Table of Contents

MAYA
THE DREAM
DREAMS
THE PATH
TRUTH
SELF-RESPECT
CHARACTER BUILDING
ETHICAL CODES
PROVERBS
MATERIALISM
DEVIL  
CONSPIRACIES
ADDICTION to HEALING 
GOOD vs. EVIL
WAR & PEACE
DEATH
CHANGE  
NATURE   
MYSTERY
GOD
RELIGION
SPIRITUALITY
ENLIGHTENMENT
THE IRON AGE
THE GOLDEN AGE
 

MAYA

“Maya is the powerful force that creates the cosmic illusion that the phenomenal world is real.” ~ Encyclopaedia Britannica

“Have you no thought, O dreamer, that it may be all Maya, Illusion?” ~ Walt Whitman

“One should know that Nature is illusion, and that Lord Brahman is the illusion maker. This whole world is pervaded with beings that are parts of him.” ~ Svetasvatara Upanishad

“Maya and Brahman together constitute the entire universe, just like two kinds of interwoven threads create a fabric. Maya is the manifestation of the world, whereas Brahman, which supports Maya, is the cause of the world.” ~ Prakasatman

“Maya is the “consciousness” of God “Brahma.” This definition of Maya gives it substantially more credibility than regarding it as illusion.” ~ Sri Aurobindo

“An illusion is not something that does not exist but something that is not the way it seems.” ~ Susan Blackmore

“Nothing is more probable than that what we call illusion is very real for the psyche.” ~ Carl Jung

“All illusions have a reality to them, and if we are experiencing an illusion we are, by definition, experiencing its reality. It is not possible to watch a movie without seeing the screen.” ~ Rupert Spira

“The distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion. What we have called matter is energy whose vibration has been so lowered as to be perceptible to the senses. There is no matter. The illusion that we are separate from one another is an optical delusion of our consciousness.” ~ Albert Einstein

“What Albert Einstein termed ‘optical delusion,’ the Indians of Asia termed Maya or Illusion.” ~ Mohit K. Misra

“Our reality is an illusion by its very nature considering the fact that scientists discovered that matter is mostly made up of empty space. If you were to combine all the atoms of the 8 billion people on earth it would be the size of a sugar cube.” ~ Dick Edgemont

“What is considered as empty space is just a manifestation of matter that is not awakened.” ~ Nikola Tesla

“While the world we see is in some sense ‘real,’ it is not located at the fundamental level of reality. I wish I could summon a strong argument against it, but I can find none.” ~ Nick Bostrom

“If you study quantum physics, it says the same thing. The name and shapes of objects is not real, what is real is that they are all part of One Wave Function. Everything is made up of One energy. This is what the Vedanta Vedic Scriptures always said.” ~ Naveen Sanagala

“Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real. Therefore everything we humans think of as ‘’real’’ at ‘’our level of existence’’ is actually comprised of energy-force-filled space.” ~ Niels Bohr

“All perceptible matter comes from a primary substance, or tenuity beyond conception, filling all space, the Akasha or luminiferous ether, which is acted upon by the life giving Prana or creative force, calling into existence, in never-ending cycles all things and phenomena. The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence.” ~ Nikola Tesla

“So, without denying the existence of the illusory Maya, it is essential for one to understand and experience, through self contemplation, the impermanence of our body, our mind, and the objects and fruits of our attachments on the one hand and the enduring permanence of our true self on the other.” ~ Dr Ajay Kr. Sharma

“The world is only as real as the image that is seen in a mirror.” ~ Dakshinamurthy Stotra

“What is real? Is there more to reality than meets the eye? Yes! This was Plato’s answer over two millennia ago. In his famous cave analogy, he likened us to people who’d lived their entire lives shackled in a cave, facing a blank wall, watching the shadows cast by things passing behind them, and eventually coming to mistakenly believe that these shadows were the full reality. Plato argued that what we humans call our everyday reality is similarly just a limited and distorted representation of the true reality, and that we must free ourselves from our mental shackles to begin comprehending it.” ~ Max Tegmark

“If Plato’s prisoners were able to examine the shadows from a higher perspective, the entire affair would make more sense. Basically, they would have found a model for their reality that fits better than the old model. This is exactly what mystics have been telling us for thousands of years—that the world around us is a kind of illusion, and there is a reality beyond what we can see.” ~ Rizwan Virk

“The Matrix is everywhere. It is all around us. Even now, in this very room. You can see it when you look out your window or when you turn on your television. It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth.” ~ Morpheus: “The Matrix (Movie)”

“We’re most likely in a simulation.” ~ Elon Musk

“Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.” ~ Ludwig Börne

“Look at the world as an illusion. Seeing this physical world as an illusion ironically allows you to enjoy it more and stay inspired.” ~ Wayne Dyer

“When one sees that everything exists as an illusion, one can live in a higher sphere than an ordinary man.” ~ Buddha

“We see not the Self, concealed by Maya; When the veil falls, we see we are the Self.” ~ The Upanishads

THE DREAM

“Open your eyes, for this world is only a dream. Wake up!” ~ Rumi

“Waking consciousness is dreaming – but dreaming constrained by external reality.” ~ Oliver Sacks

“In a real sense, all the visions that we see in our lifetime are like a big dream.” ~ Chögyal Namkhai Norbu

“Life, what is it but a dream?” ~ Lewis Carroll

“Row, row, row your boat gently down the stream. Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily… life is but a dream.” ~ Nursery Rhyme

“Once upon a time, a man dreamt he was a butterfly. When he awakened he wondered if he was then a man who dreamt he was a butterfly, or whether he was now a butterfly dreaming he was a man.” ~ Taoist Parable

