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In battle or business, whatever the game, In law or in love, it is ever the same; In the struggle for power, or the scramble for pelf, Let this be your motto - Rely on yourself! For, whether the prize be a ribbon or throne, The victor is he who can go it alone!
John Godfrey Saxe
Related ... so this is for us. This is for us who sing, write, dance, act, study, run and love and... CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON Love Was Love Will Be But Most of All, Love is. Life Cannot Be Without It I... CINDY MARTINUSEN COLOMA whatever you do be gentle with yourself. you don’t just live in this world or ... SANOBER KHAN Loyalty is still the same, Whether it win or lose the game; True as a dial to the sun, Alth... SAMUEL BUTLER (POET) you deserve for your heart to be heard- because love lights a fire in us all. it... ALEXANDRA ELLE All alone! Whether you like it or not, alone is something you'll be quite a lot DR. SEUSS "All alone! Whether you like it or not, alone is something you'll be quite a lot" DR. SEUSS Wherever you go in the next catastrophé Be it sickroom, or prison, or cemet’ry ROMAN PAYNE It is for this reason that we find that co-existence, which could neither be in time alon... ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short. JANE AUSTEN It ends or it doesn't. That’s what you say. That’s how you get through it. The tu... CAITLYN SIEHL There's little in taking or giving There's little in water or wine This living, this livin... DOROTHY PARKER We can reject everything else: religion, ideology, all received wisdom. But we cannot escape th... DALAI LAMA XIV Believe in Yourself Why must we see something to believe in its existence?The wind itself... GRACE WILLOWS Love is Not All Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink Nor slumber nor a r... EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY It's Halloween, The night we all play, Trick or treat, We won't go away. Be we g... ANTHONY T.HINCKS Absolute perfection is here and now, not in some future, near or far. The secret is in action -... NISARGADATTA MAHARAJ May your love for me be like the scent of the evening sea drifting in thr... SANOBER KHAN You can shed tears that she is gone, or you can smile because she has lived. You can close ... DAVID HARKINS You can shed tears that she is gone, or you can smile because she has lived. You can clos... DAVID HARKINS THE INVITATION by Oriah Mountain Dreamer It doesn't interest me what you do for a li... ORIAH MOUNTAIN DREAMER That man is great, and he alone, Who serves a greatness not his own, For neither praise nor pe... EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON Remember Love doesn't make the world go round Sex makes it spin for a second or two I... CATH CROWLEY Because like the depths of the ocean that calls you home, you will never be easy. But dar... JEANETTE LEBLANC Take this kiss upon the brow! And, in parting from you now, Thus much let me avow- Yo... EDGAR ALLAN POE Remember The Dream You have a choice Your heart will know You gotta look back s... JAMES INGRAM to live in this world you must be able to do three things to love what is morta... MARY OLIVER WHAT IS TRUTH? Truth is not a thing Or a concept. It is as multidimensional SUZY KASSEM Take this kiss upon the brow! And, in parting from you now, Thus much let me avow-- You are no... EDGAR ALLAN POE We rest; a dream has power to poison sleep. We rise; one wand'ring thought pollutes the day. PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Jesus is the perfect name! He who put away his fame! And persecuted in shame! That yo... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR there is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of t... CHARLES BUKOWSKI Because we all share an identical need for love, it is possible to feel that anybo... DALAI LAMA XIV ADULTHOOD: IT CAN EASILY BE missed, mishandled or WORSE mistaken FOR SOMETHING ROBERT WESLEY MILLER You’re thinking, maybe it would be easier to let it slip let it go say ”I give up” o... CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON 1. Everyone is entitled to their opinion about the things they read (or watch, or listen to, or tast... JOHN SCALZI In high seas or in low seas, I'm gonna be your friend... I'm gonna be your friend. In... BOB MARLEY Who misses, or who wins the prize? Go, lose and conquer as you can: But if you fail, or if y... WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY Who misses, or who wins the prize? Go, lose and conquer as you can: But if you fail, or if... WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY The days aren't discarded or collected, they are bees that burned with sweetness or maddened PABLO NERUDA There has never been a time on Earth like we see today. What we need are more ways to experienc... JOHN DENVER “Love is not to be discovered but felt.It is brewing in air across universe.One needs only open ey... ANUJ SOMANY For strangely graven Is the orb of life, that one and another In gold and power may outp... EURIPIDES The War Has Been Declared. Your Ally Been Ensnared. It