It's easy enough to pray when you're in distress but continuing to pray even when your crisis has passed is like a… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“The pages of history are red with the blood of illuminated "saints" who were murdered by their religions for actually achieving the… — Christopher S. Hyatt Copy Share Image
Among the lower classes of mankind there will be found very little desire of any other knowledge than what may contribute immediately… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Salvation is so great a thing, so glorious an attainment, that 'tis worth the while for a man to do his utmost… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
I know that I have the ability to achieve the object of my Definite Purpose in life, therefore, I demand of myself… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
All explorers are seeking something they have lost. It is seldom that they find it, and more seldom still that the attainment… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
Women have always struggled with their men-folk for the abolition of slavery, the liberation of countries from colonialism, the dismantling of apartheid… — Gertrude Mongella Copy Share Image
We have found that when men and women are left free to find the places for which they are best fitted, some… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
By our very endowment as children of an Eternal Father we have had implanted within our souls the urgency to be free.… — Dean L. Larsen Copy Share Image
The virtue of a faculty is related to the special function which that faculty performs. Now there are three elements in the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Yet again, the more you strive for some kind of perfection or mastery—in morals, in art or in spirituality—the more you see… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Physical well-being is not only a priceless asset to oneself-it is a heritage to be passed on. With good health, all other… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
Slowly ... the truth is dawningupon women, and still more slowly upon men, that woman is no stepchild of nature, no Cinderella… — Anna Garlin Spencer Copy Share Image
Worldly ambition is founded on pride or envy, but emulation, or laudable ambition, is actually founded in humility; for it evidently implies… — Joseph Hall Copy Share Image
When the mind becomes so completely absorbed in perfect health that all sickness is forgotten, all the powers of mind will proceed… — Christian D. Larson Copy Share Image
She died that night. Her last breath took her soul, I saw it in my dream. I saw her soul leave her… — Garth Stein Copy Share Image
Norway, Iceland, Australia, Canada, Sweden, Switzerland, Belgium, Japan, the Netherlands, Denmark, and the United Kingdom are among the least religious societies on… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Horror grows impatient, rhetorically, with the Stoic fatalism of Ecclesiastes. That we are all going to die, that death mocks and cancels… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
Economics is a theoretical science and as such abstains from any judgement of value. It is not its task to tell people… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
One of the things particularly admirable in the public utterances of President Lincoln is a certain tone of familiar dignity, which, while… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Strip away all the assumptions about what competition is supposed to do, all the claims in its behalf that we accept and… — Alfie Kohn Copy Share Image
How false is the conception, how frantic the pursuit, of that treacherous phantom which men call Liberty: most treacherous, indeed, of all… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Vigorous let us be in attaining our ends, and mild in our method of attainment. — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
There is no road to success but through a clear strong purpose. Nothing can take its place. A purpose underlies character, culture,… — Thornton T. Munger Copy Share Image
The greatest human attainment in all the world is for a life to be so surrendered to Him that the name of… — Kathryn Kuhlman Copy Share Image
The attainment of wholeness requires one to stake one's whole being. Nothing less will do; there can be no easier conditions, no… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Consisting of immortal Truth, you are immortal. The attainment of Truth is immortality, and to do the work of Truth is Nirvana. — Paul Carus Copy Share Image
Every accomplishment, every refined talent, every useful attainment in mathematics, music, and in all sciences, and art belong to the Saints. — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
“We didn't come to the world just to entertain, we came to play remarkable roles, and our reward is to see you… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Love is not neutral. It takes a stand. It is a commitment to the attainment of the conditions of peace for everyone… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
To Plato the desire for excessive and special foods ... is a hindrance to the soul's attainment of intelligence. — Thomas McEvilley Copy Share Image
“The only thing that is limiting me and you from attaining anything in life is what we know or what we don’t… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
For misdirected love, the attainment of its object is, indeed, the best cure; but it cures as the guillotine cures headache. — Ivan Panin Copy Share Image
Seek the Path, do not seek attainment, Seek for the Path within yourself. Do not expect to hear the truth from others,… — P.D. Ouspensky Copy Share Image
I am persuaded that love and humility are the highest attainments in the school of Christ and the brightest evidences that He… — John Newton Copy Share Image
The means ought to be proportioned to the end; the persons from whose agency the attainment of any end is expected ought… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Meditation is the royal road to the attainment of freedom, a mysterious ladder that reaches from earth to heaven, darkness to light,… — Sivananda Copy Share Image
Affectation naturally counterfeits those excellences which are placed at the greatest distance from possibility of attainment, because, knowing our own defects, we… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The more numerous public instrumentalities become, the more is there generated in citizens the notion that everything is to be done for… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
For a true writer each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
