Quotes About Truth

Awesome Quotes and Sayings About The Truth

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If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.

~Mark Twain

 

If a thousand old beliefs were ruined in our march to truth we must still march on.

~Stopford Brooke

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; truth isn't

 

 

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

~Mark Twain

 

There is no truth. There is only perception.

~Gustave Flaubert

 

Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

~Mark Twain

 

When you want to fool the world, tell the truth

Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first, it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self-evident.

~Arthur Schopenhauer

 

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

~Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

 

We do not err because truth is difficult to see. It is visible at a glance. We err because this is more comfortable.

~Alexander Solzhenitsyn

 

“The truth.” Dumbledore sighed. “It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution.”

~J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

 

Apology is a lovely perfume; it can transform the clumsiest moment into a gracious gift.

When one has one’s hand full of truth it is not always wise to open it.

~French Proverb

 

The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.

~Gloria Steinem

 

I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth — and truth rewarded me.

~Simone de Beauvoir

 

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.  Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth

When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it–always.

~Mahatma Gandhi

 

All great truths begin as blasphemies.

~George Bernard Shaw, Annajanska

 

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

~Aldous Huxley

 

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

~Denis Diderot

 

Elvis Presley Quote about truth

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

~Oscar Wilde

 

Truth is a great flirt.

~Franz Liszt

 

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.

~Winston S. Churchill

 

For men in earnest have no time to waste
In patching fig-leaves for the naked truth.

~James Russell Lowell

 

In a room where people unanimously maintain a conspiracy of silence one word of truth sounds like a pistol shot

Above all, don’t lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.

~Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

 

Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.

~Jean-Paul Sartre

 

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

~Oscar Wilde

 

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

I am the fellow citizen of every being that thinks; my country is Truth.

~Alphonse de Lamartine

 

In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

~George Orwell

 

Every truth bends and reshapes itself or is reshaped by other forces.

~Leslie Woolf Hedley

 

I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me.

~S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders

 

Seek truth and you will find a path.

~Frank Slaughter

 

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t.

~Mark Twain

 

Who needs astrology? The wise man gets by on fortune cookies.

Truth is the breath of life to human society. It is the food of the immortal spirit. Yet a single word of it may kill a man as suddenly as a drop of prussic acid.

~Oliver Wendell Holmes

 

Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.

~William Faulkner

 

Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.

~Leo Tolstoy

 

Tell the truth, or someone will tell it for you.

~Stephanie Klein, Straight Up and Dirty: A Memoir

 

If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?

~Dōgen Zenji

 

 Teaching children to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best.

The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.

~Flannery O’Connor

 

Truth breeds hatred.

~Bias of Priene

 

Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.

~Pablo Picasso

 

It is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking nothing but the truth.

~Oscar Wilde

 

The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can’t be any large-scale revolution until there’s a personal revolution, on an individual level. It’s got to happen inside first.

~Jim Morrison

 

Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

~Charles Caleb Colton

 

If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

~Henry David Thoreau, Walden

 

Truth only reveals itself when one gives up all preconceived ideas.

~Shoseki

 

There are three types of lies — lies, damn lies, and statistics.

~Benjamin Disraeli

 

When I tell any truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do.

~William Blake

 

There are no facts, only interpretations.

~Friedrich Nietzsche

 

He is rich who is content with the least; for contentment is the wealth of nature.

It will never be possible by pure reason to arrive at some absolute truth.

~Werner Heisenberg

 

If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they’ll kill you.

~Oscar Wilde, The Nightingale and the Rose

 

The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple.

~Rebecca West

 

No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.

~François de La Rochefoucauld

 

The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths.

~William James

 

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

~Virginia Woolf

 

Where determination is, the way can be found

It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.

~Thomas Jefferson

 

All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.

~Ernest Hemingway

 

Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.

~Aldous Huxley

 

The only truth is music.

~Jack Kerouac

 

God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please — you can never have both.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

The truth isn’t always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

~Nadine Gordimer

 

The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.

~David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

 

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.

~George Washington

 

Good words bring good feelings to the heart.  Speak with kindness always.

When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

~Kahlil Gibran

 

Most men would rather deny a hard truth than face it.

~George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

 

“I’m for truth, no matter who tells it. I’m for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I’m a human being, first and foremost, and as such I’m for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.

~Malcolm X

 

If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.

~C.S. Lewis

 

 

Quotes About Peace

Awesome Quotes and Sayings About Peace

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We shall never be able to effect physical disarmament until we have succeeded in effecting moral disarmament.

~J. Ramsay MacDonald

 

Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.

~Martin Luther King Jr.

 

When we have peace in our hearts and minds, we draw peace into our lives

 

A warless world will come as men develop warless hearts.

~Charles Wesley Burns

 

You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one. I hope someday you’ll join us. And the world will live as one.

~John Lennon

 

It’s so hard to forget pain, but it’s even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.

~Chuck Palahniuk, Diary

 

Each one has to find his peace from within.  And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstance

 

Right is more precious than peace.

~Woodrow Wilson

 

An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.

~Mahatma Gandhi

 

We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.

~Dwight D. Eisenhower

 

You cannot find peace by avoiding life

Peace begins with a smile..

~Mother Teresa

 

We have all taken risks in the making of war. Isn’t it time that we should take risks to secure peace?

~J. Ramsay MacDonald

 

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

~Virginia Woolf

 

Lord, bid war’s trumpet cease;
Fold the whole earth in peace.

~Oliver Wendell Holmes

 

Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing
and right doing there is a field.
I’ll meet you there.

When the soul lies down in that grass
the world is too full to talk about.

~Rumi

 

Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.

~George Carlin

 

Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war.

~John Andrew Holmes, Wisdom in Small Doses

 

First keep peace with yourself, then you can also bring peace to others

 

Don’t Gain The World & Lose Your Soul, Wisdom Is Better Than Silver Or Gold.

~Bob Marley

 

Five great enemies to peace inhabit with us: avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride. If those enemies were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.

~Francesco Petrarch

 

If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there’d be peace.

~John Lennon

 

A smile is the beginning of peace

 

Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

~Albert Einstein

 

Peace hath higher tests of manhood
Than battle ever knew.

~John Greenleaf Whittier

 

Dogs are our link to paradise. They don’t know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring–it was peace.

~Milan Kundera

 

You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.

~Golda Meir

 

When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.

 

If someone thinks that peace and love are just a cliche that must have been left behind in the 60s, that’s a problem. Peace and love are eternal.

~John Lennon

 

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

~Mahatma Gandhi

 

The more we sweat in peace the less we bleed in war.

~Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

 

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.

 

The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace.

~Mahatma Gandhi

 

Dad, how do soldiers killing each other solve the world’s problems?

~Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes

 

If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.

~Napoleon Bonaparte

 

Trade your expectation for appreciation and the world changes for you

 

Peace comes from within.  Do not seek it without.

~Gautama Buddha

 

Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

Why can’t people just sit and read books and be nice to each other?

~David Baldacci, The Camel Club

 

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.

~Mother Teresa

 

The cure for anything is salt water - tears, sweat, or the sea

You have peace,” the old woman said, “when you make it with yourself.

~Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven

 

We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.

~William Ewart Gladstone

 

You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don’t ever count on having both at once.

~Robert A. Heinlein

 

The Simple Path
Silence is Prayer
Prayer is Faith
Faith is Love
Love is Service
The Fruit of Service is Peace

~Mother Teresa

 

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing

 

Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace.

~Albert Schweitzer

 

Peace is more than the absence of war. Peace is accord. Harmony.

~Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone

 

Many people think excitement is happiness…. But when you are excited you are not peaceful. True happiness is based on peace.

~Thich Nhat Hanh, The Art of Power

 

It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.

~Aristotle

 

World peace must develop from inner peace. Peace is not just mere absence of violence. Peace is, I think, the manifestation of human compassion.

~Dalai Lama XIV

 

Quotes About Procrastination

Awesome Quotes and Sayings About Procrastination

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Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.

~Mark Twain

 

Procrastination is the thief of time.

~Edward Young

 

 

Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well

Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

~Marthe Troly-Curtin, Phrynette Married

 

One of these days is none of these days.

~H.G. Bohn

 

You can’t just turn on creativity like a faucet. You have to be in the right mood.
What mood is that?
Last-minute panic.

~Bill Watterson

 

Tomorrow is the only day in the year that appeals to a lazy man.

~Jimmy Lyons

 

Cry. Forgive. Learn. Move On.  Let your tears water the seeds of your future happiness.

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone

~Pablo Picasso

 

Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform.

~Edward Young

 

You may delay, but time will not.

~Benjamin Franklin

 

Putting off an easy thing makes it hard. Putting off a hard thing makes it impossible.

~George Claude Lorimer

 

Procrastinate now, don’t put it off.

~Ellen DeGeneres

 

Beware the barreneness of a busy life.

The time to begin most things is ten years ago.

~Mignon McLaughlin

 

Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him.

~Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

 

Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week.

~Spanish Proverb

 

A year from now you may wish you had started today.

~Karen Lamb

 

Procrastination is something best put off until tomorrow.

~Gerald Vaughan

 

Have patience with all things, but, first of all with yourself.

If it weren’t for the last minute, nothing would get done.

~Rita Mae Brown

 

What may be done at any time will be done at no time.

~Scottish Proverb

 

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

~Abraham Lincoln

 

If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting off doing it.

~Olin Miller

 

When faced with two equally tough choices, most people choose the third choice: to not choose.

~Jarod Kintz, This Book Title is Invisible

 

Procrastination is opportunity’s assassin.

~Victor Kiam

 

Life is not happening to you.  Life is responding to you.

 

It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.

~Leonardo da Vinci

 

To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing.

~Eva Young

 

God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination.

~Augustine of Hippo

 

One of the greatest labor-saving inventions of today is tomorrow.

~Vincent T. Foss

 

If you choose to not deal with an issue,
then you give up your right of control over the issue
and it will select the path of least resistance.

