Love is an active construction, and choice, not just an encounter that happens by chance. — Masha Tupitsyn Copy Share Image
When I went to Amazonia, l went as the field doctor for biologists studying crocodile behavior. There's no way humans should have… — Kenneth Kamler Copy Share Image
The ordinary procedure of the nineteenth century is that when a powerful and noble personage encounters a man of feeling, he kills,… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
When we trust our creativity we encounter a supreme kind of enjoyment - an amazement at the natural unfolding of life beyond… — Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche Copy Share Image
Most of us sleepwalk through our lives. We take all its glories, its wine, food, love, and friendship, its sunsets and its… — Jack McDevitt Copy Share Image
If you are hurt, whether in mind or body, don't nurse your bruises. Get up, and light-heartedly, courageously, good-temperedly, get ready for… — Emily Post Copy Share Image
The world is a great ocean, upon which we encounter more tempestuous storms than calms. — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
The Christian life is participation in the encounter of Christ with the world. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Nothing is so irretrievably missed as an opportunity we encounter every day. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Copy Share Image
Your job, your invitation from the Universe, is to give people back to themselves. You can do this every day, in a… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
Dachshunds have their own agenda and can be stubborn about seeing their plans through to completion. What Rosie lacked in consistency, she… — Mary Doria Russell Copy Share Image
There are people we meet in life who miss being important to us by inches, days, or heartbeats. Another place or time… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Imagine that someone said or did something cruel to you, but that you did not react in any way whatsoever – you… — Roy Masters Copy Share Image
The prizes of life are at the end of each journey, not near the beginning; and it is not given to me… — Og Mandino Copy Share Image
Gradually, at various points in our childhoods, we discover different forms of conviction. There's the rock-hard certainty of personal experience ("I put… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Zen practice is about not getting high on anything and in so doing getting high on absolutely everything. We then find that… — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
No movie can be a downer that fills you with pure exhilaration. You leave WALL-E with a feeling of the rarest kind:… — Peter Travers Copy Share Image
Of all bad listeners, the worst and most terrible to encounter is the man who is so fond of listening that he… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Honestly, I have yet to encounter a really bad working experience. Sets are really my favorite places to be because of the… — Larisa Oleynik Copy Share Image
Nima Shirazi's is an important progressive voice in the Iran debate in the West, often deconstructing the myths (and sometimes propaganda) we… — Hooman Majd Copy Share Image
The number and richness of man's signifiers always surpasses the set of defined objects that could be termed signifieds. The symbolic function… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
So-called real life has only once interfered with me, and it had been a far cry from what the words, lines, books… — Cees Nooteboom Copy Share Image
Rather than set aside daily time for prayer, I pray constantly and spontaneously about everything I encounter on a daily basis. When… — Thomas Kinkade Copy Share Image
