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If you love someone you must set them free like the wind and give them the respect they deserve.If y...
GARY F EVANS... The more we give, the more we reap the benefits of feeling good in helping others. We are all capabl...
ANGIE KARAN

The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.
WILLIAM HAZLITT

The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
WILLIAM HAZLITT

The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have
WILLIAM HAZLITT If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th...
GARY F EVANS... The future belongs to all who, refusing to look back at the past move ahead with the clock as it tic...
ODO SIMON AGBO A couple of customers interrupted [...] who wanted to know if we had some YA book about ants and ali...
SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON

Weirdly enough, the more we give away, the richer we become.
CRAIG GROESCHEL We may not get to choose how we die, but we can chose how we live.
The universe may for...
SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON Dreams are hopeful because they exist as pure possibility. Unlike memories, which are fossils, long ...
SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON

The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have.
CRAIG GROESCHEL People are attracted to who we are more than what we do.
LORRIN L. LEE

The words you can’t find, you borrow.
We read to know we’re not alone. We read because w...
GABRIELLE ZEVIN Because you can only die once but you can suffer forever.
SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON So, tomorrow, I'm leaving. And I'm not going to let that happen again with anyone else. I'm going to...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Orion is above the horizon now, and near it Jupiter, brighter than it will ever be ... But i expect ...
THOMAS HARRIS You are worth more than you think you are
SOTONYE ANGA I am aware that everyone that exists has a story, and we all exist because that story is important f...
ARZELL Dae FATE NAYAE Nanagha Vandhuttoom Da, Sandy , Na Nata, London Lass,Russian Grapes, Ellorum Ippa Van...
SATHESH KUMAR M we
sat there
smoking
cigarettes
at
5
in the morning.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI The busier we are the more leisure we have.
WILLIAM HAZLITT I'm already gone. I died that night on the side of that road with my sister.
TRISHA LEAVER Perfection isn't everything," she said as she turned and walked away. "I think the flaws are what ma...
TRISHA LEAVER With her I'd buried myself, every memory of who I was now, six feet under with the sister I'd put th...
TRISHA LEAVER We hate Simple Minds. They were no.1 in our Top Five Bands or Musicians who will have to be shot com...
NICK HORNBY Who cares what are you eating??
Who cares where are you?
Who cares what are you posting??<...
DEYTH BANGER The more we do, the more we can do.
WILLIAM HAZLITT I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made ...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Everyone is the Umbrella Man and he is everyone. Every cough, sneeze, smile and wave means both ever...
CRAIG CLEVENGER We have a right to life, not on it.
DANIEL MELGAçO Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an...
LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD Air is approximately 21% oxygen, our brains feed off of oxygen. So basically we are all airheads.
ANDONI GARCIA Inspired By Beauty In Creation We Are One
DANIEL GILMAN Are shadows a shadowy reflection of the soul or is it a reflection of who we really are, or possibly...
GARY F EVANS... We are this fucking stick in the end...
DEYTH BANGER Destiny consist in the moments that we experienced, and not in the choices we have to do.
DANIEL MELGAçO To have more... Be more. Do more. Give more.
LORRIN L. LEE If we're honest with ourselves, most of us know the one thing we lack.
CRAIG GROESCHEL Standing on the edge of that darkness, she felt the stirrings of reckless want. A wild sort of brave...
EMILY LLOYD-JONES Can we do more? Yes. Should we do more? Yes,
IAN JOHNSON We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the thi...
CALVIN COOLIDGE People want more and more leisure time, which means the freedom to do what they want to do, not what...
ROBERT FOGEL We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.
ALAN WATTS Empathy is a bridge. Our sufferings connect us. Let pain make you softer.
AKIROQ BROST Outside... we are just nobody... you could meet me outside... but it doesn't mean that I am DeYtH Ba...
DEYTH BANGER Come on... come on... I am waiting for answer...
...

