“Thus we see, that the mind can undergo many changes, and can pass sometimes to a state of greater perfection, sometimes to… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
All the inducements of early society tend to foster immediate action; all its penalties fall on the man who pauses; the traditional… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
Donald Trump's connection is personal. It's rooted in personal desire, personal loyalty for him to succeed. Barack Obama doesn't have that. Never… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“I had a ritual—and having any ritual sounded so mature that I told everyone about it, even the regulars. On my days… — Stephanie Danler Copy Share Image
God did not create the strife between races, nor did He intend for it to be that way. Strife between races and… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
'Everything beautiful occurs when the body / is suspended,' Helena Mesa quotes a performance artist who hangs his own pierced body in… — Mark Doty Copy Share Image
“Over thinking, over analyzing separates the body from the mind. Withering my intuition leaving all these opportunities behind. Feed my will to… — Tool Copy Share Image
God makes all chosen souls pass through a fearful time of poverty, misery, and nothingness. He desires to destroy in them gradually… — Jean-Pierre de Caussade Copy Share Image
“Love: We cultivate love when we allow our most vulnerable and powerful selves to be deeply seen and known, and when we… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
I believe that we learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live… — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
“how often do we forget that there is hope as well, and that we seldom think about hope? We are ready to… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
I have no desire to write historical anything or futuristic anything - I want to find a way to get at the… — Jonathan Dee Copy Share Image
“Anyhow, I had found something out about an unknown privation, and I realized how a general love or craving, before it is… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
We had no desire to live in Istanbul, nor in Paris or New York. Let them have their discos and dollars, their… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“What is this love that makes me see beauty, and makes every beautiful thing bring you back to me? What is this… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
At a time of despair, heart ache, and shattered dreams you found me...we found each other. Something brought us together that night...something… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It was this desire for a feeling of importance that led an uneducated, poverty-stricken grocery clerk to study some law books he… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
And what is Genius but finer love, a love impersonal, a love of the flower and perfection of things, and a desire… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In the books I read the sinners are always more interesting than the saints, and in real life good people are dismally… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Most people search for miracles, leaving no stone unturned, but never find them. Therefore, losing faith in God. But miracles are defined… — Melchor Lim Copy Share Image
It is not wrong to strive to be better than a fellow human being. Nor is it wrong to desire to be… — Christopher Jones Copy Share Image
Are not lifelong friendships born at the moment when at last you meet another human being who has some inkling (but faint… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Do the people of this land…desire to preserve those [liberties] protected by the First Amendment… If so, let them withstand all beginnings… — George Sutherland Copy Share Image
When mystics use the word love, they use it very carefully - in the deeply spiritual sense, where to love is to… — Eknath Easwaran Copy Share Image
We all have to lead our own life, and we only have the one life, and the only people who can live… — Javier Marías Copy Share Image
Pain or not, I would most likely walk around in a suicidal reverie the rest of my life, never actually doing anything… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
Moderation is caused by the fear of exciting the envy and contempt which those merit who are intoxicated with their good fortune;… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“If some lurking desires are still there, and the body is getting old and the body is not capable of fulfilling those… — Osho Copy Share Image
“Greed presents itself as the longing for both the material and the nonmaterial, especially wanting more than is needed. However, whatever you… — Judith Hanson Lasater Copy Share Image
When I seek him, root my values and desires in him, when I found my relationships and sense of self on him,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“My whole life I’d lived off the one wretched ambition that still possessed me: to be more than I was; to reject… — Mela Hartwig Copy Share Image
Reason cannot desire for man any condition other than that in which not only every individual enjoys the most absolute, unbounded freedom… — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
“Held tight as it seems to you in the finite, committed to the perpetual rhythmic changes, the unceasing flux of "natural" life—… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
“The desire to avoid rejection at all costs, to avoid confrontation and conflict, the desire to attempt to accept everything equally and… — Mark Manson Copy Share Image
Write down the area of your life that most needs your attention right now and then write out all the details you… — Debbie Ford Copy Share Image
“After having lived life for so many years, you would have learnt that nothing external can give you permanent joy, because it’s… — Sen Mani Copy Share Image
It is possible I never learned the names of birds in order to discover the bird of peace, the bird of paradise,… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Even the sober desire for progress is sustained by faith—faith in the intrinsic goodness of human nature and in the omnipotence of… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“I don’t want you going there without me, ever…do you understand what I am saying?” he asks me, searching my face, probably… — Amy A. Bartol Copy Share Image
I certainly can't complain. I work six days a week, if not seven, and eighteen hours out of twenty-four - fortunately, with… — Alber Elbaz Copy Share Image