I now know that I learn by solving problems as they arise. Rarely do we learn significant lessons, or significantly improve, any… — Bob Parsons Copy Share Image
When you are in the present moment, you break the continuity of your story, of past and future. Then true intelligence arises,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Wanting to be in a Western film won't get me very far. Unless the opportunity arose, it doesn't matter how much I… — Zhang Ziyi Copy Share Image
We can plan a roadtrip or a workday down to the last detail but the unexpected will always arise. If we are… — John Wooden Copy Share Image
I examine the consequences later, when a new situation arises and I then face the new situation. And that's it. — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
Yet mystery and imagination arise from the same source. This source is called darkness ... Darkness within darkness, the gateway to all understanding. — Laozi Copy Share Image
I arise from dreams of thee In the first sweet sleep of night, when the winds are breathing low, and the stars… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
It is often easier to justify one's self to others than to respond to the secret doubts that arise in one's own… — Margaret Oliphant Copy Share Image
Real music will help you move towards meditation, beyond the mind needs, towards spiritual needs. Real poetry will give you a glimpse… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The setting of a great hope is like the setting of the sun. The brightness of our life is gone. Shadows of… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
We make allowance for a certain degree of selfishness in men; because we know it to be inseparable from human nature, and… — David Hume Copy Share Image
What is the reason that some believers are so much brighter and holier than others? I believe the difference, in nineteen cases… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
It's the same with all the thoughts and feelings and other experiences that arise in the ocean of ourselves. The ocean never… — Suzanne Segal Copy Share Image
Without conjuring up fantasies of bygone eras with family games and long, leisurely meals, the question arises: isn't there a better family… — Marie Winn Copy Share Image
A criminal trial is like a Russian novel: it starts with exasperating slowness as the characters are introduced to a jury, then… — Clifford Irving Copy Share Image
To live in a great idea means to treat the impossible as though it were possible. It is just the same with… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Although I am still in favour of a National Government in these difficult times, and shall probably be found in the great… — Harold MacMillan Copy Share Image
Many people look upon change with dread and foreboding. But for those on the spiritual path-for those who believe in God and… — Emmet Fox Copy Share Image
Democracy appears to be safer and less liable to revolution than oligarchy. For in oligarchies there is the double danger of the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Political systems must love poverty-they produce so much of it. Poor people make easier targets for a demagogue. No Mao or even… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Sam Harris fearlessly describes a moral and intellectual emergency precipitated by religious fantasies--misguided beliefs that create suffering, that rationalize violence, that have… — Janna Levin Copy Share Image
At this point, an urgent question arises: [...] Is it our duty to seek to become a thorough and complete human being,… — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
When things go wrong in our life and we encounter difficult situations, we tend to regard the situation itself as our problem,… — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Copy Share Image
A lack of affiliation may mean a lack of accountability, and forming a sense of commitment can be hard without a sense… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
Conflicts between nations will continue to arise. The real issue is whether they are to be resolved by force, or by resort… — Haile Selassie Copy Share Image
Living here on Earth, we breathe the rhythms of a universe that extends infinitely above us. When resonant harmonies arise between this… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
Only when you stop identifying yourself with things that are not you, the possibility of knowing the nature of your existence arises. — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
When it is impossible for anger to arise within you, you find no outside enemies anywhere. An outside enemy exists only if… — Thubten Zopa Rinpoche Copy Share Image
Gratitude arises from paying attention, from being awake in the presence of everything that lives within and without us. — David Whyte Copy Share Image
With all my heart I beseech and beg my two hundred million female compatriots to assume their responsibility as citizens. Arise! Arise!… — Qiu Jin Copy Share Image
Many discouraging hours will arise before the rainbow of accomplished goals will appear on the horizon. — Haile Selassie Copy Share Image
Break, break, break, On thy cold gray stones, oh sea! And I would that my tongue could utter The thoughts that arise… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
What you have been obliged to discover by yourself leaves a path in your mind which you can use again when the… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
True power arises in knowing what you want, knowing what you don't want, expressing it clearly and lovingly without attachment to the… — Leonard Jacobson Copy Share Image
To learn to concentrate we must choose a prayer or meditation and follow this path with commitment and steadiness, a willingness to… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
On the light of Liberty you saw arise the light of Peace, like "another morn," "Risen on mid-noon;" and the sky on… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
Now shall my inward joys arise, And burst into a song; Almighty love inspires my heart, And pleasure tunes my tongue. — Isaac Watts Copy Share Image
Want, or desire, arises when you are not happy. Have you seen this? When you are very happy then there is contentment.… — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
As long as we relate with our underlying primordial intelligence and as long as we push ourselves a little, by jumping into… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
Half our mistakes in life arise from feeling where we ought to think, and thinking where we ought to feel. — Anonymous Copy Share Image