Powerful Quotes

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So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death. — Hector Hugh Munro
The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Identify your problems but give your power and energy to solutions — Tony Robbins
The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to… — William Faulkner
In your walks about London you will sometimes see bent, haggard figures that look as if they had recently been caught in some powerful machinery.… — P.G. Wodehouse
A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest. — C.S. Lewis
You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Reflection is one of the most underused yet powerful tools for success. — Richard Carlson
God only rarely reveals the future. When he does so, it is for one reason: it's a future that was written so as to be… — Paulo Coelho
There are two kinds of humor. One kind that makes us chuckle about our foibles and our shared humanity -- like what Garrison Keillor does.… — Molly Ivins
Intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of life. — Paulo Coelho
Don't tell me what you value, show me your budget, and I'll tell you what you value. — Joe Biden
The powerful wind swept his hair away from his face; he leaned his chest into the wind, as if he stood on the deck of… — John Irving
Owen Meany believed that “coincidence” was a stupid, shallow refuge sought by stupid, shallow people who were unable to accept the fact that their lives… — John Irving
Even if our efforts of attention seem for years to be producing no result, one day a light that is in exact proportion to them… — Simone Weil
It was less like seeing than like being for the first time seen, knocked breathless by a powerful glance. — Annie Dillard
When everything goes wrong, what a joy to test your soul and see if it has endurance and courage! An invisible and all-powerful enemy—some call… — Nikos Kazantzakis
My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some… — Maya Angelou
Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. And because all things have contributed… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works. — Samuel Johnson
But what else can we do when we're so weak? We invest hours each day, months each year, years each lifetime in something over which… — Nick Hornby
A woman's heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek Him just to find her. — Max Lucado
This is what we call love. When you are loved, you can do anything in creation. When you are loved, there's no need at all… — Paulo Coelho
[Words] cling to the very core of our memories and lie there in silence until a new desire reawakens them and recharges them with loving… — Laura Esquivel

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