Bahá'u'lláh quote: "The utterance of God is a lamp, whose light is these words: Ye are the fruits of one tree, and the leaves of one branch. Deal ye one with another with the utmost love and harmony, with friendliness and fellowship. ... So powerful is the light of unity that it can illuminate the whole earth."

The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens
BAHá'U'LLáH

Religious fanaticism and hatred are a world-devouring fire, whose violence none can quench.
BAHá'U'LLáH

La vida es un regalo diario. Valóralo. Al final, lo que importa no son los años de vida, sino la v...
PAOLA CALASANZ ''DULCINEA''

if you can't have the one you love, you can love the one you have
IRAZ 'DEALOVA'

I write because, if I don't, my characters will murder me in my sleep.
ASTRID 'ARTISTIKEM' CRUZ

दो न्याय अगर तो आधा दो,

पर, इसमें भी ...
RAMDHARI SINGH 'DINKAR'

वसुधा का नेता कौन हुआ?
भूखंड-विजेता क...
RAMDHARI SINGH 'DINKAR'

समर शेष है, नहीं पाप का भागी केवल व्याघ�...
RAMDHARI SINGH 'DINKAR'

Am in the making, you can't break me. Life to me, is a Chain. It will loose just at the right time b...
TEMI 'T QUEST' SHOLEYE

If there's anything i can feel, that's to the fact that i will grow even when i fall. Life is too si...
TEMI 'T QUEST' SHOLEYE

You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model tha...
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER 'BUCKY' FULLER

Every sucessful person in the world is a hustler one way or another. We all hustle to get where we n...
K'WAN

• you should improve your character, because it's belong to your destiny ♥
MANA'HIL

Won't you be my girlfriend
I'll treat you good
I know you hear your friends when they say...
'N SYNC

I don't know why you care.
He doesn't even know you're there
'N SYNC

Life isn't a fairytale but we can make it like a fairytale
LUCY 'AISY

Life's like the piano and the violin, it's about how smart you could play the melodies to make a goo...
LUCY 'AISY

Ain’t nothing wrong with a little crew love!” True mocked her.
K'WAN

What is a Man / Woman who does not try and make the World Better?
'KINGDOM OF HEAVEN ' THE MOVIE

Discover how to visit the past and bring yesterday's stories into our lives today
GILLIAN HOVELL, 'VISITING THE PAST'

What has he found who has lost God?
And what has he lost who has found God?
IBN 'ATA'ILLAH AL-ISKANDARI

The war we have to wage today has only one goal and that is to make the world safe for diversity.
U THANT

Every human being, of whatever origin, of whatever station, deserves respect. We must each respect o...
U THANT

Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defense...
U THANT

Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defense...
U. THANT

Today, if you are not confused, you are just not thinking clearly.
U. PETER

Wars begin in the minds of man, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defen...
U THANT

Every human being, of whatever origin, of whatever station, deserves respect. We must each respect o...
U. THANT

I am afraid [if the present trend in Vietnam continues] that direct confrontation, first of all betw...
U THANT

Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defens...
U. THANT

I don't like to be disturbed at home; I tell the cable office not to call me before 6:30 AM, unless ...
U. THANT

if you like Black colour,
perhaps you're emotional
KAYSER U

it's better to be late than Pregnant
KAYSER U

Not every good thing in life will remain forever
KAYSER U

All my friends are getting married and having babies. I'm just getting more awesome
KAYSER U

She liked the way a ray of mild autumn sun infiltrating the thick cluster of trees caught a reddish ...
RENITA D'SILVA

Oh child, your language is so utterly simple and limited that it has the affect of extreme complicat...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE

I am one and when I am one I am none, and when I am none I have won.
JULIEANNE O'CONNOR

There is something in us, as storytellers and as listeners to stories, that demands the redemptive a...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR

What you take from the earth, you must give back. That's nature's way.
CHRIS D'LACEY

I suppose we all have our little hiding-hole if the truth was known, but as small as it is, the whol...
FRANK O'CONNOR

They did not submit to the obvious alternative, which was simply to close the eyes and fall. So easy...
TIM O'BRIEN

We are the music-makers,
And we are the dreamers of dreams,
Wandering by lone sea-breakers...
ARTHUR O'SHAUGHNESSY

I am in no way interested in immortality, but only in the taste of tea.
LU T'UNG

Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I ...
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

Virtue should always be colmingled with humor.
PATRICK O'BRIAN

I was far from being a child prodigy, and yet I learnt relativity at the age of 15!
RAY D'INVERNO

One of the tasks of true friendship is to listen compassionately and creatively to the hidden silenc...
JOHN O'DONOHUE

In yourself right now is all the place you've got.
FLANNERY O'CONNOR

You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE

A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding un...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE

[H]iding how you really feel and trying to make everyone happy doesn't make you nice, it just makes ...
JENNY O'CONNELL

