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Friendship Quotes

Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend
― Albert Camus

“Friendship … is born at the moment when one man says to another “What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― C.S. Lewis

“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
― Elbert Hubbard

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
― Mark Twain


“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.”
― Bob Marley

“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”
― Jane Austen

“If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.”
― Joan Powers

“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you…I could walk through my garden forever.”
― Alfred Tennyson


“When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable.”
― Jess C. Scott

“There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.”
― Linda Grayson

“I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.”
― Helen Keller

“Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.”
― Sarah Dessen

“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art…. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.”
― C.S. Lewis

“You can’t stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.”
― A.A. Milne


“What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.”
― Aristotle

“Nobody likes being alone that much. I don’t go out of my way to make friends, that’s all. It just leads to disappointment. ”
― Haruki Murakami


“He must have known I’d want to leave you.”
“No, he must have known you would always want to come back.”
― J.K. Rowling

“No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.”
― Alice Walker

“There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.”
― P.G. Wodehouse

“Only a true best friend can protect you from your immortal enemies.”
― Richelle Mead


“Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?”
― Abraham Lincoln

“The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“If you have two friends in your lifetime, you’re lucky. If you have one good friend, you’re more than lucky.”
― S.E. Hinton

“There are no faster or firmer friendships than those formed between people who love the same books.”
― Irving Stone

“Words are easy, like the wind; faithful friends are hard to find.”
― William Shakespeare

“The capacity for friendship is God’s way of apologizing for our families.”
― Jay McInerney

“The worst part of success is trying to find someone who is happy for you.”
― Bette Midler


“I am glad you are here with me. Here at the end of all things, Sam.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

“Silence make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying, but the never needing to say that counts.”
― Margaret Lee Runbeck

“A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship.”
― Markus Zusak

“Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.”
― Elie Wiesel

“Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected.”
― Charles Lamb

“If you have good friends, no matter how much life is sucking , they can make you laugh.”
― P.C. Cast Kristin Cast

“I don’t trust anybody. Not anybody. And the more that I care about someone, the more sure I am they’re going to get tired of me and take off.”
― Rainbow Rowell


“Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend’s success.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Never leave a friend behind. Friends are all we have to get us through this life–and they are the only things from this world that we could hope to see in the next.”
― Dean Koontz

“We should meet in another life, we should meet in air, me and you.”
― Sylvia Plath

“I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you, and that’s
why.”
― John Steinbeck

“There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.”
― Sylvia Plath

“Can miles truly separate you from friends… If you want to be with someone you love, aren’t you already there?”
― Richard Bach

“They’re a rotten crowd’, I shouted across the lawn. ‘You’re worth the whole damn bunch put together.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald


“A friend to all is a friend to none.”
― Aristotle

“The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away.”
― Barbara Kingsolver

“Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it’s all over.”
― Gloria Naylor

“Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.”
― Aristotle

“Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel.”
― Doris Lessing

“She is a friend of my mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order.”
― Toni Morrison

“There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.”
― John Holmes

“The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.”
― Charles Dickens

“I wonder what Piglet is doing,” thought Pooh.
“I wish I were there to be doing it, too.”
― A.A. Milne


“It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.”
― E.B. White

“When a woman becomes her own best friend life is easier.”
― Diane Von Furstenberg

“The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.”
― Henry David Thoreau

“Friendship is everything. Friendship is more than talent. It is more than the government. It is almost the equal of family.”
― Mario Puzo

“Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.”
― Socrates

“Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.”
― Henry David Thoreau

“Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.”
― Richard Bach



“It’s hard to tell who has your back, from who has it long enough just to stab you in it….”
― Nicole Richie

“A fit, healthy body—that is the best fashion statement”
― Jess C Scott

“However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.”
― Albert Einstein

“Cutting people out of your life is easy, keeping them in is hard.”
― Walter Dean Myers

“I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.”
― Franklin D. Roosevelt

“I hold this to be the highest task of a bond between two people: that each should stand guard over the solitude of the other.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke

“In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.”
― John Churton Collins


“Time doesn’t take away from friendship, nor does separation.”
― Tennessee Williams

“A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.”
― Jim Morrison

“I don’t need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.”
― Plutarch

“No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books.”
― Elizabeth Barrett Browning


“Friends are honest with each other. Even if the truth hurts.
-Maggie”
― Sarah Dessen

“A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.”
― Bernard Meltzer

“We are like islands in the sea, separate on the surface but connected in the deep.”
― William James

“A good friend is a connection to life – a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world.”
― Lois Wyse


“Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.”
― Khalil Gibran

“True friends are like diamonds – bright, beautiful, valuable, and always in style.”
― Nicole Richie

“True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.”
― Charles Caleb Colton


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Rapport Quotes

Rapport is the ability to enter someone else’s world, to make him feel that you understand him, that you have a strong common bond.

