There are three ways of securing a society that shall be stable as regards population. The first is that of birth control,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The American system demands success, and in order to succeed we must first believe that we can. Yet our society, with its… — Michael Korda Copy Share Image
We have experienced the truth of this prophecy, for England has become the habitation of outsiders and the dominion of foreigners. Today,… — William of Malmesbury Copy Share Image
“The whole world is indeed trapped by misery. What is the misery about? Due to ignorance of one’s own Real Self (agnanta).… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
I did not realize that when money becomes a core value, then education drives towards utility or that the life of the… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
It is to labor, and to labor only, that man owes everything possessed of exchangeable value. Labor is the talisman that has… — John Ramsay McCulloch Copy Share Image
The Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. It is the most grievous sentence of the three, but it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To a child who dies, and to the parents of this child, will you speak, if religion consoles them, in praise of… — Andre Comte-Sponville Copy Share Image
There was no way to have a decent life and to be gay. So I was terrified that I was going to… — Cleve Jones Copy Share Image
A Prayer Refuse to fall down If you cannot refuse to fall down, refuse to stay down. If you cannot refuse to… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
It was all wrong, ugly, unhappy and coloured with cynicism, but nothing was tragic, there were no moments that could change anything… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
It is forever unspeakable that man must suffer so. But you learn to control yourself, to work efficiently. ... I used to… — Elliott Merrick Copy Share Image
Below an income of ... $60,000 a year, people are unhappy, and they get progressively unhappier the poorer they get. Above that,… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
So it can be for us as we allow the stirrings of hope to motivate us to action; and then as we… — David S. Baxter Copy Share Image
The imaginations excited by the view of an unknown and untravelled wilderness are not such as arise in the artificial solitude of… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
None could guess my confusion, my host of deluded illusions and elusive delusions! A mantle of marble hiding a crumbling core of… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
Why do we protect children from life? It's no wonder that we become afraid to live. We're not told what life really… — Leo Buscaglia Copy Share Image
A sage once said, ‘How shall I open my heart, oh friend? It is forbidden for me to speak. I am about… — Trevor Hall Copy Share Image
Every man should make his son or daughter learn some useful trade or profession, so that in these days of changing fortunes… — P. T. Barnum Copy Share Image
“We think that the point is to pass the test or overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don't really… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
To live in the memories, to live in the imagination, is to live in the non-existential. And when you are living in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Times of terror and the deepest misery may arrive, but if there is to be any happiness in this misery it can… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
It is difficult to estimate the misery inflicted upon thousands of persons, and the absolute pecuniary penalty imposed upon multitudes of intellectual… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
Anarchists know that a long period of education must precede any great fundamental change in society, hence they do not believe in… — Lucy Parsons Copy Share Image
After 9/11, new security measures not only added longer lines and earlier check-ins, but took away our privilege of carrying knitting needles… — Ann Hood Copy Share Image
Tax reduction has an almost irresistible appeal to the politician, and it is no doubt also gratifying to the citizen. It means… — John W. Gardner Copy Share Image
But now well democracy has shown us that what is evil are the grosses têtes, the big heads, all big heads are… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
“As long as there is thirst in you, water can quench it; but you can live a kind of life in which… — Osho 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
Gossiping has become the main form of communication in human society. It has become the way we feel close to each other,… — Miguel Angel Ruiz Copy Share Image
Hope is that tiny light that the gods have given us so that we can find our way through our darkest hours.… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
“The supernatural Christ of the New Testament, the god of orthodox Christianity, is dead. But priestcraft lives and conjures up the ghost… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Above the comforts of Base Camp, the expedition in fact became an almost Calvinistic undertaking. The ratio of misery to pleasure was… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
I love you, Meg. I want to marry you. I want to sleep with you every night, make love with you, have… — Susan Elizabeth Phillips Copy Share Image
Living In the Past Only Leads You To Misery. You Play With Those Who Truly Care, But You're Too Busy Caring For… — Laura Copy Share Image
It is sobering to recall that though the Japanese relocation program, carried through at such incalculable cost in misery and tragedy, was… — Henry Steele Commager Copy Share Image
The first thing is love: love deeply. If you have been with a person for a few years, in deep love, and… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Give me yourself, O my God, give yourself back to me. Lo, I love you, but if my love is too mean,… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
“They fuck you up, your mum and dad. They may not mean to, but they do. They fill you with the faults… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
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