“Have you ever had a dream, Neo, that you were so sure was real? What if you were unable to wake from that dream? How would you know the difference between the dream world and the real world?” ~ Morpheus: “The Matrix (Movie)”

“This ‘world’ began to forget it was Oneness, like a dream forgetting it is the dreamer.” ~ David Icke

“Sometimes dreams are wiser than waking.” ~ Black Elk 

“Those who stop dreaming are lost.” ~ Australian Aboriginal Proverb

“At first the inner consciousness seems to be the dream and the outer the waking reality. Afterwards the inner consciousness becomes the reality and the outer is felt by many as a dream or delusion, or else as something superficial and external.” ~ Sri Aurobindo

“Aborigines believe in two forms of time. Two parallel streams of activity. One is the daily objective activity to which you and I are confined. The other is an infinite spiritual cycle called the “dreamtime,” more real than reality itself.” ~ Peter Weir

“The whole creation is essentially subjective, and the dream is the theater where the dreamer is all at once scene, actor, prompter, stage manager, author, audience and critic.” ~ Carl Jung

“Mystics of all traditions have told us that what we perceive as reality is actually more like a dream.” ~ Rizwan Virk 

“Life is only a dream… and we are the imagination of ourselves.” ~ Bill Hicks

“All that we see and seem is but a dream within a dream.” ~ Edgar Allan Poe

“The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.” ~ T. S. Eliot

“The years that are gone seem like dreams — if one might go on sleeping and dreaming — but to wake up and find — oh! Well! Perhaps it is better to wake up after all. Even to suffer, rather than to remain a dupe to illusions all one’s life.” ~ Kate Chopin

“My goodness, it’s all a dream. But what a magnificent dream! A great work of art. Art in the highest sense. Maya means illusion but a lot more besides. It means magic. It means art. It means creative power.” ~ Alan Watts

“Suffering just means you’re having a bad dream. Happiness means you’re having a good dream. Enlightenment means getting out of the dream altogether.” ~ Jed McKenna

“Do not take life’s experiences too seriously. Above all, do not let them hurt you, for in reality they are nothing but dream experiences. This world is a dream place, and we are all dreaming here. This life is not real; you are laughing and crying in the greatest delusion, and it is not worth shedding tears over. When you constantly keep your mind in God, you will realize that this world is His dream. We are here today, tomorrow we are gone, mere shadows in a Cosmic Dream. But behind the unreality of these fleeting pictures is the immortality of Spirit.” ~ Paramahansa Yogananda

DREAMS

“Nothing happens unless first we dream.” ~ Carl Sandburg

“Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.” ~ Khalil Gibran

“Don’t dream your life… but live your dream.” ~ Mark Twain

“You’ve got to follow that dream, wherever that dream may lead.” ~ Elvis Presley

“You see things; and you say, ‘Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, ‘Why not?'” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“If you don’t have a dream, how are you going to make a dream come true?” ~ Oscar Hammerstein

“If you can dream it, you can do it.” ~ Walt Disney

“All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.” ~ T. E. Lawrence

“There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.” ~ Douglas H. Everett

“Dreams are not those which comes while we are sleeping, but dreams are those when you don't sleep before fulfilling them.” ~ A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

“I don’t dream at night, I dream all day; I dream for a living.” ~ Steven Spielberg

“Every morning you have two choices: continue to sleep with your dreams, or wake up and chase them.” ~ Unknown Author

“The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.” ~ Paul Valery

“Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.” ~ Henry David Thoreau

“I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.” ~ Vincent van Gogh

“We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort.” ~ Jesse Owens

“Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.” ~ Henry David Thoreau

“Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.” ~ Napoleon Hill

“Keep true to the dreams of your youth.” ~ Friedrich Schiller

“A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.” ~ John Barrymore

“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream. For broken dreams, the cure is dream again; and deeper.” ~ C. S. Lewis

“Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.” ~ Earl Nightingale

“20 years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowling. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover!” ~ Mark Twain

“Yesterday is but today’s memory, and tomorrow is today’s dream.” ~ Khalil Gibran

“Dreams are today’s answers to tomorrow’s questions.” ~ Edgar Cayce

“I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.” ~ Thomas Jefferson

“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

“What is not started today is never finished tomorrow. Whatever you do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“I dwell in possibility.” ~ Emily Dickinson

“Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.” ~ Albert Einstein

“If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.” ~ Henry David Thoreau

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​THE PATH

“You cannot travel the path until you have become the path itself.” ~ Buddha

"In shamanic cultures, synchronicities are recognized as signs that you are on the right path." ~ Daniel Pinchbeck

“The spiritual journey is individual, highly personal. It can’t be organized or regulated. It isn’t true that everyone should follow one path. Listen to your own truth.” ~ Ram Dass

“People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they’re not on your road does not mean they are lost.” ~ Dalai Lama

“If you find no one to support you on the spiritual path, walk alone. There is no companionship with the immature.” ~ Buddha

“Do not be led by others, awaken your own mind, amass your own experience, and decide for yourself your own path.” ~ Atharva Veda

“If you can see your path laid out in front of you step by step, you know it’s not your path. Your own path you make with every step you take. That’s why it’s your path.” ~ Joseph Campbell

“We have all been placed on this earth to discover our own path.” ~ James Van Praagh

“Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference." ~ Robert Frost

“We will be known forever by the tracks we leave.” ~ Dakota Native American Proverb

“There are hundreds of paths up the mountain, all leading to the same place, it doesn’t matter which path you take. The only person wasting time is the one who runs around the mountain telling everyone that his or her path is wrong.” ~ Hindu Proverb

