The intention of this way of life [voluntary simplicity] is not to dogmatically live with less. It's a more demanding intention of… — Duane Elgin Copy Share Image
“But not forgiving yourself often becomes the root of severe self-loathing extreme self hatred and intense inhibitions. It will be next to… — Sue Augustine Copy Share Image
It's all or nothing with my makeup. If I get dressed up, I'll go to an extreme. I'll wear foundation, bright blue… — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
Once more I realize that solitude is my element, and the reason is that extreme awareness of other people (all naturally solitary… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
Heroics are not easily had for the young in our times. Perhaps that is why they go to such extremes to create… — Gail Godwin Copy Share Image
There's always going to be that pressure when you're in front of the camera. When you're famous it's just an extreme version… — Geri Halliwell Copy Share Image
The extreme positions of the Crossfire Syndrome require extreme simplification - framing the debate in terms which ignore the real issues. — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
The algebraic sum of all the transformations occurring in a cyclical process can only be positive, or, as an extreme case, equal… — Rudolf Clausius Copy Share Image
I have thought about this issue of abortion time and again. It is not an easy issue for most people. I came… — Dick Durbin Copy Share Image
People who always feel jolly, no matter where they are or what happens to themwho have the organ of hope preposterously developedwho… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Some things seem to be viewed in similar ways by many people, and I think we should take another look at these… — Julia Woodman Copy Share Image
Madame Ratignolle hoped that Robert would exercise extreme caution in dealing with the Mexicans, who, she considered, were a treacherous people, unscrupulous… — Kate Chopin Copy Share Image
When I wrote Wakolda at first I wasn't conscious that I was writing about something so close to or that had so… — Lucia Puenzo Copy Share Image
Men Wanted for Dangerous Expedition: Low Wages for Long Hours of Arduous Labour under Brutal Conditions; Months of Continual Darkness and Extreme… — Ernest Shackleton Copy Share Image
Whenever we experience an event, whether we're visiting the dentist or taking a dream vacation, our consciousness registers that experience internally on… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
The American doctrinaire is the converse of the American demagogue, and, in this way, is scarcely less injurious to the public. The… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
With the superciliousness of extreme youth, I put thirty-five as the utmost limit at which a man might fall in love without… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
This is insane," I said blankly. "I'm the instrument of an all-powerful primordial deity's wave of chaos and destruction." "That's kind of… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
All extremes are bad. All that is good and useful, if carried to extremes, may become-and beyond a certain limit is bound… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
Romantics value intensity over stability. Realists value security over passion. But both are often disappointed, for few people can live happily at… — Esther Perel Copy Share Image
Does the terror threat we're facing grow out of a perversion of Islam, or does it represent and extreme, but durable, strain… — Chuck Todd Copy Share Image
The noble science of Geology loses glory from the extreme imperfection of the record. The crust of the earth with its embedded… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
The principle of nonviolent resistance seeks to reconcile the truths of two opposites-Acquiescence and violence -while avoiding the extremes and immoralities of… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
An unflinching determination to take the whole evidence into account is the only method of preservation against the fluctuating extremes of fashionable… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Nothing is worse than extreme affliction which destroys the "I" from the outside, because after that we can no longer destroy it… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Mankind likes to think in terms of extreme opposites. It is given to formulating its beliefs in terms of Either/Ors, between which… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
You can be an extreme materialist, thinking that economic development ultimately determines everything; then you are truly ideological. — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
I've always gravitated towards people who are extreme. Whether its drugs, or kicking down doors. Normally, the people in my life had… — Keira Knightley Copy Share Image
Maybe it's true that people with less extreme views who are also interested in public affairs have been driven out by a… — David Frum Copy Share Image
Men and women consume one another rapidly in what is called "the act of love," or else settle down to a mild… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
My mom was always a big fan of Elvis. She made me listen to Elvis when I was a kid. I hated… — Marilyn Manson Copy Share Image
Women with body image or eating disorders are not a special category; [they’re] just more extreme in their response to a culture… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Having yet another vote on refinery legislation that uses high oil prices as an excuse to weaken environmental protections and to give… — Sherwood Boehlert Copy Share Image
Laughter is equally the expression of extreme anguish and horror as of joy: as there are tears of sorrow and tears of… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
I'll tell you an explanation that I find commonly overrated and speculative in the extreme: the idea that things that succeed in… — Cass Sunstein Copy Share Image
This is a time that calls for extreme restraint. In a world of outright aggression and violence there can be no winners.… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
There are people who have no engaged conversation with the land whatsoever, no sense of its beauty or extremes or limits and… — Ellen Meloy Copy Share Image
My family thought if I spent time in the military, I'd become more reasonable, a bit calmer. But I've always been extreme… — Shahin Najafi Copy Share Image
Progress in manufacturing is measured by the production of high quality goods. The unit of progress for Lean Startups is validated learning-a… — Eric Ries Copy Share Image
“Sensitive people usually love deeply and hate deeply. They don't know any other way to live than by extremes because thier emotional… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
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