My first published novel was written for teenagers, and there were rules laid down by the publisher: no sex, no smoking, no… — Ben Bova Copy Share Image
One reason nearly half my books are for children is the glorious fact that the minds of children are still open to… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
There is nothing as dreamy and poetic, nothing as radical, subversive, and psychedelic, as mathematics. It is every bit as mind blowing… — Paul Lockhart Copy Share Image
We are not given any promises that, because of our noble intentions, everything will be okay. We learn that what truly heals… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
The mass of people who are Bible-taught never get free from the erroneous impressions stamped on their minds in their infancy, so… — Gerald Massey Copy Share Image
Part of the popularity with Louis Farrakhan has less to do with the content of his message and more to do with… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
All thought of something is at the same time self-consciousness [...] At the root of all our experiences and all our reflections,… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
And when you try too hard, it doesn't work. Try grabbing something quickly and precisely with a tensed-up arm; then relax and… — Benjamin Hoff Copy Share Image
This element of surprise or mystery - the detective element as it is sometimes rather emptily called - is of great importance… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Fundamentalism has stood aloof from the liberal in self-conscious superiority and has on its own part fallen into error, the error of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Secretly in my heart, I believe food is a doorway to almost every dimension of our existence. ... Food never was just… — Lynne Rossetto Kasper Copy Share Image
I didn't have a teen age at all. I didn't even look at boys, never mind... then suddenly it was like, 'Oh… — Anne-Marie Duff Copy Share Image
What I've done serves mostly to show that nearly all limits are self-imposed, a false construct of the mind. You can take… — Marshall Ulrich Copy Share Image
We are also told that this Spirit will enlighten our minds, fill our souls with joy, and help us know all things… — Julie B. Beck Copy Share Image
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Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee. I have thee… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
A powerful idea communicates some of its power to the man who contradicts it. Partaking of the universal community of minds, it… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
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It crosses my mind that our generation may leave problems that are simply too hard for human society in the generations that… — Ross Garnaut Copy Share Image
The thing is, don't get me wrong, I still love scoring and I hate to lose but now I see myself more… — Thierry Henry Copy Share Image
Worry is the product of feverish imagination working under the stimulus of desires... It is a necessary resultant of attachment to the… — Meher Baba Copy Share Image
When the mind's eye rests on objects illuminated by truth and reality, it understands and comprehends them, and functions intelligently; but when… — Plato Copy Share Image
When in many dissections, carried out as opportunity offered upon living animals, I first addressed my mind to seeing how I could… — William Harvey Copy Share Image
This whole electric universe is a complex maze of similar tensions. Every particle of matter in the universe is separated from its… — Walter Russell Copy Share Image
How do you forget something? You just walk away from it, those who are still alive. There are so few clearings in… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
People who’ve had any genuine spiritual experience always know that they don’t know. They are utterly humbled before mystery. They are in… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
So the technology that does the least alteration of nature, the least harm to other species and systems, and provides the greatest… — Kirkpatrick Sale Copy Share Image
Were a man to spend only one day in Sicily and ask, "What must one see?" I would answer him without hesitation,… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
The agentive mind is not only active in nature, but it seeks out dialogue and discourse with other active minds. And it… — Jerome Bruner Copy Share Image
If you want, you can try and get a broader perspective, or you can find people who are absolutely out of their… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
A remedy [for masturbation] which is almost always successful in small boys is circumcision, especially when there is any degree of phimosis.… — John Harvey Kellogg Copy Share Image
I have been curious about the mind and body for as long as I can remember. I was a gymnast, a ballet… — Rodney Yee Copy Share Image
It would add much to human happiness, if an art could be taught of forgetting all of which the remembrance is at… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
When we become isolated, we are prone to being damaged; our minds lose their flexibility and natural kindness; we become vulnerable to… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
Come, my friend, forget your foes, and leave your fears behind, And wander forth to try your luck, with cheerful, quiet mind;… — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
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