Never did I think so much, exist so much, be myself so much as in the journeys I have made alone and… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
The problem, of course, was that turning into a monster was the brighter of my two choices. Choice Number 1: I turn… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Without the name, any flower is still more or less a stranger to you. The name betrays its family, its relationship to… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
I suppose I could have sat back and pitied myself. For a time I wondered if I'd ever be able to go… — Patsy Cline Copy Share Image
Granny Weatherwax was often angry. She considered it one of her strong points. Genuine anger was one of the world's greatest creative… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Buddhas can take you to the boundary line of meditation and samadhi. That is the only difference between meditation and samadhi. If… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
A fantastic, gleeful, chrome-plated-slick debut of a novel. In Jonathan Chase, Markham has created the perfect cliche-shattering super spy while honoring the… — Greg Rucka Copy Share Image
Whenever I start a new book, I think, 'This is the most interesting subject of all time. It's sad, I'll never enjoy… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
When the contemplative mind is a French mind, it is content, for the most part, to contemplate France. When the contemplative mind… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
Seeing the play ( A Lie of the Mind ) clearly is part of why I wanted to direct it. I see… — Ethan Hawke Copy Share Image
The constancies and equivalences adumbrated work havoc with such settled topical blocks as myth and philosophy, natural reason and revelation, philosophy and… — Eric Voegelin Copy Share Image
I am in between. Trying to write to be understood by those who matter to me, yet also trying to push my… — Sergio Troncoso Copy Share Image
“If we can tame or restrain our addiction to the blinding overabundance of technical widgets, we can “tool down” our mental frame.… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
The subtlest change in New York is something people don't speak much about but that is in everyone's mind. The city, for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I never witness a performance of child-acrobats, or the exhibition of any forced talent, physical or mental, on the part of children,… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
I am like a security camera ever on the watch. The furtive quality of vision feels to me like an incredibly valuable… — Rosemary Mahoney Copy Share Image
Art establishes the basic human truths which must serve as the touchstones of our judgement. The artist... faithful to his personal vision… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
One of the rules that I always follow is that no matter how crazy characters may act, and no matter how absurd… — Glenn Howerton Copy Share Image
'm constantly depressed by the Mexican gang members I meet in East L.A. who essentially live their lives inside five or six… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
Sophisticated readers understand that writers work out their anger, their conflicts, their endless grief and rolling list of loss, through their stories.… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
So an ancient once said, "Accept the anxieties and difficulties of this life". Don't expect your practice to be clear of obstacles.… — Kyongho Copy Share Image
Our levels of desire, patience, persistence, and confidence end up playing a much larger role in success than sheer reasoning powers. Feel… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
Think, "I am beyond the body. This body is just a water bubble. I am beyond the mind. This mind is just… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
I would inquire of reasonable persons whether this principle: Matter is naturally wholly incapable of thought, and this other: I think, therefore… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
From my earliest acquaintance with the science of political economy, it has been evident to my mind that capital was the product… — Leland Stanford Copy Share Image
Ayurveda is the science of life and it has a very basic, simple kind of approach, which is that we are part… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
“He wanted to hide by shrinking past zero, through the dot at the end of himself, to a negative size, into an… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
Well, a funny thing, there are three that I like all for the same reason, golf, fishing, and shooting, and I do… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
“All this intelligent and careful work revealed a man of great forethought. Yet you could see in Mr. Wicks's eyes--as he stood… — Bill Buford Copy Share Image
I believe that mycelium is the neurological network of nature. Interlacing mosaics of mycelium infuse habitats with information-sharing membranes. These membranes are… — Paul Stamets Copy Share Image
If you have peace of mind, when you meet with problems and difficulties they won’t disturb your inner peace. You’ll be able… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
There exists, if I am not mistaken, an entire world which is the totality of mathematical truths, to which we have access… — Charles Hermite Copy Share Image
No matter how vast your knowledge or how modest, it is your own mind that has to acquire it. It is only… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The image of Stephen Hawking - who has died aged 76 - in his motorised wheelchair, with head contorted slightly to one… — Roger Penrose Copy Share Image
Analytical philosophy was very interesting. It always struck me as being very interesting and full of tremendous intellectual curiosities. It is wonderful… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
I like Jacques Derrida; I think he's funny. I like my philosophy with a few jokes and puns. I know that that… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
If you were to fault yourself in one of three areas, which would it be: (1) the inability to prioritize; (2) the… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
With all the hurts they've been through, they find a loving way and a way to put their mind on something greater.… — Charles Bradley Copy Share Image
Before one blames, one should always find out whether one cannot excuse. To discover little faults has been always the particularity of… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
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