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99% of the people you meet in life are nice reasonable people . . . and 1% are assholes . . . the trick is to NOT spend 99% of yer time on the 1%

A beautiful face will fade. And a beautiful body will change. But a beautiful soul will be forever beautiful!

Aamir, recalling back to the idyllic days of his college youth, pictured himself once again sitting quietly on a familiar neighbourhood rooftop. He often enjoyed relaxing there, alone or with friends, while watching the colourful fluttering prayer flags on rooftop poles, especially in the warmth of an early evening breeze, as wispy clouds drifted against the jagged Himalayan backdrop. He has oft times wondered, ever since his childhood, if the prayers to the spirits of the dead, flying out from those slowly tattering rags, will ever really be answered. Perhaps it will be in another place, in another time, when we’re living another life that we shall finally know. Aamir had calmly thought at the time. He was that sort of philosophical guy.

A clear conscience is due to a poor memory.

A choice is an act of god, malevolent or loving is your will, free until conflicting with others who share this power, a true collision of good and evil.

Across the nations the stories spread like spiderweb laid upon spiderweb, and men and women planned the future, believing they knew truth. They planned, and the Pattern absorbed their plans, weaving toward the future foretold.

A crude age. Peace is stabilized with cannon and bombers, humanity with concentration camps and pogroms. We're living in a time when all standards are turned upside-down, Kern. Today the aggressor is the shepherd of peace, and the beaten and hunted are the troublemakers of the world. What's more, there are whole races who believe it!

A Christian sits in his or her well and thinks that the whole world is his or her well. The Jew sits in his or her little well and thinks that it is the whole world. A Muslim sits cooped up in his or her tiny well and believes it to be the whole universe. The same goes for a Hindu and all others. Also, atheists are no different from all those orthodox believers.

Acquiring knowledge is the most fruitful effort.

Acquiring knowledge through the centuries has influenced human society more than all other factors.

Adapting to changes represents an important characteristic of human nature, essential for the development of human society.

A delirious person would think there's only one way, and that way is simple, but the truth is no way of living is simple, and there are many ways like there are many roads, but one must think above the system, and the individual must work strong to avail enough to be satisfied.

Adharmenaidhate tabat, tato bhadrani pashyati, tatah sapatnan jayati, - samulastu vinashyati. In unrightousness they prosper, in it they find their good, through it they defeat their enemies, - but they perish at the root.

Advocate the idea which you consider as worthy. Believe that such an idea can prevail.

A fairy-tale life exists only in fairy tales.

After a breath and before another, there's plenty of time to rest.

A friend is a person who always understands your preoccupations, even when other people do not perceive them at all.

Advice to my younger self: 1 Start where you are with what you have 2 Try not to hurt other people 3 Take more chances 4 If you fail, keep trying

A fool is someone who wants you to apologise for your intelligence -rassool jibraeel snyman

After all, the whole of humanity was anchored by inventions, contrivances, unrealities. Xiao Li lived on dreams, as most people do.

Age is only a number. Keep an active life.

A grayeyard is not a democracy, and yet death is the great democracy..

Ahora miraba el mundo como algo remoto, con lo que yo no tenía nada que ver y de lo que nada esperaba, y de hecho nada deseaba: en pocas palabras, no tenía nada que ver con ese mundo, y difícilmente algún día tendría que ver algo con él; por tanto, pensé que así debía de verse después de la muerte.

A happy man doesn't reconsider life.

A joyful heart is an endless flowing stream.

A knowledge-based society – that’s what I advocate for.

Aha! #20 It's not what happens to you in life, it's what you do with what happens that counts.

A joke made at someone else's expense is not humour its cruelty" RjS

Ai qe ka frike nga jeta nuk ka gjak dashurie

Alas, between the “shouldn’t” and the “shouldn’t have”—that is precisely where life happens.

A kite only flies if it’s tethered.

All being experience hunger, that persistent reminder of mortality. The blooming hollow inside all, which affirms that only by taking from without and devouring within can we extend our coil. Hunger is universal for those who are destined to die. As they feed, they pay the incremental bribes that forestall its coming.

A lie distorts the image of reality. It is a delusion of the human mind which can disrupt an individual's sense of what is morally right or wrong.

All events/actions create a potential energy that rotate around the doer until releases or neutralized. (From Circles of Reasoning book)

All I have is me, myself and I and we are all getting really tired of each other.

All I want in my life is- My mind to Think and My body to Run.

All mountain people are like that. No matter where you go, the mountains call you back.

All kinds of things are happening to me." I begin. ,,Some I choose, some I didn't. I don't know how to tell one from the other any more. What I mean is, it feels like everything's been decided in advance - that I'm following a path somebody else has already mapped out for me. It doesn't matter how much I think things over, how much effort I put into it. In fact, the harder I try, the more I lose my sense od who I am. It's as if my identity's an orbit that I've strayed far away from, and that really hurts. But more than that, it scares me. Just thinking about it makes me flinch. Oshima gazes deep into m eyes. "Listen, Kafka. What you are experiencing now is the motif od many Greek tragedies. Man does not chose fate. Fate chooses man. That is the basic world view of Greek drama. And the sense od tragedy - according to Aristotle - somes, ironically enough, not drom the protagonist's weak points but from his good qualities. Do you know what I am getting at? People are drawn deeper into tragedy not by their defects but by their virtues. Sophocles' Oedipus Rex being a Great example. Oedipus is drawn into tragedy not because of lazines or stupidity, but because of his courage and honesty. So an inevitable irony results.

All I know is that I do not know anything

Allow yourself to seek what is seeking you!

All that man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts. His suffering and happiness are evolved from within. As he thinks, so he is. As he continues to think, so he remains.

All times are determined by God.

All we must do is take small steps. Steps with the belief that someday, all those small steps will culminate into a giant leap, a fitting finale.

All the wisdom and reasoning in the world do in the end conclude in this point, to teach us not to fear to die.

A lot of people tell me that I fascinate them because of my sensitivity. But I tell my friends and admirers that sensitivity is all around us. And it rained today evening. The rain reminds us of everything sensitive, tender, and sublime.

All you ever need is God.

ALways be careful what you say. You can always say you're sorry, but you can never take back what you said.

Always seek wisdom and live a vrituous life.

Always remain steadfast on your journey to greatness!

Always tell yourself that you are as good as anyone that breathes; that you have two hands and a brain, and a little time in which to use them. But they are enough, and no one has any more. And if you train and force them to serve you well, you can reach any height to which you aspire. But to waste any of them is to betray yourself.