When the mind is kept away from its preoccupations, it becomes quiet. If you do not disturb this quiet and stay in… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
Being an individual takes effort. Most people are pretty lazy. And that's OK! I mean, there are more important things than fashion.… — Iris Apfel Copy Share Image
Looking at younger artists, like Varda Caivano and Kerstin Bratsch, I see that their work has something in common that is new… — Jessica Stockholder Copy Share Image
When an opinion has taken root in a democracy and established itself in the minds of the majority, it afterward persists by… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Make excuses to work out. Go for walks and enjoy scenery. You'd be surprised how many calories you can burn during the… — Miesha Tate Copy Share Image
Before we come to a challenging situation, before the universe squeezes us, how much of our effort is geared toward the reason… — Yehuda Berg Copy Share Image
Peace will never be won if men reserve for war their greatest efforts, Peace, too, requires well-directed and sustained sacrificial endeavor. Given… — John Foster Dulles Copy Share Image
I no longer file expense reports, so I no longer experience the pain of it. What if everyone had a virtual assistant… — Stewart Butterfield Copy Share Image
I'm a girl who has been tamping down her emotions and keeping them tightly guarded her whole life. And that works really… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
Instead of giving the effort the level of attention needed, the Air Force has wasted a year doing very little to end… — John McCain Copy Share Image
Adults look upon a child as something empty that is to be filled through their own efforts, as something inert and helpless… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
If you don't believe in God, it may help to remember this great line of Geneen Roth's: that awareness is learning to… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“We read the pagan sacred books with profit and delight. With myth and fable we are ever charmed, and find a pleasure… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
To think bad thoughts is really the easiest thing in the world. If you leave your mind to itself it will spiral… — James Clavell Copy Share Image
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Have enough faith in the love of God to believe that a short heartfelt prayer is just as good as a long… — Emmet Fox Copy Share Image
The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual. People who work together will win, whether… — Vince Lombardi Copy Share Image
Man is an onion made up of a hundred integuments, a texture made up of many threads. The ancient Asiatics knew this… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
The "encounter" with the people on the peripheries is intended to draw them into the circle of common care and concern -… — George Weigel Copy Share Image
To his credit, Obama has undertaken a truly ambitious effort to redefine the United States' view of the world and to reconnect… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
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You mistake, too, the people of the North. They are a peaceable people but an earnest people, and they will fight, too.… — William Tecumseh Sherman Copy Share Image
Selfishness and demagoguery take advantage of liberty. The selfish hand constantly seeks to control government, and every increase of governmental power, even… — Charles Evans Hughes Copy Share Image
All the world began with a yes. One molecule said yes to another molecule and life was born. But before prehistory there… — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
Remember, young men, that purity precedes power. The Lord said, 'But purify your hearts before me; and then go ye into all… — M. Russell Ballard Copy Share Image
A family-friendly "eco-populism" can mobilize and unite millions who, at this point, would be turned off by a more extreme set of… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
Any Reform Bill which is worth a moment's thought, or the smallest effort to carry it, must at least double, and it… — John Bright Copy Share Image
They proclaim that every man is entitled to exist without labor and, the laws of reality to the contrary notwithstanding, is entitled… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
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My prayer today is to not be negative about anything for one day. It is so easy to be disappointed, critical, cynical.… — Caroline Myss Copy Share Image
People often assume I assume I am a thrill seeker, but I am not. I do not enjoy roller coasters, and you… — Steve Fossett Copy Share Image
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As commerce secretary, I led the Clinton administration's effort to ensure China's entry into the World Trade Organization and the permanent normalization… — William M. Daley Copy Share Image
We believe that climate change must be viewed not only as a danger to natural systems, but also as a direct threat… — Maumoon Abdul Gayoom Copy Share Image
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When we see the need for deep change, we usually see it as something that needs to take place in someone else.… — Robert E. Quinn Copy Share Image
There is no climate, no place, and scarcely an hour, in which nature does not exhibit color which no mortal effort can… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
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