If I am not good to myself, how can I expect anyone else to be good to me?

-- Maya Angelou, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

Happiness doesn't always come from a pursuit. Sometimes it comes when we least expect it.

-- Dalai Lama XIV, Much Ado About Nothing

Love, like madness, can only fill the models that society makes available.

-- Neel Burton, Hart Attack

If you let people into your life a little bit, they can be pretty damn amazing.

-- Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

ON LIVING LIFE WISELY - To make the right choices, you have to be at peace with yourself.

-- Tara Estacaan, The Usurper: And Other Stories

When you only focus on your goals you never see any obstacles.

-- Stephen Richards, Eat, Pray, Love

Healey’s First Law Of Holes: When in one, stop digging.

-- Denis Healey, The Wisdom Of Confucius

What I must know, only the Master teaches!

-- Lailah Gifty Akita, Lit Up: One Reporter. Three Schools. Twenty-four Books That Can Change Lives.

Youthful period is the time to make manful period effective and worth living

-- ETC Wanyanwu, Neurons of Jesus: Mind of A Teacher, Spouse & Thinker

The less people know, the more stubbornly they know it.

-- Osho, Creativity: Unleashing the Forces Within

Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.

-- Amos Bronson Alcott, Tablets

The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live.

-- George Carlin, The Time Traveler's Wife

Our love was a two-person game. At least until one of us died, and the other became a murderer.


-- Dark Jar Tin Zoo, Love Quotes for the Ages. Specifically Ages 19-91.

It takes too much energy to be against something unless it's really important.

-- Madeleine L'Engle, Witches Abroad

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.

-- Philip K. Dick, I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon

What's the good of living if you don't try a few things?

-- Charles M. Schulz, City of Fallen Angels

I am young to learn.

-- Lailah Gifty Akita, Feelings Undefined: The Charm of the Unsaid

Books don't change people; paragraphs do, Sometimes even sentences.

-- John Piper, A Godward Life: Savoring the Supremacy of God in All of Life

Total Enlightenment is 'Vision without Purpose'.

-- Stanley Victor Paskavich, The Human Project

Put your converted time into something productive

-- Sunday Adelaja, Leaders' Frontpage: Leadership Insights from 21 Martin Luther King Jr. Thoughts