“If you want the motivation back, you must feed it Feed it everything. Books, television, movies, paintings, stage plays, real-life experience. Sometimes… — Francesca Zappia Copy Share Image
So rests the sky against the earth. The dark still tarn in the lap of the forest. As a husband embraces his… — Dag Hammarskjold Copy Share Image
Amongst democratic nations men easily attain a certain equality of conditions: they can never attain the equality they desire. It perpetually retires… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Man must learn to believe in that which he does not, at the moment, see in order to grant himself that which… — Neville Goddard Copy Share Image
For most of modern life, our strong talents and desires for group effort have been filtered through relatively rigid institutional structures because… — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
This is what I know. Don't settle for 40, 50, or even 80 percent. A relationship-it shouldn't be too small or too… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
“But I will confess that I began as an astronomer—a liking for bright flashes, vast distances, unreachable things, a hand stretched always toward the… — Troy Jollimore Copy Share Image
EACH AND EVERY master, regardless of the era or place, heard the call and attained harmony with heaven and earth. There are… — Morihei Ueshiba Copy Share Image
Contentment is the door to god. If one is contented, one has already arrived. And the meaning of contentment is absolute acceptance… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Longing on a large scale is what makes history. This is just a kid with a local yearning but he is part… — Don Delillo Underworld Copy Share Image
“Scientists who study human motivation have lately learned that after basic survival needs have been met, the combination of autonomy (the desire… — Steven Kotler Copy Share Image
What is it that you want that you can't get it? where do you want to go that you can't go? what… — Sessah-Odai Sadick Copy Share Image
“When I was a child, books were everything. And so there is in me, always, a nostalgic yearning for the lost pleasure… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
When a man is overcome by anger, he has a poisoned fever. He loses his strength, he loses his power over himself… — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
It is difficult to say which is the greatest evil--to have too violent passions, or to be wholly devoid of them. Controlled… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Are you going to go down on your knees and beg for your life, old one?" Abbot Mortimer stared calmly into Cluny's… — Brian Jacques Copy Share Image
Woe to the man who is always busy - hurried in a turmoil of engagements, from occupation to occupation, and with no… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
Sexual integrity means honestly recognizing our own impulses and desires and honoring them, whether or not we choose to act on them.… — Starhawk Copy Share Image
Horror hostess, bondage goddess, Charles Addams cartoon comes to life, Vampire was every first-generation fanboy's wet dream. Scott Poole takes us on… — Sheri Holman Copy Share Image
All greatness in style begins, I imagine, with such respect, deep and passionate enough to produce a humility which will not assert… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
With European powers no new subjects of difficulty have arisen, and those which were under discussion, although not terminated, do not present… — Martin Van Buren Copy Share Image
Some dishes are of such indisputable excellence that their appearance alone is capable of arousing a level-headed man's degustatory powers. All those… — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Copy Share Image
When a female character sets herself on fire in an effort to interrupt her culture's violent abuse of disenfranchised people, or physically… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
I want to have a lasting experience with God. Sometimes I feel like I understand the divinity of this world, but then… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I'm connected to the event of 9/11 by my desire to do something to honor the 9/11 survivors and those who didn't… — Jewell Parker Rhodes Copy Share Image
Architects, painters, and sculptors must recognize anew and learn to grasp the composite character of a building both as an entity and… — Walter Gropius Copy Share Image
“His passion she had expected, even his expertise, for a man of his years would not have been without women. She had… — Ruth Wind Copy Share Image
“I forced myself to take another bite of bread, chewing casually. But inside I felt stricken, filled with unexpected yearning. And I… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
Our desires presage the capacities within us; they are harbingers of what we shall be able to accomplish. What we can do… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Not only are the numbers of migrants entering the United States at the lowest levels in a generation, but they are now… — Alan Bersin Copy Share Image
People speaking into handheld devices while they walk down the street and saying to the device, "I'm walking down the street now."… — Nick Tosches Copy Share Image
“Preparation is essential to achieving your goals in life. You don't want to miss a great opportunity because you were not prepared.… — Amaka Imani Nkosazana Copy Share Image
I am interested in struggle - between our hearts and our head, between principle and desire - and one of those struggles… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
The awakening is the purpose. The awakening of the fact that in essence we are light, we are love. Each cell of… — Dolores Cannon Copy Share Image
Anything that brings you to a decision will be answered. The stronger the decision is, the faster it's answered. So if you're… — Esther Hicks Copy Share Image
Neither fear nor self-interest can convert the soul. They may change the appearance, perhaps even the conduct, but never the object of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Out of all the clubs who were interested, I got the feeling that, deep down, Chelsea showed that they really wanted me.… — Eden Hazard Copy Share Image
Peacefulness is an inner sense of calm - it comes from becoming still - in order to reflect and meditate on our… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Our intention is to affirm this life, not to bring order out of chaos, nor to suggest improvements in creation, but simply… — John Cage Copy Share Image
“The feelings that hurt most, the motions that sting most, are those that are absurd; the longing for impossible things, precisely because… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