~Susan Del Gatto

 

A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

It is an undoubted truth, that the less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in.

~Earl of Chesterfield

 

Someday is not a day of the week.

~Janet Dailey

 

Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn’t the work he is supposed to be doing at that moment.

~Robert Benchley

 

Never put off till tomorrow the book you can read today.

~Holbrook Jackson

 

It is amazing how much you can accomplish when it doesn't matter who gets the credit.

Every duty which is bidden to wait returns with seven fresh duties at its back.

~Charles Kingsley

 

Plan to be spontaneous tomorrow.

~Steven Wright

 

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.

~Don Marquis

 

We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.

~Erica Jong, Seducing the Demon: Writing for My Life

 

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity

Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.

~William James

 

Procrastination is my sin. It brings me naught but sorrow. I know that I should stop it. In fact, I will—tomorrow

~Gloria Pitzer

 

Lack of confidence, sometimes alternating with unrealistic dreams of heroic success, often leads to procrastination, and many studies suggest that procrastinators are self-handicappers: rather than risk failure, they prefer to create conditions that make success impossible, a reflex that of course creates a vicious cycle.

~James Surowiecki

 

The scholar’s greatest weakness: calling procrastination research.

~Stephen King, 11/22/63

 

The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it

 

If you believe you can accomplish everything by “cramming” at the eleventh hour, by all means, don’t lift a finger now. But you may think twice about beginning to build your ark once it has already started raining

~Max Brooks, The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead

 

Quotes About God

Awesome Quotes and Sayings About God

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All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.

~Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

 

 

Every morning I spend fifteen minutes filling my mind full of God; and so there’s no room left for worry thoughts.

~Howard Chandler Christy

 

What you are is God's gift to you, what you become is your gift to God.

 

If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.

~C.S. Lewis

 

I could not say I believe. I know! I have had the experience of being gripped by something that is stronger than myself, something that people call God.

~Carl Jung

 

The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.

~C.S. Lewis

 

If you want to find God, hang out in the space between your thoughts.

~Alan Cohen

 

I have never understood why it should be considered derogatory to the Creator to suppose that he has a sense of humour.

~William Ralph Inge

 

Remember, if you're headed in the wrong direction, God allows U-turns!

 

Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one’s weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

~Mahatma Gandhi

 

I would rather walk with God in the dark than go alone in the light.

~Mary Gardiner Brainard

 

God has no religion.

~Mahatma Gandhi

 

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.

~Voltaire

 

To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.

~C.S. Lewis

 

The darker the night, the brighter the stars, the deeper the grief, the closer is God.

 

God — the John Doe of philosophy and religion.

~Elbert Hubbard

 

We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.

~C.S. Lewis

 

If there is no God, who pops up the next Kleenex?

~Art Hoppe

 

God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas but for scars.

~Elbert Hubbard

 

God is a circle whose centre is everywhere and circumference nowhere.

~Timaeus of Locri

 

Be still and know that I am God.  Be still and know that I am.  Be still and know.  Be still.  Be.

 

A man can no more diminish God’s glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word ‘darkness’ on the walls of his cell.

~C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain

 

God is with you always. Simply turn your face to Him.

~Kirpal Singh

 

If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph:
The only proof he needed for the existence of God was music.

~Kurt Vonnegut

 

Outer fire we need to cook. Inner fire we need to liberate. God’s Fire we need to love.

~Sri Chinmoy

 

Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.

~Corrie ten Boom

 

Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all of His laws.

 

There is a tendency to see divine intervention in things that happen in the normal course of miracles.

~Robert Brault

 

Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.

~C.S. Lewis

 

I cannot imagine how the clockwork of the universe can exist without a clockmaker.

~Voltaire

 

If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.

~Dorothy Parker

 

God and I have built an immense fire together. We keep each other happy and warm.

~Hāfez

 

The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.

~Søren Kierkegaard

 

Is man one of God’s blunders, or is God one of man’s blunders?

~Friedrich Nietzsche

 

Make sure you are doing what God wants you to do-then do it with all your strength.

 

The darker the night, the brighter the stars,
The deeper the grief, the closer is God!

~Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

 

If you are bathed
In God’s Forgiveness-Light,
Then no dust of earth
Will be able to cling to you.

~Sri Chinmoy

 

I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: “Go down again – I dwell among the people.

~John Henry Newman

 

I do not believe in God, for that implies an effort of the will — I see God everywhere!

~Jean Favre

 

He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man made, He would have done no less.

~C.S. Lewis

 

I talk to God but the sky is empty.

~Sylvia Plath

 

Parents are like God because you wanna know they’re out there, and you want them to think well of you, but you really only call when you need something.

~Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

 

For light I go directly to the Source of light, not to any of the reflections.

~Peace Pilgrim

 

Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God

 

Sometimes God allows what he hates to accomplish what he loves.

~Joni Eareckson Tada, The God I Love

 

How important the concept of God is, and how instead of valuing what has been given us, we with light hearts spurn it because of absurdities that have been attached to it.

~Leo Tolstoy

 

God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players [i.e. everybody], to being involved in an obscure and complex variant of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a Dealer who won’t tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time.

~Terry Pratchett

 

Don’t look for God in the sky; look within your own body.

~Osho

 

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, ‘I used everything you gave me.

~Erma Bombeck

 

Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.

~Malcolm Muggeridge

 

I don’t stand for black man’s side, I don’t stand for white man’s side, I stand for God’s side.

~Bob Marley

 

 

And I call to mankind, Be not curious about God,
For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God,
No array of terms can say how much I am at peace about God, and about death.
I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least…

~Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

 

God gives us dreams a size too big so that we can grow in them.

 

Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hand of (another)… There are just some kind of men who – who’re so busy worrying about the next world they’ve never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results.

~Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

 

No woman wants to be in submission to a man who isn’t in submission to God!

~T.D. Jakes

 

God waits to win back his own flowers as gifts from man’s hands.

~Rabindranath Tagore

 

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.

~Mahatma Gandhi

 

Don’t look for God where He is needed most; if you didn’t bring Him there, He isn’t there.

~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic’s Notebook

 

I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it.

~Alice Walker, The Color Purple

 

Sometimes I think were alone.  Sometimes I think we're not.  In either case, the thought is staggering

 

There is a God-shaped vacuum in every heart.

~Blaise Pascal

 

Because God has made us for Himself, our hearts are restless until they rest in Him.

~Augustine of Hippo

 

To put one’s trust in God is only a longer way of saying that one will chance it.

~Samuel Butler

 

If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans.

~Woody Allen

 

Those who believe that they believe in God, but without passion in their hearts, without anguish in mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, without an element of despair even in their consolation, believe in the God idea, not God himself.

~Miguel de Unamuno

 

God is silent. Now if only man would shut up.

~Woody Allen

 

Your mind works very simply: you are either trying to find out what are God’s laws in order to follow them; or you are trying to outsmart Him.

~Martin H. Fischer

 

Look for God, suggests my Guru. Look for God like a man with his head on fire looks for water.

~Elizabeth Gilbert

 

When you knock, ask to see God — none of the servants.

~Henry David Thoreau

 

All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring We must never ever be boring

 

 

Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, cause hate in your heart will consume you too.

~Will Smith

 

Were there no God, we would be in this glorious world with grateful hearts and no one to thank.

~Christina Rossetti

 

The great thing to remember is that though our feelings come and go God’s love for us does not.

~C.S. Lewis

 

Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God. Really.

~Lenny Bruce

 

God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.

~Voltaire

 

God is the perfect poet.

~Robert Browning

 

No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books.

~Elizabeth Barrett Browning

 

Apart from God every activity is merely a passing whiff of insignificance.

~Alfred North Whitehead

 

Independence is my happiness, and I view things as they are, without regard to place or person; my country is the world, and my religion is to do good.

~Thomas Paine, Rights of Man

 

All are but parts of one stupendous Whole:
Whose Body Nature is, and God the Soul.

~Alexander Pope, An Essay on Man

 

I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It’s just that the translations have gone wrong.

~John Lennon

 

God is an unutterable sigh, planted in the depths of the soul.

~Jean Paul Richter

 

You can safely assume you’ve created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.

~Anne Lamott

 

I feel most ministers who claim they’ve heard God’s voice are eating too much pizza before they go to bed at night, and it’s really an intestinal disorder, not a revelation.

~Jerry Falwell

 

Joy is the infallible sign of the presence of God.

~Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

 

“What do you think of God,” the teacher asked. After a pause, the young pupil replied, “He’s not a think, he’s a feel.”

~Paul Frost

 

Let us never forget to pray. God lives. He is near. He is real. He is not only aware of us but cares for us. He is our Father. He is accessible to all who will seek Him.

~Gordon B. Hinckley

 

God’s promises are like the stars; the darker the night the brighter they shine.

~David Nicholas

 

We know that God is everywhere; but certainly we feel His presence most when His works are on the grandest scale spread before us; and it is in the unclouded night-sky, where His worlds wheel their silent course, that we read clearest His infinitude, His omnipotence, His omnipresence.

~Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

 

God is not what you imagine or what you think you understand. If you understand you have failed.

~Saint Augustine

 

God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.

~Voltaire

 

God enters by a private door into each individual.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

God answers all prayers, but sometimes his answer is ‘no’.

~Dan Brown, Angels & Demons

 

It is easy to understand God as long as you don’t try to explain him.

~Joseph Joubert

 

Down on the lake rosy reflections of celestial vapor appeared, and I said, “God, I love you” and looked to the sky and really meant it. “I have fallen in love with you, God. Take care of us all, one way or the other.” To the children and the innocent it’s all the same.

~Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums

 

They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.

~Emily Dickinson

 

We may ignore, but we can nowhere evade the presence of God. The world is crowded with Him. He walks everywhere incognito.

~C.S. Lewis

 

Prayer is when you talk to God; meditation is when you listen to God.

