It's true: Everyone needs a reason to stay alive -- someone who justifies your existence. Someone who loves you. Not beyond all… — Geraldine McCaughrean Copy Share Image
I agree completely that nothing is more important for transgender people than to have access to excellent health care in trans-affirmative environments,… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
One day, I went to a soba restaurant outside town, and while I was waiting for the zarusoba I opened an old… — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
What then, is correctness of speech but the maintenance of the practice of others, as established by the authority of ancient speakers?… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is impossible to live pure lives until we have pure hearts. Many people today are trying to put the cart before… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
The sense that in this universe we are treated as strangers, the longing to be acknowledged, to meet with some response, to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Why has mankind had such a craving to be imposed upon? Why this lust after imposing creeds, imposing deeds, imposing buildings, imposing… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Bring into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ. Take what I cannot give: my heart, body, thoughts, time, abilities, money,… — Elizabeth Prentiss Copy Share Image
Painting, art in general, enchants me. It is my life. What else matters? When you put all your soul into a work,… — Camille Pissarro Copy Share Image
It's a human desire to be scared. On some level, that's how we survived - that sense of fear and danger. Our… — Noah Hawley Copy Share Image
“But I have one want which I have never yet been able to satisfy; and the absence of the object of which… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“The point of a lot of advertising, as Mr. Wallace explained to us last year in American History & Politics, is to… — E.Lockhart Copy Share Image
Guileless and without vanity, we were still in love with ourselves then. We felt comfortable in our skins, enjoyed the news that… — Jim Morrison Copy Share Image
They are wrong who think that politics is like an ocean voyage or a military campaign, something to be done with some… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Plunge into the world, and then, after a time, when you have suffered and enjoyed all that is in it, will renunciation… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“It became such a recurring experience during this period when I was twenty -- to be starving and afraid of running out… — Gabrielle Hamilton Copy Share Image
So is man's heart. The desire to perform a work which will endure, which will survive him, is the origin of his… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
I am smiling at myself today There's no wish left in this heart Or perhaps there is no heart left Free from… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Each atom is trying to fly off from its centre. In the internal world, each thought is trying to go beyond control.… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I would never say no to continuing to explore the - somebody coined the phrase for me the other day, which I… — Julie Plec Copy Share Image
A girl must allow others to share the responsibility for care, thus enabling others to care for her. She must learn how… — Jeanne Elium Copy Share Image
“No, there’d been another time yet. In my sleep, when he came into my bedroom and lay on top of me, and… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“He closed the door behind us, and led me through to the back of the shop. ‘If you don’t mind, you can… — Fiona Thrust Copy Share Image
Whenever you permit yourself to think what persons, things, conditions, or circumstances may suggest, you are not following what you want to… — Christian D. Larson Copy Share Image
Trust yourself, your intuition, your desires and your pursuits. Don't question yourself too much. Place one foot ahead of the other and… — Barbara Hammer Copy Share Image
During those long years in Oakland public schools, I did not have one teacher who taught me anything relevant to my own… — Huey Newton Copy Share Image
I think human beings have an innate desire to help each other. And whether you're in medicine or anything else, if you… — Michael E. DeBakey Copy Share Image
All my desires are born of my dreams. And I have proven my love with words. To what fantastic creatures have I… — Paul Eluard Copy Share Image
Whatever is done without ostentation, and without the people being witnesses of it, is, in my opinion, most praiseworthy: not that the… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
We are angry about paying the highest income taxes and property taxes in the nation and getting less and less for it.… — Carl Paladino Copy Share Image
The ultimate Mystery of being, the ultimate Truth, is Love. This is the essential structure of reality. When Dante spoke of the… — Venerable Bede Copy Share Image
The concept that really gets the goat of the gay-hater, the idea that really spins their melon and sickens their stomachs is… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
We all enter the world little plastic beings, with so much natural force, perhaps, but for the rest--blank; and the world tells… — Olive Schreiner Copy Share Image
Here lies a she sun, and a he moon there; She gives the best light to his sphere; Or each is both,… — John Donne Copy Share Image
I am simultaneously and contradictorily both happy and unhappy: 'to succeed' or 'to fail' have for me only ephemeral, contingent meanings (this… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
“She had a great desire for knowledge, but she really preferred almost any source of information to the printed page; she had… — Henry James Copy Share Image
She couldn’t read his expression. As he started toward her, she recalled the way he’d seemed to glide through the sand the… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
“Those were the best days in the life of Tancredi and Angelica, lives later to be so variegated, so erring, against the… — Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa Copy Share Image
What is evil? Killing is evil, lying is evil, slandering is evil, abuse is evil, gossip is evil, envy is evil, hatred… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The people had come to witness a sensational case, to see celebrities, to get material for conversation, to be seen, to kill… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
