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When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.


James A. Baldwin

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When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.
JAMES BALDWIN When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living
JAMES ARTHUR BALDWIN Want LESS! Need LESS! Live MORE!
TANYA MASSE We are the books we read and the things we love.
CATH CROWLEY You should give up sarcasm. People could get the wrong idea about you.
MICHAEL PRYOR I know exactly who I am, what I'm about and who I will become.
EMMA PAUL It is better to grope in the dark and wade through a million errors to reach the Truth than to entru...
SUDHIR KAKAR If you argue with a fool, you become a fool.
L.A. HILDEN Everyday is another chance to do something great.
EMMA PAUL You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm!
COLETTE there are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely ...
OSCAR WILDE I think you can tell when you meet someone whether they read novels. There's some hollowness if they...
PHILIP HENSHER Always be true to your friends, just as you are to yourself.
MEG CABOT I have this feeling, like I'm waiting for something. But I have no idea what.
JENNIFER NIVEN 2.5.03.02.005: Generally speaking, if you fiddle with something, it will break. Don't.
JASPER FFORDE Maxim 1:
Pillage, then burn.

-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Merc...
HOWARD TAYLER Every meeting led to a parting, and so it would, as long as life was mortal. In every meeting there ...
CASSANDRA CLARE A Decalogue of Canons for Observation in Practical Life:

1. Never put off to tomorrow wha...
THOMAS JEFFERSON You love another person not because of his virtues- that is infatuation- but in spite of his faults,...
SUDHIR KAKAR The library card is a passport to wonders and miracles, glimpses into other lives, religions, experi...
LIBBA BRAY Truth is irrelevant. What is relevant is whether or not they believe it."

The logic in th...
SARAH MACLEAN Maxim 2:
A sergeant in motion outranks a lieutenant who doesn't know what's going on.
HOWARD TAYLER Honor from death,” I snap, “is a myth. Invented by the war torn to make sense of the horrific. I...
RAE CARSON Webster lapsed into silence. Started thinking hard. He was a smart enough bureaucrat to know if you ...
LEE CHILD Humor and joy contribute to my total well-being.
LOUISE L. HAY Life IS the gift you were given,
So stop waiting around for your dues.
Use it wisely and y...
MICHELLE GEANEY To achieve anything, you must be prepared to dabble on the boundary of disaster.
STIRLING MOSS A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled. -James...
JAMES BALDWIN Actions speak in volume while words are but a mere whisper in a violent wind
TAURUS MORGAN In a world of words, anything is possible...
LAURA WRIGHT LAROCHE Maxim 29:
The enemy of my enemy is my enemy's enemy. No more. No less.

-The Seventy...
HOWARD TAYLER Maxim 16:
Your name is in the mouth of others: be sure it has teeth.

-The Seventy M...
HOWARD TAYLER First rule of thievery,' Eli said, grinning, 'only run if you're not coming back.' (...) 'First rule...
RACHEL AARON Things it helps me to remember
When in a bad mood, keep quiet or still.
Baggy jumpers don�...
AIDAN CHAMBERS ...I applied her rule to my life; after all, we are all searching for them, the rules. We pick them ...
RACHEL JOYCE The man who has begun to live more seriously within begins to live more simply without.
PHILLIPS BROOKS The man who has begun to live more seriously within begins to live more simply without.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY People gave us a purpose. Something to do all day, every day. At the end, I suppose, you spend a lot...
C. ROBERT CARGILL Love is holy.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE See the world as it is, not as you wish it would be
E. LOCKHART Maxim 18:
If the officers are leading from in front, watch out for an attack from the rear. HOWARD TAYLER It is not enough to conquer, one must [also] learn to seduce.
VOLTAIRE Regard mistakes as teachers, not judges!
TAE YUN KIM Maxim 28:
If the price of collateral damage is high enough, you might be able to get paid for ...
HOWARD TAYLER Maxim 20:
If you’re not willing to shell your own position, you’re not willing to win.
HOWARD TAYLER Last words of wisdom. Whoever you were as a child, she's your future.
CHERISE WOLAS I would rather be damned by my honesty, than caged by my lies.
OMEGA MAVERICK Never subject to the rules, believing that the correct judgement and healthy nature keep her in the ...
ÉMILE ZOLA Every thought is a seed. If you plant crab apples, don't count on harvesting Golden Delicious.
BILL MEYER Right now I've got just two rules to live by.

Rule one: don't taunt elephants.
Rule ...
HOWARD TAYLER God has prepared a path for everyone to follow.
PAULO COELHO My formula for human greatness is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be different, not in the futu...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Intense, sustained focus fuels manifestation.
T.F. HODGE Never underestimate the power of giving a book!
CARMELA DUTRA Shelley, you’re just like that oyster.” God confronted me on the deeper areas of my life that I ...
SHELLEY LUBBEN Jane Heard.
ONE Generational oppression begins when what is meant to be transferred to one offspring has been taken ...
SUNDAY ADELAJA We were trained to live by our wits, in any circumstance.
WILLIAM STEPHENSON When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving oth...
OSCAR WILDE When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving oth...
OSCAR WILDE When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving ot...
OSCAR WILDE Maxim 6:
If violence wasn't your last resort, you failed to resort to enough of it.