      Tony Robbins

      The best way to establish rapport with people and to win them over to your side is to be truly interested in them, to listen with the intention of really learning about them. When the person feels that you are really interested in getting to know them and their feelings, they will open up to you and share their true feelings with you much more quickly.

      Jack Canfield

      Rapport equals trust plus comfort.

      Neil Strauss

      For most women, the language of conversation is primarily a language of rapport: a way of establishing connections and negotiating relationships.

      Deborah Tannen


      Rapport is the ultimate tool for producing results with other people. No matter what you want in your life, if you can develop rapport with the right people, you’ll be able to fill their needs, and they will be able to fill yours.

      Tony Robbins

      Rapport? You mean like, You’ll run as fast as you can, and I’ll throw it as far as I can?

      Jeff Kemp

      I had a lot of fun working with John Candy. We had a pretty good rapport.

      Harold Ramis

      Our most tragic error may have been our inability to establish a rapport and a confidence with the press and television with the communication media. I don’t think the press has understood me.

      Lyndon B. Johnson


      I have taught students from the New York City area so long I have a special affinity and rapport with them. It surprises me sometimes that there are students from anywhere else.

      Robert Morgan

      The most effective way to achieve right relations with any living thing is to look for the best in it, and then help that best into the fullest expression.

      J. Boone

      Laughter is a release of tension. When influencing, make the other person laugh; you’ll gain rapport instantly.

      Marshall Sylver

      You want to work with people who you like and have an easy rapport with.

      Mike White


      Only by discovering alchemy have I clearly understood that the Unconscious is a process and that ego’s rapport with the Unconscious and its contents initiate an evolution, more precisely, a real metamorphosis of the psyche.

      Carl Jung

      I have made a great discovery. I no longer believe in anything.

      Georges Braque

      My clothes have always got a very strong dynamic rapport with the body – they are very body conscious, they help you to look glamorous, more hourglass, more woman.

      Vivienne Westwood

      Honestly, I love television. I love the idea of going to work every day and getting to know your crew and having a rapport with your directors and having a family of cast.

      Britt Robertson


      For me, a great show is when there’s a great rapport with the band and the audience, and we’re all really into it. The first trick is to bring the audience into the band, break the ice, have a life, and be one, so you can enjoy the next hour and a half together.

      Andy Summers

      I prefer more to kind of show people different things than tell them ‘oh, here’s what you should believe’ and, over time, you can build up a rapport with your audience.

      Nate Silver

      I interviewed Ann Coulter when I was sitting in for Larry King a couple of times, and we have a rapport. I like to talk to her.

      Joy Behar


      We have to reach out to churches and schools and help people understand science, and we have to build rapport between scientists and people of faith. Then once we get that understanding and rapport built, then everyone will be on board with climate change.

      Katharine Hayhoe

      What some highbrows call rapport is nothing more than a mild flirtation between photographer and the girl on the other side of the camera. Some models get so professional they can send hours flirting with the camera itself while the poor photographer is reduced to the role of spectator.

      Sam Haskins

      I think I have a good rapport with the people I work with and that really helps. If you like working with people and you always have a good time and you always do good work, then they’re going to book you again. I like doing what I do.

      Kate Moss


      My spirit has pass’d in compassion and determination around the whole earth. I have look’d for equals and lovers an found them ready for me in all lands, I think some divine rapport has equalized me with them

      Walt Whitman

      God is the source of all creativity. You can be creative only when you are EN RAPPORT with God.

      Rajneesh

      You put a blob of yellow here, and another at the further edge of the canvas: straight away a rapport is established between them. Colour acts in the way that music does.

      Georges Braque

      When you return to the same area a few times, you get that frequent rapport with the public and the fans of the music along with having a certain warmth when you walk onstage.

      Natalie MacMaster


      Personal style, be it that of Michelangelo, or that of Tintoretto… has always been that peculiar personal rapport which has developed between an artist and his medium.

      Ben Shahn

      The intimate rapport with nature is one of the most precious things in life. Nature is indeed very close to us; sometimes closer than hands and feet, of which in truth she is but the extension. The emotional appeal of nature is tremendous, sometimes almost more than one can bear.

      Jan Smuts


      Not many people like it when they get criticism. Of course, if you have someone who does tell you and you do have a rapport, that’s great. But don’t rely on it. You have to rely on yourself.

      Itzhak Perlman

      I think one of the biggest things that’s changed in terms of the rapport with the crowd is that now crowds come to hear our songs. We’re getting closer and closer to an artist performance.

      A-Trak


      We need to get back to trusting our emotional rapport with children, to seeing a child’s beauty and singling that child out. That’s how the mentor system works – you’re caught up in the fantasy of another person. Your imagination and their come together.

      James Hillman

      I’ve been going to Russia since 1979. I’ve been going quite frequently, and I’ve always had a wonderful rapport with the Russian audiences and with the Russian people.

