“The purpose of life is to find out who you really are, to grow and evolve, to reach higher states of consciousness,… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
“To write is to forget. Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life. Music soothes, the visual arts exhilarates, the performing… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
In real life, however, you don't react to what someone did; you react only to what you think she did, and the… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
This is a lifetime of good-byes. In our time, we will say good-bye to cherished people, things, and ideas. Eventually, we say… — Peter McWilliams Copy Share Image
I would define love very simply: as a potent blend of openness and warmth, which allows us to make real contact, to… — John Welwood Copy Share Image
“Who can free himself from achievement And from fame, descend and be lost Amid the masses of men? He will flow like… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
I cannot life for life itself: but for the words which stay the flux. My life, I feel, will not be lived… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“Do I believe in an old man in the clouds with a white beard judging us mortals with a moral code from… — Sarah Winman Copy Share Image
Our real human nature is revealed better when we are confronted with limited situations, and I think that life itself is an… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
“The act of rebellion carries him beyond the point he reached by simply refusing. He exceeds the bounds that he established for… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
And the greatest calamity that has happened to the human mind is that he is against death. Being against death means you… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“In Japan, a number of time-honored everyday activities (such as making tea, arranging flowers, and writing) have traditionally been deeply examined by… — H.E. Davey Copy Share Image
“But life itself is without use. What is the purpose of it? Where are you going? What is the result? No purpose,… — Osho Copy Share Image
“I walked out of the condos onto the flat lithesome beach this morning, and took a walk in my swimming trunks and… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
I want to be remembered as an imaginer, someone who used his imagination as a way to journey beyond the limits of… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
“So I just live with my insomnia. I do crossword puzzles, or wander out to the music room and fool around on… — Stephen Goodwin Copy Share Image
“Your God would never punish you for being a human being: this life itself is your penance...But it is also more than… — Mirabai Starr Copy Share Image
“Reality does not force itself on anyone...But just because the Word as reality does not force itself on the world does not… — John F. Baggett Copy Share Image
“When you are in your twenties, even if you're confused and uncertain about your aims and purposes, you have a strong sense… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
When one existentially awakens from within, the relation of birth-and-death is not seen as a sequential change from the former to the… — Masao Abe Copy Share Image
“It seemed quite logical to the Librarian that, since there were aisles where the shelves were on the outside then there should… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“If you spend your time hoping that it doesn’t rain tomorrow, you are wasting your time. Your thoughts don’t change the rain.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The ancient sages of Kashmir Shaivism did not look for the truth only in logic and intellectual speculation. They relied much more… — Balajinnatha Pandita Copy Share Image
“Life can't ever really defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death--… — Cara Swann Copy Share Image
“[…] I began to see Algiers as one of the most fascinating and dramatic places on earth. In the small space of… — Ryszard Kapuściński Copy Share Image
What is it that we in the theatre give? Instead of images on canvas or in the form of statuary or music,… — Michael Chekhov Copy Share Image
“Shortly afterwards it started raining, very innocently at first, but the sky was packed tight with cloud and gradually the drops grew… — Halldór Laxness Copy Share Image
“This was the sort of situation that she read about in the novels she favored, by authors such as Miss Jane Austen,… — Tracy Chevalier Copy Share Image
“Without an ultimate authority for truth, all human striving has no ultimate value, and life itself becomes futile. Modern trends in preaching… — Bryan Chapell Copy Share Image
Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded. Wasn't it finer, more… — Edna Ferber Copy Share Image
“By my love for you. I realized I loved you more than life itself, and I would rather give myself into your… — Terry Goodkind Copy Share Image
“The most visible creators are those artists whose medium is life itself. The ones who express the inexpressible ~ without brush, hammer,… — Donna J. Stone Copy Share Image
“I suspect almost every day that I’m living for nothing, I get depressed and I feel self-destructive and a lot of the… — Lester Bangs Copy Share Image
PRACTICE OF THE Art of Peace is an act of faith, a belief in the ultimate power of nonviolence. It is faith… — Morihei Ueshiba Copy Share Image
“On the other hand, the conditions of human existence—life itself, natality and mortality, worldliness, plurality, and the earth—can never “explain” what we… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Mountaineering is a complex and unique way of life, interweaving elements of sport, art and mysticism. Success or failure depends on the… — Wojciech Kurtyka Copy Share Image
“All of creation suffers, young ones. Only in accepting our own mortality can we make a difference. Only in bearing the burden… — Simon Spurrier Copy Share Image
“Your generation is suffering from what for lack of a better word I shall call over-debunk . There was a lot of… — Romain Gary Copy Share Image
“Why do you want to do this?" he asked curiously. "Why is this woman so important to you?" Saint-Germain blinked in surprise.… — Michael Scott Copy Share Image
“They look upon the present moment as either marred by something that has happened and shouldn’t have or as deficient because of… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image