Laughter is wine for the soul - laughter soft, or loud and deep, tinged through with seriousness - t...
SEáN O'CASEY

The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
FLANNERY O'CONNOR

If you live today, you breath in nihilism ... it's the gas you breathe. If I hadn't had the Church t...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR

I think it is safe to say that while the South is hardly Christ-centered, it is most certainly Chris...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR

We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.
ARTHUR O'SHAUGHNESSY

You couldn't relive your life, skipping the awful parts, without losing what made it worthwhile. You...
STEWART O'NAN

Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.
LOUIS L'AMOUR

All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.
SEáN O'CASEY

Gabrielle chuckled, her dark eyes twinkling. “So he’s been after you, has he? Poor Etta, pursued...
MICHELLE O'LEARY

She paused and saw him tense in expectation. He wouldn’t like to hear this, but better from her th...
MICHELLE O'LEARY

I’m not bipolar, I’ve just had a bipolar life foisted upon me.
DANIEL O'MALLEY

Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.
LOUIS L'AMOUR

I would not sit waiting for some vague tomorrow, nor for something to happen. One could wait a lifet...
LOUIS L'AMOUR

That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the tr...
TIM O'BRIEN

You know, I preferred you as an evil monk. Would have made killing you a whole lot easier.
CHRIS D'LACEY

Every man gives his life for what he believes. Every woman gives her life for what she believes. Som...
JEANNE D'ARC

Some things have to be believed to be seen.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE

Accepting oneself does not preclude an attempt to become better.
FLANNERY O'CONNOR

If the portraits of our absent friends are pleasant to us, which renew our memory of them and reliev...
HéLOïSE D'ARGENTEUIL

Stories make us more alive, more human, more courageous, more loving.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE

Because to take away a man's freedom of choice, even his freedom to make the wrong choice, is to man...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE

[A]s though mindful of the wife of Lot, who looked back from behind him, thou deliveredst me first t...
HéLOïSE D'ARGENTEUIL

[I]f the name of wife appears more sacred and more valid, sweeter to me is ever the word friend, or,...
HéLOïSE D'ARGENTEUIL

Each of us is an artist of our days; the greater our integrity and awareness, the more original and ...
JOHN O'DONOHUE

[I]t is not by being richer or more powerful that a man becomes better; one is a matter of fortune, ...
HéLOïSE D'ARGENTEUIL

They are all innocent until proven guilty. But not me. I am a liar until I am proven honest.
LOUISE O'NEILL

Part of doing something is listening. We are listening. To the sun. To the stars. To the wind.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE

I found him perhaps the least terrifying man I've ever met in the theater—because at first glance ...
PETER O'TOOLE

Happiness arises from getting what you want, and this comes and goes. Joy arises from being with wha...
MARY O'MALLEY

It's not the face, but the expressions on it. It's not the voice but the things you say. It's not th...
IAN O'SHEA

Pay phones,
relics of an almost-vanished landscape,
always a touch of seediness and sadne...
BRIAN D'AMBROSIO

You couldn’t relive your life, skipping the awful parts, without losing what made it worthwhile. Y...
STEWART O'NAN

They should."

"Should be like a wood bee," she said.

It was a private joke, a ...
STEWART O'NAN

The happiest she'd ever been was with him, and the saddest. Was that the true test of love?
STEWART O'NAN

I don't know if they're really like everybody else, or if they're able to pretend they are.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE

Life, with its rules, its obligations, and its freedoms, is like a sonnet: You're given the form, bu...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE

The key to understanding any people is in its art: its writing, painting, sculpture.
LOUIS L'AMOUR

Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't s...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR

Mrs. Hopewell had no bad qualities of her own but she was able to use other people's in such a const...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR

You never loved me, Farin. You never even said you liked me very much.
HEATHER O'BRIEN

The terms we use for what is considered supernatural are woefully inadequate. Beyond such terms as g...
LOUIS L'AMOUR

People give you a hard time about being a kid at twelve. They didn't want to give you Halloween cand...
HEATHER O'NEILL

Everybody wants to save the Earth; nobody wants to help Mom do the dishes.
P.J. O'ROURKE

Don't stand unmoving outside the door of a crying baby whose only desire is to touch you. Go to your...
PEGGY O'MARA

Marry for love. But also choose to marry a man or woman who you love that treats you with the ultima...
JULIEANNE O'CONNOR

There will be a time when love is beautiful and passionate and nothing else will exist but you and t...
JULIEANNE O'CONNOR

Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to was never there, and where you are ...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR

A great ring of pure & endless light
Dazzles the darkness in my heart
And breaks apart...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE

Once the soul awakens, the search begins and you can never go back. From then on, you are inflamed w...
JOHN O'DONOHUE

[I suspect] that in the drive toward the liberal universalist notion of human rights that characteri...
DARREN O'DONNELL