Is Now Or It Is Never. Break T... SUZANNE COLLINS THE CURSE May they never Return home at night... May you have no part of ... VISAR ZHITI two people who were once very close can without blame or grand betrayal become strang... WARSAN SHIRE I am reminded of the query made about man's inhumanity to man in the concentration camps. The questi... GLENN MEADE Everywhere, Everywhere" amazing, how grimly we hold onto our misery, ever defen... CHARLES BUKOWSKI Healing is not healed. Numbed is not healed. Healing takes time. Healing takes patien... DAVE RUDBARG i can't tell if my mother is terrified or in love with my father it all looks the sam... RUPI KAUR Thus repulsed, our final hope Is flat despair: we must exasperate The Almighty Victor to s... JOHN MILTON Come senators, congressmen Please heed the call Don't stand in the doorway Don't bloc... BOB DYLAN Or might the soul clone itself, create a perfect imitation of something yet to be def... ELLEN HOPKINS Sonnet XVII I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz, or the arrow of ca... PABLO NERUDA In the midst of happiness or despair in sorrow or in joy in pleasure or in pain: Do w... JESS ROTHENBERG (I know, it's a poem but oh well). 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WINTLE Even when I was a very young man, I was looking for the purpose of life; I was looking fo... DEBASISH MRIDHA depth and substance. the two most exquisite qualities. be it in a poem or a person. SANOBER KHAN So... be your name Buxbaum or Bixby or Bray or Mordecai Ali Van Allen O'Shea, you're ... DR. SEUSS Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters wh... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE ...What are numbers knit By force or custom? Man who man would be, Must rule the empire of hi... PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY For to do things with care is the closest thing to love that I know the cape of grace falling s... JANE SIBERRY DON'T BE SO PREPARED FOR THE BATTLE, TO THE POINT YOU FIND YOURSELF UNPREPARED FOR THE VICTORY!... QWANA REYNOLDS-FRASIER Be honest and true, boys! Whatever you do, boys, Let this be your motto through life. GEORGE BIRDSEYE He lives all alone now, in the home they bought, and finally seems to be managing, more or less... MILLER WILLIAMS This is the beginning of a new day. You have been given this day to use as you will. You can w... ANON. They stay in my mind, these beautiful people, or anyway beautiful people to me, of which t... MARY OLIVER I think the need to believe in religion is and always was a need to know. Satisfying the NEED T... HAROUTIOUN BOCHNAKIAN After Rilke's Letters -- by John VanDyke Wilmerding II this is my letter to a young ... RAINER MARIA RILKE Please," he says. "I'm begging you to stop." I still. "I can't stomach your p... TAHEREH MAFI No one knows if I'm dying to laugh or to cry So my verse has this almost imperceptible thr... MARIO QUINTANA Take your thoughts off. The invading thoughts you have. Push them aside. See your future i... SANDRA HARNER The weight of the world is love. Under the burden of solitude, under the burden<... ALLEN GINSBERG Art is what we call...the thing an artist does. It's not the medium or the oil or the pri... SETH GODIN Every one of us, at some time or another, has allowed fear to prevent us from living our best possib... SUSAN C. YOUNG There are so many ways to be brave in this world. Sometimes bravery involves laying down your life f... VERONICA ROTH When you ask God for a gift, Be thankful if he sends, Not diamonds, pearls or riches, HELEN STEINER RICE Power Living in the earth-deposits of our history Today a backhoe divul... ADRIENNE RICH Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remov... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Never ever have any doubt on yourself. You are the priceless species in this world. Don't under... SANTOSH ADBHUT KUMAR Thou still unravish’d bride of quietness, Thou foster-child of silence and slow time, Sy... JOHN KEATS it is strange how sisters can be saviors or strangers & ... AMANDA LOVELACE We fall back into the past, we jump ahead into the future, and in this we lose our entire lives. THICH NHAT HANH So, have we solved the secret of happiness? "I believe so," he said Are you go... MITCH ALBOM He's outwardly respectable. (They say he cheats at cards.) And his footprints are not found in ... T.S. ELIOT For him that stealeth, or borroweth and returneth not, this book from its owner, Let it change ... NICHOLAS A. BASBANES On the late afternoon streets, everyone hurries along, going about their own business. Wh... VERA NAZARIAN He wept because he was afraid now that he could not save Gabriel. He no longer cared about himself LOIS LOWRY during my worst times on the park benches in the jails or living with whores CHARLES BUKOWSKI Not a believer in the mosque am I, Nor a disbeliever with his rites am I. I am not the pur... BULLEH SHAH It’s not her shape, her face, or her hair that makes her beautiful. Neither is it t... PIERRE ALEX JEANTY
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And Min the darkest meaning of a lie.
