Gratitude based on a faith that everything that happens or doesn’t happen in your life is for your own best interests. That… — William Holden Copy Share Image
The United States is no more a Christian nation because most of its citizens are Christians than it is a 'white' nation… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Psychology should be the chief basic science upon which the practices of education depend. It should have supplied education with the information… — J. P. Guilford Copy Share Image
Unless you're a true prodigy, you're going to have to practice for a while being bad before you get any good. And… — Brad Paisley Copy Share Image
Who am I?” “What is the purpose of my life?” These questions arise spontaneously throughout our lives, either unbidden or through conscious… — Ilchi Lee Copy Share Image
Many of life's decisions are hard. What kind of career should you pursue? Does your ailing mother need to be put in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sometimes people feel disappointed when they hear about practicing compassion: "You mean I have to be nice?" It's kind of a letdown.… — Sakyong Mipham Copy Share Image
Weak minds lead to weak actions. A strong, disciplined mind, which anyone can cultivate though daily practice, can achieve miracles. If you… — Robin Sharma Copy Share Image
Millions of people are joined in the knowledge that writing brings insight and calm in the same way that prayer, meditation, or… — Christina Baldwin Copy Share Image
Jesus’ example of fidelity to prayer challenges us to examine the time and effort we devote to our own prayer. While prayer… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Zen is really just a reminder to stay alive and to be awake. We tend to daydream all the time, speculating about… — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
As Elders we have great respect for all religions and traditions as important forces that bind people together. Faith and tradition provide… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
The physicist, in his study of natural phenomena, has two methods of making progress: (1) the method of experiment and observation, and… — Paul Dirac Copy Share Image
Some who have been perfectly healthy and able to bear children have avoided this responsibility, and in doing so have resorted to… — Mark E. Petersen Copy Share Image
It's just the overall lack of privacy. I've always been a very shy person and so it invades that a lot. It… — Austin Butler Copy Share Image
I never like to play for myself, and that is why I don't own a grand piano. To play for yourself is… — Hephzibah Menuhin Copy Share Image
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After a training camp workout, my body is eager to replace nutrients and energy that are lost during the workout. It's best… — Troy Polamalu Copy Share Image
I'm not sure that Liberation Theology has ever satisfactorily resolved the tensions between Marxism's 'social naturalism' (the claim that all beliefs have… — Mark Fisher Copy Share Image
Words in the mind are like colors on the palette of the artist. The more colors we have access to, the easier… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
Obstacles can arise from good as well as bad circumstances, but they should never deter or overpower you. Be like the earth,… — Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche Copy Share Image
For even if the whole world believed in resurrection, little would change until we began to practice it. We can believe in… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
Nearly every business collects metrics on inventory, sales, and workplace process. Health care has been slow to measure these kinds of outcomes.… — Thomas R. Insel Copy Share Image
The four Ways reflect a pervasive belief that life will be simple if we practice four basic principles: Show up or choose… — Angeles Arrien Copy Share Image
To be efficient with the football in practice and on the game field obviously is the most important thing, but be efficient… — Russell Wilson Copy Share Image
Meditation practice begins by sitting down and assuming your seat cross-legged on the ground. You begin to feel that by simply being… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
I'm very pessimistic about that, no matter how hard we may try. The Chinese market is huge, but out of last year's… — Jackie Chan Copy Share Image
Art on the contrary sought this harmony in practice [of art itself]. More and more in its creations it has given inwardness… — Piet Mondrian Copy Share Image
Go where you may, search where you will, roam through all of the monarchies and despotisms of the old world, travel through… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
There is no essential difference between sticking pins into a wax image of an enemy and burning candles in front of a… — Dion Fortune Copy Share Image
I define self-control, in the beginning of life, as the choice of achieving what I really want by doing things I really… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
There's a lot of people in the world who don't believe that people whose skin color may not be the same as… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
But let us emphasize that right and wrong, righteousness and sin, are not dependent upon man's interpretations, conventions and attitudes. Social acceptance… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
I take a real interest in the possibilities of teaching - including the practice of bringing creative writing, and serious reading, into… — Michael Cadnum Copy Share Image
I teach that the foundation for our practice is being able to go inward and disconnect from the busyness of our thoughts,… — James Fox Copy Share Image
The advent of the Internet exposed the fact that the old business model for newspapers was broken. The world wide web fundamentally… — Lionel Barber Copy Share Image
Reason is universal because no attempted challenge to its results can avoid appealing to reason in the end-by claiming, for example, that… — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
What does a lamp do? The lamp is like a horse that is running but stays put. But by virtue of being… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
All spiritual growth comes from reading and reflection. By reading we learn what we did not know; by reflection we retain what… — Isidore of Seville Copy Share Image
We need to develop and disseminate an entirely new paradigm and practice of collaboration that supersedes the traditional silos that have divided… — Simon Mainwaring Copy Share Image
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