At difficult times of my life, books have been an incredible comfort. When I was 12, I changed schools and my parents… — Elliot Perlman Copy Share Image
Smiling is very important. If we are not able to smile, then the world will not have peace. It is not by… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
The grand paradox of our society is this: we magnify man’s right but we minimize his capacities. — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
If I have accomplished anything good, then it's mainly because I've been driven by the need to know whether I can accomplish… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
Religions have found that if you behave in a certain way, if you sort of perform certain rituals that expand your mind… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
No one has the capacity to judge God. We are drops in that limitless ocean of mercy. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
That man scorches with his brightness, who overpowers inferior capacities, yet he shall be revered when dead. — Horace Copy Share Image
Subjectivity is an ability, the capacity to use a new inner mode of presenting the fact that you currently know something to… — Thomas Metzinger Copy Share Image
I suppose I do believe that the greatest art consoles a wound that it creates, that art can give you the capacity… — Christian Wiman Copy Share Image
The finest quality of our characters do not come from trying but from the mysterious and yet most effective capacity to be… — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
There is definitely a need for increasing capacity in higher education; a large part of this is being met in the technical… — Pallam Raju Copy Share Image
I have a huge rib cage, which is why I can hold a note out until I'm blue in the face... because… — Jessica Simpson Copy Share Image
Sustainability is an economic state where the demands placed upon the environment by people and commerce can be met without reducing the… — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
The institution of the family is decisive in determining not only if a person has the capacity to love another individual but… — Daniel Patrick Moynihan Copy Share Image
Something extraordinary is happening. Do you sense it? Truly, as obedience and morality decline in the world, the Lord is sending more… — Richard G. Scott Copy Share Image
John Foster Dulles had called on me in his capacity as Secretary of State, and he had exhausted every argument to persuade… — Norodom Sihanouk Copy Share Image
For a woman ... to explore and express the fullness of her sexuality, her ambitions, her emotional and intellectual capacities, her social… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. which give… — William James Copy Share Image
Sisterhood - that is, primary and bonding love from women - is, like motherhood, a capacity, not a destiny. It must be… — Olga Broumas Copy Share Image
Self-absorption in all its forms kills empathy, let alone compassion. When we focus on ourselves, our world contracts as our problems and… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
With the more endowed nations constrained by their own higher technological capacity for self-destruction as well as by self interest, war may… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
We must face the fact that we are on the brink of times when man may be able to magnify his intellectual… — Christopher Alexander Copy Share Image
Excess capacity in people, machines, or property will be quickly absorbed. — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
Encouragement is awesome. Think about it. It has the capacity to lift a man's or a woman's shoulders. To breathe fresh air… — Charles R. Swindoll Copy Share Image
