“The educators pride of their profession opens the space to more giving that knows no limitation, and it is a demand that… — Maryam Abdullah Alnaymi Copy Share Image
“Today's anti-immigration debates lack essential perspective about the nature of migration, the character of the migrant and the imperatives that drive the… — Jeb Brugmann Copy Share Image
Beth could not reason upon or explain the faith that gave her courage and patience to give up life, and cheerfully wait… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
“It made me feel better. Mouse might not have been the smartest creature on earth, but he was steady, kind, loyal, and… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
Much of the world is focused on answers. This unfortunate. Situations change, the earth turns, and our needs fluctuate. Focusing on static… — John Fairclough Copy Share Image
People look at me as sort of a diplomat for Turkey, which by nature, I'm not; I don't want to be. It's… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
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Zen purposes to discipline the mind itself, to make it its own master, through an insight into its proper nature. This getting… — D.T. Suzuki Copy Share Image
There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge... observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
See how peaceful it is here. The sea is everything. An immense reservoir of nature where I roam at will… Think of… — Earl Felton Copy Share Image
“You either participate in life out of your compulsions or out of your consciousness. Consciousness means to be beyond compulsiveness. Compulsiveness means… — Sadhguru Copy Share Image
“The world was so unbearably pretty, and it continued being so all the way down the mountain to school. I felt slightly… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
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We try to exile ourselves more and more from nature - not always consciously: We build houses; we dismiss nature; nature has… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
“Many processes that seem to occur in nature randomly and without any order are, in fact, being governed by some visible or… — Yunus A. Cengel Copy Share Image
So, too, if, to our surprise, we should meet one of these morons whose remarks are so conspicuous a part of the… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
“I just know that, at that moment, I remember feeling like the world had turned itself inside out. It's the child who's… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“We contrast the urban and the natural, but that’s a contemporary myth. We’re animals, after all; our cities are organic products, fully… — Robert Charles Wilson Copy Share Image
One of the things I truly enjoy about my job is the dynamic nature of having a foot in each world -… — Kevin Reilly Copy Share Image
“Griff. I bet he's never met a gal like you before." "I should hope not," she replied glibly, but heat filled her… — Kady Cross Copy Share Image
“Presentiments are strange things! and so are sympathies; and so are signs; and the three combined make one mystery to which humanity… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“There was silence. Then as if to refresh the power of destruction, the wind rose and the waves rose and through the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“I do believe in hell as a state of being or consciousness, and I believe that people can dwell in hell and… — Carlton D. Pearson Copy Share Image
There must be bands of enthusiasts for everything on earth-fanatics who shared a vocabulary, a batch of technical skills and equipment, and,… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
“They drove farther north like that. In perfect loving antagonism. It occurred to Ted that maybe Marty was like all the red… — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
“A finely tempered nature longs to escape from his noisy cramped surroundings into the silence of the high mountains where the eye… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
“We have become used to obstructionist ideas. In the name of modernisation we are unconsciously hindering the natural flow of life. The… — Amitav Chowdhury Copy Share Image
We see that the environment is something to exploit, because we see the environment in terms of minerals for example, or forests,… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
“The truth of Self is our strongest energy on earth and has the ability to erase the past, the past that we… — Martha Char Love Copy Share Image
At first glance, the key and the lock it fits may seem very different," Sazed said. "Different in shape, different in function,… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
Temple mirrors of eternity remind us that each human being has "divine nature and destiny"; that "sacred ordinances and covenants available in… — Gerrit W. Gong Copy Share Image
“Through life, I want to walk gently. I want to treat all of life – the earth and its people – with… — Steve Goodier Copy Share Image
I guess it's human nature, as every group breaks into factions, yet at a time when we are trying to be taken… — Rick Tumlinson Copy Share Image
“—You see this apple? Sweet. Crisp. Ruby red. It wasn’t always like that, you know. The first apples in America were mottled… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
“If men were to colonize the moon or Mars—even with abundant supplies of oxygen, water, and food, as well as adequate protection… — Kurt Kaltreider Copy Share Image
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“When Life was Full In the age when life on earth was full, no one paid any special attention to worthy men,… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“Science is simply the classification of the common knowledge of the common people. It is bringing together the things we all know… — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
“I closed my eyes, overwhelmed with the wine, with her, with the impossibility of explaining it. “It's just—his last moments on earth,… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
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