"The warrior who trusts his path doesn't need to prove the other is wrong." ~ Paulo Coelbo

“Attachment to views is the greatest impediment to the spiritual path.” ~ Thich Nhat Hanh

"The spiritual path is not a race, every flower blooms in its own time." ~ Martin Soulreader

“An enlightened man had but one duty — to seek the way to himself, to reach inner certainty, to grope his way forward, no matter where it led.” ~ Hermann Hesse

“Man is lost and is wandering in a jungle where real values have no meaning. Real values can have meaning to man only when he steps onto the spiritual path.” ~  Sai Baba

“Being on a spiritual path does not prevent you from facing times of darkness. But it teaches you how to use the darkness as a tool to grow.” ~ Unknown Author

“To walk the spiritual path is to continually step out into the unknown.” ~ Wallace Huey

“Sticking with that uncertainty, getting the knack of relaxing in the midst of chaos, learning not to panic – this is the spiritual path.” ~ Pema Chödrön

“The spiritual path is not strewn with roses.” ~ Haridas Chaudhuri

“Obstacles do not block the path, they are the path.” ~ Zen Proverb

“The spiritual path wrecks the body and afterwards restores it to health. It destroys the house to unearth the treasure, and with that treasure builds it better than before.” ~ Rumi

“The idea is not to regard the spiritual path as something very luxurious and pleasurable but to see it as just facing the facts of life.” ~ Chogyam Trungpa

“If your path is more difficult, it is because of your high calling.” ~ Vassiliki Mandalou

“Normality is a paved road: It's comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it.” ~ Vincent van Gogh

“If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there.” ~  Lewis Carroll 

“It is important that we know where we come from, because if you do not know where you come from, then you don't know where you are, and if you don't know where you are, you don't know where you're going. And if you don't know where you're going, you're probably going wrong.” ~ Terry Pratchett

“There is no failure on the spiritual path, all experiences expand your Soul.” ~ Martian Soulreader

“Whatever is happening is the path to enlightenment.” ~ Pema Chödrön

"Journey without a goal." ~ Chögyam Trungpa

“A good traveler has no fixed plan, and is not intent on arriving.” ~ Lao Tzu

"Follow your bliss.” ~ Joseph Campbell

“Following the light, the sage takes care of all.” ~ Lao Tsu

“There are two rules on the Spiritual Path: Begin and continue…” ~ Sufi Saying

“The Lord says, “I will guide you along the best pathway for your life. I will advise you and watch over you.” ~ Psalms 32:8

“The spiritual path is to discover your true identity… which is The Ocean and not the drop.” ~ Dorl Ishwar Puri

“The spiritual path is not one of attainment, but of return.” ~ Alan Cohen

TRUTH

“Adversity is the first path to truth.” ~ Lord Byron

"All great truths begin as blasphemies." ~ George Bernard Shaw

“A radical is one who speaks the truth.” ~ Charles A. Lindbergh, Sr.

“Truth does not change because it is or is not believed by a majority of the people.” ~ Giordano Bruno

“A lie is a lie even if everyone believes it. The truth is the truth even if nobody believes it.” ~ David Stevens 

"They must find it difficult… those who have taken authority as the truth, rather than truth as the authority." ~ Gerald Massey

“A foolish faith in authority is the worst enemy of the truth.” ~ Albert Einstein

“A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people. Fear not the path of truth for the lack of people walking on it.” ~ John F. Kennedy

"Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful.” ~ George Orwell

"A lie told often enough becomes the truth." ~ Vladimir Lenin

"When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and it's speaker a raving lunatic." ~ Dresden Jones

“In a time of universal deceit — telling the truth is a revolutionary act. Truth is treason in an empire of lies." ~ George Orwell” ~ George Orwell

"Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away." ~ Elvis Presley

“Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.” ~ Buddha

“Truth can not be suppressed and always is the ultimate victor.” ~ Yajur Veda

“Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains taken to bring it to light.” ~ George Washington

“For nothing is secret that will not be revealed, nor anything hidden that will not be known and come to light.” ~ Luke 8:17

“The truth is like a lion; you don't have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.” ~ St. Augustin

“The truth is paradoxical to the extent of being exactly contrary to the usual perception.” ~ Georges Bataille

“When it is uncomfortable, when it is unpopular, even when it is dangerous to speak the truth… that is precisely the time that truth should be spoken.” ~ Unknown Author 

“In order to be effective truth must penetrate like an arrow, and that is likely to hurt.” ~  Wei Wu Wei

“When the truth hurts, we always hate the messenger.” ~ Neil Shusterman

“The speaker of truth has no friends.” ~ African Proverb

"If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.” ~ Oscar Wilde

“People don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

“It’s hard to accept the truth when the lies were exactly what you wanted to hear.” ~ Unknown Author

"A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true." ~ Demosthenes

"People only see what they are prepared to see." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson 

"We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren till she transforms us into beasts... For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth, to know the worst, and to provide for it." ~ Patrick Henry

“The strength of a person's spirit would then be measured by how much 'truth' he could tolerate, or more precisely, to what extent he needs to have it diluted, disguised, sweetened, muted, falsified.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

“In disputes upon moral or scientific points, let your aim be to come at truth, not to conquer your opponent.” ~ Arthur Martine 

"The majority cannot reason; it has no judgement. It has always placed its destiny in the hands of others; it has followed its leaders even into destruction. The masses have always opposed, condemned, and hounded the innovator, the pioneer of a new truth." ~ Emma Goldman

"Condemnation without investigation is the height of ignorance." ~ Albert Einstein

“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: if we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.” ~ Carl Sagan

“People will get mad at you for speaking the truth… rather than being mad at the people who lied.” ~ Unknown

"The only people who are mad at you for speaking the truth are those people who are living a lie." ~ Gaskins Jr.

