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Religion became the evil of our society when it started to teach resentment and hate instead of unconditional love and wisdom. — Debasish Mridha

The fashionable Canadian drug habit, instead of cocaine, is to sniff real snow. — Eric Nicol

My life is just like Breaking Bad except instead of a chemistry teacher I'm just a guy and instead of making meth I don't do much. — Dana Gould

Consider a 15- or 20-year fixed-rate mortgage instead of a 30-year, if you can afford the monthly payments - they may not be as high as you think. — Suze Orman

We're on the eve of destruction. Men have lost all sense of honor. Power has become their faith instead of faith being their power. — Atiq Rahimi

Always do what you can do instead of worrying about what you can't. — Ron Kaufman

It's so important to always be yourself. If you do that, you will be successful as you, instead of worrying about trying to conform. — Leighton Meester

I don't actually take much stock in the collapsing culture bit. I'm beginning to see it instead as the conduct of life without input from your soul. — Saul Bellow

If you are unwell, don't ask to be healed, instead ask to be restored to that perfection from which you emanated. — Wayne Dyer

I tell ya, I could have got some more jobs if I'd tried, but I went to Sweden instead. — Lee Hazlewood

We shouldn't think about ourselves and how weak we are. Instead, we should think about God and how strong He is. — Billy Graham

Never be defeated by roadblocks life throws in your way. Instead, conquer them. You are much stronger than you give yourself credit for. — Blaque Diamond

Get the hell away from my boyfriend, witch.
Boyfriend.
Was that what I was?
I tried to smile. Instead, I blacked out. — Kami Garcia

Instead of bringing this diamond to our meeting the first time we met, he decided to come with a rhinestone. — Lucinda John

Don't let society put a mark on you, instead put your mark on society. — Jeanette Coron

In order to experience peace instead of conflict, it is necessary to shift our perception. — Gerald G. Jampolsky

Maybe that's why I write romance. I'm a dreamer at heart. If I can't have it in real life, I'll live it on paper instead. — Nicola Haken

People who don't have experience setting healthy boundaries, they have secrets instead. — Jill Soloway

We have changed our moral code to fit our behavior instead of changing our behavior to harmonize with God's moral code. — Billy Graham

Instead of bailing out Wall Street for the fourth time.. let's bail out the students. — Jill Stein

She wished now she'd brought that vibrator as a flashlight instead of leaving it on the couch. — Jill Shalvis

Oh, let us lose our milk teeth and cut instead the strong teeth of hate and love. — Catherine Of Siena

But Michael Jackson didn't have perfect diction - He said 'chamone' instead of 'come on'. — Will.i.am

Of course they danced together; how could Callum resist dancing with a real live woman instead of a cardboard cut-out? — Liane Moriarty

I try to find my way in the world you know, I try to be somebody instead of just, make money off of everybody — Tupac Shakur

Why waste your strength envying and hating instead of loving? — Lailah Gifty Akita

Facts are what pedantic, dull people have instead of opinions. — A.A. Gill

Instead, Emerson came to accept that when someone dies, things that belong to you disappear, too. — Noel Alumit

Sometimes, it is not you who finds good ideas when you are seeking them. Instead, good ideas find you in the most unexpected circumstances. — Alberto Cairo

Make sure you stay in touch with beauty instead of letting the ugliness of the world corrupt your soul — John Frusciante

Instead of sounding like a Beckett-style threat, Dr. Lavender's observation solidified something. Livia would live for love. Today will count. — Debra Anastasia

Stop looking for things that could go wrong instead of finding things that will go right." I — Amanda Bouchet

I was supposed to be Nancy Drew, and instead I was Nancy Draw-the-blinds-and-put-it-in-me. Wait, what? — R.S. Grey

True faith has no eyes, no ability to see. Instead, the Father left us with the most precious little grain - a tiny little thing - in a mustard seed. — Ursula Denise Walker

Why, if it had been--a smothering instead of a wedding, — Charles Dickens

I'm not lazy. I'm just really gifted, only instead of being good at music or math I'm good at sleeping late. — Elizabeth Jane Howard

I decided that instead of apologizing for having a lot to say, I wanted to create a format where people would come to hear me sing and speak. — India.Arie

The canary is like a man's soul. It sees bars around it, but instead of despairing, it sings. — Nikos Kazantzakis

Make your having dinner out become The Event of the Night, instead of just the beginning. — John Walters

I was going through the motions of life, instead of really living, and there's no excuse for that. It's not something I'll let happen to me again. — Charles De Lint

Instead of speaking of justice and injustice, freedom and oppression, classless society and class society, they talked in terms of God and the Devil. — Mario Vargas-Llosa

Creation is not restricted to the artist but instead is about how we bring ourselves authentically into the world both through our doing and being. — Tobin Hart

In interactions with others, instead of trying to be right, why don't we try being kind? — Wayne Dyer

Instead of sitting on the sidelines, President Obama has made it clear that the US is ready to lead a global effort to combat climate change. — Valerie Jarrett

Instead of looking for the success in your life, look for the thing that is going to bring you the greatest joy. — Oprah Winfrey

Imagine about anything instead of assume about it. — Savan Solanki

Faith actually moves no mountains, but instead raises them up where there were none before. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Healthier organizations are possible when you stop comparing them with machines and, instead, compare them with communities. — Jurgen Appelo

