FastSaying

It is not the place, not the condition, but the mind alone that can make anyone happy or miserable.


L. Estrange

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

It is not the place, nor the condition, but the mind alone that can make anyone happy or miserable...
ROGER L'ESTRANGE It is not the place, nor the condition, but the mind alone that can make anyone happy or miserable.
SIR ROGER L'ESTRANGE Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters.
JEFFREY FRY I'm a happy-go-lucky character. I'm not that miserable. But I can never let anyone into my world.
NOEL GALLAGHER There is six billion reasons for everything to go wrong and only one to get it right
JULIO DAVILA The battle is not physical, it is spiritual and your mind is the battleground. Keep your mind pure a...
JEANETTE CORON If the best is possible, than good is never enough and only do the best.
ROBERT SIAHAAN I'm a happy-go-lucky character. I'm not that miserable. But I can never let anyone into my w...
NOEL GALLAGHER Orion is above the horizon now, and near it Jupiter, brighter than it will ever be ... But i expect ...
THOMAS HARRIS Your mind is a Microcosm of strength and power. There’s all the magic you need in it. When all els...
CHINONYE J. CHIDOLUE Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold.
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN We either make ourselves happy or miserable. The amount of work is the same.
CARLOS CASTANEDA A mind not to be changed by place or time.
The mind is its own place, and in itself
Can ma...
JOHN MILTON It is not every man who can be exquisitely miserable, any more than exquisitely happy.
JAMES BOSWELL All the normal people of the ages and generations that contribute to helping and doing their bit for...
GARY F EVANS... When you grow up there are things that you would love to do make your father proud is one and have f...
GARY F EVANS... Life is the everlasting gobstopper with its complications of the starter being birth, the main cours...
GARY F EVANS... Essendo alla ricerca di un futuro per me stessa, mi piace sapere le possibilità degli altri.
KATHRYN STOCKETT I don't think anyone can ever be fully happy. If you're fully happy then you're a miserable person b...
ROBBIE WILLIAMS Imagination cannot make fools wise; but she can make them happy, to the envy of reason, who can only...
BLAISE PASCAL I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES There is nothing but comparison that makes people happy or miserable.
VIKRANT PARSAI The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy ...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW IF YOU CAN'T THANK GOD FOR WHAT YOU HAVE, THANK HIM FOR WHAT YOU HAVE ESCAPED!
NOT SURE i believe in love. lust. sex. romance. i don't want everything to add up to the perfect equation...i...
NOT REAL A conservative is a liberal who just got mugged and a liberal is a conservative who just got arreste...
NOT SURE If you are constantly looking in the rear view mirror, how will you ever see what is in front of you...
NOT SURE Happiness is really an attitude, a state of mind. You can be happy amidst chaos & turmoil, or be mis...
CALE CHEW The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The c...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience...
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN The mind is the pit for which all dump trucks go to release their trash.
ROSEMARIE YUSEN We carry about us the burden of what thousands of people have said and the memories of all our misfo...
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI If our condition were truly happy, we would not seek diversion from it in order to make ourselves ha...
BLAISE PASCAL If our condition were truly happy, we would not seek diversion from it in order to make ourselves ha...
BLAISE PASCAL That church teaches us that we can make God happy by being miserable ourselves;
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy....
CARLOS CASTANEDA Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of wor...
FRANCESCA REIGLER The secret of being miserable is to have the leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. T...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Health is not a condition of matter, but of Mind.
MARY BAKER EDDY 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 The value of routine; trusting your swing.
LORII MYERS A relationship will either make the majority of your life happy or miserable. It is important to tak...
PAMELA CUMMINS Within the soul of America is freedom of mind and spirit in man. Here alone are the open windows thr...
HERBERT HOOVER Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
JAMES BALDWIN The human mind is not a terribly logical or consistent place.
JIM BUTCHER PEACE IS THE OBJECTIVE TO WAR, BUT THE BLOOD RUNNETH STILL
NATALIE URQUIETA but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.
JANE AUSTEN Does is make the dragon happy?" Matt asked.
"Does is make the dragon happy?" echoed Tam Lin. "...
NANCY FARMER We do not have anyone in mind but would hope to make an appointment in the next fortnight.
GORDON MCDOUGALL Customers are not happy. I am not happy; we are losing money. And we are here for the customers, and...
RIAZ AHMED Infernal world, and thou profoundest Hell
Receive thy new Possessor: One who brings
A mind...
