All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.

Author: Erma Bombeck

Author: Erma Bombeck

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Christian, learn from Christ how you ought to love Christ. Learn a love that is tender, wise, strong

Author: Saint Bernard
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The truth isn't always beauty but the hunger for it is.

Author: Nadine Gordimer
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Without making the best of yourself, your life expression remains incomplete.

Author: Isaac Maloba
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I dare to believe in the beauty of my dreams, and I use my imagination to see them fulfilled.

Author: Steven Cuoco
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The seeds of life inside my womb were present at my birth; a gift from mother's mother, on back to M

Author: Patricia Robin Woodruff
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Dreams are real

Author: Unknown
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Some may call me a vigilante. I think i've got problems to fix.

Author: Matt Hilton
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Whoever is free from prejudice should be ready to face misunderstanding.

Author: Lion Feuchtwanger
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But the thing is, a wife is a wife and you can't ditch her like a worn shirt after a life.

Author: Yiyun Li
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When theology recognizes one thing properly, it mis-recognizes something else all the more thoroughl

Author: Karl Barth
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There is something divine in mindless beauty, and Mersault was particularly responsive to it.

Author: Albert Camus
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Nothing conquers the chaos around me like the calm assurance that I am at peace with God.

Author: Ron Brackin
Quote #348706

Do battle against prejudice and discrimination wherever you find it.

Author: H. Jackson Brown Jr.
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God performs His promises.

Author: Unknown
Quote #91397

Not your appearance, but your humility and power of love define your beauty.

Author: Debasish Mridha
Quote #191583

Trust your instincts, love with your whole heart, forgive, and never take anything for granted.

Author: Terri Haynes Roach
Quote #344379

I know I really shouldn't be complaining right now,

Author: Nicholas Murray
Quote #311721

Here we are, the most clever species ever to have lived. So how is it we can destroy the only planet

Author: Jane Goodall
Quote #95032

Managers maintain an efficient status quo while leaders attack the status quo to create something ne

Author: Orrin Woodward
Quote #404933

Who never caused others to die Seldom rates a statue.

Author: Anonymous
Quote #44986

I'd rather teach you how to make BREAD than give you a SLICE from my BREAD.

Author: Genereux Philip
Quote #139106

Can anything be imagined so ridiculous, that this miserable and wretched creature [man], who is not

Author: Michel de Montaigne
Quote #42292

True originality consists not in a new manner, but in a new vision.

Author: Edith Wharton
Quote #404819

Insanity in individuals is rare - but in groups parties nations and epochs it is the rule.

Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
Quote #246611

A writer who can't follow submission guidelines is like a pilot without a plane... ain't gonna get v

Author: Jo Linsdell
Quote #442656

It's a crazy world, so sports and athletics and music can be a form of escapism.

Author: Eddie Vedder
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Age cannot wither her nor custom stale her infinite variety other women cloy the appetites they fe

Author: William Shakespeare
Quote #279220

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Author: Francis Bacon
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Philip obliged, opening his left hand, palm upwards, and forcing his energy into the creation of an

Author: D.M. Enslin
Quote #486042

Diplomacy, n. is the art of letting somebody else have your way.

Author: David Frost
Quote #260012

Keep in mind the roots of violence: Lust, envy, anger, avarice, and vengeance...the taproot...the ki

Author: Dean Koontz
Quote #350986

Are you determined to leave me in this world to live without my heart?’ Archer asked. ‘Because that’

Author: Kristin Cashore
Quote #382415

The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.

Author: Kin Hubbard
Quote #198868

Wallowing in the metaphorical mud of life helps pass time but doesn't really achieve much of any las

Author: Steven Redhead
Quote #210399

Divinity is accident of nature, magic is the work of an art.

Author: Amit Kalantri
Quote #487026

I deliberately did not read anything about the Vietnam War because I felt the politics of the war ec

Author: Maya Lin
Quote #141305

Who will guard us against the guardians?

Author: Susan Ee
Quote #304208

A good writer must be like the birds of a dark forest; you can’t see them, but you can hear their my

Author: Mehmet Murat ildan
Quote #196506

Sometimes God seems to be killing us when He is actually saving us.

Author: Jen Pollock Michel
Quote #15316

In the war of magic and religion, is magic ultimately the victor? Perhaps priest and magician were o

Author: Patti Smith
Quote #296880

She'd made those choices out of fear, and she wasn't afraid anymore. From now on, if something was i

Author: Victoria Helen Stone
Quote #28791

Happiness, love and compassion are the aroma of your soul.

Author: Banani Ray
Quote #14312

God's creatures who cried themselves to sleep stirred to cry again.

Author: Thomas Harris
Quote #13579

Unfortunately it's also true to say that good management is a bit like oxygen - it's invisible and y

Author: Charles Stross
Quote #206478

Never put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get.

Author: Ziad K. Abdelnour
Quote #195745

I listen to the rain talk to the leaves. She tells a story of love and leaving (isn’t that always th

Author: Emm Roy
Quote #393408

With love like that, you can't get pick about how it finds you or the details. All that matters is t

Author: Sarah Dessen
Quote #390665

Be ready for every moment, you don’t know which check is the checkmate.

