The vanity of existence is revealed in the whole form existence assumes: in the infiniteness of time and space contrasted with the… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Because if you don't know someone all that well, you react to their surface qualities, the superficial stereotypes-they throw off like sparks.… — Dorothy West Copy Share Image
The person who can most easily take up natural agriculture is the one who doesn't have any of the common adult obstructing… — Masanobu Fukuoka Copy Share Image
I would like to tell all dancers to forget themselves and the desire for self display. They must become completely absorbed in… — Antony Tudor Copy Share Image
Giving up attachment to the world does not mean that you set yourself apart from it. Generating a desire for others to… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Just take one thing out and the whole palace, the whole edifice of the human mind collapses. Take effort out of it… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“The mind states of liking and disliking can take up permanent residency in us, unconsciously feeding addictive behaviors in all domains of… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
Especially for me, growing up in such a small town in the middle of nowhere, the desire to be away was incredible.… — Garrett Hedlund Copy Share Image
The real unforgivable acts are committed by calm men in beautiful green silk rooms, who deal death wholesale, by the shipload, without… — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
My desire as a Christian pastor is to see churches raised up as communities of grace ruled by Jesus and led by… — Mark Driscoll Copy Share Image
It is a mistake to imagine, that the violent passions only, such as ambition and love, can triumph over the rest. Idleness,… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
... if you desire to marry you must realize that a mistress is won by the good temper and grace displayed while… — Thoinot Arbeau Copy Share Image
“To be Kaspar Hauser is to long, at every moment of your dubious existence, with every fiber of your questionable being, not… — Steven Millhauser Copy Share Image
There are certain vulnerabilities and insecurities that go along with not being linked to another person in a contractual way, even if… — Jamie Johnson Copy Share Image
It is Jesus who stirs in you the desire to do something great with your lives, the will to follow an ideal,… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
In the sort of screen dappled with different states of mind which my consciousness would simultaneously unfold while I read, and which… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Aware of our deep failings, we pour contempt on our own hearts for wanting more. Oh, we long for intimacy and for… — Stasi Eldredge Copy Share Image
Man is, at one and the same time, a solitary being and a social being. As a solitary being, he attempts to… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The desire to kill is like the desire to attack another with a red hot iron. I have to pick up the… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
"Externality" is a different phenomenon from akrasia and doesn't always come with it. The set of desires and actions from which one… — Nomy Arpaly Copy Share Image
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, an poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
Each person must discover his own philosophy of life, and it is not fair or right to impose our codes upon others.… — Manly Hall Copy Share Image
“All of us are lonely at some point or another, no matter how many people surround us. And then, we meet someone… — Helene Wecker Copy Share Image
“Here is the topography of false starts. Here a whole constellation is lousy with desire. Here what passes for love is the… — Paul Guest Copy Share Image
“Just wish it. But remember, it will only work if it's what you most desire. Do it now. We're running out of… — Suzanne Selfors Copy Share Image
If, then, there is some end of the things we do, which we desire for its own sake (everything else being desired… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
No more Internet. No more social media, no more scrolling through litanies of dreams and nervous hopes and photographs of lunches, cries… — Emily St. John Mandel Copy Share Image
His desire to bless you goes infinitely beyond your own personal desire to secure His blessing. There is always peace in His… — Frances J Roberts Copy Share Image
My third maxim was to try always to conquer myself rather than fortune, and to change my desires rather than the order… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
The most desirable mode of education, is that which is careful that all the acquisitions of the pupil shall be preceded and… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
“Poem of the Song About Hope" I. Give me lilies, lilies, And roses too. But if you have no lilies Or roses… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Oscar Pistorius is on the cusp of a paradigm shift in which disability becomes ability, disadvantage becomes advantage. Yet we mustn't lose… — Oscar Pistorius Copy Share Image
Team learning is the Process of aligning and developing the capacity of a team to create the results its members desire. It… — Peter Senge Copy Share Image
Look at the political base of the Democratic Party: It is single mothers who run a household. Why? Because it's so tough… — Rick Santorum Copy Share Image
“Could we possibly be from the place we want to be? Were we from the place we died rather than the place… — Joe Coomer Copy Share Image
Blaming the imperialists nowadays is obviously absurd, as is blaming the Americans, who obviously don't have the slightest desire to control anything… — Bernard Lewis Copy Share Image
Sloth is the desire for ease, even at the expense of doing the known will of God. Whatever we do in life… — John Hardon Copy Share Image
“By nature independent, gay, even exuberant, seductively responsive and given to those spontaneous sallies that sparkle in the conversation of certain daughters… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
Proselytizing is more a passionate search for something not yet found than a desire to bestow upon the world something we already… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
I'd once been fascinated by his legend - all the stories I'd heard before I met him. Now I can feel that… — Marie Lu Copy Share Image
