Those who take lightly promises they make to those they love are people who find little lasting satisfaction in life. This is not an easy time in which to live. That does not mean that it has to be a difficult time to love, but it does mean that you will find unusual stresses upon your lives and your relationship.
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Related You do not know how much they mean to me, my friends, and how, how rare and strange it is, to find i... T.S. ELIOT You do not know how much they mean to me, my friends, and how, how rare and strange it is, to find i... T.S. ELIOT Epiphany at midnight
Life is made of time.
Love is made of time.
Privileged are those who find love ... HARRIS D GULKO God wants you to have a good life, a life filled with love, joy, peace, and fulfillment. That doesn�... JOEL OSTEEN Make time for yourself. How are you spending your time? Are you doing the things you love?Are you ma... AKIROQ BROST The most important journey in your life will be the journey to find yourself. To find who you are, t... AVINA CELESTE There is no such thing as a fair-weather friend. Pay attention to those who are there for you in you... AKIROQ BROST There's a Biblical mandate to reach out to those who are the orphans, the widows in their distre... JAMES LANKFORD Do not delude yourself, tomorrow is not guaranteed; and even if good fortune brings you your tomorro... WAYNE GERARD TROTMAN Failure in an exam does not mean you are a failure in life,but it does mean you didn't succeed in fo... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) But a generation that does not aspire to seriousness, to meaning, is unworthy to walk in the shadow ... JOHN LOGAN You will find yourself, as he did. But that will not mean it is easy. There are few things easy in l... METTE IVIE HARRISON When I say 'I won't hurt you', it's a promise, which can and will be kept but it does not come from ... EVA SCHUETTE Just if one laughs does not mean he has easy life. Just one has smile on his face does not mean that... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Time is too swift for those who fear, too long for those who wait, too short for those who finally f... SHANNON L. ALDER Being prepared and capable in what you endeavor to do does not mean that you will not be met with ch... SD WARD love can be very difficult, you find true love,but then it is then chucked back in your face by some... MIKE GRIST We all need that someone in our life who's going to motivate us and not stress us, and then we need ... MAROUANE LAASSAFAR There will be those who love you for your hair and those who love the beauty of your mind and those ... GOITSEMANG MVULA I have to warn you that it does take a little time for those who have been bruised emotionally to re... TONY TAYLOR All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w... JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It... COLSON WHITEHEAD Fake friends; those who only drill holes under your boat to get it leaking; those who discredit your... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR It is a curious thing, Harry, but perhaps those who are best suited to power are those who have neve... J.K. ROWLING All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It si... KURT VONNEGUT A woman who is in touch with her sensuality subliminally empowers her man to prosper, flourish and t... LEBO GRAND The issue will not be solved in a week. They will not find an agreement at the G8. But this does not... ANTONIO MARTINO Indeed, Miss Manners has come to believe that the basic political division in this country is not be... JUDITH MARTIN Two people with mental issues in a relationship does not work. It's like sitting in a boat and neith... SHANNON L. ALDER The goodness of a person is normally judged based upon how they act towards those whom they consider... C. JOYBELL C. Never try to hide who you are.Always stand up for what you believe in. When people walk away from yo... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA You've got to learn something each day of your life, life is not easy but taking the easy way out do... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Those who laugh and find amusement in sarcasm are mean, not the one who is sarcastic. MJ CHRISTINE Just because those around you do not constantly tell you what they are going through in their person... OSCAR AULIQ-ICE An important success trait is the ability to detach from people who aren’t on course with you. It ... LILY CHATTERJEE It's not necessarily unusual to find something new, but that doesn't make this less spectacular. Man... DARRELL UBICK No matter how talented you are, there is almost always somebody who can do something better than you... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA And there are always people who find their lives have become so unsupportable they believe the best ... NEIL GAIMAN When I say I love Eastland, it sounds preposterous--a man who brutalizes people. But *you* love him ... BAYARD RUSTIN Time is your most precious gift because you only have a set amount of it. You can make more money, b... RICK WARREN Live as you. It may seem simple and obvious. Yet, is it? How many times a day are we changing how we... AKIROQ BROST In order to honor God with your wealth, you first have to admit that you are rich. Most people won't... CRAIG GROESCHEL You ruin your life by desensitizing yourself. We are all afraid to say too much, to feel too deeply,... BIANCA SPARACINO Success comes to those who have an entire mountain of gold that they continually mine, not those who... JOHN C. MAXWELL Being in love is a good thing, but it is not the best thing. There are many things below it, but the... C.S. LEWIS I told you that I love you; you said that this isn't love, I'm just your back up pain if you and you... JESSY VISAKAY Continuously failing does not mean that you are a failure. It only means that your strength is in ex... VAEESHIA RATCLIFF-DAVIS One thing that comes to mind immediately is that we have a list of who gets those recently fixed uni... STEPHANIE AVEIRO Your respect for people does not mean you need them This is your morality, even if they do not ... WACINY LAREDJ It is because men are prone to be partial towards those they love, unjust to those they hate, servil... CONFUCIUS It's those moments, those odd moments that you look for and sometimes by creating this kind of l... BARRY LEVINSON The world does not need tourists who ride by in a bus clucking their tongues. The world as it is nee... ROBERT FULGHUM Do not confuse "duty" with what other people expect of you; they are utterly different. Duty is a de... ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not i... LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN When people show you who they are, believe them the first time. ~Maya Angelou Remember th... OPRAH WINFREY I understand women" ... There's no man alive who can honestly say those words and mean them. It just... NICHOLAS SPARKS Just because someone desires you, it does not mean that they value you. Read it ove... NAYYIRAH WAHEED The person who does not work for the love of work but only for money is not likely to make money nor... CHARLES M. SCHWAB Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that w... MERLE SHAN Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that w... MERLE SHAIN A girl would be lucky to have you, but not like this, Carmine. Not the way you treat people now. You... J.M. DARHOWER You are a gift to all who know you, whether or not they realize it. If they don't, they are blind. Y... ELLEN HOPKINS There are those who live and die giving love, without receiving any. And those who live life just ta... PSYCHE ROXAS-MENDOZA Sex becomes less and less pleasurable in a relationship over time. Your brain gets habituated to the... ABHIJIT NASKAR The man who does not work for the love of work but only for money is not likely to make money nor fi... CHARLES M. SCHWAB There comes a point when you just love someone. Not because they're good, or bad, or anything really... LAURELL K. HAMILTON The wonder of the life of Jesus is this -- and you will find it so and you have found it so if you h... PHILLIPS BROOKS This is a business that brings you into close contact with people who have lots of money. What's bee... JASON ISAACS Those who really love you don't mean to hurt you and if they do, you can't see it in their eyes but ... HOLLY BLACK It can be difficult to find people who live in a precinct, with schedules and time constraints and a... JACK RILEY It offends me when you doubt my love. These jealousies are unwarranted. If only you lived ... KAMAND KOJOURI People only have their kind of love to give. But does it mean they don't love with all they are capa... ALEXANDRA PINTO Until we find out who was born this time around, it seems irrelevant to seek earlier identities. I h... STEPHEN LEVINE Love has no boundries except for those who will not let themselves be loved... open your heart and l... BRIAN PENNINGTON COMPENSATION does not mean charity. But to bring change in attitude of your life which could make li... DR. SHAILESH THAKER I think that many people will intentionally overlook all of the lifeless facts about their relations... C. JOYBELL C. Sometimes our enemies are disguise as family and friends. You must forgive yourself for having chose... JESUS APOLINARIS Those who do not find time for exercise will have to find time for illness. EARL OF DERBY I should like to know if, taking this old Declaration of Independence, which declares that all men a... ABRAHAM LINCOLN You must fight to make sure that your life does not just disappear into thin air. It is a battle of ... SUNDAY ADELAJA Therefore, dear Sir, love your solitude and try to sing out with the pain it causes you. For those w... RAINER MARIA RILKE You have to be grateful to existence that it has chosen you to be a passage for a few beautiful chil... OSHO But whatever you do, find the God-centered, Christ-exalting, Bible-saturated passion of your life, a... JOHN PIPER Life is not that simple. That is why it is called life. That word includes both lie and if. Time to ... COREY TAYLOR To bring a large audience to a piece of serious music and make it accessible does not mean reducing ... ITZHAK PERLMAN Please," Kendra said. "Think of all the lives that will be destroyed." "I have," Mark said. "Be... BRANDON MULL With reference to the elect we might distinguish between three classes. First, there are those who a... MARTIN LUTHER Find your passion is in life, and do what you can to integrate that into your work life. That's ... EDWARD WHITACRE, JR. the first time the caregiver saw it on the child. they said ‘no. don’t you dare. you will not gr... NAYYIRAH WAHEED Even when you do nothing, you are doing something. Be aware of your decisions and what they mean for... ARMAND MEVIS Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't ... TS (THOMAS STEARNS) ELIOT Half of the harm that is done in this world Is due to people who want to feel important. They don'... T. S. ELIOT Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't... T. S. ELIOT Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't ... T. S. ELIOT Every idea, both good and bad will definitely have an opposition. The fact that someone mocks your i... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR They say time is money, but that's not true. Time is life. And if I want the fullest life, I need to... ANN VOSKAMP Is it possible to love so desperately that life is unbearable? I don't mean unrequited, I mean being... PETER HELLER This is a story about people who find out who they are. About people who are unraveled and whose cor... CECELIA AHERN Bear in mind, if you are going to amount to anything, that your success does not depend upon the bri... DR. A. B. MELDRUM This was a respect in which he paid due homage to the wise old spirit of the late Emiel Kroger, that... TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
