Life is hard and astonishingly complicated… No one great reform will make it easy. Most of us who work -- or want… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
One thing, however, is sure: unless Christians fulfill their prophetic role, unless they become the advocates and defenders of the truly poor,… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
Being a singer, being a performer, you have tricks, somehow, to calm yourself when things feel a little overwhelming. I don't do… — Shirley Manson Copy Share Image
My father taught me, in boxing, that when you - particularly when you get hit in the face for the first time… — Rudy Giuliani Copy Share Image
Because of watching your breath and thoughts you have come to know now that you are neither thoughts nor your breath, you… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I know that the right kind of leader for the Labour Party is a desiccated calculating machine who must not in any… — Aneurin Bevan Copy Share Image
Tell them you came, and saw, and looked into my eyes and saw the shadow of the guard receding. Thoughts in time… — Jim Morrison Copy Share Image
She was calm and quiet now with knowing what she had always known, what neither her parents nor Aunt Claire nor Frank… — Richard Yates Copy Share Image
The profound calm which only apparently precedes and prophesies of the storm, is perhaps more awful than the storm itself; for indeed,… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
I truly find such a sense of peace and calm when I'm working, and it's an inner peace that I've never been… — Dakota Fanning Copy Share Image
Bamboo is flexible, bending with the wind but never breaking, capable of adapting to any circumstance. It suggests resilience, meaning that we… — Ping Fu Copy Share Image
If I'm in LA, I'm close to home, and that just brings up all these other things, good and bad. There is… — Paul Beatty Copy Share Image
The way my family always did Christmas was on Christmas Eve, it wasn't really centered around a dinner on Christmas Eve. It… — Blake Shelton Copy Share Image
I have much respect for the people that I work with, and it's reciprocal. My shoots are always very calm. Everyone has… — Eugene Green Copy Share Image
It was the kind of terrified look that reminds you that no matter how rational or grown up a person might seem,… — Ann M. Martin Copy Share Image
Having reached a high level of realization (or having accomplished anything in life), don't get excited or puffed up with pride but… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Even when I took the drugs I realized that this just wasn't fun anymore. The drugs had become a part of my… — Cherie Currie Copy Share Image
I awoke from The Sickness at the age of forty-five, calm and sane, and in reasonably good health except for a weakened… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
The world is not looking for more doctrinal proof of the reality of God! It is not looking for greater proof of… — David Wilkerson Copy Share Image
One of my struggles is that I'm a glutton. There's always those very simple, long, old-ass things, but they're very real to… — Willis Earl Beal Copy Share Image
Anxiety is sort of the opposite of ego. You're so sure you'll do everything wrong you're afraid to do anything at all.… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
The calm and tolerant atmosphere that prevailed during the elections depicts the type of South Africa we can build. It set the… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
“O night, O sweetest time, though black of hue, with peace you force all the restless work to end; those who exalt… — Michelangelo Buonarroti Copy Share Image
My best advice for mental training is simply to create good habits, in order to build a sense of security and calm… — Alexander Gustafsson Copy Share Image
The wind has a language, I would I could learn! Sometimes 'tis soothing, and sometimes 'tis stern, Sometimes it comes like a… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
Take refuge in silence. You can be here or there or anywhere. Fixed in silence, established in the inner 'I', you can… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
“Contentedly sat the old woman. Soon now, the sea would hold no terrors, and the blinds wouldn't have to be down, nor… — A.E. van Vogt Copy Share Image
Religion is not a method, it is a life, a higher and supernatural life, mystical in its root and practical in its… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
Listening to the music while stretching her body close to its limit, she was able to attain a mysterious calm. She was… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
It is a beauteous evening, calm and free, The holy time is quiet as a nun Breathless with adoration; the broad sun… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Shall not this bygone Eden that we knew In our Eternal Life have shape and hue? For where Time is not shall… — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
We sit in calm, airy, silent rooms opening upon sunlit and embowered lawns, not a sound except of summer and of husbandry… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
To many, Indian thought, Indian manners; Indian customs, Indian philosophy, Indian literature are repulsive at the first sight; but let them persevere,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
And when night, guiding her bright train of stars, Throws o'er the sleeping world her gloomy veil, Lonely amidst the desert and… — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
“Our capacity for calm ultimately depends on our levels of expectation: if we suppose that most things normally turn out to be… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
I do not love you except because I love you; I go from loving to not loving you, From waiting to not… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
Prayer is the peace of our spirit, the stillness of our thoughts, the evenness of recollection, the seat of meditation, the rest… — Jeremy Taylor Copy Share Image
I was nervous starting off today. I was nervous because I felt like I was going to play good and shoot a… — Jay Haas Copy Share Image
Sit all together in meditation. Become peacefully calm and quiet, without motion, without stillness, without birth, without destruction, without coming or going,… — Huineng Copy Share Image
Anytime you're going to take your Marines into harm's way, they are looking for leadership that is calm, assertive, sure of themselves.… — Loretta Reynolds Copy Share Image