He who devoutly strives to attain wisdom and is on his guard against the invisible powers, should pray that both natural discrimination… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
The coalition did not act in Iraq because we had discovered dramatic new evidence of Iraq's pursuit. We acted because we saw… — Donald Rumsfeld Copy Share Image
The wise men of old have sent most of their morality down the stream of time in the light skiff of apothegm… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
It is not necessary to argue to those for whom I write that the two great needs of mankind, that all men… — Josiah Strong Copy Share Image
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Neither revolution nor reformation can ultimately change a society, rather you must tell a new powerful tale, one so persuasive that it… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
Every time a child is saved from the dark side of life, every time one of us makes the effort to make… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
“path is only a name for a place where you find yourself. Where you're going on it is only a story. Where… — John Crowley Copy Share Image
There have been a lot of things where communities haven't been portrayed in a positive light, and even when we were doing… — Percelle Ascott Copy Share Image
Out there people are working and arguing and laughing, living their beautiful, terrible lives, falling in love and having babies and being… — Kim Addonizio Copy Share Image
Awareness cannot be taught, and when it is present it has no context. All contexts are created by thought and are therefore… — Toni Packer Copy Share Image
He fell in love with Manhattan's skyline, like a first-time brothel guest falling for a seasoned professional. He mused over her reflections… — Arthur Phillips Copy Share Image
I saw Eternity the other night, Like a great ring of pure and endless light, All calm, as it was bright, And… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
I don't take time off. If you've been out of a house for six months and then you come back in and… — Jamal Crawford Copy Share Image
Beginning to think is beginning to be undermined. Society has but little connection with such beginnings. The worm is in man's heart.… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
And I can tell by the way you're searching For something you can't even name That you haven't been able to come… — Mary Chapin Carpenter Copy Share Image
Throughout history, independent minds have carried mankind forward. Whether they identified how to make fire or manufacture tools, develop rational philosophy or… — Andrew Bernstein Copy Share Image
Rise up nimbly and go on your strange journey to the ocean of meanings… Leave and don't look away from the sun… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Our families and our homes are the center of American life, Everything we do is to make those homes-and the lives in… — Martha Stewart Copy Share Image
The light dove, in free flight cutting through the air the resistance of which it feels, could get the idea that it… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“Cultivate a spirit of joy and praise. Not only will you light up your own heart, but the hearts of those around… — Loretta Livingstone Copy Share Image
I have a real aversion to machines. I write with a pen. Then I read it to someone who writes it onto… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Hip-hop has been the guiding light of my life as a musician and a music fan. It's the one common thread through… — James Vincent McMorrow Copy Share Image
The Revelation of the Báb may be likened to the sun, its station corresponding to the first sign of the Zodiac—the sign… — Shoghi Effendi Copy Share Image
How to unravel the knot of reality? Slowly and patiently. You cannot run away from it. You cannot run towards it. Yet… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
Catch a vista of maples in that long light and you see Autumn glowing through the leaves… The promise of gold and… — Hal Borland Copy Share Image
“When you get into the dark room You do not open the window and throw out the darkness You push the button… — Slobodan Boban Manic Copy Share Image
A girl who would fall in love so easily or want a man to love her so easily would probably get over… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The adept may reach one of those rare moments that spell illumination -- aware of the light of the consciousness that illumines… — Vilayat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
There were things out there in the world, things that vampires feared, and now those things were here. She was only seconds… — Rachel Caine Copy Share Image
Ah! from the soul itself must issue forth A light, a glory, a fair luminous cloud Enveloping the Earth And from the… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Most architects say: I want to use this type of glass, even if it's too reflective or doesn't let enough light in.… — Helmut Jahn Copy Share Image
Perhaps I could best describe my experience of doing mathematics in terms of entering a dark mansion. You go into the first… — Andrew Wiles Copy Share Image
A stray fact: insects are not drawn to candle flames, they are drawn to the light on the far side of the… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
I returned to the courtyard and saw that the sun had grown weaker. Beautiful and clear as it had been, the morning… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“Some wars are about bombing. For the people of the Baltics, this war was about believing. In 1991, after fifty years of… — Ruta Sepetys Copy Share Image
All too often people come to meditation in the hope of extraordinary results, like visions, lights, or some supernatural miracle. When no… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
If one accepts Hezbollah's self-description as a resistance movement, in which case one must, in light of the fact that Hezbollah never… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
It looks like things are changing in north London. Tottenham have gone down a road they've never been down before. They've kept… — John Motson Copy Share Image
