I don't write songs that don't affect me on some level, because I figure if I am not moved by it, if… — Amy Grant Copy Share Image
“So throw off all desires, remove all the dust from your eyes, be at ease within, not longing for something, not even… — Osho Copy Share Image
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Even when men approve of the same arrangements, it must be asked whether they approve of them because they exist or because… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
The engaged mind, illuminated by truth, awakens awareness; the engaged heart, affected by love, awakens passion. May I say once more -… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
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The soul contains few secrets and longings which cannot be sensibly discussed, analyzed, and polled. Solitude, the very condition which sustained the… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
“I would lie for hours by the window gazing down upon the black lake and up at the mountains silhouetted against the… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
I don't know what rituals my kids will carry into adulthood, whether they'll grow up attached to homemade pizza on Friday nights,… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
In the hero stories, the call to go on a journey takes the form of a loss, an error, a wound, an… — David Richo Copy Share Image
“Life is a collection of memories and feelings. Mawkish sentimentally urges us to engage in artistic overtures, we yearn to share with… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“I drank from the crisp mountain stream, tasting filtered sky with a mossy undertone. I’ve never understood how being loved fully could… — Taylor Rhodes Copy Share Image
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“I think she would have preferred being spared from understanding all the physical signals one hopes the world will notice and reward… — Erik Valeur Copy Share Image
The rise of statism in our time is the natural result of the longing of godless, unchurched people for some kind of… — Sam Shoemaker Copy Share Image
~Now that you're gone… I lay down on my bed I hear your voice; I dont know why I see your face… — She's_gone Copy Share Image
What all the ads and whorescopes seemed to imply was that if only you took proper care of your smells, your hair,… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“For, boy, however we do praise ourselves, Our fancies are more giddy and unfirm, More longing, wavering, sooner lost and won, Than… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“The late afternoon Sun threw amber and gold across the deep body of the ocean, breaking into unseen luminance across the horizon.… — Tamara Rendell Copy Share Image
What but education has advanced us beyond the condition of our indigenous neighbors? And what chains them to their present state of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
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Never far from a dining table, the characters in Heather A. Slomski's limpid and elegant debut collection are not given to melodramatics.… — Jaimy Gordon Copy Share Image
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“Words are abstraction, break off from the green; words are patterns in the way fences and trenches are. Words hurt. I can… — Amal El-Mohtar Copy Share Image
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Age has given me the gift of me; it just gave me what I was always longing for, which was to get… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
If it wasn't for this person's privacy, I'd be able to talk pretty freely about this subject on a personal level. The… — Justin Vernon Copy Share Image
For with my intuition I knew that this man was repeating a pattern over and over again: courting a woman with his… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
I have heard what poets write about women. They rhyme and rhapsodize and lie. I have watched sailors on the shore stare… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Men in long-term relationships, we all know how they lose their mojo, they just completely fall apart. They feel like they're not… — Anna Biller Copy Share Image
“I remember an insight that taught me much about life. One day I felt that I had everything that I really wanted… — Swami Dhyan Giten Copy Share Image
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I try desperately to conquer the transitory nature of my existence, to trap moments before they evenesce, to untangle the confusion of… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“Some people look as if they have lost their eagerness and passion. Their aspiration seems to be exhausted and fresh inspiration has… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
“It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for, and if you dare… — Oriah Mountain Dreamer Copy Share Image
He found himself remembering how on one summer morning they two had started from New York in search of happiness. They had… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“To my amazement, taut and tearless as I was, I saw him hastily mop his eyes with his handkerchief, and in that… — Vera Brittain Copy Share Image
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