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Democracy is not something you put away for ten years, and then in the 11th year you wake up and start practicing again. We have to begin to learn to rule ourselves again. Chinua Achebe
Democracy You Wake Up Year Rule Ourselves Something Ten Ten Years Put Learn Practicing Years Wake Up Begin Again Then Away Start
Every person is the creation of himself, the image of his own thinking and believing. As individuals think and believe, so they are. Claude M. Bristol
Own Creation Believe Every Think Thinking Individuals Himself His Person Believing Image
I'm not interested in blind optimism, but I'm very interested in optimism that is hard-won, that takes on darkness and then says, 'This is not enough.' Colum McCann
Darkness Enough Says Takes Blind Optimism Very Not Interested Interested Then
Money is our madness, our vast collective madness. D. H. Lawrence
Money Madness Collective Our Vast
It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing. D. H. Lawrence
Life Religion You Heart Will Own Second-Hand Later Fine Seem Ideals Greater Tradition Dependent Establish Lesser Thing
I cannot cure myself of that most woeful of youth's follies - thinking that those who care about us will care for the things that mean much to us. D. H. Lawrence
Myself Youth Care Will Thinking Those Follies About Most Woeful Cure Cannot Mean Us Much Who Things
Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes. D. H. Lawrence
Art You Creative Eyes Invent Design Relation Flux Dimension Recognition Recognize Various Between Well Blood Your Elements Things Fourth Bones
It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral. D. H. Lawrence
Time Wise Bad Bad Taste Like Perpetual Taste Being Funeral
The Christian fear of the pagan outlook has damaged the whole consciousness of man. D. H. Lawrence
Man Fear Christian Outlook Pagan Whole Consciousness Damaged
Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little. D. H. Lawrence
Age Ours Excess Feel Know Little Much Conscious
A man has no religion who has not slowly and painfully gathered one together, adding to it, shaping it; and one's religion is never complete and final, it seems, but must always be undergoing modification. D. H. Lawrence
Religion Man Together Final Adding Complete Must Slowly Seems Never Shaping Undergoing Always Modification Painfully Who Gathered
California is a queer place in a way, it has turned its back on the world, and looks into the void Pacific. It is absolutely selfish, very empty, but not false, and at least, not full of false effort. D. H. Lawrence
Selfish World Back Way Void Absolutely California Looks Empty Least Queer False Very Effort Pacific Place Turned Full
A genuinely happy person is one who has rendered others happy. Daisaku Ikeda
Happy Others Rendered Genuinely Person Happy Person Who
Human rights will be a powerful force for the transformation of reality when they are not simply understood as externally defined norms of behavior but are lived as the spontaneous manifestation of internalized values. Daisaku Ikeda
Rights Reality Behavior Will Values Transformation Human Rights Defined Simply Powerful Powerful Force Spontaneous Force Understood Norms Human Manifestation Lived
You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you. Dale Carnegie
You Business People Other Months More Becoming Years Close Than Get Trying Interested Two
Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners. Dale Carnegie
Life About Never Fail Attention Talk Listeners Taught Them Speakers Who Keep
There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it. Dale Carnegie
Other Way One-Way Only Only One Way Making Person Get Anybody Want Anything
People are strange, but more than that, they're good. They're good first, then strange. Dave Eggers
Good Strange People First More Than Then
Practically everybody knows what it's like to feel anxious, worried, nervous, afraid, uptight, or panicky. Often, anxiety is just a nuisance, but sometimes it can cripple you and prevent you from doing what you really want with your life. But I have some great news for you: You can change the way you feel. David D. Burns
Life Great News You Change Anxiety Sometimes Nervous Everybody Worried Way Cripple Some Prevent Feel Like Practically Knows Doing Anxious Often Just Afraid Want Uptight Really Your Nuisance
A life lived with integrity - even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shining star in whose light others may follow in the years to come. Denis Waitley
Life Integrity Light Others Follow Come Years Shining Fame Fame And Fortune May Lacks Fortune Trappings Even Star Lived Whose
You know, when I was a girl, the idea that the British Empire could ever end was absolutely inconceivable. And it just disappeared, like all the other empires. Doris Lessing
You Girl Other Could Absolutely Disappeared Idea Empire Empires Like Know End Just Ever Inconceivable British British Empire
What is a hero without love for mankind. Doris Lessing
Love Hero Without Mankind
In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools. Doris Lessing
You Learning Law Fools Tell Part Greater Tolerate University
I'm sure that everybody feels a kind of permanent anguish about what's going on in the world. Doris Lessing
World Everybody Kind About Anguish Feels Sure Permanent Going
By going over your day in imagination before you begin it, you can begin acting successfully at any moment. Dorothea Brande
Day You Before Imagination Over Begin Any Going Successfully Acting Your Moment
In order to fly, all one must do is simply miss the ground. Douglas Adams
Fly Must Simply Miss Order Ground
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