Make it a habit to ask yourself: What's going on inside me at this moment? That question will point you in the… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Our conceptions of morality, as all our other ideas, pass through a course of development; the difficulty comes in adjusting our conduct,… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
“Some people read for instruction, which is praiseworthy, and some for pleasure, which is innocent, but not a few read from habit,… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
In a scholarly manner I have made it a habit to collect different crowd-control manuals, and I read them to the police… — Vermin Supreme Copy Share Image
The American motion picture is the greatest unconscious carrier of propaganda in the world today. It is a great distributor for ideas… — Edward Bernays Copy Share Image
Let people who have to observe sickness and death look back and try to register in their observation the appearances which have… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
As individuals, and as a society, we can choose to take responsibility for ourselves. In doing so we have to accept that… — Gever Tulley Copy Share Image
Ah, sinner, may the Lord quicken thee! But it is a work that makes the Saviour weep. I think when He comes… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Change is difficult and it takes time. It is hard for people to change their own behavior, much less that of others.… — Richard P. Rumelt Copy Share Image
I know few Christians so convinced of the splendor of the rooms in their Father's house, as to be happier when their… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
When I was on the U.S. men's indoor team, I was on the road 200 days of the year and sometimes in… — Karch Kiraly Copy Share Image
“Acknowledging that we are all churned up is the first and most difficult step in any practice. Without compassionate recognition that we… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
I dare say you marvel sometimes at my independent way of walking through the world just as if nature had made me… — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
(An unhappy childhood was not) an unsuitable preparation for my future, in that it demanded a constant wariness, the habit of observation,… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
It was terribly dangerous to let your thoughts wander when you were in any public place or within range of a telescreen.… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents has been always tragic, chiefly as an almost indecent excitement at first, and a worse… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
Every change in conditions will make necessary some change in the use of resources, in the direction and kind of human activities,… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
somehow we have overlooked the fact this treasured called the heart can also be broken, has been broken, and now lies in… — John Eldredge Copy Share Image
If people could only be taught that economy is a thing of littles and of individuals, and of every day, and not… — Julia McNair Wright Copy Share Image
Dearest Charles-- I found a box of this paper at the back of a bureau so I must write to you as… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
But the transformation of consciousness undertaken in Taoism and Zen is more like the correction of faulty perception or the curing of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Conclusions which are merely verbal cannot bear fruit, only those do which are based on demonstrated fact. For affirmation and talk are… — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
In vain are Schools, Academies, and Universities instituted, if loose Principles and licentious habits are impressed upon Children in their earliest years… — John Adams Copy Share Image
So we have a choice to make. We can once again let Washington's bad habits stand in the way of progress. Or… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The assumption that the laws of nature are eternal is a vestige of the Christian belief system that informed the early postulates… — Rupert Sheldrake Copy Share Image
Forgiveness feels most dramatic when some ancient pattern of self-punishment collapses in a torrent of tears. But it is just as effective… — D. Patrick Miller Copy Share Image
Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty. Perhaps, at first, prejudice, habit, shame or fear, principle or religion,… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Indeed Christianity passes. Passes - it has gone! It has littered the beaches of life with churches, cathedrals, shrines and crucifixes, prejudices… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Women of fashion and character--I do not mean absolutely unblemished--are a necessary ingredient in the composition of good company; the attention which… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
The consequences of these institutions (The towns or districts, the congregations, the schools,and the militia.) have been, that the inhabitants, having acquired… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“Habits don’t just happen overnight. If a habit takes 30 days to form, then those 30 days will tell you a lot… — Jarrid Wilson Copy Share Image
In an economy, an act, a habit, an institution, or a law, gives birth not only to an effect, but to a… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
Nothing is more detestable to the physical anthropologist than... the wretched habit of cremating the dead. It involves not only a prodigal… — Earnest Hooton Copy Share Image
I get lots of ideas when the lights go out at night and it gets very quiet. Sometimes they come when I… — Zig Ziglar Copy Share Image
“Luxury is dangerous to people who have never known it and to whom its temptations are held out too suddenly. [...] Just… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Westerners think that all that is negative and positive is only caused from outside of themselves. They materialize and externalize their experiences,… — Thinley Norbu Copy Share Image
My advice is: to try and stay really true to the things that make YOU laugh, as opposed to trying to create… — Dane Cook Copy Share Image
I decided a long time ago I would feed on the vultures until a dove came along. A pigeon. The kind of… — Jamie McGuire Copy Share Image
I'd always believed that any song worth singing is worth putting harmony on. When it comes time for the harmonies to come… — Charlie Louvin Copy Share Image
Almost everything that's happened in my poetry is what you might call organic. I don't do much preconceiving. The only consistent plan… — Ron Padgett Copy Share Image
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