Tradicional Quotes & Sayings

You often appear lost in a world of your own making. It is supremely appealing to men to see a woman content with herself. We long to slip inside her and join her. — Sylvia Day

...the very, very old fae tended to go through an unhealthy stage of boredom that was often followed by a period of 'goin' doololly. — E.J. Stevens

Ignorance, the root and stem of every evil. — Plato

Dream big and love bigger. — Inbar Lavi

Most successful people are always on vacation. — Debasish Mridha

To make the public sentiment, on the side of all that is just and true and noble, is the highest use of life. — Lucy Stone

It amounts to a diseased attitude - a conditioned reflex that shunts aside the independence of your minds whenever it is a question of opposing authority. — Isaac Asimov

Happiness is already in the future because your heart and mind took you there a million times already. It knew. — Shannon L. Alder

No! No matter how cut up she was, no matter how many scars on her body, no matter that every man who looked at her thought she was repugnant, she wanted to live! "Lia," Robert asked quietly, "how — Lindsay McKenna

It is astonishing how much worse one mosquito can be than a swarm. A swarm can be prepared against, but one mosquito takes on a personality - a hatefulness, a sinister quality of the struggle to the death. — F Scott Fitzgerald

The true meaning of the precepts is not just that one should refrain from drinking alcohol, but also from getting drunk on nirvana. — Bassui Tokusho

To require perfection is to invite paralysis. The pattern is predictable: as you see error in what you have done, you steer your work toward what you imagine you can do perfectly. You cling ever more tightly to what you already know you can do - away from risk and exploration, and possibly further from the work of your heart. You find reasons to procrastinate, since to not work is to not make mistakes. Believing that artwork should be perfect, you gradually become convinced that you cannot make such work. (You are correct.) Sooner or later, since you cannot do what you are trying to do, you quit. And in one of those perverse little ironies of life, only the pattern itself achieves perfection - a perfect death spiral: you misdirect your work; you stall; you quit. — David Bayles

Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding. — Thomas Carlyle

Realism is punishing. Probabilistic skepticism is worse. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

If you speak up online and your ideas have currency, people are going to show up and want to connect with you. What we need more of are people with the guts and emotional labour to do this. The greatest shortage in today's society is an instinct to produce. — Seth Godin