JOHN MILTON Life is a choice. We can be truly Happy or miserable or in-between - We decide!
RVM Today is about the now, the moment you live in, so do now what you want to do
SOTONYE ANGA It is possible that the contemplation of cruelty will not make us humane but cruel; that the reitera...
LIONEL TRILLING All the research centers in life today combined together can not be compared to one active,sound & m...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The mind is the biggest research center in the universe.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Give a poor mind $1m & he will still end in poverty because,generating wealth has never been his ide...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Life's irony;some people believe that somethings are mind corrupting,not knowing that they've actual...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Let's go take a walk down to the blue hole. You need to look at some water.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER A man who cannot decide whether or not to pull the trigger, wages war against only himself.
DAVE FRANCIS Open your mind. Accept differences. Yearn for peace. Heal the world.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO When I die it will be game over,... but I know one life is short, to be selfish is not the best deci...
DEYTH BANGER Our mind is a wonderful place, people, aspirations, desires & things can walk-in any time, but i...
SHAHENSHAHHK To search the sands of a lost desert for truth and justice in this world today you might as well be ...
GARY F EVANS... And may God be merciful, because these twisted men will not.
BROM I like working alone. I feel freer, less constrained. I know what I have to do and I try to do it. T...
OLIVER There are lots of ways of being miserable, but there's only one way of being comfortable, and that i...
EDITH WHARTON The two men had a conversation. Brief, cryptic, to the point. As though they had exchanged numbers a...
ARUNDHATI ROY I don’t care about lots of money or materialistic crap, that stuff cannot make you happy. It can m...
NYKI MACK If I had to get there without friends, I could do it. Had been doing it. I'd never met anyone who br...
TANA FRENCH There are some things that you can fulfil with money, but at the end of the day these are not the th...
SEBASTIAN VETTEL It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy
IMMANUEL KANT A person’s THOUGHT that does not make most people think that the life is miserable, has not been t...
ANUJ SOMANY If everyone could learn that what is right for me does not make it right for anyone else, the world ...
WILLIAM GLASSER Forgiveness is a powerful mental process that detoxifies our mental, spiritual and physical realms.
JACINTA MPALYENKANA Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of sou...
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of so...
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU My loneliness was an important part of my own little universe, not some pathological disease that ne...
BANANA YOSHIMOTO The blessing of an active mind, when it is in a good condition, is, that it not only employ itself, ...
SOURCE UNKNOWN Nothing is the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; . . . Genius will not; . . ...
CALVIN COOLIDGE These happy endings all express the weak and sly promise that the world is not rotten and out of joi...
DOUGLAS SIRK Anyone can be a teacher or professor, but not everyone can influence you to strive for excellence an...
CURTIS WHITE May we never let the things we can’t have, or don’t have, or shouldn’t have, spoil our enjoyme...
RICHARD L. EVANS Happiness is largely a matter of self-hypnotism. You can think yourself happy or you can think yours...
DOROTHY DIX The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) A great future starts with what you can see
SOTONYE ANGA You can save yourself from others..., but who will save you from your own mind.., and yes don't unde...
ANUSHKA VIKAS The world is a beautiful place
to be born into
if you don't mind happiness
not always...
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Horror as for me is the best choice, you can gain a lot of. I like to be afraid like to see this shi...
DEYTH BANGER Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of sou...
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU Put your mind to it and you will do it. This is how the impossible become possible
SOTONYE ANGA The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.
JOHN BURROUGHS It is the mind that maketh good or ill, that maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
EDMUND SPENSER It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Where 'er thou art be thou (w)holy there.
MURRAY I. MESZAROS Money does not make you happy but it quiets the nerves
SEAN O'CASEY Money does not make you happy but it quiets the nerves.
SEAN O'CASEY Whether it is the old lady's fear, or the many ghostly traditions of this place, or the crucifix...
BRAM STOKER

More L. Estrange

One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life.
L. ESTRANGE It may serve as a comfort to us, in all our calamities and afflictions, that he that loses anything ...
L. ESTRANGE Some read books only with a view to find fault, while others read only to be taught; the former are ...
L. ESTRANGE 'Tis better that a man's own works, than that another man's words should praise him
L. ESTRANGE We make mistakes the gratuitous blessings of heaven for the fruits of our industry
L. ESTRANGE Of all injustice, that is the greatest which goes under the name of law; and of all sorts of tyranny...
L. ESTRANGE There are braying men in the world as well as braying asses; for what's loud and senseless talking a...
SIR ROGER L'ESTRANGE Losing your mind is just like ruining a flower just have to keep plucking at their petals
L Manipulation and pretentiousness, the dead can't do that.
