“In how many families do you hear the legend that all the goodness and graces of the living are nothing to the… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
Such is the grasping tendency of the human heart, that it must have a something to lay hold of—and which, if wrested… — Thomas Chalmers Copy Share Image
Certainly the effort to remain unchanged, young, when the body gives so impressive a signal of change as the menopause, is gallant;… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“The recent explosions, from India to the United States, of ressentiment against writers and journalists as well as politicians, technocrats, businessmen and… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
“The heart is a peculiar thing. It sees and interprets details long before the brain has started to think there might be… — Anne Elisabeth Stengl Copy Share Image
“The heart always wins out over the mind. The heart, although reckless and suicidal and a masochist all on its own, always… — J.A. Redmerski Copy Share Image
It was only when I lay there on the rotting prison straw that I sensed within myself the first stirrings of good.… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Be generous in prosperity and thankful in adversity, Be fair in thy judgment, and guarded in thy speech. Be a lamp unto… — Bahá'u'lláh Copy Share Image
Nothing but real love--(how rare it is; has one human heart in a million ever known it?) nothing but real love can… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
“He showed, in a few words, that it is not sufficient to throw together a few incidents that are to be met… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
In Red Flags, Juris Jurjevics has brilliantly accomplished a feat that is becoming a major characteristic of 21st century literature: the seamless… — Robert Olen Butler Copy Share Image
How can we accept a situation in which there are no longer orchestras, choruses, libraries or art classes to nourish our children?… — Barbra Streisand Copy Share Image
There is a deeper truth expressed in the unity of the United States. Implicate in the union of our country is the… — Dennis Kucinich Copy Share Image
Relaxing with something as familiar as loneliness is good discipline for realizing the profundity of the unresolved moments of our lives. We… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
“I always knew that deep down in every human heart, there is mercy and generosity. No one is born hating another person… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
“The Church knows fully that its message is in harmony with the most secret desires of the human heart, when it champions… — Andrew Davison Copy Share Image
Whether sixty or sixteen, there is in every human being's heart the lure of wonder, the unfailing child-like appetite of what's next,… — Samuel Ullman Copy Share Image
“Russian writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn also grappled with this tendency, but he came to the conclusion that “the line separating good and evil… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Look at your heart! It tells the story of why you were made. It is not perfect in shape and contour, like… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“All this fantastic effort—giant machines, road networks, strip mines, conveyor belt, pipelines, slurry lines, loading towers, railway and electric train, hundred-million-dollar coal-burning… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“Why did I laugh tonight? No voice will tell No God, no demon of severe response Deigns to reply from heaven or… — John Keats Copy Share Image
I have a profound dislike for showing off one's material wealth. This is insensitive and it is not what human hearts are… — Zhang Xin Copy Share Image
“To talk about arson is to talk about buildings burning down. To talk about the term 'pyromania' is really to talk about… — Monica Hesse Copy Share Image
Put forth thy leaf, thou lofty plane, East wind and frost are safely gone; With zephyr mild and balmy rain The summer… — Arthur Hugh Clough Copy Share Image
“that is the thing about selfish people. they gamble entire beings. entire souls to please their own. one second they are holding… — Rupi Kaur Copy Share Image
“Although only three legs would obey him, the white wolf began to run. Run, to outpace the agony that could rip and… — Dani Harper Copy Share Image
“It is true that the genius of assembled men or of peoples is quite different from a man's character in private, and… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“...that’s where love is revealed: in abandoning the outcome, casting the self aside, inviting the consequences that will come. Even if the… — Jenna Brooks Copy Share Image
“The days elude them, but they are the ones who witness the sorrows of the night. The wretched, gloomy nights. How they… — Sanchit Gupta Copy Share Image
Though I am young, and cannot tell Either what Death or Love is well, Yet I have heard they both bear darts,… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
“I Hear the sledges with the bells - Silver bells! What a world of merriment their melody foretells! How they tinkle, tinkle,… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“Love is ordinary, love is dull, love is the natural condition of the human heart, love is the message we carry branded… — Andrew Nicoll Copy Share Image
“The human heart is fragile. So delicate that it should be protected, taken care of. Nurtured and swaddled among piles of blankets… — Lauren Hammond Copy Share Image
“I read novels with the utmost pertinaity. I look upon them - I look upon good novels - as a very valuable… — Patrick O'Brian Copy Share Image
“The studio was immense and gloomy, the sole light within it proceeding from a stove, around which the three were seated. Although… — James Hain Friswell Copy Share Image
The great benefit of science is that it can contribute tremendously to the alleviation of suffering at the physical level, but it… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
If a mind is just a few pounds of blood, urea, and electricity, how does it manage to contemplate itself, worry about… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
“Luther's opponent in the Peasants' War, Thomas Muntzer is deeply rooted in mystic tradition . . . Muntzer calls the first step… — Dorothee Soelle Copy Share Image
It is my fundamental conviction that compassion - the natural capacity of the human heart to feel concern for and connection with… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“However, she wouldn't be the first person to mistrust her nearest and dearest yet confide in the first stranger who comes along:… — Honoré de Balzac Copy Share Image
