It is far more than the discovery of life without a self. The immediate, inevitable result is an emergence into a new… — Bernadette Roberts Copy Share Image
I got married at 22 and remained in an abusive marriage for 10 years. I made up my mind that that was… — Joyce Banda Copy Share Image
The prejudice of unfounded belief often degenerates into the prejudice of custom, and becomes at last rank hypocrisy. When men, from custom… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The fact is that purification and austerity are even more necessary for the appreciation of life and laughter than for anything else.… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
We all indulge in the strange, pleasant process called thinking, but when it comes to saying, even to someone opposite, what we… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The man who labors to please his neighbor for his good to edification has the mind that was in Christ. It is… — Richard Cecil Copy Share Image
I would not wear any clothes that had a brand name on them, and I only read books that were canonical. I… — Zoe Kazan Copy Share Image
I heard a statistic, and this one blew my mind, that 1 out of every 4 men in the church are involved… — Rafael Cruz Copy Share Image
“That morning, when Simon, at the end of a long night, had climbed out of the tunnels, he had believed that nothing… — Oliver Pötzsch Copy Share Image
Our elected officials are able to regulate even the most personal aspects of our lives, from the cleanliness of the air we… — Maria Rubio Copy Share Image
I don't mind him not talking so much, because you can hear his voice in your heart; the same way you can… — Adam Rapp Copy Share Image
Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns… — Leo Rosten Copy Share Image
What an abyss of uncertainty, whenever the mind feels overtaken by itself; when it, the seeker, is at the same time the… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The kind of caring that the client-centered therapist desires to achieve is a gullible caring, in which clients are accepted as they… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I haven’t got the heart to take the mickey out of him, even,” said Fred, looking over at Ron’s crumpled figure. “Mind… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm happy to not know what I think about stuff; I'm happy to change my mind. But it's relatively recently that I've… — Marlon James Copy Share Image
We do not need French post-structuralism, whose pedantic jargon, clumsy convolutions, and prissy abstractions have spread throughout academe and the arts and… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
A curtain of stars, miles of them, are scattered, glowing, across the sky and their multitude humbles me, which I have a… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
“Upset by two nostalgias facing each other like two mirrors, he lost his marvelous sense of unreality and he ended up recommending… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“The most fortunate of us, in our journey through life, frequently meet with calamities and misfortunes which may greatly afflict us; and,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“His sensitive nature was still smarting under the lashes of an undivided and squalid way of life. His soul was still disquieted… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
If you knew that you were the owner of a million-dollar mind, would you treat your mind with more respect and appreciation?… — Marshall Sylver Copy Share Image
This deep agnosticism is more than the refusal of conventional agnosticism to take a stand on whether God exists or whether the… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
“He sat there among them, listened to the buzz of their conversation. He was captivated by them. In that racket every voice… — Deszö Kosztolányi Copy Share Image
I like to say that the greatest handicap of deafness does not lie in the ear, it lies in the mind. I… — Marlee Matlin Copy Share Image
I have friends who are black, white, purple, gay, straight, Martian, yellow, old, and young. I have friends who are animals and… — Tracy Morgan Copy Share Image
“The sooner we associate long hours and multitasking with incompetence and carelessness the better. The next time you hear boasts of executives… — Margaret Heffernan Copy Share Image
On Tralfamadore, says Billy Pilgrim, there isn't much interest in Jesus Christ. The Earthling figure who is most engaging to the Tralfamadorian… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I believe that there is a moral and constitutional equivalence between laws designed to subjugate a race and those that distribute benefits… — Clarence Thomas Copy Share Image
“When I was cooking I enjoyed a sense of being ‘out’ of myself. The action of dicing vegetables and warming oil made… — Alice Jamieson Copy Share Image
Abby must have been the one who found the safe house, because Townsend didn't like it. "The building across the street is… — Ally Carter Copy Share Image
It's very important that we re-learn the art of resting and relaxing. Not only does it help prevent the onset of many… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is very remarkable that while the words Eternal, Eternity, Forever, are constantly in our mouths, and applied without hesitation, we yet… — George Julius Poulett Scrope Copy Share Image
Oh, I had, 'No one will ever fancy me!' I had that well into my teens. Even now I do not consider… — Kate Winslet Copy Share Image
The more adept we become at cultivating an altruistic attitude, the happier we will feel and the more comfortable will be the… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“Our time and attention is scarce. Art is not that important to us, no matter what we might like to believe… Our… — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
I have a low opinion of books; they are but piles of stones set up to show coming travelers where other minds… — John Muir Copy Share Image
What disconcerts the modern world at its very roots is not being sure, and not seeing how it ever could be sure,… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
When you share your misery, it will not diminish. When you fail to share your joy, it diminishes. Share your problems only… — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
The summer before my senior year of college, I would surf every single morning, and I got better and loved it. For… — Kelley O'Hara Copy Share Image
