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Science is an intellectual journey, and to me, it's not the destination, it's the journeyto get there. It's a way of thinking… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
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A man's age is something impressive, it sums up his life: maturity reached slowly and against many obstacles, illnesses cured, griefs and… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
It is not true that a man can believe or disbelieve what he will. But it is certain that an active desire… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
There is a mean streak to authentic self-control. Underneath what seems to be the placid demeanor of those who are not ruled… — Edward T Welch Copy Share Image
At the very instant that you think, "I am happy," a chemical messenger translates your emotion, which has no solid existence whatever… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
I am not prepared to deny or assert any proposition which concerns myself; but certainly this solitary struggle with platitudinous atoms, called… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
All cravings are the mind seeking salvation or fulfillment in external things and in the future as a substitute for the joy… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
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“women are more likely to experience guilt when they engage in leisure activities in the home. This conflicted sense of leisure is… — Nick Yee Copy Share Image
It is clear that God is saying, 'I gave man dominion over the earth, but he lost it. Now I desire mature… — Pat Robertson Copy Share Image
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I was given some designer colors for ink pens a long time ago and I haven't used them, and I have some… — Barbara Hammer Copy Share Image
Only when we rid ourselves of passions and lust and put the desires of flesh under the control of Spirit, only then… — Vladimir Aleksandrovich Antonov Copy Share Image
We are the nation of dreams. We are seers. We are wizards. We speak in visions. Our letters are like flocks of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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It is essential that the revelation we receive, the conception of an image which embraces a certain thing, which has no sense… — Giorgio de Chirico Copy Share Image
I think of poetry as something out there in the world and within each of us. I don't mean that everyone can… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Almost certainly, the first essential component of social justice is adequate food for all mankind. Food is the moral right of all… — Norman Borlaug Copy Share Image
I think that there is a middle-class desire, and maybe an almost universal desire, among many human beings to live in clean… — Sharon Zukin Copy Share Image
Some things are up to us [eph' hêmin] and some things are not up to us. Our opinions are up to us,… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Do not despair when in spite of intense supplication, there is a delay in receiving the expected gift. He has guaranteed that… — Ibn Ata Allah Copy Share Image
“The man who never weakens when things are against him will grow stronger and stronger until all things will delight to be… — Christian D. Larson Copy Share Image
If there is no element of asceticism in our lives, if we give free rein to the desires of the flesh (taking… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“She wanted never again to have to fill another man's bed, telling falsehoods with her body until her mind could no longer… — Courtney Milan Copy Share Image
My dad taught me to play the guitar. We grew up with country music. We had every Willie Nelson record (laughs). I… — Chris Tomlin Copy Share Image
“His fingers painted my skin with ruby red patterns of desire. In Keahi’s kiss I could taste the red burn of chili… — Lani Wendt Young Copy Share Image
Pain and pleasure are transitory; endure all dualities with calmness, while trying at the same time to remove their hold. Imagination is… — Sri Yukteswar Giri Copy Share Image
I think I'm better at producing than I am at being a songwriter, but it doesn't change the fact that I still… — John Congleton Copy Share Image
We must put up with our clothes as they are - they have their reason for existing. They are on us to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Love of colors bewilders the eye and it fails to see right. Love of harmonies bewitches the ear, and it loses its… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
The error of the ignorant goes so far as to say that God's power is insufficient, because he has given to this… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
Don't sow your desires in someone else's garden; just cultivate your own as best you can; don't long to be other than… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
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