When I watch that attachment happening, I see the beliefs that I have around it. If somebody's not paying attention to me… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
A famous bon mot asserts that opinions are like arse-holes, in that everyone has one. There is great wisdom in this... but… — Tim Minchin Copy Share Image
Of course, the advantage is that, being in this business, you get to learn a lot, experience a lot of new things,… — Aaliyah Copy Share Image
There have been candidates who've been right on trade but wrong on the other two, right on war but wrong on the… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
If there are no victims in the U.S, then there no need to redistribute wealth. Right? So that needs to be repealed.… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Historically the belief in heaven and the belief in utopia are like compensatory buckets in a well: when one goes down the… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
Holding on to beliefs limits our experience of life. That doesn't mean that beliefs or ideas or thinking is a problem; the… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
How so many absurd rules of conduct, as well as so many absurd religious beliefs, have originated, we do not know; nor… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
The cowardly belief that a person must stay in one place is too reminiscent of the unquestioning resignation of animals, beasts of… — Isabelle Eberhardt Copy Share Image
Pro-choice and pro-life activists live in different worlds, and the scope of their lives, as both adults and children, fortifies them in… — Kristin Luker Copy Share Image
Beware of charisma . . . Representative Men; was Ralph Waldo Emerson's 1850 phrase for the great men in a democracy .… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
...I believe deeply that we canot solve the challenges of your time unless we solve them together - unless we perfect our… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European, or anything else, you are being violent.… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
In a way, both the U.S. media and those wacky rioters in the Afghan-Pakistani hinterlands are very similar, two highly parochial and… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
For us, time travel is synonymous for the belief in all the things that are not seen, and also for the most… — Zal Batmanglij Copy Share Image
“I believe that mankind's destiny lies in the stars. I believe that candy really did taste better when I was a kid,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
To begin with, our knowledge grows in spots. The spots may be large or small, but the knowledge ever grows all over...… — William James Copy Share Image
The unreal is more powerful than the real. Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Because its only intangible… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Many a scientist has patiently designed experiments for the purpose of substantiating his belief that animal operations are motivated by no purposes.… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
It is commonly said that if rational argument is so seldom the cause of conviction, philosophical apologists must largely be wasting their… — Austin Farrer Copy Share Image
Angels appear to transcend all cultures, races, and systems. They are a part of human history and civilization, sometimes at the forefront,… — Silver RavenWolf Copy Share Image
Confronted with the unhappy facts of exclusion, we sometimes reassure ourselves by telling stories: the poor boys who made it, theblacks who… — Kenneth Keniston Copy Share Image
We find collected in this book [The Bible] the superstitious beliefs of the ancient inhabitants of Palestine, with indistinct echoes of Indian… — Max Nordau Copy Share Image
If you like your soccer cerebral, and the triumph ultimately to be wrung out of staying power, Milan was the place to… — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
No matter how much we may study, it is not possible to come to know God unless we live according to His… — Silouan the Athonite Copy Share Image
Healing ourselves on the spiritual level involves developing a strong connection with our soul. We heal ourselves on the mental level as… — Shakti Gawain Copy Share Image
When I sent out a casual and nonscientific poll of my own to a wide cast of acquaintances, friends and colleagues, I… — Natalie Angier Copy Share Image
Trusting people to be creative and constructive when given more freedom does not imply an overly optimistic belief in the perfectibility of… — Peter Senge Copy Share Image
Why do any of us act the way we do? Is it our beliefs or our biology that shapes us? Lauren Grodstein… — Victor LaValle Copy Share Image
For ages, a deadly conflict has been waged between a few brave men and women of thought and genius upon the one… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“Know, child, that the One God—He is so vast that He cannot be moved, else the Universe falls. Nor can He answer,… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
The private experience that you perceive forms your world, period. But which world do you inhabit? For if you altered your private… — Jane Roberts Copy Share Image
The confidence in the unlimited power of science is only too often based on a false belief that the scientific method consists… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die. This life appears unbearable, another unattainable. One… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
The idea for each of the stories in this book came in a moment of belief and was written in a burst… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
What makes fantastic declarations believable is, in part, the vehemence with which they're proffered. Again, in the world of spirituality as well… — Wendy Kaminer Copy Share Image
The Soviet transition to a new political structure shows that the Soviet strategists are thinking, planning and acting in broad terms, way… — Anatoliy Golitsyn Copy Share Image
When a child speaks of a past life memory, the effects ripple far. At the center is the child, who is directly… — Carol Bowman Copy Share Image
Way down deep the American people are afraid of an entangling relationship between formal religions - or whole bodies of religious belief… — Mario Cuomo Copy Share Image
My hair would continue to gray, and then one day, it would fall out entirely, and then, on a day meaninglessly close… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image