Smarter Web Quotes & Sayings

On a sunny clear day, you can improve your body; on a rainy fogy day, you can improve your mind! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

He that puts on a religious habit abroad to gain himself a great name among men, and at the same time lives like an atheist at home, shall at the last be uncovered by God and presented before all the world for a most outrageous hypocrite. — Thomas Brooks

Protecting the future is more important than righting the wrongs of the past. — Sarah Fine

All positive traits, states, and experiences have costs that at high levels may begin to outweigh their benefits. — Malcolm Gladwell

Love can hope where reason would despair. — George Lyttelton

How those holy men of old could storm the battlements above! When there was no way to look but up, they lifted up their eyes to God who made the hills, with unshakable confidence. — Herbert Lockyer

Over the years, Raul remembered many events like if they were TV shows, especially at night, like when he and Alberto cruised around town. The open windows, the wide space of the desert, allowed room for his thoughts to emerge. Some memories played over and over again, like the re-runs he watched during the summer. And depending on the events, he didn't mind having to sit through them. At least his memories weren't interrupted with commercials.
Click . . . Click . . . Click . . . — Richard Yanez

We may not be able to accomplish everything we can dream, but we will not accomplish anything without our dreams — Erwin McManus

To life in the past and future is easy. To live in the present is like threading a needle. — Walter Percy

What do you dream?
To live with and alongside ... rather than without and alone. — Charles Martin

The only people who are desperate to go on the show are people we're desperate not to have on the show. — Graham Norton

The beauty of compassion and acceptance is this: it neutralizes the attachment you feel to the n, to the pain and the hurt of the relationship. If we stop throwing energy at the hurt and pain (and narcissist, even simply by continuing to fume about what happened), the power of the pain slowly fades. As we said earlier, many believe an n is "in love" with the self, but it is really a fleeting and desperate attachment to an illusion of self that they have. Beneath this facade is a deep self-loathing and fear that fills the n. — Meredith Resnick

Each has to enter the nest made by the other imperfect bird. — Rumi

Jase props himself up on an elbow, looking at me for a minute without saying anything. His face gets an unreadable expression, and I wish I could take back walking over.
Then he observes, "I'm guessing that's a uniform."
Crap. I'd forgotten I was still wearing it. — Huntley Fitzpatrick