Writing is like praying, because you stop all other activities, descend into silence, and listen patiently to the depths of your soul,… — Helen Prejean Copy Share Image
All classes of people under social pressure are permeated with a common experience; they are emotionally welded as others cannot be. With… — Alain LeRoy Locke Copy Share Image
The Bible, itself the ultimate curse, is an in-depth profile of the divine spleen. — Ruth Hurmence Green Copy Share Image
“The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labour. War is a… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
As you become more rooted inside -- as you drink from this silent stream of life that runs beneath the surface of… — Derek Rydall Copy Share Image
To me, integrity means always doing what is right and good, regardless of the immediate consequences. It means being righteous from the… — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
The conclusion you first draw about someone is often informed merely by what you're bringing to it, and it will lead you… — Brendan Hunt Copy Share Image
Learn this from water: loud splashes the brook but the oceans depth are calm. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Aspirations must be pure and free of selfishness. Arising from the depths of the soul, aspirations are spiritual demands penetrating all of… — Mas Oyama Copy Share Image
Good novels are produced by people who voluntarily isolate themselves and go deep, and report from the depths on what they find. — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
The scope of America's global hegemony is admittedly great, but its depth is shallow, limited by both domestic and external restraints. — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, then that this universall Frame, is… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Under affliction in the very depths, stop and contemplate what you have to be grateful for. — Mary Baker Eddy Copy Share Image
The nation that complacently and fearfully allows its artists and writers to become suspected rather than respected is no longer regarded as… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
And for all I can tell, the only difference is that what many see we call a real thing, and what only… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To write well about the elegant world you have to know it and experience it to the depths of your being... what… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
Sorrow is God's plowshare that turns up and subsoils the depths of the soul, that it may yield richer harvests. If we… — Lettie Cowman Copy Share Image
It is much easier to meet with error than to find truth; error is on the surface, and can be more easily… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Wonderful is the depth of thy words, whose surface is before us, gently leading on the little ones: and yet a wonderful… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
I'll tell you what I think. I think sages are the growing tip of the secret impulse of evolution. I think they… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
Happiness is really just about four things: perceived control, perceived progress, connectedness (number and depth of your relationships), and vision/meaning (being part… — Tony Hsieh Copy Share Image
He is very fond of me, almost too fond. I could do with less caressing and more rationality. I should like to… — Anne Bronte Copy Share Image
I prefer the gradual path My feeling is that mythic forms reveal themselves gradually in the course of your life if you… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Give me those days with heart in riot, The depths of bliss that touched on pain, The force of hate, and love's… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