~Diana Robinson

 

Listen to God with a broken heart. He is not only the doctor who mends it, but also the father who wipes away the tears.

~Criss Jami

 

I know God will not give me anything I can’t handle. I just wish that He didn’t trust me so much.

~Mother Teresa

 

God is a concept by which we measure our pain.

~John Lennon

 

Let God’s promises shine on your problems.

~Corrie Ten Boom

 

And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence

~Bertrand Russell

 

God’s will is not an itinerary but an attitude.

~Andrew Dhuse

 

God’s Final Message to His Creation:
‘We apologize for the inconvenience.”

~Douglas Adams, So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish

 

How tired God must be of guilt and loneliness, for that is all we ever bring to Him.

~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook

 

You are someone who is different, but who wants to be the same as everyone else. And that in my view is a serious illness. God chose you to be different. Why are you disappointing God with this kind of attitude?

~Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die

 

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

~Vincent van Gogh

 

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.

~Albert Einstein

 

The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.

~Teresa of Avila

 

The moment God is figured out with nice neat lines and definitions, we are no longer dealing with God.

~Rob Bell, Velvet Elvis: Repainting the Christian Faith

 

God is not a cosmic bellboy for whom we can press a button to get things done.

~Harry Emerson Fosdick

 

What you are is God’s gift to you, what you become is your gift to God.

~Hans Urs von Balthasar, Prayer

 

What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us.

~A.W. Tozer

 

The soul can split the sky in two and let the face of God shine through.

~Edna St. Vincent Millay

 

Men trust God by risking rejection. Women trust God by waiting.

~Carolyn McCulley

 

Young man, young man, your arm’s too short to box with God.

~James Weldon Johnson

 

The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me; my eye and God’s eye are one eye, one seeing, one knowing, one love.

~Meister Eckhart, Sermons of Meister Eckhart

 

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

~St. Augustine

 

It doesn’t matter if a million people tell you what you can’t do, or if ten million tell you no. If you get one yes from God that’s all you need.

~Tyler Perry

 

Any fool can count the seeds in an apple. Only God can count all the apples in one seed.

~Robert H. Schuller

 

With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.

~Steven Weinberg

 

Weed Quotes

Awesome Quotes and Sayings About Weed, Cannabis, & Marijuana

Quotations & Citations:

 

Herb is the healing of a nation, alcohol is the destruction.

~Bob Marley

 

Marijuana is quite possibly the finest of intoxicants. It has been scientifically proven, for decades, to be much less harmful to the body than alcohol when used on a regular basis.

~Nick Offerman

 

Marijuana... That's not a drug, that's a plant.

They’ve outlawed the number one vegetable on the planet.

~Timothy Leary

 

I think people need to be educated to the fact that marijuana is not a drug. Marijuana is an herb and a flower. God put it here. If He put it here and He wants it to grow, what gives the government the right to say that God is wrong?

~Willie Nelson

 

When you smoke the herb, it reveals you to yourself.

~Bob Marley

 

 The biggest killer on the planet is stress and I still think the best medicine is and always has been Cannabis

Why is marijuana against the law? It grows naturally upon our planet. Doesn’t the idea of making nature against the law seem to you a bit . . . unnatural?

~Bill Hicks

 

If the words “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” don’t include the right to experiment with your own consciousness, then the Declaration of Independence isn’t worth the hemp it was written on.

~Terence McKenna

 

Of course I know how to roll a joint.

~Martha Stewart

 

Drugs induce paranoia and psychosis in people who have never taken any.

~Terence McKenna

 

Who are you to judge the life I live?  I know I'm not perfect, and I don't live to be, but before you start pointing fingers... make sure your hands are clean!

When I was a kid I inhaled frequently. That was the point.

~Barack Obama

 

The illegality of cannabis is outrageous, an impediment to full utilization of a drug which helps produce the serenity and insight, sensitivity and fellowship so desperately needed in this increasingly mad and dangerous world.

~Carl Sagan

 

I’d always done a lot of sniffing glue as a kid. I was very interested in glue, and then I went to lager and speed, and I drifted into heroin because as a kid growing up everybody told me, ‘don’t smoke marijuana, it will kill you’.

~Irvine Welsh

 

Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery. None but ourselves can free our minds

I have always loved marijuana. It has been a source of joy and comfort to me for many years. And I still think of it as a basic staple of life, along with beer and ice and grapefruits -and millions of Americans agree with me.

~Hunter S. Thompson

 

We all need something to help us unwind at the end of the day. You might have a glass of wine, or a joint, or a big delicious blob of heroin to silence your silly brainbox of its witterings but there has to be some form of punctuation, or life just seems utterly relentless.

~Russell Brand

 

It makes me feel the way I need to feel.

~Snoop Dogg

 

Don't gain the world & lose your soul Wisdom is better than silver or gold

It really puzzles me to see marijuana connected with narcotics… dope and all that crap. It’s a thousand times better than whiskey – it’s an assistant – a friend.

~Louis Armstrong

 

Federal and state laws (should) be changed to no longer make it a crime to possess marijuana for private use.

~Richard M. Nixon

 

What was done with the seed saved from the India Hemp last summer? It ought, all of it, to have been sewn again; that not only a stock of seed sufficient for my own purposes might have been raised, but to have disseminated the seed to others; as it is more valuable than the common Hemp.

~George Washington

 

The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.

The first time I smoked was at home with my mother and stepfather; they were like, ‘If you are going to do this, we’d rather you did this with us.’

~Matt Damon

 

The amount of money and of legal energy being given to prosecute hundreds of thousands of Americans who are caught with a few ounces of marijuana in their jeans simply makes no sense – the kindest way to put it. A sterner way to put it is that it is an outrage, an imposition on basic civil liberties and on the reasonable expenditure of social energy.

~William F. Buckley Jr.

 

Who are you to judge the life I live I know Im not perfect and I dont live to be but before you start pointing fingers make sure your hands are clean

Why use up the forests which were centuries in the making and the mines which required ages to lay down, if we can get the equivalent of forest and mineral products in the annual growth of the hemp fields?

~Henry Ford

 

I wake up early in the morning and it feels so good. Smoking on some shit that you wish you could.

~Snoop Dogg

 

I don’t consider weed to be any worse than having a beer.

~James Franco

 

By any of the major criteria of harm – mortality, morbidity, toxicity, addictiveness and relationship with crime – cannabis is less harmful than any of the other major illicit drugs, or than alcohol or tobacco.

~Report of the British Police Foundation March 2000

 

Is marijuana addictive? Yes, in the sense that most of the really pleasant things in life are worth endlessly repeating.

~Richard Neville

 

I smoked pot in college, and in the Army…

~Al Gore

 

The legalization of marijuana is not a dangerous experiment – the prohibition is the experiment, and it has failed dramatically, with millions of victims all around the world.

~Sebastian Marincolo

 

That is not a drug, it’s a leaf.

~Arnold Schwarzenegger

 

When I was in England, I experimented with marijuana a time or two, and I didn’t like it. I didn’t inhale and never tried it again.

~Bill Clinton

 

I engaged in behavior which was regrettable and demonstrated bad judgment. I’m 23 years old, and despite the successes I have had in the pool, I acted in a youthful and inappropriate way, not in a manner that people have come to expect from me.

~Michael Phelps

 

 

Quotes About Attitude

Awesome Quotes and Sayings About Attitude

Quotations & Citations:

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.

~Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night

 

Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude.

~Ralph Marston

 

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

 

It isn’t what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.

~Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People

 

Don’t waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.

~Paulo Coelho

 

Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come.

~Chinese Proverb

 

We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.

~Abraham Lincoln

 

Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.

 

True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.

~Seneca

 

The greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.

~Martha Washington

 

Those who wish to sing, always find a song.

~Swedish Proverb

 

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

~Winston S. Churchill

 

Some see a hopeless end, while others see an endless hope.

 

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.

~Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

 

Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.

~Alice Walker

 

No, I am not bitter, I am not hateful, and I am not unforgiving. I just don’t like you.

~C. JoyBell C.

 

Our life is what our thoughts make it.

~Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

 

Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.

 

Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.

~Marcus Antonius

 

I love those who can smile in trouble…

~Leonardo da Vinci

 

 

 

Control your own destiny or someone else will.

 

Ah, pay no heed if your enemies laugh. They’ll not be able to once you lop off their heads.

~Christopher Paolini, Eragon, Eldest & Brisingr

 

Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.

~Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

 

People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.

~Epictetus

 

Life is 10 percent what you make it
and 90 percent how you take it.

~Irving Berlin

 

Life is a blank canvas, and you need to throw all the paint on it you can.

 

Live fast. Die young. Be wild. Have fun.

~Lana Del Rey

 

Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.

~Edward de Bono

 

Look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else.

~Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

 

Dance. Smile. Giggle. Marvel. TRUST. HOPE. LOVE. WISH. BELIEVE. Most of all, enjoy every moment of the journey, and appreciate where you are at this moment instead of always focusing on how far you have to go.

~Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass

If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

 

If you build the guts to do something, anything, then you better save enough to face the consequences.

~Criss Jami, Killosophy

 

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

~Rabindranath Tagore

 

We cannot change our past… we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. And so it is with you… we are in charge of our Attitudes.

~Charles R. Swindoll

 

Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.

~Maori Proverb

 

I've had great success being a total idiot.

 

A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy.

~Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Cancer Ward

 

Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

~Lou Holtz

 

Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind.

~Mary Ellen Chase

 

The man who has no inner life is a slave to his surroundings.

~Henri Frédéric Amiel

 

If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets.

 

If you have a dream, don’t just sit there. Gather courage to believe that you can succeed and leave no stone unturned to make it a reality.

~Roopleen

 

If you don’t have time to do it right, when will you have the time to do it over?

~John Wooden

 

I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.

~Martha Washington

 

My mother once told me that no woman is naked when she comes equipped with a bad mood and a steady glare.

