It is my eyes which see, and the sight of my eyes grants beauty to the earth. It is my ears which… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“But the more he strained to think, the clearer it became to him that it was undoubtedly so, that he had actually… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Although one never really knows what one's associates think of one deep down, I believe I was easy to work with, even… — Guy de Rothschild Copy Share Image
The foremost reason that happiness is so hard to achieve is that the universe was not designed with the comfort of human… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
It is so rare to meet with a man outdoors who cherishes a worthy thought in his mind, which is independent of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It 's amazing how Allah made the mind to the point where we almost alike me and you, we almost see the… — Rakim Copy Share Image
“But he also knew that, as much as he wanted to aid and console the soldier, he wanted to be alone in… — Colm Tóibín Copy Share Image
We often value the exterior and superficial aspect of things more than their inner reality. Bad manners taint everything even justice and… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
The earliest sensation at the onset of illness, often preceding the recognition of identifiable symptoms, is apprehension. Something has gone wrong, and… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
It is difficult to hate an idea. That requires a certain intellectual discipline and a slightly obsessive, sick mind. There aren’t too… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
The problem with freedom is that you just can't go back. Once people see what it means to be free people, you… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Our great mistake in education is ... the worship of book-learning-the confusion of instruction and education. We strain the memory instead of… — John Lubbock Copy Share Image
Your culture demands that you bring some kind of crisis to your work and therefore you can not bring any unity to… — Milton Resnick Copy Share Image
“Think it over carefully. This is very important," I say, "because to believe something, whatever it might be, is the doing of… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Mind how you pray. Make real business of it. Let it never be a dead formality...plead the promise in a truthful, business-like… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
There is a town in north Ontario, With dream comfort memory to spare, And in my mind I still need a place… — Neil Young Copy Share Image
Sometimes with the most intense pain a paralysis of sensibility occurs. The soul disintegrates--hence the deadly frost--the free power of the mind--the… — Novalis Copy Share Image
Her mind was present because she was always gone. Her hands were filled because they grasped the meaning of empty. Life was… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
Thinking about time travel may seem like something humans have been doing since the first caveman dropped the first rock on his… — Maria Konnikova Copy Share Image
Many poets are not poets for the same reason that many religious men are not saints: they never succeed in being themselves.… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
We're too passive. We're feeding on too much rubbish and I think we should strive to just shrug away that comfort zone… — Ingrid Betancourt Copy Share Image
Faith transcends reason because divine truth is not only higher, but also wider than the human mind, and the rationalist in his… — Christopher Dawson Copy Share Image
I'm very much drawn to these stories. This is a huge, great story [in Doctor Strange] about the possibility of living beyond… — Tilda Swinton Copy Share Image
Ethiopia didn't just blow my mind; it opened my mind. Anyway, on our last day at this orphanage a man handed me… — Bono Copy Share Image
Was it not his Self, his small, fearful and proud Self, with which he had wrestled for so many years, but which… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
You and I can profit by asking ourselves: What do I see when I look through the lens of my attitude toward… — John Powell Copy Share Image
My space chums think my unique hookup with humanity could be evolution's awkward attempt to jump-start itself up again. They're thinking just… — Lily Tomlin Copy Share Image
The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
“But most of all, as summer slanted to an end, he was learning to love idleness, idleness no longer as stretches of… — J.M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
Even when your body does nothing, sin can be active in your mind. When your soul inwardly repulses the evil one's attack… — Gregory Palamas Copy Share Image
When I was in New York, I got to see Joan Rivers do an hour of material, and it blew my mind.… — Chelsea Peretti Copy Share Image
If he had his wits about him Bunny would surely keep his mouth shut; but now, with his subconscious mind knocked loose… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“Kohlrabi’s face had no expression at all, and suddenly Mosca could barely recognize him. His face had always seemed so honest, like… — Frances Hardinge Copy Share Image
We must allow ourselves to think, we must dare to think, even though we fail. It is in the nature of things… — Thomas Bernhard Copy Share Image
What's more American than young people speaking their mind over things they had to create over pots and pans and electronically because… — Killer Mike Copy Share Image
If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad. As to that regular, uninterrupted love of writing. I do not… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Starting with approaching the spot where the painting is to be done, meanwhile realising the emptiness of the mind, up to the… — Antoni Tapies Copy Share Image
I think that that multiplatform development is what's on the mind of most high-end PC developers now... this is really the first… — Mike Wilson Copy Share Image
I use a Bruce Lee technique: 'The way of no way.' He had the idea that he would learn everything, so that… — Eddie Izzard Copy Share Image
I sit on the steps in the heat of the sun and listen as one by one these car alarms extinguish themselves… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image