Mailathala Quotes & Sayings

The Voiceless in rank and file are easy to manipulate. — Kristian Goldmund Aumann

I love my wife ... but sometimes not so much. Frustration and fights can muck up a good thing. And just when a thing can move past differences and into the realm of peace and prosperity, another thing - an old idea or new interpretation or any spark that relights the paradigms that comfort us - will keep us where we are, where it is safe. — Richard Schiff

All satyagraha and fasting is a species of tyaga. It depends for its effects upon an expression of wholesome public opinion shorn of all bitterness. — Mahatma Gandhi

Thou Paradise of exiles, Italy! — Percy Bysshe Shelley

Do whatever work feeds your true self, even if it's not a safe bet, even if it's like a crazy risk, even if everyone in your life tells you you're wrong or bad or crazy. — Martha Beck

The ballet. I saw in the fugitive beauty of a dancer's gesture a symbol of life. It was achieved at the cost of unending effort but, with all the forces of gravity against it, a fleeting poise in mid-air, a lovely attitude worthy to be made immortal in a bas-relief, it was lost as soon as it was gained and there remained no more than the memory of an exquisite emotion. So life, lived variously and largely, becomes a work of art only when brought to its beautiful conclusion and is reduced to nothingness in the moment when it arrives at perfection. — W. Somerset Maugham

Then we shan't regard anyone as a lover of knowledge or wisdom who is fussy about what he studies ... — Plato

I'm very proud of myself because I have come so close to just giving up and I haven't done that. — Brandy Norwood

Maybe all women were shapeshifters, changing instantly depending on who was around. — Brit Bennett

Words are powerful. You can hurt someone with a lie. You can heal them with encouragement and positivity. — C.J. Bridgeman

Without a doubt,
I must read,
all the books
I've read about.
See the artworks
hung on hooks,
that I have only,
seen in books. — Lang Leav

To be wrong, and to be carefully wrong, that is the definition of decadence. — Gilbert K. Chesterton