“It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled. Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.” ~ Mark Twain

“Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.” ~ Tacitus

“Be a free thinker and don’t accept everything you hear as truth. Be critical and evaluate what you believe in.” ~ Aristotle

“Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

"Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold." ~ Leo Tolstoy

“Moral anger based on truth is a virtue… a very high virtue.” ~ Jon Rappoport

“It is no measure of health to be well-adjusted to a profoundly sick society. Till the false is seen as the false… truth is not.” ~ Krishnamurti

"There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true." ~ Soren Kierkegaard

“If you are unwilling to question your own beliefs, you will never know if you are following the truth or lies.” ~ Author Unknown

“You can always recognize truth by its beauty and simplicity.” ~ Richard Feynman 

“It does not require many words to speak the truth.” ~ Chief Joseph

“A lie has many variations, the truth none.” ~ African Proverb

“Infinite love is the only truth. Everything else is illusion.” ~ David Icke

"If the world is against truth, then I am against the world." ~ St. Athanasius

“For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God.” ~ 1 Corinthians 3:19

“The pursuit of Truth is true devotion. It is the path that leads to God.” ~ Gandhi

“Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion.” ~ Ayn Rand

“There is no law higher than truth.” ~ Helena Blavatsky

“The truth shall set you free.” ~ John 8:32

SELF-RESPECT

“Self-respect, that cornerstone of all virtue.” ~ John Herschel

“Above all things, reverence yourself.” ~ Pythagoras
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“To thine own self be true; and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.” ~ William Shakespeare

“In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.” ~  Krishnamurti

“At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.” ~ Lao Tsu

“If you can't figure out your purpose, figure out your passion. For your passion will lead you right into your purpose.” ~ T. D. Jakes

"The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away." ~ Pablo Picasso

“When you follow your bliss a kind of track opens up, that’s always been there, waiting for you. And the life that you should be living, is the one that you will be living.” ~ Joseph Campbell 

“Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.” ~ Rumi
 
"Expect much from yourself and little from others and you will avoid incurring resentments." ~ Confucius 
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“Be a friend to yourself and others will.” ~ Scotch Proverb

"Happiness is your birthright. Live it!" ~ Yogi Bhajan
 
“Can you remember who you were before the world told you what you should be?” ~ Danielle LaPorte
 
“It’s time to give up the idea of who you think you’re supposed to be… and start loving who you really are.” ~ Unknown Author
 
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
 
“The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.” ~ Carl Jung
 
“There is one thing we can do better than anyone else: we can be ourselves.” ~ William Arthur Ward
 
“Be yourself, everyone else is already taken.” ~ Oscar Wilde
 
“You owe it to yourself to be yourself.” ~ Yogi Bhajan
 
“To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the Stillness underneath the mental noice, the Love and Joy underneath the pain, is freedom, salvation, enlightenment.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“It takes nothing to join the crowd. It takes everything to stand alone.” ~ Hans F. Hansen
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"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

“To think that you will be happy by becoming something else is delusion. Becoming something else just exchanges one form of suffering for another form of suffering. But when you are content with who you are now, junior or senior, married or single, rich or poor, then you are free of suffering.” ~ Ajahn Brahm

CHARACTER BUILDING

“Learn from yesterday. Live for today. Hope for tomorrow. Our greatest glory is not in never failing but in rising every time we fall. A man is great not because he hasn’t failed. A man is great because failure hasn’t stopped him.” ~ Confucius

“The secret of life is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.” ~ Paulo Coelho

“Don't be afraid to fail… be afraid to not try.” ~ Michael Jordan

“There is no failure except in no longer trying.” ~ Elbert Hubbard

“By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.” - Benjamin Franklin

“The men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed.” ~ Lloyd Jones

“Sometimes the truest lives of all are lived by those who fail.” ~ Myron Hansford Veon

“Take chances, make mistakes. That’s how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.” ~ Mary Tyler Moore

“What some people label as “failures” in life, other people consider to be “Lessons in Self-Improvement.” ~ Unknown Author

“There is a Tibetan saying, 'Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.’” ~ Dalai Lama

"You can ignore reality, but you can't ignore the consequences of ignoring reality." - Ayn Rand

“Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude towards it, for that determines our success or failure. In adversity keep motivated, for often the best comes from difficulty.” ~ Vincent Norman Peale

“Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.” ~ Dale Carnegie

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

“Do not try to be the best. Just do your best.” ~ Sadhguru

“The virtue lies in the struggle, not the prize.” ~ Richard Monckton Milnes

“Don’t feel sorry for yourself if you have chosen the wrong road, turn around.” ~ Edgar Cayce

“Nor deem the irrevocable past as wholly wasted, wholly vain… if rising on its wrecks at last to something nobler we attain.” ~ Henry Longfellow

“I am not what happened to me. I am what I choose to become.” ~ Carl Jung

“In the rolls of Heaven, where it will live a theme for angels when they celebrate the high-souled virtues which forgetful earth has witnessed.” ~ William Wordsworth

“All that was great in the past was ridiculed, condemned, combated, suppressed — only to emerge all the more powerfully, all the more triumphantly from the struggle.” ~ Nikola Tesla
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“History has shown us that people who end up changing the world are always nuts… until they are right and then they are geniuses.” ~ John Elliot
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“All great acts of genius began with the same consideration: Do not be constrained by your present reality. I awoke only to see that the rest of the world was still asleep.” ~ Leonardo da Vinci

