“I have never returned to the mortal realms. Those who make frequent trips do so at great personal sacrifice.” I looked at… — Kiersten White Copy Share Image
“A favorite pastime of soldiers on long mounted patrols was testing each other with impossible hypotheticals. They were an endearing yet vulgar… — Mike MacLeod Copy Share Image
It's fitting, then, that we begin this exploration of ourselves and of the world with music, and more specifically with a musical… — George Leonard Copy Share Image
“Every age, every culture, every custom and tradition has its own character, its own weakness and its own strength, its beauties and… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“A human being becomes human not through the casual convergence of certain biological conditions, but through an act of will and love… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“She would have wished for the suffering of Africa to be relieved, to be legislated out of existence, but it seemed that… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“Indeed, the prevalence of abortion among Protestant women (versus mostly immigrant Catholics) is widely considered by historians to be one of the… — Jonathan Dudley Copy Share Image
“Society has become well versed in the methods necessary to weaken the radicalism of the Gospel by reducing Christianity to what is… — Matthew T Eggemeier Copy Share Image
“Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
As the Deity has given us Greeks all other blessings in moderation, so our moderation gives us a kind of wisdom which… — Solon Copy Share Image
“Sin is misery, because it’s the perversion of our natures away from God. Sin deforms human life, which always leads to suffering.… — John Webster Copy Share Image
Time will prolong time, and life will serve life. In this field that is both limited and bulging with possibilities, everything to… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Men have no right to complain that they are naturally feeble and short-lived, or that it is chance and not merit that… — Sallust Copy Share Image
The inviolability of the person which is a reflection of the absolute inviolability of God, finds its primary and fundamental expression in… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
“Hobbes took the madness of his age, considered it “normal,” and projected it back into prehistoric epochs of which he knew next… — Christopher Ryan Copy Share Image
“This is a dynamic and mysterious universe and human life is, no doubt, conditioned by imponderables of which we are only dimly… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
“But I want to extol not the sweetness nor the placidity of the dog, but the wilderness out of which he cannot… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
“The question of the purpose of human life has been raised countless times; it has never yet received a satisfactory answer and… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
A theory of personal resurrection or reincarnation of the individual is untenable when we but pause to consider the magnitude of the… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
The characters in my novels are my own unrealized possibilities. That is why I am equally fond of them all and equally… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Whenever I think about ancient cultures nostalgia seizes me. Perhaps this is nothing but envy of the sweet slowness of the history… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“I believe that man must learn to live without those consolations called religious, which is own intelligence must by now have told… — Peter De Vries Copy Share Image
Compassion is an emotion of which we ought never to be ashamed. Graceful, particularly in youth, is the tear of sympathy, and… — Hugh Blair Copy Share Image
“A charmed life is so rare that for every one such life there are millions of wretched lives. Some know that their… — David Benatar Copy Share Image
“Shin-shin-toitsu-do includes a wide variety of stretching exercises, breathing methods, forms of seated meditation and moving meditation, massage-like healing arts, techniques of… — H.E. Davey Copy Share Image
“Every age, every culture, every custom and tradition has its own character, its own weakness and its own strength, it beauties and… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“When human beings give their heartfelt allegiance to and worship that which is not God, they progressively cease to reflect the image… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
As a Christian and a feminist, the most important message I can carry and fight for is the sacredness of each human… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Come on," Alec said, already stomping down the ramp. "Let's find us a squirrel." He swept the weapon back and forth as… — James Dashner Copy Share Image
