Wonder is that possession of the mind that enchants the emotions while never surrendering reason. It is a grasp on reality that… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
Real happiness is not dependent on external things. The pond is fed from within. The kind of happiness that stays with you… — William Lyon Phelps Copy Share Image
Nor do we accept, as genuine the person not characterized by this blushing bashfulness, this youthfulness of heart, this sensibility to the… — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
Processions, cavalcades, and all that fund of gay frippery, furnished out by tailors, barbers, and tire-women, mechanically influence the mind into veneration;… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Happy". I had not heard that word since Mr. Milgrom spoke it at the last Hanukkah. I asked him the question that… — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
“It's easy to sit on a mountaintop and tell people what to do and how to be happy. I have chosen to… — Eugene Mirman Copy Share Image
Of course, I still saw Edward at school, because there wasn't anything Charlie [her dad] could do about that. And then, Edward… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
While fame impedes and constricts, obscurity wraps about a man like a mist; obscurity is dark, ample, and free; obscurity lets the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
While we tend to conceive of the operations of the mind as unified and transparent, they're actually chaotic and opaque. There's no… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
Really, I'm the type of girl, and I know other girls who are the types of girls who it's not about the… — Keri Hilson Copy Share Image
The moment our discourse rises above the ground-line of familiar facts, and is inflamed with passion or exalted thought, it clothes itself… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It was thought, perception, sensations that interested her, the conscious mind as a river through time, and how to represent its onward… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
Let the girl be thoroughly developed in body and soul, not modeled, like a piece of clay, after some artificial specimen of… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Whatever is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain, and danger, that is to say, whatever is in any… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
We take for granted that we need to take showers, clean our house, and wash our clothes. Yet the mind and its… — Anodea Judith Copy Share Image
From the moment I met Martin Scorsese in 1962, he educated me about the films that had taught him so much about… — Thelma Schoonmaker Copy Share Image
Some days my thoughts are just cocoons -- all cold, and dull, and blind, They hang from dripping branches in the grey… — Karle Wilson Baker Copy Share Image
I think the black man in America wants to be recognized as a human being; and it's almost impossible for one who… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
I think it is worse to be poor in mind than in purse, to be stunted and belittled in soul, made a… — Frances Power Cobbe Copy Share Image
At the back of my mind there is always a fear the depression could return but I do all the right things.… — Melanie Chisholm Copy Share Image
“As he sat at his desk in his comfortable office armchair, he allowed his body to sink into a creeping state of… — Yasutaka Tsutsui Copy Share Image
As a boy, the very words 'Liberty Bell' and 'Independence Hall' fired my imagination and made a profound and lasting impression on… — Chiang Kai-shek Copy Share Image
The air of caricature never fails to show itself in the products of reason applied relentlessly and without correction. The observation of… — Wilfred Trotter Copy Share Image
One of my struggles is that I'm a glutton. There's always those very simple, long, old-ass things, but they're very real to… — Willis Earl Beal Copy Share Image
It is one thing to make a mistake, and quite another thing not to admit it. People will forgive mistakes, because mistakes… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Desperation is a millstone. It wears away at the very soul, grinding away pity, kindness, humanity and courage. But sometimes it whets… — Frances Hardinge Copy Share Image
The analogy between the mind and a computer fails for many reasons. The brain is constructed by principles that assure diversity and… — Gerald Edelman Copy Share Image
I saw a ghost when I was staying at Dartington Hall in Devon in the 1960s. I think there are many different… — Martin Shaw Copy Share Image
The U.S. is a great government, is a great country. The U.S. did sign the Paris Agreement. It's extremely aggressive to decide… — Emmanuel Macron Copy Share Image
I am not talking about rebelliousness, but giving people time for constructive internal reflection and even daydreaming. A lot of research is… — Scott Barry Kaufman Copy Share Image
First there was the word. A Course in Miracles says that prayer is the "medium of miracles." It's the realm of thought… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Results only come to those who master the paradoxical art of doing and not doing, of letting go as a person in… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I don't really write with living actors in mind. I guess I write for dead actors. I'll think of like, you know,… — Brian Helgeland Copy Share Image
I had often heard Mentor say, that the voluptuous were never brave, and I now found by experience that it was true;… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
I am a Jane Austenite, and therefore slightly imbecile about Jane Austen. My fatuous expression, and airs of personal immunity-how ill they… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
If you only have the mind of, "We have to sell this music and I have to make money on this music,"… — Anoop Desai Copy Share Image
“A calm silence filled the office as Roger Belkin sprang awake at his desk. He rarely dozed off on his throne, but… — Jonathan Sturak Copy Share Image
If I probably didn't have tattoos, or if I probably didn't bleach my hair, or if I probably didn't wear blue jeans… — Guy Fieri Copy Share Image
Movies have an enormous power to open the mind and the heart and everything. You are sitting and seeing something moving in… — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
We can no longer have forbidden areas of the human mind, or cultural machinery. We have taken upon ourselves the acquisition of… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image