Pharmakon Devour Quotes & Sayings

Be the player in your own dream life. Don't be a spectator watching your dreams every day; Let them get going! — Israelmore Ayivor

John Dewey was right that "failure is instructive," then Tolstoy's life is, well, an instructional gold mine. — Leo Tolstoy

Be moved by a person's actions, not their words. Remember a sugar-coated lie sounds more convincing than the naked truth. — Angeline M. Bishop

A law which attempts to say you can criticise and ridicule ideas as long as they are not religious ideas is a very peculiar law indeed. — Rowan Atkinson

Its just you and your opponent at the board and you're trying to prove something — Bobby Fischer

Leadership is only courage and wisdom, and a great carefulness of self. — John Buchan

That's not a lucky thing, Cecil," said Teresa, "it's a sacred thing."

"What's the difference?" Cecil asked.

Teresa smiled. "Roughly this," she said. "A thing is magic if you get what you want through it; but if it is blessed you get what God wants through it. — Meriol Trevor

Going out there and promoting myself socially doesn't really intrigue me. I'd much rather have my work do it for me. — Ryan Kwanten

Is there anything more frightening than people? — Svetlana Alexievich

It is here, it exists - but one must enter it naked and alone, with no rags from the falsehoods of centuries, with the purest clarity of mind - not an innocent heart, but that which is much rarer: an intransigent mind - as one's only possession and key. — Ayn Rand

The greatest thing that will please God is that you maintain an attitude of unshakable joy. — Goswami Kriyananda

The manner of your death is not your choosing. But how you prepare for death is — Gabriel Byrne

In Damascus:
the traveler sings to himself:
I return from Syria
neither alive
nor dead
but as clouds
that ease the butterfly's burden
from my fugitive soul — Mahmoud Darwish

I came here looking for a Great Perhaps, for real friends and a more-than-minor life.. — John Green

Then I realize that words like "optimism" and "hope" which appear in all those self-help books that claim they'll make us more confident and better to cope with life, are just that: words. — Paulo Coelho