      Elton John


      I just know that I had great matches pretty much every night. I had great rapport with the fans. I could make them love me or hate me depending on what I wanted.

      Chris Jericho

      If something – if you have a good rapport then you’re friends and you’re offered projects together or you discover stories together. Jennifer and I discovered this story together, and it was evident to us we would only do it with each other.

      David O. Russell


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      FEAR QUOTES

      FEAR QUOTES

      “There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.”
      ― Paulo Coelho

      “Bran thought about it. ‘Can a man still be brave if he’s afraid?’
      ‘That is the only time a man can be brave,’ his father told him.”
      ― George R.R. Martin

      “There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.”
      ― Patrick Rothfuss

      “Fear doesn’t shut you down; it wakes you up”
      ― Veronica Roth

      “Fear cuts deeper than swords.”
      ― George R.R. Martin

      “Don’t be afraid of your fears. They’re not there to scare you. They’re there to let you know that something is worth it.”
      ― C. JoyBell C.

      “There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.”
      ― Jane Austen

      “We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”
      ― Plato

      “Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.”
      ― Salvador Dali

      “Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.”
      ― Jim Morrison

      “Scared is what you’re feeling. Brave is what you’re doing.”
      ― Emma Donoghue

      “Fear is a phoenix. You can watch it burn a thousand times and still it will return.”
      ― Leigh Bardugo

      “Don’t give in to your fears. If you do, you won’t be able to talk to your heart.”
      ― Paulo Coelho

      “I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.”
      ― James Baldwin

      “I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.”
      ― Nelson Mandela

      “I don’t trust anybody. Not anybody. And the more that I care about someone, the more sure I am they’re going to get tired of me and take off.”
      ― Rainbow Rowell

      “Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.”
      ― Marie Curie

      “Men go to far greater lengths to avoid what they fear than to obtain what they desire.”
      ― Dan Brown

      “I have accepted fear as part of life – specifically the fear of change… I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back….”
      ― Erica Jong

      “We are all the pieces of what we remember. We hold in ourselves the hopes and fears of those who love us. As long as there is love and memory, there is no true loss.”
      ― Cassandra Clare

      “A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a short cut to meet it.”
      ― J.R.R. Tolkien

      “It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.”
      ― Marcus Aurelius

      “Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.”
      ― Sigmund Freud

      “I wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us.”
      ― Veronica Roth

      “The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.”
      ― Joseph Campbell

      “Books are finite, sexual encounters are finite, but the desire to read and to fuck is infinite; it surpasses our own deaths, our fears, our hopes for peace.”
      ― Roberto Bolano

      “How much I missed, simply because I was afraid of missing it.”
      ― Paulo Coelho

      “We meet fear. We greet the unexpected visitor and listen to what he has to tell us. When fear arrives, something is about to happen.”
      ― Leigh Bardugo

      “Brave doesn’t mean you’re not scared. It means you go on even though you’re scared.”
      ― Angie Thomas

      “Courage is feeling fear, not getting rid of fear, and taking action in the face of fear.”
      ― Roy T. Bennett

      “When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.”
      ― Audre Lorde

      “Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don’t be afraid.”
      ― Frederick Buechner

      “Because fear kills everything,” Mo had once told her. “Your mind, your heart, your imagination.”
      ― Cornelia Funke

      “Anything that’s human is mentionable, and anything that is mentionable can be more manageable. When we can talk about our feelings, they become less overwhelming, less upsetting, and less scary. The people we trust with that important talk can help us know that we are not alone.”
      ― Fred Rogers

      “I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation. Fear of getting failing grades, fear of not staying with your class, etc. Interest can produce learning on a scale compared to fear as a nuclear explosion to a firecracker.”
      ― Stanley Kubrick

      “There are two kinds of fears: rational and irrational- or in simpler terms, fears that make sense and fears that don’t.”
      ― Lemony Snicket

      “Find out what you’re afraid of and go live there.”
      ― Chuck Palahniuk

      “There’s no shame in fear, my father told me, what matters is how we face it.”
      ― George R.R. Martin

      “Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter.”
      ― Francis Chan


      “Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.”
      ― Voltaire

      “It’s better to die laughing than to live each moment in fear.”
      ― Michael Crichton

      “Everyone is afraid of something. We fear things because we value them. We fear losing people because we love them. We fear dying because we value being alive. Don’t wish you didn’t fear anything. All that would mean is that you didn’t feel anything.”
      ― Cassandra Clare

      “A kind of light spread out from her. And everything changed color. And the world opened out. And a day was good to awaken to. And there were no limits to anything. And the people of the world were good and handsome. And I was not afraid any more.”
      ― John Steinbeck

      “Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.”
      ― Bertrand Russell


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      FAILURE QUOTES

      FAILURE QUOTES

      “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
      ― Winston S. Churchill

