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I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by a conscious endeavor… if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Speaker: Henry David ThoreauPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:01 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Everything that can be thought at all can be thought clearly. Everything that can be said, can be said clearly.
Speaker: Ludwig WittgensteinPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:12 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Once you stop pretending that everything’s shitty and you can’t wait to get out of it, which is the story I’d been telling myself for a while, then it gets more painful, not less. Telling yourself life is shit is like an anesthetic, and when you stop taking the Advil, then you really can tell how much it hurts, and where, and it’s not like that kind of pain does anyone a whole lot of good.
Speaker: Nick HornbyPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 9:02 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
One’s real life is so often the life that one does not lead.
Speaker: Oscar WildePosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 8:50 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Despair is a greater sin than any of the sins which provoke it.
Speaker: C.S. LewisPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 8:42 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
If belief be a product of the mind, faith is of the heart; belief is founded on reason, faith largely on intuition.
Speaker: Elder James E. TalmageSource: Talmage, Articles of Faith, 87-88Posted: 03 Sep 2012 at 11:30 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
There are two mistakes on can make along the road to truth: not going all the way, and not starting
Speaker: BuddhaPosted: 05 Apr 2011 at 7:59 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Perhaps more of us… could literally, or at least figuratively, behold the angels around us if we would but awaken from our stupor and hear the voice of the Spirit as those angels try to speak….
I believe we need to speak of and believe in and bear testimony to the ministry of angels more than we sometimes do. They constitute one of God’s great methods of witnessing through the veil…Speaker: Elder Jeffrey R. HollandSource: CES Symposium on the Book of Mormon • 9 August 1994Posted: 25 Aug 2010 at 9:24 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Speaker: Chinese proverbPosted: 31 Jan 2010 at 9:44 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don’t like?
Speaker: Jean CocteauPosted: 04 Sep 2009 at 8:50 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
A critic is someone who comes onto the battlefield after the battle is over and shoots the wounded.
Speaker: UnknownSource: bird by birdPosted: 16 Aug 2009 at 1:19 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“On me is the curse that none but I have laid.” Oedipus
Speaker: SophoclesPosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 8:23 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The most violent element in society is ignorance.
Speaker: Emma GoldmanPosted: 28 Jul 2009 at 11:32 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I really believe that a man and a woman together, raising a family, is the purest form of happiness we can experience.
Speaker: Will SmithPosted: 28 Apr 2009 at 11:30 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Sostenemos estas verdades como evidentes por sí mismas: que todos los hombres son creados iguales; que son dotados por su creador con ciertos derechos inalienables; que entre ellos están la vida, la libertad, y la persecución de la felicidad.
Speaker: Thomas JeffersonPosted: 19 Dec 2008 at 10:58 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.
Speaker: UnknownPosted: 28 Nov 2008 at 1:06 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
Speaker: Charles Evans HughesPosted: 28 Nov 2008 at 12:54 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Talent renders the whole idea of rehearsal meaningless; when you find something at which you are talented, you do it (whatever it is) until your fingers bleed or your eyes are ready to fall out of your head. Even when no one is listening (or reading, or watching), every outing is a bravura performance, because you as the creator are happy. Perhaps even ecstatic. That goes for reading and writing as well as for playing a musical instrument, hitting a baseball, or running the four-forty. The sort of strenuous reading and writing program I advocate – four to six hours a day, every day – will not seem strenuous if you really enjoy doing these things and have an aptitude for them; in fact, you may be following such a program already. If you feel you need permission to do all the reading and writing your little heart desires, however, consider it hereby granted by yours truly.
Speaker: Stephen KingPosted: 25 Aug 2008 at 1:44 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I gave the boy back into Parvati’s arms, and wiped a hand across my face and into my hair. Looking at the people, listening to the breathing, heaving, laughing, struggling music of the slum, all around me, I remembered one of Khaderbhai’s favorite phrases. Every human heartbeat, he’d said many times, is a universe of possibilities. And it seemed to me that I finally understood exactly what he’d meant. He’d been trying to tell me that every human will has the power to transform its fate. I’d always thought that fate was something unchangeable: fixed for every one of us at birth, and as constant as the circuit of the stars. But I suddenly realized that life is stranger and more beautiful than that. The truth is that, no matter what kind of game you find yourself in, no matter how good or bad the luck, you can change your life completely with a single thought or a single act of love.
Speaker: Gregory David RobertsPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 7:42 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The way to write American music is simple. All you have to do is be an American and then write any kind of music you wish.
Speaker: Virgil ThompsonPosted: 28 Nov 2008 at 12:59 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment!