Yes I can list all sorts of organizational forms and cultural issues that can get in the way of our accessing our… — Michael Ray Copy Share Image
He turned his dark eyes on the girl whom he had dreamed of so often over the previous months. Beside him, at… — Anna Godbersen Copy Share Image
Words of divine consciousness: moral exaltation; lasting feelings of elevation, elation, joy; a quickening of the moral sense, which strikes one as… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Psychoanalysis and Zen, in my private psychic geometry, are equal to nicotine. They are anti-existential. Nicotine quarantines one out of existence. — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
'What was there before the Big Bang?' That's a question that both kids and adults love to pose to anyone who seems… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
To the contrary: His life hummed with meaning and purpose. But the meaning he wrestled from existence lay beyond the comfortable path:… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
Reason and Knowledge have always played a secondary, subordinate, auxiliary role in the life of peoples, and this will always be the… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
What poetry is asking us to accept can be difficult. Our proximity to our mortality, the fragility of our existence, how close… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
Our planet is blessed with vast natural treasures. If we use them wisely, beginning with the elimination of militarism and war, every… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Everything that we perceive around us is struggling towards freedom, from the atom to the man, from the insentient, lifeless particle of… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
It is very clear from the historical record that without British help neither Wahhabism nor the House of Saud would be in… — Andre Vltchek Copy Share Image
I dream of a world where people from different backgrounds are praying and working for the flourishment of communities different from them,… — Eboo Patel Copy Share Image
A Sceptick therefore, who because he finds that Truths are not universally received, doubts of their existence, is just as foolish as… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
Governments and the military purport to protect the public from enemies, and if there were no enemies they would have to invent… — Laurance Labadie Copy Share Image
If it is true, as I have tried to show, that love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
We don't ask a flower any special reason for its existence. We just look at it and are able to accept it… — Gwendolyn Brooks Copy Share Image
“If I have learned one thing in the years of my existence, one nugget of wisdom from having lived in the midst… — Kamran Pasha Copy Share Image
“If you fail in copying from a master you succeed in birthing an original art. Kushal Poddar, Poet” — Kushal Poddar, Poet Copy Share Image
I believe, not theoretically, but from direct personal experience, that very few of the things that happen to us are purposeless or… — Iris Origo Copy Share Image
Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience. — John Updike Copy Share Image
The autonomous individual, striving to realize himself and prove his worth, has created all that is great in literature, art, music, science… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
You can't achieve anything entirely by yourself. There's a support system that is a basic requirement of human existence. To be happy… — Michael Schur Copy Share Image
Our political way of life is by the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God, and of course presupposes the existence of… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
The ascent to the divine Life is the human journey, the Work of works, the acceptable Sacrifice. This alone is man's real… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
In certain favorable moods, memories -- what one has forgotten -- come to the top. Now if this is so, is it… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
As writers, we are exploring the mystery, the mystery of existence. — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
Every breath we draw is a gift of God's love; every moment of existence is a grace. — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Luck really has nothing to do with human existence, since God is not a random God. — Monica Johnson Copy Share Image
Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection is the only workable explanation that has ever been proposed for the remarkable fact of… — John Maynard Smith Copy Share Image
Somewhere I heard a victorious "Yes" in answer to my question of the existence of ultimate purpose. — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
The Perennial Philosophy is expressed most succinctly in the Sanskrit formula, tat tvam asi ('That art thou'); the Atman, or immanent eternal… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The meaning of our existence is not invented by ourselves, but rather detected. — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
A materialist feminist approach to women's oppression destroys the idea that women are a 'natural group' . . . What the analysis… — Monique Wittig Copy Share Image
Make no laws whatever concerning speech, and speech will be free; so soon as you make a declaration on paper that speech… — Voltairine de Cleyre Copy Share Image
An idyllic period of my existence was when I had a den attached to my home... a writing den, and no one… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
I remember once visiting an outdoor exhibition of sculpture in Arnhem, the Netherlands. One of the artists had placed this notice at… — John Wijngaards Copy Share Image
Everybody has to solve that "meaning of life" and purpose question for themselves. Everybody does it their own way. I think you… — Les Wexner Copy Share Image
We skim over the surface thoughtlessly. But we must acknowledge that thinking well is a time-consuming process. We can't expect instant results.… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
