“Encased in an elaborate illusion of unlimited power and progress, each of us subscribes, at least until one’s mid-life crisis, to the… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
Meditation speaks. It speaks in silence. It reveals. It reveals to the aspirant that matter and spirit are one, quantity and quality… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
“You said you wanted someone to know you. Maybe I just want to have someone know me too. Without you in this… — Jessica Shirvington Copy Share Image
“I believe in transhumanism: once there are enough people who can truly say that, the human species will be on the threshold… — Julian Huxley Copy Share Image
Because of a friend, life is a little stronger, fuller, more gracious thing for the friend's existence, whether he be near or… — A. C. Benson Copy Share Image
It is our expression that the flux between that which isn't and that which won't be, or the state that is commonly… — Charles Fort Copy Share Image
“The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
To live is not to breathe but to act. It is to make use of our organs, our senses, our faculties, of… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
She thought of the last couple of years: the boredom, the narrowness of existence, the dearth of anything to look forward to.… — Rosamunde Pilcher Copy Share Image
Time, which measures everything in our idea, and is often deficient to our schemes, is to nature endless and as nothing; it… — James Hutton Copy Share Image
This world belongs to the strong, my friend! The ritual of our existence is based on the strong getting stronger by devouring… — Ken Kesey Copy Share Image
And why does England thus persecute the votaries of her science? Why does she depress them to the level of her hewers… — David Brewster Copy Share Image
To talk of comparing the Bible with other "sacred books" so called, such as the Koran...or the book of Mormon, is positively… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Now, I confess myself as belonging to that class in the country who contemplate slavery as a moral, social and political evil,… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“Here, her hand in mine was the one reality that severed us from the cold click-clack of Hell. I rubbed her hand… — Steven L. Peck Copy Share Image
I am quite likely to re-act to the opposite extreme - to feel rapturously that the world is beautiful and mere existence… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Carmen prayed hard. She prayed while standing near the priest in hopes it would give her request extra credibility. What she prayed… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
God surely did not create us, and cause us to live, with the sole end of wishing always to die. I believe,… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
You don't know what someone's going to walk away from a movie with, but you hope it's something positive, but if nothing,… — Melissa Rosenberg Copy Share Image
One of the things that I've never seen in tabletop gaming is this juvenile notion that the existence of a game that… — Wil Wheaton Copy Share Image
Our mission has been the protection of the wage-worker, now; to increase his wages; to cut hours off the long workday, which… — Samuel Gompers Copy Share Image
When we pray, we are speaking to the One Whose eternal purpose and designs are unfolding as our present realities. In order… — James MacDonald 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
Money, again, has often been a cause of the delusion of the multitudes. Sober nations have all at once become desperate gamblers,… — Charles Mackay Copy Share Image
“In a book, all would have gone according to plan... but life was so fucking untidy — what could you say for… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
This future man, whom the scientists tell us they will produce in no more than a hundred years, seems to be possessed… — Hannah Copy Share Image
We have the ability to effect a great positive change in the world, starting with the training of our own minds and… — Noah Levine Copy Share Image
It is impressive to see a person who has been battered by life in many ways, who is torn by a variety… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
Is there any wilderness of sand in the deserts of Arabia, is there any prospect of desolation among the ruins of Palestine,… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
The true work of art is born from the 'artist': a mysterious, enigmatic, and mystical creation. It detaches itself from him, it… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
Take a moment to reflect upon the existence of the musical The Book of Mormon. Now imagine the security precautions that would… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
The reason that extended solitude seemed so hard to endure was not that we missed others but that we began to wonder… — Doris Grumbach Copy Share Image
Well, I'm a daughter of the great migration as, really, the majority of African Americans that you meet in the north and… — Isabel Wilkerson Copy Share Image
It is certain that those who have the living faith in their hearts see at once that all existence is none other… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
There was promulgation of false propaganda by the administration about the existence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. There was promulgation… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
“If I die very young, hear this: I was never anything but a kid playing. I was a heathen like the sun… — Alberto Caeiro Copy Share Image
“In no great while you will be no one and nowhere, and nothing that you now behold will be in existence, nor… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
We have a chance here to prove that [Rwanda], a country that almost slaughtered itself out of existence, can practice reconciliation, reorganize… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
Magic is antiphysics, so it can't really exist. But is shares one thing with science. I can explain the principle behind a… — Koji Nakanishi Copy Share Image
To me the external existence of my soul is proved from my idea of activity. If I work incessantly until my death,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image