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"We must lay before him what is in us not what ought to be in us."

"We must lay before him what is in us not what ought to be in us."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

Honesty, Expression, Truth, Self

24

"The greatest possession is self-possession."

"The greatest possession is self-possession."

Ethel Watts Mumford, American Author

Possession, Self

24

"The effort required by your endeavor now is not as hard as dealing with your regret later."

"The effort required by your endeavor now is not as hard as dealing with your regret later."

Mike Hawkins, American Author

Effort, Now, Regret

24

"There are many roads, there are many choices, but never forget to chose the road of peace and happiness."

"There are many roads, there are many choices, but never forget to chose the road of peace and happiness."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Journey, Peace, Choices, Happiness

24

"Every one needs someone and there is someone for everyone."

"Every one needs someone and there is someone for everyone."

Truth Devour, Australian Author

Relationship, Love, Connection, Humanity

24

"If we study the Scriptures, we find the well of salvation."

"If we study the Scriptures, we find the well of salvation."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Spiritual, Study, Scriptures, Salvation, Well

24

"One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries."

"One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries."

A. A. Milne, English Author

Curiosity, Being

24

"You are living to the fullest when you live to discover and fulfill your purpose."

"You are living to the fullest when you live to discover and fulfill your purpose."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Meaning, Fulfillment, Purpose, Discovery, Life

24

"What else do we have to ensure our sanity except our love for something beyond ourselves-our love for our families, our love for our fatherland?"

"What else do we have to ensure our sanity except our love for something beyond ourselves-our love for our families, our love for our fatherland?"

Janvier Chouteu-Chando, Cameroonian Author

Patriotism, Love, Family, Loyalty

24

"People keep asking me ...How to instantly become a better writer? It's simple: Use "power words" and see for yourself."

"People keep asking me ...How to instantly become a better writer? It's simple: Use "power words" and see for yourself."

Ziad K. Abdelnour, Lebanese Author

Writing, Improvement, Skill, Language

24

"Success is no magic, grab a handful of hope and never let it go till you get there!"

"Success is no magic, grab a handful of hope and never let it go till you get there!"

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

Motivation, Success, Hope, Perseverance, Achievement

24

"If you're as good as your word, words should be good enough."

"If you're as good as your word, words should be good enough."

Rainbow Rowell, American Author

Honesty, Word, Trust, Truth

24

"There are really places in your heart that you don't know exist until you love a child."

"There are really places in your heart that you don't know exist until you love a child."

Anne Lamott, American Author

Family, Heart, Love, Discovery

24

"Meditation is a great tool which can be used to create harmony between the inner subconscious world and the outer chaotic world."

"Meditation is a great tool which can be used to create harmony between the inner subconscious world and the outer chaotic world."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Meditation, Harmony, Subconscious, World

24

"Dwelling among shipwrecked dreams and losing oneself in wishful thinking cannot be a solution to tribulations. Identifying cracks and apprehending the defaults in one's life is essential to find a way to get out of a ghetto and to start a search for a new haven. ['The world was somewhere else']"

"Dwelling among shipwrecked dreams and losing oneself in wishful thinking cannot be a solution to tribulations. Identifying cracks and apprehending the defaults in one's life is essential to find a way to get out of a ghetto and to start a search for a new haven. ['The world was somewhere else']"

Erik Pevernagie, Belgian Author

Growth, Dream, Reality, Escape, Awareness

24

"Poor people! They build tunnels to reach the light."

"Poor people! They build tunnels to reach the light."

Ljupka Cvetanova, Macedonian Author

Society, Poverty, Hope, Life, Observation

24

"In the midst of the storm, my only anchor is the Saviour."

"In the midst of the storm, my only anchor is the Saviour."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Faith, Storm, Anchor, Saviour

24

"I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming."

"I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming."

Katherine Mansfield, New Zealander Author

Understanding, Want, Newzealander

24

"A mother has the best of all smiles; she is a wonderful friend, lover and adviser."

"A mother has the best of all smiles; she is a wonderful friend, lover and adviser."

Jaachynma N.E. Agu, Nigerian Author

Relationship, Motherhood, Love, Wisdom, Happiness

24

"Theology is like assuming that there is a black cat in a dark room where in fact there is no black cat, and endeavoring to study the cat's properties and how it may have evolved from its ancestors."

"Theology is like assuming that there is a black cat in a dark room where in fact there is no black cat, and endeavoring to study the cat's properties and how it may have evolved from its ancestors."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

Theology, Cat, Evolution, Religion

24

"She abandoned herself to his whim, thinking it was to be an orgy of eyes and hands only."