~Mira Grant, Feed

 

The darker the night, the brighter the stars, the deeper the grief, the closer is God.

 

If you fail to look at the Brightside of life,
You will fail to succeed at leaving the Darkside of life.

~Amir Al-Rubai

 

Your perspective on life comes from the cage you were held captive in.

~Shannon L. Alder

 

A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world; everyone you meet is your mirror.

~Ken Keyes, Jr.

 

I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery-air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, "This is what it is to be happy."

 

Swearing doesn’t make your argument valid; it just tells the other person you have lost your class and control.

~Shannon L. Alder

 

Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world.

~Eckhart Tolle

 

When you are joyful, when you say yes to life and have fun and project positivity all around you, you become a sun in the center of every constellation, and people want to be near you.

~Shannon L. Alder

 

Impossible is a word only to be found in the dictionary of fools.

~Napoleon

 

Don't be pushed by your problems, be led by your dreams.

 

Being different is a revolving door in your life where secure people enter and insecure exit.

~Shannon L. Alder

 

Be enthusiastic. Remember the placebo effect — 30% of medicine is showbiz.

~Ronald Spark

 

Tough times don’t last, tough people do, remember?

~Gregory Peck

 

It is good people who make good places.

~Anna Sewell, Black Beauty

 

The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.

 

The mind is its own place, and in itself
Can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.

~John Milton

 

When you stop living your life based on what others think of you real life begins. At that moment, you will finally see the door of self acceptance opened.

~Shannon L. Alder

 

With hair, heels, and attitude, honey, I am through the roof.

~RuPaul

 

No road is paved with gold unless you make it your own treasure.

~Alvaro Velasco

 

 Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life

 

The only thing that stands between a person and what they want in life is the will to try it and the faith to believe it is possible.

~Rich DeVos

 

Above all things physical, it is more important to be beautiful on the inside – to have a big hear and an open mind and a spectacular spleen.

~Ellen DeGeneres, Seriously… I’m Kidding

 

There is very little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude.

~W. Clement Stone

 

Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

~Colleen C. Barrett

 

If you knew how much work went into it, you wouldn't call it genius

 

Learn to adapt. Things change, circumstances change. Adjust yourself and your efforts to what it is presented to you so you can respond accordingly. Never see change as a threat, because it can be an opportunity to learn, to grow, evolve and become a better person.

~Rodolfo Costa, Advice My Parents Gave Me: and Other Lessons I Learned from My Mistakes

 

No vision and you perish;
No ideal, and you’re lost;
Your heart must ever cherish
Some faith at any cost.
Some hope, some dream to cling to,
Some rainbow in the sky,
Some melody to sing to,
Some service that is high.

~Harriet Du Autermont

 

An attitude of positive expectation is the mark of the superior personality.

~Brian Tracy

 

A stumble may prevent a fall.

~Thomas Fuller

 

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes. By the deep sea, and music in its roar: I love not man the less, but Nature more...

 

We all live under the same sky, but we don’t all have the same horizon.

~Konrad Adenauer

 

Is my paranoia getting completely out of hand, or are you mongoloids really talking about me?

~John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces

 

Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities — always see them, for they’re always there.

~Norman Vincent Peale

 

The battle you are going through is not fueled by the words or actions of others; it is fueled by the mind that gives it importance.

~Shannon L. Alder

 

You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.

 

May I never miss a sunset or a rainbow because I am looking down.

~Sara June Parker

 

We are perishing for want of wonder, not for want of wonders.

~G.K. Chesterton

 

An attitude of gratitude brings great things.

~Yogi Bhajan

 

Since the house is on fire let us warm ourselves.

~Italian Proverb

 

Jesus was saying that you can’t have a larger life with restricted attitudes.

~Joel Osteen, Your Best Life Now: 7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential

 

Don’t pretend to be what you’re not, instead, pretend to what you want to be, it is not pretence, it is a journey to self realization.

~Michael Bassey Johnson

 

Have patience with all things, but, first of all with yourself.

 

When life hands you a lemon, say, “Oh yeah, I like lemons! What else ya got?”

~Henry Rollins

 

The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.

~Eudora Welty

 

God is always more interested in why we do something than in what we do. Attitudes count more than achievements.

~Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?

 

None of us can avoid being contaminated by the world’s evils; it’s all a matter of what attitude you take towards them.

~Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran

 

The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.

~John Burroughs

 

Maturity is the moment one regains one's innocence.

 

I happen to feel that the degree of a person’s intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting attitudes she can bring to bear on the same topic.

~Lisa Alther

 

All that really matters is that the people you love are happy and healthy. Everything else is just sprinkles on the sundae.

~Paul Walker

 

The key to friendship with God, he said, is not changing what you do, but changing your attitude toward what you do.

~Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?

 

Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.

~Arthur Christopher Benson

 

Not my circus, not my monkeys

 

All things are ready, if our mind be so.

~William Shakespeare, Henry V

 

Age wrinkles the body; quitting wrinkles the soul.

~Douglas MacArthur

 

A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.

~Hugh Downs

 

Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different. Life would undergo a change of appearance because we ourselves had undergone a change of attitude.

~Katherine Mansfield

 

When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.

 

Misery is a communicable disease.

~Martha Graham

 

Write this down: My life is full of unlimited possibilities.

~Pablo

 

The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.

~Thomas Carlyle

 

Only in the world of mathematics do two negatives multiply into a positive.

~Abby Morel

 

No act of kindness is too small. The gift of kindness may start as a small ripple that over time can turn into a tidal wave affecting the lives of many.

 

Dwell not upon thy weariness, thy strength shall be according to the measure of thy desire.

~Arab Proverb

 

I don’t panic unless I have to. Wastes energy.

~Sandra Brown, Lethal

 

Count your joys instead of your woes;
Count your friends instead of your foes.

~Irish Saying

 

You can’t always control circumstances. However, you can always control your attitude, approach, and response. Your options are to complain or to look ahead and figure out how to make the situation better.

~Tony Dungy, Quiet Strength: The Principles, Practices & Priorities of a Winning Life

 

If it is to be it is up to me

 

Sometimes life’s Hell. But hey! Whatever gets the marshmallows toasty.

~J. Andrew Helt

 

If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one…

~William Cowper

 

My joy may be diminished now, but I am still alive to be more joyful ahead.

~Ankam Nithin Kumar

 

Opportunity may knock only once but temptation leans on the door bell

~Oprah Winfrey

 

Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different.

~Katherine Mansfield

 

Where determination is, the way can be found

 

I am who I am, I enjoy life in my own way and that is hell of a lot more than most people can say for themselves

~Pablo Tusset, The Best Thing That Can Happen to a Croissant

 

I don’t think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.

~Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

 

Learn to smile at every situation. See it as an opportunity to prove your strength and ability.

~Joe Brown

 

Life is not happening to you. Life is responding to you.

 

Your attitude determines how you experience the world.

~Sanaya Roman, Living with Joy: Keys to Personal Power and Spiritual Transformation

 

Just because you’re miserable doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy your life.

~Annette Goodheart

 

Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.

~Joe Clark

 

Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.

 

Every thought is a seed. If you plant crab apples, don’t count on harvesting Golden Delicious.

~Bill Meyer

 

You can see real attitude of man when he’s terrified.

~Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

 

To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.

~George Santayana

 

Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.

~Voltaire

 

Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.

 

If you don’t get everything you want, think of the things you don’t get that you don’t want.

~Oscar Wilde

 

Resilience is not what happens to you. It’s how you react to, respond to, and recover from what happens to you.

~Jeffrey Gitomer

 

The key to every man is his thought. Sturdy and defying though he look, he has a helm which he obeys, which is the idea after which all his facts are classified. He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which commands his own.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

 

Quotes About Alcohol

Awesome Quotes and Sayings About Alcohol

Quotations & Citations:

 

Alcohol may be man’s worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy.

~Frank Sinatra

 

That’s the problem with drinking, I thought, as I poured myself a drink. If something bad happens you drink in an attempt to forget; if something good happens you drink in order to celebrate; and if nothing happens you drink to make something happen.

~Charles Bukowski, Women

 

One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough.

~James Thurber

 

It’s a great advantage not to drink among hard drinking people.

~F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

 

There are two kinds of people I don’t trust: people who don’t drink and people who collect stickers.

~Chelsea Handler, My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands

 

One sip of this
Will bathe the drooping spirits in delight
Beyond the bliss of dreams.

~John Milton

 

We were not a hugging people. In terms of emotional comfort it was our belief that no amount of physical contact could match the healing powers of a well made cocktail.

~David Sedaris, Naked

 

 

I think the warning labels on alcoholic beverages are too bland. They should be more vivid. Here is one I would suggest: “Alcohol will turn you into the same asshole your father was.”

~George Carlin

 

Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.

~G.K. Chesterton, Heretics

 

If you drink, don’t drive. Don’t even putt.

~Dean Martin

 

I’m not drunk, just a little stoned.

~Gerard Way

 

I began to think vodka was my drink at last. It didn’t taste like anything, but it went straight down into my stomach like a sword swallowers’ sword and made me feel powerful and godlike.

~Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

 

Drinking is fun! It makes me feel horrible and sexy!

~Warren Ellis

 

The highest form of wisdom is to get drunk and go to pieces.
The highest form of wisdom is to get drunk and go to pieces.

Candy is dandy
But liquor is quicker.

~Ogden Nash, Reflection on Ice-Breaking

 

I don’t have a drinking problem ‘Cept when I can’t get a drink.

~Tom Waits

 

Only Irish coffee provides in a single glass all four essential food groups: alcohol, caffeine, sugar and fat.

~Alex Levine

 

To alcohol! The cause of… and solution to… all of life’s problems

~Matt Groening

 

I like to see the glass as half full, hopefully of jack daniels.

~Darynda Jones, First Grave on the Right

 

Brandy, n. A cordial composed of one part thunder-and-lightning, one part remorse, two parts bloody murder, one part death-hell-and-the-grave and four parts clarified Satan.

