder and sieve it through the finest sieve and t

Author: Terry Pratchett
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If we will make use of prayer to call down upon ourselves and others those things which will glorify

Author: O. Hallesby
Quote #60962

April Fools' is the only day to take people seriously.

Author: Criss Jami
Quote #423194

You’d better tell me what you know, toad,” said Tiffany. “Miss Tick isn’t here. I am.”“Another world

Author: Terry Pratchett
Quote #480598

There are those who say we must rescind the Golan Heights law that was passed in the Knesset. To res

Author: Menachem Begin
Quote #276997

Women are responsible for the people in the family having pants.

Author: Heidi Julavits
Quote #203946

At the end of life, your reward in heaven will not be proportional to the role you played on earth,

Author: Israelmore Ayivor
Quote #1242

And the story of love is a long sad tale ending in graves.

Author: Jack Kerouac
Quote #272739

If laws were real they wouldn’t need to be enforced, because if they were real they couldn’t be brok

Author: Boyd Rice
Quote #273251

As the sailor locates his position on the sea by "shooting" the sun, so we may get our moral bearing

Author: A.W. Tozer
Quote #53987

The only easy day was yesterday.

Author: US Navy SEALs
Quote #262315

Horror is like the humor, the one without the other can't exist. Horror makes life more interesting

Author: Deyth Banger
Quote #228077

There's such a lot of different Annes in me. I sometimes think that is why I am such a troublesome p

Author: L.M. Montgomery
Quote #46882

I want to disabuse people of the idea that knowledge is power. Knowing how to get to Detroit is not

Author: Andrew Vachss
Quote #186377

Enjoy the Journey!

Author: Anonymous
Quote #443567

I know how to learn anything I want to learn. I absolutely know that I could learn how to fly the sp

Author: Will Smith
Quote #65220

Forget your voice, sing!Forget your feet, dance!Forget your life, live!Forget yourself and be!

Author: Kamand Kojouri
Quote #488054

It doesn't hurt to feel sad from time to time.

Author: Willie Nelson
Quote #458934

The team architecture means setting up an organization that helps people produce that great work in

Author: Jay Chiat
Quote #355478

I may appear stand off-ish but I'm not. I just let go of my attachment to things.

Author: Turcois Ominek
Quote #29573

But Harry . . . even if we had met and married three years ago, you’d still say it wasn’t enough tim

Author: Lisa Kleypas
Quote #266318

Simplicity may be simple, but like complexity it requires linguistic precision, and may therefore ca

Author: John White
Quote #201909

He was that driven, that smart. But he could not sit still within himself.

Author: Wendy Walker
Quote #89149

We must throw out the old, fear-based thought-forms and evolve, and begin to live as higher beings o

Author: Bryant McGill
Quote #415528

Let me be dressed fine as I will Flies worms and flowers exceed me still.

Author: Isaac Watts
Quote #331154

To move into what God has in mind for you, it is necessary to discover your purpose, to know where y

Author: Pedro Okoro
Quote #275660

In a world in which everyone cheats, it's the honest man who passes for a charlatan.

Author: André Gide
Quote #268294

It is so easy to forget the importance of emotional self-care. Especially when we have obvious sympt

Author: Vironika Tugaleva
Quote #369656

Why's it so sunny?" she repeated.Zooey observed her rather narrowly. "I bring the sun wherever I go,

Author: J.D. Salinger
Quote #34982

Only in death will we have our own names since only in death are we no longer part of the effort. In

Author: Chuck Palahniuk
Quote #259174

I have chosen a life that depends on one’s awareness that every breath may be his last, every step m

Author: Nicole Sager
Quote #283779

I knew what he felt. The huge buoyant air sack of love that filled his body had just exploded and th

Author: Katherine Dunn
Quote #454839

The irony is that the more we fight age, the more it shows. Paint on a 50-year-old face brings to mi

Author: Karen DeCrow
Quote #411442

Instinct is untaught ability.

Author: Alexander Bain
Quote #122439

Into the sea I’d love to sink When with both eyes a shark can blinkIs he a brave fish or a marine ma

Author: Munia Khan
Quote #169199

Death comes for us all, Brother. You cannot hide from it forever. We will die one day, you and I." "

Author: V.E. Schwab
Quote #124470

If this was what it meant to be human, for now she saw more clearly than she ever had done, she didn

Author: Ross Turner
Quote #478285

It would be good for us Africans to accept ourselves as we are and recapture some of the positive as

Author: Wangari Maathai
Quote #32138

In every circumstance, keep calm.

Author: Unknown
Quote #489832

I came from a middle-class family. My dad was a professor; my mom was a nurse. I didn't come from mo

Author: Megyn Kelly
Quote #70899

Work begins when the fear of doing nothing at all finally trumps the terror of doing it badly.

Author: Alain de Botton
Quote #170417

Witchcraft involves being willing to understand and embrace your true self. It is about exploring yo

Author: Dacha Avelin
Quote #463026

We are time's subjects, and time bids be gone.

