Roth Unbound is filled with intelligent readings and smart judgments. Because of the author's sympathy and sharp mind, it offers real insight… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
There’s a long pause. But it’s not a bad pause, because Mik is looking at me like I’m the treasure from the… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
“Mostly, though, he made people laugh, with wicked impersonations of everyone around him: clients, lawyers, clerks, even the cleaning woman. When Pickwick… — Simon Callow Copy Share Image
Grief allows you to let go of something you have lost only when you begin to accept what you now have in… — Daniel J. Siegel Copy Share Image
The single most important thread in working through your disappointments is that your heart and mind ponder and grasp what the cross… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
“He remembered Alejandra and the sadness he'd first seen in the slope of her shoulders which he'd presumed to understand and of… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
By replacing fear of the unknown with curiosity we open ourselves up to an infinite stream of possibility. We can let fear… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
I had a checklist in my mind of the things that make a biography practical. Is the source material centralized? Is it… — Terry Teachout Copy Share Image
The secret of meditation is the art of unlearning. Mind is learning; meditation is unlearning: that is - die constantly to your… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
In our own lives, having a mind-set of expecting to win increases our odds of winning. It helps us get better results.… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Then the sun broke above the crest of the hills and the entire countryside looked soaked in blood, the arroyos deep in… — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
The old freedom sufficiently survives in the mind of the wage earner to give him the illusion that, while accepting insurance and… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
Asana is a very important part of life. It keeps you healthy, strong, and energetic. And it enables you to discover and… — Rajmani Tigunait Copy Share Image
Most people don't know how to listen because the major part of their attention is taken up by thinking. They pay more… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The philosophic mind inclines always to an elaborate life--the life of Goethe or of Leonardo da Vinci; but the life of the… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“No: that fear had been inside him for many years, it had lived with him, it had been another shadow cast over… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“There was no meaning in life, and man by living served no end. It was immaterial whether he was born or not… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
If you can help other people understand those truths - and in my mind, the only way I know to do that… — James Collins Copy Share Image
I have been arrested time and time again, and my colleagues, too. I cannot guarantee that I'll not be arrested again. But… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
“He was sitting in the midst of a children's party at Harold's Cross. His silent watchful manner had grown upon him and… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
At first I had no skills in writing comedy. I didn't know what a joke was, but, as someone once told me,… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
When we turn away from the reality of what we do to animals for our gustatory pleasure, we play a game of… — Colleen Patrick-Goudreau Copy Share Image
“maybe he fought it off and forgot about it, and he wasn’t afraid, because he knew he’d never carry it out. Right,… — Stanisław Lem Copy Share Image
If you really want to find out something about immortality, you have to live in the mountain forests for 30 years. If… — Wang Yangming Copy Share Image
The human mind shows an urge to capture into fixed forms through unreal assumptions, that is, fictions, that which is chaotic, always… — Alfred Adler Copy Share Image
The Los Angeles Times reported that sixty-three percent of American families are now considered dysfunctional. Good. 'Cause that means when Armageddon really… — Christopher Titus Copy Share Image
And no one has the right to say that no water-babies exist, till they have seen no water-babies existing; which is quite… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
I opened up my mind as far as playing music. I was at a Cody Chesnutt concert a few years ago, and… — Gary Clark, Jr Copy Share Image
Honesty is the cornerstone of character. The honest man or woman seeks not merely to avoid criminal or illegal acts, but to… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
The power of understanding symbols, i.e. of regarding everything about a sense-datum as irrelevant except a certain form that it embodies, is… — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
That coarseness and strength combined with acuteness and inquisitiveness; that practical, inventive turn of mind, quick to find expedients; that masterful grasp… — Frederick Jackson Turner Copy Share Image
People's minds are polluted by these dark pictures of the future from Hollywood: "The Terminator," the Skynet, "The Matrix." It's world where… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
We talk a lot about Malcom X and Martin Luther King JR, but It's time to be like them, as strong as… — Tupac Shakur Copy Share Image
We want to know not how we should pray if we were perfect but how we should pray being as we now… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“When others seem to take advantage of you, do not retaliate by trying to take advantage of them. Use your power in… — Christian D. Larson Copy Share Image
Poetry is a sort of inspired mathematics, which gives us equations, not for abstract figures, triangles, squares, and the like, but for… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
Like the entomologist in search of colorful butterflies, my attention has chased in the gardens of the grey matter cells with delicate… — Santiago Ramon y Cajal Copy Share Image
“He felt lighter than he had in weeks, and he realized that the monster he had been running from wasn’t really a… — Lilli Jolgren Day Copy Share Image
We need open minds and open hearts when we wrestle with the past and ask questions of it, and the answers it… — Eamon Duffy Copy Share Image
You're burned into my mind forever. There is nothing, nothing in this world that will ever change that." And it was memories… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
