If you are going to learn mathematics, you have to learn it not simply as an abstraction but as it is applied.… — Jean Houston Copy Share Image
Part of the power of song is that it is a beautiful expression of devotion...singing releases the pent-up joy and thanksgiving we… — Jack W. Hayford Copy Share Image
Is there not in every human soul a primitive spark, a divine element, incorruptible in this world and immortal in the next,… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Life is give and take, we open up our heart and hold onto your trust. We gift our love and are gifted… — Jasmina Siderovski Copy Share Image
“To be a saint or a man of too good a nature in today's pragmatic world, with everyone out to get the… — Shūsaku Endō Copy Share Image
Always give importance to good things done to you by people, if you think bad about them, it will hurt you just… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's the artist's duty to have an artist's life, somehow to obtain time and freedom and then to muster the desire and… — Stephanie Mills Copy Share Image
Suffering also has its worth. Through sorrow, pride is driven out And pity felt for those who wander in samsara; Evil is… — Shantideva Copy Share Image
Some people may complicate it for you, but the formula is simple: Love God more than anything else. More than your ego.… — Yasmin Mogahed Copy Share Image
It is when we attempt to avoid suffering by withdrawing from anything that might involve hurt, when we try to spare ourselves… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
This is what you do on your very first day in Paris. You get yourself, not a drizzle, but some honest-to-goodness rain,… — Audrey Hepburn Copy Share Image
God is the only comfort, He is also the supreme terror: the thing we most need and the thing we most want… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Progress in evil was quick and easy; Apollyon was not a chap who hid himself and he gave every assistance in his… — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
“The things that the world fills time with are enough to turn the heart to stone, but the goodness of time itself… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
Wouldn't it be incredible if everyone could be purged, somehow, of the projected not-them badness that they internalized and perhaps have acted… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
“O, weary angels, don’t look at me with those eyes. If that is your state then what of our cries? What can… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
Literature deserves its prestige for one reason above all others - because it's a tool to help us live and die with… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Through service to others, we develop a Christlike love and we experience joy. Service teaches patience and long-suffering as well as gentleness,… — Merrill J. Bateman Copy Share Image
The purpose of all the major religious traditions is not to construct big temples on the outside, but to create temples of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness! A beautiful woman utters absurdities: we listen, and we hear… — Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Good poetry does not exist merely for the sake of itself, but rather, is a byproduct of yearning and growth; great poetry… — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
Why is everyone here so happy except me?" "Because they have learned to see goodness and beauty everywhere," said the Master. "Why… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
In art them is a point of perfection, as of goodness or maturity in nature; he who is able to perceive it,… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Peace and harmony do not require perfection. Thank goodness for that—because life so often seems to be an itch here, a glitch… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“You see my point? The average person has a very average notion of goodness to which they aspire averagely. To aspire to… — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
In order to get the power and retain it, it is necessary to love power; but love of power is not connected… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
How thick the fog is. I can't see the road. All the people in the world could pass by and I would… — Eugene O'Neill Copy Share Image
A piece of simple goodness--a letter gushing from the heart; a beautiful unstudied vindication of the worth and untiring sweetness of human… — Douglas William Jerrold Copy Share Image
This is a moral universe, which means that despite all the evidence that seems to be to the contrary, there is no… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
The Scripture says that God blesses where men walk in unity, so we just thought it's good for us to come together… — Joel Osteen Copy Share Image
I am convinced that the majority of people to-day have good, generous feelings which they can never know, never experience, because of… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“God, of your goodness, give me yourself; you are enough for me, and anything less that I could ask for would not… — Julian of Norwich Copy Share Image
"I think the wonderment of seeing my two sons developing makes me incredibly optimistic about human potential. It makes you think: 'My… — David Miliband Copy Share Image
But when the Holy Spirit controls our lives, he will produce this kind of fruit in us: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness,… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
“It's good to see the snakes revealing themselves. They weren't actually hidden at all. People hide behind the masks, but eventually you… — Amaka Imani Nkosazana Copy Share Image
Simple, genuine goodness is the best capital to found the business of this life upon. It lasts when fame and money fail,… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Dear and most respected bookcase! I welcome your existence, which has for over one hundred years been devoted to the radiant ideals… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
The time is coming when all men will see that the gift of God to the soul is not a vaunting, overpowering,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Life is what we are alive to. It is not length, but breadth. To be alive only to appetite, pleasure, pride, money-making,… — Maltbie Davenport Babcock Copy Share Image
