Till society is very differently constituted, parents, I fear, will still insist on being obeyed because they will be obeyed, and constantly… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
Hurl yourself at goals above your head and bear the lacerations that come when you slip and make a fool of yourself.… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Humor and laughter are not necessarily the same thing. Humor permits us to see into life from a fresh and gracious perspective.… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
I'm very pessimistic about the future of the human species. We have been so indifferent to life on the whole that it… — W. S. Merwin Copy Share Image
The proverb says, "Born lucky, always lucky," and I am very superstitious. As a small boy I was notoriously lucky. It was… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
...one's movement towards the divine reaches its end only when one reaches God... 'The true Sabbaths are the rest laid up for… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
The only thing that helps me keep faith is to stay in the truth of love because when you love someone -… — Dolores Hart Copy Share Image
The idea, shared by many, that life is a vale of tears, is just as false as the idea shared by the… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Some who have been perfectly healthy and able to bear children have avoided this responsibility, and in doing so have resorted to… — Mark E. Petersen Copy Share Image
You see, with [designing]weapons, it is like a woman who bears children. For months she carries her baby and thinks about it.… — Mikhail Kalashnikov Copy Share Image
Man is a carnivorous production, And must have meals, at least one meal a day; He cannot live, like woodcocks, upon suction,… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Like an explorer returned from a distant planet or another dimension, Suki Kim has many extraordinary tales to tell, among them how… — Carlos Eire Copy Share Image
It behooves us always to bear in mind, that while actions are always to be judged by the immutable standard of right… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
I was twenty when I discovered war and photography. I can't say that I wanted to bear witness and change the world.… — Luc Delahaye Copy Share Image
What about your constitutional right to bear arms, you say. I would simply point out that you don’t have to exercise a… — Chelsea Handler Copy Share Image
If God wishes to be born as man and to unite mankind in the fellowship of the Holy Ghost, He suffers the… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
When I say or write something, there are actually a whole lot of different things I am communicating. The propositional content (i.e.,… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
After her came jolly June, arrayed All in green leaves, as he a player were; Yet in his time he wrought as… — Edmund Spenser Copy Share Image
When I write "paradise" I mean not only apple trees and golden women but also scorpions and tarantulas and flies, rattlesnakes and… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
I add my oath of protection to the bone,' he said in a whisper. 'To you now and to any child you… — Terry Goodkind Copy Share Image
Some knowledge is too heavy for children. When you are older and stronger, you can bear it. For now you must trust… — Corrie Ten Boom Copy Share Image
Care for us! True, indeed! They ne'er cared for us yet: suffer us to famish, and their storehouses crammed with grain; make… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Loyalty is dead, the experts proclaim, and the statistics seem to bear them out. On average, U.S. corporations now lose half their… — Fred Reichheld Copy Share Image
“Helmer: I would gladly work night and day for you. Nora- bear sorrow and want for your sake. But no man would… — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share Image
December stillness, teach me through your trees That loom along the west, one with the land, The veiled evangel of your mysteries.… — Siegfried Sassoon Copy Share Image
Perhaps we are born knowing the tales of our grandmothers and all their ancestral kin continually run in our blood repeating them… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
First the lover must learn charity and keep God's law. Then he shall be blessed a hundredfold, and he shall do great… — Hadewijch Copy Share Image
It is not a nature cure, a system of faith healing, or a physical culture, or a medical treatment, or a semi-occult… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
There are remuneration packages that will no longer be tolerated because they bear no relation to merit. That those who create jobs… — Nicolas Sarkozy Copy Share Image
Scandal, it bears repeating, undermines monarchies, but rarely ends them. It may be true that, according to a recent editorial in the… — David Cannadine Copy Share Image
I don't want to give a lecture to this body that's out there. You know, I mean, having had the heart attack,… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
When you take a tree that is rooted in the ground, and transfer it from one place to another, the tree will… — Abbas Kiarostami Copy Share Image
Developing a cheerful disposition can permit an atmosphere wherein one's spirit can be nurtured and encouraged to blossom and bear fruit. Being… — Barbara W. Winder Copy Share Image
The student should bear in mind that the very essence of consciousness is constantly to identify itself with the Not-Self, and as… — Arthur E. Powell Copy Share Image
Look here we shall die! Bear this in mind always & then the spirit within will wake up. Only then will meanness… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Most authors liken the struggle of writing to something mighty and macho, like wrestling a bear. Writing a book is nothing like… — Amy Poehler Copy Share Image
Your prayer must be for a healthy mind in a sound body. Ask for a brave soul that has no fear of… — Juvenal Copy Share Image
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Bear sorrows for the sake of the Heavenly Kingdom. Without sorrows there is no salvation. On the other hand, the Kingdom of… — Seraphim of Sarov Copy Share Image
It is not possible that we should remember that we existed before our body, for our can bear no trace of such… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image