The very secret of life for me, I believed, was to maintain in the midst of rushing events an inner tranquility. — Margaret Bourke-White Copy Share Image
In the midst of difficulties we are always ready to seize an advantage, we may extricate ourselves from misfortune. — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
If man walks in nature's midst, then he is nature's guest and must learn to behave as a well-brought-up guest. — Friedensreich Hundertwasser Copy Share Image
Nothing is more important than to learn how to maintain a life of purpose in the midst of painful adversity. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
in the midst of war and crisis nothing is as clear or as certain as it appears in hindsight — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“We have thought, O God, on Your lovingkindness, in the midst of Your temple.” — Robert J. Morgan Copy Share Image
We are in the midst of the 6th largest extinction event in the history of the plant and the first caused by… — Graciela Chichilnisky Copy Share Image
A warrior is worthless unless he rises above others and stands strong in the midst of a storm. — Yamamoto Tsunetomo Copy Share Image
Behind the love of God lies His imniscience - His ability to "know and understand all." . . . At all times,… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
Even in the greatest afflictions, we ought to testify to God, that, in receiving them from his hand, we feel pleasure in… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
In the midst of a foggy field, the answers are hidden But the impossible journey deems them forbidden. The Reaper of Death,… — Jessica Sorensen Copy Share Image
Justified by the war on drugs, the United States is in the midst of a prison binge made obvious by the fact… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
there is ten times more in the world than would maintain all in yet unknown luxury. Yet how much misery there is… — Ernestine Rose Copy Share Image
The only way to live in the midst of inharmonious influences is to strengthen the will power and endure all things, yet… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
I am alone in the midst of these happy, reasonable voices. All these creatures spend their time explaining, realizing happily that they… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Jennifer [Lawrence] is amazingly grounded in the midst of all this to do. It must be unnerving and hard to relate to… — Toby Jones Copy Share Image
Pain is a difficult companion. There's no getting around that. But, if pain is to be a companion, searching and discovering your… — Mary Anne Radmacher Copy Share Image
The secret of genius is to suffer no fiction to exist for us; to realize all that we know; in the high… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Our personal afflictions involve the living God; the only way in which Satan can persecute or afflict God is through attacking the… — Edith Schaeffer Copy Share Image
Thread of their days without pity, and in the midst of life, without ever concerning themselves with this fatal moment, living as… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
The greatest act of faith is that which rises to your lips in total darkness together with the sacrifices, sufferings and wholehearted… — Pio of Pietrelcina Copy Share Image
For He is in the midst of us day and night [in the Blessed Sacrament]; He dwells in us with the fullness… — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image
We choose--or choose not--to be alone when we decide whom we will accept as our fellows, and whom we will reject. Thus… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
Well, He had known what love was-a sharp pang, a fierce experience, in the midst of whose flames he was struggling! but,… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
Most of the avoidable suffering in life springs from our attempts to escape the unavoidable suffering inherent in the fragmentary nature of… — Hugh Kingsmill Copy Share Image
Our respect for the dead, when they are just dead, is something wonderful, and the way we show it more wonderful still.… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The task of art is to take hold of the shining, the radiance, the manifestation, of that which as spirit weaves and… — Rudolf Steiner Copy Share Image
First, by the figurations of art there be made instruments of navigation without men to row them, as great ships to brooke… — Roger Bacon Copy Share Image
Love is reckless; not reason. Reason seeks a profit. Loves comes on strong, consuming herself unabashed. Yet in the midst of suffering… — Rumi Copy Share Image
I am reminded of a story of Lord Krishna when he was a cowherd. Every night he invites the milkmaids to dance… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
We are now in the midst of our first television war ... the television environment [is] total and therefore invisible. Along with… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Someone once asked me why people sing. I answered that they sing for many of the same reasons the birds sing. They… — Linda Ronstadt Copy Share Image