I have often started off on a walk in the state called mad-mad in the sense of sore-headed, or mad with tedium… — Donald C. Peattie Copy Share Image
Individualism is at once an ethical-psychological concept and an ethical-political one. As an ethical-psychological concept, individualism holds that a human being should… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
For my part, I confess I seldom listen to the players: one has so much to do, in looking about and finding… — Fanny Burney Copy Share Image
A layman will no doubt find it hard to understand how pathological disorders of the body and mind can be eliminated by… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
I was struck by the fact that I hadn't been awed in a while. Did that mean awesome things had disappeared from… — Sue Thoele Copy Share Image
The human mind has a natural tendency to explore what has passed in distant ages in scenes with which it is familiar:… — William Buckland Copy Share Image
Her mind traveled crooked streets and aimless goat paths, arriving sometimes at profundity, other times at the revelations of a three-year-old. Throughout… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Whether we love humanity or not, we must realize that we are part of it. My future depends entirely on the future… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“He never even thought of tenderness and emotion; his considerations about Durham remained cold. Durham didn't dislike him, he was sure. That… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
The influence of prayer on the human mind and body is as demonstrable as that of secreting glands. Its results can be… — Alexis Carrel Copy Share Image
We can reject everything else: religion, ideology, all received wisdom. But we cannot escape the necessity of love and compassion. This, then,… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
In our true blissful essence of mind is known that everything is alright forever and forever and forever...listen to the silence inside… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Among the lessons learned in my lifetime is the ease with which corruption can enter high places in the mask of friendship.… — Carlos P. Romulo Copy Share Image
We must suit the flattery to the mind and taste of the recipient. We do not put essences into hogsheads, nor porter… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The Bible places supreme value in the thought life. "As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he," Solomon wrote. Jesus… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
Each famous author of antiquity whom I recover places a new offence and another cause of dishonor to the charge of earlier… — Petrarch Copy Share Image
Hathaway!" Stan barked, coming from the direction of the field. "Nice of you to join us. Get in there now! You're lucky… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
You're going to have to settle on one eventually. Why not save us both the hassle, close your eyes and point. Whoever… — Gena Showalter Copy Share Image
I'm not going to lie: There are times I play mind tricks on myself, like that the french fries are poison. With… — Fergie Copy Share Image
When people hear the phrase 'risk-taker', two images come to mind. One is the negative idea of someone who's reckless and unpredictable,… — Norman Swan Copy Share Image
Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom. It is the result of long and patient effort in self-control.… — James Allen Copy Share Image
A little retrospection shows that although many fine, useful software systems have been designed by committees and built as part of multipart… — Fred Brooks Copy Share Image
I suppose that one of the psychological principles of advertising is to so hammer the name of your product into the mind… — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
Though thousands of people indulge themselves in it regularly, and even develop a taste for it, there is no doubt in my… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Surely in much talk there cannot choose but be much vanity. Loquacity is the fistula of the mind,--ever-running and almost incurable, let… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
I've walked these streets, in a carnival of sights to see. All the cheap thrill seekers, the vendors & the dealers, they… — Natalie Merchant Copy Share Image
When one has a decisive realization of the inherent nature of the mind, which has no ego, it has no sense of… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
If we could make up our minds to spare our friends all details of ill health, of money losses, of domestic annoyances,… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
Religion has in fact outdone culture in dualistic thinking - we've become as violent, as hateful toward our enemies, damning them to… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Meditation means: put the mind aside and watch. The first step - LOVE YOURSELF - will help you tremendously. By loving yourself… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Tolerance of Cruelty in any form is a degraded state of mind and soul. When we freely allow the massacre and prolonged… — Russell Boyd Copy Share Image
Most people confuse the "now" with what is happening to them in the now. Actually what is happening to you now has… — Stephen Weiss Copy Share Image
Freedom is not a reward or a decoration that you toast in champagne. On the contrary, it's hard graft and a long-distance… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
He knows enough, the mariner, who knows Where lurk the shelves, and where the whirlpools boil, What signs portend the storm: to… — John Armstrong Copy Share Image
When handsome men or beautiful women take up the work of the intellect, it impresses us because we know they could have… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
The way of God was ever hated by the world and the powers thereof. Never heed the rough spirits nor the heavy,… — Francis Howgill Copy Share Image
Whatever we may say against collections, which present authors in a disjointed form, they nevertheless bring about many excellent results. We are… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I'm revealing information to people. I'm not creating it. And to the extent that people embrace it, I think they're empowered by… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
One of the primary conditions for suffering is denial. Shutting our mind to pain, whether in ourselves or others, only ensures that… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“We must have beginner's mind, free from possessing anything, a mind that knows everything is in flowing change. Nothing exists but momentarily… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