"She abandoned herself to his whim, thinking it was to be an orgy of eyes and hands only."

Anais Nin, American Author

Affection, Submission, Whim, Control, Emotion

24

"Mark my words. Perception is reality and how someone perceives you is their reality."

"Mark my words. Perception is reality and how someone perceives you is their reality."

Chris Murray, Irish Author

Communication, Perception, Reality, Word

24

"The great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each other well."

"The great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each other well."

Elias Canetti, Swiss Author

Aphorisms, Writers

24

"Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?"

"Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?"

James A. Baldwin, American Author

24

"Fantasy is, of course, booming, and I think it's beginning to stretch its range as well."

"Fantasy is, of course, booming, and I think it's beginning to stretch its range as well."

Sarah Zettel, American Author

Beginning, Fantasy

24

"I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason. I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go. Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls."

"I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason. I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go. Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls."

Anais Nin, American Author

Life, Passion, Art, Freedom

24

"Revenge is like sex, Mister Dresden. It's best when it comes on slow, quiet, until it all seems inexorable."

"Revenge is like sex, Mister Dresden. It's best when it comes on slow, quiet, until it all seems inexorable."

Jim Butcher, American Author

Revenge, Patience, Desire, Intensity

24

"Washington is a mean town where human sacrifice has been raised to an art form."

"Washington is a mean town where human sacrifice has been raised to an art form."

Dick Morris, American Author

Art, Sacrifice, Washington

24

"But for now, the future, like the past, means nothing. For now, there is only a homestead built of trash and scraps, at the edge of a broken city, just beyond a towering city dump; and our arrival-hungry, and half-frozen, to a place of food and water and walls that keep out the brutal winds. This, for us, is heaven."

"But for now, the future, like the past, means nothing. For now, there is only a homestead built of trash and scraps, at the edge of a broken city, just beyond a towering city dump; and our arrival-hungry, and half-frozen, to a place of food and water and walls that keep out the brutal winds. This, for us, is heaven."

Lauren Oliver, American Author

Survival, Future, Hope, Home

24

"If we discovered that we only had five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to stammer that they loved them."

"If we discovered that we only had five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to stammer that they loved them."

Christopher Morley, American Author

24

"He actually did it, didn't he?" Marsh said, shaking his head in wonder. "That bastard. There are two things I'll never forgive him for. The first is for stealing my dream of overthrowing the Final Empire, then actually succeeding at it."Vin paused. "And the second?"Marsh turned spike-heads towards her. "Getting himself killed to do it."

"He actually did it, didn't he?" Marsh said, shaking his head in wonder. "That bastard. There are two things I'll never forgive him for. The first is for stealing my dream of overthrowing the Final Empire, then actually succeeding at it."Vin paused. "And the second?"Marsh turned spike-heads towards her. "Getting himself killed to do it."

Brandon Sanderson, American Author

Conflict, Sacrifice, Revenge, Power, Victory

24

"Failure is part of life, but surrender is the end of life."

"Failure is part of life, but surrender is the end of life."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Failure, Life, Surrender, Perseverance

24

"Call him wise whose actions, words, and steps are all a clear because to a clear why."

"Call him wise whose actions, words, and steps are all a clear because to a clear why."

Sara Teasdale, American Author

Action, Actions, Words

24

"When you are wise, peace shall follow."

"When you are wise, peace shall follow."

Abhijit Naskar, Indian Author

Serenity, Wisdom, Truth, Peace, Happiness

24

"My friends wanted their names in the list of employees of some company, well I wanted my name in the list of the heroes of the world."

"My friends wanted their names in the list of employees of some company, well I wanted my name in the list of the heroes of the world."

Amit Kalantri, Indian Author

Heroism, Friend, Heroes, World, Name

24

"Up ahead they's a thousan' lives we might live, but when it comes, it'll on'y be one. If I go ahead on all of 'em, it's too much. You got to live ahead 'cause you're so young, but-it's jus' the road goin' by for me."

"Up ahead they's a thousan' lives we might live, but when it comes, it'll on'y be one. If I go ahead on all of 'em, it's too much. You got to live ahead 'cause you're so young, but-it's jus' the road goin' by for me."

John Steinbeck, American Author

Life, Youth, Future, Choice

24

"One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me."

"One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me."

Harriet Beecher Stowe, American Author

Boredom, Mediocrity

24

"Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths."

"Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths."

