If you spend five minutes complaining, you have just wasted five minutes. If you continue complaining, it won't be long before they… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
Christian literature makes reference to many episodes that parallel the experiences of those going a yogic way. Saint Anthony, one of the… — Willigis Jager Copy Share Image
To hike out alone in the desert; to sleep on the valley floor on a night with no moon, in the pitch… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
If we did not have the adorable Eucharist here below, Jesus our God-with-us, this earth would be much too sad, this life… — Peter Julian Eymard Copy Share Image
"Ideals are like stars," Carl Schurz wrote. "You will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like seafarers on the… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
I didn't grow up in the ocean -- as a matter of fact -- near the ocean -- I grew up in… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
We were taught to believe that the Great Spirit sees and hears everything, and that he never forgets, that hereafter he will… — Chief Joseph Copy Share Image
I would drive through the desert, and there's this one spot in the desert that, every time I drove through it, I… — Tim Rutili Copy Share Image
“It was as if there were no names here, as if there were no words. The desert cleansed everything in its wind,… — Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio Copy Share Image
Irony is the disparity between what you expect will happen, and what does happen. So raining on your wedding day isn't ironic,… — Mo Rocca Copy Share Image
You liked me." I smiled. "You were smitten with me. You were speechless to behold my beauty. You had never met anyone… — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
A great man is a gift, in some measure a revelation of God. A great man, living for high ends, is the… — George Stillman Hillard Copy Share Image
When I'm standing in the middle of the salt flats, where you swear that the pupils of your eyes have turned white… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
Again, men tell us that our preaching should be positive and not negative, that we can preach the truth without attacking error.… — John Gresham Machen Copy Share Image
The test of a round character is whether it is capable of surprising in a convincing way. If it never surprises it… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
If this practice [of totalitarianism] is compared with […] [the desert] of tyranny, it seems as if a way had been found… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Men have looked upon the desert as barren land, the free holding of whoever chose; but in fact each hill and valley… — T. E. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“Even so long after sunset, the sky in the west was touched with feather-strokes of crimson and black. The wind was blowing… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
In the desert I saw a creature, naked, bestial, Who, squatting upon the ground, Held his heart in his hands, And ate… — Stephen Crane Copy Share Image
There is supercomputer somewhere in the Nevada desert whose sole function is to count the number of times that I have said… — David Rakoff Copy Share Image
The entity that gives life and motion to the human body is finer still and lies infinitely beyond the reach of our… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
“I am convinced now that the desert has no heart, that it presents a riddle which has no answer, and that the… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
I grew up with landscape as a recourse, with the possibility of exiting the horizontal realm of social relations for a vertical… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Apollo 11 was the movie premiere of moon landings, with Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin. Neil was a bit of a mystic,… — Lily Koppel Copy Share Image
I was born in northeastern China, where we have the privilege to see forests just out of the window. And I thought,… — Li Bingbing Copy Share Image
... ideals, standards, aspirations,--those are chameleon words, and take color from their speakers,--often false tints. A scholarly man of my acquaintance once… — Carolyn Wells Copy Share Image
From the world wars of Europe to the jungles of the Far East, from the deserts of the Middle East to the… — John Hoeven Copy Share Image
at last you, will say (maybe without speaking) (there are mountains inside your skull garden and chaos, ocean and hurricane; certain corners… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I'm perennially intrigued how people who lead largely evidence-based lives can, in a belief-based part of their mind, be certain that an… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
That which happens to the soil when it ceases to be cultivated by the social man happens to man himself when he… — Antoine Rivarol Copy Share Image
The fountain of my heart dried up within me,-- With nought that loved me, and with nought to love, I stood upon… — Charles Robert Maturin Copy Share Image
The most frightening pages of history are those which reveal how easily conditions making a desert of the human spirit may come… — Haniel Long Copy Share Image
When all the scaffolding is removed it is our integrity that both defines us and identifies us. Men of integrity are like… — Tad R. Callister Copy Share Image
“Alone In The Desert There's a secret If you find yourself wandering In the desert. Don't be afraid. You haven't lost your… — Nancy Gravely Copy Share Image
At present, [in the desert] an exasperating clarity reigns. The sky has become less visible than water in a jar. Black peaks,… — Mohammed Dib Copy Share Image
Historical memory is a potent weapon in fighting against the desert of organized forgetting and implies a rethinking of the role that… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Afghanistan's winters in the north are legendarily harsh, and southern Afghanistan, by contrast, is bleak desert. These difficulties are compounded by the… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
I don't like to go into subways, because I always see them [ mice]. They are like my naguales [kindred animal spirits].… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
Again and again I am brought up against it, and again and again I resist it: I don't want to believe it,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Space is space,life is life,everywhere is the same. But as for me, sustained by the toil of others, lacking civilized vices with… — J.M. Coetzee Copy Share Image