      “There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.”
      ― Paulo Coelho

      “I can’t give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.”
      ― Herbert Bayard Swope

      “Do not fear failure but rather fear not trying.”
      ― Roy T. Bennett

      “Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.”
      ― Truman Capote

      “Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.”
      ― Salvador Dali

      “Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.”
      ― Winston S. Churchill

      “Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door. ”
      ― Coco Chanel

      “My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.”
      ― Jack Kerouac

      “It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.”
      ― Theodore Roosevelt

      “A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions–as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.”
      ― Friedrich Nietzsche

      “All of old. Nothing else ever. Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.”
      ― Samuel Beckett

      “Success is most often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.”
      ― Coco Chanel

      “Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.”
      ― Robert F. Kennedy

      “Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.”
      ― F. Scott Fitzgerald

      “Just because you fail once doesn’t mean you’re gonna fail at everything.”
      ― Marilyn Monroe

      “Life is full of screwups. You’re supposed to fail sometimes. It’s a required part of the human existance.”
      ― Sarah Dessen

      “I didn’t fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.”
      ― Benjamin Franklin

      “I’m done with those; regrets are an excuse for people who have failed.”
      ― Ned Vizzini

      “I make mistakes like the next man. In fact, being–forgive me–rather cleverer than most men, my mistakes tend to be correspondingly huger.”
      ― J.K. Rowling

      “We are all failures- at least the best of us are.”
      ― J.M. Barrie

      “If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.”
      ― H.G. Wells


      “Try again. Fail again. Fail better.”
      ― Samuel Beckett

      “You’re not obligated to win. You’re obligated to keep trying. To the best you can do everyday.”
      ― Jason Mraz

      “If you’re not prepared to be wrong, you’ll never come up with anything original.”
      ― Ken Robinson

      “Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.”
      ― Jules Verne

      “If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.”
      ― Henry David Thoreau

      “Winners are not afraid of losing. But losers are. Failure is part of the process of success. People who avoid failure also avoid success.”
      ― Robert T. Kiyosaki

      “Failure is only the opportunity more intelligently to begin again.”
      ― Henry Ford

      “Failure is a bend in the road, not the end of the road. Learn from failure and keep moving forward.”
      ― Roy T. Bennett

      “The one who falls and gets up is stronger than the one who never tried. Do not fear failure but rather fear not trying.”
      ― Roy T. Bennett

      “Failure doesn’t define you. It’s what you do after you fail that determines whether you are a leader or a waste of perfectly good air.”
      ― Sabaa Tahir

      “Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.”
      ― J.K. Rowling

      “When you take risks you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when you fail, and both are equally important.”
      ― Ellen DeGeneres

      “If at first you don’t succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.”
      ― Steven Wright

      “Success, after all, loves a witness, but failure can’t exist without one.”
      ― Junot Díaz

      “Failures are the stairs we climb to reach success.”
      ― Roy T. Bennett

      “All the time you’re saying to yourself, ‘I could do that, but I won’t,’ — which is just another way of saying that you can’t.”
      ― Richard P. Feynman

      “I think perfection is ugly. Somewhere in the things humans make, I want to see scars, failure, disorder, distortion.”
      ― Yohji Yamamoto

      “The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.”
      ― Henry Ford

      “Negative results are just what I want. They’re just as valuable to me as positive results. I can never find the thing that does the job best until I find the ones that don’t.”
      ― Thomas A. Edison

      “I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be but a challenge to others.”
      ― Amelia Earhart

      “I am not concerned that you have fallen — I am concerned that you arise.”
      ― Abraham Lincoln

      “Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.”
      ― Napoleon Hill


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      GENIUS QUOTES

      GENIUS QUOTES

      “There’s a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.”
      ― Oscar Levant

      “No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.”
      ― Aristotle

      “It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around so much, doing nothing, really doing nothing.”
      ― Gertrude Stein

      “Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.”
      ― Arthur Rimbaud

      “Genius is nothing more nor less than childhood recaptured at will.”
      ― Charles Baudelaire

      “Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius.”
      ― Arthur Conan Doyle

      “Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.”
      ― E.F. Schumacher

      “I’m a misunderstood genius.”
      “What’s misunderstood?”
      “Nobody thinks I’m a genius.”
      ― Bill Watterson

      “The true genius shudders at incompleteness — imperfection — and usually prefers silence to saying the something which is not everything that should be said.”
      ― Edgar Allan Poe

      “The only genius that’s worth anything is the genius for hard work.”
      ― Kathleen Winsor

      “The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.”
      ― Oscar Wilde

      “Persistence. Perfection. Patience. Power. Prioritize your passion. It keeps you sane.”
      ― Criss Jami

      “To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius. And easier. Because it’s true. It’s a new world every heart beat.”
      ― Joyce Cary

