I take the seashell from my jeans pocket and rub my fingers across its silken, indented surface, shallow as my own open… — Katrina Kenison Copy Share Image
Even when I can play Europe's most precious keyboard, to have to listen to people who don't understand, or do not want… — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Copy Share Image
[Wise men] have tried to understand our state of being, by grasping at its stars, or its arts, or its economics. But,… — Charles Fort Copy Share Image
Seeing consists of the grasping of structural features rather than the indiscriminate recording of detail. — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
The common people feel themselves oppressed by the grasping of some, and their vanity is flattered by others. Fired with evil passions,… — Polybius Copy Share Image
Unlike the primate hand, the elephant's grasping organ is also its nose. Elephants use their trunks not only to reach food but… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
Most pastors have a hard time grasping a vision. But vision is the indispensable quality of a leader. — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
In the early days the Cubism' method of grasping an object was to go round and round it. The Futurists declared that… — Gino Severini Copy Share Image
Bold ideas, unjustified anticipations, and speculative thought, are our only means for interpreting nature: our only organon, our only instrument, for grasping… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
The generation of youth in the early 21st century has no way of grasping if they will ever be free from the… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Intuition is a method of feeling one's way intellectually into the inner heart of a thing, in order to locate what is… — Henri Bergson Copy Share Image
I’d be glad to go out on a limb with those Who want nothing beyond what the wind bestows, Were I not… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss.… — Yusef Komunyakaa Copy Share Image
In practice, some come to see easily, some with difficulty. But whatever the case, never mind. Difficult or easy, the Buddha said… — Ajahn Chah Copy Share Image
When I return to the world, I will be a man. I will walk among you. I will lick my lips with… — Garth Stein Copy Share Image
Will you not covet such power as this, and seek such throne as this, and be no more housewives, but queens? There… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The next time you lose heart and you can’t bear to experience what you’re feeling, you might recall this instruction: change the… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
The average mind is slow in grasping a truth, but when the most thoroughly organized, centralized institution, maintained at an excessive national… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Goverment is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
We still find the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry and grasping at the spoil… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
For most people, the major hurdle in grasping modern insights into the nature of the universe is that these developments are usually… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
Recent studies of mindfulness practices reveal that they can result in profound improvements in a range of physiological, mental, and interpersonal domains… — Daniel J. Siegel Copy Share Image
We do not realize how deeply our starting assumptions affect the way we go about looking for and interpreting the data we… — Sue Savage-Rumbaugh Copy Share Image
The real glory of meditation lies not in any method but in its continual living experience of presence, in its bliss, clarity,… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
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