Rags To Riches Short Quotes & Sayings

Only meaning can make a difference and we all know there's no meaning. All stories express a desire for meaning, not meaning itself. Therefore any difference knowing the story makes is a delusion. — Glen Duncan

Let understanding, compassion, and kindness be the foundation of our religion and Earth be our place of worship. — Charles F. Glassman

But if these unavoidable separations cause you a measure of pain, they also increase your longing for her, and perhaps that isn't a bad thing, you decide, for you spend your days in the thrall of breathless anticipation, agitated and alert, counting the hours until you can see her and hold her again. Intense. That is the word you use to describe yourself now. You are intense. Your feelings are intense. Your life has become increasingly intense. — Paul Auster

Unless you are fulfilled, unless you have found something that is not just a profession but something like a vocation, a calling, you will never be able to feel happy about your parents, because they are the cause of you being in this miserable world. You cannot feel grateful, there is nothing to be grateful about. Once you are fulfilled, then you will feel tremendously grateful. And your fulfilment is possible only if you don't become a thing. Your destiny is to become a person. Your destiny is to become an intrinsic value. Your destiny is to become an end in yourself. — Osho

You smell of shadows and dreams. And dead things. — Alexis Hall

It's hard enough to make a novel a novel. I wouldn't know how to make it something else at the same time — Matthew Specktor

Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader. — Hermann Hesse

Meaning that history is always written by the winners. When two cultures clash, the loser is obliterated, and the winner writes the history books - books which glorify their own cause and disparage the conquered foe. As Napoleon once said, 'What is history, but a fable agreed upon?' " He smiled. "By its very nature, history is always a one-sided account." Sophie had never thought of it that way. — Dan Brown

The same stimulus that animates men to action, will have a proportionate effect on juvenile minds. — Joseph Lancaster

History by apprising them [the people] of the past will enable them to judge of the future ... It will qualify them as judges of the actions and designs of men: it will enable them to know ambition under every disguise it may assume; and knowing it, to defeat its views. — Thomas Jefferson

Never give up. You must persist! — Lailah Gifty Akita

I'm a gambler at heart. That's my life. — Kirk Kerkorian

Nothing burns more calories than dancing in 5-inch heels ... try it! — Ariana Grande