If we commit ourselves to one person for life, this is not, as many people think, a rejection of fre...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE

All the possibilities of your human destiny are asleep in your soul. You are here to realize and hon...
JOHN O'DONOHUE

If you are different from the rest of the flock, they bite you
VINCENT O'SULLIVAN

I guess we're really brothers, aren't we? Don't know what that means, except it means that some of t...
TIM O'BRIEN

What a strange thing it is to recognize a sound like the shriek of a wounded animal, when you've nev...
JOHN L'HEUREUX

In a very real sense not one of us is qualified, but it seems that God continually chooses the most ...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE

We do not need to grieve for the dead. Why should we grieve for them? They are now in a place where ...
JOHN O'DONOHUE

To love without ownership, to love with total trust and faith in that very love, to love with the sa...
JULIEANNE O'CONNOR

My feeling on the subject of sex with a man is - don't give it up unless you're willing to give him ...
JULIEANNE O'CONNOR

Life is surreal. When you step back and really take a look at it, the irony is absolute.
JULIEANNE O'CONNOR

Ladies, you have a ton of power if you just understand the fundamental differences between men and w...
JULIEANNE O'CONNOR

The unending paradox is that we do learn through pain.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE

When it was dark, you always carried the sun in your hand for me.
SEáN O'CASEY

Well, I'm not sure where this puts me, Sire. I mean, at least with the others I know what's expected...
AMIE O'BRIEN

You cannot borrow half of who you are from someone else, yet people try to do it all of the time, th...
JENNIFER O'NEILL

For Equilibrium, a Blessing:
Like the joy of the sea coming home to shore,
May the relief ...
JOHN O'DONOHUE

Justice without mercy is tyranny
E'JéI OSBORNE

A truly great work of art breaks beyond the bounds of the period and culture in which it is created,...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE

In the literary world today, Christianity has pretty well replaced sex as the present pet taboo, not...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE

Sometimes, when people speak, I cease listening to their words and zoom in instead on the cadence, a...
ROSIE O'DONNELL

Moderation, we find, is an extremely difficult thing to get in this country.
FLANN O'BRIEN

In our deepest moments we say the most inadequate things.
EDNA O'BRIEN

We look not at the things which are what you would call seen, but at the things which are not seen. ...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE

Just because we don't understand doesn't mean that the explanation doesn't exist.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE

It was a great mistake, my being born a man, I would have been much more successful as a seagull or ...
EUGENE O'NEILL

It could be a meeting on the street, or a party or a lecture, or just a simple, banal introduction, ...
JOHN O'DONOHUE

The world rests in the night. Trees, mountains, fields, and faces are released from the prison of sh...
JOHN O'DONOHUE

Your noble friend will not accept pretension but will gently and very firmly confront you with your ...
JOHN O'DONOHUE

The ego is the false self-born out of fear and defensiveness.
JOHN O'DONOHUE

If you try to view yourself through the lenses that others offer you, all you will see are distortio...
JOHN O'DONOHUE

Love allows understanding to dawn, and understanding is precious. Where you are understood, you are ...
JOHN O'DONOHUE

We do not need to go out and find love; rather, we need to be still and let love discover us.
JOHN O'DONOHUE

Beauty is the illumination of your soul.
JOHN O'DONOHUE

Real friendship or love is not manufactured or achieved by an act of will or intention. Friendship i...
JOHN O'DONOHUE

When love awakens in your life, in the night of your heart, it is like the dawn breaking within you....
JOHN O'DONOHUE

No one else has access to the world you carry around within yourself; you are its custodian and entr...
JOHN O'DONOHUE

Your beloved and your friends were once strangers. Somehow at a particular time, they came from the ...
JOHN O'DONOHUE

Your soul knows the geography of your destiny. Your soul alone has the map of your future, therefore...
JOHN O'DONOHUE

If you send out goodness from yourself, or if you share that which is happy or good within you, it w...
JOHN O'DONOHUE

Every friendship travels at sometime through the black valley of despair. This tests every aspect of...
JOHN O'DONOHUE

All you can ever achieve is a sense of your soul. You gain little glimpses of its light, colors, and...
JOHN O'DONOHUE

You are as young as you feel. If you begin to feel the warmth of your soul, there will be a youthful...
JOHN O'DONOHUE

Behind your image, below your words, above your thoughts, the silence of another world waits.
JOHN O'DONOHUE

You are like nobody since I love you"
-Pablo Neruda

This art of love discloses the ...
JOHN O'DONOHUE

Real intimacy is a sacred experience. It never exposes its secret trust and belonging to the voyeuri...
JOHN O'DONOHUE

If you try to avoid or remove the awkward quality, it will pursue you. The only effective way to sti...
JOHN O'DONOHUE

