I always write with an audience in mind. If I feel that [connection] coming back at me then I feel like I'm… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
Our ideas about love and attractiveness are so primal, our need for belonging so intense, that most of us are loath to… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
The problem is that too many adults think their kids' lives are simple, or they try to make their lives simple, when… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
Emotions are the natural result of striving for something. Every single scene has two or more people in it, and nobody wants… — William H. Macy Copy Share Image
Dramatically at first - that's how I handle emotional pain. If there were an award given for these moments, then I would… — Danielle Cormack Copy Share Image
I do not think one can assess a writer's motives without knowing something of his early development. His subject matter will be… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“The emotional ache is so heavy you can’t manage - not without ripping the hair from your head and picking at your… — Sophie Gylnn Copy Share Image
All people share the same desire to be treated equally. We all go through similar emotional journeys from love to hate, rejection… — Dana Tai Soon Burgess Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in the words or the meaning of the words. I'm interested in disappearing in it completely, to not be… — Karl Ove Knausgard Copy Share Image
That's the beauty of backbends. Emotionally we can never be disturbed, for the emotional centre becomes an extrovert. When you do Viparita… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
In undeveloped social groups, we find very little formal teaching and training. Savage groups mainly rely for instilling needed dispositions into the… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
We are biological creatures. We are born, we live, we die. There is no transcendent purpose to existence. At best we are… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
I've had many more thousands of books in my possession than my shelves at home would indicate. At one time, I tried… — Lewis Buzbee Copy Share Image
This is what rituals are for. We do spiritual ceremonies as human beings in order to create a safe resting place for… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
You know what I find amazing is within Christianity it is not uncommon to find [married] people who don't have sexual intimacy,… — Mark Driscoll Copy Share Image
Man tries to make for himself in the fashion that suits him best a simplified and intelligible picture of the world; he… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
There is no evidence that dogs have the kind of complex emotional lives and value systems that we do. It's one reason… — Jon Katz Copy Share Image
Clearly it is not reason that has failed. What has failed-as it has always failed-is the attempt to achieve certainty, to reach… — Allen Wheelis Copy Share Image
For me, the best characters are the ones that feel fully formed inside and out, so I try to have a very… — Nick Kroll Copy Share Image
Men We Reaped is a fiercely felt meditation on the value of life that at once reminds us of its infinite worth… — Peter Ho Davies Copy Share Image
What does it mean to love someone with all your heart? It means to love with all your emotional feelings and with… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
Why ... do the myths of America the Hateful take such powerful hold? Because anti-Americanism provides a useful emotional function which goes… — Michael Gove Copy Share Image
“She paused and seemed on the verge of getting emotional. "The hard part was that none of my early jobs taught my… — Evan Dawson Copy Share Image
It's not like I prepare anymore, or have to think about my son being dead to get emotional. If you're working with… — Maria Bello Copy Share Image
“Once more, I was left alone. My way of dealing with emotional distress was to immediately engage my heart and intellect in… — Jacqueline Tusi Copy Share Image
The Problem is: many terrific women have made themselves overqualified for the job of wife, because many men are looking for a… — Karen Salmansohn Copy Share Image
We cannot talk with [animals] as we can with human beings, yet we can communicate with them on mental and emotional levels.… — Rebecca Hall Copy Share Image
Ninety-nine per cent of traditional English literature concerns people who never have to worry about money at all. We always seem to… — James Kelman Copy Share Image
It has always seemed to me that the only painless death must be that which takes the intelligence by violent surprise and… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Our relationship with sleep is currently in crisis, but we're also living in a golden age of sleep science - revealing all… — Arianna Huffington Copy Share Image
In our childhoods we either get all the social and emotional and ethical skills we need to be well adjusted adults, or… — Bucky Sinister Copy Share Image
“Have you ever had a dream that you were certain was real, only to wake up and realize that everyone and everything… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
Nature or, that which I see, inspires me, puts me, as with any painter, in an emotional state so that an urge… — Piet Mondrian Copy Share Image
Conscious parenting is a new paradign shift in the way we look at our roles as parents. It's turning the spot light… — Shefali Tsabary Copy Share Image
Indian actors, because of the format of our stories, need to be good actors, and be able to perform emotional sequences, do… — Amitabh Bachchan Copy Share Image
The demons of the Devil don't use your weak weaknesses against you, they use your strong ones. If you're rational and logical,… — Aidan Chambers Copy Share Image
The lack of emotional security of our American young people is due, I believe, to their isolation from the larger family unit.… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
“Now wasn't the time for emotional outbursts, but when they were safe--and they would be because she believed him without reservation--then she'd… — Maya Banks Copy Share Image
To see him there lifeless and breathless was very emotional for me. But I held myself together because I knew he's very… — Jermaine Jackson Copy Share Image
Surrendered people enjoy life, relish their personal development, and value their friends. They may have an exceptionally good career and be wealthy,… — Judith Orloff Copy Share Image