      “When you make a choice, you change the future.”
      ― Deepak Chopra

      “Color is my daylong obsession, joy, and torment.”
      ― Claude Monet

      “Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.”
      ― Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      “…because talent isn’t genius, and no amount of energy can make it so. I want to be great, or nothing.”
      ― Louisa May Alcott

      “I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius; which to Angels look like torment and insanity.”
      ― William Blake

      “Never underestimate the power of thought; it is the greatest path to discovery.”
      ― Idowu Koyenikan

      “I don’t want to be a genius-I have enough problems just trying to be a man.”
      ― Albert Camus

      “People who boast about their I.Q. are losers.”
      ― Stephen Hawking

      “The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor.”
      ― George Bernard Shaw

      “A genius. A criminal mastermind. A millionaire. And he is only twelve years old.”
      ― Eoin Colfer

      “I think a lot of psychopaths are just geniuses who drove so fast that they lost control.”
      ― Criss Jami

      “Genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to be taught by another person.”
      ― Immanuel Kant

      “Madness is the acme of intelligence.”
      ― Naguib Mahfouz

      “Any fool can make something complicated. It takes a genius to make it simple.”
      ― Woody Guthrie

      “To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius.”
      ― Joyce Cary

      “Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.”
      ― Richard Buckminster Fuller

      “You’re mad, bonkers, completely off your head. But I’ll tell you a secret. All the best people are.”
      ― Lewis Carroll

      “In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.”
      ― Baruch de Spinoza

      “Colleges hate geniuses, just as convents hate saints.”
      ― Ralph Waldo Emerson

      “Genius inspires resentment. A sad fact of life.”
      ― Eoin Colfer

      “Show Holmes a drop of water and he would deduce the existence of the Atlantic. Show it to me and I would look for a tap. That was the difference between us.”
      ― Anthony Horowitz

      “Some were brilliant bordering on genius. Others, genius bordering on madness”
      ― Erich Segal

      “Genius is finding the invisible link between things.”
      ― Vladimir Nabokov

      “Oftentimes in reality, the genius is in the position of the antihero. Neither the good guys nor the bad guys really trust him because his truth is universal.”
      ― Criss Jami

      “I am incapable of mediocrity.”
      ― Serge Gainsbourg

      “If you knew how much work went into it, you wouldn’t call it genius. ”
      ― Michelangelo Buonarroti

      “The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.”
      ― Bruce Feirstein

      “In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous.”
      ― Robert G. Ingersoll

      “A genius is someone who takes a complex thing and makes it look simple. An academic does the opposite.”
      ― Robert Fanney


      Thanks for reading.

      LUCK QUOTES [BLOG#8]

      LUCK QUOTES

      “You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.”
      ― Cormac McCarthy

      “You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocket ship underpants don’t help.”
      ― Bill Watterson


      “Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck.”
      ― Dalai Lama XIV

      “Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect.”
      ― Ralph Waldo Emerson


      “I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.”
      ― Thomas Jefferson

      “The sun doesn’t just hang on one family’s tree”
      ― Anchee Min


      “Why hasn’t anyone killed him yet?”
      “Dumb luck,” Wit said. “In that I’m lucky you’re all so dumb.”
      ― Brandon Sanderson,

      “Nanny Ogg looked under her bed in case there was a man there. Well, you never knew your luck.”
      ― Terry Pratchett


      “Luck has a way of evaporating when you lean on it.”
      ― Brandon Mull

      “Here’s the thing about luck…you don’t know if it’s good or bad until you have some perspective.”
      ― Alice Hoffman


      “Luck is a woman. She’s drawn to those that least deserve her.”
      ― Joe Abercrombie

      “Truly being lucky is defying the very idea of luck because you never need it.”
      ― Richelle E. Goodrich


      “WORK AND RESPONSIBILITY BRINGS THE BEST LUCK”
      ― J. Lepika

      “He was just a coward and that was the worst luck any many could have.”
      ― Ernest Hemingway, 


      “The price must be paid if you want to go beyond mediocrity. Simply put, pure luck does not exist. It’s about planning and doing. Nothing happens by chance.”
      ― Mwanandeke Kindembo

      “Success is only possible to those who rely least on luck.”
      ― Mwanandeke Kindembo


      “Don’t just accept bad luck or misfortune as inevitable fate. Destiny is mostly the result of living your life by design.”
      ― Anthon St. Maarten

      “When you work your tail off for something, it isn’t luck.”
      ― Frank Sonnenberg,


      “I have observed that in most of badluck cases, word “luck” is equal to ‘’effort’’.”
      ― Hassnain Malik

      “THE LUCKIEST PART OF YOUR LIFE IS YOU GOT A BRAIN BUT THE UNLUCKIEST PART OF YOUR LIFE IS YOU DON’T MIND IT”
      ― P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar


