ZizzFeed Quotes

"It is never long before identity is reduced to loyalty."

Leon Wieseltier

"How few are our real wants and how easy is it to satisfy them! Our imaginary ones are boundless and insatiable."

Julius Charles Hare

Inspiration

Teaching does allow me to keep one foot in the youthful waters I tend to occupy in my novels, so I'm thankful for that. My students also remind me on a daily basis that the stories I collected during my district attorney days are actually interesting to people who haven't had that experience.

Alafair Burke

"The ego with its protective defense mechanisms is the biggest impediment to attaining spiritual growth."

Anonymous

"It is now how things are in the world that is mystical, but that it (the world) exists at all....."

Ludwig Wittgenstein

"Inside her, great castles of comprehension, models of the world as she had understood it, shivered. She could not decide whether to let them crumble or to try desperately to save them."

Adam Gidwitz

"When women agree with me I always do the other thing."

Charles Bukowski

"Sunglasses are the best invention of world.Its hide the eyes which speak more then lips."

Unknown

"An enemy is like a man's most prized flower. It brings him joy to see it buried in the ground."

David Gemmell

Inspiration

Stories come alive in the telling. (…)They lay dormant, hoping for the chance to emerge. Once someone started to read them, they could begin to change. They could take root in the imagination and transform the reader. Stories wanted to be read.

John Connolly

"People confuse goodness with weakness. It is weak people, not good people (goodness demands strength), who are taken advantage of."

Dennis Prager

"I have an unshakable belief that mankind’s higher nature is on the whole still dormant. The greatest souls reveal excellencies of mind and heart which their lesser fellows possess-hidden, it is true, but there all the same."

Helen Keller

"Judgment can be acquired only by acute observation by actual experience in the school of life by ceaseless alertness to learn from others by study of the activities of men who have made notable marks by striving to analyze the everyday play of causes and effects by constant study of human nature."

B. C. Forbes

"If you stretch your soul, you will find your sacred spirit."

Unknown

Inspiration

[E]very major religion today is a winner in the Darwinian struggle waged among cultures, and none ever flourished by tolerating its rivals.

Edward O. Wilson

"To enhance your inner beauty, harmonize your mind and thoughts with nature through meditation."

Unknown

"Hazel always used to say There's not enough darkness in the entire universe to snuff out the light of just one little candle."

Fannie Flagg

"Hey Jake. I got an idea.''Be gentle with it,' the Doc grinned. 'It's in a strange place."

Spider Robinson

Inspiration

I’ve learned that being alone and being lonely are not the same thing. Once I was surrounded by people and lonely for it, but now I’m alone and I’ve never been so content.

Melinda Salisbury

Inspiration

If my hands are fully occupied in holding on to something I can neither give nor receive.

Dorothy Solle

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