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BRANDON SANDERSON Most of you Mistborn are probably too proud to crawl. I'm surprised you were willing to do so yourse... BRANDON SANDERSON You'll want something mid-range. A 5.56 all right?" "I suppose." "AR-15?" "Ugh. AR-15... BRANDON SANDERSON Ear demons are totally real," Cody said. "They're what make microphones like these ones work. They'r... BRANDON SANDERSON I grunted, hauling the rope hand over hand. A plaintive squeak came from the pulley system with each... BRANDON SANDERSON You've never heard of bagpipes ?" Cody asked, sounding aghast. "They're as Scottish as kilts a... BRANDON SANDERSON Why is it you trust my daughter so much when others almost universally revile her?" "I consider... BRANDON SANDERSON Never go on a date unarmed.” Words of wisdom from my father. Well, my foster father. I was an orph... BRANDON SANDERSON Can a woman not walk with her possessions down the street of a city? BRANDON SANDERSON The only time you seem honest is when you’re insulting someone!” “The only honest things ... BRANDON SANDERSON But it was important to be rational at all times, not just when calm. BRANDON SANDERSON Unknowing ignorance is preferable to informed stupidity. BRANDON SANDERSON When did you get so peppy?” she shouted. “Ever since I assumed I was dead, then I suddenly ... BRANDON SANDERSON I ain't grouchy,” Teft snapped. “I just have a low threshold for stupidity. BRANDON SANDERSON But you know what I think? I think you're looking for excuses to not let go. This thing, it's who yo... BRANDON SANDERSON But you know what I think? I think you're looking for excuses to not let go. This ting, it's who you... BRANDON SANDERSON Don’t tell anyone I said it?" I smiled. "I'll be quiet as a buttered snail sneaking through a... BRANDON SANDERSON To live was to be a fragment of the cosmere that was experiencing itself. BRANDON SANDERSON Are you that afraid of being wrong? One would assume you’d be accustomed to it by now.” He ... BRANDON SANDERSON What kind of woman is still able to trust people after everything she's been through? If she'd been ... BRANDON SANDERSON That's kind of what trust is, isn't it? A willful self-delusion. BRANDON SANDERSON I once saw a spindly man carrying a stone larger than his head upon his back. He stumbled beneath th... BRANDON SANDERSON This world, it is a tempest sometimes. But remember, the sun always rises again. BRANDON SANDERSON Authority doesn't come from a rank.," Kaladin said, fingering the spheres in his pocket. "Where... BRANDON SANDERSON Strength does not make one capable of rule; it makes one capable of service. BRANDON SANDERSON Somebody has to start. Somebody has to step forward and do what is right, because it is right. BRANDON SANDERSON And so, does the destination matter? Or is it the path we take? I declare that no accomplishment has... BRANDON SANDERSON Can you feel it? Something just changed. I believe that’s the sound the world makes when it pisses... BRANDON SANDERSON Of all the recruits in his cohort, he had learned the quickest. How to hold the spear, how to stand ... BRANDON SANDERSON An excuse is what you make after the deed is done, while a justification is what you offer before. BRANDON SANDERSON I want you to go back into the barrack and tell the men to come out after the storm. Tell them to lo... BRANDON SANDERSON In the end, I must proclaim that no good can be achieved of false means. For the substance of our ex... BRANDON SANDERSON If I should die,” Dalinar said, “then I would do so having lived my life right. It is not the de... BRANDON SANDERSON Overcome your guilt. Care, but not too much. Take responsibility, but don't blame yourself. Protect,... BRANDON SANDERSON There are two kinds of people in this world, son. Those who save lives, and those who take lives." BRANDON SANDERSON Brightness...I believe you stray into sarcasm." "Funny.I thought I'd run straight into it... BRANDON SANDERSON ...Do you stop loving someone just because they betray you? I don't think so. That's what makes the ... BRANDON SANDERSON I told him that you were simply showing me the ways of court. Kind of like an…older brother.” BRANDON SANDERSON We got there without being spotted. I pulled her in, then shut the door, pressing my back to it and ... BRANDON SANDERSON The right belief is like a good cloak, I think. If it fits you well, it keeps you warm and safe. The... BRANDON SANDERSON Sometimes Vin imagined she was like the ash, or the wind, or the mist itself. A thing without though... BRANDON SANDERSON Fantasy has had some problems with being too repetitive, in my opinion. I try to read what other peo... BRANDON SANDERSON I died down at that chasm. Now you’ve got my vengeful spirit to deal with. BRANDON SANDERSON We're not moments, Megan, you and me. We're events. You say you might not be the same person you wer... BRANDON SANDERSON She slumped toward the ground, but I grabbed her and heaved her onto my shoulder, then ran down the ... BRANDON SANDERSON In fact, the entire nature of this State seemed to highlight that political power was just an illusi... BRANDON SANDERSON Back in my State, I'm very close to being able to control the weather. I'll be all-powerful, once I'... BRANDON SANDERSON I’m good at doing things I’m not supposed to,” she said, then kicked the door open. BRANDON SANDERSON XinWey’s Doctrine states that the most essential morality of mankind is to create the greatest ... BRANDON SANDERSON Well, best to remain vigilant. It’s when everything is calm that you need to be most alert. BRANDON SANDERSON On the three-hundredth anniversary of my birth, I finally managed to conquer the world. BRANDON SANDERSON Actually, [Wax] said, we came here because we needed someplace safe to think for a few hours." ... BRANDON SANDERSON