      “Your luck doesn’t decide your future. Your hard work does.”
      ― Garima Soni

      “The more you wish, the more you increase your level of expectation.”
      ― Mwanandeke Kindembo


      “Nothing happens by chance. Luck does not exist. Whether it’s good or bad luck or karma, everything has a because behind it.”
      ― Mwanandeke Kindembo

      “Concentration attracts luck factor.”
      ― Amit Ray, 


      “Talent is insignificant. I know a lot of talented ruins. Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but, most of all, endurance.”
      ― James Baldwin

      “We are all a great deal luckier that we realize, we usually get what we want – or near enough.”
      ― Roald Dahl,


      “People always call it luck when you’ve acted more sensibly than they have. ”
      ― Anne Tyler

      “Most young women do not welcome promiscuous advances. (Either that, or my luck’s terrible.)”
      ― Groucho Marx,


      “When ill luck begins, it does not come in sprinkles, but in showers.”
      ― Mark Twain,

      “The harder I work, the luckier I get.”
      ― Samuel Goldwyn


      “Trust your luck, Taran Wanderer. But don’t forget to put out your nets!”
      ― Lloyd Alexander,

      “Luck is a word the bitter teach to the ignorant.”
      ― Steve Maraboli


      “There are, he assures her, no such things as curses. There is luck, maybe, bad or good. A slight inclination of each day towards success or failure. But no curses.”
      ― Anthony Doerr

      “Old people really do have a secret though. You wanna know what it is? Luck.”
      ― craig ferguson


      “I still prepare and create my luck, because I know that it only exists after creation.”
      ― Mwanandeke Kindembo

      “The concept of luck flew in the face of the Omnissiah’s divine plan and was therefore a falsehood.”
      ― Aaron Dembski-Bowden


      “Thus Lucky finders way to True Luckiest Beholder Mother of Good Luck, Chance happen to them All”
      ― Ben Jr Grey

      “Celebrating our luck, we’re celebrating someone’s failure.”
      ― Tamerlan Kuzgov


      “I am lucky to be born empty and die empty, the remaining are unlucky.”
      ― P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

      “Life goes on and on after one’s luck has run out. Youthfulness persists, alas, long after one has ceased to be young.”
      ― Glenway Wescott, 


      “You don’t get lucky without preparation, and there’s no sense in being prepared if you’re not open to the possibility of a glorious accident.”
      ― Twyla Tharp,

      “You don’t need luck. You are powerful, clever, and fearless.”
      ― Shannon Hale, 


      “To know a very different person from ourselves is a great luck for us!”
      ― Mehmet Murat ildan

      “The worm’s bad luck is the bird’s good fortune.”
      ― Matshona Dhliwayo


      “Sitting there, it is impossible to change your luck. But, you can always change the machine you are at!”
      ― James Hauenstein

      “Bad luck is what results when bad things happen to you unprepared, or when you neglect to do what you have to do when you are supposed to do it.”
      ― Saidi Mdala


      Thanks for reading.

      SELFESTEEM QUOTES [BLOG #5]

      SELFESTEEM QUOTES

      “I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.”
      ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

      “Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing.”
      ― August Wilson



      “You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.”
      ― Sharon Salzberg

      “Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life, but define yourself.”
      ― Harvey Fierstein


      “Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.”
      ― Marilyn Monroe

      “The worst loneliness is to not be comfortable with yourself.”
      ― Mark Twain


      “It’s not my responsibility to be beautiful. I’m not alive for that purpose. My existence is not about how desirable you find me.”
      ― Warsan Shire
      “When you’re different, sometimes you don’t see the millions of people who accept you for what you are. All you notice is the person who doesn’t.”
      ― Jodi Picoult,


      “You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.”
      ― Sharon Salzberg

      “The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.”
      ― Michel de Montaigne


      “It is an absolute human certainty that no one can know his own beauty or perceive a sense of his own worth until it has been reflected back to him in the mirror of another loving, caring human being.”
      ― John Joseph Powell

      “The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.”
      ― C.G. Jung


      “There is no magic cure, no making it all go away forever. There are only small steps upward; an easier day, an unexpected laugh, a mirror that doesn’t matter anymore.”
      ― Laurie Halse Anderson

      “One’s dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but it can never be taken away unless it is surrendered.”
      ― Michael J. Fox


      “Anger, resentment and jealousy doesn’t change the heart of others– it only changes yours.”

