The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any. - Alice Walker
’Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you. - Georg Hermes
"There is a madness in loving you, a lack of reason that makes it feel so flawless." — Leo Christopher
Much learning does not teach understanding. - Heraclitus
“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
― Maya Angelou
For the sin they do by two and two they must pay for one by one. - Rudyard Kipling
"Some battles are won with swords and spears, others with quills and ravens."
George R. R. Martin
There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method. - Herman Melville
“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”
Carl Sagan
“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. - Henry David Thoreau
“I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche
The problem isn't the problem. The problem is your attitude about the problem. Do you understand?
Johnny Depp
"I’d rather be a hopeless romantic than a skeptic, because while the hopeless romantic may get burned many times, the skeptic will never really experience love."
Kealohilani, Half-Hearts (Half-Hearts, #1)
Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters. - Alexander the Great
“In this story
I am the poet
You're the poetry.”
― Arzum Uzun
Finance, like time, devours its own children. - Honoré de Balzac
"Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek." Barack Obama
The best blood will at some time get into a fool or a mosquito. - Benito Mussolini
“I'm not crying because of you; you're NOT worth it. I'm crying because my delusion of who you were was shattered by the truth of who you are.”
― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
How far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without? - Dwight D. Eisenhower
"It always seems impossible until it’s done." Nelson Mandela
The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse. - Edmund Burke
The League is very well when sparrows shout, but no good at all when eagles fall out. - Benito Mussolini
We lost because we told ourselves we lost. - Leo Tolstoy
It's good to trust others but, not to do so is much better. - Benito Mussolini
It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man. - H. L. Mencken
“Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.”
― Alexander Pope
When you see something that is not right, not fair, not just, you have to speak up. You have to say something; you have to do something. - John Lewis
“Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.” —Desmund Tutu.
Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath. - Lyndon B. Johnson
The phoenix hope, can wing her way through the desert skies, and still defying fortune's spite; revive from ashes and rise.
God gives every bird his worm, but He does not throw it into the nest. - P. D. James
“I don’t forgive people because I’m weak, I forgive them because I am strong enough to know people make mistakes.”
Marilyn Monroe
The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself. - Henry Ward Beecher
“Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.” — Helen Keller