You get what you set out to do.
Even the brightest magnesium flare can do little against such dark except blind the eyes of the one holding it. Thus one craves what by seeing one has in fact not seen.
Mark Z. Danielewski
I love comedy, so you want to make them happy, make them laugh.
Delta Burke
He will always see the most beauty whose affections are the warmest and most exercised, whose imagination is the most powerful, and who has most accustomed himself to attend to the objects by which he is surrounded.
Francis Jeffrey
Wherever you go you will find people lying to you, and as your awareness grows, you will notice that you also lie to yourself. Do not expect people to tell you the truth because they also lie to themselves. You have to trust yourself and choose to believe or not to believe what someone says to you.
Don Miguel Ruiz
Work without love is slavery.
Mother Teresa
The master of the garden is the one who waters it, trims the branches, plants the seeds, and pulls the weeds. If you merely stroll through the garden, you are but an acolyte.
Vera Nazarian
We live out our lives as we are meant to live them-with some choice, with some chance, but mostly as a result of the persons we are.
Terry Brooks
I love my old paintings as postulates as fresh starting points but I have to destroy them. I have to make a new manifesto.
Georg Baselitz
His eyes twinkled mischievously as he gazed at me with that look that always made me melt: as if I were edible and he could barely restrain himself from taking a bite.
Amy Plum
The smallest number, with God and truth on their side, are weightier than thousands
Charles Simmons
When you enter the House of God, you leave your ego at the door and embrace purity as if your life depended on it.
Sufian Chaudhary
...if we gained only one incontestable truth every ten years from each of our philosophical writers the harvest we reaped would be sufficient.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Truth is the strong compost in which beauty may sometimes germinate
Christopher Morley
Someone said that life is a party. You join in after it's started and leave before it's finished.
Elsa Maxwell
The number of those who have nothing to recommend them and of those in whom nothing but good can be found is probably equal
Lady Murasaki Shikibu
But in our opinion truths of this kind should be drawn from notions rather than from notations.
Carl Friedrich Gauss
...I threw out all those Latin words - the ones that end in 'ion' - the ones that never quite describe you...
John Geddes
Whoever loves much, performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.
Vincent Van Gogh
My wife Danielle and I love travelling, different cultures and good weather.
Gary Lineker
But I believe that God is overhead And as life is to the living, so death is to the dead.
Mary Mapes Dodge
...being with you was so easy and natural - there was no strain - I never had to guard my words...
You can lose people without them dying, and I have, from moving, from traveling. The emotion is real, it just doesn't actually have to do with death. I'm singing about what I know, and it's a song about longing for somebody who's disappeared in your life.
Jon Crosby
I love bummer songs.
Ben Gibbard
Holding a grudge is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die
Gautama Buddha
It is when those who are not strong enough have made some moderate amount of progress that they fail and give up...
Confucius
My friends are always conscious of what people think of them. As though life is something that has an audience.
Caroline Green
What I love doing is taking my dog for runs.
Seann William Scott
How terribly hard and almost impossible it is to tell the truth. More than anything else, the artist in us prevents us from telling aught as it really happened. We deal with the truth as the cook deals with meat and vegetables.
Eric Hoffer
Your product choices and styling techniques will determine whether you love or hate your hair.
Nicole Harmon
Sticks and stones may break your bones but words can break hearts.
Tim Minchin
The Yorubas have a saying, here, my translation in English--a poor fool is a bigger fool rich. In other words, money only allows and enables you to be more of who you are. My bigger translation? You don't jump essence, you jump environs!
Dew Platt
The truth of practical intellect is understood not as conformity to an extramental being but as conformity to a right desire; the end is no longer to know what is, but to bring into existence that which is not yet.
Jacques Maritain
But the truth is that critics are by definition critical. That's their job.
Frank Black
Is this the truth we knew, and then forgot?Maybe the lies are all that we've gotBut aren't they beautiful?
Sarah Slean
Human milk is like ice cream, penicillin, and the drug ecstasy all wrapped up in two pretty packages.
Florence Williams
This dead of midnight is the noon of thought, And Wisdom mounts her zenith with the stars.
Anna Letitia Barbauld
Some that will hold a creed unto martyrdom will not hold the truth against a sneering laugh
Austin O'Malley
The wise man will follow a star, low and large and fierce in the heavens, but the nearer he comes to it the smaller and smaller it will grow,till he finds it the humble lantern over some little inn or stable. Not till we know the high things shall we know how lovely they are.
G.K. Chesterton
Most prayers are not really questions...and if we listen very closely, a prayer is often its own answer. ...We pray because we are here - not to change the world, but to change ourselves. Because it is when we change ourselves...that the world is changed.
Douglas Wood
The problem, of course, was that [he] saw the world in black and white. And he got to decide what was black and what was white. You can't love a person who lives that way without fearing him too. Maybe even hating him a little.
Khaled Hosseini
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