Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue, where patience, honor, sweet humility, and calm fortitude, take root and strongly flourish.

Author: David Mallet

Author: David Mallet

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A romp in the hay lingers like the first line of a song but your true love is the one you make a li

Author: Garrison Keillor
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Never stop believing, have your own happy end.

Author: Anush Yepremyan
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The guy snarled out a string of profanity describing his night with Conn's mother."Sounds about righ

Author: Anne Calhoun
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I cannot be broken. I cannot be killed. I cannot fail. This is my identity. This is my core. I am in

Author: Vironika Tugaleva
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You can make of fool of others but not you. ... You can forgive others for their mistakes, but not y

Author: Girdhar Joshi
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If I get in the water in this outfit, the cloth will turn completely transparent.""I know, and I'm l

Author: C.L. Wilson
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The moment I realize I just stayed up until five in the morning writing is that moment I know I am m

Author: Anastasia Bolinder
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She swallowed his blood, a dark vintage from some forgotten cellar. She felt like Persephone in Hade

Author: Holly Black
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My mother gave me my drive but my father gave me my dreams.

Author: Liza Minnelli
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It’s one thing to set a goal. It’s another, however, when you get so caught up in the details that y

Author: Susan C. Young
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Commitment is the only currency that keeps a family together.

Author: Ben Tolosa
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Dreaming is the poetry of Life, and we must be forgiven if we indulge in it a little.

Author: John Galsworthy
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If you have a hobby, you be happy.

Author: Unknown
Quote #97227

Truly, art is embedded in nature; he who can extract it, has it.

Author: Albrecht Dürer
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Love is responsible for nearly every kind of insanity in the world though greed, vanity, and pure me

Author: P.N. Elrod
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A character is defined by the kinds of challenges he cannot walk away from.

Author: Arthur Miller
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Don’t make your journey toward success a competition—make it a love affair.

Author: Debasish Mridha
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I'm inspired by the people I meet in my travels--hearing their stories, seeing the hardships they ov

Author: Barack Obama
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I’ve always thought the best songs come though us not from us…. They gave me life, they gave me an i

Author: Carole Bayer Sager
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That's how I want to go. Taking my own way out and totally pissing everybody off at the end.

Author: L.J. Smith
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When you don't fit in, be sure to stand out.

Author: Johnnie Dent Jr.
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What is missing from today's dialogue is the effect autism is having on families, our society and wh

Author: Jenny McCarthy
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If that's the example you want set, you be the example.

Author: S.A. Tawks
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What is life, when wanting love? Night without a morning; love's the cloudless summer sun, nature ga

Author: Robert Burton
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Intrusive government and layer upon layer of regulatory red tape. When

Author: Matt Taibbi
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Since ideology, particularly in it's shallower versions, is peculiarly destructive of the capacity t

Author: Harold Bloom
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There are three kinds of big endings: Revenge. Tragedy. Forgiveness. Revenge and Tragedy often happe

Author: Jeanette Winterson
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Sometimes the difference between success and failure is simply the degree to which you crave one ove

Author: Richelle E. Goodrich
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You stand the risk of bankruptcy, because you refused to take risks. So life demands risks.

Author: Sunday Adelaja
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Cade shifted against the sheets, trying to ease his painful erection. He was going against every pro

Author: Katie Reus
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All children wear the sign: 'I want to be important NOW.' Many of our juvenile delinquency problems

Author: Dan Pursuit
Quote #497058

In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time.

Author: Anthony J. D'Angelo
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There is no such thing as magic, supernatural, miracle; only something that's still beyond logic of

Author: Toba Beta
Quote #113803

The greatest thing we can do is love another.

Author: Unknown
Quote #405159

You can only predict things after they've happened.

Author: Eugene Ionesco
Quote #66429

Fear was stronger than the calculation of probabilities.

Author: George Eliot
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I’m subject to occasional theological nightmares. The one that leaves me in a cold sweat every time

Author: Mark Vonnegut
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A self needed to spill out sometimes, a body should show evidence of what the hell went on inside it

Author: Ben Marcus
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To receive the compliments of being a good writer really annoys me, as this has been my perception t

Author: Ramana Pemmaraju
Quote #211860

We nurture our own being by respecting all people and consciously working to mitigate the pain of th

Author: Kilroy J. Oldster
Quote #58087

Greatness is not greater than you. You have total control over greatness. You can decide to be great

Author: Sunday Adelaja
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The most insignificant people are the most apt to sneer at others. They are safe from reprisals. And

Author: William Hazlitt
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It is an uneasy lot at best, to be what we call highly taught and yet not to enjoy: to be present at

Author: George Eliot
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Podo and Leeli finally came back to where the others rested, and though her face still bore the weig

Author: Andrew Peterson
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After our honeymoon I felt like a new man. She said she did too.

Author: Anonymous
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If you find that you are short of funds in the field, remember that any paper can be mind augmented

Author: Matt Kindt
Quote #8442

If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smar

Author: Scott Adams
Quote #296055

Leaps of faith tend to favour those with long legs.

Author: Fennel Hudson
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All this happened in much less time than it takes to tell, since I am trying to interpret for you in

Author: Joseph Conrad
Quote #383473

Some of us are so terribly broken.

Author: Vannary Rang
Quote #268746

People want to feel good, be entertained, eat salty shit, and cum twice a week, and provided they do

Author: Rick Remender
Quote #37101

Coming up with a useful, meaningful quote is getting more and more challenging each day....and you c

Author: Bobby Darnell
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We can reach untainted experiential freedom, by living in the moment as it is—without contemplation.

