“Perhaps the most powerful and appealing aspect of another's words, however, is simply their convenience. Whether distilled in the briefest apophthegm, or… — Jasper Siegel Seneschal Copy Share Image
For us Christians, love of neighbour springs from love of God; and it is its most limpid expression. Here one tries to… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
The true liberation of eroticism lies in accepting the fact that there are a million facets to it, a million forms of… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
What deep and worthy love is so, whether of woman or child, or art or music. Our caresses, our tender words, our… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
When I go visit my brother monks in Japan and sit down with other Zen Masters, they look at my crazy clothes… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It is often by a trivial, even an anecdotal decision, that we direct our activities into a certain channel, and thus determine… — Rene Dubos Copy Share Image
That the outer man is a picture of the inner, and the face an expression and revelation of the whole character, is… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
We find collected in this book [The Bible] the superstitious beliefs of the ancient inhabitants of Palestine, with indistinct echoes of Indian… — Max Nordau Copy Share Image
The Roman form of serenade is to race a motorcycle motor under the girl's window, but mufflers are not common in any… — Eleanor Clark Copy Share Image
There's a lot of pressure that comes from the mainstream stuff, and already people who have been saying - people who don't… — Lizz Wright Copy Share Image
He was smiling again, his face alight, and Ivy knew her own expression was a mirror to his. Ivoleyn, he said, softly… — Galen Beckett Copy Share Image
The idea of buddha mind is not purely a concept or a theoretical, metaphysical idea. It is something extremely real that we… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
The lower classes of men, though they do not think it worthwhile to record what they perceive, nevertheless perceive everything that is… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
If there is a mystical chord in democracy, it probably revolves around the notion that unexpected music can resonate from politics when… — William Greider Copy Share Image
There is, moreover, very little sense in preventing young people from giving expression to their ideas on the pretext that they have… — Otto Weininger Copy Share Image
The way of the world is to bloom and to flower and die but in the affairs of men there is no… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
When we form heart-centered beliefs within our bodies, in the language of physics we're creating the electrical and magnetic expression of them… — Gregg Braden Copy Share Image
It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on earth has ever produced the expression "As pretty as an airport." Airports… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“We all owe everyone for everything that happens in our lives. But it’s not owing like a debt to one person—it’s really… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
In comparing these two writers, he [Samuel Johnson] used this expression: "that there was as great a difference between them as between… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
“There's an expression in classical music. It goes, 'We went out to the meadow.' It's for those evenings that can only be… — John Green Copy Share Image
I have endeavoured to show that no absolute structural line of demarcation, wider than that between the animals which immediately succeed us… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
..he made me understand something very important. Whether because I am a Latin, or because I am a neurotic, I have a… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
It is easy to distinguish between the joking that reflects good breeding and that which is coarse-the one, if aired at an… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Writers are idolized not because they love their fellow men, which is never a recommendation and in extreme instances leads to crucifixion,… — Hugh Kingsmill Copy Share Image
They were stars on this stage, each playing to an audience of two: the passion of their pretense created the actuality. Here,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I cannot pursue my architecture without considering the minimization of energy consumption, simple and direct technologies, a respect for site, climate, place… — Glenn Murcutt Copy Share Image
The poet's perspective of life, the musician's sense of harmony, the artist's eye of proportion and relationships ~ these are all shared… — Michael Tierra Copy Share Image
Sorrow, terror, anguish, despair itself are often the chosen expressions of an approximation to the highest good. Our sympathy in tragic fiction… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
If you complain of people being shot down in the streets, of the absence of communication or social responsibility, of the rise… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
I think when I started acting it was the first time I got the freedom of expression. I was able to express… — Adam Beach Copy Share Image
Clearly, there is some invisible force that is moving every aspect of reality to its next best expression. And the universe is… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
The moment you know your real being, you are afraid of nothing. Death gives freedom and power. To be free in the… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
The moral absolutes rest upon God's character. The moral commands He has given to men are an expression of His character. Men… — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
In the dominant Western religious system, the love of God is essentially the same as the belief in God, in God’s existence,… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Charlotte said that if I chose, I could cease to be a Gray and take the name my mother should have had… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
They'd never been lovers, of course, not in the physical sense. But they'd been lovers as most of us manage, loving through… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
Our Apostolic Mandate requires from Us that We watch over the purity of the Faith and the integrity of Catholic discipline. It… — Pope Pius X Copy Share Image
When the stories of our life no longer bind us, we discover within them something greater. We discover that within the very… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
In every art we are always obliged to return to the accepted means of expression, the conventional language of the art. What… — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image