HOWARD TAYLER Maxim 3:
An ordnance technician at a dead run outranks everybody.

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HOWARD TAYLER Live the present in such a way that in the future, you will need not be ashamed of your past.
MARK HAMPTON WAYNE Careful, lest sentiment governs your ideals.
A.H. SEPTIMIUS I had never seen the end of day and the beginning of the night greet each other. We were caught in t...
MADELEINE L’ENGLE Silence is the best reply to those who provoke you. Smile is like icing on the cake.
SARU SINGHAL Of course he was afraid of war. Only fools are not. Anaxantis was no fool. He was fully prepared to ...
ANDREW ASHLING Life is a mystery to be lived not a problem to be solved
CLIVE OLLIES Why bother with a cunning plan when a simple one will do?
TERRY PRATCHETT All of a sudden,
You seemed to be
Stranger than a fiction,
to me.
SHILLPI S BANERRJI Maxim 8:
Mockery and derision have their place. Usually, it's on the far side of the airlock.<...
HOWARD TAYLER Not everything is supposed to become something beautiful and long-lasting. Sometimes people come int...
EMERY ALLEN Who am I?" she snaps. "I am America, Israel, England! What am I doing?" She waits another long momen...
DIANA ABU-JABER Stop simply living for one tomorrow and live for all eternity!
ISAAC JOHN GERAMI The shift has begun.....now its our time to take our responsibilities...shifting from a victim menta...
GAIL MARIE MACLEAN When you first meet a person, sometimes they'll pretend to be all that you like. Deception is hard t...
AMAKA IMANI NKOSAZANA But when Fate destines one to ruin it begins by blinding the eyes of his understanding.
JAMES BAILLIE FRASER Apathetic to my pity party, God interrupted in a thunderous Voice with the words, “For we walk by ...
SHELLEY LUBBEN I suppose I'm in that very small group of people who are not waiting for their own story to unfold. ...
CAROL RIFKA BRUNT Listen: it’s got to be all honeymoon, always.
Either heaven, or hell:
no comfortable s...
WILLIAM FAULKNER We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But if that drop were not ther...
MOTHER TERESA Love is not love which alters when it alterations finds. Sonnet 116
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Real Dominance isn't always measured in muscle. Nor is it always measured in Intelligence. But rathe...
LUCIAN BANE I'm about to do something very clever and a tiny bit against the rules of the universe. It's importa...
TOMMY DONBAVAND Money is only a human invention.
VANNA BONTA It is easy to opt out and follow the stream down the river and end up stranded without knowing how y...
CHRIS ERZFELD Acknowledging awesomeness is powerful, contagious, important and necessary!
TANYA MASSE If you think someone is AWESOME, tell them! The world NEEDS more of THAT!
TANYA MASSE Have an open mind! Have an empty cup!
TAE YUN KIM Seek the Blame; Give Away the Fame
MILES ANTHONY SMITH Selfish Apologies Aren’t Apologies at All
MILES ANTHONY SMITH People pay for that they do, and still more, for what they have allowed themselves to become. And th...
DOROTHY ALLISON It’s natural for people to feel superior to those under them. It requires a conscious effort to va...
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA O, the sheer magnificence of words that come together like waves upon a beach, each telling its own ...
JOHN M SHEEHAN My mom taught me to live by the three p's: to always be passionate, persistent, and prepared.
HAILEE STEINFELD I don't get to live by different rules. The same boundaries that apply to everyone apply to me.
TIGER WOODS Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.
GEORGE SANTAYANA Abstract conversations are my favourite, for they unviel true convictions.
PARUL WADHWA I love working with Alec Baldwin. He's one of the five greatest actors ever to live.
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JAMES BALDWIN It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the indepen...
JAMES BALDWIN If you know whence you came, there is really no limit to where you can go.
JAMES BALDWIN The power to define the other seals one's definition of oneself.
JAMES BALDWIN It took many years of vomiting up all the filth I’d been taught about myself, and half-believed, b...
JAMES BALDWIN Our crown has already been bought and paid for. All we have to do is wear it
JAMES BALDWIN If we know, then we must fight for your life as though it were our own-which it is-and render impass...
JAMES BALDWIN In my experience - and this is a very awkward way to put it, since I don't really know what the word...
JAMES BALDWIN But to look back from the stony plain along the road which led one to that place is not at all the s...
JAMES BALDWIN To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be JAMES BALDWIN The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to ex...
JAMES BALDWIN If one wishes to be instructed--not that anyone does--concerning the treacherous role that memory pl...
JAMES BALDWIN And here I was, left with only myself to deal with. It was entirely up to me.
JAMES BALDWIN The subtle and deadly change of heart that might occur in you would be involved with the realization...
JAMES BALDWIN Many have given up. They stay home and watch the TV screen, living on the earnings of their parents,...
JAMES BALDWIN I remembered my mother’s insistence that I always wear clean underwear because I might get knocked...
JAMES BALDWIN Life is tragic simply because the earth turns, and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, f...
JAMES BALDWIN Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that ga...
JAMES BALDWIN