Author: Jacqueline Simon Gunn
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Kitten, you still haven’t told her? Blimey, whatare you waiting for?”“The Second Coming of Christ!”

Author: Jeaniene Frost
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Loneliness is like sitting in an empty room and being aware of the space around you. It is a conditi

Author: Kent Nerburn
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Odo said it all her life. 'Only peace brings peace, only just acts bring justice!

Author: Ursula K. Le Guin
Quote #92249

Let yourself go. Let others in. This is the essence of being made in God's image.

Author: Mike Donehey
Quote #32270

How can we believe in Christ Jesus, without reading the Holy Bible?

Author: Unknown
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Feminists often pretend to be angry and offended in order to win debates or, I should say, prevent d

Author: Mike Adams
Quote #47019

Anger has its place, but it will not serve you here, the way of the warrior is the way of knowing. O

Author: Christopher Paolini
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If you happen to be one of the people who has a split zygomaticus major muscle, where the lower part

Author: Alice Roberts
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We wish to become one thing or another, rather we wish to become everything and in this pursuit of b

Author: Wasif Ali Wasif
Quote #106228

We proclaim human intelligence to be morally valuable per se because we are human. If we were birds,

Author: Gary L. Francione
Quote #133339

The word of God is enough wealth.

Author: Unknown
Quote #55583

I was a new person then, I knew things I had not known before, I knew things that you can know only

Author: Jamaica Kincaid
Quote #96388

Your need to feel significant will never be met, until you can conquer your fear and manage your foc

Author: Shannon L. Alder
Quote #298750

There is no greater treasure in this world than somebody who loves you as you are.

Author: Eric Micha'el Leventhal
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Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones not

Author: Susan B. Anthony
Quote #113363

Always take the scenic route.

Author: Janice Anderson
Quote #91930

I am an average good Christian, when you don't push my Christianity too far. And all the rest of you

Author: Wilkie Collins
Quote #54996

Life has no joy in it without accomplishment of purpose

Author: ETC Wanyanwu
Quote #65439

All atheists will go to heaven. If god exists, not believing in him does not take him away and he ca

Author: Bangambiki Habyarimana
Quote #188069

Many of the world’s greatest geniuses all had in common that they were pulled from the school enviro

Author: Kytka Hilmar-Jezek
Quote #226068

Our talents are living things, we give birth to them, nourish them till they grow and become immorta

Author: Michael Bassey Johnson
Quote #371927

If something is built to show, it's build to grow.

Author: Jonah Berger
Quote #366073

The most perfect magic for a child is the touch of a loving hand!

Author: Mehmet Murat ildan
Quote #290672

If you don't smell good, then you don't look good.

Author: Katy Elizabeth
Quote #206925

Her roommate was at the table with a grin that was all trouble. “So you’re not going to tell me abou

Author: Lisa Kessler
Quote #227206

Love is you. Love is calling you. Life is awaiting you. Go forth and live fully. Be whomever you are

Author: Sereda Aleta Dailey
Quote #32312

The bird of hope singsPerched on the branches of twilight;Never grieve for anythingFor, the day alwa

Author: Neelam Saxena Chandra
Quote #88849

If we can't alter the tide of events, at least we can be nearby with towels to mop up.

Author: Peter David
Quote #42524

My whole theory of writing I can sum up in one sentence. An author ought to write for the youth of h

Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
Quote #281446

I want her sinful arms wrapped around me,bloodied and angry and triumphant in shame.

Author: Miriam Joy
Quote #66258

From this arises the question whether it is better to be loved rather than feared, or feared rather

Author: Niccolò Machiavelli
Quote #6503

Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.

Author: Marilyn Vos Savant
Quote #212046

Little girls have large maternal instincts, and they take the Feast of Hungry Ghosts very seriously,

Author: Barry Hughart
Quote #350012

It's amazing, the increase in grammatical errors in proportion to the level of hatred in the content

Author: Christina Engela
Quote #378401

According to Okonkwo, the British via its indirect rule system ensured that Africans saw their nativ

Author: S.A. David
Quote #191584

Love has something to do with recognition, We can be fascinated by the unknown, we can be attracted

Author: Peter Høeg
Quote #316494

I have survived, but I have not been spared.

Author: Catherynne M. Valente
Quote #241288

Don't let the belief that nobody will love you, keep you in a relationship where you aren't getting

Author: Stephan Labossiere
Quote #283969

There is a blessing in losing the one we love. It's the blessing of self-transformation. You don't h

Author: Emma Forrest
Quote #426135

Mental attitude and concentration are the keys to pitching.

Author: Ferguson Jenkins
Quote #279170

Silence stands between the trees, waiting for the wind's roar.

Author: Marty Rubin
Quote #205545

The discoveries of my life that were of greatest significance (1) When I discovered love, (2) When I

Author: Tonny K. Brown
Quote #184664

Lord, make me a blessing to someone today.

Author: Jan Karon
Quote #352751

When he saw the vista of the street reflected in the mirror in which he was looking, he was terror s

Author: Kōbō Abe
Quote #213614

Good manners is just being respectful of others. Whether you know them or not, you should show respe

Author: John Patrick Hickey
Quote #84657

The longest piece of literature I've read lately was a tattoo on this biker I picked up last night.

Author: Eric Arvin