He who harms living beings is, for that reason, not an ariya (a Noble One); he who does not harm any living… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
The brain does not manufacture thoughts unless we stimulate it with habitual verbalizing. When we train ourselves by constant practice to stop… — Henepola Gunaratana Copy Share Image
A dull axe never loves grindstones, but a keen workman does; and he puts his tool on them in order that it… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
Everything in strategy is very simple, but that does not mean everything is very easy. — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
I just hope when my body goes, or when my mind does, I have the guts to end it the way Hemingway… — Paul Newman Copy Share Image
Boredom ... causes us to neglect more duties than does interest. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The Constitution is said to have beautiful features; but when I come to examine these features, Sir, they appear to me horribly… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
I think it matters almost infinitely that we practice one of the authentic religions. But if you mean does it make any… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
Every ending is arbitrary, because the end is where you write The end. A period, a dot of punctuation, a point of… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
That said, deciding to avoid other people does not necessarily equate with having no desire whatsoever for company; it may simply reflect… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
God does not need us or the rest of creation for anything, yet we and the rest of creation can glorify him… — Wayne Grudem Copy Share Image
The first sign of extravagance is to buy trousers that one does not need. — George Ade Copy Share Image
Faith does not come to Calvary to do anything. It comes to see the glorious spectacle of all things done, and to… — Horatius Bonar Copy Share Image
I want to be the band everyone knows that goes hardest. Plays the hardest, parties the hardest, lives the hardest, loves the… — Austin Carlile Copy Share Image
There is not a discovery in science, however revolutionary, however sparkling with insight, that does not arise out of what went before. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
If you take cranberries and stew them like apple sauce, it tastes much more like prunes than rhubarb does. — Groucho Marx Copy Share Image
The public values the invention more than the inventor does. The inventor knows there is much more and better where this came… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If there were never any clouds (sorrows and sufferings) in our lives, we would have no faith. God does not come near… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
What does the frontal cortex do? Gratification postponement, executive function, long-term planning, and impulse control. Basically, it makes you do the harder… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
How does it secure the blessings of liberty to our posterity, to those generations yet unborn, to kill them, aborting them in… — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
No one can deny that some Islamist groups have credential and popularity. But that does not mean they are a majority. If… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
A government which can protect and defend its citizens from wrong and outrage and does not is vicious. A government which would… — Frances Harper Copy Share Image
