Image of Swami Vivekananda
Our Soul is a spark of the Divine. It is pure and perfect. Evil deeds merely obstruct our vision of the true nature of our Soul. Through good deeds we can become conscious of this perfection again.
- Swami Vivekananda
Collection: Perfection
Image of Judy Garland
Always be a first rate version of yourself and not a second rate version of someone else.
- Judy Garland
Collection: Inspirational
Image of Anatole France
All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.
- Anatole France
Collection: Change
Image of F. Scott Fitzgerald
He looked at her and for a moment she lived in the bright blue worlds of his eyes, eagerly and confidently.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Collection: Eye
Image of Stephen King
Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open.
- Stephen King
Collection: Kings
Image of Philip Yancey
We deserve punishment and get forgiveness; we deserve God’s wrath and get God’s love.
- Philip Yancey
Collection: Wrath
Image of Saint Augustine
Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
- Saint Augustine
Collection: Philosophical
Image of Eleanor Roosevelt
What could we accomplish if we knew we could not fail?
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Collection: Inspirational
Image of Ayn Rand
She did not know the nature of her loneliness. The only words that named it were: This is not the world I expected.
- Ayn Rand
Collection: Loneliness
Image of Geoffrey Willans
You can never understand one language until you understand at least two.
- Geoffrey Willans
Collection: Inspiration
Image of Barack Obama
Our destiny is not written for us, but by us.
- Barack Obama
Collection: Powerful
Image of Teresa of Avila
From silly devotions and from sour-faced saints, good Lord, deliver us.
- Teresa of Avila
Collection: Silly
Image of Victor Hugo
Great buildings, like great mountains, are the work of centuries.
- Victor Hugo
Collection: Mountain
Image of Jeffrey R. Holland
If we teach by the Spirit and you listen by the Spirit, some one of us will touch on your circumstance, sending a personal prophetic epistle just to you.
- Jeffrey R. Holland
Collection: Spirit
Image of Gilbert K. Chesterton
Marriage is a duel to the death which no man of honour should decline.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Collection: Love
Image of Michael Porter
The best CEOs I know are teachers, and at the core of what they teach is strategy.
- Michael Porter
Collection: Teacher
Image of James M. Barrie
Life is a cup of tea; the more heartily we drink the sooner we reach the dregs.
- James M. Barrie
Collection: Tea
Image of Gordon B. Hinckley
Stop seeking out the storms and enjoy more fully the sunlight.
- Gordon B. Hinckley
Collection: Enjoy Life
Image of Carl Sagan
Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history.
- Carl Sagan
Collection: Atheist
Image of Rajneesh
Meditation is the only cure for all sicknesses that man is prone to; a single medicine. And I should remind you that the word meditation and medicine come from the same root. Medicine for the body and meditation for the soul. They both bring health.
- Rajneesh
Collection: Men
Image of Karl Popper
It is not his possession of knowledge, of irrefutable truth, that makes the man of science, but his persistent and recklessly critical quest for truth.
- Karl Popper
Collection: Knowledge
Image of Tucker Max
Yes, the road to hell is paved with good intentions, but everyone forgets the second half of that quote: the road to heaven is paved with good actions.
- Tucker Max
Collection: Heaven
Image of Richard Branson
Those who achieve great things are the ones willing to be scared but not scared off. If you dream big and take risks, impossible becomes just a word.
- Richard Branson
Collection: Dream
Image of Marcus Garvey
The pen is mightier than the sword, but the tongue is mightier than them both put together.
- Marcus Garvey
Collection: Together
Image of Og Mandino
My dreams are worthless, my plans are dust, my goals are impossible. All are of no value unless they are followed by action.
- Og Mandino
Collection: Dream
Image of Empedocles
Each man believes only his experience.
- Empedocles
Collection: Believe
Image of Max Planck
Thus, the photons which constitute a ray of light behave like intelligent human beings: out of all possible curves they always select the one which will take them most quickly to their goal.
- Max Planck
Collection: Intelligent
Image of Martin Scorsese
Music and film are inseparable. They always have been and always will be.
- Martin Scorsese
Collection: Film
Image of Sherman Alexie
If you care about something enough, it’s going to make you cry. But you have to use it. Use your tears. Use your pain. Use your fear. Get mad. Arnold, get mad.
- Sherman Alexie
Collection: Life
Image of Mother Teresa
In vocal prayer we speak to God; in mental prayer he speaks to us. It is then that God pours Himself into us.
- Mother Teresa
Collection: God
Image of Nhat Hanh
Smile, breathe, go slowly.
- Nhat Hanh
Collection: Inspirational
Image of Charles Bukowski
Style is the answer to everything. A fresh way to approach a dull or dangerous thing. To do a dull thing with style is preferable to doing a dangerous thing without it. To do a dangerous thing with style is what I call art.
- Charles Bukowski
Collection: Fashion
Image of Vin Scully
Good is not good when better is expected.
- Vin Scully
Image of Erwin Schrodinger
Quantum physics thus reveals a basic oneness of the universe.
- Erwin Schrodinger
Image of Chanakya
Good behavior wins even an enemy.
- Chanakya
Collection: Inspirational
Image of Marie Curie
I am among those who think that science has great beauty.
- Marie Curie
Collection: Great
Image of Steve Jobs
Everybody in this country should learn how to program a computer, because it teaches you how to think.
- Steve Jobs
Collection: Country
Image of Leonard Ravenhill
No man is greater than his prayer life.
- Leonard Ravenhill
Collection: Prayer
Image of Rachel Maddow
I would like to be a polyglot.
- Rachel Maddow
Image of Steven Pressfield
The most important thing about art is to work. Nothing else matters except sitting down every day and trying.
- Steven Pressfield
Collection: Art
Image of Julia Glass
When it comes to life, we spin our own yarn, and where we end up is really, in fact, where we always intended to be.
- Julia Glass
Collection: Life
Image of Alexander Elder
Many traders ride an emotional roller coaster and miss the essential element of winning: the management of their emotions.
- Alexander Elder
Collection: Winning
Image of Lee Kuan Yew
Now if democracy will not work for the Russians, a white Christian people, can we assume that it will naturally work with Asians?
- Lee Kuan Yew
Collection: Christian
Image of Edmond Rostand
I-I am going to be a storm-a flame- I need to fight whole armies alone; I have ten hearts; I have a hundred arms; I feel too strong to war with mortals- BRING ME GIANTS!
- Edmond Rostand
Collection: Strong
Image of Isaac Asimov
The intelligent man is never bored.
- Isaac Asimov
Collection: Intelligent
Image of Diane von Furstenberg
Passion and persistence are what matter. Dreams are achievable and you can make your fantasy come true, but there are no shortcuts. Nothing happens without hard work.
- Diane von Furstenberg
Collection: Dream
Image of Franz Kafka
If you become involved with me, you will be throwing yourself into the abyss.
- Franz Kafka
Collection: Throwing
Image of Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The person you are most afraid to contradict is yourself.
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Collection: Persons
Image of David E. Kelley
You learn more when things go wrong.
- David E. Kelley