Well, science and religion are not competitors, they’re two different languages trying to tell the same story. There’s room in this world for both.
– from Origin book by Dan Brown
Truly enlightened people never seek to …
Truly enlightened people never seek to be like others. Rather, they seek to be superior to their former selves. Don’t race against others. Race against yourself.
– from The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari book by Robin Sharma
The first people to break the …
The first people to break the laws of bureaucracy are always the bureaucrats themselves.
– from A Man Called Ove book by Fredrik Backman
I believe everything we do in …
I believe everything we do in life is part of a plan. Sometimes the plan goes as intended, and sometimes it doesn’t. That’s part of the plan.
– from Greenlights book by Matthew McConaughey
Whatever you do, try not to …
Whatever you do, try not to dwell too long on your failures. […] Chop up that failure and use it for bait to try to catch another project. Someday it might all make sense to you – why you needed to go through this botched-up mess in order to land in a better place. Or maybe it will never make sense.
– from Big Magic book by Elizabeth Gilbert
There is really no such thing …
There is really no such thing as conditional love and unconditional love. There are conditions and there is love. When you talk about love, it has to be unconditional. The moment there is a condition, it just amounts to a transaction. Maybe a convenient transaction, maybe a good arrangement, but that will not fulfill you or transport you to another dimension. It is just convenient. Love need not necessarily be convenient; most of the time it is not. It takes life. You have to invest yourself.
– from Inner Engineering book by Sadhguru
Personally, if I were the government …
Personally, if I were the government, I’d want the priests to be bled once a month. Yes, every month an ample phlebotomy, in the interests of law and order and morality!
– from Madame Bovary book by Gustave Flaubert
If you loved someone, you loved …
If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.
– from 1984 book by George Orwell
There are certain steps you take …
There are certain steps you take in life that you can’t easily turn back from. So take them with care. You don’t want to make a fool of yourself.
– from The Man Who Died Twice book by Richard Osman
Poverty was a soul-crushing thing. A …
Poverty was a soul-crushing thing. A cave that tightened around you, its pinprick of light closing a little more at the end of each desperate, unchanged day.
– from The Four Winds book by Kristin Hannah