The problem is grasping the clock. So what do I do? Let it go, lay it aside - put it down gently… — Ajahn Sumedho Copy Share Image
Meditation isn't really about getting rid of thoughts, it's about changing the pattern of grasping on to things, which in our everyday… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Do you think... that men have always massacred each other, as they do today? Have they always been liars, cheats, traitors, brigands,… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
The Way of Tea lies in studying the ceremony, in understanding the principles, and in grasping the reality of things. These are… — Hosokawa Tadaoki Copy Share Image
The United States has lost her unique position as a leader in the progress of civilization and has taken up her place… — Charles Eliot Norton Copy Share Image
Reason is man's faculty for grasping the world by thought, in contradiction to intelligence, which is man's ability to manipulate the world… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
I've never heard anyone say the really deep lessons of life have come in times of ease and comfort. But, I have… — John Piper Copy Share Image
...he makes me feel out of control and out of my head. He is exhilarating and terrifying. I see and feel him… — Megan McCafferty Copy Share Image
The rhetoric of theory is always in a bind. It pronounces ideas and denounces failures to accept or grasp them while insisting… — Paul Fry Copy Share Image
If we seek to be loved - if we expect to be loved - this cannot be accomplished; we will be dependent… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
This child, who is grasping the stone, facing the tank, is it not the greatest message to the world when that hero… — Yasser Arafat Copy Share Image
When I put my pen to a blank sheet, black isn’t added but rather the white sheet is deprived of light. []… — Adrian Frutiger Copy Share Image
“It is a natural instinct to grasp what is falling, reach for what is slipping or chase what is running away. ”… — Sarah Voldeng Copy Share Image
The novel has become a function of the fragmented society, the fragmented consciousness. Human beings are so divided, are becoming more and… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Mystery is a birthright of theology and faith, but you often do find religious people grasping for answers that shut things down… — Krista Tippett Copy Share Image
Ambition is frequently the only refuge which life has left to the denied or mortified affections. We chide at the grasping eye,… — William Gilmore Simms Copy Share Image
The unawakened mind tends to make war against the way things are. To follow a path with heart, we must understand the… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
The State is a gang of thieves writ large - the most immoral, grasping and unscrupulous individuals in any society. — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
In the field one has to face a chaos of facts, some of which are so small that they seem insignificant; others… — Bronislaw Malinowski Copy Share Image
The blood of Abraham, God's father of the chosen, still flows in the veins of Arab, Jew, and Christian, and too much… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Many troubled Midwestern towns are grasping for ways to fend off decline and, in some cases, extinction. — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
There are in fact four very significant stumbling blocks in the way of grasping the truth, which hinder every man however learned,… — Roger Bacon Copy Share Image
I find that you learn from others. It's very much about watching TV and watching movies for me and grasping that way… — Callan McAuliffe Copy Share Image
Institutionalized desublimation thus appears to be an aspect of the "conquest of transcendence" achieved by the one-dimensional society. Just as this society… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
We perceive and interpret the outer world through a set of incredibly fine internal receptors. But we are incapable, by ourselves, of… — Max Kozloff Copy Share Image
