The Dalai Lama, these days, encourages Westerners not to take up Buddhism, partly because he feels that our roots are deep in… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
Leave behind the passive dreaming of a rose-tinted future. The energy of happiness exists in living today with roots sunk firmly in… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
Hypocrisy, false labels, can create slogans but no poems; propaganda but not life: there are no roots, there are no realities to… — Pablo Antonio Cuadra Copy Share Image
“A wise person knows that he should not allow his roots to grow too deep in this world, for the deeper they… — Charbel Tadros Copy Share Image
I think the more you understand myths, the more you understand the roots of our culture and the more things will resonate.… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
As much as he's been through, he's so alive and open to change. That's what I wanted to channel and I feel… — Kofi Siriboe Copy Share Image
I'm always envious of the actors who get to come to work every day and really grow deep roots there, but it… — Jaime Ray Newman Copy Share Image
Had he learned nothing from all those years of teaching Hawthorne? Through story after story he'd led his boys to consider the… — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
Fantasy is a literature particularly useful for embodying and examining the real difference between good and evil. In an America where our… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
For the flowers are great blessings. For the Lord made a Nosegay in the meadow with his disciples and preached upon the… — Christopher Smart Copy Share Image
Stressing the practice of living purposefully as essential to fully realized self-esteem is not equivalent to measuring an individual's worth by his… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
When I was a younger man, art was a lonely thing. No galleries, no collectors, no critics, no money. Yet, it was… — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
The need is not really for more brains, the need is now for a gentler, a more tolerant people than those who… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
Most people would rather change their circumstances to improve their lives when instead they need to change themselves to improve their circumstances.… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
It seems that some consideration should be given to the cause of our mounting physical disabilities, but instead of going to the… — Lester Roloff Copy Share Image
I tell my kids and my grandkids, 'Never forget where you came from. Never forget your roots.' My grandkids, they didn't go… — Kay Robertson Copy Share Image
Any well-read man knows that the moral difference between the condition of the world before Christianity was planted and since Christianity took… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
To me, the whole thing with the roots of rap music was when the DJ had to supply all the music for… — Mike D Copy Share Image
I have always found it curious that Americans consider Roots' an American story. I first watched it growing up in Zimbabwe, and… — Rege-Jean Page Copy Share Image
The insight at the root of artificial intelligence was that these "bits" (manipulated by computers) could just as well stand as symbols… — Daniel Crevier Copy Share Image
The revolt of the poet is invariably conservative at its roots. … Not politically conservative, but imaginatively conservative, with a profound regard… — Cid Corman Copy Share Image
As we put into all our schools more humane education, and foster the spirit of justice and kindness toward the "lower" creatures,… — Miriam A. Ferguson Copy Share Image
A spiritual organization with a hierarchical structure can convey only the consciousness of estrangement, regardless of what teachings or deep inspirations are… — Starhawk Copy Share Image
Poetry and music I have banished, But the stupidity Of root, shoot, blossom or clay Makes no demand. I bend my body… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Each of us needs to eliminate our anger, fear and greed. The roots of social conflicts and political tensions are in personal… — Satish Kumar Copy Share Image
The notion of someone who is fitting in or trying to become part of a larger family... It's hard to separate that… — Marc Platt Copy Share Image
The force that through the green fuse drives the flower Drives my green age; that blasts the roots of trees Is my… — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
I've been chastised for going into mixed martial arts and backing out. But the reason I backed out was the terms -… — Kurt Angle Copy Share Image
Between shame and shamelessness lies the axis upon which we turn; meteorological conditions at both these poles are of the most extreme,… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
All the religions have deviated from its roots, and the main thing was that you must have your Realization, you must have… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
We plant our roots in trembling earth, we live where mountains rose and fell and prehistoric seas burned away in mist. We… — Robert R. McCammon Copy Share Image
Every act of disobedience committed due to passion, its forgiveness is hoped for. Every act of disobedience committed due to arrogance, its… — Sufyan al-Thawri Copy Share Image
Speaking of human computers, there is a guy named Art Benjamin, he's a human calculator. He says it's a skill he learned… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
The most consistent and ultimately damaging failure of political journalism in America (is that it) has its roots in the clubby/cocktail personal… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
I think the Lower East Side inspires me. That whole neighborhood, a lot of the people that I worked with, seeing what… — Luis Guzman Copy Share Image
It is only from the light which streams constantly from heaven that a tree can derive the energy to strike its roots… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
The fans in Canada have been there since day one. They're the originals. When people say that's your roots, that's literally my… — Russell Peters Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, I don't look as Latin as I am. I get called a white guy a lot, but I am very proud… — Ryan Guzman Copy Share Image
He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger... Men of… — Confucius Copy Share Image
When God gives a promise, He always tries our faith. Just as the roots of trees take firmer hold when they are… — Robert Murray M'Cheyne Copy Share Image