      “The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.”
      ― Ayn Rand,



      “Every woman that finally figured out her worth, has picked up her suitcases of pride and boarded a flight to freedom, which landed in the valley of change.”
      ― Shannon L. Alder

      “I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.”
      ― Frederick Douglass


      “Most misunderstandings in the world could be avoided if people would simply take the time to ask, “What else could this mean?”
      ― Shannon L. Alder

      “One of the greatest regrets in life is being what others would want you to be, rather than being yourself.”
      ― Shannon L. Alder


      “I’m Dylan. I’m so cool. I want to date myself, but I don’t know how! You want to date me instead? You’re so lucky!”
      ― Rick Riordan

      “I am beginning to measure myself in strength, not pounds. Sometimes in smiles.”
      ― Laurie Halse Anderson


      “Until you value yourself, you won’t value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.”
      ― M. Scott Peck

      “I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.”
      ― Edward Everett Hale


      “Everything that happens to you is a reflection of what you believe about yourself. We cannot outperform our level of self-esteem. We cannot draw to ourselves more than we think we are worth.”
      ― Iyanla Vanzant

      “Rejection is an opportunity for your selection.”
      ― Bernard Branson


      “Women who love themselves are threatening; but men who love real women, more so.”
      ― Naomi Wolf,

      “How would your life be different if…You stopped allowing other people to dilute or poison your day with their words or opinions? Let today be the day…You stand strong in the truth of your beauty and journey through your day without attachment to the validation of others.”
      ― Steve Maraboli



      “There will always be someone willing to hurt you, put you down, gossip about you, belittle your accomplishments and judge your soul. It is a fact that we all must face. However, if you realize that God is a best friend that stands beside you when others cast stones you will never be afraid, never feel worthless and never feel alone.”
      ― Shannon Alder

      “As long as you look for someone else to validate who you are by seeking their approval, you are setting yourself up for disaster. You have to be whole and complete in yourself. No one can give you that. You have to know who you are – what others say is irrelevant.”
      ― Nic Sheff


      “For once, you believed in yourself. You believed you were beautiful and so did the rest of the world.”
      ― Sarah Dessen

      “Staying silent is like a slow growing cancer to the soul and a trait of a true coward. There is nothing intelligent about not standing up for yourself. You may not win every battle. However, everyone will at least know what you stood for—YOU.”
      ― Shannon L. Alder


      “Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.”
      ― Norman Vincent Peale

      “My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.”
      ― Henry Ford


      “Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.”
      ― Andre Gide


      “I don’t want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.”
      ― Henry James


      “Self pity becomes your oxygen. But you learned to breathe it without a gasp. So, nobody even notices you’re hurting.”
      ― Paul Monette

      “Self-talk reflects your innermost feelings.”
      ― Dr. Asa Don Brown


      “Why should we worry about what others think of us, do we have more confidence in their opinions than we do our own?”
      ― Brigham Young

      “Beauty provokes harassment, the law says, but it looks through men’s eyes when deciding what provokes it.”
      ― Naomi Wolf, 


      “Don’t let mental blocks control you. Set yourself free. Confront your fear and turn the mental blocks into building blocks.”
      ― Dr Roopleen

      “I used to be self conscious about my height, but then I thought, fuck that, I’m Harry Potter.”
      ― Daniel Radcliffe

      Thanks for reading.

      EMPATHY QUOTES [BLOG #2]

      EMPATHY QUOTES

      1. One of the most important aspects of being a human being, is being able to be in a relationship. Being able to successfully form and maintain a relationship. And at the heart of that capability is the capacity to put yourself in somebody else’s shoes, to see the world as how they see it. That capacity is empathy. – Bruce Perry
      2. This capacity for empathy leads to a genuine encounter – we have to progress toward this culture of encounter – in which heart speaks to heart. – Pope Francis


      1. The state of empathy, or being empathic, is to perceive the internal frame of reference of another with accuracy and with the emotional components and meanings which pertain thereto as if one were the person. – Carl Roger
      2. Empathy is forgetting oneself in the joys and sorrows of another, so much so that you actually feel that the joy or sorrow experienced by another is your own joy and sorrow. Empathy involves complete identification with another.  – Dada Vaswani


      1. If you find yourself saying ‘But I’m just being honest’, chances are you’ve just been unkind. Honesty doesn’t heal. Empathy does. – Dan Waldschmidt
      2. All men are born firstly with the instinct to protect themselves. But few grow to really love themselves, and even fewer learn to love their neighbor as themselves. – Criss Jami


      1. If you look into someone’s face long enough, eventually you’re going to feel that you’re looking at yourself. – Paul Auster
      2. An exchange of empathy provides an entry point for a lot of people to see what healing feels like. – Tarana Burke


      Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eye for an instant? – Henry David Thoreau

      The greatest cruelty is our casual blindness to the despair of others. – Anonymous


      1. Empathy is the greatest virtue. From it, all virtues flow. Without it, all virtues are an act. – Eric Zorn
      2. I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the wounded person. – Walt Whitman


      1. All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart. – Tahereh Mafi
      2. Love is about bottomless empathy, born out of the heart’s revelation that another person is every bit as real as you are. – Jonathan Franzen