Silence doesn't make it... bet...
DEYTH BANGER What, the glass is half-full instead of half-empty? Bullshit. What they don't tell you is that regar...
T.J. KLUNE Life is a canvas it starts off plain and simple to become your own masterpiece.Gary F Evans...
GARY F EVANS... If we can enhance the experience, more people will spend more of their leisure time with us.
THOMAS O. STAGGS The truth is that we all have to do more things than we can rightly do, if we are to do anything at ...
BERNARD WILLIAMS We should not blame people by the mistakes of others.
DANIEL MELGAçO He gave everything to everybody. Except to me.
J.K. ROWLING The more generous we are, the more joyous we become. The more cooperative we are, the more valuable ...
WILLIAM ARTHUR WARD We are more than what we do . . . much more than what we accomplish . . . far more than what we poss...
WILLIAM ARTHUR WARD Of course we can do it. But more importantly the players have begun to think we can do it.
DARIO GRADI As more you're busy and overwhelmed as more free and leisure time you have.
ALEXANDER We have five (volunteers) and need more. We are growing and do have a need for more.
JEANNA STEWART When you think of all that goes into what you write you realize that only you see all that is needed...
BRENT M. JONES We are hungry for more; if we do not consciously pursue the More, we create less for ourselves and m...
JUDITH WRIGHT We are very much focused ... on what more we can do.
JAMES APPATHURAI A human being is a part of the whole, called by us "Universe", a part limited in time and space.
ALBERT EINSTEIN It was pivotal in making you but you don't remember it. Or do you? Do we understand the events that ...
DOUGLAS COUPLAND We do want more, and when it becomes more, we shall still want more. And we shall never cease to dem...
SAMUEL GOMPERS We all try to camouflage the monotony, But it takes a lot of energy. To insist on being special all ...
PETER HøEG we need to do more enforcement of the zoning that we do have.
JANET JACKSON We can understand the anguish of a father. But what we can do? We do not have space to admit any mor...
ANURAG YADAV We are hoping to get more people to contribute money, so that we can do more things like this.
ALEXIS WILLIAMS We've got exactly what we need to fulfill our destiny!
ABHISHEK KUMAR Every story needs some sort of secret that impels it forward. Otherwise why would the reader bother ...
DEB LOUGHEAD Somewhere in the ruins above them, the cats are howling.
ANTHONY DOERR The only thing that we cannot control is our supporters.
JOSE MOURINHO The ordinary arts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simpli...
THOMAS MORE Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains.
HANNAH MORE Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trem...
HANNAH MORE The constant habit of perusing devout books is so indispensable, that it has been termed the oil of ...
HANNAH MORE The wretch who digs the mine for bread, or ploughs, that others may be fed, feels less fatigued than...
HANNAH MORE My plan of instruction is extremely simple and limited. They learn, on week-days, such coarse works ...
HANNAH MORE There is one single fact which we may oppose to all the wit and argument of infidelity, namely, that...
HANNAH MORE Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
HANNAH MORE O jealousy, Thou ugliest fiend of hell! thy deadly venom Preys on my vitals, turns the health...
HANNAH MORE Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessities.
HANNAH MORE Fell luxury! more perilous to youth Than storms or quicksands, poverty of chains.
HANNAH MORE No adulation; 'tis the death of virtue; Who flatters, is of all mankind the lowest Save he who...
HANNAH MORE What part soever you take upon you, play that as well as you can and make the best of it.
THOMAS MORE Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more cert...
HANNAH MORE How goodness heightens beauty!
HANNAH MORE Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
HANNAH MORE If faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree. Thus faith and works together grow...
HANNAH MORE Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam o...
HANNAH MORE Depart from discretion when it interferes with duty.
HANNAH MORE Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it.
HANNAH MORE In men this blunder still you find, All think their little set mankind.
HANNAH MORE For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infan...
THOMAS MORE One man to live in pleasure and wealth, whiles all other weap and smart for it, that is the part not...
THOMAS MORE Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else whe...
THOMAS MORE Sow an action, reap a habit.
HANNAH MORE Small habits, well pursued betimes, May reach the dignity of crimes.
HANNAH MORE I die the king's faithful servant, but God's first.
THOMAS MORE Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatre...
HANNAH MORE

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