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Nathaniel Smith

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Human is what he decides to be.
ZAMAN ALI Sheep don’t need the shepherd to be what they are. The shepherd needs sheep to be what he is.
LJUPKA CVETANOVA To be, or not to be, that is the question.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE To be or not to be. That's not really a question.
JEAN-LUC GODARD To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be.
GOLDA MEIR Be kind. We never know what people are going through. Give grace and mercy because one day your circ...
GERMANY KENT Do I have the courage of being a ruthless man to myself with the complete knowledge on my manner or ...
FEREIDOON YAZDI Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo...
GERMANY KENT Be yourself, be who you can be.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA To be mad is worse than not to be if this is what it is.
JOHNNY RICH Hamlet's Cat's Soliloquy

"To go outside, and there perchance to stay
Or to re...
HENRY N. BEARD To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
TOM ROBBINS Simple things often make great difference
SOTONYE ANGA From these inconsiderable attempts, some idea may be formed with what success, should Fortune afford...
GIRALDUS CAMBRENSIS A lot of these people left home and they had to leave their animals behind and they have no idea wha...
CANDY CLARK The quest of the Inner Ring will break your hearts unless you break it. But if you break it, a surpr...
C.S. LEWIS To be real is to be who you are according to the purpose which God wants you to accomplish but not t...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I know that David Tennant's Hamlet isn't till July. And lots of people are going to be doing Dr Who ...
NEIL GAIMAN You have what others don't have. This is good news which means you can do what others can't do! You ...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR If you give what can be taken, you are not really giving. Take what you are given, not what you want...
IDRIES SHAH To date or not to date that is the question. It's almost as important as Shakespeare's to be...
AL GOLDSTEIN There is that romanticized idea of what a bookstore can be, what a library can be, what a shop can b...
RUTH REICHL To serve the world, serve yourself first by becoming happy and the best person that you can be.
DEBASISH MRIDHA Focus on your work. Do what you're great at. Don't compare yourself to others and or waste time crit...
GERMANY KENT people judge you from what they hear and what others tell them, they wont take time to learn about y...
MARIAM You don't tell an astronaut what to do.
ATMOSPHERE You gotta pay your dues to sing the blues.
CAROL PLUM-UCCI You're supposed to be kind to everyone, because you never know when you're meeting an angel.
CAROL PLUM-UCCI Five billion people have played Hamlet. 'To be or not to be.' And how do you do that and fin...
ANNETTE BENING I began to encounter real-life stories of dogs protecting their wounded or dying or dead handler... ...
ROBERT CRAIS To be rich simply means,to be able to meet people's need.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) when your heart touched mine,I knew then we were one.
THERESA M WILSON To be rich simply means to be beneficial to others.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) More than any woman I ever knew, she comforted.' -Mrs. Huxley about Emma
DEBORAH HEILIGMAN That's silly,' said Martha. 'Friends should always tell each other the truth.
JAMES MARSHALL Kindness is the essence of greatness and the fundamental characteristic of the noblest men and women...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN In this long eternal quest to be more like our Savior, may we try to be “perfect” men and women ...
JEFFREY R. HOLLAND And we learned that you don't have to be famous or rich or physically healthy to be a leader. You ju...
JOAN BAUER There is no tomorrow to remember if we don’t do something today, and to live most fully today, we ...
THOMAS S. MONSON Beauty—real everlasting beauty—lives not on our faces, but in our attitude and our actions. It l...
JUSTINA CHEN If you were to ask everyone what 'Hamlet' was about, they might say, "It's about a ...
ORLANDO BLOOM Secrets... Dexter a perfect example what... can happen with secrets.
DEYTH BANGER Now she is ignoring me as first

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DEYTH BANGER Yes! Very funny this terrible thing is. A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls i...
JOSEPH CONRAD We tell people to follow their dreams, but you can only dream of what you can imagine, and, dependin...
TREVOR NOAH Kids are our future, and we hope baseball has given them some idea of what it is to live together an...