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Touch it but lightly, stroke it softly, Sir,
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Of ancient trees falling while all was still
Before the storm, in the long in... CHARLES GODFREY LELAND Up rose the wild old winter-king,
And shook his beard of snow;
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Satan could never find the way
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Spring up and flit away,
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JOHN LENNON There's a difference between living and just surviving. Do something you love, and find someone to l... JOHN CONNOLLY As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once. JOHN GREEN It's just that most really good-looking people are stupid, so I exceed expectations.' 'Right, i... JOHN GREEN It's a metaphor, see: You put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don't give it the ... JOHN GREEN Augustus Waters was a self-aggrandizing bastard. But we forgive him. We forgive him not because he h... JOHN GREEN When adults say, "Teenagers think they are invincible" with that sly, stupid smile on their faces, t... JOHN GREEN The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.. JOHN MILTON Apparently, the world is not a wish-granting factory. JOHN GREEN What hath night to do with sleep? JOHN MILTON Nothing ever becomes real 'til it is experienced. JOHN KEATS ...you think so logically...like a hawk soaring - I feel so chaotically...like a kite without a tail... JOHN GEDDES What you must understand about me is that I’m a deeply unhappy person. JOHN GREEN Without pain, how could we know joy?' This is an old argument in the field of thinking about sufferi... JOHN GREEN It seemed like forever ago, like we've had this brief but still infinite forever. Some infinities ar... JOHN GREEN Prayer will make a man cease from sin, or sin will entice a man to cease from prayer. JOHN BUNYAN All heroes are shadows of Christ JOHN PIPER You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect. JOHN GREEN Harry Potter isn’t real? Oh no! Wait, wait, what do you mean by real? Is this video blog real? Am ... JOHN GREEN John Muir, Earth — planet, Universe [Muir's home address, as inscribed on the inside... JOHN MUIR The only true test of friendship is the time your friend spends on you. JOHN MARSDEN When did you get so clever?" "When I realized I wasn't as clever as I thought. JOHN CONNOLLY In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart. JOHN BUNYAN Vagueness and procrastination are ever a comfort to the frail in spirit. JOHN UPDIKE I throw myself down in my chamber, and I call in, and invite God, and his Angels thither, and when t... JOHN DONNE Resolved to ruin or to rule the state. JOHN DRYDEN Go far -- too far you cannot, still the farther. The more experience finds you: and go sparing. One ... JOHN FLETCHER Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and w... JOHN BURROUGHS It does not really avail us much to get clear definitions. I am for clarity, by all means, but to th... JOHN LACHS A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's p... JOHN UPDIKE No good work whatever can be perfect, and the demand for perfection is always a sign of a misunderst... JOHN RUSKIN People are eternally divided into two classes, the believer, builder, and praiser, and the unbelieve... JOHN RUSKIN Perfectionism is the enemy of creation, as extreme self-solitude is the enemy of well-being. JOHN UPDIKE The beauty and completeness of a wild apple tree living its own life in the woods is heartily acknow... JOHN MUIR Mountains are to the rest of the body of the earth, what violent muscular action is to the body of m... JOHN RUSKIN They spend their time looking forward to the past. JOHN OSBORNE The joy is still there when I see Sean. He didn't come out of my belly, but my God, I've made his bo... JOHN LENNON Beware the fury of a patient man. JOHN DRYDEN I resent performing for frisking idiots who don't know anything. JOHN LENNON Value is the way animal interest and partiality are experienced in consciousness. As such, they invo... JOHN LACHS To give a man full knowledge of morality, I would send him to no other book than the New Testament. JOHN LOCKE Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark o... JOHN BURROUGHS