With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bent arm for a pillow - I have still joy in… — Confucius Copy Share Image
God is the light shining in the midst of darkness, not to deny that there is darkness in the world but to… — Harold S. Kushner Copy Share Image
It really seems to me that in the midst of great tragedy, there is always the horrible possibility that something terribly funny… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
With respect to duels, indeed, I have my own ideas. Few things in this so surprising world strike me with more surprise.… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
As Dante says in the beginning of the Inferno, 'In the midst of life's journey I found myself in a dark wood,… — Christopher Vogler Copy Share Image
The truth is that when one is still a child-or even if one is grown up- and has been well fed, and… — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
Here the only genuine conflict is between true believers. Of a given text in Holy Writ one faction may say this thing… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
On December 12, 1829, Paganini wrote his friend Germi: "The variations I've composed on the graceful Neapolitan ditty, 'Oh Mamma, Mama Cara,'… — Niccolo Paganini Copy Share Image
There is only one thing that stands in our midst, attenuated and threatened, but enthroned in some power like a ghost of… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
A man of clear ideas errs grievously if he imagines that whatever is seen confusedly does not exist; it belongs to him,… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
It is for man to establish the reign of liberty in the midst of the world of the given. To gain the… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
We are mindful of desire when we experience it with an embodied awareness, recognizing the sensations and thoughts of wanting as arising… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
I want to say to every man, the Constitution of the United States, as formed by our fathers, was dictated, was revealed,… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
In some inland post feel the savagery, the utter savagery, had closed round him--all that mysterious life of the wilderness that stirs… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
There is no tongue to speak his eulogy; Too brightly burned his splendour for our eyes: Far easier to condemn his injurers,… — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
Want a happier, more content life? I highly recommend the down-to-earth methods you'll find in 'Mindfulness.' Professor Mark Williams and Dr Danny… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
We seem to be in the midst of a process of cascading bifurcations that may last some 50 more years. We can… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
To be born in imbecility, in the midst of pain and crisis; to be the plaything of ignorance, error, need, sickness, wickedness,… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
“...Seek and learn to recognize who and what, in the midst of the inferno, are not inferno, then make them endure, give… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
The great omission in American life is solitude; not loneliness, for this is an alienation that thrives most in the midst of… — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
In the midst of hopes and cares, of apprehensions and of disquietude, regard every day that dawns upon you as if it… — Horace Copy Share Image
With this recitation of paraphernalia and detritus, O'Brien manages to encapsulate the experience of an army and of a particular war, of… — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
He who can listen to the music in the midst of noise can achieve great things. — Vikram Sarabhai Copy Share Image
In studying ourselves, we find the harmony that is our total existence. We do not make harmony. We do not achieve it… — John Daishin Buksbazen Copy Share Image
