Even from the simplest, the most realistic point of view, the countries which we long for occupy, at any given moment, a… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“What is it about our expectations, plans, or ideas that hold such sway over us? It is as if we've written a… — Holly Sprink Copy Share Image
From this I conclude that the best education for the situations of actual life consists of the experience we acquire from the… — Polybius Copy Share Image
Poems give us permission to be unsure, in ways we must be if we are ever to learn anything not already known.… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
I don't think paper will go away. I do believe that the value of paper will change, and Xerox is working on… — Ursula Burns Copy Share Image
Poetry is my understanding with the world, my intimacy with things, my participation in what is real, my engagement with voices and… — Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen Copy Share Image
You see, I am trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across - not to just… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
My diaries were written primarily, I think, not to preserve the experience but to savor it, to make it even more real,… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
A good book is the very essence of a good man. His virtues survive in it, while the foibles and faults of… — Theodore L. Cuyler Copy Share Image
“When I arrived home from Boston, I realized there were no pictures on my mantel. I set down my suitcase and walked… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
“As test documentation goes, test plans have the briefest actual lifespan of any test artifact. Early in a project, there is a… — James A. Whittaker Copy Share Image
“To sit in Meditation is not the only method of practising Zazen. "We practise Dhyana in sitting, in standing, and in walking,"… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
“An artistic image is one that ensures its own development, its historical viability. An image is a grain, a self-evolving retroactive organism.… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
“It is the most capricious prejudice to believe that a human being is denied the capacity to be outside himself, to be… — Novalis Copy Share Image
“Looking back on the past six months, Margaret realized the chaotic nature of our daily life, and its difference from the orderly… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“He had built up within himself a kind of sanctuary in which she throned among his secret thoughts and longings. Little by… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“as I reflected upon the matter, I discovered that these authors, in their books, were, after all merely making use of their… — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
“Life meanwhile, the actual life of men with their real interests of health and sickness, labour and rest, with their interests of… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“On the other side of graduation was her actual life, the slow narrowing of possibilities that would catch her and freeze her… — Ling Ma Copy Share Image
We live today in a world where most of the really important developments in everything from math and physics and astronomy to… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but of the nature of learning; whereas, the experience gained from actual life… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
I’m trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across—not to just depict life—or criticize it—but to… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I have a lot of good people in my actual life, but I will say that it's a strange time that we… — Katie Featherston Copy Share Image
“It is essential that a work of art should be self-consistent, that an artist should consciously or unconsciously draw a circle beyond… — T.S. Eliot Copy Share Image