You are a flower crushed beneath the feet of the animal that is concealed in a human being. Take comfort, in that… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
War is not inherent in human beings. We learn war and we learn peace. The culture of peace is something which is… — Elise M. Boulding Copy Share Image
Monkeys don't enjoy or appreciate flavours. Experts have told us that human beings are the only beings that can appreciate food at… — Ferran Adria Copy Share Image
The spiritual life is not a special career, involving abstraction from the world of things. It is a part of every man's… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil, no wonder, then, that the world goes backwards, that evil spreads.… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Inside you is eternity. A human being is not so simple. We're told that we're Ted or Sally or Willie or whatever… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
According to Shakyamuni Buddha, it's normal for human beings to be anxious, because it's normal for human beings not to understand themselves.… — Reb Anderson Copy Share Image
The policy of seeking values from human beings by means of force, when practiced by an individual, is called crime. When practiced… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
Education is ... the invitation to disentangle oneself, for a time, from the urgencies of the here and now and to listen… — Michael Joseph Oakeshott Copy Share Image
I hope I'm thought of as not just a showbiz personality, but as someone who has lived a life and who has… — Lauren Bacall Copy Share Image
He meant that when people laugh together, they cease to be young and old, master and pupils, jailer and prisoners. They become… — Gilbert Highet Copy Share Image
I like bringing little subtle complexities to a character. It's all about the subtext. No one can really describe or fully know… — Ray Stevenson Copy Share Image
I have not attempted to try to relive or recreate the past; but I have sought guidance from those timeless elements in… — Frederick Hart Copy Share Image
Lions and other carnivorous animals do eat meat, but that doesn't mean we should. They would die if they didn't eat meat.… — Sharon Gannon Copy Share Image
I know a lot about fear in itself, and lived with fear a lot. Lived with anxiety a lot, lived with the… — Charlotte Rampling Copy Share Image
As human beings, it is our nature to dream about the future, but there is no future without a healthy nature. It's… — Lupita Nyong'o Copy Share Image
I believe the ultimate aim of all human beings is to obtain happiness and a sense of fulfillment... I have always stressed… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Drugs don't have spiritual potential, human beings have spiritual potential. And it may be that we need techniques to move us in… — Andrew Weil Copy Share Image
It's so easy and comfortable to lie to yourself. Success is to become who you are. I think Hollywood thinks in a… — Audrey Tautou Copy Share Image
the American family is failing in its job of turning out stable human beings. ... It is failing because Americans do not… — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
If you go to Norway, Finland, Russia or Australia, youll see Xerox or Fuji-Xerox people, not just the name on the door.… — Ursula Burns Copy Share Image
Where are there are two desires in a man's heart he has no choice between the two but must obey the strongest,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Writing is how I communicate my deepest beliefs, and what I hope are helpful observations about our dual citizenship, as children of… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
We have nightmares because our brain is running simulations to put us in jeopardy to see what we'll do or to acclimatize… — James Cameron Copy Share Image
I am against censorship. I prefer the chaos of uncontrollable communication of all sorts to selective banning of certain materials. I do… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Freedom is the real source of human happiness and creativity. Irrespective of whether you are a believer or nonbeliever, whether Buddhist, Christian,… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
I have long been convinced that the idea of liberty is abhorrent to most human beings. What they want is security, not… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
It is a great pity that every human being does not, at an early stage of his life, have to write a… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
Changes in the structure of society are not brought about solely by massive engines of doctrine. The first flash of insight which… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
The Bhagavad Gita is not as nice a book as some Americans think…Throughout the Mahabharata ... Krishna goads human beings into all… — Wendy Doniger Copy Share Image
Those afraid of the universe as it really is, those who pretend to nonexistent knowledge and envision a Cosmos centered on human… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Lovemaking surely must be, for human beings at our present state of development, one of the more private enterprises. Who would want… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
The people of Africa have learned the lessons of patience and endurance in their long struggle for freedom. In a cynical world… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Because we had to convince the scientific members of Transylvania that with the procedure I was using on the creature, Dr. Frankenstein… — Gene Wilder Copy Share Image
Our most emotionally active life is lived in our dreams, and our cells renew themselves most industriously in sleep. We reach highest… — Leonard Bernstein Copy Share Image
The world's theology is easy to define. It is the view that human beings are basically good, that no one is really… — James Montgomery Boice Copy Share Image
Faith intervenese not to abolish reason's autonomy nor to reduce its scope for action, but solely to bring the human being to… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
All we want, whether we are honeybees, salmon, trash-collecting ants, ponderosa pines, coyotes, human beings, or stars, is to love and be… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
Until we devise means of discovering workers who are temperamentally irked by monotony it will be well to take for granted that… — Mary Barnett Gilson Copy Share Image
I actually have come to believe that if people were more connected to their fellow human beings, if we all felt more… — Joe Berlinger Copy Share Image
