“Don't neglect adverse situations. Sometimes, they carry the yolk of great differences. When you break them away, you waste the yolk!” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Although we have the potential to experience the freedom of a butterfly, we mysteriously prefer the small and fearful cocoon of ego. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Nature drives with a loose rein and vitality of any sort can blunder through many a predicament in which reason would despair. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Luckily, I haven't been offered any $300 million movies that I hate. So I'm not in that predicament just yet. — James Frecheville Copy Share Image
What it sees there isn't so much a face as the expression of a predicament. — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
Number one rule for fiction: Coincidence can be used to worsen a characters predicament, but never to solve his problems. — Vivian Vande Velde Copy Share Image
All central beliefs on human matters spring from a personal predicament. — Isaiah Berlin Copy Share Image
The cure for Apple is not cost-cutting. The cure for Apple is to innovate its way out of its current predicament. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I feel with loving compassion the problems of others without getting caught up emotionally in their predicaments that are offering them messages… — Ken Keyes Jr Copy Share Image
She looked at me as if for a moment she would seek someone who would understand the dreadful predicament of a woman,… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
We are in an unusual predicament as a global civilization. The maximum that is politically feasible, even the maximum that is politically… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
I would suggest is that in the latter 1990s it is extremely important to look at the predicament of black people within… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
Just as a small fire is extinguished by the storm whereas a large fire is enhanced by it - likewise a weak… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
So the poet, who wants to be something that he cannot be, and is a failure in plain life, makes up fictitious… — Allen Tate Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think all my pictures are just pictures of me. My concern is...the human predicament; only what I consider the human… — Richard Avedon Copy Share Image
When we stop to count our blessings rather than focusing on our predicament, our attitude will be able to help us cope… — Kevin Eikenberry Copy Share Image
If one benefits tangibly from the exploitation of others who are weak, is one morally implicated in their predicament? Or are basic… — William Greider Copy Share Image
I saw one of my primary tasks was to do what I could to restore confidence, to ensure that people knew and… — Peter Cosgrove Copy Share Image
They're caught where there's no way out or where you can't see out. What are you going to do about it? I… — Ric Ocasek Copy Share Image
How sad it was, Carmen thought, that you acted awful when you were desperately sad and hurt and wanted to be loved.… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
Among other things I think humor is a shield, a weapon, a survival kit. So here we are several billion of us,… — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
Now when I hear about someone's illness, no matter what dire their predicament seems to be, I know that if they're willing… — Louise Hay Copy Share Image
It is better for you to take responsibility for your life as it is, instead of blaming others, or circumstances, for your… — Dan Millman Copy Share Image
“You have fallen into a fit of despondency, and there is not the least need! In fact, nothing could be more fatal,… — Georgette Heyer Copy Share Image
Under the discipline of unity, knowledge and morality come together. No longer can we have that paltry 'objective' knowledge so prized by… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Watch how your mind judges. Judgment comes, in part, out of your own fear. You judge other people because you're not comfortable… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
“At that point, Frank seemed to run out of words. There was somebody that he'd reminded me of, as he was spinning… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Nothing helps us build our perspective more than developing compassion for others. Compassion is a sympathetic feeling. It involves the willingness to… — Richard Carlson Copy Share Image
And at this moment in history, our core value happens to be the raw, aching truth of the human predicament. It may… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
If, as I believe, the ends of men are many, and not all of them are in principle compatible with each other,… — Isaiah Berlin Copy Share Image
When things go wrong in our life and we encounter difficult situations, we tend to regard the situation itself as our problem,… — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Copy Share Image
Chess, which exists predominantly in two dimensions, is one of the world's most difficult games. Three-dimensional chess is an invitation to insanity.… — Robert Grudin Copy Share Image
We ought to really at least recognize the common predicament of Communists and democrats - or Americans, whatever. — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
