Shūsaku Endō quote: "To be a saint or a man of too good a nature in today's pragmatic world, with everyone out to get the other fellow, was equivalent to being a fool, wasn't it?"

How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
EVANS G. VALENS

A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung...
PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE

A Ritual to Read to Each Other

If you don’t know the kind of person I am
and...
WILLIAM STAFFORD

Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said:
I am not commanding you, but I ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS

To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me.
NICHOLAS SPARKS

As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the...
NICHOLAS SPARKS

You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on...
HARPER LEE

You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.
HARPER LEE

How to be a Poet (to remind myself)

Make a place to sit down.
Sit down. Be quiet. <...
WENDELL BERRY

Lᴏᴠᴇ ɪs ʟɪᴋᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ᴡɪɴᴅ ... Yᴏᴜ ᴄᴀɴ'ᴛ sᴇᴇ ɪᴛ, ʙᴜᴛ ʏᴏ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS

She filed the image away as an excellent and insulting question to ask the earl at an utterly inappr...
GAIL CARRIGER

It's sweet and everything, but it's like you're not even there sometimes. It's great that you can li...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

A wise man understands, an intelligent man knows, but a fool pretends to know.
DEBASISH MRIDHA

In the real world, they told you who to be, not the other way around.
RHODA BELLEZA

Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi...
MARIANA FULGER

By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes.
E.M. FORSTER

There are just some kind of men who-who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learn...
HARPER LEE

The role of the Christian is to let other people know what Jesus has done, not to think of themselve...
LEWIS N. ROE

Naturalistic atheism debunks itself. It has no power to explain even some of the most basic principl...
LEWIS N. ROE

It's important to understand that if someone calls themselves a Christian, it does not automatically...
LEWIS N. ROE

Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full.
CHLOE THURLOW

Never give up on you. In order to make a difference you would have to somehow be different.
JOHNNIE DENT JR.

if it doesn't come bursting out of you
in spite of everything,
don't do it.
unless it...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI

I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib...
C. JOYBELL C.

Anyways, that very same night there was a fight in the casino on B Deck. Some of the passengers got ...
CHRISTINA ENGELA

A tooth for a tooth, will make the world's inhabitants a people without teeth
SOTONYE ANGA

Why, darling, I don't live at all when I'm not with you.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

The atheist might have no proof for the supernatural, but they also have no proof against it. If we ...
LEWIS N. ROE

He said we were all cooked but we were all right as long as we did not know it. We were all cooked. ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

After Rilke's Letters
-- by John VanDyke Wilmerding II

this is my letter to a young ...
RAINER MARIA RILKE

Yes, their reasons are overwhelming. They are as big as hope and as deep as revolt. They are the rea...
ALBERT CAMUS

…A city deprived of everything, devoid of light and devoid of heat, starved, and still not crushed...
ALBERT CAMUS

Words always take on the color of the deeds or sacrifices they evoke.
ALBERT CAMUS

No, no. Don't make that face. Every time I propose to you, you make that twisty, unhappy face. It we...
TESSA DARE

Atticus---" ...said Jem bleakly. "How could they do it, how could they?"
"I don't know, but the...
HARPER LEE

Learn to stand for something in life otherwise you will fall for anything that comes along which is ...
EUGINIA HERLIHY

We are born different to make a difference.
LISA R. REYNOLDS

Dreams can change histories and songs can alter destinies.
TIFFANIE DEBARTOLO

Do I have the courage of being a ruthless man to myself with the complete knowledge on my manner or ...
FEREIDOON YAZDI

If you think like a leader, act like a leader, inspire like a leader then you are a leader.
DEBASISH MRIDHA

When people begin to define the things that they believe in, based upon the exclusion of all the thi...
C. JOYBELL C.

