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Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES Without dignity, identity is erased. In its absence, men are defined not by themselves, but by their... LAURA HILLENBRAND Imagination and recollection of cherished memories of the pastimes are closely related. We do not re... KILROY J. OLDSTER We are coming to understand health not as the absence of disease, but rather as the process by which... AARON ANTONOVSKY When you are on your purpose, your preoccupation isn't what you don't have yet. You've already drunk... ASSEGID HABTEWOLD In a team setting, leadership is shared by a community of people, which counters the tendency for pa... ADAM S. MCHUGH When we think of India, most of us are in fact thinking of Rajasthan, that large splotch of dun-colo... HANYA YANAGIHARA Everything passes by, and we are left with just our memories BEN OAK Clay in the hands of a good potter suffers so many good turns, but in the end, we see its real and t... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH All imports of domestic and wild birds, their products and by-products from Nigeria are prohibited w... JOSEPH MUSAA So, tomorrow, I'm leaving. And I'm not going to let that happen again with anyone else. I'm going to... STEPHEN CHBOSKY In a way, I envy the freedom artists have. Artists can push themselves beyond their limits, in pursu... CARINE ROITFELD By concentrating on what is good in people, by appealing to their idealism and their sense of justic... IAN MCEWAN Woman's sexual problems are, in this sense, by-products of the suppression of her basic need to grow... BETTY FRIEDAN Religions, to a large extent, became divisive rather than unifying forces. Instead of bringing about... ECKHART TOLLE Life is neither a glorious highlight reel nor a monstrous tragedy. Every day is a good day to live a... KILROY J. OLDSTER Transient bodies are only subject to destruction through their substance and not through their form,... MAIMONIDES Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over. RICHARD CARLSON Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very s... GASTON BACHELARD It was frustrating to still be in the dark about something and be given only so little light. LAUREN LOLA We basically started by going outside shooting. I told the boys that I wanted them to capture images... GAIL PORTER Often, people build stories in their mind which have no basis in the contours of reality. Those whic... WILL BARNES It is not possible to make great buildings, or great towns, beautiful places, places where you feel ... CHRISTOPHER ALEXANDER Use your heart. Understand. Learn to see things in the now, not as they were or will be, or as ... E.J. PATTEN But this is what ... people are so often and disastrously wrong in doing: they (who by their very na... RAINER MARIA RILKE Now is the only time we have, and the only time we have any control over. RICHARD CARLSON And that's what art is, a form in which people can reflect on who we are as human beings and com... WENDELL PIERCE Committing yourself is a way of finding out who you are. A man finds his identity by identifying. A ... ROBERT TERWILLIGER The point is that some Muslims are offended by them. I think that people need to apply their own fai... CAROLYN WASHBURN We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection. Something closed must retain our memories, ... GASTON BACHELARD They are a bunch of criminals, killers and traitors who sold themselves to the foreigners, ... If th... AHMED IBRAHIM Leftovers in their less visible form are called memories. Stored in the refrigerator of the mind and... ROBERT FULGHUM Leftovers in their less visible form are called memories. Stored in the refrigerator of the mind and... THOMAS FULLER The main condition for the achievement of love is the overcoming of one's narcissism. The narcissist... ERICH FROMM The battle is not physical, it is spiritual and your mind is the battleground. Keep your mind pure a... JEANETTE CORON We are certainly influenced by role models, and if we are surrounded by images of beautiful rich peo... ALAIN BOTTON We are certainly influenced by role models, and if we are surrounded by images of beautiful rich peo... ALAIN DE BOTTON It is known that there are an infinite number of worlds, simply because there is an infinite amount ... DOUGLAS ADAMS PEOPLE are experience rich and theory poor. People who are busy doing things ? as opposed to people ... MALCOLM GLADWELL Time is the raw material from which products are made, when products are sold, money is made. SUNDAY ADELAJA I'm always highly irritated by people who imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It i... FLANNERY O'CONNOR Hard to restrain, unstable is this mind; it flits wherever it lists. Good it is to control the mind.... GAUTAMA BUDDHA Back then people closed their eyes and listened to music. Today there's a lot of images that go ... NEIL YOUNG This is an emotional category in the sense that people won't hold back spending on their pets becaus... JAMES MYERS I've got to let the people who are in the business run the business. I can help them think throu... RAM SHRIRAM Get curious, read energy. The future belongs to people who are curious, people who can sense – Sen... DRISHTI BABLANI In the world at large, people are rewarded or punished in ways that are often utterly random. In the... ANDREW WEIL Dreams are composed of many things, my son. Of images and hopes, of fears and memories. Memories of ... NEIL GAIMAN The value of things does not always lie in their prices; but in the memories they bring. Sometimes, ... FADI WILLIAM GHALI ABDELMESSIH You are amazing person with unique talents. Have faith in your abilities. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Make every day count... Even when you think it's the worst day of your life; for you never know when... SOLANGE NICOLE For I am—or I was—one of those people who pride themselves in on their willpower, on their abili... JAMES BALDWIN Having DID is, for many people, a very lonely thing. If this book reaches some people whose experien... CAMERON WEST Mindfulness is observing the beauty of every moment unfolding before us. AMIT RAY Experience proves that in this life peace and satisfaction are had, not by the listless but by those... SAINT IGNATIUS Its devastating to think of them going through---what they are going through as far as just getting ... CINDI WILLIAMS While people often think of identity management in 'defensive' terms, one of the most important bene... CAL SLEMP We function in a pack mentality. This is our tribe. And this is how we are exploited - sold a bill o... JOEY SKAGGS And from among those who are round about you of the dwellers of the desert there are hypocrites, and... QURAN Fools who wear their hearts proudly on their sleeves, who cannot control their emotions, who wallow ... J.K. ROWLING Lead the people with administrative injunctions and put them in their place with penal law, and they... CONFUCIUS The best consolation in misfortune or affliction of any kind will be the thought of other people who... ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER This is what language does: organize the world into manageable, and in some sense artificial, units ... STANLEY FISH We have tears in our eyes As we wave our goodbyes, We so loved being with you, we three. ROALD DAHL More are the names of God and infinite are the forms through which He may be approached. In whatever... RAMAKRISHNA who are you really? you are not a name or a height, or a weight or a gende... M.K By and large, the critics and readers gave me an affirmed sense of my identity as a writer. You migh... RALPH ELLISON And what good is a voice when so few will listen? STACEY JAY It is usually imagined that a thief, a murderer, a spy, a prostitute, acknowledging his profession a... LEO TOLSTOY The historical method includes the presupposition that history is a unity in the sense of a closed c... RUDOLF KARL BULTMANN It's an invention, a fairy tale devoid of any sense, like all the legends in which good spirits and ... ANDRZEJ SAPKOWSKI It is known that there is an infinite number of worlds, but that not every one is inhabited. Therefo... DOUGLAS ADAMS Even though some individual scholars try to tell us there is no direct connection between images of ... BELL HOOKS This is the duty of our generation as we enter the twenty-first century -- solidarity with the weak,... ELIE WIESEL Your most precious memories will focus on those you loved, those who loved you, and what you did tog... JAMES C. DOBSON Ken and Larry are involved in a multitude of agricultural organizations locally, statewide and natio... KAREN PLAUT People have always taken photos of themselves, either with camera timers or by handing their Nikons ... MEGHAN DAUM They're brought to us and we revitalize them because they've usually been traumatized by all of this... CAROL ALLEN The form of association, however, which if mankind continue to improve, must be expected in the end ... JOHN STUART MILL Governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, t... CORY DOCTOROW I'm extremely intrigued by the ability of them to grow enough crops for 7 million people in the dese... DANIEL CORCORAN Through these programs, people are gradually losing their sense of distance. They are in danger of b... ANDREW CHENG Stories are as unique as the people who tell them, and the best stories are in which the ending is a... NICHOLAS SPARKS There are families of every kind. I think a lot of people are struggling to make sense of their iden... BILL DE BLASIO Memory is a very amorphous thing. It is selective and shaped by emotion . . . people are constantly ... WILL EISNER Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. Dreams are hopeful because they exist as pure possibility. Unlike memories, which are fossils, long ... SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON You put books out into the world, and people form their own visuals and images and attachments to ch... CASSANDRA CLARE Saints are ordinary people who love Jesus, try to be like him, are faithful to the duties of their s... MOTHER ANGELICA We each are artists of the self, creating a collage -- a new and original work of art -- out of scra... JUDITH VIORST In our world, in which religious images are losing their meaning, in which our customs are getting m... ANTONI TAPIES This is the secret of happiness that you have been looking for: If you are moving in the ... ABRAHAM HICKS The path of compassion does not obligate you to love people regardless of how they act or who they a... SANAYA ROMAN Through her re-enactments of the stereotypical ways in which women and the female body have typicall... ELIZABETH ARMSTRONG Lord, help us to choose humility over pride. Help us to choose love over our reputation. ANDRENA SAWYER Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest art of all the arts. Painting and sculpture are but imag... HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW The best advisers, helpers and friends, always are not those who tell us how to act in special cases... PHILLIPS BROOKS The best advisers, helpers and friends, always are not those who tell us how to act in special cases... PHILLIPS BROOKS The best advisers, helpers and friends, always are not those who tell us how to act in special cases... PHILLIP BROOKS As soon as this tragedy happened in New Orleans, I just was haunted by memories and thoughts about R... DAVID MARANISS
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