L Your cynical ways define your soul as you treat the people who love you with nothing more than utter...
L Having many friends doesn't guarantee that you might still feel lonely
L A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.
L. L. NASH Parents send their children to college either because they went to college, or because they didn't.
L. L. HENDREN Fathers send their sons to college either because they went to college or because they didn't.
L. L. HENDERSON Fathers send their sons to college either because they went to college or they didn't.
L. L. HENDREN Only those who have learned a lot are in a position to admit how little they know.
L. CARTE They make much of our drinking, but never think of our thirst.
L. SCHEFER The greatest poem is not that which is most skillfully constructed, but that in which there is the m...
L. SCHEFER Place your attention 6 inches above your crown. God is breathing in and out there.
L HILL Dreams are stages where lies and truths intertwine in and endless dance. It is in the waking world t...
L. FILLOON Continuing a short series on authenticity: "Prayer in the Name of Christ", though it is essentia...
L. SWETENHAM Only those who have learned a lot are in a position to admit how little they know.
L. CARTE Do not dig up the tree to examine his roots.
L BERTSCH We are all related because our DNA is the same with our very first mother (Eve).
METTRIE L. Undesirable behaviors can be changed positively by using behavior modification.
METTRIE L. Love conquers everything even karma.
METTRIE L. Life is full of endless possibilities.
METTRIE L. The true purpose of pain in one's life is to grow strong--in faith, spirit, and emotions.
METTRIE L. Everyone wants to be wanted and if all people wait for someone else to invest in them, the world wil...
LAURA L. You’re the purest, most genuine thing that ever happened to me.- Caleb
L. DUARTE You can’t just bring a regular human here! What if the girl runs and tells the whole world on that...
L. TAYLOR I’m not good with these types of girls, I had thought as Avena lay there in the middle of the bed,...
L. JAYNE I think that the play is doing good work. And the volunteers, not only the audience, have grown from...
BOB L. That's our policy. We're not looking for fame. Our aim here is to carry a message.
BOB L. We get standing ovations wherever we go. If this didn't work, I would have quit long ago.
BOB L. Everyone is born with psychic abilities. It's just a matter of knowing how to tap into it.
METTRIE L. Everyone has psychic abilities. It's just a matter of tapping into it.
METTRIE L. There is a special bond between twin soul mates--unconditional love, respect for each other, bringin...
METTRIE L. It's no coincidence that every person have more than 1 soulmates.
METTRIE L. In the beginning, there was silence.
L. PENELOPE Parce qu'il y a certaines habitudes qui deviennent vitales. Aussi futiles soient elles, elles devien...
CAMILLE L. Mais ça veut dire quoi d'abord "mon livre", ton livre ? Que tu l'as acheté ? Qu'on te l'a donné ?...
MéLISSANDRE L. I wasn’t brave, or strong, or badass. And all those quirky lines I fed you? A foolish attempt at s...
L. DUARTE I was his as if I had been born for that very purpose, as if my body were a puppet, and he was the p...
L. DUARTE Dreaming is good. But working to make those dreams come true is even better.
JOEL L. We were skin to skin.
Mouth over mouth.
Mingled breaths.
Tangled bodies.
Heartbe...
L. DUARTE Film allows you to see life differently, or see life you've never experienced, ... When it does that...
L. SPARKS The fair has worked hard to provide a family atmosphere over the past 10 years, ... We encourage eve...
L. SPARKS The addition of Beanstalk to the Omnicom network will further expand the services that we offer clie...
L. HARRISON It would have been easy simply to take another job somewhere else. But that wasn't Bernie Marcus. He...
L. HARRISON What enables one person to launch a business at fifty when other people, faced with being laid off, ...
L. HARRISON It’s a mistake to act as though we’re not created equal.
It’s another mistake not to corr...
L. ANTHONY The past is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets and re-explains what has...
PETER L. BERGER Honor is simply the morality of superior men.
H. L. MENCKEN Regardless of your marital status, your age, or the language you speak, you are a beloved spirit dau...
SHERI L. DEW The Savior isn't our last chance; He is our only chance. Our only chance to overcome self-doubt ...
SHERI L. DEW The decisions you are making right now and that you will make in the foreseeable months and years wi...