Author: William Shakespeare
Quote #446256

Together with a culture of work, there must be a culture of leisure as gratification. To put it anot

Author: Pope Francis
Quote #410814

Would that ... a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till pub

Author: Margaret Fuller
Quote #320344

So pervasively has Enlightenment culture’s anti-supernaturalism affected the Western church, especia

Author: Craig S. Keener
Quote #426500

It seems to me that many of the belligerent Jewish movements that were built upon hatred of Arabs -

Author: Reuven Rivlin
Quote #307004

Set a goal when you’re ready for it, make a plan, and stick with it.

Author: Auliq Ice
Quote #288317

It is fundamental to both Taoist and Confucian thought that the natural man is to be trusted, and fr

Author: Alan W. Watts
Quote #166264

A life that is burdened with expectations is a heavy life. Its fruit is sorrow and disappointment.

Author: Douglas Adams
Quote #297149

You areBut why?

Author: Kunal Narayan Uniyal
Quote #262160

Even in death, may you be triumphant

Author: Darren Shan
Quote #322146

Maybe it’s time to just scrap the word “racist.” Find something new. Like Racial Disorder Syndrome.

Author: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Quote #321895

And you know who's especially stupid? People who look at how unexceptional and bland and boring they

Author: T.J. Kirk
Quote #242512

I haven't finished revisiting Sleeping Beauty. As a faerie tale, that one is rife with inherent diff

Author: Anna Sheehan
Quote #473633

If I could time travel into the future, my first port of call would be the point where medical techn

Author: Neal Asher
Quote #270081

Now there's something I understand a little better. Hate, sadness, even joy. to be able to share it

Author: Masashi Kishimoto
Quote #140294

Find me, my thief.

Author: Jessica Khoury
Quote #365528

We laughed a lot and I grew warmer still, lovely and warm. I do realize that some of that warmth was

Author: Franny Billingsley
Quote #93055

You can endure all things by grace.

Author: Unknown
Quote #272096

You hide it well, but I can see it, Lord Verniers. You hate us. We have beaten you to obedience but

Author: Anthony Ryan
Quote #324575

I still loved Marc desperately and couldn’t imagine life without him. Jace was…something else. Somet

Author: Rachel Vincent
Quote #387880

So the criminals win, that's what you're saying? For now they do. But it's a long game, Jamison. And

Author: David Baldacci
Quote #125303

Writing is like running away. Running away to a place you made with your own hand.

Author: YKRaikou
Quote #117888

In the break-up of a marriage the world inclines to take the side of the partner with most vitality,

Author: Anthony Powell
Quote #106853

Humanity suffers because most of us are living in our prison of fixed, false beliefs and we don't wa

Author: Debasish Mridha
Quote #295728

There are subtle truths buried in every make-believe. You never know where you might find one.

Author: Shari Arnold
Quote #299276

And when my days run out, I will have lived just a blink of time and the rest will be eternal joy.

Author: Abby Danielle Burlbaugh
Quote #422810

The precision required for life to exist cannot be fathomed as we know it

Author: Sunday Adelaja
Quote #30574

His smiling face revealed a love too strong to be kept inside, but the feelings obviously rising ins

Author: Haruo Shirane
Quote #177510

Never underestimate the power of thought. It takes days and nights of pre-meditating ideas, thoughts

Author: Archibald Marwizi
Quote #397630

What matter is the information, not what you think about it.

Author: Anna Politkovskaya
Quote #371324

For they were unseasoned, nor inured, not knowing this to be much less than the beginning of sorrow.

Author: David Jones
Quote #136261

The most profound personal growth does not happen while reading a book or meditating. It happens in

Author: Vironika Tugaleva
Quote #163586

I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call m

Author: Rebecca West
Quote #192690

I laugh, because he knew what I was thinking, and very few people ever know what I'm thinking.

Author: Lois Lowry
Quote #473829

Any man who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined.

Author: Samuel Goldwyn
Quote #96926

Find your authentic voice, become vulnerable, and then put yourself out there.

Author: Meredith Brooks
Quote #352429

When the silence comes and the echoes of former life fades, what will have mattered will be, one mad

Author: Tom Althouse
Quote #491438

Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell o

Author: Ayn Rand
Quote #302376

You are not a burden, an accident, or a mistake. You are meant for amazing things that you can't eve

Author: Lacey Sturm
Quote #93340

I peered deeper and found my soul. A little tattered and with some holes, but there all the same. It

Author: Maria V. Snyder
Quote #11659

Success and failure are relative categories. Therefore, do not exult in victory and do not despair a

Author: Eraldo Banovac
Quote #369940

Pain is like a map, I guess. But I found my shortcut on my "map of the heart." Shortcuts always take

Author: Suzanne Palmieri
Quote #500457

I'm a huge Wonder Woman fan - I have about 12 coffee mugs at home!

Author: Kari Wahlgren