July 30, 2017

July 29, 2017

George Amos Dorsey: The drive...

The drive behind life has lost none of its power; proof that, impelled by that drive, man can build as well as destroy; that in his nature is more of Vishnu the Creator than of Siva the Destroyer.
/George Amos Dorsey/

July 28, 2017

James Connolly: It would...

It would be well to realize that the talk of ?humane methods of warfare?, of the ?rules of civilized warfare?, and all such homage to the finer sentiments of the race are hypocritical and unreal, and only intended for the consumption of stay-at-homes. There are no humane methods of warfare, there is no such thing as civilized warfare; all warfare is inhuman, all warfare is barbaric; the first blast of the bugles of war ever sounds for the time being the funeral knell of human progress? What lover of humanity can view with anything but horror the prospect of this ruthless destruction of human life. Yet this is war: war for which all the jingoes are howling, war to which all the hopes of the world are being sacrificed, war to which a mad ruling class would plunge a mad world.
/James Connolly/

Woody Allen: [...] I`ve...

[...] I`ve come to the conclusion that the artist can not justify life or come up with a cogent reason as to why life is meaningful, but the artist can provide you with a cold glass of water on a hot day.
/Woody Allen/

July 25, 2017

Debasish Mridha: Happiness in...

Happiness in your life is directly related to your ability to love, not your ability to earn.
/Debasish Mridha/

July 22, 2017

Pelham Grenville Wodehouse: He had...

He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom.
/Pelham Grenville Wodehouse/

July 20, 2017

Paul Bowles: ...we get...

...we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. Yet everything happens only a certain number of times, and a very small number, really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, some afternoon that's so deeply a part of your being that you can't even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four or five times more. perhaps not even that. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet it all seems limitless.
/Paul Bowles/

Mahatma Gandhi: My Life...

My Life is My Message
/Mahatma Gandhi/

July 17, 2017

Debasish Mridha: Life is...

Life is a dream so dream big!
/Debasish Mridha/

Wallace Stegner: The flimsy...

The flimsy little protestations that mark the front gate of every novel, the solemn statements that any resemblance to real persons living or dead is entirely coincidental, are fraudulent every time. A writer has no other material to make his people from than the people of his experience ... The only thing the writer can do is to recombine parts, suppress some characterisitics and emphasize others, put two or three people into one fictional character, and pray the real-life prototypes won`t sue.
/Wallace Stegner/

Louise J. Kaplan: Fathers represent...

Fathers represent another way of looking at life - the possibility of an alternative dialogue.
/Louise J. Kaplan/

Jarod Kintz: There is...

There is life, and there is death, and in between there is me. Please don`t wake me up.
/Jarod Kintz/

July 16, 2017

Paulo Coelho: Because of...

Because of that she had never had enough energy to be herself, a person who, like everyone else in the world, needed other people in order to be happy. But other people were so difficult. They reacted in unpredictable ways, they surrounded themselves with defensive walls, they behaved just as she did, pretending they didn`t care about anything. When someone more open to life appeared, they either rejected them outright or made them suffer, consigning them to being inferior, ingenuous.
/Paulo Coelho/

Gina Greenlee: When actors...

When actors encounter a mishap during a stage performance,they transform it for good purpose by employing a technique called,?use the difficulty.? How can you ?use the difficulty? in your life?
/Gina Greenlee/

July 14, 2017

Gerald Mills: Keep in...

Keep in mind that it is one life we are given to live. One life in which we can create beautiful memories and dream, magnificent dreams. So create without boundaries, give life to your dreams; don`t allow yourself to be dismayed by others or situations. Realize your own greatness, value yourself. Value the life given to you and hold fast to your own precious ideals and self worth.
/Gerald Mills/

July 13, 2017

Jaeda DeWalt: All the...

All the external adoration, respect and adulation in the word, can`t drown out the internal voices that tell us, we are not good enough and unworthy of; happiness, love and an abundant life. When we need others to tell us were amazing, worthy and lovable, in order to feel good about ourselves, it is never enough. It goes into the bottomless pit where our inherent self-worth should be. It may feel like we are reaching out to receive love, but in actuality, we are seeking external noise to help drown out our negative core beliefs.Love blossoms from the inside out. That is why it is so important to do the work necessary to heal our emotional wounds, to love ourselves and stand strong in who we are. Only then, are we truly free to give and receive love, unconditionally and in abundance.
/Jaeda DeWalt/

Walter Lippmann: If school...

