“Certain vocations, e.g., raising children, offer a perfect setting for living a contemplative life. They provide a desert for reflection, a real… — Ronald Rolheiser Copy Share Image
Mothers, are you so busy with social life, [with projects], with clubs, with working out of the home, or with housework, that… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
“You’ve seen for yourself that when a sad person enters a room, the mood in the room drops. And when you talk… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
“No front porches. My uncle says there used to be front porches. And people sat there sometimes at night, talking when they… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
That man is formed for social life is an observation which, upon our first inquiry, presents itself immediately to our view, and… — Joseph Warren Copy Share Image
Human contacts have been so highly valued in the past only because reading was not a common accomplishment… The world, you must… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Conceive a world-society developed materially far beyond the wildest dreams of America. Unlimited power, derived partly from the artificial disintegration of atoms,… — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share Image
You could make a good case that the history of social life is about the history of the technology of memory. That… — Eben Moglen Copy Share Image
For what is meant by saying that a government ought to educate the people? Why should they be educated? What is the… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
“A man’s status in both business and social life depends mainly upon what he has done to develop his brain. As a… — Herbert N Cassion Copy Share Image
“It seems as if historicist ideas easily become prominent in times of great social change. They appeared when Greek tribal life broke… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
“You cannot blame a dull dating life on a lack of attractive singles if you are too afraid to get involved. If… — Rob Eagar Copy Share Image
“the biggest problem with youth culture was not the immorality of its content but rather the sort of persons it tended to… — Thomas Bergler Copy Share Image
Each man is contained and constrained, on entering social life, to fit his own life in, just as he fits his words… — Alain Finkielkraut Copy Share Image
As the antagonism between those who possess, and those who do not, is becoming more acute day after day, we can already… — African Spir Copy Share Image
In the intercourse of social life, it is by little acts of watchful kindness recurring daily and hourly,--and opportunities of doing kindnesses… — George Augustus Henry Sala Copy Share Image
“Concentrate on sharpening your memory and peeling your sensibility. Cut every page you write by at least one third. Stop constructing those… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
The relationships of our present social life are so numerous and so interwoven that a child placed in the most favorable position… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
My social life goes in bursts, where I get like, "Oh, I gotta get out and do something, man, I gotta do… — Jim Carrey Copy Share Image
The focus of all life is its economy, the mode through which every living creature produces its material existence. I know no… — Moses Hess Copy Share Image
At one time in the mid-'70s I became the president of the Boston-Cambridge chapter of the World Future Society. Because I'd been… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
“But if there be a country which cannot stand any one of these tests, — a country where knowledge cannot be diffused… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“His unrivaled genius as an ideological novelist was this capacity to invent actions and situations in which ideas dominate behavior without the… — Joseph Frank Copy Share Image
The current period of regression is registering some success in "producing people" who are subordinated to external power, diverted to such "superficial… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Humans and other animals experience love and fear, and form deep emotional bonds with cherished companions. We mourn when a close friend… — Gene Baur Copy Share Image
Man demands truth and fulfills this demand in moral intercourse with other men; this is the basis of all social life. One… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Our categories are important. We cannot organize a social life, a political movement, or our individual identities and desires without them. The… — Gayle Rubin Copy Share Image
“Happiness and relationships One of the strongest predictors (and not only correlates!) of happiness is social relationships. In fact, to be happy… — Ilona Boniwell Copy Share Image
“The late 1920s were an age of islands, real and metaphorical. They were an age when Americans by thousands and tens of… — Malcolm Cowley Copy Share Image
“Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character. We extend… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
“Once we know how observant a person is in terms of church attendance, nothing that we can discover about the content of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It was a busy morning, approximately 8:30AM, when an elderly gentleman in his 80's, arrived to have stitches removed from his thumb.… — Pooja Copy Share Image
After experience had taught me that all the usual surroundings of social life are vain and futile; seeing that none of the… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
“You’ve begun to master several techniques for controlling your anxiety. You’re learning the finer points of interaction and studying ways to apply… — Jonathan Berent Copy Share Image
In college, I was failing almost every class I was taking my freshman year. I was having difficulty in managing my time;… — Jessica Mendoza Copy Share Image
I liked Edinburgh as a university in a way that I'd never enjoyed King's College London. I realised after I came to… — Peter Higgs Copy Share Image
Tragedy massages the human ego even as comedy deflates it. ... Tragedy pits us against large foes and the trip wire is… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
“David Brooks, “Our Founding Yuppie,” Weekly Standard, Oct. 23, 2000, 31. The word “meritocracy” is an argument-starter, and I have employed it… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“Interest in academic system-building is dead; however, greater are the efforts by which every educated person seeks to draw the guiding strand… — Ivan Kireyevsky Copy Share Image
“ Problems in Your Social Life Social anxiety can make you feel empty and alone. You may feel as though you go… — Heather Moehn Copy Share Image