In 1911 the little town of Nakhla in Egypt was the scene of one of the most remarkable events in historym when… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
For those who want to understand the issues of the environmental crisis, Encounters with the Archdruid is a superb book. McPhee reveals… — Stewart Udall Copy Share Image
But it has been my experience that the risks are faroutweighed by the rewards, chief of which is when you speak to… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety, and the quiet mind. Spare to us… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Being able to live my life transparently does empower me to feel like I can be myself more. It's easier for me… — Neil Patrick Harris Copy Share Image
In the end, the only events of my life worth telling are those when the imperishable world erupted into this transitory one… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
I only ever really follow the music, that's what I'm about, I don't think about it too much. I just wanted to… — Max Richter Copy Share Image
At the breakfast table we are footnoting everything that we read. We don't recognise it as such but we encounter an article… — Mark Z. Danielewski Copy Share Image
Moses does not encounter the living God at the mall. He finds Him (or is found by Him) somewhere out in the… — John Eldredge Copy Share Image
While the impostor draws his identity from past achievements and the adulation of others, the true self claims identity in its belovedness.… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
It is this unquiet self-love that renders us so sensitive. The sick man, who sleeps ill, thinks the night long. We exaggerate,… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
I believe there are no random meetings in our lives – that everyone we touch, who touches us, has been put in… — Susanna Kearsley Copy Share Image
Yet even the rich have their own kind of suffering, anxiety, doubt, and fear. So in many cases, wealthy people aren't happy!… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
I know that the Bible is a special kind of book, but I find it as seductive as any other. If I… — Barbara Brown Taylor Copy Share Image
My heart is afraid that it will have to suffer, the boy told the alchemist one night as they looked up at… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Chess holds deep wisdoms of the people. It is truly an image of life, the reflection of human fate that has shown… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Our sadness won’t be of the searing kind but more like a blend of joy and melancholy: joy at the perfection we… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
If you walk along the street you will encounter a number of scientific problems. Of these, about 80 per cent are insoluble,… — Hermann Bondi Copy Share Image
Creativity gives new forms, new patterns, new ideas, new art forms. And we don't know where creativity comes from. Is it inspired… — Rupert Sheldrake Copy Share Image
The techniques of Aikido change constantly; every encounter is unique, and the appropriate response should emerge naturally. Today's techniques will be different… — Morihei Ueshiba Copy Share Image
Nothing of real worth can be obtained without courageous working. Man owes his growth chiefly to the active striving of the will,… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
There is a group of people who know very well where the weapons of automatic influence lie and employ them regularly and… — Robert Cialdini Copy Share Image
As we encounter new experiences with a mindful and wise attention, we discover that one of three things will happen to our… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
The price that has to be paid for finding truly personal life is a very high one. It is a price in… — Paul Tournier Copy Share Image
Wherever I go, and whoever I encounter, I will bring them a gift. The gift may be a compliment, a flower, or… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Each one of us could describe his or her life as a sacred journey. You are journeying from the beginning to the… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
We read off the many signals that our companions' clothes transmit to us in every social encounter. In this way, clothing is… — Desmond Morris Copy Share Image
Most important of all, to be successful in life demands that a man make a personal commitment to excellence and to victory,… — Vince Lombardi Copy Share Image
Without him (Jean-Christophe) I would never have understood the splendour of taking free andindependent action as an individual. Up until this stolen… — Sijie Dai Copy Share Image
An artist requires the upkeep of creative solitude. An artist requires the healing of time alone. Without this period of recharging, our… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
Greet everyone you meet with a warm smile. No matter how busy you are, don't rush encounters with coworkers, family, and friends.… — Sarah Ban Breathnach Copy Share Image
The liberating encounter with God/ess is always an encounter with our authentic selves resurrected from underneath the alienated self. It is not… — Rosemary Radford Ruether Copy Share Image
We encounter the grinding wheels that sharpen our mental blades many places in life. Adversity, school, parents, spiritual guides, books, experience are… — Rob Kall Copy Share Image
Psychotherapy is a cyclical process from isolation into relationship. It is cyclical because the patient, in terror of existential isolation, relates deeply… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
During the course of our life we now and then enjoy some pleasures so inviting, and have some encounters of so tender… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
It's a matter of ABC: When we encounter ADVERSITY, we react by thinking about it. Our thoughts rapidly congeal into BELIEFS. These… — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
Eventually, you will come to understand that love heals everything, and love is all there is. The journey may take many lifetimes,… — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
For if the modern mind is whimsical and discursive, the classical mind is narrow, unhesitating, relentless. It is not a quality of… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
Childhood is a complex dialectical process characterized by periodicity, unevenness in the development of different functions, metamorphosis or qualitative transformation of one… — Lev S. Vygotsky Copy Share Image
Your emotional reactions to the evil you encounter and your judgments of it show you what you need to change in yourself.… — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
