Menu

 Authors
A B C D E F
G H I J K L
M N O P Q R
S T U V W S
Y Z
Get Socialize
My Account
Make Free Wallpaper

" Quotes and Sayings About on

If you don't say what you think then you kill your unborn self.

Feel Kill Self Think
  Favorite Make wallpaper

You can only find out what you actually believe (rather than what you think you believe) by watching how you act. You simply don’t know what you believe, before that. You are too complex to understand yourself.

Understand Complex Believe Think
  Favorite Make wallpaper

If you fulfill your obligations everyday you don't need to worry about the future.

Future Fulfill Worry Obligation
  Favorite Make wallpaper

It took untold generations to get you where you are. A little gratitude might be in order. If you're going to insist on bending the world to your way, you better have your reasons.

Little Order Insist World
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Intolerance of others’ views (no matter how ignorant or incoherent they may be) is not simply wrong; in a world where there is no right or wrong, it is worse: it is a sign you are embarrassingly unsophisticated or, possibly, dangerous.

View Matter Wrong Right
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Don’t underestimate the power of vision and direction. These are irresistible forces, able to transform what might appear to be unconquerable obstacles into traversable pathways and expanding opportunities. Strengthen the individual. Start with yourself. Take care with yourself. Define who you are. Refine your personality. Choose your destination and articulate your Being. As the great nineteenth-century German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche so brilliantly noted, “He whose life has a why can bear almost any how.

Power Vision Direction Force
  Favorite Make wallpaper

You cannot be protected from the things that frighten you and hurt you, but if you identify with the part of your being that is responsible for transformation, then you are always the equal, or more than the equal of the things that frighten you.

Protect Frighten Hurt Identify
  Favorite Make wallpaper

You must determine where you are going in your life, because you cannot get there unless you move in that direction. Random wandering will not move you forward. It will instead disappoint and frustrate you and make you anxious and unhappy and hard to get along with and then resentful, and then vengeful, and then worse.

Determine Life Move Instead
  Favorite Make wallpaper

If you have a comprehensive explanation for everything then it decreases uncertainty and anxiety and reduces your cognitive load. And if you can use that simplifying algorithm to put yourself on the side of moral virtue then you’re constantly a good person with a minimum of effort.

Effort Person Moral Virtue
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Perhaps you are overvaluing what you don’t have and undervaluing what you do.

Have Perhaps You What
  Favorite Make wallpaper

You don't get to choose not to pay a price, you only get to choose which price you pay.

Price Pay Choose Get
  Favorite Make wallpaper
You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.
Control Event Decide Reduce
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I’ve learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision.

Decide Right Open Heart
  Favorite Make wallpaper

You can only become truly accomplished at something you love.

Love Become Something Truly
  Favorite Make wallpaper

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.

Change Attitude Like Your
  Favorite Make wallpaper

If I am not good to myself, how can I expect anyone else to be good to me?

Good Anyone Else Myself
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Without courage we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

Courage Practice Virtue Kind
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I’ve learned that even when I have pains, I don’t have to be one.

Pain Learn When Have
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.

Enough Trust Love Courage
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Seek patience and passion in equal amounts. Patience alone will not build the temple. Passion alone will destroy its walls.

Passion Destroy Temple Build
  Favorite Make wallpaper
Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option.
Option Someone Priority Make
  Favorite Make wallpaper

A wise woman wishes to be no one’s enemy; a wise woman refuses to be anyone’s victim.

Wise Victim Wish Anyone
  Favorite Make wallpaper

If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.

Lucky Solitary Fantasy Transform
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Hate, it has caused a lot of problems in the world, but has not solved one yet.

World Cause Solve Problem
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I’ve learned that you shouldn’t go through life with a catcher’s mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

Life Learn Through Throw
  Favorite Make wallpaper

When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.

Someone Show Time First
  Favorite Make wallpaper

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

Agony Story Inside Greater
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I respect myself and insist upon it from everybody. And because I do it, I then respect everybody, too.

Respect Insist Myself Everybody
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I do my best because I’m counting on you counting on me.

Best Count Counting Because
  Favorite Make wallpaper
You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody.
Alone Enough Prove Anybody
  Favorite Make wallpaper

The children to whom we read simple stories may or may not show gratitude, but each boon we give strengthens the pillars of the world.

Children Read Simple Gratitude
  Favorite Make wallpaper

When you know you are of worth, you don’t have to raise your voice, you don’t have to become rude, you don’t have to become vulgar; you just are. And you are like the sky is, as the air is, the same way water is wet. It doesn’t have to protest.

Worth Raise Voice Rude
  Favorite Make wallpaper

You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead, pursue the things you love doing, and then do them so well that people can’t take their eyes off you.

Goal Love Pursue Instead
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I was told many years ago by my grandmother who raised me: If somebody puts you on a road and you don’t feel comfortable on it and you look ahead and you don’t like the destination and you look behind and you don’t want to return to that place, step off the road.

Road Comfortable Ahead Destination
  Favorite Make wallpaper

My work is to be honest. My work is to try to think clearly, then have the courage to make sure that what I say is the truth.

Work Honest Think Courage
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I not only have the right to stand up for myself, but I have the responsibility. I can’t ask somebody else to stand up for me if I won’t stand up for myself. And once you stand up for yourself, you’d be surprised that people say, “Can I be of help?”.

Stand Responsibility Somebody Surprise
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Each of us has that right, that possibility, to invent ourselves daily. If a person does not invent herself, she will be invented. So, to be bodacious enough to invent ourselves is wise.

Right Possibility Invent Daily
  Favorite Make wallpaper
If one has courage, nothing can dim the light which shines from within.
Courage Dim Light Shine
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I believe that the most important single thing, beyond discipline and creativity is daring to dare.

Believe Important Single Dare
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I’ve learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.

Seem Today Better Tomorrow
  Favorite Make wallpaper

You should be angry. You must not be bitter. Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. It doesn’t do anything to the object of its displeasure. So use that anger. You write it. You paint it. You dance it. You march it. You vote it. You do everything about it. You talk it. Never stop talking it.

Angry Bitter Cancer Host
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Someone was hurt before you, wronged before you, hungry before you, frightened before you, beaten before you, humiliated before you, raped before you… yet, someone survived… You can do anything you choose to do.

Hurt Hungry Beaten Rape
  Favorite Make wallpaper

When I forgive other people, I let them go, I free them from my ignorance. And as soon as I do, I feel lighter, brighter and better.

Forgive Free Better Brighter
  Favorite Make wallpaper

We need to not be in denial about what we’ve done, what we’ve come through. It will help us if we all do that.

Help Done Through Denial
  Favorite Make wallpaper

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.

Love Great Hope Laugh
  Favorite Make wallpaper
The best candy shop a child can be left alone in, is the library.
Child Candy Library Best
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Nature has no mercy at all. Nature says, ‘I’m going to snow. If you have on a bikini and no snowshoes, that’s tough. I am going to snow anyway.

Nature Mercy Snow Bikini
  Favorite Make wallpaper
I had casually rented an apartment that cost $75 a month because I expected my writing to pay my way.
Apartment Because Casually Cost
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I do not trust people who don’t love themselves and yet tell me, ‘I love you.’ There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.

Trust Love African Careful
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I never have written every day. When I’m writing a book, I write Monday through Friday. I always try to take Saturday and pretend to have some sanity.

Sanity Pretend Book Writing
  Favorite Make wallpaper