The senses collect the surface facts of matter... It was sensation; when memory came, it was experience; when mind acted, it was knowledge; when mind acted on it as knowledge, it was thought.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Related Just do it... that's all... no matter what, when and where... but just do it. DEYTH BANGER This is too much reality for a Friday. AS GOOD AS IT GETS Although I cannot see your face As you flip these poems awhile, Somewhere from some far-of... SHEL SILVERSTEIN When you look at the inner workings of electrical things, you see wires. Until the current passes th... MOTHER TERESA Instinct's the iron skeleton under all our ideas of free will. STEPHEN KING It shouldn't have mattered, not when Miel and the other girls in his class wore jeans more than they... ANNA-MARIE MCLEMORE He looked at the viewscreen and couldn’t believe it. If the other ship were any closer, then it wo... CHRISTINA ENGELA Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to... WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING I acted when I was younger, mostly stage, but when I got to college I really wanted to expand my kno... SASHA ALEXANDER Do. Then talk. In that order. SOTERO M LOPEZ II If you want a revenge, don't hold it. It poisons you. Either you just let the grudge go, or mak... TOBA BETA You must be the person you have never had the courage to be. Gradually, you will discover that you a... PAULO COELHO It ends or it doesn't. That’s what you say. That’s how you get through it. The tu... CAITLYN SIEHL I knew it was time to get off of reality TV when someone asked me if I sang as well as acted. OZZY OSBOURNE The king may rule the kingdom, but it's the queen who moves the board. D.M. TIMNEY And the day came out... the mask was removed... and who was behind it? ... No Face... a pe... DEYTH BANGER The same ocean of love became the ocean of sorrow in which I drowned...
-Anshika ANSHIKA JAIN I love my destruction.
Cause I still love the cause of my destruction
-Anshika ANSHIKA JAIN She broke her own heart by holding him into it....
-Anshika ANSHIKA JAIN She craved for the moon, not knowing there were other stars in the sky too...
-Anshika ANSHIKA JAIN You know your value,
Only when someone else crumbles it...
-Anshika ANSHIKA JAIN To be street smart it takes respect of a persons ability to control their emotional state and to kno... GARY F EVANS... Just like any one of us, they started with no road map or guarantee of success. But they went out an... CAMILLE SWEENEY His name was engraved deep in the core of her heart..
- Anshika ANSHIKA JAIN I will lock my feelings up and throw the key in the ocean till someone comes, ready to hunt the dept... ANSHIKA JAIN It's funny.. I still love the person who made me lose my ability to love...
-Anshika. ANSHIKA JAIN Its like I'm a broken mirror.. Don't try to pick my shattered pieces or you will hurt yourself ....
... ANSHIKA JAIN The story was so broken that no one could ever find the missing pieces....
-Anshika ANSHIKA JAIN Their story was just a chapter to him...
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replies, "Yet he was more original th... RALPH WALDO EMERSON Scientia is knowledge. It is only in the popular mind that it is equated with facts. JOHN CHARLES POLANYI There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world. JOSEPH JOUBERT VIEW FROM A HILL I am not yet quite over it. I am lying down on top of it. Surv... JOHN TOTTENHAM The violin came naturally, and it really fit me. When I picked it up (and placed it under the chin),... MIRIAM BURNS People become more ignorant when it comes to religion. DANIEL MELGAçO Don't dream it, be it. TIM CURRY When we cut down an destroy rain forests we are not only killing living things that have been on thi... GARY F EVANS... I am Happy and satisfied with what I am.
10000 will take me wrong, 1000 will go against me, 100 will... NEHA KOTHARI To find that things are never what they seem no matter what way you look at it is an eye opener inde... GARY F EVANS... You could start at a path leading nowhere more fantastic than from your own front steps to the sidew... STEPHEN KING It'a okay to take some break from the crucible steep of stairs that you want to try to achieve, as l... LAURE96 dont wait for next minute, next hour, next day, next week, next year, just do it if you want to do i... ANON QUOTER The only thing to do with good advice is to carry it and pass it on; it is never of any use if you d... KIM GROSHEK Bound by custom or unique by choice. MARGARET MCHEYZER In the East, fames are won. In the west, deeds are done. RALPH WALDO EMERSON The consolation of an imaginary thing is still a real consolation. ROGER SCRUTON If it’s history, let it be history. BEN TOLOSA Life's not perfect. Some loose ends may never get trimmed up and tidied. HODA KOTB Her hormones slipped into their sexy underwear with a grin. JENNIFER SCHMIDT Do it and they will follow CHARMAINE J. FORDE Produce your own dream. If you want to save Peru, go save Peru. It’s quite possible to do anything... JOHN LENNON If our mind was an ocean then every now and then we would have the perfect storm happening in it.Gar... GARY F EVANS... It was more a feeling of hunger than anything else. BRADY QUINN A man can define many things beautifully in his life, but his character is one beautiful thing that ... ANUJ SOMANY That's how it happen! DEYTH BANGER You are unbelievably sexy. CORA CARMACK Awareness makes us emotionally brilliant! If you can honestly say that you are fully awar... LORII MYERS Remove the temptation to settle for anything short of what you deserve. LORII MYERS Your desire to succeed must overpower your fear of failure! LORII MYERS I think what was here before is still here... the thing that has shown up every twenty-seven years o... STEPHEN KING Heuristic is an algorithm in a clown suit. It’s less predictable, it’s more fun, and it comes wi... STEVE MCCONNELL They float, they all float... and when you're down here with me, fat boy, you'll float too. STEPHEN KING You never know how strong you are until being strong is your only choice. BOB MARLEY Why did you marry Dad, Mom?" My mother sniffled through her nose, looked at me, then smiled. <... MARGARET MCMULLAN I didn't mind if they yelled at me, but when they came on the field, it was a different story. JIMMY PIERSALL On the surface, it was a good idea. But when we looked at it in more detail, it was more problematic... JENNIFER LANE When her mind was discomposed... a book was the opiate that lulled it to repose. ANN RADCLIFFE He told me that when (Ralph Waldo) Emerson came to California, (Muir) tried to get him to come out a... THEODORE ROOSEVELT Every place Ralph owned was a success. The guy had a real touch when it came to this type of busines... JOE TIERCE Ralph Waldo Emerson “Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and... RALPH WALDO EMERSON To kill yourself for earning a salary is not worth it. NARGIS FAKHRI I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is. TED TURNER The value of routine; trusting your swing. LORII MYERS Ralph Waldo Emerson would definitely be my homeboy. RAINN WILSON Memory is a funny thing. When I was in the scene, I hardly paid it any mind. I never stopped to thin... HARUKI MURAKAMI I really loved when I started doing '70s Show,' though I had never acted before, so it was a... TOPHER GRACE It was a waffle, it was going back and forth. When you're tired, you shouldn't make many decisions. ... JOE TORRE Magic: it was what happened when the mind met the world, and the mind won for a change. LEV GROSSMAN I stopped acting when I was 19. The only time I acted again was during the war, when there were no o... OTTO PREMINGER
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