“He caressed them, did them violence even, and shed tears of despair over his failures to make them either sufficiently beautiful or… — Émile Zola Copy Share Image
Perfectionism is simply putting a limit on your future. When you have an idea of perfect in your mind, you open the… — John Eliot Copy Share Image
In one way or another, it is a common mistake to think transformation is all in the will. And it isn't! It's… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
A child is owed the greatest respect; if you have ever have something disgraceful in mind, don't ignore your son's tender years. — Juvenal Copy Share Image
I am safe and secure. I exhale any anxiety and inhale calm. As my world expands so do my heart and mind.… — Kris Carr Copy Share Image
Tolstoy was the most gifted writer who ever lived. It's like he stuck a pen in his heart and it didn't even… — Mel Brooks Copy Share Image
I don't know whether I believe in God or not. I think, really, I'm some sort of Buddhist. But the essential thing… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
We're beautiful devices. The devices work well; we're all experts in what we do. But when the mechanism fails, those failures can… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
Casting an eye on the education of children, from whence I can make a judgment of my own, I observe they are… — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
Football is the kind of game where you have to really segregate kids from the general population and kind of colonize their… — Steve Almond Copy Share Image
The Buddha's message was simple but profound. Neither a life of self-indulgence nor one of self-mortification can bring happiness. Only a middle… — Henepola Gunaratana Copy Share Image
It is written that the last enemy to be vanquished is death. We should begin early in life to vanquish this enemy… — Felix Adler Copy Share Image
History will also give occasion to expatiate on the advantage of civil orders and constitutions; how men and their properties are protected… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I have a feeling that about 90% of my life has been shaped by my voice, both as an embarrassment and as… — Dick Cavett Copy Share Image
“And those of us who trust ourselves the least, Who doubt and question most, these, it may be, Will make their mark… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
I had a fan who had a fictional relationship with me. She wrote letters to me and then wrote return letters to… — Matthew McConaughey Copy Share Image
“The impact of the sense of vision on philosophy is well summed up by Peter Sloterdijk: 'The eyes are the organic prototype… — Juhani Pallasmaa Copy Share Image
all social relations exist and grow in the human mind. That one despot can rule over a million other men rests absolutely… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
“Sometimes he missed the numbed, walking-underwater feeling feel that the cocktail of narcotics used to give him. But if a situation went… — R.D. Ronald Copy Share Image
“It taught me that there are three versions of things: the one I see in my mind, and the one that carries… — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
It is always possible to get into a higher state of mind. The way you get into a higher state of mind… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
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I think you got to keep in mind that Obama was raised among Muslims, and I think he really does not want… — Bob Beckel Copy Share Image
The touring band is DIIV, and the songs are always written with them in mind. But the new record is going to… — Zachary Cole Smith Copy Share Image
The first stage of this tranquility consists in silencing the lips when the heart is excited. The second, in silencing the mind… — John Climacus Copy Share Image
We are articulate, but we are not particularly conversational. An Englishman won't talk for the sake of talking. He doesn't mind silence.… — Robert Morley Copy Share Image
Reading poetry and reading the great works of the canon that we were reading in the '60s and the '70s and '80s… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
The menus that remain, for me, are really the menus that you have with your good friends, with your wife, with your… — Jacques Pepin Copy Share Image
A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and his play; his labor and his leisure;… — François-René de Chateaubriand Copy Share Image
Perhaps you will have to spend hours on your knees or upon your face before the throne. Never mind. Wait. God will… — John Smith Copy Share Image
Every person should make it his business to gather new ideas from sources other than the environment in which he daily lives… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
There may sometimes be ungenerous attempts to keep a young man down; and they will succeed, too, if he allows his mind… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them, in-as-much as he who knows nothing… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
You can't really take it for granted that people listen to your music. I want to write songs that are on par,… — Adam Granduciel Copy Share Image
“A mystifying sensation of loneliness shook him. Arthur had been alone before, to be sure, but to be alone while surrounded by… — Graham Moore Copy Share Image
Every morning when I wake up I think about you. Before going to bed you still linger on my mind. If there… — Rebecca White Copy Share Image
Thinking and spoken discourse are the same thing, except that what we call thinking is, precisely, the inward dialogue carried on by… — Plato Copy Share Image
When you leave Africa, as the plane lifts, you feel that more than leaving a continent you're leaving a state of mind.… — Francesca Marciano Copy Share Image
Rep. Lewis was never satisfied with doing enough. And that's why, on top of everything he suffered and gave to the civil… — Karine Jean-Pierre Copy Share Image
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