The primary object of meditation is to not become overly attached to any particular thoughts that may come into to the mind.… — Tim McCarthy Copy Share Image
We would willingly, and without remorse, sacrifice not only the present moment, but all the interval (no matter how long) that separates… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
I look to everyday magic in art to remember how to live: how to estrange and vivify ordinary objects and beings. So… — Noy Holland Copy Share Image
The true liberation of eroticism lies in accepting the fact that there are a million facets to it, a million forms of… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
If we could do away with death, we wouldn't object; to do away with capital punishment will be more difficult. Were that… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The object in being on the spiritual path is not to have just a little influx of energy, but to be the… — Sivaya Subramuniyaswami Copy Share Image
The abolition of domestic slavery is the great object of desire in those colonies, where it was unhappily introduced in their infant… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I certainly don't object to [writers] trying to imagine the lives of other societies, but you have to do it with a… — Michael Dorris Copy Share Image
The object of this competition is not to be mean to the losers but to find a winner. The process makes you… — Simon Cowell Copy Share Image
Decorating is like music. Harmony is what we constantly strive for. At home, we want a peaceful atmosphere where the objects are… — Charlotte Moss Copy Share Image
The object is to make beautiful music for people to have forever. Music that stays - not just becomes a ringtone. Longevity. — Aaron Dontez Yates Copy Share Image
It is an object of vast magnitude that systems of education should be adopted and pursued which may not only diffuse a… — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
Among all the modernized aspects of the most luxurious of industries, the model, a vestige of voluptuous barbarianism, is like some plunder-laden… — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Copy Share Image
Objectivity is the subject subjugating the object. That is how you assert yourself. You make yourself the active voice and the object… — Emily Levine Copy Share Image
Since Copernicus, man seems to have got himself on an inclined plane-now he is slipping faster and faster away from the center… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Whatever may be the judgement pronounced on the competency of the architects of the Constitution, or whatever may be the destiny of… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The weakest living creature, by concentrating his powers on a single object, can accomplish good results while the strongest, by dispersing his… — Og Mandino Copy Share Image
The motion picture is like journalism in that, more than any of the other arts, it confers celebrity. Not just on people… — Renata Adler Copy Share Image
It is a very great mistake to imagine that the object of loyalty is the authority and interest of one individual man,… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
Because since the beginningless past we are running after objects, not knowing where our Self is, we lose track of the Original… — D.T. Suzuki Copy Share Image
Our object now, as then, is to vindicate the principles of peace and justice in the life of the world as against… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
I think of consciousness as a bottomless lake, whose waters seem transparent, yet into which we can clearly see but a little… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
Marcel Duchamp, one of this century's pioneers, moved his work through the retinal boundaries which had been established with Impressionism into a… — Jasper Johns Copy Share Image
That people will object very much to seeing a predator killing its prey, and yet, in the news, will accept showing shots… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
Apple enjoys 'Harry Potter'-like adoration and queues because it sells physical objects, limited by the pace of assembly lines in China. To… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
A living man can be enslaved and reduced to the historic condition of an object. But if he dies in refusing to… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Never throw off the best affections of nature in the moment when they become most precious to their object; nor fear to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
If there be any among those common objects of hatred I do contemn and laugh at, it is that great enemy of… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
It is a union with a Higher Good by love, that alone is endless perfection. The only sufficient object for man must… — Robert B. Leighton Copy Share Image
Luxury is the opportunity to experience quality, be it a place, a person or an object. — Keanu Reeves Copy Share Image
Scurrility has no object in view but incivility; if it is uttered from feelings of petulance, it is mere abuse; if it… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
It's true that many say that [they] object to the idea of "human nature," but it's not clear what that is supposed… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
All this care for the world, we must believe, is taken by the Gods without any act of will or labor. As… — Sallust Copy Share Image
Consider what effects that might conceivably have practical bearings you conceive the objects of your conception to have. Then, your conception of… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
The eye of the mind, like that of the body, can only extend its view to new objects, by losing sight of… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Another novelty is the tea-party, an extraordinary meal in that, being offered to persons that have already dined well, it supposes neither… — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Copy Share Image
Should [reformers] attempt more than the established habits of the people are ripe for, they may lose all and retard indefinitely the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
To the natural philosopher, there is no natural object unimportant or trifling. From the least of Nature's works he may learn the… — John Herschel Copy Share Image