As far back as history records people thinking, thinking people have been befuddled by the mysteries...
LEWIS N. ROE

To be a success, you have to break down your wall of fear that you built around you to protect yours...
DEBASISH MRIDHA

The scientific method gives us information by testing and repeating observable things so that we can...
LEWIS N. ROE

Most of us think we're too busy or too important to rest for a day.
CRAIG GROESCHEL

Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It is nev...
A WALK TO REMEMBER

You know," Daddy said, "it's some that can live their whole life out without asking about it and it'...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR

You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace."
I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl...
TAMMARA WEBBER

A man of guilt acknowledges and changes himself immediately on being hinted slightly about his fault...
ANUJ SOMANY

She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

I love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going t...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

We Are All Infinite
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

I saw other people there. Old men sitting alone. Young girls with blue eye shadow and awkward jaws. ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE.
STEPHAN CHBOSKY

Somos quienes somos por un montón de razones.Quizás nunca conozcamos la mayoría de ellas.Pero aun...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

I know these will all be stories some day, and our pictures will become old photographs. We all beco...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybewe'll never know most of them.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

There's nothing like the deep breathes after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore st...
STHEPHEN CHBOSKY

no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

To be, or not to be, that is the question.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

There are things we never tell anyone. We want to but we can’t. So we write them down. Or we paint...
TIFFANIE DEBARTOLO

Before we do, I suggest you take a break. If you need to go to the bathroom, this is a good time. If...
PSEUDONYMOUS BOSCH

Whether you say that a god does exist, or that none do, it is a claim to know (or at least believe i...
LEWIS N. ROE

This land on which so many centuries have left their mark is merely an obligatory retreat for you, w...
ALBERT CAMUS

And despite the clamors and the violence, we tried to preserve in our hearts the memory of a happy s...
ALBERT CAMUS

And for five years it was no longer possible to enjoy the call of birds in the cool of the evening. ...
ALBERT CAMUS

You never believed in the meaning of this world, and you therefore deduced the idea that everything ...
ALBERT CAMUS

The hopeless hope is what sustains us in difficult moments; our comrades will be more patient than t...
ALBERT CAMUS

…Having been, not only mutilated in our country, wounded in our very flesh, but also divested of o...
ALBERT CAMUS

For all those landscapes, those flowers and those plowed fields, the oldest of lands, show you every...
ALBERT CAMUS

In raining bullets on those silent faces, already turned away from this world, you think you are dis...
ALBERT CAMUS

He pressed a kiss to her forehead. “Ye be a sight for sore eyes, lass,” he told her. “But we�...
SUZAN TISDALE

People themselves makes a lots of mistakes and still loves himself, and they never forget a single m...
OM BENIWAL

You can not change what happened or bring back the past. But you can change the future by being stro...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA

To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
TOM ROBBINS

A successful teacher is one who has atleast 2 students in his class, one who sees no reason to study...
APURVA GAGLANI

Madame Kovarian: The anger of a good man is not a problem. Good men have too many rules.

...
STEVEN MOFFAT

To be lazy is stupid, to be a muscle machine is a crazy thing... and how far we go or father we all ...
DEYTH BANGER

To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible.
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY

To be or not to be. That's not really a question.
JEAN-LUC GODARD

I was very grateful to have heard it again. Because I guess we all forget sometimes. And I think eve...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

It's nice to have things to look forward to.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

Don’t box your children in and tell them that everything is a sin. You’ll produce either rebels,...
C. JOYBELL C.

It's not about who you sleep with, or whether you know about sports or tools or have a pearl-wearing...
BEN MONOPOLI

it's okay to feel things. And be who you are about them.
STEPHEN CHOBOSKY

I don’t want to start thinking again. Not like I have this last week. I can’t think again. Not e...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

It's strange to describe reading a book as a really great experience, but that's kind of how it felt...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

I’m caught between trying to live my life, and trying to run from it.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

I don't want to be somebody's crush.if somebody likes me, i want them to like the real me, not what ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

Well, you can't know it without something having been sneezed.
A.A. MILNE

We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?' asked Piglet.
Even longer,' Pooh answered.”
...
A.A. MILNE

I just want silence... nothing less... nothing more.
DEYTH BANGER

To be a saint or a man of too good a nature in today's pragmatic world, with everyone out to get the other fellow, was equivalent to being a fool, wasn't it?

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To be a saint or a man of too good a nature in today's pragmatic world, with everyone out to get the other fellow, was equivalent to being a fool, wasn't it?

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