“Charleston is an extraordinary place. There is a deep connection between the residents and nearly three hundred and fifty years of history,… — James Caskey Copy Share Image
All of us face challenges in our daily lives. Yet in challenges lie some of our greatest opportunities. As we recognize and… — H. David Burton Copy Share Image
There is a line from the Marina Tsvetaeva poem I'm so fond of: "In this most Christian of worlds/ All poets are… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
In meditation and in our daily lives there are three qualities that we can nurture, cultivate, and bring out. We already possess… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Their function is to anchor the frequency of the new consciousness on this planet. I call them the frequency-holders. They are here… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Where does a story truly begin? In life, there are seldom clear-cut beginnings, those moments when we can, in looking back, say… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
If, as an actor, you allow yourself to be cocooned from the boring pin-pricks of day-to-day existence - like standing in a… — Glenda Jackson Copy Share Image
That’s what’s so gorgeous about humanity. It doesn’t matter how bleak our daily lives are, we still fight for the light. I… — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
This is it, in the best possible way. That thing I'm waiting for, that adventure, that movie-score-wor thy experience unfolding gracefully. This… — Shauna Niequist Copy Share Image
“Rainer Maria Rilke sacrificed everything For his art he dedicated himself To the Great Work I admired his single-mindedness All through my… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
“Citizenship in modern states means access to bureaucracy. Bureaucracy has the reputation of killing Jews; it would be closer to the truth… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“As a young man, he was already rather pompous and full of himself, concerned with what he would write and with his… — Javier Marías Copy Share Image
“To let their light shine, not to force on them their interpretations of God's designs, is the duty of Christians towards their… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“Heard as a moralist’s diatribe, the Sermon on the Mount is an impossible-to-bear judgment. Read as a series of mandates for Jesus’… — Rubel Shelly Copy Share Image
“I have always, essentially, been waiting. Waiting to become something else, waiting to be that person I always thought I was on… — Shauna Niequist Copy Share Image
I kept imagining these people, just living their daily lives, and then having them suddenly ended in unjust tragedy. When we watch… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
...to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life-daily and hourly. Our answer must consist, not in talk and… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
We know there is gravity because apples fall from trees. We can observe gravity in daily life. If we could throw an… — Adam Riess Copy Share Image
Courtesy should be apparent in all our actions and words and in all aspects of daily life. But be courtesy, I do… — Mas Oyama Copy Share Image
We talk about equality, about happiness, about freedom - and about the spiritual values of religion, and about God - and in… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
The sangha is a community where there should be harmony and peace and understanding. That is something created by our daily life… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Chanting a mantra at the beginning of your meditation helps you clear the mind and takes you deep within the self. Chanting… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Adopting an attitude of universal responsibility is essentially a personal matter. The real test of compassion is not what we say in… — His Holiness the Dalai Lamai Copy Share Image
I have never sought the unexpected, the novelty, the extraordinary, but rather what is most typical of our daily life... I go… — Willy Ronis Copy Share Image
People might think I'm very hard, what with my black make-up, my hair over my eyes, etc. My innocence didn't always help… — Carine Roitfeld Copy Share Image
If they burn a book, have no worries. The book will feel NO pain so neither should you! True destruction of the… — Lupe Fiasco Copy Share Image
“The word "school" has a curious history behind it. Meaning originally "leisure" it has now acquired precisely the opposite sense of systematic… — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
“It was moments like finding coolers full of drinks and snacks left out in the middle of nowhere that made me appreciate… — Kyle Rohrig Copy Share Image
A nation is held together by shared values, shared beliefs, shared attitudes. That is what enables a people to maintain a cohesive… — John W. Gardner Copy Share Image
“Just because a book is a classic doesn't mean it has anything to do with real life. Homer's ILIAD is taught at… — David Denby Copy Share Image
War is the spectacular and bloody projection of our everyday living. We precipitate war out of our daily lives; and without a… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“It appears, from all this, that our eyes are uncertain. Two persons look at the same clock and there is a difference… — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share Image
I won't deny the polemical elements in my work, but they are less in the service of attempting to reform human behavior… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
We suffer not from overproduction but from undercirculation. You have heard of technocracy. I wish I had those fellows for my competitors.… — Charles Kettering Copy Share Image
In fact, when Bernard [Leach] would be called away to go up to London for something and we'd be living alone for… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
150 years ago in [Charles] Dickens's time there was at least a sense of craft. So some of the things people had… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
Solitude is not an absence of energy or action, as some believe, but is rather a boon of wild provisions transmitted to… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
“placement in time and space with, finally, the conviction that something extremely important and valuable had happened, so that the subject was… — David Tuffley Copy Share Image
“Social pain does not trigger endorphin the way physical pain does, except for a brief laugh or cry. A broken heart doesn’t… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I like the idea of it. Just look at the world around you. Wars, terror, starvation, poverty, disease. Take the Middle East… — A.J. Kazinski Copy Share Image