The heart is the inner face of your life. The human journey strives to make this inner face beautifu...
JOHN O'DONOHUE

It is lovely to meet an old person whose face is deeply lined, a face that has been deeply inhabited...
JOHN O'DONOHUE

Inspiration is always a surprising visitor.
JOHN O'DONOHUE

you can tell a true war story if it embarrasses you. If you don't care for obscenity, you don't care...
TIM O'BRIEN

It’s a hard thing to explain to somebody who hasn’t felt it, but the presence of death and dange...
TIM O'BRIEN

...his love was too much for him, he felt paralyzed, he wanted to sleep inside her lungs and breathe...
TIM O'BRIEN

But this too is true: stories can save us.
TIM O'BRIEN

They carried all they could bear, and then some, including a silent awe for the terrible power of th...
TIM O'BRIEN

The wait is long, my dream of you does not end.
NUALA O'FAOLAIN

There is the solitude of suffering, when you go through darkness that is lonely, intense, and terrib...
JOHN O'DONOHUE

A self is not something static, tied up in a pretty parcel and handed to the child, finished and com...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE

I’d begun to think of the Immortality Bus as the Entropy Bus, and of ourselves as trundling across...
MARK O'CONNELL

It's not enough to be nice in life. You've got to have nerve.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

When a man is one of a kind, he will be lonely wherever he is.
LOUIS L'AMOUR

Darkness is drawn to light, but light does not know it; light must absorb the darkness and therefore...
EDNA O'BRIEN

I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it.
FLANNERY O'CONNOR

You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to t...
P.J. O'ROURKE

And although in many cases these unions proved happy enough, sailors being excellent husbands, often...
PATRICK O'BRIAN

For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biograph...
LOUIS L'AMOUR

Creative scientists and saints expect revelation and do not fear it. Neither do children. But as we ...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE

When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable....
MADELEINE L'ENGLE

Anything that comes out of the South is going to be called grotesque by the northern reader, unless ...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR

I write to discover what I know.
FLANNERY O'CONNOR

Whenever I’m asked why Southern writers particularly have a penchant for writing about freaks, I s...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR

I have advice for people who want to write. I don't care whether they're 5 or 500. There are three t...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE

No long-term marriage is made easily, and there have been times when I've been so angry or so hurt t...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE

My body is not my own any more. They have stamped their names all over it.
LOUISE O'NEILL

The beauty that emerges from woundedness is a beauty infused with feeling; a beauty different from t...
JOHN O'DONOHUE

Then Dad started going on about the complex geological formations in this part of the coast until Mu...
KERRIE O'CONNOR

Maybe you have to know the darkness before you can appreciate the light.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE

But unless we are creators we are not fully alive. What do I mean by creators? Not only artists, who...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE

I love, therefore I am vulnerable.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE

We have to be braver than we think we can be, because God is constantly calling us to be more than w...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE

I will have nothing to do with a God who cares only occasionally. I need a God who is with us always...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE

Having a Coke with You

is even more fun than going to San Sebastian, Irún, Hendaye, Biar...
FRANK O'HARA

Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay....
FLANNERY O'CONNOR

She had a vision of the two of them trapped on a tiny raft surrounded by miles of open water. It wou...
STEWART O'NAN

I would not hurt you, little man,' he said.

'I think that I got the disorder in Mullingar...
FLANN O'BRIEN

Fame stole my yellow. Yellow is the color you get when you're real and brutally honest. Yellow is wi...
ROSIE O'DONNELL

MARRIAGE IS LIKE A BUSINESS, WHERE YOU INVEST 50/50, 30/70 OR 100%. YOU STILL HAVE TO GET INVOLVED 1...
BETA METANI' MARASHI

One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and...
JEANNE D'ARC

Nothing is quite so beautiful as when you share it with it with someone else. There is no purpose in...
LOUIS L'AMOUR

Alone, you're vastly outnumbered; but in the company of another, by some weird miracle of human math...
CHARLES D'AMBROSIO

Grace changes us and change is painful".
FLANNERY O'CONNOR

The high-school English teacher will be fulfilling his responsibility if he furnishes the student a ...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR

There's a certain grain of stupidity that the writer of fiction can hardly do without, and this is t...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR

People are more than just the way they look.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE

Your criticism sounds to me as if you have read too many critical books and are too smart in an arti...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR

She looked at nice young men as if she could smell their stupidity.
FLANNERY O'CONNOR

She would've been a good woman," said The Misfit, "if it had been somebody there to shoot her every ...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR

It might be a good idea if, like the White Queen, we practiced believing six impossible things every...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE

The utterance of God is a lamp, whose light is these words: Ye are the fruits of one tree, and the leaves of one branch. Deal ye one with another with the utmost love and harmony, with friendliness and fellowship. ... So powerful is the light of unity that it can illuminate the whole earth.

Bahá'u'lláh

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