Love is that condition in the human spirit so profound that it allows me to survive, and better than that, to thrive… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I'm trying to broaden the scope of positive psychology well beyond the smiley face. Happiness is just one-fifth of what human beings… — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
None of us is born thinking we are ordinary. Feeling special is an essential part of the human birthright. If you don't… — Shmuley Boteach Copy Share Image
The idea of determinism combined with complete human responsibility struck me as very hard to reconcile with an idea of justice, let… — Ken MacLeod Copy Share Image
Our people have made the mistake of confusing the methods with the objectives. As long as we agree on objectives, we should… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Humans - whatever billions we are - we don't have the control. We are considered expendable, basically. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Any issue and any problem, no matter what height you look at it from, no matter how much you extend past the… — El-P Copy Share Image
Truth is a risky proposition. It's the nature of mediocre human beings to believe that lies are necessary, that they serve a… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Teaching, like any truly human activity, emerges from one's inwardness, for better or worse. As I teach I project the condition of… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
LAOCOON, n. A famous piece of antique scripture representing a priest of that name and his two sons in the folds of… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
A purely psychological explanation is ruled out... the discs show signs of intelligent guidance, by quasi-human pilots... — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Human rights' are a fine thing, but how can we make ourselves sure that our rights do not expand at the expense… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No woman who is a woman says of a human body, 'it is nothing' ... On this one point, and on this… — Olive Schreiner Copy Share Image
It was both fascinating and appalling to learn that chimpanzees were capable of hostile and territorial behavior that was not unlike certain… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
Kids should be taught about sex, sex hygiene and contraceptive methods starting in the sixth grade, and whenever they want to try… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
A human body can think thoughts, play a piano, kill germs, remove toxins, make a baby all at once. Once it's doing… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
I found out later on that was not true, that life drawing tells you a great deal about rhythm, about the structure… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
Usually, I'll just sit down at a piano or with a guitar, and I'll just be relaxed and playing music. Because that's… — Cat Power Copy Share Image
If a man were called to fix the period in the history of the world during which the condition of the human… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
It made me love talk that sought answers to questions that could help nobody, that could only keep alive in me that… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
The intimate and the infinite are tangled together in this incandescent book, lit by Aristotle’s bright spark of a daughter. Lucid even… — Marina Endicott Copy Share Image
To me, a philosopher who says that the distinction between human and nonhuman depends on whether you have a white or a… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
All history is an attempt to find pattern and meaning in a section of human experience, and every historian worthy of the… — G. B. Caird Copy Share Image
