We are all we are, and all in a sense we care to dream we are. And for that matter, anything outlandish, bizarre, is a godsend in this rather stodgy life. It is after all just what the old boy said – it's only the impossible that's credible; whatever credible may mean...

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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

The words you can’t find, you borrow.
We read to know we’re not alone. We read because w...
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RALPH WALDO EMERSON 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... But I don’t want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked.'Oh, you can’t help that,' said the Cat...
LEWIS CARROLL I am aware that everyone that exists has a story, and we all exist because that story is important f...
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Silence doesn't make it... bet...
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SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON The farmer in us makes us do the things we do
SOTONYE ANGA So, tomorrow, I'm leaving. And I'm not going to let that happen again with anyone else. I'm going to...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Dreams are hopeful because they exist as pure possibility. Unlike memories, which are fossils, long ...
SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON Outside... we are just nobody... you could meet me outside... but it doesn't mean that I am DeYtH Ba...
DEYTH BANGER It was pivotal in making you but you don't remember it. Or do you? Do we understand the events that ...
DOUGLAS COUPLAND All religious and spiritual practices lead to one deep realisation: We Are One. All is One.
ANITA B. SULSER 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 There is a farmer in every person. It is the farmer in you that makes you sow and reap
SOTONYE ANGA We may not get to choose how we die, but we can chose how we live.
The universe may for...
SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON Because you can only die once but you can suffer forever.
SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON Love is purpose and we all have love so we all have a purpose
PARKER LOUIS SEELY Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an...
LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD Every little gracious act adds to the quotient of grace in the world - how gracious can you be today...
ANGIE KARAN One Heart! One Mind! One Team! One Dream! One Goal! One Soul! That's how we roll!
MARCUS MAYO Empathy is a bridge. Our sufferings connect us. Let pain make you softer.
AKIROQ BROST What, the glass is half-full instead of half-empty? Bullshit. What they don't tell you is that regar...
T.J. KLUNE Our failures in charity are chained to a narrowed vision of the world that makes too much of the dif...
REBECCA GOLDSTEIN An Error is like Salt and A 'Sincere' Apology is like Water and a ''Repeated Same Error'' is like a ...
ANUROOP TYAGI In periods of rapid personal change, we pass through life as though we are spellcast. We speak in se...
DOUGLAS COUPLAND When you live on a round planet, there's no choosing sides.
WAYNE DYER See the world as a farm, and everything we do as farming
SOTONYE ANGA Everyone is the Umbrella Man and he is everyone. Every cough, sneeze, smile and wave means both ever...
CRAIG CLEVENGER A human being is a part of the whole, called by us "Universe", a part limited in time and space.
ALBERT EINSTEIN It's a lie to think that you are not good enough. It's a lie to think that you are not beautiful. It...
DISON ARNIBAL When all are talking, no one is probably listening; but if no one is speaking then perhaps all are o...
ANUJ SOMANY I am not better than you because of my religion, color, culture, education, status, wealth, etc. I a...
NAJWA ZEBIAN The Bible consistently and directly indicates that when we give generously, we're serving, honoring,...
CRAIG GROESCHEL But we didn't find a major inaccuracy in his statements. And again I find it very credible. But afte...
DETLEV MEHLIS Everything passes by, and we are left with just our memories
BEN OAK We are all disciples of the light.
STEVEN MAGEE Sometimes we represent our weakness as if it were bad. We don’t think it’s okay to be weak…We ...
HENRY CLOUD What love is it, then, that has no need of words to call us? In whose image are we made, to take suc...
CHRISTIAN BOBIN The chakras in your body are as to galaxies on the body of God.
L.J. VANIER We are responsible for ourselves and each other.
RODEL NATIVIDAD CASIO We are here to create, not destroy.
VIKTORIJA GRUMBLYTė The first questions to be asked and answered in every contingency of life being: How will this thoug...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Being present is being connected to All Things.
S. KELLEY HARRELL, M. DIV. We dream that we're all different. The reality is that we're all not.
ANTHONY T. HINCKS All movies are good if we are attentive to the social message that it conveys often in a subdued ton...
ANUJ SOMANY For all men are equal,in order to show man that you are equal,then always do things lesser than your...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) To prove that all men are equal, rich or poor,nature has made it compulsory for all to breath the sa...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) He looks up and the loss in his Noise is so great it feels like I'm standing on the edge of an abyss...
PATRICK NESS We are custodians. We are stewards. Our actions are being watched by others around us. Someone is lo...
ANGIE KARAN The downfall of humanity is called division!! Races, division! Colors, division, Countries, division...
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CHARLES BUKOWSKI To not be optimistic about the human race, would be a disregard of the power of the Spirit who creat...
MARTIN SUAREZ We must constantly remind ourselves that we are the image and likeness of God
SOTONYE ANGA You are worth more than you think you are
SOTONYE ANGA We are here because over billions of years, countless variables fell into place, any of which could ...
WENDY MASS Everyone, this is the new girl. Elder knows her. New girl, this is everyone.” A few people look up...
BETH REVIS We are far from perfect but willing to be different.
CRAIG GROESCHEL We're all in this together. You are not alone. All lines and divisions are artificial. We are one. W...
AKIROQ BROST What Does It Matter What We Believe, as long as we treat others the way we want to be treated?
JEFFREY A. WHITE You can find sorrow in the arithmetic, and you can find a bittersweet hope.
DAVID LEVITHAN Perhaps there is nothing wrong with being childish and naïve. Perhaps naivety is simply the unwilli...
VIRONIKA TUGALEVA In every passing moment that is not appreciated time cannot give it back to you. So in moments of id...
