“People often think the question of non-resistance to evil by force is a theoretical one, which can be neglected. Yet this question… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Was that not the way it ought to be? The beauty of Bruges lay in being dead. From the top of the… — Georges Rodenbach Copy Share Image
That’s the thing with the young these days, isn’t it? They watch too many happy endings. Everything has to be wrapped up,… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“Suddenly being her age seemed great. She didn't have to look perfect. Hooray And think of all the senior discounts she had… — Fannie Flagg Copy Share Image
“The most important thing that is happening in the world right now is the emerging of the new man. Since the monkeys,… — Swami Dhyan Giten Copy Share Image
“No words are adequate for the suffering caused by hunger. To this day I have to show hunger that I escaped his… — Herta Müller Copy Share Image
“As precious as life itself is our heritage of individual freedom, for man's free agency is a God-given gift. In sensing our… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
Reading is sometimes thought of as a form of escapism, and it’s a common turn of phrase to speak of getting lost… — Rebecca Mead Copy Share Image
Life itself today has lost its plane reality: it is projected, not along the old fixed points, but along the dynamic coordinates… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
“Love Hurts. I daresay there’s two or three poems, six novels and at least twelve songs on the subject. That’s how the… — Daniel S. Fletcher Copy Share Image
“See, sexuality is less about the actual act of having pretty good sex for seventeen minutes twice a week and much more… — Sera J. Beak Copy Share Image
For as long as men and women have talked about war, they have talked about it in terms of right and wrong.… — Michael Walzer Copy Share Image
“But I tell you, nothing is pointless, and nothing is meaningless if the artist will face it. And it’s his business to… — Katherine Ann Porter Copy Share Image
Perhaps the highest goodness attainable is a life of service to all mankind. Such an ideal is supported in nearly every page… — Obert C. Tanner Copy Share Image
“Yes, I want to tell her, and maybe I even do say that, but I am crying because whatever gifts, the pieces… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
“I know that things can’t stay the same, that change is the whole of the law: but that not just the human… — John Crowley Copy Share Image
“The stream and the broken pottery: what was any art but an effort to make a sheath, a mould in which to… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
I'm sorry I'm not perfect, for that's what you deserve You're wonderful in everyway, and that, sweetie, is for sure No one… — Im Nothing Copy Share Image
“...Puritanism has made life itself impossible. More than art, more than estheticism, life represents beauty in a thousand variations; it is indeed,… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
“But as for thee, poor soul, who art persuaded to renounce thy lusts, to throw away the conceit of thy own righteousness,… — William Gurnall Copy Share Image
“We can never know what we want, because, living only one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives nor… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Those professions which are not so much involved in life itself as concerned with abstract truths are the most dangerous for the… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Democracy destroys the unity of the Rumanian nation, dividing it among political parties, making Rumanians hate one another, and thus exposing a… — Corneliu Zelea Codreanu Copy Share Image
Inherently within the temperamental soul of humanity lies a shivering and thoroughly jealous irrational thought of death. Life has such a fickle… — Johnny Luckett Copy Share Image
“Frederick the Great's dictum that soldiers had to fear their officers more than they feared the enemy was stupid. Soldiers needed to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Grief said C.S. Lewis is like "a winding valley where any bend may reveal a totally new landscape." This is so. The… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
“Perhaps it means that we are, in every moment, to remember the whole, to remember the gift of life, to remember the… — Judith Hanson Lasater Copy Share Image
“God language can tie people into knots, of course. In part, that is because ‘God’ is not God's name. Referring to the… — Forrest Church Copy Share Image
“If there is anything in life I know to be true, it is that life itself is a matter of the spirit.… — Randall Wallace Copy Share Image
“Pity preserves things that are ripe for decline, it defends things that have been disowned and condemned by life, and it gives… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“You don’t know?” he whispered harshly. “You truly don’t know that you mean everything to me?” Hardly daring to believe her ears,… — Anna Zaires Copy Share Image
“With the term vita activa, I propose to designate three fundamental human activities: labor, work, and action. They are fundamental because each… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“I have lived nearly fifty years, and I have seen life as it is. Pain, misery, hunger ... cruelty beyond belief. I… — Dale Wasserman Copy Share Image
For one who is indifferent, life itself is a prison. Any sense of community is external or, even worse, nonexistent. Thus, indifference… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
“According to Melanie Klein, we develop moral responses in reaction to questions of survivability. My wager is that Klein is right about… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
“A storyteller who provided us with such a profusion of details would rapidly grow maddening. Unfortunately, life itself often subscribes to this… — Alain De Botton Copy Share Image
There is, in fact, no reason to believe that any given natural phenomenon, however marvelous it may seem today, will remain forever… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“Story is the mechanism by which we live, express, understand, and evolve. Story is more than just equipment for living — it’s… — Derek Rydall Copy Share Image
“In the case of the solitary, his seclusion, even when it is absolute and ends only with life itself, has often as… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Life holds one great but quite commonplace mystery. Though shared by each of us and known to all, seldom rates a second… — Michael Ende Copy Share Image