He walked out of the hospital into the sun, into open air for the first time in months, out of the green-lit… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
Detachment doesn't mean I'm trying less hard. It just means that fears and emotions that used to torment and paralyze me no… — Kelly Cutrone Copy Share Image
“Don’t rule out magic in ordinary things. Simply open your heart Expand your mind and believe. Magic is all around; it can… — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
To make others less happy is a crime. To make ourselves unhappy is where all crime starts. We must try to contribute… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
A non-Muslim is a second-class citizen called a Kafir. You and I are Kafirs. Much of the Koran concerns itself with the… — Eric Allen Copy Share Image
As an actress, there's a lot of waiting. You wait for a script to come in that you want to do. You… — Kirsten Dunst Copy Share Image
But the philosophical and scientific process which I call 'secularization' necessarily involves the divesting of spiritual meaning from the world of nature;… — Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas Copy Share Image
I been silent so long now it’s gonna roar out of me like floodwaters and you think the guy telling this is… — Ken Kesey Copy Share Image
The authority of Plato and Aristotle, of Zeno and Epicurus, still reigned in the schools; and their systems, transmitted with blind deference… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The movies are one of the bad habits that corrupted our century.Of their many sins, I offer as the worst their effect… — Ben Hecht Copy Share Image
Vaguely, as when you are studying a foreign language and read a page which at first you can make nothing of, till… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Happiness is the choice I make today. It does not rest on my circumstances, but on my frame of mind...In cultivating the… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
“And he went on reading. His lips twitched. It filled him. It fortified him. He clean forgot all the little rubs and… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
For me the very important thing was never to forget that they had no right to have me there, that my duty… — Ingrid Betancourt Copy Share Image
If we seriously contemplate life it appears an agony too great to be supported, but for the most part our minds gloss… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
We should simply accept the fact that the way machines make decisions is different, and rather look at the result. If machines… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
I had fallen in love with a young man..., and we were planning to get married. And then he died of subacute… — Gertrude B. Elion Copy Share Image
The problem with freedom is that you just can't go back. Once people see what it means to be free people, you… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
It is difficult to hate an idea. That requires a certain intellectual discipline and a slightly obsessive, sick mind. There aren’t too… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
The earliest sensation at the onset of illness, often preceding the recognition of identifiable symptoms, is apprehension. Something has gone wrong, and… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
We often value the exterior and superficial aspect of things more than their inner reality. Bad manners taint everything even justice and… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
“But he also knew that, as much as he wanted to aid and console the soldier, he wanted to be alone in… — Colm Tóibín Copy Share Image
Our great mistake in education is ... the worship of book-learning-the confusion of instruction and education. We strain the memory instead of… — John Lubbock Copy Share Image
“But the more he strained to think, the clearer it became to him that it was undoubtedly so, that he had actually… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
It is my eyes which see, and the sight of my eyes grants beauty to the earth. It is my ears which… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“With horror he perceived that, by uniting himself as he had with the dead, he had cut himself off from the living.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We are living through one of the most fundamental shifts in history- a change in the actual belief structure of Western society.… — Willis Harman Copy Share Image
It 's amazing how Allah made the mind to the point where we almost alike me and you, we almost see the… — Rakim Copy Share Image
It is so rare to meet with a man outdoors who cherishes a worthy thought in his mind, which is independent of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The foremost reason that happiness is so hard to achieve is that the universe was not designed with the comfort of human… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
Although one never really knows what one's associates think of one deep down, I believe I was easy to work with, even… — Guy de Rothschild Copy Share Image
Biology is a way of approaching the truth about the mind. In biology most people don't tackle problems at the level of… — Eric Kandel Copy Share Image
“In the molten fire where he lay he could watch the slow machinations of eternity, the cosmic miracle of each second being… — William Gay Copy Share Image
The conscious mind is the editor, and the subconscious mind is the writer. And the joy of writing, when you're writing from… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
How strange it is, Anna. Yesterday, I have filed in my mind as a good day, notwithstanding it was filled with mortal… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
“Then he took the pages, smoothed them with the palm of his hand, and fixed them with pins to the walls. So… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
Life and mind are continuously in conflict with each other. I want happiness, security. I won't reach that by considerations of my… — Bram van Velde Copy Share Image
The most common objection to changes in public policy which would increase a user's control of housing at the expense of centralized… — John Turner Copy Share Image
I tried to change the conventional paradigm, for example, by insisting on the reality of mind-body interaction, by stressing the importance of… — Andrew Weil Copy Share Image
We invented marriage. Couples invented marriage. We also invented divorce,mind you. And we invented infidelity,too, as well as romantic misery. In fact… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