SHERI L. DEW As a young girl, I saw commitment in my grandmother, who helped Grandpa homestead our farm on the Ka...
SHERI L. DEW For the Holy Ghost blesses us with optimism and wisdom at times of challenge that we simply cannot m...
SHERI L. DEW Motherhood is not what was left over after our Father blessed His sons with priesthood ordination. I...
SHERI L. DEW The blessings of the priesthood are available to every righteous man and woman. We may all receive t...
SHERI L. DEW You cannot have a relationship with someone you can't trust.
SHERI L. DEW I was raised on a farm in Kansas where we lived next door to my Grandma Dew, and I was her shadow. W...
SHERI L. DEW Without the presence of the Spirit, it is impossible to comprehend our personal mission or to have t...
SHERI L. DEW Motherhood is more than bearing children, though it is certainly that. It is the essence of who we a...
SHERI L. DEW Satan understands the power of men and women united in righteousness. He is still stinging from his ...
SHERI L. DEW Through the years, I, like you, have experienced pressures and disappointments that would have crush...
SHERI L. DEW The power of the priesthood heals, protects, and inoculates all of the righteous against the powers ...
SHERI L. DEW We are all farmers tending a little part of the Lord's vineyard.
SHERI L. DEW Satan has declared war on motherhood. He knows that those who rock the cradle can rock his earthly e...
SHERI L. DEW There is no greater name for a leader than mother or father. There is no leadership more important t...
SHERI L. DEW God our Father and His Son Jesus Christ, with Their perfect foreknowledge, already recommended every...
SHERI L. DEW Think about what there is to learn from your heritage, good and bad, and about what you want to cult...
SHERI L. DEW I know how to set an irrigation tube, and I helped with the harvest. I learned the law of the harves...
SHERI L. DEW I drove a tractor almost as soon as I could reach the pedals.
SHERI L. DEW When I write, I try to think back to what I was afraid of or what was scary to me, and try to put th...
R. L. STINE A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.
H. L. MENCKEN Small samples in the centrifuge will spin at varying rates to create synthetic gravity, like the gra...
JOHN L. PHILLIPS There is always an easy solution to every problem - neat, plausible, and wrong.
H. L. MENCKEN The place of exciting innovation - where the action is - that's Rhode Island!
DONALD L. CARCIERI Yes, long hours and a hard life for my parents, but for a six to seven year old every new day dawned...
VERNON L. SMITH The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.
RICHARD L. EVANS I don't think anything is unrealistic if you believe you can do it.
RICHARD L. EVANS Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
RICHARD L. EVANS I've never been to jail. I've never been arrested. I've never been locked up.
SAMUEL L. JACKSON I've been fortunate to be in films that are classic, that are going to be around.
SAMUEL L. JACKSON I get paid all day, every day, which is almost too much for a sensitive artist.
SAMUEL L. JACKSON Not everybody goes to movies to get their life changed.
SAMUEL L. JACKSON I did 'Formula 51' because I got to run around Liverpool in a kilt, with golf clubs.
SAMUEL L. JACKSON I'm not as angry as I used to be. But I can get in touch with that anger pretty quickly if I fee...
SAMUEL L. JACKSON My dad was an absentee dad, so it was always important to me that I was part of my daughter's li...
SAMUEL L. JACKSON All movies aren't fun; some are hard work. You try to do something and convey a set of emotions ...
SAMUEL L. JACKSON I walk the streets, take the train, it's real simple. Some actors create their own mythology: &#...
SAMUEL L. JACKSON Long Kiss Goodnight has a huge cult following. They could make another version of that movie right n...
SAMUEL L. JACKSON I just always knew that I lived in two worlds. There was the world of my house and community, but to...
SAMUEL L. JACKSON I kind of realize that I have a tendency to choose the kind of films I watched when I was a kid and ...
SAMUEL L. JACKSON I tend to play characters that I can infuse with certain kinds of humour. Even the baddest guy can b...
SAMUEL L. JACKSON We've come a long way in our thinking, but also in our moral decay. I can't imagine Dr. King...
SAMUEL L. JACKSON It wasn't until I let go of the idea of the brass ring that it showed up, and fortunately for me...
SAMUEL L. JACKSON When I'm not working, I like to play golf.
SAMUEL L. JACKSON I never had one beer. If I bought a six-pack of beer, I kept drinking till all six beers were gone. ...
SAMUEL L. JACKSON I understood, through rehab, things about creating characters. I understood that creating whole peop...
