When asked what attribute he most admired in human nature, Mahatma Gandhi replied, simply and immediately, 'Courage'. 'Nonviolence', he said, 'is not… — Richard Attenborough Copy Share Image
Today the manliest man would be ashamed to look into the eyes of the woman by his side and tell her that… — Mary C. Ames Copy Share Image
“We do not build the kingdom of God on earth by our own efforts (however assisted by grace); the most we can… — Hans Urs von Balthasar Copy Share Image
The effort to improve the conditions of man, however, is not a task for the few. It is the task of all… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
We should render thanks to God for having produced this temporal light, which is the smile of heaven and joy of the… — Nicolas Caussin Copy Share Image
Human domination over nature is quite simply an illusion, a passing dream by a naive species. It is an illusion that has… — Donald Worster Copy Share Image
If dead things love, if earth and water distinguish friends from enemies, I should like to possess their love. I should like… — Selma Lagerlöf Copy Share Image
That's one thing I loved about coming up when we came up. When you had groups like Mandrill and Earth, Wind &… — Philip Bailey Copy Share Image
“As we age, we become more aware of the rarity and exquisiteness of beauty, and come to admire the flowers blooming amongst… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“In the great meteor shower of August, the Perseid, I wail all day for the shooting stars I miss. They’re out there… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
The natural formation of the country is the soldier's best ally; but a power of estimating the adversary, of controlling the forces… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
The final goal of physical education is to make strong beings. In the purely physical sense, the Natural Method promotes the qualities… — Georges Hebert Copy Share Image
Once I went professionally to an archaeological expedition-and I learnt something there. In the course of an excavation, when something comes up… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“As the childhood leaves a deep mark in a person’s life, there is a strong influence of childhood in choosing the favourite… — Md. Ziaul Haque Copy Share Image
Kindly politeness is the slow fruit of advanced reflection; it is a sort of humanity and kindliness applied to small acts and… — Hippolyte Taine Copy Share Image
We all remain who we are. But on the way to healing or liberation we have to do what the Romans called… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“I no longer seek those things that help me to heal but for those things that fortify me with the strength required… — L.M. Browning Copy Share Image
If you look at life with any honesty and intelligence, it's clear that human nature is dark, vile, selfish, and despondent. But… — Scott Derrickson Copy Share Image
Christ is building His kingdom with earth's broken things. Men want only the strong, the successful, the victorious, the unbroken, in building… — J.R. Miller Copy Share Image
“But supposing God became a man - suppose our human nature which can suffer and die was amalgamated with God's nature in… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“As he stood outside the armory looking up, Jon felt almost as overwhelmed as he had that day on the kingsroad, when… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
Happiness is your real nature. You identify with yourself with the body and mind, feel it's limitations, and suffer. Realize your true… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
“The ripe, the golden month has come again, and in Virginia the chinkapins are falling. Frost sharps the middle music of the… — Thomas Wolfe Copy Share Image
Discard everything except these few truths: we can live only in the present moment, in this brief now; all the rest of… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“To begin with, philosophy by its nature is an evolving discipline, enriched by the plurality of perspectives that different times and cultures… — James W. Heisig Copy Share Image
To go fishing is the chance to wash one's soul with pure air, with the rush of the brook, or with the… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
In nature, all is useful, all is beautiful. It is therefore beautiful, because it is alive, moving, reproductive; it is thereforeuseful, because… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Knowing is a veneer out minds create and lay over the landscape like a painter's drop cloth set upon a forest floor.… — Greg Kramer Copy Share Image
Just under the surface I shall be, all together at first, then separate and drift, through all the earth and perhaps in… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
As the days of spring arouse all nature to a green and growing vitality, so when hope enters the soul it makes… — James Freeman Clarke Copy Share Image
One name holds weight above them all his fame outlast the earth he formed his praise resounds beyond the stars and echoes… — Brian Houston Copy Share Image
The heat is searing and superb. The paddocks surrounding the town are bleached blond. The distant ring-barked gums, mile after mile, wriggle… — Hal Porter Copy Share Image
“I want to hold on tight to everything and everyone I cherished and, at the same time, saw in a way I… — Katrina Kenison Copy Share Image
“The creation continues incessantly through the media of man. But man does not create...he discovers. Those who look for the laws of… — Antoni Gaudí Copy Share Image
In the summer of 1791, I gave up my concern in the 'New Annual Register,' the historical part of which I had… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
Humanity is looking for a new story. The one it has embraced since the Renaissance is no longer viable. Despite all of… — Edmund Bourne Copy Share Image
The beauty of the internal nature cannot be so far concealed by its accidental vesture, but that the spirit of its form… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
All it means is that, while our minds may have trouble communicating, our bodies don't have any problem at all." "I don't… — Susan Elizabeth Phillips Copy Share Image
“A hermitage in the forest is the refuge of the narrow-minded misanthrope; a hammock on the ocean is the asylum for the… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“Polyface Farm is built on the efficiencies that come from mimicking relationships found in nature and layering one farm enterprise over another… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
