If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so sparkling, what so fragrant, what so intoxicating, as possibility!

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If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES People who pretend to be your friend lead you up a garden path by saying everything that you want to...
GARY F EVANS...

Do what is best for you; it will be the best for the world.
DEBASISH MRIDHA

The idea is to believe me... but as far as I see the world... to believe is a sin... to trust me one...
DEYTH BANGER

What matters is the one thing I do know for certain: God is with me.
CRAIG GROESCHEL

something must go within to bring what is within out. Oh yes! You need something within to bring wha...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH

Pleasure disappoints, possibility never
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I thought that I was the Warrior and Cersei was the Maid, but all the time she was the Stranger, ...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The danger of civilization, of course, is that you will piss away your life on nonsense.
JIM HARRISON Waiting so long... for 0 result?
DEYTH BANGER Not," Swift said firmly, "for all the tea in China."
"That expression has never made sense to m...
LISA KLEYPAS What could I wish for the present but to take the greatest pleasure in being what I am?
RAOUL VANEIGEM I accept everything which is favorable for the people and the army; for myself, I wish to live in re...
TOUSSAINT LOUVERTURE Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C. Eat for lunch, but let something for dinner.
ERBLIN VUKAJ Jesus Christ wants to show His love for this world through us, Christians.
SUNDAY ADELAJA If you are among the good fellows chances are that you will be among the blemishes for the wicked ar...
APURVA GAGLANI It's hard when you have things but lose them, it's even harder when you feel that you're being left ...
GARY F EVANS... Starting today, must forget what gone yesterday,appreciate what remains today & look forward what ca...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA call it chicken salad
SARAH DESSEN Society. The same society, I might add, that dictates that little girls should always be sugar and s...
SARAH DESSEN Hold onto one thought: You're not important. You're not anything. Some day the load we're carrying w...
RAY BRADBURY Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. You Have Seen the Cure for Cancer Many Times, Even Right Now! So the Problem is Not Finding a Cure, ...
THEHEALTHFOODGURU (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes...
JEAN SASSON The most important ingredient we put into any relationship is not what we say or what we do, but wha...
STEPHEN R. COVEY I'm not sure why the saying goes..."be careful what you wish for"...it should be, "prepare yourself ...
C. NZINGHA SMITH You know something is wrong when you are known for what you are against, instead of what you are for...
JADE HAJJ Silence is the most expensive to buy.
LJUPKA CVETANOVA Chewing tiger nut is good exercise for the mouth, i love its nutty taste
SOTONYE ANGA I was never really about the money. Every business I've ever started has been more of a curiosity an...
BLAKE MYCOSKIE Nothing is so easy as to deceive oneself; for what we wish, we readily believe.
DEMOSTHENES I don't define lust as anything evil or nasty. Lust as defined by me, is the feeling of desire: a de...
C. JOYBELL C. What am I willing to risk for the possibility of getting what I want?
MAGGIE STIEFVATER That's what it feels like. And I wish that's what it was. I wish it was April 20th and we were here ...
DAN LACOUTURE The fear of God is the only cure for the fear of people.
CRAIG GROESCHEL The appetite for power, even for universal power, is only insane when there is no possibility of ind...
SIMONE WEIL Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an...
LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD The bottom line is, what defines you isn't how many times you crash, but the number of times you get...
SARAH DESSEN This is a 911? You know you only text that when someone is dead or dying. You scared the crap out of...
SARAH DESSEN It’s the things you fight for and struggle with before earning that have the greatest worth.
SARAH DESSEN From the Kindle Book Reflections in the Mirror of Life:
“In a slum somewhere in India
As...
THE PROPHET OF LIFE May I never neither turn left nor turn right in my journey of life, but may I go straight to Christ ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Everyone wanted to believe that endless love was possible. She'd believed in it once too, back when ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS One thing I'll be talking about during the Olympics is what my partner and I would do in this or tha...
KARCH KIRALY Not only did he unleash his emotions through rivers of tears, but for several days he denied his bod...
CRAIG GROESCHEL I think that Hiphop should be a pulpit for the people.
SLICK RICK Selfish people look for success and are in great majority with good bonhomie, but others who crave f...
ANUJ SOMANY Only once you destroy who you think you are can you embrace who you truly are.
SOMAN CHAINANI So long as they don't get violent, I want to let everyone say what they wish, for I myself have alwa...
ALBERT EINSTEIN Frodo: I wish the ring had never come to me. I wish none of this had happened. Gandalf: So do all wh...
LORD OF THE RINGS People want the here and now, rather than the there and after; as most are living in the where and w...
ANTHONY LICCIONE For myself, personally, I am never really aware of timing or anything because I am passionate about ...
COLM WILKINSON You'll never get anywhere if you go about what-iffing like that.
ROALD DAHL Nicolas Cage is the best for taking the role of character Joker. He is pretty damn good at jokes!
DEYTH BANGER You often love someone not for what they are, but for what you are when you are with them.
JEFFREY FRY She buys "mixed salad greens" for seven dollars a bag, triple-washed with who knows what. And to get...
RUDOLPH DELSON To say nothing is saying something. You must denounce things you are against or one might believe th...
GERMANY KENT There are storm clouds before the storm, there are the living before the dead. I need a figurehead, ...
KEVIN OUTLAW Frodo: I wish the Ring had never come to me. I wish none of this had happened.
Gandalf: So do a...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Within the university... you can study without waiting for any efficient or immediate result. You ma...
JACQUES DERRIDA I had rather face wild beasts and diseases than the perils of civilization."
There is a proverb...
MARIE BRENNAN In a day and age where it seems like women want to be with unstable, psychotic, manipulative freaks;...
C. JOYBELL C. Here is one fact 1 minute to finish the class, 1 day to die, one day behind that fact, one day in th...
DEYTH BANGER Romantic love can be terrifying. We experience another human being as enormously important to us. So...
NATHANIEL BRANDEN I am really passionate about my career and my music and I am so lucky to be able to do what I do for...
RACHEL STEVENS Reach for the stars.
CHRISTA MCAULIFFE If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
T.S. ELIOT Just because something's damaged doesn't mean it shouldn't be treated with respect.'

