Strife brings all things into being on her battlefield. This I know. I have been there many times," says Vashanka, lord of… — Janet Morris Copy Share Image
Thou water turn'st to wine, fair friend of life; Thy foe, to cross the sweet arts of Thy reign, Distils from thence… — Richard Crashaw Copy Share Image
The mind, the soul, becomes ennobled by the endeavour to create something perfect, for God is perfection, and whoever strives after perfection… — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
The peace for which every soul strives and which is the true nature of God and the utmost goal of a man… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
I don't care what people think about me because I know I am more than all the pain and strife they hold… — Ricky Williams Copy Share Image
Through strife the slumbering soul awakes, We learn on error's troubled route The truths we could not prize without The sorrow of… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
Humanity unceasingly strives forward from a lower, more partial and obscure understanding of life to one more general and more lucid. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The true Mason takes full responsibility for the condition of his character and ever strives for its perfection. — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
The most potent and acceptable prayer is the prayer that leaves the best effects. I don't mean it must immediately fill the… — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
If men would as fervently seek after love and righteousness as they do after opinions, there would be no strife on earth,… — Jakob Bohme Copy Share Image
The passions of the titanic struggle will finally enter upon the sleep of oblivion, and only its splendid accomplishments for the cause… — James Longstreet Copy Share Image
The last thing is simplicity. After having gone through all the difficulties, having played an endless number of notes, it is simplicity… — Frederic Chopin Copy Share Image
Whenever a person strives, by the help of dialectic, to start in pursuit of every reality by a simple process of reason,… — Plato Copy Share Image
The force that unites the elements to become all things is Love, also called Aphrodite; Love brings together dissimilar elements into a… — Empedocles Copy Share Image
The strife of politics tends to unsettle the calmest understanding, and ulcerate the most benevolent heart. There are no bigotries or absurdities… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root, and it may be… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
O Space and Time and stars at strife, How dreadful your infinity! Shrined by your termless trinity, How strange, how terrible, is… — George Sterling Copy Share Image
Life is not a solo act. It's a huge collaboration, and we all need to assemble around us the people who care… — Tim Gunn Copy Share Image
The swimmer adrift on the open seas measures his strength, and strives with all his muscles to keep himself afloat. But what… — Georges Duhamel Copy Share Image
While love ceaselessly strives toward that which lies at the hiddenmost center, hatred only perceives the topmost surface . . . — Hermann Broch Copy Share Image
“May the fleas of a thousand camels invade the crotch of the person that ruins your day. And may their arms be… — Keisha Keenleyside Copy Share Image
I can't speak for others, but I find the fundamental idea that a life worth living is one during which one strives… — Massimo Pigliucci Copy Share Image
Civil war was not a mere strife for territory and dominion, but a contest of civilization against barbarism. — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“It's okay to feel emotions. It's part of life. It's one of the many things that is Ravia's guidance. Everyone goes through… — Jennifer West Copy Share Image
And the wind will whip your tousled hair, The sun, the rain, the sweet despair, Great tales of love and strife. And… — Harry Chapin Copy Share Image
I have written the little work that follows . . . in the role of one who strives to raise his mind… — Anselm of Canterbury Copy Share Image
It's easy when you've had difficulty or strife in your life to look at other people who seem like they've had it… — Bianca Kajlich Copy Share Image
What distinguishes the language of science from language as we ordinarily understand the word? ... What science strives for is an utmost… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Anarchism asserts the possibility of an organization without discipline, fear, or punishment, and without the pressure of poverty: a new social organism… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
The world, in resting upon the earth, strives to surmount it. As self-opening it cannot endure anything closed. The earth, however, as… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
And it is through strife and the readiness for strife that a man or a nation must win greatness. So, let the… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Passion and marriage are essentially irreconcilable. Their origins and their ends make them mutually exclusive. Their co-existence in our midst constantly raises… — Denis de Rougemont Copy Share Image
My father was a naturalist and a very spiritual person, who had a great desire to pass on his knowledge to others,… — Carlos Gracie, Jr Copy Share Image
The peace of Manderley. The quietude and the grace. Whoever lived within its walls, whatever trouble there was and strife, however much… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
If all properly economic problems were solved once for all . . . the social struggle and strife would . . .… — Frank Knight Copy Share Image
Everyone strives to attain the Law,' answers the man, 'how does it come about, then, that in all these years no one… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
...we shall incur no slight injury, but rather great danger, if we rashly yield ourselves to the inclinations of men who aim… — John of Damascus Copy Share Image
The Catholic religion at the time was much darker and more mysterious. The entire mass was in Latin. The church was -… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
God abides in each commandment by His gracious power. "God is hidden in His commandments", says St. Mark the Ascetic. God helps… — Justin Popovic Copy Share Image
For those who feel it, nothing makes the soul so religious and pure as the endeavor to create something perfect; for God… — Michelangelo Copy Share Image