LARRY DOBY Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an...
LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD You said that you are ill... but from from what?
DEYTH BANGER No matter what you do, no matter how stupid, dumb or damaging you judge it to be, there is a lesson ...
PETER MCWILLIAMS Be who you want to be not what others think you should be.
BILAL SAIF I hate that just because you happen to be good at something,people automatically think that's what m...
AMBER SMITH Whether you choose to move on from your struggles and enjoy life or waddle in your misery, life will...
GERMANY KENT Stand for something. Make your life mean something. Start where you are with what you have. You are ...
GERMANY KENT It's up to you to be anything you want. This should make you sober
SOTONYE ANGA Some of these bathrooms defy description, ... There's no way to go into a judge and a jury and descr...
STEVE HAMILTON You can be all that you want to be.
Keep dreaming and reach out to your dreams.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA The sad heart needs work to do.
JOAN BAUER Most powerful of all powers in its holy insinuation is _being_. _To be_ is more powerful than even _...
GEORGE MACDONALD What else can these bankers and their puppets do, people? If you stand around whining and shitting o...
BOBBY W. MILLER Be thankful for what you have and the people who love you. You can never tell when they'll all be ta...
SUNIL KHEMANEY What you walk away from will determine what God can bring to you. You must leave Egypt before you ca...
THABISO TOX XABANISA At the end, what matters is that you tried
SOTONYE ANGA Spread love. Hug the people you care about and make sure they know that you care and appreciate them...
GERMANY KENT I was very small, about 3 or 4 I think, and just wanted to be the people on telly telling these wond...
DAVID TENNANT When there is no reason to be happy, that's all the reason you need to happy
SOTONYE ANGA Meant to be" allows for lazy. The idea of destiny alleviates anxiety; it comforts us. We stop believ...
STEPHANIE KLEIN Regardless of who you are or what you have been, you can be what you want to be.
W. CLEMENT STONE We all must learn that in some cases there is something much worse than saying the wrong thing; that...
RICHARD BELLZON I dialed the number slowly, wanting to get it right. Two rings, and he picked up.
"Yes," I sai...
SARAH DESSEN I have a serious problem that keeps me on the wrong side of politicians and the people who can look ...
BOBBY W. MILLER I am just thankful the judge gave him what he deserved. What this man did to us can never be repaire...
ELIZABETH GOTTLIEB I have to write for everyone. What really fascinates me is how you make films or make stories that c...
EMMA THOMPSON I have the right to remain violente. Everything I say can and will be used against you.
EMINEM When you give, you will be blessed. When you give, it will be given back to you.
CRAIG GROESCHEL I have no idea what the U.S. intends to do further there and what would be the reaction of the Iraqi...
AKBAR HASHEMI RAFSANJANI Learn, relearn and outlearn.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA How to be wealthy;Birth an idea & then take it to the market place & believe that the market place w...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) It's a sheer and an utter nonsense to even think or imagine that a person can gain and retain people...
ANUJ SOMANY How to be perfect;Think nothing,say nothing & do nothing.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) How to be Great;The moment you realize & accept the ordinary fact that those doing great things toda...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) How to be great;Think of a gigantic & unheard of idea to birth & nurture & inside it lies your great...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Stay true to yourself.Take everyday challenge in your stride & strive to make journey of life exactl...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Be true to yourself.Give wings of confidence & courage to your endeavour. Your strength is reflected...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Like the vital rudder of a ship, we have been provided a way to determine the direction we travel. T...
THOMAS S. MONSON Be true to yourself.Let your belief & thoughts for right cause are not compromised at any cost thoug...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Just because you love someone doesn't mean you're meant to be together.
MICHAELA D. If you can put your mind to it anything can be achieved but to pull something out of nothing althoug...
GARY F EVANS... There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the p...
EPICTETUS We must be more and more to each other, my dear wife.' -Charles Darwin to wife Emma upon loss of dau...
