Anything that we do to make ourselves feel worthy and safe is a flight from the pain of powerlessness. Every pursuit of… — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
Democracy rests upon two pillars: one, the principle that all men are equally entitled to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness;… — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
That is why we fly from the inner void, since God might steal into it. It is not the pursuit of pleasure… — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
I go on at least 2-3 auditions a week in the pursuit of more work. So I'm constantly working on material and… — Jake Busey Copy Share Image
The Statist veils his pursuits in moral indignation, intoning in high dudgeon the injustices and inequities of liberty and life itself, for… — Mark Levin Copy Share Image
I'm speaking of the pursuit of excellence in all things. All things! Presence of mind and devotion to craft. A great artist… — Scott Lynch Copy Share Image
It is not eminent talent that is required to ensure success in any pursuit, so much as purpose-not merely the power to… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
Whether you're shuffling a deck of cards or holding your breath, magic is pretty simple: It comes down to training, practice, and… — David Blaine Copy Share Image
What is defeat in life? It is not merely making a mistake; defeat means giving up on yourself in the midst of… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
The mass of our citizens may be divided into two classes -- the laboring and the learned. The laboring will need the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
There is another ground of hope that must not be omitted. Let men but think over their infinite expenditure of understanding, time,… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
History ... with its long, leisurely, gentlemanly labors, the books arriving by post, the cards to be kept and filed, the sections… — Elizabeth Hardwick Copy Share Image
I know of no pursuit in which more real and important services can be rendered to any country than by improving its… — George Washington Copy Share Image
America was founded on the principle of inalienable rights, not dictated duties. The Declaration of Independence states that every human being has… — Alex Epstein Copy Share Image
When the founders wrote about life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, they didn't mean longer vacations and more comfortable hammocks. They… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
There can be many opinions on a thing, but there is only one truth." Vashet smiled lazily. "And if the pursuit of… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Capitalism is the only system that can make freedom, individuality, and the pursuit of values possible in practice. When I say 'capitalism,'… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I want some one to sit beside after the day's pursuit and all its anguish, after its listening, its waitings, and its… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The sad fact is that if you love education, revere the life of the mind, care about the pursuit of truth, think… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
The wise man knoweth where to stop, as he runneth in the race of fortune, For experience of old hath taught him,… — Martin Farquhar Tupper Copy Share Image
Renaissance man, woman, either way it's a worthy pursuit! Like the painters of Emilia's day, I was raised in an environment that… — Mary Pope Osborne Copy Share Image
Life though, is full of compensations and I have been well blessed throughout my 'Life Journey' with good friends met and made… — John McLeod Copy Share Image
The pursuit of happiness is a great activity. One must be open and alive. It is the greatest feat man has to… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
There is no doubt that Saddam Hussein's regime is a serious danger, that he is a tyrant, and that his pursuit of… — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
It is important to value the individual, to have good health, a loving family and good relationships, to have community ties, leisure… — Helen Lynch Copy Share Image
But during all these years I had a vague but persistent desire to return to New Orleans. I never forgot New Orleans.… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Beauty - what is beauty, forsooth? Form and color; that is, surface only. Fortune - what is fortune? Nothing is ever a… — Richard Jefferies Copy Share Image
The excellence and inspiration of truth is in the pursuit, not in the mere having of it. The pursuit of all truth… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
I am deeply convince that the necessity of prayer, and to pray unceasingly, is not as much based on our desire for… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
That cotton trade was almost the deal breaker for me. It was at that point that I said, “Mr. Stupid, why risk… — Paul Tudor Jones Copy Share Image
Quick souls have their intensest life in the first anticipatory sketch of what may or will be, and the pursuit of their… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Now jamming - which is about collaborative improvisation - has to do with getting people together to be creative musically. But it… — John Kao Copy Share Image
If we are willing to act violently in pursuit of a peripheral interest, everyone can be certain that, when a vital interest… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
I think life is difficult and that's that. I am not at all - absolutely not at all - interested in the… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
In the desert you become a discoverer. You discover your soul, which had been submerged in vain pursuits, which had been lost… — Ameen Rihani Copy Share Image
When a homemaking aunt scolds a niece for following her evangelistic passion instead of domestic pursuits, her reply is interesting. First, she… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Surfing is one of the most joyful pursuits a human can take up. But there's no joy in a deadzone. If you've… — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
At the time I came along, Hollywood's idea of teen movies meant there had to be a lot of nudity, usually involving… — John Hughes Copy Share Image
I do not mean to mock or ridicule your life's work, for in one way at least it mimics my own: We… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
All organizations start with WHY, but only the great ones keep their WHY clear year after year. Those who forget WHY they… — Simon Sinek Copy Share Image
