Freedom of the mind requires not only, or not even especially the absence of legal constraints but the presence of alternative thoughts. — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
Inner disarmament, external disarmament; these must go together, you see. Peace is not just mere absence of violence - genuine peace must… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
The clear and simple words of common usage are always better than those of erudition. The jargon of the philosophers not seldom… — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
For many Americans, including many who are employed, going to the doctor when they fall ill or become injured may not be… — Ben Nelson Copy Share Image
Absence extinguishes small passions and increases great ones, as the wind blows out a candle, and blows in a fire. — Francois La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it inflames the great.” — Roger de Bussy-Rabutin Copy Share Image
“they come different and the same with each it is different and the same with each the absence of love is different… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
As the presence of those we love is as a double life, so absence, in its anxious longing and sense of vacancy,… — Anna Brownell Jameson Copy Share Image
The House of Lords, architecturally, is a magnificent room, and the dignity, quiet, and repose of the scene made me unwillingly acknowledge… — M. E. W. Sherwood Copy Share Image
Freedom is but the possibility of a various and indefinite activity; while government, or the exercise of dominion, is a single, yet… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I really want some meaning. It used to be easy to toss it off. Now it's harder and harder. You have to… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
If we fail to nourish our souls, they wither, and without soul, life ceases to have meaning… The creative process shrivels in… — Marion Woodman Copy Share Image
Meditation is like light: when meditation comes, politics disappears. So you cannot be meditative and political. That is impossible: you are asking… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
In my experience, God rarely makes our fear disappear. Instead, He asks us to be strong and take courage. What is courage?… — Bruce Wilkinson Copy Share Image
When you find inner peace, neither the presence nor absence of any person, place or thing, condition, circumstance, or situation can be… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
Although I am an anarch, I am not anti-authoritarian. Quite the opposite: I need authority, although I do not believe in it.… — Ernst Junger Copy Share Image
Intelligence is an extremely subtle concept. It's a kind of understanding that flourishes if it's combined with a good memory, but exists… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
I am reminded that no matter how hard you try, you can never be more than twelve years old with your parents.… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
If there were even one spark of evidence from antiquity that Jesus even may have gotten married, then as a historian, I… — Paul L. Maier Copy Share Image
We shouldn't forget that in the case of Georgia, a problem was done away with that bothered [Vladimir] Putin personally - that… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
Tears may be considered as the natural and involuntary resource of the mind overcome by some sudden and violent emotion, before ithas… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Boredom has to be the most life sapping, mental disease you can be afflicted with.The most accurate definition of boredom I have… — Bob Proctor Copy Share Image
The nation as the horizon of an identity that you want to come into being as a fundamental absence of something that… — Mark McMorris Copy Share Image
No tongue is able to declare the greatness of the love that Jesus bears to every soul: and therefore this Spouse, when… — Peter of Alcantara Copy Share Image
The greatest danger we face is not any particular kind of thought. The greatest danger we face is absence of thought. — Henry Steele Commager Copy Share Image
Inventions that are not made, like babies that are not born, are rarely missed. In the absence of new developments, old ones… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
The friendship I have conceived will not be impaired by absence; but it may be no unpleasing circumstance to brighten the chain… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Courage is not the absence of fear and pain, but the affirmation of life despite fear and pain. — Earl A Grollman Copy Share Image
Missing you is flashes of our past and fantasies of our future with the hard irony of the absence of our present… — Shalini Copy Share Image
Fear can come across in absence of sharp corners, locked windows in hotel rooms, locks, passwords, security...fairytales (the type of storylines)...in fact… — Martin Lindstrom Copy Share Image
I believe the only reality is how we treat each other. The morality comes from the absence of any grander scheme, not… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
A way of describing performances that I admire is that there is an absence of careerism. It's a clumsy way of describing… — Bill Nighy Copy Share Image
The absence of significant development aid has only increased the importance of trade for Central America's future. — Óscar Arias Copy Share Image
Boredom is not a thing. It's not a feeling or a condition. It is the absence of feelings, things and conditions. — A. A. Gill Copy Share Image
How like a winter hath my absence been. From thee, the pleasure of the fleeting year! What freezings have I felt, what… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Days of absence, sad and dreary, Clothed in sorrow's dark array, - Days of absence, I am weary; She I love is… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Peace isn't the mere absence of violence; peace must come from inner peace. And inner peace comes from taking others’ interests into… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
'T is said that absence conquers love; But oh believe it not! I've tried, alas! its power to prove, But thou art… — Frederick William Thomas Copy Share Image
I am frightened by the imbalance, the constant striving to reach the largest possible audience for everything; by the absence of a… — Edward R. Murrow Copy Share Image
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