~Ambrose Bierce

 

Fill with mingled cream and amber,
I will drain that glass again.
Such hilarious visions clamber
Through the chamber of my brain —
Quaintest thoughts — queerest fancies
Come to life and fade away;
What care I how time advances?
I am drinking ale today.

~Edgar Allan Poe

 

Alcohol, taken in sufficient quantities, may produce all the effects of drunkenness.

~Oscar Wilde

 

I think I need a drink.’
‘Almost everybody does only they don’t know it.

~Charles Bukowski, Women

 

I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.

~Winston Churchill

 

Wine is the most healthful and most hygienic of beverages.

~Louis Pasteur

 

Scotch whisky is made from barley and the morning dew on angel’s nipples.

~Warren Ellis

 

Alcohol ruined me financially and morally, broke my heart and the hearts of too many others. Even though it did this to me and it almost killed me and I haven’t touched a drop of it in seventeen years, sometimes I wonder if I could get away with drinking some now. I totally subscribe to the notion that alcoholism is a mental illness because thinking like that is clearly insane.

~Craig Ferguson, American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot

 

Ignorance is a lot like alcohol: the more you have of it, the less you are able to see its effect on you.

~Jay M. Bylsma

 

My grandmother is over eighty and still doesn’t need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle.

~Henny Youngman

 

It is the wine that leads me on,
the wild wine
that sets the wisest man to sing
at the top of his lungs,
laugh like a fool – it drives the
man to dancing… it even
tempts him to blurt out stories
better never told.

~Homer, The Odyssey

 

When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.

~Henny Youngman

 

Frankly, I was horrified by life, at what a man had to do simply in order to eat, sleep, and keep himself clothed. So I stayed in bed and drank. When you drank the world was still out there, but for the moment it didn’t have you by the throat.

~Charles Bukowski

 

They’re professionals at this in Russia, so no matter how many Jell-O shots or Jager shooters you might have downed at college mixers, no matter how good a drinker you might think you are, don’t forget that the Russians – any Russian – can drink you under the table.

~Anthony Bourdain, A Cook’s Tour: Global Adventures in Extreme Cuisines

 

Where ever I go, there I am. Drunk.

~Rita E. Torres

 

Beer Toast, My friends are the best friends Loyal, willing and able. Now let's get to drinking! All glasses off the table
Beer Toast, My friends are the best friends Loyal, willing and able. Now let’s get to drinking! All glasses off the table

 

If I have a near-beer, I’m near beer. And if I’m near beer, I’m close to tequila. And if I’m close to tequila, I’m adjacent to cocaine.

~Craig Ferguson

 

Why don’t you slip out of those wet clothes and into a dry Martini?

~Robert Benchley

 

It’s 4:58 on Friday afternoon. Do you know where your margarita is?

~Amy Neftzger

 

Jon:’What are you doing up there? Why aren’t you at the feast?’
Tyrion: ‘Too hot, too noisy, and I’d drunk too much wine’, the dwarf told him. ‘I learned long ago that it is considered rude to vomit on your brother.”

~George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

 

I am not your victim because you are not a predator any more than a bottle of scotch stalks an alcoholic.

~Sue William Silverman, Love Sick: One Woman’s Journey through Sexual Addiction

 

I’d prefer to have a full bottle in front of me than a full frontal lobotomy.

~Frank Nicholson

 

I once heard someone say that the concept of moderation seems a little extreme, and tonight…I agree.

~Koren Zailckas, Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood

 

There was a tacit understanding between them that ‘liquor helped’; growing more miserable with every glass one hoped for the moment of relief.

~Graham Greene, The Heart of the Matter

 

When a man who is drinking neat gin starts talking about his mother he is past all argument.

~C.S. Forester, The African Queen

 

Research consistently shows that the risks to health outweigh the benefits of drinking alcohol. My argument is that the benefits to my mental health justify the risks.

~Graeme Simsion, The Rosie Project

 

But in college, we can wear our alcohol abuse as proudly as our university sweatshirts; the two concepts are virtually synonymous.

~Koren Zailckas, Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood

 

Drunken men give some of the best pep talks.

~Criss Jami, Killosophy

 

Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors… and miss.

~Robert Heinlein

 

She likes her wine white, and that’s how I like my clam chowder. So chuggable!

~Jarod Kintz, Sleepwalking is restercise

 

“How is it that everyone on this train has so much alcohol?”
“We always head to Canada at the beginning of the season,” she says taking her seat again. “Their laws are much more civilized. Cheers.”

~Sara Gruen, Water for Elephants

 

Take a drink because you pity yourself, and then the drink pities you and has a drink, and then two good drinks get together and that calls for drinks all around.

~H. Beam Piper, Little Fuzzy

 

I drink only to make my friends seem interesting.

~Don Marquis

 

I spent a lot of money on booze, birds, and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.

~George Best

 

Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

~Seneca

 

What is it about a beautiful sunny afternoon, with the birds singing and the wind rustling through the leaves, that makes you want to get drunk?

~Jack Handey

 

Nothing uses up alcohol faster than political argument.

~Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress

 

There was nothing glorious about the life of a drinker or the life of a writer.

~Charles Bukowski, Hot Water Music

 

I drink exactly as much as I want, and one drink more.

~H.L. Mencken

 

That’s what was wrong with drinking too much. You became immune to drunken delights. There was no solace in liquor. Before you got happy, you collapsed.

~Richard Matheson, I Am Legend and Other Stories

 

A woman drove me to drink and I never even had the courtesy to thank her.

~W.C. Fields

 

They speak of my drinking, but never think of my thirst.

~Scottish Proverb

 

Love is alcohol.

~Katherine Applegate

 

Meanwhile the 3 a.m. drunks of the world would lay in their beds, trying in vain to sleep, and deserving that rest, if they could find it.

~Charles Bukowski

 

The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.

~William Butler Yeats

 

The worst gift I was given is when I got out of rehab that Christmas; a bottle of wine. It was delicious.

~Craig Ferguson

 

The one conclusion I have reached is that whiskey is a great leveler. You might be a hotshot advertising executive or a lowly foundry worker, but if you cannot hold your drink, you are just a drunkard.

~Vikas Swarup, Q & A

 

Cheap booze is a false economy.

~Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22: A Memoir

 

I believe that when life gives you lemons, you make lemonade — and then try to find someone whose life is giving them vodka, and have a party.

~Ron White

 

She had not character enough to take to drinking, and moaned about, slip-shod and in curl-papers, all day.

~William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair

 

Now don’t say you can’t swear off drinking; it’s easy, I’ve done it a thousand times.

~W.C. Fields

 

I live on shameless flattery…and vodka…but the two usually go hand in hand.

~Vicktor Alexander

 

I had a dream where I drank my own grandma. What she was doing disguised as a bottle of booze isn’t entirely clear to me.

~Jarod Kintz, This is the best book I’ve ever written, and it still sucks

 

It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is, I can’t remember if it’s the thirteenth or the fourteenth.

~George Burns

 

To a drinker the sensation is real and pure and akin to something spiritual: you seek; in the bottle, you find.

~Caroline Knapp, Drinking: A Love Story

 

Memory impairment: the free prize at the bottom of every vodka bottle.

~Big Bang Theory (Sheldon Cooper)

 

Civilization begins with distillation

~William Faulkner

 

We borrowed golf from Scotland as we borrowed whiskey. Not because it is Scottish, but because it is good.

~Horace Hutchinson

 

This isn’t champagne anymore. We went through the champagne a long time ago. This is serious stuff. The days of champagne are long gone.

~Sam Shepard, True West

 

I feel like today should be a perfect Meatball day… Let’s just get wastey-pants!

~Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi

 

I think that it is a great tragedy that a child can lose their mother, father, sister or brother, because you and I made a decision that getting loaded was more important than they are.

~Pamela Barrett, Tales of the Titmouse

 

It is sad that people need alcohol to make them happy.

~Habeeb Akande

 

Courage is a vitamin best swallowed with whiskey.

~Jarod Kintz, This Book is Not FOR SALE

 

I envy people who drink—at least they know what to blame everything on.

~Oscar Levant

 

I’ve created a new drink! I’m calling it the Piñata Colada! Its sweet and tasty, but when you wake up the next morning your head feels like its been hitten with a stick.

~José N. Harris

 

With the money I spend on alcohol, I could support a family of four, assuming they are all heavy drinkers.

~Jarod Kintz, This Book is Not FOR SALE

 

The devil lives in a double-shot”, Roman explains himself obscurely. “I got a great worm inside. Gnaws and gnaws. Every day I drown him and every day he gnaws. Help me drown the worm, fellas.

~Nelson Algren, The Neon Wilderness

 

The chief reason for drinking is the desire to behave in a certain way, and to be able to blame it on alcohol.

~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook

 

So what are you planning to do with the rest of your life?
Develop a drinking problem. More Scotch, please.

~Daniel Silva, The Marching Season

 

Alcohol, I had learned, was an eloquent if somewhat inaccurate interpreter. I had placed my trust that December night in glass after glass of it, eager not for drink but for a bit of talk.

~Monique Truong, The Book of Salt

 

Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with, that it’s compounding a felony.

~Robert Benchley

 

I feel sorry for people who don’t drink. When they wake up in the morning, that’s as good as they’re going to feel all day.

~Frank Sinatra

 

There are worse ways to die than warm and drunk.

~George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings

 

I like liquor — its taste and its effects — and that is just the reason why I never drink it.

~Stonewall Jackson

 

For me to enjoy a salad, I need the right dressing. Vodka is salad dressing, right?

~Jarod Kintz, Xazaqazax

 

The best thing is the combined effect of nicotine with alcohol, greater than the sum of the two parts.

~Sebastian Faulks, Engleby

 

I think a man ought to get drunk at least twice a year just on principle, so he won’t let himself get snotty about it.