SAMUEL L. JACKSON The best advice that was given to me was that I had to be 10 times smarter, braver and more polite t...
SAMUEL L. JACKSON If you have an opportunity to use your voice you should use it.
SAMUEL L. JACKSON Speed is the No. 1 thing. Our core competency has been doing exactly this: buying companies and inte...
RANDALL L. STEPHENSON We shook up the industry with our landscape-changing deal to acquire Time Warner, the logical next s...
RANDALL L. STEPHENSON We launched DirecTV Now. Our 5G evolution plans and improved spectrum position are paving the way fo...
RANDALL L. STEPHENSON CNN is an American symbol of independent journalism and First Amendment free speech. My board and I ...
RANDALL L. STEPHENSON Our intent is to operate Time Warner as it operates today, with autonomy in its divisions, including...
RANDALL L. STEPHENSON We hire military veterans because they make great employees. They bring proven technical and leaders...
RANDALL L. STEPHENSON AT&T is interested in anything that drives more bandwidth requirements, and Apple TV drives sign...
RANDALL L. STEPHENSON This is probably going to surprise people, but if you were to do a scan around the globe on public p...
RANDALL L. STEPHENSON Nobody should be too boastful or too proud about their security because there are people who have a ...
RANDALL L. STEPHENSON Over half of the traffic that flows over our networks is coming from video. As you think about a bus...
RANDALL L. STEPHENSON Get rid of the preferences and the special deductions and the loopholes... and invest in getting the...
RANDALL L. STEPHENSON When the iPhone came out, every CIO in America said, 'You're not bringing that into our corp...
RANDALL L. STEPHENSON I'll never forget the first time... I got a Blackberry smartphone, and I'm playing with it a...
RANDALL L. STEPHENSON E-mail, when it became mobile - what happened? Utilization of email went through the roof. Just pure...
RANDALL L. STEPHENSON Our communities are being destroyed by racial tension - and we're too polite to talk about it.
RANDALL L. STEPHENSON I gradually became persuaded that the subjects, without intending to, had revealed to me a basic tru...
VERNON L. SMITH After graduating in engineering I went to the University of Kansas to get an MA in economics as a ve...
VERNON L. SMITH I still have my original social security card signed when I was 13.
VERNON L. SMITH In the 9th grade I began my first wage work for the West Side Drug store delivering prescriptions an...
VERNON L. SMITH Caltech was a meat grinder like I could never have imagined.
VERNON L. SMITH After my stellar first grade academic achievements, I continued to perform well in the city primary ...
VERNON L. SMITH I can still memory - taste the fresh buttermilk pancakes and hot buttermilk biscuits - both made wit...
VERNON L. SMITH But I owe it to the subject to say, that it has long afforded me what philosophy is so often thought...
J. L. AUSTIN Going back into the history of a word, very often into Latin, we come back pretty commonly to pictur...
J. L. AUSTIN Certainly ordinary language has no claim to be the last word, if there is such a thing.
J. L. AUSTIN There are more ways of outraging speech than contradiction merely.
J. L. AUSTIN Infelicity is an ill to which all acts are heir which have the general character of ritual or ceremo...
J. L. AUSTIN Sentences are not as such either true or false.
J. L. AUSTIN Usually it is uses of words, not words in themselves, that are properly called vague.
J. L. AUSTIN In the one defence, briefly, we accept responsibility but deny that it was bad: in the other, we adm...
J. L. AUSTIN Some ticket buyers think they don't like Jews.
JACK L. WARNER I've got America's best writer for $300 a week.
JACK L. WARNER I am also a Kentucky Colonel and an Honorary Mayor of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, among other things.
JACK L. CHALKER I write novels and other things.
JACK L. CHALKER I do not read SF as much as I used to. It's too much like a busman's holiday.
JACK L. CHALKER If you got what it takes, you'll make it. If you don't, Shakespeare couldn't help you.
JACK L. CHALKER I am a registered Democrat and two-time unsuccessful candidate for office.
JACK L. CHALKER I have taught history on the high school and college levels, and am or have been a lecturer at the S...
JACK L. CHALKER Decadence is wonderful.
JACK L. CHALKER I have long been active in and supportive of conservation and historical preservation causes.
JACK L. CHALKER No, I don't autograph blank slips, checks, or stickers, and certainly no books without me in the...
JACK L. CHALKER First, people don't read novels off screens, and they don't have a tendency to shell out rea...