“A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.” ~ Oscar Wilde

“Only to the extent that we can expose ourselves over and over to annihilation can that which is indestructible in us be found.” ~ Pema Chodron

“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.” ~ Kahlil Gibran

“Man's unique reward, however, is that while animals survive by adjusting themselves to their background, man survives by adjusting his background to himself." ~ Ayn Rand

“The better ambitions have to do with the development of character and ability, rather than status and power. Status you can lose. You carry character with you wherever you go, and it allows you to prevail against adversity.” ~ Jordan B. Peterson

“Don’t be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

“Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.” ~ Les Brown

“The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything.” ~ Theodore Roosevelt

“Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.” ~ Napoleon Hill

“When you get into a tight place, and everything goes against you, till it seems as if you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then for that’s just the place and time when the tide will turn.” ~ Harriet Beecher Stowe

“Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.” ~ Leo Tolstoy

"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement." ~ Helen Keller

“Ready must thou be to burn thyself in thine own flame; how couldst thou become new if thou have not first become ashes!” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

“Nor shall this peace sleep with her; but as when the bird of wonder dies, the maiden phoenix, her ashes new-create another heir as great in admiration as herself.” ~ William Shakespeare

“The ‘Dark Night of the Soul’ comes just before revelation. When everything is lost, and all seems darkness, then comes the new life and all that is needed.” ~ Joseph Campbell

“To heal the wound, you have to go into the ‘Dark Night of the Soul.’” ~ Tori Amos

“Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.” ~ Victor Hugo

“Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.” ~ Rabindranath Tagore

“In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.” ~ Albert Camus

ETHICAL CODES

“Ethics is a code of values which guide our choice and actions and determine the purpose and course of our lives.” ~ Ayn Rand

“Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.” ~ Confucius

“Morality is doing what is right regardless of what you are told. Obedience is doing what is told regardless of what is right.” ~  H. L. Mencken 

"In matters of style, swim with the current; In matters of principle, stand like a rock." ~ Thomas Jefferson

“A principle is a principle and in no case can it be watered down because of our incapacity to live it in practice. We have to strive to achieve it, and the striving should be conscious, deliberate and hard.” ~ Gandhi

“It is not enough to know what is ‘good,’ you must be able to do it.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“A reputation for good judgment, for fair dealing, for truth, and for rectitude, is itself a fortune.” ~ Henry Ward Beecher

“The moment you accept responsibility for everything in your life is the moment you gain the power to change anything in your life.” ~ Hal Elrod

“The first half of life is devoted to forming a healthy ego, the second half is going inward and letting go of it.” ~ C.G. Jung

"Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altars of conformity & popularity." ~ William Arthur Ward 

"A society who rewards those who place more emphasis in their image rather than their moral integrity, will eventually find itself deteriorating from the inside out." ~ Benjamin Greene

“If you leave your children a world where you never stood up, they’ll inherit a world where they can’t.” ~ Unknown Author

“Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times.” ~ G. Michael Hopf

“A beautiful behavior is better than a beautiful form; it gives a higher pleasure than statues or pictures; it is the finest of the fine arts.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Certain things catch your eye, but pursue only those that captured your heart.” ~ Native American Proverb

“It is said that Wisdom lies in not seeing things, but seeing through things.” ~ Manly P. Hall

“Charity is the root of all good works.” ~ St. Augustine 

“Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.” ~ Aesop

“Patience is the best prayer.” ~ Latin Proverb

“Modesty is the highest elegance.” ~ Coco Chanel

“Humility is not thinking less of yourself. Humility is thinking about yourself less.” ~ Rick Warren

“Be humble, for you are made of earth. Be noble, for you are made of stars.” ~ Serbian Proverb

“The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie.” ~ Alesandr Solzhenitsyn

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“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” ~ Anais Nin
"Be virtuous and you will be eccentric." ~ Mark Twain

“A quiet consciousness sleeps in thunder.” ~ English Proverb

“Discipline yourself and others won’t need to.” ~ John Wooden

“Politeness is the flower of humanity.” ~ Joseph Joubert

“Kindness and positivity are contagious. Spread them freely.” ~ “Snoopy” George Shultz

“There is a courtesy of the heart. It is akin to love. Out of it arises the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.” ~ Johan Goethe

“Manners are of more importance than laws. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purity, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe.” ~ Edmund Burke

“He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope has everything.” ~ Thomas Carlyle

“Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.” ~ Khalil Gibran

“Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.” ~ Hearclitus

"We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing." ~ George Bernard Shaw

"Never be so focused on what you are looking for… that you overlook the thing you actually find." ~ Ann Patchett

“The measure of a man is what he does with power.” ~ Plato

“You are personally responsible for becoming more ethical than the society you grew up in.” ~  Eliezer Yudkowsky

“What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.” ~ Pericles

“I hope I shall always possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an “Honest Man.” ~ George Washington

“Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us footprints on the sands of time.” ~ Henry Longfellow