If school success were a reliable index of human capacity, we should be able to go a step further and say that the intelligence test is a general measure of human capacity. But of course no such claim can be made for school success, for that would be to say that the purpose of the schools is to measure capacity. It is impossible to admit this. The child's success with school work cannot be a measure of a child's success in life. On the contrary, his success in life must be a significant measure of the school's success in developing the capacities of the child. If a child fails in school and then fails in life, the school cannot sit back and say: you see how accurately I predicted this. Unless we are to admit that education is essentially impotent, we have to throw back the child's failure at the school, and describe it as a failure not by the child but by the school.
/Walter Lippmann/

July 11, 2017

Sherwood Smith: Why is...

Why is it the songs all end with the good people winning, but in life they don`t?"They don`t make songs when the good lose," I muttered. "They make war chants against the bad. So there won`t be any songs for us.
/Sherwood Smith/

July 10, 2017

Mary O'Hara: Sooner or...

Sooner or later every writer evolves his own definition of a story.Mine is: A reflection of life plus beginning and end (life seems not to have either) and a meaning.
/Mary O'Hara/

July 08, 2017

William Styron: On Major...

On Major Depression, quoted by the great William Styron of Sophie`s Choice & Darkness Visible:From Darkness Visible, William Styron"It is a positive and active anguish, a sort of psychical neuralgia, wholly unknown to normal life.
/William Styron/

July 05, 2017

Mark Fiore: It`s one...

It`s one thing to have a divinely inspired love given to you to experience and share; it`s something else altogether to recognize it when it appears. Our job is to go on being humbled and grateful that we should get to experience such a thing in our lifetimes, and preserve its magic by doing the most responsible thing possible to keep it alive . . . Just keep saying yes.
/Mark Fiore/

Ashish Patel: When you...

When you do what someone else wants you to do, you are wasting your time. Don`t get tricked by other people`s thinking. The life is yours and so are goals. Believe in your own intuitions, speak your own voice, and follow what your heart says. The rest is secondary.
/Ashish Patel/

July 04, 2017

Jiddu Krishnamurti: To find...

To find out if there is actually such freedom one must be aware of one`s own conditioning, of the problems, of the monotonous shallowness, emptiness, insufficiency of one`s daily life, and above all one must be aware of fear. One must be aware of oneself neither introspectively nor analytically, but actually be aware of oneself as one is and see if it is at all possible to be entirely free of all those issues that seem to clog the mind.To explore, there must be freedom, not at the end, but right at the beginning. Unless one is free one cannot explore, investigate or examine. Two things are essential: freedom and the act of learning. One cannot learn about oneself unless one is free, free so that one can observe, not according to any pattern, formula or convept, but actually observe oneself as one is.
/Jiddu Krishnamurti/

Shea Darian: As we...

As we embrace the mystery of love, we see that it contains not an absence of error, but the presence of grace. It contains not the absence of anger or pain, but the presence of forgiveness and healing. Not the absence of disharmony or confusion, but the presence of peace and clarity.To make a home into a sanctuary, we must be willing to make room in our hearts for one another`s limitations, as well as our gifts. For it is here in this sacred space of the home and family, so brimming with life, so full of every emotion available to our hearts, that we learn what it means to love within all the nuances of an intimate relationship.
/Shea Darian/

July 03, 2017

Anne Lamott: We must...

We must not inflict life on children who will be resented; we must not inflict unwanted children on society.
/Anne Lamott/

Aman Jassal: A book...

A book is indeed dead until a reader brings it into life by reading it.
/Aman Jassal/

July 01, 2017

Aman Jassal: Everything you...

Everything you read, becomes a part of your life.
/Aman Jassal/

Thomas Paine: I believe...

I believe in one God, and no more; and I hope for happiness beyond this life. I believe in the equality of humans; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow creatures happy.
/Thomas Paine/