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#1

“A person who posses a cunning attitude are not always academically intelligent, but they are considered clever because they can manipulate and cause harm towards others in order to gain something out of them for their own benefit. They can be defeated if people stand up towards them and point out their actual inappropriate behavioral activities with logical reasoning.”
― Saaif Alam

tags: anti-bullying, family, friendship

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#2

“If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.”
― Nelson Mandela

tags: language

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#3

“We sit and talk,
quietly, with long lapses of silence
and I am aware of the stream
that has no language, coursing
beneath the quiet heaven of
your eyes
which has no speech”
― William Carlos Williams, Paterson

tags: language, poetry, silence

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#4

“I have been finding treasures in places I did not want to search. I have been hearing wisdom from tongues I did not want to listen. I have been finding beauty where I did not want to look. And I have learned so much from journeys I did not want to take. Forgive me, O Gracious One; for I have been closing my ears and eyes for too long. I have learned that miracles are only called miracles because they are often witnessed by only those who can can see through all of life's illusions. I am ready to see what really exists on other side, what exists behind the blinds, and taste all the ugly fruit instead of all that looks right, plump and ripe.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

tags: awakening, beautiful, beauty, blind, closing-ears, closing-eyes, conformityredemption, creator, explore, eyes, facades, fake, fruit, fruitful-garden, fruits, garden, god, god-s-garden, grateful, gratitude, illumination, illusion, illusions, journey, life, life-path, light, looking, miracle, miracles, mirage, nature, orchardgracious, path, prayer, quest, real, ripe, search, searching-truth, seeking-truth, sight, substance, superficial, surface, tongues, treasure, truth, truth-path, ugly, vision, wander, wisdom, wise, wonder

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#5

“We look around us and we find ourselves confused as to why the world has fallen into such deep darkness. And standing in this descending darkness, what we need to realize is that the farther we move from God, the darker everything gets. And no light of man can illuminate that kind of darkness.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

tags: culture, dark, darkness, god, hopeless, light, lost, man, mankind, sin, society, wander, wandering, world

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#6

“It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are still alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger for them.”
― George Eliot

tags: hunger, living, longing, wish, wishing

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#7

“They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.”
― Tom Bodett

tags: happiness, hope, joy, love, wishing

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#8

“Her face felt like it was scattered in pieces and she could not keep it straight. The feeling was a whole lot worse than being hungry for any dinner, yet it was like that. I want--I want--I want--was all that she could think about--but just what this real want was she did no know.”
― Carson McCullers, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

tags: betterment, discontentment, humanity, improvement, life, longing, need, not-enough, want, wishing

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#9

“People forget they have options. And they forget that those things don't really matter. They should concentrate on what they have and not what they don't have. And by the way, wishing and dreaming doesn't mean concentrating on what you don't have, it's positive thinking that encourages hoping and believing, not whinging and moaning.”
― Cecelia Ahern, If You Could See Me Now

tags: dreams, hopes, hoping, inspirational, options, positive, wishing

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#10

“May you find what you are looking for and realize it is not the answer.”
― Ahmed Mostafa

tags: answers, dreams, dreams-quotes, greed, life, life-and-living, life-philosophy, life-quotes, mortality, nothing, nothing-lasts-forever, nothingness, wishing

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#11

“anyone who has lost somethingthey thought was theirs forever. Finally, comes to realize that nothing really belongs to them. And if to nothing belongs to me there's no point wasting my time looking after things that aren't mine. It's best to live as if today were the first (or last) day of my life.”
― Paolo Coelho

tags: eleven-minutes, last-day, nothing-lasts-forever, paolo-coelho

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#12

“I feel there will be a time. A time when there will be no agony. I will never cry. There will come a time when my smile will be genuine. You will be able to tell. I feel there will come a time when the winds will carry all the wrinkles away when the rain will bring beauty with it when the sun shine will carry the birds my way. When the flowers will be welcome in this world. The pain I feel will not stay forever. Nothing will last. The good brought bad with it. I know the bad has already begun. What I know more is that the good is hidden in it. It is never gone. It will never go. And I will wait!”
― Aleena Yasin

tags: cry, flowers, nothing-lasts-forever, pain, rain, smile, sun, wait, winds

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#13

“We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: devil, hell, world

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#14

“When you love someone, truly love them, you lay your heart open to them. You give them a part of yourself that you give to no one else, and you let them inside a part of you that only they can hurt-you literally hand them the razor with a map of where to cut deepest and most painfully on your heart and soul. And when they do strike, it’s crippling-like having your heart carved out.”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon

tags: cry, devil, may, vulnerability

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#15

“Son, the greatest trick the Devil pulled was convincing the world there was only one of him.”
― David Wong, John Dies at the End

tags: devil, evil, trick

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#16

“Someone who smiles too much with you can sometime frown too much with you at your back.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

tags: acid, attack, bad-people, calumny, chemical, counterfeit, deception, decievers, demon, devil, fake, fake-friends, fault-finders, food-for-thought, gossip, haters, hatred, hurt, incessant, insanity, negative, negative-people, pessimism, plot, ploy, pretence, pretenders, slander, slanderers, smiles, strategy, swindle, sycophants, toxic-people, trick, troubesome-people, trouble, villain