~Raymond Chandler

 

Sam took another sip of the pruno. It went down smoother this time, possibly because he no longer had feeling in his extremities.

~Tod Goldberg, Burn Notice: The Reformed

 

Don’t trust a brilliant idea unless it survives the hangover.

~Jimmy Breslin

 

The medicine is in the eye of the beholder and right now you be-holding a big ass glass of it. So, shut up and drink your whiskey.

~Joe Buckler, Later That Night

 

Always do sober what you said you’d do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.

~Ernest Hemingway

 

 

 

 

 

Quotes About Anger

Awesome Quotes and Sayings About Anger

Quotations & Citations:

Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.

~Marcus Antonius

 

The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.

~Gloria Steinem

 

Animals don't hate, and we're supposed to be better than them

 

Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.

~Phyllis Diller

 

Angry people are not always wise.

~Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

 

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

~Jacqueline Schiff

 

There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.

~Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man’s Fear

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

 

My tongue will tell the anger of my heart, or else my heart concealing it will break.

~William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew

 

Two things a man should never be angry at: What he can help, and what he cannot help.

~Thomas Fuller

 

The longer I live, the more I observe that carrying around anger is the most debilitating to the person who bears it.

~Katharine Graham

 

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Holding anger is a poison…It eats you from inside…We think that by hating someone we hurt them…But hatred is a curved blade…and the harm we do to others…we also do to ourselves.

~Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven

 

Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.

~J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

 

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

~Maya Angelou

 

To carry a grudge is like being stung to death by one bee.

~William H. Walton

 

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.

 

Humor is almost always anger with its make-up on.

~Stephen King, Bag of Bones

 

Anybody can become angry — that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way — that is not within everybody’s power and is not easy.

~Aristotle

 

The worst-tempered people I’ve ever met were people who knew they were wrong.

~Wilson Mizner

 

Keep in mind, hurting people often hurt other people as a result of their own pain. If somebody is rude and inconsiderate, you can almost be certain that they have some unresolved issues inside. They have some major problems, anger, resentment, or some heartache they are trying to cope with or overcome. The last thing they need is for you to make matters worse by responding angrily.

~Joel Osteen

 

When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.

 

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

~Ambrose Bierce

 

Resentment is an extremely bitter diet, and eventually poisonous. I have no desire to make my own toxins.

~Neil Kinnock

 

The best fighter is never angry.

~Lao Tzu

 

Honest men fear neither the light nor the dark.

 

When angry, count four. When very angry, swear.

~Mark Twain

 

Anger is a bad counselor.

~French Proverb

 

Never strike your wife — even with a flower.

~Hindu Proverb

 

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.

~Gautama Buddha

 

Be like the sun for grace and mercy. Be like the night to cover others’ faults. Be like running water for generosity. Be like death for rage and anger. Be like the Earth for modesty. Appear as you are. Be as you appear.

~Rumi

 

The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.

 

It is wise to direct your anger towards problems — not people; to focus your energies on answers — not excuses.

~William Arthur Ward

 

Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less than he had been before — it takes something from him.

~Louis L’Armour

 

In a world filled with hate, we must still dare to hope. In a world filled with anger, we must still dare to comfort. In a world filled with despair, we must still dare to dream. And in a world filled with distrust, we must still dare to believe.

~Michael Jackson

 

Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

~Mark Twain

 

 Arrogance invites ruin; humility receives benefits.

 

Malice drinks one-half of its own poison.

~Seneca

 

That’s why I want you there, he said. You’re unpredictable, and that can be the difference between success and failure. Most people make decisions in anger, fear, love, or obligation. You make decisions to irritate people.

~Kim Harrison, For a Few Demons More

 

You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.

~Buddha

 

Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness. If, in our heart, we still cling to anything – anger, anxiety, or possessions – we cannot be free.

~Thích Nhất Hạnh

 

So you try to think of someone else you’re mad at, and the unavoidable answer pops into your little warped brain: everyone.

~Ellen Hopkins

 

Usually when people are sad, they don’t do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

~Malcolm X

 

Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.

 

If you are patient in a moment of anger, you will escape one hundred days of sorrow.

~Chinese Proverb

 

Let today be the day you stop being haunted by the ghost of yesterday. Holding a grudge & harboring anger/resentment is poison to the soul. Get even with people…but not those who have hurt us, forget them, instead get even with those who have helped us.

~Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

 

Transformation is my favorite game and in my experience, anger and frustration are the result of you not being authentic somewhere in your life or with someone in your life. Being fake about anything creates a block inside of you. Life can’t work for you if you don’t show up as you.

~Jason Mraz

 

Trade your expectation for appreciation and the world changes for you

 

Maybe I needed sensitivity training. I once signed up for an anger management class, but the instructor pissed me off.

~Darynda Jones, First Grave on the Right

 

Anger is just anger. It isn’t good. It isn’t bad. It just is. What you do with it is what matters. It’s like anything else. You can use it to build or to destroy. You just have to make the choice.

~Jim Butcher

 

These people fail to realize that it is on the inside that God must be defended, not on the outside. They should direct their anger at themselves. For evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out. The main battlefield for good is not the open ground of the public arena but the small clearing of each heart.

~Yann Martel, Life of Pi

 

Anger and folly walk cheek by jole.

~Benjamin Franklin

 

 No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, could ever compel the soul of man to believe or disbelieve

 

Learn this from me. Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from inside. We think that hating is a weapon that attacks the person who harmed us. But hatred is a curved blade. And the harm we do, we do to ourselves.

~Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven

 

At the core of all anger is a need that is not being fulfilled.

~Marshall B. Rosenberg

 

Never forget that God is your friend. And like all friends, He longs to hear what’s been happening in your life. Good or bad, whether it’s been full of sorrow or anger, or even when you’re questioning why terrible things have to happen.

~Nicholas Sparks, The Last Song

 

Anger blows out the lamp of the mind.

~Robert G. Ingersoll

 

Some people grumble that roses have thorns, I am grateful that thorns have roses

 

A flood of emotions rushes into me. Pain and anger. Sadness and pity. But most surprising of all, hope.

~Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why

 

Do not teach your children never to be angry; teach them how to be angry.

~Lyman Abbott

 

That initial anger she had felt turned to sadness, and now it had become something else, almost a dullness of sorts. Even though she was constantly in motion, it seemed as if nothing special ever happened to her anymore. Each day seemed exactly like the last, and she had trouble differentiating among them.

~Nicholas Sparks, Message in a Bottle

 

My mother’s psychologist says I have an overactive anger switch, but people just keep pissing me off.

~Meg Cabot, Darkest Hour

 

If you’re angry at a loved one, hug that person. And mean it. You may not want to hug — which is all the more reason to do so. It’s hard to stay angry when someone shows they love you, and that’s precisely what happens when we hug each other.

~Walter Anderson

 

Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot

 

All cruelty springs from weakness.

~Seneca

 

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.

~George Eliot

 

Most hatred is based on fear, one way or another. Yeah. I wrapped myself in anger, with a dash of hate, and at the bottom of it all was an icy center of pure terror.

~Laurell K. Hamilton, Guilty Pleasures

 

Don’t hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

~Leo Buscaglia

 

Even after all this time the sun never says to the earth, You owe me Look what happens with a love like that It lights the whole sky

 

Anger is short-lived madness.

~Horace

 

Never respond to an angry person with a fiery comeback, even if he deserves it…Don’t allow his anger to become your anger.

~Bohdi Sanders, Warrior Wisdom: Ageless Wisdom for the Modern Warrior

 

It was as if that great rush of anger had washed me clean, emptied me of hope, and, gazing up at the dark sky spangled with its signs and stars, for the first time, the first, I laid my heart open to the benign indifference of the universe.
To feel it so like myself, indeed, so brotherly, made me realize that I’d been happy, and that I was happy still. For all to be accomplished, for me to feel less lonely, all that remained to hope was that on the day of my execution there should be a huge crowd of spectators and that they should greet me with howls of execration.

~Albert Camus, The Stranger

 

Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong

 

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

~Rainer Maria Rilke

 

No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

~George Jean Nathan

 

Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not remain as they are.

~Augustine of Hippo

 

Anger, resentment and jealousy doesn’t change the heart of others– it only changes yours.

~Shannon L. Alder, 300 Questions to Ask Your Parents Before It’s Too Late

 

If you spend your time hoping someone will suffer the consequences for what they did to your heart, then you’re allowing them to hurt you a second time in your mind.

~Shannon L. Alder

 

Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves

 

Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.

~Albert Einstein

 

Anger is stupid, and stupidity will kill you more surely than your opponent’s blade.

~Patricia Briggs, Dragon Bones

 

People are strange: They are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a major matter like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to notice.

~Charles Bukowski

 

Not the fastest horse can catch a word spoken in anger.

~Chinese Proverb

 

Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.

~Socrates

 

I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally

 

How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.

~Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

 

The trouble with anger is, it gets hold of you. And then you aren’t the master of yourself anymore. Anger is. And when anger is the boss, you get unintended consequences.

~Jeanne DuPrau, The City of Ember

 

Anger as soon as fed is dead—
‘Tis starving makes it fat—

~Emily Dickinson

 

Anger exceeding limits causes fear and excessive kindness eliminates respect.

~Euripides

 

Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.

~George Lucas, Star Wars, Episode I: The Phantom Menace

 

Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft

 

If you kick a stone in anger, you’ll hurt your own foot.

~Korean Proverb

 

Vanity was stronger than love at sixteen and there was no room in her hot heart now for anything but hate.

~Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

 

Out of anger comes controversy, out of controversy comes conversation, out of conversation comes action.

~Tupac Shakur

 

I enjoy my anger, it’s the only hobby I have.

~Laurell K. Hamilton, Cerulean Sins

 

Watch out for each other. Love everyone and forgive everyone, including yourself. Forgive your anger. Forgive your guilt. Your shame. Your sadness. Embrace and open up your love, your joy, your truth, and most especially your heart.