PROVERBS

“A journey of thousand miles begins with a single step.” ~ Chinese Proverb
“Two footprints do not make a path.” ~ African Proverb
“If a blind man leads another, they both fall together.” ~ Swedish Proverb
“The road to hell is paved with good intentions.” ~ Old Proverb
“When the explorer is ready, the guide will appear.” ~ Nepalese Proverb
“It’s not enough to know how to ride, you must also know how to fall.” ~ Mexican Proverb
“Look before you leap.” ~ English Proverb
“A danger foreseen is half avoided.” ~ English Proverb
"A man’s greatest support is not the gods but his own two arms.” ~ African Proverb
“One finger cannot lift a pebble.” ~ Native American Proverb
“Whoever works his land will have plenty of bread, but he who follows worthless pursuits lacks sense.” ~ Proverbs 12:11
“One that has wax as a head must not walk in the sun.” ~ Latin Proverb
“A lazy shepherd is a wolf’s friend.” ~ Welsh Proverb
“Better wear out shoes than sheets.” ~ Scottish Proverb
“The way you make your bed, is the way you shall lie.” ~ Swedish Proverb
“As you sow, so you shall reap.” ~ Galatians 6:7
“Labor is bitter but the bread it buys is sweet.” ~ Indian Proverb
“It’s too late to shut the stable door after the horse has bolted.” ~ Norwegian Proverb
“When you’re thirsty it’s too late to think about digging a well.” ~ Japanese Proverb
“The day of the storm is not the time for thatching the roof.” ~ Irish Proverb
“Although it may rain, cast not away the watering pot.” ~ Malaysian Proverb
“Don’t throw away the old bucket until you know whether the new one holds water.” ~ Swedish Proverb
“Don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater.” ~ Old Proverb
“If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” ~ American Proverb
“If there is no wind, row.” ~ Latin Proverb
“A boat does not go forward if each man is rowing his own way.” ~ African Proverb
“Don’t change horses in mid-stream.” ~ Dutch Proverb
“When you are in the water you swim.” ~ Native American Proverb
“A drowning man will clutch a straw.” ~ English Proverb
“Do not push the river, it will flow by itself.” ~ Polish Proverb
“Not every spring becomes a stream.” ~ German Proverb
“During calm waters, every ship has a great Captain.” ~ Swedish Proverb
“Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.” ~ Chinese Proverb
“It is ill fishing if the hook is bare.” ~ Scottish Proverb
“A happy heart is better than a full purse.”~ English Proverb
“The best things in life are free.” ~ English Proverb
“Once I had strength but no wisdom; now I have wisdom but no strength.” ~ Persian Proverb
“The old woman looks after the child to grow its teeth and the young one, in turn, looks after the old woman when she loses her teeth.” ~ African Proverb
“Speaking without thought is like shooting without taking aim.” ~ Spanish Proverb
“Surely the worth of a man lies in two of his smallest parts – his heart and his tongue.” ~ Egyptian Proverb
“Those who know do not speak, those who speak do not know.” ~ Japanese Proverb
“Action speaks louder than words.” ~ English Proverb
“The pen is mightier than the sword.” ~ Old Proverb 
“The loftiest towers rise from the ground.” ~ Chinese Proverb
“Birds of a feather flock together.” ~ Old Proverb
“A bird never flew with one wing.” ~ Irish Proverb
“Before you start up a ladder, count the rungs.” ~ Jewish Proverb
“When all else fails… read the instructions.” ~ Old Proverb
“Empty sacks will never stand upright.” ~ Italian Proverb
“A leopard doesn’t change its spots.” ~ Jeremiah 13:23 
“Darkness reigns at the foot of the lighthouse.” ~ Japanese Proverb
“The hammer shatters glass but forges steel.” ~ Russian Proverb
“Even a clock that is not going is right twice a day.” ~ Polish Proverb
"Men say time passes. Time says men pass." ~ Old Proverb
“To the happy no hour strikes.” ~ German Proverb
"Don't put all your eggs in one basket." ~ Old Proverb
“Don’t set the cart before the horse.” ~ English Proverb
"Don't bite the hand that feeds you." ~ Old Proverb
“The same dog that bit you in the morning will bite you in the evening.” ~ Jamaican Proverb
“Wood that grows warped can never be straightened.” ~ Greek Proverb
“The larger a man’s roof, the more snow it collects.” ~ Arabian Proverb
“Knock on the door before entering.” ~ Palestinian Proverb
“Visits always give a pleasure; if not the arriving, so the departing.” ~ Portuguese Proverb
“Woe to the stranger when trouble comes, for there will be no friend to take his part.” ~ Irish Proverb
“One has always strength enough to bear the misfortunes of one’s friends.” ~ French Proverb
“A good friend is like a four-leaf clover; hard to find and lucky to have.” ~ Irish Proverb
"A mere friend will agree with you, but a real friend will argue." ~ Russian Proverb
"Love is a two way street." ~ Old Proverb 
“Absence makes the heart grow fonder.” ~ English Proverb
“It is easy to frighten a bull from the window.” ~ Italian Proverb
“When the mouse laughs at the cat there is a hole nearby.” ~ African Proverb
“Do not wrong or hate your neighbor for it is not he that you wrong but yourself.” ~ Native American Proverb
“When there are no enemies within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.” ~ African Proverb
“Whoever is slow to anger is better than the mighty, and he who rules his spirit than he who takes a city.” ~ Proverbs 16:3
“Never cut what can be untied.” ~ Portuguese Proverb
“He who ties well unties well.” ~ Spanish Proverb
“Where there is smoke there is fire.” ~ English Proverb
“Add not fire to fire.” ~ Greek Proverb
“A little oil may save a great deal of friction.” ~ English Proverb
“One who recovers from sickness forgets about God.” ~ African Proverb
“An apple a day keeps the doctor away.” ~ English Proverb
“Eat according to your provisions; walk according to the length of your step.” ~ Tibetan Proverb
“If you go to bed without supper, you will rise without having slept.” ~ Yiddish Proverb
“A good laugh and a long sleep are the two best cures for anything.” ~ Irish Proverb
"He who laughs last laughs loudest." ~ Old Proverb
“Though a tree grow ever so high, the falling leaves return to the root.” ~ Malaysian Proverb
“A tree is known by its fruit.” ~ Luke 6:43
“A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.” ~ Greek Proverb
“The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The next best time is now.” ~ Chinese Proverb
“Those who don't respect the past aren't worthy of the future.” ~ Dutch Proverb

