In Zen Buddhism, "The Great Cessation" is a term that points to the abandoning of the effort to define one's self by… — Mike Scheidt Copy Share Image
The painting was framed in a misty view of sky, sea, and valley. Newt's painting was small, black, and warty. It consisted… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
It has nothing to do with your desires and their fulfillment, with your hopes and their fulfillment; it is already the case.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We are becoming able to see the pursuit of external power for what it is and the futility of trying to escape… — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
There is a possibility in human minds of something mysterious as the night-wind, deep as the sea, calm as the stars, and… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
If you want to change from sex towards love, try to understand your sexuality. Watch it, watch the mechanicalness of it. See… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
It is a world completely rotten with wealth, power, senility, indifference, puritanism and mental hygiene, poverty and waste, technological futility and aimless… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
I must hold in balance the sense of the futility of effort and the sense of the necessity to struggle; the conviction… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Futility Move him into the sun - Gently its touch awoke him once, At home, whispering of fields unsown. Always it woke… — Wilfred Owen Copy Share Image
We need to reach the millions who live in cities, the hundreds of thousands in industrial centers, the tens of thousands in… — Eberhard Arnold Copy Share Image
It is the fixed that horrifies us, the fixed that assails us with the tremendous force of mindlessness. The fixed is a… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
Married life had taught Toran the futility of arguing with a female in a dark-brown mood. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“That's like leaping off a precipice and trying to knit yourself a parachute on the way down.” — Kelli Jae Baeli Copy Share Image
Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge. — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
As the situation developed, the futility of attempting suicide in the middle of a hospital became apparent. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Things have to be beautifully made, even if they are full of fun, fantasy and futility — Karl Lagerfeld Copy Share Image
So what’s on the agenda for tonight? (Danger) Migraine, futility, possible death. Same as every night, I guess. (Alexion) — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
“Człowiek jest zły i cała jego działalność polega na robieniu niepotrzebnych rzeczy i gromadzeniu niepotrzebnej wiedzy.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“The sword of Gryffindor was hidden they knew not where, and they were three teenagers in a tent whose only achievement was… — J.K. Rowling Copy Share Image
Man may be doomed to loss, sorrow, and desolation, but if he tries his strength and will, however briefly, upon the indifferent… — Jim Perrin Copy Share Image
Most Americans have never seen the ignorance, degradation, hunger, sickness, and futility in which many other Americans live...They won't become involved in… — Shirley Chisholm Copy Share Image
“There’s no better sign that a civilization has reached its height than the awareness, in its members, of the futility of all… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
When a man or a woman holds fast to youth, even if successfully, there is something of the pitiful and the tragic… — Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman Copy Share Image
I used to tweet, but it's an act of futility. You're not really making any impact, and if you find yourself in… — Sylvester Stallone Copy Share Image
When I was still a rather precocious young man, I already realized most vividly the futility of the hopes and aspirations that… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
In your action, you lose sight of the vision, you lose sight of your trust in the process, and you just bang… — Esther Hicks Copy Share Image
“With the exception of professional rationalists, today people despair of true knowledge. If only the significant history of human thought were to… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
But what help from these fineries or pedantries? What help from thought? Life is not dialectics. We, I think, in these times,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“What an odd creature you are, Bernard, with your constant fear of death! Do you never have a feeling, as I do,… — François Mauriac Copy Share Image
Communicating and celebrating the times when individuals have made values-based decisions is, of course, empowering and can provide role models. But perhaps… — Mary C. Gentile Copy Share Image
(He) mourned mankind, and the blindness of men, who thought that the Kosmos had rules and limits that would shelter them from… — Bruce Sterling Copy Share Image
How infuriating it is to be continually born to war that continues one's whole lifetime, even as one protests it - what… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
The greatest change we need to make is from consumption to production, even if on a small scale, in our own gardens.… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
A vast silence reigned over the land. The land itself was a desolation, lifeless, without movement, so lone and cold that the… — Jack London Copy Share Image
You may look back on your life and accept it as good or evil. But it is far, far harder to admit… — Sebastian Horsley Copy Share Image
In order to find God in ourselves, we must stop looking at ourselves, stop checking and verifying ourselves in the mirror of… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Popular Christianity has for its emblem a gibbet, for its chief sensation a sanginary execution after torture, for its central mystery is… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“I’m curious about everyone, hungry for everything, greedy for all ideas. My awareness that not everything can be seen, not everything read… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
We are children, perhaps, at the very moment when we know that it is as children that God loves us - not… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