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#17

“The Devil pulls the strings which make us dance;
We find delight in the most loathsome things;
Some furtherance of Hell each new day brings,
And yet we feel no horror in that rank advance.”
― Charles Baudelaire

tags: decadence, devil, horror

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#18

“Buy a gift for a dog, and you'll be amazed at the way it will dance and swerve its tail, but if don't have anything to offer to it, it won't even recognize your arrival; such are the attributes of fake friends.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

tags: attraction, bad, bad-people, bait, cheat, cheaters, cheating, corrosive, devil, devilish, dog, dogs, evil, fake-friends, false-colour, fools, gift, hate, haters, hatred, love, michael-bassey-johnson, negative, negative-people, negativity, pretence, pretension, sycophants, trick, trickish, tricky, wolves

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#19

“We have never heard the devil's side of the story, God wrote all the book.”
― Anatole France

tags: bible, devil, god, scriptures

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#20

“When you're in hell, only a devil can point the way out.”
― Joe Abercrombie, Half a King

tags: devil, hell

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#21

“Whenever the devil harasses you, seek the company of men or drink more, or joke and talk nonsense, or do some other merry thing. Sometimes we must drink more, sport, recreate ourselves, and even sin a little to spite the devil, so that we leave him no place for troubling our consciences with trifles. We are conquered if we try too conscientiously not to sin at all. So when the devil says to you: do not drink, answer him: I will drink, and right freely, just because you tell me not to.”
― Martin Luther

tags: beer, devil, drinking, temptation

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#22

“You don't buy all the clothes in the market. You choose slowly and carefully, asking the prices for each before buying. The same way you choose your friends, by looking into their lives carefully, before taking any as a companion, then dropping those that are not relevant.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

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#23

“It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.”
― Helen Keller, The Story of My Life

tags: church, devil, ennui, kindness, love, loving, religion, satan

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#24

“When you’re in love with two people, always choose the second. The fact that you are constantly thinking of the second person makes it obvious that the first will never fulfill you, unless the second person did not fulfill you either. At this point, you have to choose the third person because God is getting a little tired of your inattention and indecisiveness, and is planning on sending a fourth person into your life just to slap you around with the bible for not entering the promised land.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: choices, dating, decisions, familiar, familiarity, funny, guardian-angel, humor, johnny-depp, relationships, sarcasim, stay-true, temptation, the-past, wrong-path

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#25

“I’m the most expensive person in my life. Every day I pay for the poor decisions of my past.”
― Jarod Kintz, This is the best book I've ever written, and it still sucks

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#26

“I cannot change the decisions that I have made in the past, but I can learn from them and make the most of the life that I am living now.”
― Christa Cervone, Broken

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#27

“Mom?” I say as I slip on my boots. “I know you were only eighteen when you met Dad. I mean, that’s really young to meet the person you spend the rest of your life with. Do you ever regret it?”
She doesn’t answer immediately. Instead, she lies back on my bed and clasps her hands behind her head, pondering my question.
“I’ve never regretted it. Questioned it? Sure. But never regretted."
"Is there a difference?” I ask.
“Absolutely. Regret is counterproductive. It’s looking back on a past that you can’t change. Questioning things as they occur can prevent regret in the future. I questioned a lot about my relationship with your father. People make spontaneous decisions based on of their hearts all the time. There’s so much more to relationships than just love.”
― Colleen Hoover, Slammed

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#28

“It is not your time, love. You will not die tonight.

All this time she thought herself in love with the notion of Death. His gallantry, his beautiful soul. She believed he loved her because he had spared her from his grip. But it had not been Death, but Black.

“Why?” she asked, and her body shook, knowing his sacrifice, knowing he knew her most guarded secret.

“Because I loved you,” he murmured. “I couldn’t let you go, because I knew I could no longer see you, I couldn’t live, either.”

Black had risked his life to save her from taking her own.

He rose, helped her up and clutched her in his arms. “It is too soon for you to make your decision,” he said. “Come to me when you know what you want. My wishes will remain unchanged.”

“What do you want?”

He kissed her, pressed her body into his hot, hard one. “To be inside you. To lay you out and touch you with my hands, my mouth and tongue. I want to slip deep inside you and never leave. I want to wake up in the morning and open my eyes to find you lying there next to me. I want to look at my children and see you in their little faces.”

“Jude,” she whispered, holding him, weakening.

“But I want you to want that as much as I do, Isabella.”

“We have too many secrets,” she began. “Our pasts…”

“Secrets, like passion, are meant to be spent. I will bear all my sins, all my secrets, when you come to me. It’s all I can offer. You see, little love, I’m afraid, too, but the difference between us is that I believe it’s worth it to face that fear if it means that I’ll have you.”
― Charlotte Featherstone, Seduction & Scandal

tags: charlotte-featherstone, isabella, jude, seduction-and-scandal

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#29

“Happy people are not people without problems; they are people who face their problems and at some point make a decision to move past them.”
― Will Bowen, Happy Stories!: Real-Life Inspirational Stories from Around the World

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#30

“Idolatry happens when you worship or praise anything excessively to the point of causing you to believe it reigns supreme. All things on this earth are temporal, even your very own desires. Be careful that you do not create idols to worship.”
― Amaka Imani Nkosazana, Sweet Destiny

tags: actions, advantage, anxious, author, belief, believe, careful, cautious, choices, consequences, create, debate, decisions, desires, devotion, earth, earthly-things, faith, fake, fear, fearful, fiction, forgiveness, happiness, harm, honest, hope, idols, incomplete, inspiration, inspirational, inspire, joy, kindness, life-lessons, love, man, notable, open, own, past, people, pleasures, possessions, quotes, reign, shame, soul, spirit, spirituality, subject, superficial, temporal, things, trophy, trust, trustworthy, wise-words, wishes, woman, worship

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