'Ad,...
SARAH DESSEN You're supposed to fail sometimes. It's a required part of the human existence
-Eli
SARAH DESSEN It was terrible and awful when someone left you. You could move on, do the best you could, but like ...
SARAH DESSEN …You don’t want the best of times to be just one thing, forever. You have to have a lot of bests...
SARAH DESSEN Even when apologising, this guy turns on the charm. And the worst thing is that it works.
She h...
GUILLAUME MUSSO My life came to a standstill. I could breathe, eat, drink and sleep, and I could not help doing thes...
LEO TOLSTOY In all those stories about people who sold their souls to the devil, I never quite understood why th...
JAMES ANDERSON So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters; and whether it matters for ag...
VIRGINIA WOOLF This Bible is for the government of the people, by the people and for the people.
JOHN WYCLIFFE Together my wife and I are building the kingdom of God, exercising dominion, beating back the weeds ...
R.C. SPROUL JR. Everything about Andrew was hot, from the hands holding him down to the mouth steadily taking Neil a...
NORA SAKAVIC He's for you and wants to help you be the person He created you to be.
CRAIG GROESCHEL I have a reputation for drinking a lot. Indeed, I drink quite much. However, I give it up when I wis...
MUSTAFA KEMAL ATATURK My sense of what a book should be has changed so radically. I like to think for the better.
E. L. DOCTOROW I am anything I wish to be. The world cannot choose for me. No, it is for me to choose what the worl...
FRANCES HARDINGE So what do I wish for? Something I'm not sure I want? Someone I'm not sure I need? Or someone I know...
STEPHANIE PERKINS We have tears in our eyes
As we wave our goodbyes,
We so loved being with you, we three. ROALD DAHL Told me if I did not smell of the fire then I smelled of the frying pan.
HILARY MANTEL I mean you ACRES of harm,' Dalrymple growled. 'Untold QUANTITIES of harm. I will visit a whole CONTI...
DEREK LANDY It was good to be gay on Top of the Pops years before it was good to be gay in Parliament, or gay in...
CAITLIN MORAN For years I played the what-if game. Maybe you're acquainted with this pastime. The rules are simple...
CRAIG GROESCHEL A place in the sun, that's what I am aiming for... and who could ever ask for more?' -Columbine to P...
ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES No matter what the hatred is, preserve the possibility of peace and always have room for forgiveness...
OSCAR AULIQ-ICE The way I look at it, you've got to do what makes sense. I wouldn't take (any possibility) off the t...
ERIC HYMAN Would I were dead, if God's good will were so,For what is in this world but grief and woe?
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The reality is that an inmate can get out if they so desire, but what keeps them there is the possib...
HOWARD SKOLNIK "Man wants but little here below Nor wants that little long," 'Tis not with me exactly so; ...
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS There is so little time for us all, I need to be able to say what I want quickly and to as many peop...
MARC BOLAN Again, I am surprised why people seek to eliminate lust and cling to love; as they wish to ignore ha...
C. JOYBELL C. It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

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SOREN KIERKEGAARD Worldly wisdom thinks that love is a relationship between man and man. Christianity teachers that lo...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale....
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravag...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD The self is only that which it is in the process of becoming.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but n...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth --look at the dying man's struggle...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD The most terrible fight is not when there is one opinion against another, the most terrible is when ...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capa...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonde...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Not even a suicide does away with himself out of desperation, he considers the act so long and so de...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Repetition is the reality and the seriousness of life.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Nowadays not even a suicide kills himself in desperation. Before taking the step he deliberates so l...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD The individual (no matter how well-meaning he might be, no matter how much strength he might have, i...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Geniuses are like thunderstorms. They go against the wind, terrify people, cleanse the air.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to pa...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Truth always rests with the minority, and the minority is always stronger than the majority, because...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes in sea...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Life is a mystery to be lived, not a problem to be solved.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be mo...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD In addition to my other numerous acquaintances, I have one more intimate confidant. My depression is...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Irony is a disciplinarian feared only by those who do not know it, but cherished by those who do. He...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Purity of heart is to will one thing.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD During the first period of a man's life, the danger is not to take the risk.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD When you open the door which you shut in order to pray to God, the first person you meet as you go o...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD There is peace and rest and comfort in sorrow
SOREN KIERKEGAARD I divide my time as follows: half the time I sleep, the other half I dream. I never dream when I sle...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD To cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible deception; it is an eternal loss for which there i...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Life can only be understood back- wards; but it must be lived forwards.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Life must be understood backwards. But it must be lived forward.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD There are, as is known, insects that die in the moment of fertilization. So it is with all joy: life...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love fo...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Love is all, it gives all, and it takes all.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD One can advise comfortably from a safe port.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth - look at the dying man's stru...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies ...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the in...
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