~Jim Henson

 

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye

 

Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die.

~Malachy McCourt

 

One of the gifts our planet gave us is to love completely. Without jealousy or insecurity or fear. Without pettiness. Without anger.

~Pittacus Lore, I Am Number Four

 

Under certain circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.

~Mark Twain, A Biography

 

If you try to get rid of fear and anger without knowing their meaning, they will grow stronger and return.

~Deepak Chopra

 

Don't criticize what you cant understand

 

Hard times build determination and inner strength. Through them we can also come to appreciate the uselessness of anger. Instead of getting angry nurture a deep caring and respect for troublemakers because by creating such trying circumstances they provide us with invaluable opportunities to practice tolerance and patience.

~Dalai Lama XIV

 

Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath.

~Eckhart Tolle

 

The world needs anger. The world often continues to allow evil because it isn’t angry enough.

~Bede Jarrett

 

Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you are.

~Cherie Carter-Scott

 

If one sows pumpkins with the devil, they will bash onto one's head.

 

When you say something really unkind, when you do something in retaliation your anger increases. You make the other person suffer, and he will try hard to say or to do something back to get relief from his suffering. That is how conflict escalates.

~Thích Nhất Hạnh, Anger: Wisdom for Cooling the Flames

 

Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can’t last.

~Greg Evans

 

People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing.

~Will Rogers

 

Conquer the angry one by not getting angry; conquer the wicked by goodness; conquer the stingy by generosity, and the liar by speaking the truth.

~Gautama Buddha, The Dhammapada

 

The fiercest anger of all, the most incurable,
Is that which rages in the place of dearest love.

~Euripides, Medea and Other Plays

 

Some people never go crazy What truly horrible lives they must lead

 

Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm.

~Steven Wright

 

He who angers you conquers you.

~Elizabeth Kenny

 

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

~Benjamin Franklin

 

Anger is really disappointed hope.

~Erica Jong

 

Men in rage strike those that wish them best.

~William Shakespeare

 

There is nothing more galling to angry people than the coolness of those on whom they wish to vent their spleen.

~Alexandre Dumas

 

There is nothing like wounded affection for giving poignancy to anger.

~Elizabeth Gaskell, Wives and Daughters

 

Anger is a valid emotion. It’s only bad when it takes control and makes you do things you don’t want to do.

~Ellen Hopkins, Fallout

 

Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.

~Henry Ward Beecher

 

Think before you speak Read before you think

 

If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?

~Sydney J. Harris

 

In days that follow, I discover that anger is easier to handle than grief.

~Emily Giffin, Heart of the Matter

 

Your perspective on life comes from the cage you were held captive in.

~Shannon L. Alder

 

The way to change others’ minds is with affection, and not anger.

~Dalai Lama XIV

 

I have lived lies. I have done it again and again. I live lies because I cannot endure the weakness of anger, and I cannot admit the irrationality of love.

~Anne Rice (Marius)

 

 

Quotes About Grief and Sorrow

Awesome Quotes and Sayings About Grief and Sorrow

Quotations & Citations:

 

 

She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.

~George Eliot

 

I will not say, do not weep, for not all tears are an evil.

~J.R.R. Tolkien

 

My whole wretched life swam before my weary eyes, and I realized no matter what you do it's bound to be a waste of time in the end so you might as well go mad....  I'm going to marry my novels and have little short stories for children.

 

Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.

~Rumi

 

While we are mourning the loss of our friend, others are rejoicing to meet him behind the veil.

~John Taylor

 

Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart.

~José N. Harris

 

Without you in my arms, I feel an emptiness in my soul. I find myself searching the crowds for your face – I know it’s an impossibility, but I cannot help myself.

~Nicholas Sparks, Message in a Bottle

 

The sorrow which has no vent in tears may make other organs weep.

~Henry Maudsley

 

The greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention.

 

In times of grief and sorrow I will hold you and rock you and take your grief and make it my own. When you cry I cry and when you hurt I hurt. And together we will try to hold back the floods to tears and despair and make it through the potholed street of life

~Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

 

In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.

~Robert Ingersoll

 

The darker the night, the brighter the stars,
The deeper the grief, the closer is God!

~Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

 

Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature’s delight.

~Marcus Aurelius

 

Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.

~Leo Tolstoy

 

Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow

 

We have learned so many lessons,
Since our heads were bowed in grief,
That have kept our boat from crashing
On life’s ragged, rocky reef.

~Gertrude Tooley Buckingham

 

She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separating its numerous strands, appreciating its subtle nuances. She was a prism through which sadness could be divided into its infinite spectrum.

~Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated

 

If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.

~Moliere

 

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

~C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed

 

Come, ye disconsolate, where’er you languish,
Come at the shrine of God fervently kneel;
Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish—
Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.

~Thomas Moore

 

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams

 

They say time heals all wounds, but that presumes the source of the grief is finite

~Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince

 

There’s a bit of magic in everything, and some loss to even things out.

~Lou Reed

 

You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it.

~J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

 

The deep pain that is felt at the death of every friendly soul arises from the feeling that there is in every individual something which is inexpressible, peculiar to him alone, and is, therefore, absolutely and irretrievably lost.

~Arthur Schopenhauer

 

It’s so curious: one can resist tears and ‘behave’ very well in the hardest hours of grief. But then someone makes you a friendly sign behind a window, or one notices that a flower that was in bud only yesterday has suddenly blossomed, or a letter slips from a drawer… and everything collapses.

~Colette

 

There is no darkness, but ignorance.

 

Time is a physician that heals every grief.

~Diphilus

 

Grief is not as heavy as guilt, but it takes more away from you.

~Veronica Roth, Insurgent

 

If you’re going through hell, keep going.

~Winston Churchill

 

To weep is to make less the depth of grief.

~William Shakespeare

 

Grief can be a burden, but also an anchor. You get used to the weight, how it holds you in place.

~Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever

 

Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break.

~William Shakespeare, Macbeth

 

The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you.  Don't go back to sleep.

 

So it’s true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love.

~E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly

 

We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.

~Kenji Miyazawa

 

Grief is a most peculiar thing; we’re so helpless in the face of it. It’s like a window that will simply open of its own accord. The room grows cold, and we can do nothing but shiver. But it opens a little less each time, and a little less; and one day we wonder what has become of it.

~Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

 

Grief is a house
where the chairs
have forgotten how to hold us
the mirrors how to reflect us
the walls how to contain us

grief is a house that disappears
each time someone knocks at the door
or rings the bell
a house that blows into the air
at the slightest gust
that buries itself deep in the ground
while everyone is sleeping

grief is a house where no one can protect you
where the younger sister
will grow older than the older one
where the doors
no longer let you in
or out

~Jandy Nelson, The Sky is Everywhere

 

Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity

 

And perhaps there is a limit to the grieving that the human heart can do. As when one adds salt to a tumbler of water, there comes a point where simply no more will be absorbed.

~Sarah Waters, The Little Stranger

 

Grief is itself a medicine.

~William Cowper, Charity

 

“It doesn’t get better,” I said. “The pain. The wounds scab over and you don’t always feel like a knife is slashing through you. But when you least expect it, the pain flashes to remind you you’ll never be the same.”

~Katie McGarry, Pushing the Limits

 

Youth offers the promise of happiness, but life offers the realities of grief.

~Nicholas Sparks, The Rescue

 

Passion and prejudice govern the world only under the name of reason

 

When you part from your friend, you grieve not;
For that which you love most in him may be clearer in his absence, as
the mountain to the climber is clearer from the plain.

~Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

 

Grief is a species of idleness.

~Samuel Johnson

 

Everyone grieves in different ways. For some, it could take longer or shorter. I do know it never disappears. An ember still smolders inside me. Most days, I don’t notice it, but, out of the blue, it’ll flare to life.

~Maria V. Snyder, Storm Glass

 

I have outlasted all desire,
My dreams and I have grown apart;
My grief alone is left entire,
The gleamings of an empty heart.

The storms of ruthless dispensation
Have struck my flowery garland numb,
I live in lonely desolation
And wonder when my end will come.

Thus on a naked tree-limb, blasted
By tardy winter’s whistling chill,
A single leaf which has outlasted
Its season will be trembling still.

~Alexander Pushkin

 

Sorrow makes us all children again — destroys all differences of intellect. The wisest know nothing.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally

 

When one person is missing the whole world seems empty.

~Pat Schweibert, Tear Soup: A Recipe for Healing After Loss

 

Every morning, I wake up and forget just for a second that it happened. But once my eyes open, it buries me like a landslide of sharp, sad rocks. Once my eyes open, I’m heavy, like there’s to much gravity on my heart.

~Sarah Ockler, Twenty Boy Summer

 

Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak whispers the o’er-fraught heart and bids it break.

~William Shakespeare

 

Grief is like sinking, like being buried. I am in water the tawny color of kicked-up dirt. Every breath is full of choking. There is nothing to hold on to, no sides, no way to claw myself up. There is nothing to do but let go.

Let go. Feel the weight all around you, feel the squeezing of your lungs, the slow, low pressure. Let yourself go deeper. There is nothing but bottom. There is nothing but the taste of metal, and the echoes of old things, and days that look like darkness.

~Lauren Oliver, Pandemonium

 

While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates.  You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.

~Samuel Johnson

 

Envy, after all, comes from wanting something that isn’t yours. But grief comes from losing something you’ve already had.

~Jodi Picoult, Perfect Match

 

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor

 

Sorrow you can hold, however desolating, if nobody speaks to you.  If they speak, you break down.

~Bede Jarrett

 

Now something so sad has hold of us that the breath leaves and we can’t even cry.

~Charles Bukowski, You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

 

When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

~Kahlil Gibran

 

No matter how bad your heart is broken, the world doesn’t stop for your grief.