DEBORAH HEILIGMAN I wish you knew how I value you; and what an inexpressible blessing it is to have one whom one can a...
DEBORAH HEILIGMAN Ongea unachoweza kutenda.
ENOCK MAREGESI Mind what you say when someone is listening
SOTONYE ANGA Without troublesome work, no one can have any concrete, full idea of what pure mathematical research...
EDMUND HUSSERL What I try to teach people is take responsibility for yourself. You can raise the odds in your favor...
CAROL RANDALL If we can forgive what has been done to us . . .

If we can forgive what we've done to oth...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK It's not given to people to judge what's right or wrong. People have eternally been mistaken and wil...
LEO TOLSTOY If you give people nothingness, they can ponder what can be achieved from that nothingness.
TADAO ANDO All we are, all we can be, are the stories we tell," he says, and he is talking as if he is talking ...
NORA RALEIGH BASKIN Remember that yours is not the only heart that may be wishing for love.
CAMERON DOKEY Men judge generally more by the eye than by the hand, for everyone can see and few can feel. Every o...
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NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE Easy reading is damn hard writing.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
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NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE Faint not, poor soul, in God still trust;
Fear not the things thou suffer must;
For, whom ...
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NATHANIEL BRANDEN What we call real estate--the solid ground to build a house on--is the broad foundation on which nea...
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE The American Revolution as it actually unfolded was so troubling and strange that once the struggle ...
NATHANIEL PHILBRICK All positive interactions with other human beings involve, to some degree, the experience of visibil...
NATHANIEL BRANDEN Self-esteem is not a luxury; it is a profound spiritual need.
NATHANIEL BRANDEN A single dream is more powerful than a thousand realities.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE I first moved to Denver to work with a group called YWAM, 'Youth With a Mission.' I was a ki...
NATHANIEL RATELIFF Just definitions either prevent or put an end to a dispute.
NATHANIEL EMMONS Self-esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.
NATHANIEL BRANDEN What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself...
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, with...
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE The greater a child’s terror, and the earlier it is experienced, the harder it becomes to develop ...
NATHANIEL BRANDEN Words -- so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and...
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE Life is made up of marble and mud.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you w...
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE When the sun sets, shadows, that showed at noon But small, appear most long and terrible.
NATHANIEL LEE While foulest fiends shun thy society.
NATHANIEL LEE Then he will talk--good gods, how he will talk!
NATHANIEL LEE Sometimes the subconscious mind manifests a wisdom several steps or even years ahead of the consciou...
NATHANIEL BRANDEN The natural inclination of a child is to take pleasure in the use of the mind no less than of the bo...
NATHANIEL BRANDEN Of all the judgments we pass in life, none is more important than the judgment we pass on ourselves.
NATHANIEL BRANDEN If we do not believe in ourselves- neither in our efficacy nor in our goodness- the universe is a fr...
NATHANIEL BRANDEN It is generally recognized that creativity requires leisure, an absence of rush, time for the mind a...
NATHANIEL BRANDEN Positive self-esteem operates as, in effect, the immune system of the consciousness, providing resis...
NATHANIEL BRANDEN We do not hear the term "compassionate" applied to business executives or entrepreneurs, certainly n...
NATHANIEL BRANDEN The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.
NATHANIEL BRANDEN To-morrow, didst thou say? Methought I heard Horatio say, To-morrow! Go to--I will not hear it...
NATHANIEL COTTON I was an English major at Brown. I never enjoyed history classes.
NATHANIEL PHILBRICK The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing; second, the gratif...
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE Productive achievement is a consequence and an expression of health, self-esteem, not its cause
NATHANIEL BRANDEN Is it a fact -- or have I dreamt it -- that, by means of electricity, the world of matter has become...
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE The scientist who lives laborious days in the disinterested pursuit of truth, the artist who will st...
NATHANIEL MICKLEM This concern for the rights and liberties and welfare of the backward peoples is rooted in the Chris...
NATHANIEL MICKLEM