      1. We need to teach our children empathy and care and love and communication and social responsibility in preparation for adulthood. – Maya Soetoro-Ng
      2. When good people consider you the bad guy, you develop a heart to help the bad ones. You actually understand them. – Criss Jami


      1. If bullies actually believe that somebody loves them and believes in them, they will love themselves, they will become better people, and many will even become saviors to the bullied. – Dan Pearce
      2. Practicing kindness increases our ability to be empathetic. It helps keep our hearts open. And that, truly, is the best way to live. – Kristi Bowman


      1. The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy, we can all sense a mysterious connection to each other. – Meryl Streep
      2. Empathy begins with understanding life from another person’s perspective. Nobody has an objective experience of reality. It’s all through our own individual prisms. – Sterling K. Brown


      1. Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other’s good, and melt at other’s woe. – Homer
      2. Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around. – Leo Buscaglia


      1. Have compassion and empathy in your heart. Many people are suffering deep emotional anguish beneath the surface of their lives, and smile even as they hurt inside. – Jim Palmer
      2. If we are to love our neighbors, before doing anything else we must see our neighbors. With our imagination as well as our eyes, that is to say like artists, we must see not just their faces but the life behind and within their faces. – Frederick Buechner


      1. Empathy means both understanding others on their own terms and bringing them within the orbit of one’s own experience. – Jacob A. Belzen
      2. To embrace suffering culminates in greater empathy, the capacity to feel what it is like for the other to suffer, which is the ground for unsentimental compassion and love. – Stephen Bachelor


      1. If it is not tempered by compassion, and empathy, reason can lead men and women into a moral void. – Karen Armstrong
      2. Judge tenderly, if you must. There is usually a side you have not heard, a story you know nothing about, and a battle waged that you do not have to fight. – Traci Lea Larussa


      1. The only time you look in your neighbor’s bowl is to make sure that they have enough. You don’t look in your neighbor’s bowl to see if you have as much as them. – Louis C.K.
      2. The real test of love is loving those who we feel are the hardest ones to love. – Criss Jami


      1. Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It’s the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else’s pain is as meaningful as your own. – Barbara Kingsolver
      2. Empathy is one of humankind’s prized possessions. Acts of consideration and kindness are inevitable when a person can mentally step into someone else’s shoes. Even if it’s just for a moment. – Izey Victoria Odiaze

        Thanks for reading.

      INSPIRING QUOTES ! [BLOG #1]

      INSPIRING QUOTES

      1. “Success is the sum of small efforts – repeated day in and day out.” – Robert Collier
      2. “Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.” – Albert Schweitzer
      3. “Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.” – Albert Einstein


      1. “Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill
      2. “Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.” – Bruce Lee


      • “Nothing is impossible. The word itself says ‘I’m possible!'” — Audrey Hepburn
      •  “Keep your face always toward the sunshine, and shadows will fall behind you.” — Walt Whitman


      1. “Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.” – Edward Everett Hale
      2. “If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.” – Henry Ford


      “Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.” — Winston Churchill

      “To bring about change, you must not be afraid to take the first step. We will fail when we fail to try.” — Rosa Parks


      • “All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.” — Walt Disney
      • “Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them.” — Madam C.J. Walker


      • “Champions keep playing until they get it right.” — Billie Jean King
      • “I am lucky that whatever fear I have inside me, my desire to win is always stronger.” — Serena Williams


      1. “There is a price to pay for success, there is also a price to pay for failure. The question is, what price are you willing to pay?” ― Fela Bank-Olemoh
      2. “Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.” – Suzy Kassem


      • “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” — C.S. Lewis
      • “It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.” — Aristotle


      • “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” — Theodore Roosevelt
      • “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” — Anaïs Nin


      • “Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.” — Ella Fitzgerald
      • “Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.” — Maya Angelou


      • “If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.” — Dolly Parton
      • “Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time.” — Ruth Bader Ginsburg


      • “All dreams are within reach. All you have to do is keep moving towards them.” — Viola Davis
      • “It is never too late to be what you might have been.” — George Eliot


      1. “Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” – Confucius
      2. “I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying.” – Michael Jordan


      1. “Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.” – Henry Ford
      2. “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill


      • “When you put love out in the world it travels, and it can touch people and reach people in ways that we never even expected.” — Laverne Cox
      • “Give light and people will find the way.” — Ella Baker


      1. “Energy and persistence conquer all things.” – Benjamin Franklin
      2. “Persistence can change failure into extraordinary achievement.” – Matt Biondi


      1. “Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.” – Bill Bradley
      2. “Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.” – Colin Powell


      • “Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.” — Toni Morrison
      • “When you have a dream, you’ve got to grab it and never let go.” — Carol Burnett


      • “When it comes to luck, you make your own.” — Bruce Springsteen
      • “If you’re having fun, that’s when the best memories are built.” — Simone Biles
      • “Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.” — Truman Capote

        Thanks for reading.