The compensation of growing old ... was simply this; that the passion remains as strong as ever, but one has gained --… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Always live your life with one dream to fulfill. No matter how many of your dreams you have realized in the past,… — Sara Henderson Copy Share Image
Poverty is a bitter thing; but it is not as bitter as the existence of restless vacuity and physical, moral, and intellectual… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Every man builds his world in his own image; he has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Prior to Valentinus, those who follow Valentinus had no existence. Nor did those from Marcion exist before Marcion. Nor, in short, did… — Irenaeus of Lyons Copy Share Image
These weren't cheap modern books; these were books bound in leather, and not just leather, but leather from clever cows who had… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Tolstoi explains somewhere in his writings why, in his opinion, “Science for Science's sake” is an absurd conception. We cannot know all… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
There is a sadness at the back of life which some people do not attempt to mitigate. Entirely aware of their own… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Hey, look at this!" He holds up a glistening, perfect pearl about the size of a pea. "You know, if you put… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
The practice of that which is ethically best-what we call goodness or virtue-involves a course of conduct which, in all respects, is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It was that quality that led me into aviation in the first place — it was a love of the air and… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
“Now I am experiencing the Clear Light of objective reality. Nothing is happening, nothing ever has happened or ever will happen. My… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The life-converting experience is not the discovery that I have choices to make that determine the way I live out my existence,… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
One of the more positive aspects of our existence in Oceania is that truth is flexible and negotiable, despite attempts by some… — Epeli Hau'ofa Copy Share Image
When a rainbow appears vividly in the sky, you can see its beautiful colors, yet you could not wear as clothing or… — Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche Copy Share Image
“Today alpha equals 1/137.0359 or so. Regardless, its value makes the periodic table possible. It allows atoms to exist and also allows… — Sam Kean Copy Share Image
God drove Cain out of his presence and sent him into exile far away from his native land, so that he passed… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“We know there are colours in the spectrum untranslatable to our eyes; sounds beyond the range of our hearing; sensations beyond the… — Mort W. Lumsden Copy Share Image
I love the psychology versus math and logic. In algebra, "X" means any possible variable. I sort of think about "X" in… — Allie X Copy Share Image
The ego, as our familiar sense of self, seems predicated on fear. The fear that we might not make it, that we… — Roger Housden Copy Share Image
The suckling relationship is one of the sources of real sweetness that we have in human existence...The suckling baby can teach adults… — Ina May Gaskin Copy Share Image
When we see a beautiful object, a beautiful garden, or a beautiful flower, let us think that there we behold a ray… — Alphonsus Liguori Copy Share Image
Evolutionary biologists are not content merely to explain how variation occurs within limits, however. They aspire to answer a much broader question-which… — Phillip E. Johnson Copy Share Image
If we are to have another contest in the near future of our national existence, I predict that the dividing line will… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
Your actions are your own. Your choices are your own. Each of us carries a burden of guilt for decisions made or… — Juliet Marillier Copy Share Image
Our imagination so magnifies this present existence, by the power of continual reflection on it, and so attenuates eternity, by not thinking… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Once something has outlived its usefulness in one area of life, its purpose for being in existence is no longer the same.… — Guy Finley Copy Share Image
“Oh, the most important thing about myself is that my life has been full of changes. Therefore, when I observe the world,… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
This, however, seems to be certain: the ichor, that is, the material I have mentioned that finally becomes red, exists before the… — Marcello Malpighi Copy Share Image
The parallel existence and mutual interaction of "state" and "market" in the modern world create "political economy"; without both state and market… — Robert Gilpin Copy Share Image
All my life I have been acutely aware of a contradiction in the very nature of my existence. For forty-five years I… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
I foresaw the financial crisis. I get messages in my sleep, in pictures and words. I understood that I have a mission… — Shari Arison Copy Share Image
It seems as if it is only through an experience of symbolic reality that man, vainly seeking his own “existence” and making… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Coming into existence is always bad for those who come into existence. In other words, although we may not be able to… — David Benatar Copy Share Image
Never belong to a crowd; Never belong to a nation; Never belong to a religion; Never belong to a race. Belong to… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The quality of place, the reaction to immediate contact with earth and growing things that have a fugal relationship with mountains and… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
“Existence = Torment. The equation seems obvious to me, but not to one of my friends. How to convince him? I cannot… — Emil M. Cioran Copy Share Image
People simply disappeared, always during the night. Your name was removed from the registers, every record of everything you had ever done… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I believe that used responsibly and in a mature way, the entheogens mediate access to the numinous dimensions of existence, have a… — Stanislav Grof Copy Share Image
“Loneliness clarifies. Here silence stands Like heat. Here leaves unnoticed thicken, Hidden weeds flower, neglected waters quicken, Luminously-peopled air ascends; And past… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
