One thing about a skunk – once you recognize the markings, you know things are gonna stink.

His kid brother had been smart enough to make something of himself in the big world; Ollie himself might have been smart enough to stay ahead of the bank loans and the credit cards, but...

For years we’ve been telling God to get out of our schools, to get out of our government and to get out of our lives. And being the gentleman He is, I believe He has...

{Wells discussing his experiences with Christianity}I realised as if for the first time, the menace of these queer shaven men in lace and petticoats who had been intoning, responding, and going through ritual gestures at...

We do wrong. It’s not bad but making mistakes if we don’t realize it that’s called bad or the baddest of all…what we learn from our mistakes that’s important…

And I didn’t tell mom what happened. She’d already warned me that bad things could hide in the most unlikely places.

Jake’s POV: …And we laughed. Suddenly my palms were sweating under my gloves. I slid my hand away and we got back to work, but I felt as if my whole body was on high...

Do not believe in a thing because you have read about it in a book. Do not believe in a thing because another man has said it was true. Do not believe in words because...

In order to know the Truth, you have to be out of your mind.

She had died, I just never told her. So still, we walk, eat and sleep together, in fear one day she’ll come to realize it.

When you want to share something with another person more than anything, it is one of the most difficult things to realize that you can never have it. Accepting this realization is even more difficult....

A man does not have to feel less than human to realize his sin; oppositely, he has to realize that he gets no special vindication for his sin.

I wanted it to be so pure. Nothing is ever pure.

Behjet eased the horse forward again. “The harvest is failing. There will be no crop at all if this rain doesn’t stop – not even hay.”The rain. The rain she’d been so grateful for, the...

Many pride themselves, staking claim to the noble virtue that is loyalty. However, many resolve to give their allegiance to nothing. How can one demand loyalty, if one stands by nothing, nor commits to the...

There is the truth , the perception of truth, and versions that don’t even come close; but it’s the perception that creates the most conflict every time.

Freedom is realizing you have a choice.

Do not allow yourself to be blinded by fear and anger. Everything is only as it is.

Stories are full of people who find that, in extreme situations, they’re capable of so much more than they imagined they were. Real life is full of people who find that they’re capable of so...

Nothing in this universe is complex to understand than the universe itself. Everything else is as frugal as a cold wave.

I used to think how lucky she was to have me, but now I realize that’s backwards. A spirit of gratitude yields patience, love, and forgiveness.

Success takes many forms. Most people strive for something unattainable without realizing that it’s already theirs.

We Are Always Scared of Wild Beasts, Yet We Are Unaware About The Wildest Beast Within Us Which Does More Harm Than The Ordinary One….

Nothing else you want to do after all your dreams come true. You’ve become numb. You shouldn’t have ever stopped dreaming.

The moment when you realize no one understands, no one ever did, no one ever will.You were alone, you always will be.But may be, just may be, someone will look up to you someday. And...

The realization right now is that we have one cup to play for. All the others are gone, and we’ve had some tough losses, but they’re completely behind us. It’s unfortunate and fortunate. It would’ve...

I call a man awake who knows in his conscious reason his innermost unreasonable forces, drives, and weaknesses and knows how to deal with them.

…though she had not had the strength to shake off the spell that bound her to him she had lost all spontaneity of feeling, and seemed to herself to be passively awaiting a fate she...

She knew there were only small joys in life–the big ones were too complicated to be joys when you got all through–and once you realized that, it took a lot of the pressure off.

This is a book for every fiddler who has realized halfway through playing an ancient Scottish air that the Ramones “I Wanna Be Sedated” is what folk music is really all about, and gone straight...

It pained her that a few hundred words in an also-ran newspaper could get her kicked out. That damned article.And Rook.Her sharpest agony. She had invested in this guy. Waited for this guy. Felt something...

I had a dream about you the other day. I woke up and realized it was just a dream.

When it’s all said and done, I hope to die with a smile on my face.

I’m very, very honored to be here tonight in this facility and in this city. You cannot come to this city without the realization that this is the seat of American government, and you can’t...

All desires originate to seek betterment unconsciously. In awareness, the same desires dissolve into realization.

for one precious moment, I believed everything she did was because of love. but now love and power are both shouting their names. I wanted it to be so pure. nothing is ever pure.

When did my youth slip away from me? I suddenly thought. It was over, wasn’t it? Seemed just like yesterday I was still only half grown up. Huey Lewis and the News had a couple...

Most people don’t need the help of strangers to screw up their lives; most of them are quite capable of doing it themselves!

I didn’t know I was really alive in this world until I felt things hard enough to kill for ’em…

Everyday we are engaged in a miracle which we don’t even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child – our own two eyes. All is a miracle.

We always look behind, through, and beyond ourselves, never within.

The beautiful world is just one thought away. It’s already there just waiting for us to realize and to accept it.

Her life was one endless loop that she raced around, with steep banked curves so she could never change or slow down. It just delivered her back to herself, over and over and over.

Odysseus draped the towel over his shoulders and stretched his back. “You remember practicing with wooden swords? All the moves, the blocks, the counters, getting your footwork right, learning how to be in balance always?””Of...

Don’t make a physical decision on an emotional feeling that will led you to mentally suffering in the end.

You May Understand The Value of Time Well During Pressure. It’s Totally A Relative Matter….

Change is like the skin peeling off of a snake. It is slow. It is sticky. And sometimes you have to rub against a hard place to pull yourself through it. But in the end,...

Attraction is often mistaken to be love. If you’re in a relationship doesn’t necessarily mean you’re in love. And what do you do when that ephemeral attraction is long gone? What people call break-ups are...

We must reject the artificial and embrace what is real and true: truth in food, community, relationships and self.

I didn’t treat my girl like she was mineYeah, I thought I didn’t need her at the timeBut I changed my way of thinkin’ when she leftYeah, I finally learned my lesson, but I learned...