It is time enough, for the rightful purposes of civil government, for its officers to interfere [in the propagation of religious teachings]… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
If you feel stuck in your present life, if you feel no enthusiasm for anything, if you think you have no purpose… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
“. . . in no instance has a system in regard to religion been ever established, but for the purpose, as well… — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
How can a man find a sensible way to live? One way and one only- Philosophy. And my philosophy means keeping that… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
The pharisees minded what God spoke, but not what He intended. They were busy in the outward work of the hand, but… — Jeremy Taylor Copy Share Image
The good of the people must be the great purpose of government. By the laws of nature and of reason, the governors… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
I am called to live in such a perfect relationship with God that my life produces a yearning for God in the… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
She forgot to be shy at the moment, in honestly warning him away from the sunken wreck he had a dream of… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Now individual consciousness, as typified in human beings, has great advantages and great disadvantages. Individuality means a narrowing, and narrowness can be… — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
I believe that it is made out of the same cloth of mind, but it is an add-on, it was something that… — Antonio Damasio Copy Share Image
And in addition to its practical uses, it would seem to work for cosmetic purposes. This powder would make my very skin… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
If a person forges ahead in the light and yet has lost his care for the others, the purpose of the light… — Johan Oscar Smith Copy Share Image
Putin never wanted all of Ukraine. He wanted for historical purposes to take Crimea. He did. Then he wanted a part of… — Marvin Kalb Copy Share Image
“Isn’t this the whole meaning of life in this world: To choose between bondage to the material world and believing that your… — Tzvi Freeman Copy Share Image
Eisenhower's career demonstrated how it is possible to fool all the people all the time...'I may be stupid,' he once said at… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
The purpose of life is joy! When you're in joy, you attract the highest and best in every area of your life.… — Rhonda Byrne Copy Share Image
I love crystals, the beauty of their forms and formation; liquids, dormant, distilling, sloshing! The fumes, the odors good or bad, the… — Robert Burns Woodward Copy Share Image
I will not leave you, I cannot leave you, for you are My creation and My product, My daughter and My son,… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
Real entrepreneurs have what I call the three Ps (and, trust me, none of them stands for 'permission'). Real entrepreneurs have a… — Michael Dell Copy Share Image
Typically, defenders of experiments on animals do not deny that animals suffer. They cannot deny the animals' suffering, because they need to… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
The United States, and other advanced nations, will someday be able to produce instruments of death so terrible the world will be… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
Any historian of the literature of the modern age will take virtually for granted the adversary intention, the actually subversive intention, that… — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
When we resent someone in some way we need to "be on the alert" that even innocent gestures on their part can… — Cindy Wright Copy Share Image
I've always been a very sensitive person, and people tell me that if I'm in a certain mood, and I go into… — Rooney Mara Copy Share Image
I think the most important thing is to leave people inspired to do something, to realize their purpose in life. I want… — Rapsody Copy Share Image
The most effectual means of preventing the perversion of power into tyranny are to illuminate, as far as practicable, the minds of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Healthy things grow, and growing things change. If we allow fear or doubt or shame or insecurity to hold us back from… — Christine Caine Copy Share Image
Each moment of your life is a brush stroke in the painting of your growing career. There are the bold, sweeping strokes… — Wilferd Peterson Copy Share Image
Civilization is the mastery of violence, the triumph, constantly challenged, over the aggressive nature of the primate. For primates we have been… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
A society that puts equality — in the sense of equality of outcome — ahead of freedom will end up with neither… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
There is a difference between a fighter and a martial artist. A fighter is training for a purpose: He has a fight.… — Georges St-Pierre Copy Share Image
Genius, when employed in works whose tendency it is to demoralize and to degrade us, should be contemplated with abhorrence rather than… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
It's not an accident that musicians become musicians and engineers become engineers: it's what they're born to do. If you can tune… — Jack Canfield Copy Share Image
“He says, “We are visitors on this planet. We are here for ninety or one hundred years at the very most. During… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
When asked to make the formal declaration that I did not intend to overthrow the Constitution of the United States, I was… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
There is no inconsistency in God's commanding us not to take upon ourselves what belongs to Him alone. For to execute vengeance… — Anselm of Canterbury Copy Share Image
Somebody puts up some weird thing and somebody else thinks yeah maybe that's the way things work and pretty soon you have… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Becoming baseball analyst was really important for me to not just be one of the first, but to literally break open the… — Jessica Mendoza Copy Share Image
“Honoring Christ, magnifying Christ, making much of Christ. That was the meaning of Paul’s life. It should be the meaning of ours.… — John Piper Copy Share Image
Mastery lies not merely in stilling the mind, but in directing it towards whatever point we desire, in allowing it to be… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image