Instead of last man standing, it'll be last man smiling. — John Currin

I'd rather look back at my past and say, "I can't believe I did that!" instead of saying "I wish I did that. — Ziad K. Abdelnour

War has crossed out the day and replaced it with horror, and now horrors are unfolding instead of days. — Zlata Filipovic

They wanted Guy Middleton instead of Kenneth More, and even Kay Kendall wasn't their first choice! — Dinah Sheridan

Moms, let's pledge to build each other up instead of tearing each other down. — Lysa TerKeurst

Instead of trying different keys to open different doors, try only one key to open any door: The key of love! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Where can I find a man governed by reason instead of habits and urges? — Khalil Gibran

I definitely connected to the fact that life gets out of control and you end up doing things and wishing you were doing other things instead. — Adam Sandler

I hope the fans will take up meditation instead of drugs. — Ringo Starr

Seems like sometimes life gives you what you need instead of what you want, if you know what I mean — Karen McQuestion

Every genius thinks INWARDLY toward his Mind instead of outwardly toward his senses — Walter Russell

AI guess that's what happens when you have no Botox, make-up or fake tan. You have expressions instead. — Sophie Kinsella

Personal value is the kind of value we receive from being active instead of passive, creative instead of consumptive. — Clay Shirky

Impermanence is very important, crucial for life. That is why instead of complaining about impermanence you have to say "Long live impermanence!" — Nhat Hanh

a stranger holding his eldest daughter. Chase Cumberland said nothing more; instead, he just — Katharine Kincaid

She would have thought a woman would have died of shame. Instead of which, the shame died. — D.H. Lawrence

The difference between poetry and rhetoric
is being ready to kill
yourself
instead of your children. — Audre Lorde

Your words are teeth. And they eat me alive. Feed on my corpse instead. — Gail Giles

Instead of complaining about problems in your stomach, mind what goes into your stomach to cause the problems in your stomach. — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Often, instead of offering empathy, we have a strong urge to give advice or reassurance and to explain our own position or feeling. — Marshall B. Rosenberg

You will be tempted to think this ordeal marks you as weak. Instead, remember it as proof of your strength. — Cassandra Clare

What was it about high school that made people think with their insecurities instead of their brains? — Lisi Harrison

Apple wants to reach your heart instead of your wallet. — Carmine Gallo

It's a lot like the Wild West out here... just with tea shops instead of saloons. Wild West Sahara, that is. — T.K. Naliaka

The Mullahs and monks, they must worship you instead of empty rooms. — M.F. Moonzajer

Luck is not a magical ability or a gift from the gods. Instead, it is a way of thinking and behaving. — Richard Wiseman

Try to see what's in front of you instead of what's behind. — Jordan Silver

Poor, harmless paper, that might have gone to print a Shakespeare on, and was instead so clumsily defaced with nonsense. — Robert Louis Stevenson

Sometimes we make duaa for a door of dunya. When it doesn't open, we cry. Not realizing that Allah has instead opened a door of jennah for us. — Yasmin Mogahed

Instead of seeking success we should look for fulfillment. And fulfillment is giving total attention to the process of living. — Satish Kumar

Don't hang with negative people. They will pull you down with them. Instead, invite them into your light and together you will both shine strong. — L.F.Young

You have Obama that wants to play golf instead of deal with people. — Donald Trump

I'll just read a book instead... — Kate Nash

Too often we participate in the globalization of indifference. May we strive instead to live global solidarity. — Pope Francis

It is so easy to exist instead of live. — Anna Quindlen

The Thieves of Eddis don't have breaking points. We have flash points instead, like gunpowder. — Megan Whalen Turner

What are you going to do if it's the end of the world? You better go out having fun instead of stressing about it. — Kirsten Dunst

It is because people live in the things they possess instead of in their relationship to God that God seems at times to be cruel. — Grace Livingston Hill

I hope we can all agree that, instead of continuing to subsidize yesterday's energy sources. We need to invest in tomorrow's. — Barack Obama

To obtain an assured favorable response from people, it is better to offer them something for their stomachs instead of their brains. — Albert Einstein

My hunger serves me instead of a clock. — Jonathan Swift

I'm not sure exactly how...but instead of darkness I saw light. — Rachel E. Carter

Being an unhappy person does not mean you must be sad or dark. You can be interested instead of happy. You can be fascinated instead of happy. — Augusten Burroughs

Instead of thinking that's a nice tune, you start thinking is it the right pace, is it the right tempo? That is the death nell for artists. — Alison Moyet

On assessment: measure what you value instead of valuing only what you can measure. — Andy Hargreaves

Instead of going to Paris to attend lectures, go to the public library, and you won't come out for twenty years, if you really wish to learn. — Leo Tolstoy

Instead of worrying about taking, we should worry about giving. We can't stop the take. But we can do a hell of a lot about the give. — Kiera Cass

She was standing by the barometer, which, if it had had an ounce of sense in its head, would have been pointing to 'Stormy' instead of 'Set Fair — P.G. Wodehouse

Do not seek to have events happen as you want them to, but instead want them to happen as they do happen, and your life will go well. - EPICTETUS — Jonathan Haidt

Maybe I couldn't be dafter, But I keep wondering if this time we settle our differences before a war instead of after. — Ogden Nash

Uncle is gone, she wrote instead of all this. And somehow, in some way, I envy him. — Victoria Aveyard

[Instead] of inquiring why the Roman empire was destroyed, we should rather be surprised that it had subsisted so long. — Edward Gibbon