JACK L. CHALKER Temptation is a woman's weapon and man's excuse.
H. L. MENCKEN Believe it or not, my introduction to scary literature was 'Pinocchio.' My mother read it to...
R. L. STINE For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.
H. L. MENCKEN No matter how bad things are, you can at least be happy that you woke up this morning.
D. L. HUGHLEY The nature of good fiction is that it dwells in ambiguity.
E. L. DOCTOROW The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.
H. L. MENCKEN A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.
H. L. MENCKEN Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today and you make your tomorrow.
L. RON HUBBARD I'm not asking you to be tolerant of each other. Tolerance is for cowards. Understand each other...
RANDALL L. STEPHENSON Relax! Life is beautiful!
DAVID L. WOLPER Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
LOUISE L. HAY People know about the Klan and the overt racism, but the killing of one's soul little by little,...
SAMUEL L. JACKSON I think that 'Mary Poppins' needs a subtle reader, in many respects, to grasp all its implic...
P. L. TRAVERS Nothing I had written before 'Mary Poppins' had anything to do with children, and I have alw...
P. L. TRAVERS I've had quite a lot to conquer in myself apart from writing. Not that I've been a pure ange...
P. L. TRAVERS My father died when I was 7. I was his favorite child, and he was my beloved father. I brought him a...
P. L. TRAVERS I was brought up Irish, where there was room for my own private world.
P. L. TRAVERS I never wrote my books especially for children.
P. L. TRAVERS My family didn't like me going on the stage, and they didn't much like my being a writer, ei...
P. L. TRAVERS You can ask me anything you like about my work, but I'll never talk about myself.
P. L. TRAVERS Sorrow lies like a heartbeat behind everything I have written.
P. L. TRAVERS For me, there are no answers, only questions, and I am grateful that the questions go on and on. I d...
P. L. TRAVERS I cannot summon up inspiration; I myself am summoned.
P. L. TRAVERS You do not chop off a section of your imaginative substance and make a book specifically for childre...
P. L. TRAVERS I think the idea of 'Mary Poppins' has been blowing in and out of me, like a curtain at a wi...
P. L. TRAVERS 'Friend Monkey' is really my favorite of all my books because the Hindu myth on which it is ...
P. L. TRAVERS Every child needs to have for itself not only its loving parents and siblings and friends of its own...
P. L. TRAVERS A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.
H. L. MENCKEN Our Father knew exactly what He was doing when He created us. He made us enough alike to love each o...
SHERI L. DEW If it were not for the war, this war would suit me down to the ground.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS There certainly does seem a possibility that the detective story will come to an end, simply because...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS A continual atmosphere of hectic passion is very trying if you haven't got any of your own.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS Those who make some other person their job... are dangerous.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS Very dangerous things, theories.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS Trouble shared is trouble halved.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS There's nothing you can't prove if your outlook is only sufficiently limited.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS As I grow older and older, And totter toward the tomb, I find that I care less and less, Who goes to...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS While time lasts there will always be a future, and that future will hold both good and evil, since ...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS Paradoxical as it may seem, to believe in youth is to look backward; to look forward we must believe...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS Those who prefer their English sloppy have only themselves to thank if the advertisement writer uses...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS A human being must have occupation, of he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS None of us feels the true love of God till we realize how wicked we are. But you can't teach peo...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS I always have a quotation for everything - it saves original thinking.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS Perchance the chemist is already damned and the guardian the blackest.
L. WOLFE GILBERT If there is an authoritarian structure at St. Hill it has been brought into being by the government ...
L. RON HUBBARD I am a writer of the textbooks of scientology.
L. RON HUBBARD A science is something which is constructed from truth on workable axioms. There are 55 axioms in sc...
L. RON HUBBARD A man is as alive as he can communicate.
L. RON HUBBARD One tends to overlook the fact that all during the 30's and actually during the late 40's I ...
L. RON HUBBARD A suppressing person isn't critical. A suppressing person is a person who denies the rights of o...
L. RON HUBBARD I am studying ancient civilizations, trying to find what happened to them, finding out why they went...
L. RON HUBBARD When a culture has fallen totally away from spiritual pursuits into materialism, one must begin by d...
L. RON HUBBARD There were very, very large sums of money that I made when I was very young - 15 million published w...
L. RON HUBBARD I have seen life from the top down and the bottom up. I know how it looks both ways. And I know ther...
L. RON HUBBARD