Novelists Quotes - Page 18

• America’s founding ideal was the principle of individual rights. Nothing more-and nothing less. The rest-everything that America achieved, everything she became, everything 'noble and just,' and heroic, and great, and unprecedented in human history-was the logical consequence of fidelity to that one principle.

  Ayn Rand

  Rights, Usa, America

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.37, Penguin

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• America's founding Ideal was the principle of individual rights. Nothing more - and nothing less.

  Ayn Rand

  Rights, Usa, America

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.37, Penguin

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• There's no point sitting here, using words that mean nothing. Go and experiment. It's time you got out of here. Go and re-conquer your kingdom, which has grown corrupted by routine. Stop repeating the same lesson, because you won't learn anything new that way.

  Paulo Coelho

  Motivational, Time, Learning

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Mar 04, 2012

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• If you act like a victim, you are likely to be treated as one.

  Paulo Coelho

  Victim, Treated, Ifs

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Nov 26, 2012

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• An enthusiastic heart finds opportunities everywhere.

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspirational, Heart, Opportunity

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Jul 28, 2010

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• If you don't care about what people think, you already passed the first step of success.

  Paulo Coelho

  Success, Caring, Thinking

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Mar 08, 2014

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• Work is against human nature.  The proof is that it makes us tired.

  Michel Tournier

  Work, Tired, Human Nature

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• No one, at night, really believes he'll live forever.

  Charles L. Grant

  Death, Believe, Live Life

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• No one ever has or ever will travel quite the same path on earth.

  M. L. Stedman

  Life, Travel, Journey

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• Life is spectacular. Forget the dark things. Take a drink and let time wash them away to where ever time washes away to.

  Tim Tharp

  Life, Time, Drinking

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• If I didn’t think, I’d be much happier.

  Sylvia Plath

  Happiness, Happy, Thinking

  Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.15, Anchor

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• When men abandon reason, physical force becomes their only means of dealing with one another and of settling disagreements.

  Ayn Rand

  Mean, Men, Becoming

  Ayn Rand (1999). “The Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution”, p.81, Penguin

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• All the reasons which made the initiation of physical force evil, make the retaliatory use of physical force a moral imperative.

  Ayn Rand

  Evil, Use, Philosopher

  "The Virtue of Selfishness". Book by Ayn Rand, 1964.

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• The man without a purpose is a man who drifts at the mercy of random feelings or unidentified urges and is capable of any evil, because he is totally out of control of his own life. In order to be in control of your life, you have to have a purpose-a productive purpose.

  Ayn Rand

  Life, Men, Order

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.404, Penguin

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• Life is too short to be wasted in finding answers. Enjoy the questions.

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Apr 25, 2012

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• We don't need to explain our love. We only need to show it.

  Paulo Coelho

  Love, Relationship, Romantic

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Feb 28, 2012

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• We can sell our time, but we can't buy it back.

  Paulo Coelho

  Time, Buying, Selling

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Apr 05, 2015

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• Avoiding problems you need to face is avoiding the life you need to live.

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Mar 12, 2014

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• Be proud of your scars. They remind you that you have the will to live.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Deep Thought, Proud

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• Was our life nothing more than a sequence of anonymous screams in a desert of indifferent stars?

  Ernesto Sabato

  Life, Stars, Desert

  Ernesto Sabato (2011). “The Tunnel”, p.48, Penguin UK

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• There's a story... a legend, about a bird that sings just once in its life. From the moment it leaves its nest, it searches for a thorn tree... and never rests until it's found one. And then it sings... more sweetly than any other creature on the face of the earth. And singing, it impales itself on the longest, sharpest thorn. But, as it dies, it rises above its own agony, to outsing the lark and the nightingale. The thorn bird pays its life for just one song, but the whole world stills to listen, and God in his heaven smiles.

  Colleen McCullough

  Smile, God, Song

  "Fictional character: Ralph de Bricassart". "There are no ambitions noble", www.imdb.com. 1983.

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• Learn to wait; invariably either things will change or your heart will.

  Jonathan Carroll

  Change, Patience, Learning

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• I never wanted to be well-rounded. I do not admire well-rounded people nor their work. So far as I can see, nothing good in the world has ever been done by well-rounded people. The good work is done by people with jagged, broken edges, because those edges cut things and leave an imprint, a design.

  Harry Crews

  Work, Creativity, Cutting

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• Trust is the first step to love.

  Munshi Premchand

  Love, Inspirational, Relationship

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• It is not the great temptations that ruin us; it is the little ones.

  John William De Forest

  Inspirational, Failure, Temptation

  John William De Forest (1859). “Seacliff; Or, The Mystery of the Westervelts”, p.41

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