The essence of generosity is letting go. Pain is always a sign that we are holding on to something - usually ourselves. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Stand-up comedy is a very hard thing on the spirit. There are people who transcend it, like Jack Benny and Steve Martin,… — Mike Nichols Copy Share Image
Pure essence, and pure matter, and the two joined into one were shot forth without flaw, like three bright arrows from a… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
Few men realize that their life, the very essence of their character, their capabilities and their audacities, are only the expression of… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
We are on earth as extensions of God to finish the work He began. We are the essence of God, His on-going… — Earl Paulk Copy Share Image
To me, reason is as spiritual as anything else, the beauty of reason seems to me indelible and ineffable and numinous... the… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Calamity, war, famine, plague, death, adversity, disease, injury do not necessarily produce repentance. We may become better in a calamity but it… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
I'd rather be dealt with as a person than a persona. With my children, I'm just 'Mom.' At the end of the… — Queen Rania of Jordan Copy Share Image
The majority of the Negroes who took part in the year-long boycott of Montgomery's buses were poor and untutored; but they understood… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Always think about how a piece of code should be used: good interfaces are the essence of good code. You can hide… — Bjarne Stroustrup Copy Share Image
So what I did on the field was the essence of what I am. Remember me like that. — Steve Carlton Copy Share Image
To quote out of context is the essence of the photographer's craft. — John Szarkowski Copy Share Image
I have no memory for things I have learned, nor things I have read, nor things experienced or heard, neither for people… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Music is moral law. It is the essence of order and leads to all that is good, true and beautiful. — Plato Copy Share Image
The premises being thus settled, I proceed to observe that the concatenation of self-existence, proceeding in a reciprocal duplicate ratio, naturally produces… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Human beings are members of a whole, In creation of one essence and soul. If one member is afflicted with pain, Other… — Saadi Copy Share Image
I'm not bankrupt of fun, life, my dignity, my character, my essence. — Chris Eubank Sr Copy Share Image
Youth is not an essential, but rather an accidental property. Nobody is in essence young. One either ceases to be or ceases… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
I dare to imagine a country where every child I hold in my hands, are all God's children, regardless of the color… — Paul Wellstone Copy Share Image
Only the Christian religion, which in its essence is communicated by the eternal child of God, keeps alive in its believers the… — Hans Urs von Balthasar Copy Share Image
The essence of good advertising is not to inspire hope, but to create greed. — Charles Adams Copy Share Image
[New York] is a city largely based on great skyscrapers, and they will always be the essence of New York. That won't… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
When love is pure, it has the power to conquer. Lover and beloved conquer each other by their affection. The source, the… — Radhanath Swami Copy Share Image