Joseph Campbell, American Author

Dream, Dreams, Myths, Public

24

"Anne looked at the white young mother with a certain awe that had never entered into her feelings for Diana before. Could this pale woman with the rapture in her eyes be the little black-curled, rosy-cheeked Diana she had played with in vanished schooldays? It gave her a queer desolate feeling that she herself somehow belonged only in those past years and had no business in the present at all."

"Anne looked at the white young mother with a certain awe that had never entered into her feelings for Diana before. Could this pale woman with the rapture in her eyes be the little black-curled, rosy-cheeked Diana she had played with in vanished schooldays? It gave her a queer desolate feeling that she herself somehow belonged only in those past years and had no business in the present at all."

L. M. Montgomery, Canadian Author

Nostalgia, Change, Time, Past, Friendship

24

"I did not find my way out of the darkness until I admitted I was lost."

"I did not find my way out of the darkness until I admitted I was lost."

Toni Sorenson, American Author

Recovery, Darkness, Lost, Hope

24

"The good times were over. Nobody gave a shit and nobody had any money and if they had any, they kept it."

"The good times were over. Nobody gave a shit and nobody had any money and if they had any, they kept it."

Charles Bukowski, American Author

Hardship, Poverty, Reality, Life

24

"Do I fear death? No, I am not afraid of being dead because there's nothing to be afraid of, I won't know it. I fear dying, of dying I feel a sense of waste about it and I fear a sordid death, where I am incapacitated or imbecilic at the end which isn't something to be afraid of, it's something to be terrified of."

"Do I fear death? No, I am not afraid of being dead because there's nothing to be afraid of, I won't know it. I fear dying, of dying I feel a sense of waste about it and I fear a sordid death, where I am incapacitated or imbecilic at the end which isn't something to be afraid of, it's something to be terrified of."

Christopher Hitchens, American Author

Mortality, Death, Fear, Dying, Existence

24

"As long as enough people can be frightened, then all people can be ruled. I am afraid that's how it works in a democracy."

"As long as enough people can be frightened, then all people can be ruled. I am afraid that's how it works in a democracy."

Ziad K. Abdelnour, Lebanese Author

Politics, Fear, Control, Democracy, Power

24

"The great growling engine of change - technology."

"The great growling engine of change - technology."

Alvin Toffler, American Author

Change, Technology

24

"I see what I have to become and I recognise the time it will take."

"I see what I have to become and I recognise the time it will take."

Chris Murray, Irish Author

Growth, Time, Patience, Goal

24

"Justification of failure is the most powerful mechanism adopted by the mind to avoid the reflection of Self Failure."

"Justification of failure is the most powerful mechanism adopted by the mind to avoid the reflection of Self Failure."

Harrish Sairaman, Indian Author

Psychology, Failure, Mind, Reflection, Self

24

"We do know that no person can be saved except through Christ. We do not know that only those who know Him can be saved by Him."

"We do know that no person can be saved except through Christ. We do not know that only those who know Him can be saved by Him."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

Religion, Salvation, Christ, Faith, Belief

24

"Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is... the highway to success."

"Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is... the highway to success."

Augustine Og Mandino, American Author

Creativity, Life, Power, Success, Character

24

"The crucial point in life is: are we living our 'own' life or simply a life for 'other' people. Are we not playing a role on behalf of some social groups and masquerading for fear of being excluded? ['Quest for the real moment']"

"The crucial point in life is: are we living our 'own' life or simply a life for 'other' people. Are we not playing a role on behalf of some social groups and masquerading for fear of being excluded? ['Quest for the real moment']"

Erik Pevernagie, Belgian Author

Authenticity, Life, Society, Individual

24

"He studied the woman before him, not as lovely as she once was, ordinary in appearance, scarred by living, abandoned by many, breathtakingly to be near and altogether unforgettable. "I have no friends," she spoke forth hauntingly. "I am alone." He couldn't believe it. But then he could for the rare creature near enough to touch was out of their league. She wasn't envied for the shallowness of appearance or the superficiality of status or possessions; she was envied for being uncommon and for possessing indomitable strength, something only a lifetime of suffering could shape."

"He studied the woman before him, not as lovely as she once was, ordinary in appearance, scarred by living, abandoned by many, breathtakingly to be near and altogether unforgettable. "I have no friends," she spoke forth hauntingly. "I am alone." He couldn't believe it. But then he could for the rare creature near enough to touch was out of their league. She wasn't envied for the shallowness of appearance or the superficiality of status or possessions; she was envied for being uncommon and for possessing indomitable strength, something only a lifetime of suffering could shape."

Donna Lynn Hope, Jamaican Author

Resilience, Strength, Suffering, Beauty, Life

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