“There is really no natural limit to the practice of loving kindness in meditation or in one’s life. It is an ongoing,… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
Upbeat is for people who want to feel good about their cause: the reformers, the progressives, the revolutionaries, the utopians, the collectivists,… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“These were vile discoveries; but except for the treachery of concealment, I should have made them no subject of reproach to my… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“The really human thing is to see the stars above the roof, to preserve our apprehension of the universality of things in… — Josef Pieper Copy Share Image
Merciful and everliving God, Creator of heaven and earth, the crucified body of your Son was laid in the tomb and rested… — Andy Kinsey Copy Share Image
“Look, without our stories, without the true nature and reality of who we are as People of Color, nothing about fanboy or… — Junot Díaz Copy Share Image
The glory of the farmer is that, in the division of labors, it is his part to create. All trade rests at… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There are a number of companies in the area who do artificial foliage very well-- but I'd compare it to when you… — Shane Pliska Copy Share Image
The thrill of tramping alone and unafraid through a wilderness of lakes, creeks, alpine meadows, and glaciers is not known to many.… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
“[The] insistence on the absolutely indiscriminate nature of compassion within the Kingdom is the dominant perspective of almost all of Jesus' teaching.… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
The fact that guys adjusted really quickly to the big leagues, developed really quickly, faced adversity under the brightest spotlights, played great… — Theo Epstein Copy Share Image
Where did the concept of "without borders" come from? No one had that concept until you saw Earth from space, illustrated not… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The last spectacle of which Christian men are likely to grow tired is a harbour. Centuries hence there may be jumping-off places… — Robert Wilson Lynd Copy Share Image
What you say of the pride of giving life to an immortal soul is very fine dear, but I own I cannot… — Queen Victoria Copy Share Image
The German landscape is something unique that we cannot disturb and have no right to destroy. The more densely populated our 'living… — Fritz Todt Copy Share Image
She was a logical child, as far as children go. She did not understand how such a nice, kind, good God as… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“What is the nature of REALITY At the END, which is also the BEGINNING, the SEEKER in SELF DISVOVERY finds there's only… — Fakeer Ishavardas Copy Share Image
“There is a contradiction in wanting to be perfectly secure in a universe whose very nature is momentariness and fluidity. But the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sometimes its better for you not to know, but now that I told you, its best that you know why. You are… — Shivamraycha Copy Share Image
The only master that exists, the only one that's true and believable is your own conscience. To find it you have to… — Susanna Tamaro Copy Share Image
There is no theory that would guide us through interplantary space to another world even if we could control our departure from… — Forest Ray Moulton Copy Share Image
“If a supernatural being is to be exempt from natural law, it cannot possess specific, determinate characteristics. These attributes would impose limits… — George H. Smith Copy Share Image
“At present we are on the outside… the wrong side of the door. We discern the freshness and purity of morning, but… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Eventually scientists will discover something that explains ghosts, just like they discovered electricity, which explained lightning, and it might be something about… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
“Who were these people? Where was all this joy, and where does joy go when it leaves your family? Does it go… — Crystal Chan Copy Share Image
“Certain parasites in nature exert the kind of control that makes a host act contrary to its own interests. One protozoan, Toxoplasma… — Sam Quinones Copy Share Image
The most common and most important result of them is that the nature and size of the effect on corresponding series of… — Johannes Stark Copy Share Image
“Among the so-called neurotics of our day there are a good many who in other ages would not have been neurotic-that is,… — C.G. Jung Copy Share Image
Women have in their natures something akin to owls and fireflies. While men grow stupid and sleepy towards evening, they become brighter… — Abba Louisa Goold Woolson Copy Share Image
“So weak, so little left, time running out. I will be robbed of my old age. I try not to feel bitter… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Once in his life a man ought to concentrate his mind upon the remembered earth. He ought to give himself up to… — N. Scott Momaday Copy Share Image
When the last red man shall have perished from the earth and his memory among the white men shall have become a… — Chief Seattle Copy Share Image
“The human population is too large, and the earth too small, to sustain us in the ways our ancestors lived. Most of… — Nina Fedoroff Copy Share Image
“One last mystery: on one of the little ponds, this morning, I saw wind riffling the first of the waterlily leaves. They… — Mark Doty Copy Share Image
Growing up in Hawaii, my natural instinct was to think that I was going to become a professional surfer or skater. Moving… — Evan Mock Copy Share Image
The notion that we would condition Iran not getting nuclear weapons in a verifiable deal on Iran recognizing Israel is really akin… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
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“Glasgow is maybe the most bullshit-free place on earth. I think I call it "the antidote to the rest of the world."… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
The inquiry into Nature having thus been pursued nearly two thousand years theologically, we find by the middle of the sixteenth century… — Andrew Dickson White Copy Share Image
“My father,' I replied, 'I am fond of action. I like to succour the afflicted, and make people happy. Command that there… — William Beckford Copy Share Image