These new technologies are not yet inevitable. But if they blossom fully into being, freedom may irrevocably perish. This is a fight… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
I realized after being married for some time that it wasn't enough. It wasn't enough to lead an individual life where I… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Myths, legends and stories are the signposts previous generations have left us so we don't have to figure out our own personal… — Fred Van Lente Copy Share Image
In New Orleans the funerals remind us that Life is bigger than any individual life, and it will roll on, and for… — Tom Piazza Copy Share Image
No experience in this world has ever been cathartic without the willing participation of the individual. Life does not automatically bestow wisdom… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
World peace comes about when each individual lives in a peaceful setting. Likewise, when each individual lives in a peaceful setting, it… — Masahisa Goi Copy Share Image
The Christian tradition was passed on to me as a great rich mixture, a bouillabaisse of human imagination and wonder brewed from… — Mary Catherine Bateson Copy Share Image
“What do you mean by sound government?' Good public order, no corruption in high places, freedom from fear and war and crime,… — P.D. James Copy Share Image
“Families are wonderful institution," he said. "I value mine more than I can possibly say. But each of us has an individual… — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
[Man] ... his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and his beliefs are but the outcome of accidental collocations… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
When the stories of our life no longer bind us, we discover within them something greater. We discover that within the very… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
There is great freedom in simplicity of living, and after I began to feel this, I found harmony in my life between… — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
The idea to use backpacks came from my visit to Sichuan after the earthquake in May 2008. During the earthquake many schools… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
Undeniably, character does count for our citizens, out communities, and our Nation, and this week we celebrate the importance of character in… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
“We must each adopt as much responsibility as possible for individual life, society and the world. We must each tell the truth… — Jordan B. Peterson Copy Share Image
If a man speculates on what 'society' should do for the poor, he accepts thereby the collectivist premise that men's lives belong… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“True service is possible only when the self-conscious individual loses his egoistic sense of 'actorship' by merging his self-interest in the common… — Swami Ramdas Copy Share Image
“It’s as though not even that most basic level of imaginative thought had been admitted into consciousness to cause the slightest disturbance.… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
We are living in a renaissance of personal writing. People are rebalancing the impersonalization endemic to modern society with an increase in… — Christina Baldwin Copy Share Image
“Scientist Freeman Dyson attempted to clarify this for us when he came up with the concept of temporal diversity. As he came… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
“That Man is the product of causes which had no prevision of the end they were achieving; that his origin, his growth,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“I would not have put it this way in those days, but because I was born a woman, I could never become… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
“There are two sides to the life of every man, his individual life, which is the more free the more abstract its… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Individual humans are not super, but the organism of which we are all tiny cellular parts is most certainly that. The life-form… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
Natalie Bakopoulos has that rare gift, the ability to imagine a traumatic historical event in the form of individual lives and ordinary… — Elizabeth Kostova Copy Share Image
Progress is not automatic, it depends on what we do every day. So any statement of ownership of our own bodies, however… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
The ideal is the only absolute real; and it must become the real in the individual life as well, however impossible they… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“He said that the workings of God can be discerned only in retrospect and that he is always skeptical of people who… — Amy Andrews and Jessica Mesman Griffith Copy Share Image
The histories which we have of the great tragedy give no idea of the general wretchedness, the squalid misery, which entered into… — Rebecca Harding Davis Copy Share Image
I think that most of the action in religion is around the home, is in families, and is in individual lives, and… — Bruce Feiler Copy Share Image
While new rights are attributed to or indeed almost presumed by the individual, life is not always protected as the primary value… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“Each person leaves a legacy -- a single, small piece of herself, which makes richer each individual life and the collective life… — John Nichols Copy Share Image
Man's abiding happiness is not in getting anything but in giving himself up to what is greater than himself, to ideas which… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
The individual's life is of importance to none besides himself: the point is whether he wishes to escape from history or give… — Oswald Spengler Copy Share Image
That this individual life of all of us is not something limited in its temporal expression to the life that now we… — Josiah Royce Copy Share Image
“Love is about cooperation, sharing and inclusion. It is about the elevation of each individual to a life neither suppressed nor exploited,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For mankind as a whole, a possession infinitely more valuable than individual life is our genetic heritage, our link with past and… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
If there is a stage at which an individual life becomes truly adult, it must be when one grasps the irony in… — Barry Lopez Copy Share Image
The way of Zen is to become independent and strong. Don't rely on others for perceptions of life and truth. Do it… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I am dubious as to how far we can move toward global community-which is the only way to achieve international peace-until we… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image