MATERIALISM

“Materialism: A tendency to think material objects are more important than people: desire for money over ethics.” ~ Dictionary Definition

“Materialism, which gives priority to material needs and objects, is obviously the opposite of spirituality.” ~ Dallin H. Oaks

“Materialism is the only form of distraction from true bliss.” ~ Douglas Horton

“Materialism is toxic to happiness, and we are losing our connection to the natural world.” ~ James Gustave Speth

“Just look at us. Everything is backwards, everything is upside down. Doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, psychiatrists destroy minds, scientists destroy truth, major media destroys information, religions destroy spirituality and governments destroy freedom.” ~ Michael Ellner

“Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind. With respect to luxuries and comforts, the wisest have ever lived a more simple and meagre life than the poor.” ~ Henry David Thoreau

“Material things don’t empress me, your soul does.” ~ Unknown Author

“People were created to be loved. Things were created to be used. The reason why the world is in chaos is because things are being loved and people are being used.” ~ The Dalai Lama

“Instead of buying your children all the things you never had, you should teach them all the things you were never taught. Material wears out but Knowledge stays.” ~ Bruce Lee

“Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.” ~ Oscar Wilde

“Not everything that can be counted counts… and not everything that counts can be counted.” ~ Albert Einstein

“We are all materialistic. There are different levels of materialism! Some aspire to have a fancy car, others only wish to go to bed at night with a full stomach.” ~ D. J. Jouett

“For the love of money is the root of all evil.” ~ 1 Timothy 6:10

“I never had money, and I was very happy without it. When I die, my money’s not gonna come with me.” ~ Heath Ledger

“Detachment is not that you should own nothing, but that nothing should own you.” ~ Ali Idn Abi Talib

“The ideal is nothing else than the material world reflected by the human mind, and translated into forms of thought.” ~ Karl Marx

“To believe that mind is all, that thought is all is only a higher materialism.” ~ Swami Vivekananda

“In fact, we have suffered under a variety of illusions about who and what we are that have kept us trapped in a prison of materialistic thought.” ~ David Wilcock

“As water by cooling and condensation becomes ice, so thought by condensation assumes physical form. Everything in the universe is thought in material form.” ~ Paramahansa Yognanda

“Any kind of consciousness that is not related to the production or consumption of material goods is stigmatized in our society today.” ~ Graham Hancock

“Materialism ends up denying the existence of any irreducible subjective qualitative states of sentience of awareness.” ~ John Searle

“Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.” ~ Malcolm Muggeridge

“The most important things in life aren’t things.” ~ Anthony J. D'Angelo

“Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for, in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it.” ~ Ellen Goodman

“We buy things we don’t need with money we don’t have to impress people we don’t like.” ~ Will Rogers

“The fewer our wants the nearer we resemble the gods.” ~ Socrates

“The greatest wealth is to live content with little.” ~ Plato

“It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.” ~ Seneca

“Be more… rather than to have more.” ~ Erich Fromm

“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for. Not what we have but what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance. He who is not satisfied with a little is satisfied with nothing.” ~ Epicurus

“Perhaps you are overvaluing what you don’t have and undervaluing what you do.” ~ Jordan B. Peterson

“Never let the things you want make you forget the things you have.” ~ Sanchita Pandey

"You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“If you want to fly, give up everything that weighs you down.” ~ Buddha

“In today’s rush we all think too much, seek too much, want too much and forget about the joy of just Being.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“There’s more to life than increasing its speed.” ~ Gandhi

“It is the tragedy of our time that the average individual learns too late that the materialistic concept of life has failed utterly in every department of living.” ~ Manly P. Hall

“Contemporary science is based on the philosophy of materialism, which claims that all reality is material or physical.” ~ Rupert Sheldrake

“We are perceivers, we are awareness, we are not objects, we have no solidity… we are boundless. But the control system is constantly trying to get us to see ourselves in physical terms and to identify ourselves only with our bodies.” ~ Amazon Shaman

“Those who believe that the world of being is governed by luck or chance and that it depends upon material causes are far removed from the Divine and from the notion of the One.” ~ Plotinus

“The problem of human existence is the forgetfulness of the Divine essence of the Self and the identification with the body as the Self.” ~ The Egyptian Book of the Dead

“The planet does not need more ‘successful people.’ The planet desperately needs more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers and lovers of all kinds.” ~ The Dalai Lama

"Look at me - I am poor and naked, but I am the chief of the nation. We do not want riches, but we want to train our children right. Riches will do us no good. We could not take them with us to the other world. We do not want riches. We want peace and love." ~ Sioux Chief Red Cloud

“The great question of our time is, ‘Will we be motivated by materialistic philosophy or by spiritual power?” ~ Billy Graham

“These temple destroyers, devotees of ravaging commercialism, seem to have a perfect contempt for Nature, and, instead of lifting their eyes to the God of the mountains, lift them to the Almighty Dollar.” ~ John Muir

"This focus on money and power may do wonders in the marketplace, but it creates a tremendous crisis in our society. People who have spent all day learning how to sell themselves and to manipulate others are in no position to form lasting friendships or intimate relationships... Many Americans hunger for a different kind of society -- one based on principles of caring, ethical and spiritual sensitivity, and communal solidarity. Their need for meaning is just as intense as their need for economic security." -- Michael Lerner

“Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.” ~ Lao Tzu

DEVIL

“So the great dragon was cast out, that serpent of old, called the Devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world; he was cast to the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.” ~ Revelation 12:9

“Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven.” ~ John Milton

“Hell is empty and all the devils are here.” “What, man, defy the devil. Consider, he's an enemy to mankind.” ~ William Shakespeare

“The meanest thing in the world is the devil.” ~ Henry Ward Beecher

“Satan, the father of lies and the great deceiver, would have us question things as they really are and either ignore eternal truths or replace them with something that appears more pleasing.” ~ Gary E. Stevenson

"Hell can't be made attractive, so the devil makes attractive the road that leads there.” ~ Saint Basil 

“The devil hath power to assume a pleasing shape.” ~ William Shakespeare

“For even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light.” ~ 2 Corinthians 11:14

“Sometimes the Devil is a gentleman.” ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley

“The Devil can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.” ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

“The Devil’s most devilish when respectable.” ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel.” ~ Martin Luther

“A church debt is the devil's salary.” ~ Henry Ward Beecher

“The devil gets up to the belfry by the vicar's skirts.” ~ Thomas Fuller

“The devil can site scripture for his own purpose!” ~ William Shakespeare

“Satan delights equally in statistics and in quoting scripture.” ~ H. G. Wells 

“Satan’s successes are the greatest when he appears with the name of God on his lips.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi

“He who doesn't pray to the Lord prays to the devil.” ~ Pope Francis

“It may be the devil or it may be the Lord. But you're gonna have to serve somebody.” ~ Bob Dylan

“The devil divides the world between atheism and superstition.” ~ George Herbert

“The devil’s finest trick is to persuade you that he does not exist.” ~ Charles Baudelaire.

“The Devil's boots don't creak.” ~ Scottish Proverb

“The quiet conscience is an invention of the Devil.” – Albert Schweitzer 

“The devil is in the details.” ~ English Proverb

“Haste is of the Devil.” ~ St. Jerome

"The devil is compromise. ~ Henrik Ibsen

“Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.” ~ Buckminster Fuller

“The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in our health, or we suffer in our soul, or we get fat.” ~ Albert Einstein

“The devil made me do it.” ~ Flip Wilson

“Rock has always been the devil's music... I believe that rock & roll is dangerous.” ~ David Bowie 

“The devil should not be allowed to keep all the best tunes for himself.” ~ Martin Luther

“Gossip is the Devil’s radio.” – George Harrison

“Ridicule is the language of the devil.” ~ Thomas Carlyle

“Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it.” ~ Thomas Carlyle

“If you get down and quarrel every day, you’re saying prayers to the Devil, I say.” ~ Bob Marley

“Sure I believe in God and the Devil, but they don't have to have pitchforks and a long white beard.” ~ Keanu Reeves

“Don't you know there ain't no devil, it's just god when he's drunk.” ~ Tom Waits

“If the all powerful god controls satan he is an accomplice, and if he doesn't, he is not an all powerful god.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche 

“But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?” ~ Mark Twain

“If Satan ever laughs, it must be at hypocrites; they are the greatest dupes he has.” ~ Charles Caleb Colton

“I often laugh at Satan, and there is nothing that makes him so angry as when I attack him to his face, and tell him that through God I am more than a match for him.” ~ Martin Luther King Jr.

“The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.” ~ H. L. Mencken

“But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.” ~ Alexander Pope 

“Interest is the invention of Satan.” ~ Thomas A. Edison 

“Who does not know that kings and rulers sprang from men who were ignorant of God, who assumed because of blind greed and intolerable presumption to make themselves masters of other men, their equals, by means of pride, violence, bad faith, murder, and almost every other kind of crime? Surely the devil drove them on.'” ~ Pope Gregory VII

“No man means evil but the Devil, and we shall know him by his horns.” ~ William Shakespeare

"The devil wouldn't be attacking you so hard if there wasn't something valuable in you. Thieves don't break into empty houses." ~ Matthew McConaughey

“Be good. Do good. The devil wields no power over a good man.” ~ Harry Segall

“I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.” ~ Marilyn Monroe

“God is Love I dare say. But what a mischievous devil Love is.” ~ Samuel Butler

“There is no neutral ground in the universe. Every square inch, every split second is claimed by God, and counterclaimed by Satan.” ~ C. S. Lewis 

“Man creates both his god and his devil in his own image. His god is himself at his best, and his devil himself at his worst.” ~ Elbert Hubbard

“At sometime in our lives a devil dwells within us, causes heartbreaks, confusion and troubles, then dies.” ~ President Teddy Roosevelt

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

“We are our own devils. We drive ourselves out of our Edens.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasteth of it, is a devil.” ~ Thomas Fuller

“It was pride that changed angels into devils it is humility that makes men as angels.” ~ St. Augustine

"The biggest lie the devil tells you is... not now, you still have time.” ~ Anonymous

“Idle hands are the devil's workshop.” ~ Proverbs 16:27-29

“Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.” ~ St. Jerome

“The best way to drive out the devil, if he will not yield to texts of Scripture, is to jeer and flout him, for he cannot bear scorn.” ~ Martin Luther King Jr.

“We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Speak the truth and shame the devil.” ~ English Proverb

“Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.” ~ James 4:7

“I’ve got many, many demons that affect me on many, many levels. I don’t know if I’m a medium for some outside force or not. Frankly, what ever it is I hope it’s not what I think it is, Satan.” ~ Ozzy Osbourne

"All our ideas of the justice and goodness of God revolt at the impious cruelty of the Bible. It is not God, just and good, but a devil, under the name of God, that the Bible describes. The Old Testament is so full of contradictions and wickedness and could not be the Word of God and …we dishonor God by ascribing it to him.” ~ Thomas Paine