GARY F EVANS... I knew there was something peculiar about you," she said. "And I mean that as the highest compliment...
RANSOM RIGGS "We all have a call in life... Mine is to be me. No matter how hard, no matter how inconvenient. No ...
NILSA FACCHI-BOLLIER Somewhere in the ruins above them, the cats are howling.
ANTHONY DOERR Rather, it is through conciliation and compromise that we are building a fair Iraq, a just state for...
JALAL TALABANI Because we're not part of the 'formal system' and we have no other agenda, we are seen as credible a...
JUDI SEGALL We are all stars, “All-stars" and “Rock-stars” in that sense of the matter.
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BILL HICKS We are all alone, trapped in these bodies and our own minds, and whatever company we have in this li...
JENNIFER NIVEN If you love someone you must set them free like the wind and give them the respect they deserve.If y...
GARY F EVANS... We're LOVE! We came straight outta LOVE & that's where we're headed. From love to love - is what...
ABHISHEK KUMAR Orion is above the horizon now, and near it Jupiter, brighter than it will ever be ... But i expect ...
THOMAS HARRIS The waves of love roll throughout the Universe, and overflow in our hearts..
Everything is ONE!
DAVE ZEBIAN The awakening is finally realizing that you are a part of God, like a single cell that finally sees ...
L.J. VANIER We are one, after all, you and I, together we suffer, together exist and forever will recreate one a...
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN We are transitioning rapidly from a traditional manufacturing and agricultural society to a competit...
MICHAEL HARRIS Not," Swift said firmly, "for all the tea in China."
"That expression has never made sense to m...
LISA KLEYPAS It is impossible to have a Jewish, democratic state and at the same time to control all of Eretz Isr...
ARIEL SHARON The universe is so vast, so immense, we can never expect to explore it all. It is in effect, not so ...
CHRISTINA ENGELA We are all so dedicated. We wake up every morning, and our club swimmers come all the time and we ar...
ASHLYN LLERANDI All we are is what we're told and most of thats been lies.
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ABHISHEK KUMAR We are not just born to Eat, Sleep, and Live only. Lets all try and put a sincere effort to make dif...
HRUSHIKESH DALAI In this wonderful world of ours, we are all actors and actresses in our own right.Though it is real ...
GARY F EVANS... Today a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, t...
BILL HICKS Today a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, t...
BILL HICKS During our dreams we do not know we are dreaming. We may even dream of interpreting a dream. Only on...
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ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH He joined Jude in the kitchen and began making a salad, and JB slumped to the dining-room table and ...
HANYA YANAGIHARA We are not credible year after year when we cannot get our priority populations vaccinated.
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FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.
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FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Few people know how to be old.
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FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD It requires more than mere genius to be an author.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.
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JOSEPHINE DE LA BAUME I'm ashamed to admit this, but I didn't read a novel all the way through until after high sc...
MATT DE LA PENA The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE Liberality consists less in giving a great deal than in gifts well-timed.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortu...
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking...
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD True bravery is shown by performing without witness what one might be capable of doing before all th...
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE One cannot answer for his courage when he has never been in danger.
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD If she loved him the way she said she did, she wanted him whole. Maybe this was what love meant afte...
MELISSA DE LA CRUZ You cannot be with someone just because you don’t want to hurt him. You have your own happiness to...
MELISSA DE LA CRUZ In all professions each affects a look and an exterior to appear what he wishes the world to believe...
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Usually we praise only to be praised.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD A heap of epithets is poor praise: the praise lies in the facts, and in the way of telling them.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity.
JEAN DE LA BRUYèRE Even if they end up together, which I highly doubt, given the strength of that particular bond-...-b...
MELISSA DE LA CRUZ Who knew that the path to a womans heart was through the soul of an honest man?
MELISSA DE LA CRUZ It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Why is our memory good enough to recall to the last detail things that have happened to us, yet not ...
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD The mind is always the patsy of the heart.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD All the passions are nothing else than different degrees of heat and cold of the blood.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the...
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD If we resist our passions, it is more through their weakness than from our strength.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD The passions are the only orators which always persuade.
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We are all we are, and all in a sense we care to dream we are. And for that matter, anything outlandish, bizarre, is a godsend in this rather stodgy life. It is after all just what the old boy said – it's only the impossible that's credible; whatever credible may mean...

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We are *all* we are, and all in a sense we care to dream we are. And for that matter, anything outlandish, bizarre, is a godsend in this rather stodgy life. It is after all just what the old boy said – it's only the impossible that's credible; whatever credible may mean...

Walter de la Mare

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We are all we are, and all in a sense we care to dream we are. And for that matter, anything outlandish, bizarre, is a godsend in this rather stodgy life. It is after all just what the old boy said – it's only the impossible that's credible; whatever credible may mean...