We must suffer. Our five sense are dulled by inordinate pleasure. Penance makes them keen, gives them back their natural vitality, and… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
How people make gardens is bound to reflect a way of experiencing the natural world, while at the same time this experience… — David E. Cooper Copy Share Image
The shaman/priest/artist/teacher/leader does not operate for the sole benefit of herself and her kind but for the benefit of the people at… — Judy Grahn Copy Share Image
I think of depression as the mechanism that pushes down the pain of that loss. It tries to distance us from the… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
Moreover, no one is judged from the natural man, thus not so long as he lives in the natural world, for man… — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share Image
The private and serious drama of guilt is not often a useful one for fiction today and its disappearance, following perhaps the… — Elizabeth Hardwick Copy Share Image
The conclusion forced upon me in the course of a life devoted to natural science is that the universe as it is… — John B. S. Haldane Copy Share Image
The late sixties and early seventies were kind of a breeding ground for exciting new sounds because easy listening and folk were… — Alice Cooper Copy Share Image
We're all born with an ego – it's a natural part of who we are here. We're only completely without it in… — Anita Moorjani Copy Share Image
We will learn no matter what! Learning is as natural as rest or play. With or without books, inspiring trainers or classrooms,… — Malcolm Knowles Copy Share Image
What men and women need is encouragement. Their natural resisting powers should be strengthened, not weakened ... Instead of always harping on… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We believe that climate change must be viewed not only as a danger to natural systems, but also as a direct threat… — Maumoon Abdul Gayoom Copy Share Image
One interesting thing I found was that if you take an affluent modern society and collapse it during a crisis, like a… — Sebastian Junger Copy Share Image
After Hurricane Katrina, many people said that the levees were not as effective as the natural vegetation that had been removed at… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
As a matter of law the states recognized no constraints on their legislative scope other than those that were self-imposed. Even where… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
We are being made aware that the organization of society on the principle of private profit, as well as public destruction, is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Women have a faith in themselves that is unpragmatic and in each other that's just emotional and f - ing strong. Both… — Kristen Stewart Copy Share Image
There's an interesting trend that occurs in times of mounting pressure and high uncertainty, which is that it's a natural human tendency… — John Hagel III Copy Share Image
Everybody who works under any system feels confined. It is a natural reaction. You are confined to a certain extent. You are… — Frank Capra Copy Share Image
Sometimes we are tempted to find excuses and complain, acting as if we could only be happy if a thousand conditions were… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
The goal for many amputees is no longer to reach a 'natural' level of ability but to exceed it, using whatever cutting-edge… — Daniel H. Wilson Copy Share Image
Even when God chose Israel, he did not create the people of Israel as he created its human members, as natural beings.… — David Novak Copy Share Image
A pure heart is perhaps one which has no natural propulsion towards anything in any manner whatsoever. When in its extreme simplicity… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
In my own faith tradition, these questions have been very important. It has always been easiest for me to apprehend God in… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
Once upon a time, growing up male gave little boys a sense of certainty about the natural order of things. We had… — Kenneth R. Miller Copy Share Image
[My] excursions provided a unique opportunity for observing [the gorillas' behavior] in their natural habitat... Then, all too soon, the infants were… — Dian Fossey Copy Share Image
And it's like some tiny nothing that sets off a natural disaster halfway across the world, only this was the opposite of… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
To waste, to destroy our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
All the advantages that man has gained from his ever-deepening understanding of the natural world that surrounds him, his technological, chemical and… — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
First, we have to find a common vocabulary for energy security. This notion has a radically different meaning for different people. For… — Daniel Yergin Copy Share Image
Existence is movement. Action is movement. Existence is defined by the rhythm of forces in natural balance. (...) It is our appreciation… — Rudolf von Laban Copy Share Image
My number one focus is and will always be football. I wanted to make sure that companies I partner with not only… — Andrew Luck Copy Share Image
In a country of such recent civilization as ours, whose almost limitless treasures of material wealth invite the risks of capital and… — Felix Adler Copy Share Image
Humankind has no option but to protect and live in harmony with its natural environment. However, it would be regrettable if in… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
The whole purpose of life is to gain enlightenment. Nothing else is significant compared to that completely natural, exalted state of consciousness.… — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Copy Share Image
When you're an actor or actress in this business, usually the natural progression is to direct, but a lot of times, we… — Jamie Foxx Copy Share Image
And after I compose my programs, but it is very easy because I look to the music in a very natural way… — Victoria de los Angeles Copy Share Image
I have been told that I am a "natural" feminist, someone who was born a feminist. In fact I was quite blind… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I think it's natural for a creative to be sensitive. If I'm in the studio and I write something, I think it's… — G-Eazy Copy Share Image
I believe natural beauty has a necessary place in the spiritual development of any individual or any society. I believe that whenever… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image