Though they themselves might be as surprised as their parents and teachers to hear it said, adolescents--these poignantly thin- skinned and vulnerable,… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
God is the source of life and light and joy to the universe. Like rays of light from the sun, like the… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
Religious people ... hold a kind and merciful view of life, the faith of the broken, the hounded, the hopeless. Yet too… — Matthew Scully Copy Share Image
When you really do feel like an alien, and you really do feel like a space creature, and you really do feel… — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
Nothing in the world, no object or event, would be true or false if there were not thinking creatures. — Donald Davidson Copy Share Image
A church is something very beautiful. It is nice when people feel happy in it. But I am not a religious man.… — Oscar Niemeyer Copy Share Image
This act [creation], as it is for God, must always remain totally inconceivable to man. For we--even our poets and musicians and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Presumption is our natural and original malady. The most vulnerable and frail of all creatures is man, and at the same time… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Out yonder they may curse, revile, and torture one another, defile all the human instincts, make a shambles of creation (if it… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Creatures inveterately wrong in their inductions have a pathetic but praise-worthy tendency to die before reproducing their kind. — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
As regards this vice, we read that the peacock is more guilty of it than any other animal. For it is always… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
A woman with a hazel eye never elopes from her husband, never chats scandal, never finds fault, never talks too much nor… — Arthur Frederick Saunders Copy Share Image
Zen is really extraordinarily simple as long as one doesn't try to be cute about it or beat around the bush! Zen… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Friend of fatherless! Fountain of happiness! Lord of the swill-bucket! Oh, how my soul is on Fire when I gaze at thy… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
After Darwin, God's role changes from being the designer of all creatures great and small to being the designer of the laws… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
The great commandment is that we preach the gospel to every creature, but neither God nor the Bible says anything about forcing… — Louis Zamperini Copy Share Image
As long as a human being worries about when he will die, and what he has that is his, all of his… — Kabir Copy Share Image
Certainly man is of kin to the beasts by his body; and if he be not kin to God by his spirit,… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Because we are communal creatures, if you're with people who think you're smart, you're smart, and if they think you're dumb, you're… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Home is a place in the mind. When it is empty, it frets. It is fretful with memory, faces and places and… — Maeve Brennan Copy Share Image
Even under the best of circumstances men are hard creatures to trap. Women who flatter themselves into thinking they've trapped one are… — Harry Shearer Copy Share Image
Within every woman there is a wild and natural creature, a powerful force, filled with good instincts, passionate creativity, and ageless knowing. — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
Maybe I should have cut him some slack. With his broken wing and lifetime of eating roadkill, he probably had a lot… — Jeannette Walls Copy Share Image
Please remember the hundreds of tiny empty stomachs in our communities. Winter is a tough time for birds and other small creatures… — Alex Pacheco Copy Share Image