If we are not free, no one will respect us. - A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.”
– Robert Frost
“I don't hate you.. I just don't like that you exist”
― Gena Showalter, Seduce the Darkness
“Money and success don’t change people; they merely amplify what is already there.” — Will Smith
“I make it easier for people to leave by making them hate me a little.”
― Cecelia Ahern, The Book of Tomorrow
"You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist"
Indira Gandhi
"I am a realist. I don't believe in fate and destiny is definitely not my thing. You want something? You go right ahead and get it."
Melanie Sargsian, Lovember: A Collection of Short Love Stories
I have learned that to be with those I like is enough. - Walt Whitman
“Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.”
– Dr. Seuss
“My first time I jacked off, I thought I'd invented it. I looked down at my sloppy handful of junk and thought, This is going to make me rich.”
― Chuck Palahniuk
“Tears are words that need to be written.”
― Paulo Coelho
Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live. - Mark Twain
"When people don't express themselves, they die one piece at a time."
Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak
People demand freedom only when they have no power. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land
The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously. - Henry Kissinger
"Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time."
R.I.P. Ruth Bader Ginsburg
“If only she could be so oblivious again, to feel such love without knowing it, mistaking it for laughter. ”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of the time. - John Stuart Mill
Be grateful for what you have and stop complaining - it bores everybody else, does you no good, and doesn't solve any problems.
Zig Ziglar
Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times. - Winston Churchill
“In our time together, you claimed a special place in my heart, one I'll carry with me forever and that no one can ever replace.”
― Nicholas Sparks, Dear John
“Sensual love is no ordinary love. Got to go deep to find it.”
― Lebo Grand
"The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for."
Bob Marley
Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself. -Mark Twain
"Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier." -Mother Teresa
What a liberation to realize that the 'voice in my head' is not who I am. 'Who am I, then?' The one who sees that. - Eckhart Tolle
"He loved her in spite of her unlovableness. Armande had many trying, though not necessarily rare, traits, all of which he accepted as absurd clues in a clever puzzle."
Vladimir Nabokov, Transparent Things
"Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast." - Alice
"Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul."
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
I'm bored with it all - Winston Churchill (his final words on his deathbed)
"Life is one big road with lots of signs. So, when you riding through the ruts, don’t complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don’t bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!" – Bob Marley
For both faith and want of faith have destroyed men alike. - Hesiod
Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is tonic. Tribulation is a test tube. - William Arthur Ward
“Life is a flower of which love is the honey.” — Victor Hugo