Yosemite Park is a place of rest, a refuge from the roar and dust and weary, nervous, wasting work of the lowlands,… — John Muir Copy Share Image
India has known the innocence and insouciance of childhood, the passion and abandon of youth, and the ripe wisdom of maturity that… — Jawaharlal Nehru Copy Share Image
Deep thoughts (come) from a deep well. Society is useful because when we see ourselves reflected through others we can gain a… — David Jenkins Copy Share Image
Historically, if you look back at the struggle to end slavery, the struggle to gain womens' right to vote, the labor movement… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
With a novel, no matter where I am in it, I'm fretting about it. Every time I write a book, it starts… — Douglas Kennedy Copy Share Image
The camera only facilitates the taking. The photographer must do the giving in order to transform and transcend ordinary reality. The problem… — Ernst Haas Copy Share Image
The more I work, the more I see things differently, that is, everything gains in grandeur every day, becomes more and more… — Alberto Giacometti Copy Share Image
Realization is our true nature. It is nothing new to be gained. What is new cannot be eternal. Therefore there is no… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
...it is not the obscure passages in Scripture that bind you but the ones you understand. With these you are to comply… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
The spiritual journey does not consist of arriving at a new destination where a person gains what he did not have, or… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
In meditation you withdraw from others and focus your attention inside to gain purity of mind and wisdom energy. Then you must… — S. N. Goenka Copy Share Image
We have consciousness and rational powers but unless you're willing to spend the time to gain control of yourself, gain control of… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
An act of heroism, of extraordinary courage, the grandeur of it, won't easily inspire us to act in imitation, but it can… — John McCain Copy Share Image
It would be hard to conceive a system of instincts more nicely adjusted, where the constituents should represent or support one another… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Some people's joints articulate in a manner that allows them to benefit greatly from squats; others may not benefit at all. If… — Dorian Yates Copy Share Image
When one is young, one venerates and despises without that art of nuances which constitutes the best gain of life, and it… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A stupid person is a person who causes losses to another person or to a group of persons while himself deriving no… — Carlo M. Cipolla Copy Share Image
Everyone, either from modesty or egotism, hides away the best and most delicate of his soul’s possessions; to gain the esteem of… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
In almost every enterprise, government has provided business with opportunities for private gain at public expense. Government nurtures private capital accumulation through… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
To gain anything we have longed for is only to discover how vain and empty it is; and even though we are… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Saying No gains you respect. When you say No, the other person may feel disappointed. But ultimately, they will respect you for… — Doreen Virtue Copy Share Image
The past few decades of widening inequality can be summed up as significant income and wealth gains for those at the very… — Janet Yellen Copy Share Image
The fact that our message and my lyrics can have a positive impact on someone's life is really astounding. It definitely makes… — Beau Bokan Copy Share Image
Psychology saves us from mistakes. It makes us more clear as to what we are about. We gain confidence in respect to… — William James Copy Share Image
From social intercourse are derived some of the highest enjoyments of life; where there is a free interchange of sentiments the mind… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
In the end the only thing that you can have on your side is time. The only way to gain time is… — Demi Moore Copy Share Image
I've had lengthy discussions with European farm leaders. It is clear they have an agricultural strategy to support their producers and gain… — Kent Conrad Copy Share Image
And although it might be best of all to be Socrates satisfied, having both happiness and depth, we would give up some… — Robert Nozick Copy Share Image
Religion in a magistrate strengthens his authority, because it procures veneration, and gains a reputation to it. In all the affairs of… — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
One reads books in order to gain the privilege of living more than one life. People who don't read are trapped in… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
Poverty persists, essentially, because the people at the bottom - the bottom quarter and also the bottom half - see the gains… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
Look in, and see Christ's chosen saint In triumph wear his Christ-like chain; No fear lest he should swerve or faint; "His… — John Keble Copy Share Image
Sometimes one touches on a very painful spot where one is almost too shy to look into it, but somehow one still… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
Gain control of the emotions. Be the helmsperson and not blown around by the winds of emotion. While there will be winds,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We can be consicous of how we tend to ignore or escape anguish rather than understand and accept it. We can be… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
President Obama can talk about having no grand schemes and making no big gains, but the reality is he can't get anything… — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
If the adjustment made by a court can be accepted or not, it will be refused whenever the men can gain more… — John Bates Clark Copy Share Image
We must end the iniquitous multi-taxing of the same money. It is not right to tax people's incomes, then their savings on… — Liam Fox Copy Share Image
The easiest way to gain someone's trust is to deserve it. This should be pretty easy, assuming you're just being you and… — Ashly Lorenzana Copy Share Image
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