Author: M.F. Moonzajer
Quote #302175

The noble-minded encourage what is beautiful in people and discourage what is ugly in them. Little p

Author: Confucius
Quote #224397

A lonely, quiet person has observations and experiences that are at once both more indistinct and mo

Author: Thomas Mann
Quote #123241

Donate your blood from your heart to save life. Life will donate you hearts full of love, blood and

Author: Munia Khan
Quote #10056

The truth is, going against the internal stream of ignorance is way more rebellious than trying to s

Author: Noah Levine
Quote #393723

Often change yourself, when you see that people envy you : they will start to change themselves too,

Author: Alen Sargsyan
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Mama took me in her arms and held me tight. Her embrace was hot and she smelled like sweat, dust, an

Author: Sarah Zettel
Quote #42891

When I was young I was depressed all the time. But suicide no longer seemed a possibility in my life

Author: Charles Bukowski
Quote #307258

I can be tolerant of traffic jams and disorganization, faulty technology, miserable weather, and bla

Author: Richelle E. Goodrich
Quote #260341

I knew in that instant that i needed to get to know her spirit, feel that fire, dive into that passi

Author: Kristen Hope Mazzola
Quote #39293

Tell me, enigmatical man, whom do you love best, your father,Your mother, your sister, or your broth

Author: Charles Baudelaire
Quote #297516

Poetry should be like 'Uh-huh. Baby has to have it.

Author: Chelsey Minnis
Quote #416015

We must dare to think unthinkable thoughts.

Author: James W. Fulbright
Quote #176807

One is either an artist or one is not. It is not something one becomes. It is something that one is

Author: Edward Swift
Quote #99010

Seeing what someone's reading is like seeing the first derivative of their thinking.

Author: Ben Casnocha
Quote #340633

The only ride I’m interested in is on you, cowboy, but I’m sure all the women say that.

Author: Lex Valentine
Quote #154256

Smile with joy.

Author: Debasish Mridha
Quote #456162

I think when we shot 'Tokyo Drift' I was a little too young to really understand what made Han who h

Author: Sung Kang
Quote #6939

Actually, you can be bad at something...but if you love doing it, that will be enough. - August Boat

Author: Sue Monk Kidd
Quote #92913

I wonder if anyone who needs a snappy song service can really appreciate the meaning of the cross.

Author: Reinhold Niebuhr
Quote #481479

What I learned from my years in Silicon Valley is that design can have a primary role in how a busin

Author: Yves Behar
Quote #200818

You should be aware of fake friends because it is the hardest to be aware of.

Author: Eraldo Banovac
Quote #200486

I refuse to settle for what you call reality.

Author: Solange nicole
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The door that closed kept us from entering a room, but what now lies before us is the rest of realit

Author: Parker J. Palmer
Quote #124649

Words,' he said, 'is oh such a twitch-tickling problem to me all my life.

Author: Road Dahl
Quote #466174

Oftentimes, it feels like we spend so much of our life waiting to make art, waiting for somebody to

Author: Daveed Diggs
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Creating something that builds lasting value and changes the lives of millions of people requires fo

Author: Jay Samit
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And when I think about it, I guess it is true that people always arrive at the right moment at the p

Author: Paulo Coelho
Quote #451259

I'm used to very strong women because my mother was particularly strong, and my father was away all

Author: Ridley Scott
Quote #272633

Hate is strewn like confetti by the fear-fueled, specious, tiny- dicked (or un-tender) vacuous dicta

Author: Elizabeth Lucye Robillard
Quote #397453

Blaming the ex for the breakup is like blaming the clothes for not fitting you.

Author: Khang Kijarro Nguyen
Quote #474985

Presumption should never make us neglect that which appears easy to us, nor despair make us lose cou

Author: Benjamin Banneker
Quote #460536

What is important is to treat everyone like an individual and learning not to generalize autism. Wit

Author: Nikki Reed
Quote #355516

I have tried to protect myself against men, to react against their madness to discern its source; I

Author: Emil M. Cioran
Quote #222252

Life is way too short to get lost, so follow the script the way it comes and keep changing the check

Author: Neetesh Dixit
Quote #335008

An abuser can seem emotionally needy. You can get caught in a trap of catering to him, trying to fil

Author: Lundy Bancroft
Quote #385040

THINK, and do not sacrifice yourself to mathematical magic.

Author: West and Harrison
Quote #482654

Citizens, the priority now is to recover trust between the Egyptian - amongst the Egyptians and to h

Author: Hosni Mubarak
Quote #206062

Let us runaway to the aspirations we dream of in our childish moments, where magic is real and we ar

Author: Anastasia Bolinder
Quote #260342

Rumors get started with a kernel of truth

Author: Kristen Hope Mazzola
Quote #345283

There's nothing childish about me, sweetheart.

Author: Elle Kennedy
Quote #9182

I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.

Author: Samuel Johnson
Quote #315216

As the twelfth-century Tibetian yogi Milarepa said when he heard of his student Gampopa's peak exper

Author: Pema Chödrön
Quote #9531

Maybe sometimes we don't do the right thing because the wrong thing looks more dangerous, and we don

Author: Philip Pullman
Quote #193764

Nothing erases the past. There is repentance, there is atonement, and there is forgiveness. That is

Author: Ted Chiang
Quote #455096

You start at a young age, going on auditions, and you think you did a good job and expect to get tha

Author: Michael B. Jordan
Quote #259763

The devil is not the prince of matter; the devil is the arrogance of spirit, faith without smile, tr

Author: Umberto Eco
Quote #203522

A true generous heart can never revolve majorly with monetary skills nor business acumen nor cunning

Author: Angelica Hopes
Quote #15143

The world as it is is the world as God sees it, not as we see it. Our vision is distorted, not so mu

Author: William Ralph Inge
Quote #295306

Stories set the inner life into motion, and this is particularly important where the inner life is f

Author: Clarissa Pinkola Estés
Quote #35717

No amount of blessings can benefit you if you don’t take the first step

Author: Israelmore Ayivor
Quote #356927

Whatever she is now she's better than she was," said Bedloe. "Being dead is better than being dull,

Author: Ray Bradbury