~Faraaz Kazi

 

There are all kinds of ways for a relationship to be tested, even broken, some, irrevocably; it’s the endings we’re unprepared for.

~Katherine Owen, Not To Us

 

We accept the love we think we deserve

 

Grieving doesn’t make you imperfect. It makes you human.

~Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever

 

There’s a fine edge to new grief, it severs nerves, disconnects reality–there’s mercy in a sharp blade. Only with time, as the edge wears, does the real ache begin.

~Christopher Moore

 

Love is an engraved invitation to grief.

~Sunshine O’Donnell, Open Me

 

The weird, weird thing about devastating loss is that life actually goes on. When you’re faced with a tragedy, a loss so huge that you have no idea how you can live through it, somehow, the world keeps turning, the seconds keep ticking.

~James Patterson, Angel

 

 

Quotes About Being Socially Awkward

Awesome Quotes and Sayings About Being Socially Awkward

Quotations & Citations:

 

 

It’s not all bad. Heightened self-consciousness, apartness, an inability to join in, physical shame and self-loathing—they are not all bad. Those devils have been my angels. Without them I would never have disappeared into language, literature, the mind, laughter and all the mad intensities that made and unmade me.

~Stephen Fry, Moab is my Washpot

 

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

~Henry Stanley Haskins

 

I used to thing the worst thing in life was to end up all alone, it's not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people that make you feel all alone.

 

I’m not anti-social. I’m just not social.

~Woody Allen

 

I used to feel so alone in the city. All those gazillions of people and then me, on the outside. Because how do you meet a new person? I was very stunned by this for many years. And then I realized, you just say, “Hi.” They may ignore you. Or you may marry them. And that possibility is worth that one word.

~Augusten Burroughs

 

The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.

~Charles de Gaulle

 

I wondered how many people there were in the world who suffered, and continued to suffer, because they could not break out from their own web of shyness and reserve, and in their blindness and folly built up a great distorted wall in front of them that hid the truth.

~Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca

 

Face what you think you believe and you will be surprised.

~William Hale White

 

Some cause happiness wherever they go, others whenever they go

 

Self-consciousness is the enemy of all art, be it acting, writing, painting, or living itself, which is the greatest art of all.

~Ray Bradbury

 

What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?

~Robert H. Schuller

 

I’ve spent most of my life and most of my friendships holding my breath and hoping that when people get close enough they won’t leave, and fearing that it’s a matter of time before they figure me out and go.

~Shauna Niequist

 

The future is called “perhaps,” which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the only important thing is not to allow that to scare you.

~Tennessee Williams

 

Be yourself everyone else is already taken

 

When all by myself, I can think of all kinds of clever remarks, quick comebacks to what no one said, and flashes of witty sociability with nobody. But all of this vanishes when I face someone in the flesh: I lose my intelligence, I can no longer speak, and after half an hour I just feel tired. Talking to people makes me feel like sleeping. Only my ghostly and imaginary friends, only the conversations I have in my dreams, are genuinely real and substantial.

~Fernando Pessoa

 

Courage is to feel the daily daggers of relentless steel and keep on living.

~Douglas Malloch

 

A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that’s unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.

~Ludwig Wittgenstein

 

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.

~George Smith Patton

 

Life is made of fear. Some people eat fear soup three times a day. Some people eat fear soup all the meals there are. I eat it sometimes. When they bring me fear soup to eat, I try not to eat it, I try to send it back. But sometimes I’m too afraid to and have to eat it anyway.

~Martin Amis, Other People

 

I've had a wonderful time, but this wasn't it.

 

No one has yet computed how many imaginary triumphs are silently celebrated by people each year to keep up their courage.

~Henry S. Haskins

 

Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.

~Helen Keller, The Story of My Life

 

When we are afraid we ought not to occupy ourselves with endeavoring to prove that there is no danger, but in strengthening ourselves to go on in spite of the danger.

~Mark Rutherford

 

I have packed myself into silence so deeply and for so long that I can never unpack myself using words. When I speak, I only pack myself a little differently.

~Herta Müller, The Hunger Angel

 

When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way you will command the attention of the world

 

Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.

~Raymond Lindquist

 

Suddenly he saw himself as others in the crowd must surely see him; a silent, solitary figure, standing apart from the rest. He looked out at the hoardes of singing, laughing people and felt more alone than he’d ever felt in his life. Was this how it was going to be then? Was this who he was? A man apart from his fellows, making the journey through life alone?

~Mary Lawson, The Other Side of the Bridge

 

Sometimes the biggest act of courage is a small one.

~Lauren Raffo

 

In all her intercourse with society, however, there was nothing that made her feel as if she belonged to it… She stood apart from mortal interests, yet close beside them, like a ghost that revisits the familiar fireside, and can no longer make itself seen or felt.

~Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

 

Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow.

~Dan Rather

 

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality

 

The moment of crisis had come, and I must face it. My old fears, my diffidence, my shyness, my hopeless sense of inferiority, must be conquered now and thrust aside. If I failed now I should fail forever.

~Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca

 

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear — not absence of fear.

~Mark Twain, Pudd’nhead Wilson’s Calendar

 

Into the dark night
Resignedly I go,
I am not so afraid of the dark night
As the friends I do not know,
I do not fear the night above
As I fear the friends below.

~Stevie Smith, Selected Poems

 

Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I’ll try again tomorrow.

~Mary Anne Radmacher

 

All I wanted was to be left alone. They abhor a vacuum, other people. You find a quiet corner where you can hunker down in peace, and the next minute there they are, crowding around you in their party hats, tooting their paper whistles in your face and insisting you get up and join in the knees-up.

~John Banville

 

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

 

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

It exasperated her to think that the dungeon in which she had languished for so many unhappy years had been unlocked all the time, and that the impulses she had so carefully struggled with and stifled for the sake of keeping well with society, were precisely those by which alone she could have come into any sort of sincere human contact.

~George Bernard Shaw

 

All I feel are the assaults of apprehension and terror at the thought that I am the only one who is entirely unlike the rest. It is almost impossible for me to converse with other people. What should I talk about, how should I say it? – I don’t know.

~Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

 

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon — instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.

~Dale Carnegie

 

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

 

Does a society exist where it’s become acceptable to wear ‘helmets’ enclosing one’s entire head when in public to preempt social interaction

~Tao Lin

 

The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.

~Abraham Maslow

 

In our hearts… there must abide some pity for those people who have always felt themselves to be separate from even their most familiar surroundings, those people who either are foreigners or who suffer a singular point of view that makes them feel as if they’re foreigners – even in their native lands. In our hearts… there also abides a certain suspicion that such people need to feel set apart from their society. But people who initiate loneliness are no less lonely than those who are suddenly surprised by loneliness, nor are they undeserving of our pity.

~John Irving, A Son of the Circus

 

As man draws nearer to the stars, why should he not also draw nearer to his neighbor?

 

We are always getting ready to live but never living.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

People want to see that other people are interested in you before they become interested in you, unfortunately, they come after you when you’re no longer interested in them.

~Michael Bassey Johnson

 

Mental health problems do not affect three or four out of every five persons but one out of one.

~William Menninger

 

For someone like myself in whom the ability to trust others is so cracked and broken that I am wretchedly timid and am forever trying to read the expression on people’s faces.

~Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

 

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give

 

A neurotic is a man who builds a castle in the air. A psychotic is the man who lives in it. A psychiatrist is the man who collects the rent.

~Jerome Lawrence

 

I was afraid to board a streetcar because of the conductor; I was afraid to enter the Kabuki Theater for fear of the usherettes standing along the sides of the red-carpeted staircase at the main entrance; I was afraid to go into a restaurant because I was intimidated by the waiters furtively hovering behind me waiting for my plate to be emptied.

~Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

 

If my devils are to leave me, I am afraid my angels will take flight as well.

~Rainer Maria Rilke

 

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.

 

In other people’s company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring…

~André Gide

 

Tears are the safety valve of the heart when too much pressure is laid on it.

~Albert Smith

 

I swear that I will never cause trouble for anybody, as long as I live!! So please! Nobody cause any trouble for me, either!

~Minoru Furuya

 

The neurotic is always half-drowning in anxiety, and always being half-rescued.

~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook

 

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other

 

Waves are the sea’s white daughters,
And raindrops the children of rain,
But why for my shimmering body
Have I a mother like Pain?

Night is the mother of stars,
And wind the mother of foam—
The world is brimming with beauty,
But I must stay at home.

~Sara Teasdale, Flame and Shadow

 

The neurotic longs to touch bottom, so at least he won’t have that to worry about anymore.

~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook

 

What we can see in most societies is the gravity of suffering, tears of sorrow and nightmares of hopelessness.

~Nilantha Ilangamuwa, The Naked Power

 

The way you treat yourself sets the standard for others.

~Sonya Friedman

 

Trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit

 

Never ignore the elephant in the room. That’s rude; play with it and introduce it.

~Donna Lynn Hope

 

When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.

~African Proverb

 

She untied her ropes, her frazzled oily grimy ropes that held her down into the littered marshlands of a life too long lived in fear and dread of the unknown, and took a big step out of bounds.

~Ella M. Kaye, Shadowed Lights

 

I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.

~Louisa May Alcott

 

It’s me who is my enemy
Me who beats me up
Me who makes the monsters
Me who strips my confidence.

~Paula Cole, “Me,” This Fire

 

No one is perfect that's why pencils have erasers

 

Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.

~William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure

 

To lead by example is difficult when you’re a follower of fear.

~T.A. Sachs

 

Other people’s opinion of you does not have to become your reality.

~Les Brown

 

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.

~Edmund Hillary

 

In my day we didn't have self esteem, we had self respect, and no more of it than we had earned

 

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

~Eleanor Roosevelt

 

Some of your hurts you have cured,
And the sharpest you still have survived,
But what torments of grief you endured
From the evil which never arrived.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

Somehow our devils are never quite what we expect when we meet them face to face.

~Nelson DeMille