Our own economy tells us to take as much as we can get, right? Our own economy says, you're going to be… — Tom Shadyac Copy Share Image
When you become defensive, blame others, and do not accept and surrender to the moment, your life meets resistance. Any time you… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Defeat may serve as well as victory To shake the soul and let the glory out. When the great oak is straining… — Edwin Markham Copy Share Image
Inner resilience and the ability to bounce back are personal qualities. ... Align yourself with someone who has this kind of resilience… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Power exhibits itself under two distinct forms,--strength and force,--each possessing peculiar qualities, and each perfect in its own sphere. Strength is typified… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
Twilight's soft dews steal o'er the village-green, With magic tints to harmonize the scene. Stilled is the hum that through the hamlet… — Samuel Rogers Copy Share Image
School is a building that has four walls-with tomorrow inside. Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds. There… — Ferdinand Foch Copy Share Image
I am not afeard, my Heart's-delight," resumed the Captain. "There's been most uncommon bad weather in them latitudes, there's no denyin', and… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Adding two or three chunks of wood to the coals adds a great smoke flavor to meat. I prefer pecan wood, which… — Johnny Trigg Copy Share Image
I have seen oaks of many species in many kinds of exposure and soil, but those of Kentucky excel in grandeur all… — John Muir Copy Share Image
The talking oak To the ancient spoke. But any tree Will talk to me. — Mary Carolyn Davies Copy Share Image
Genius unexerted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
George Foreman can knock down an oak tree ... but oak trees don't move. — Angelo Dundee Copy Share Image
The oak has not the efficacy of the fir, nor the cypress that of the elm. — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
A large, branching, aged oak is perhaps the most venerable of all inanimate objects. — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
Love, like a mountain-wind upon an oak, falling upon me, shakes me leaf and bough. — Sappho Copy Share Image
It needs more than a heart of oak to shed all fear except the fear of God. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The oak, when living, monarch of the wood; The English oak, which, dead, commands the flood. — Charles Churchill Copy Share Image
It is a vast wilderness of rocks in a sea of light, colored and glowing like oak and maple in autumn, when… — John Muir Copy Share Image
“You can’t just walk up to a stand of unsuspecting oaks and start touching. They’d think you’re getting fresh with them.” — Dana Marton Copy Share Image
“When we long for life without difficulty, remind us that oaks grow strong under contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure.” — Peter Marshall Copy Share Image
Let me look upward into the branches of the flowering oak and know that it grew great and strong because it grew… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
When we really let go, we become everything. At that point we are identified with all things: the flower, the oak tree,… — Dennis Merzel Copy Share Image
We say of the oak, How grand of girth! Of the willow we say, How slender! And yet to the soft grass… — Edgar Fawcett Copy Share Image
Think of the fierce energy concentrated in an acorn! You bury it in the ground, and it explodes into an oak! Bury… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Music has charms to soothe a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak. I've read that things inanimate have… — William Congreve Copy Share Image
Presumptuous Man! the reason wouldst thou find,Why form'd so weak, so little, and so blind?First, if thou canst, the harder reason guess,Why… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
I think it would be worth the while to introduce a school of children to such [an oak grove], that they may… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Leaves are light, and useless, and idle, and wavering, and changeable; they even dance; and yet God in his wisdom has made… — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
Everything that is great in life is the product of slow growth; the newer, and greater, and higher, and nobler the work,… — William George Jordan Copy Share Image
Why do I write today? The beauty of the terrible faces of our nonentities stirs me to it: colored women day workers-… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
Only something as insane as human beings would ever asked themselves if 'I'm good.' You don't find oak trees having existential crisis.… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
At a distance this fine oak seems to be of ordinary size. But if I place myself under its branches, the impression… — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
Hither rolls the storm of heat; I feel its finer billows beat Like a sea which me infolds; Heat with viewless fingers… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
June marked the end of spring on California's central coast and the beginning of five months of dormancy that often erupted in… — Gretel Ehrlich Copy Share Image
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