Selfish interest is one of the most common obstructions to the advance of truth. — William Jennings Bryan Copy Share Image
Happiness is not something you acquire; love is not something you produce; love is not something you have; love is something that… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
The knowledge and skills you have achieved are meant to be forgotten so you can float comfortably in emptiness, without obstruction. — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
“There arises from a bad and inapt formation of words, a wonderful obstruction to the mind.” — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Buddhahood is a state free of all obstructions to knowledge and disturbing emotions. It is the state in which the mind is… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
The first step of letting go: To remove what obstructs your experience of wholeness and peace, you must first look at the… — Hugh Prather Copy Share Image
Obstructions on the way to enlightenment, are you kidding? Hey, they crucify people here. You think this is an easy place? — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Meditation means this opening out of the soul to the Divine and letting the Divine shine in without obstruction from the personal… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
In building a statue, a sculptor doesn't keep adding clay to his subject. Actually, he keeps chiseling away at the nonessentials until… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
Manners aim to facilitate life, to get rid of impediments, and bring the man pure to energize. They aid our dealing and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It would be well, perhaps, if we were to spend more of our days and nights without any obstruction between us and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A wise Government seeks to provide the opportunity through which the best of individual achievement can be obtained, while at the same… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
That is nice, Mr. Morgan. Because in response to your tough-guy speech, I, in turn, would’ve had to give you my tough-girl… — Julie James Copy Share Image
Let go of hundreds of years and relax completely. Open your hands and walk, innocent. Thousands of words, myriad interpretations, are only… — Shitou Xiqian Copy Share Image
Humanity has nearly suffocated the globe with carbon dioxide, yet nuclear power plants that produce no such emissions are so mired in… — Michael Specter Copy Share Image
As long as I focus on what I feel and don't worry about where I'm going, it works out. Having no expectations… — Marketa Irglova Copy Share Image
“The ‘information’ one receives from within, shows credit [punya] and debit [paap] karmas. All the Knowledge-Vision is present within. Everything can be… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
It is terrible to see how a single unclear idea, a single formula without meaning, lurking in a young man's head, will… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
The majority, being satisfied with the ways of mankind as they now are (for it is they who make them what they… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Just as a mother would protect with her life her own son, her only son, so one should cultivate an unbounded mind… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Your body's ability to function as a clean and efficient channel is limited by stiffness, lack of strength, and lack of endurance.… — Erich Schiffmann Copy Share Image
When you start witnessing something without thought, there is no obstruction for absorbing the knowledge about that thing because there is no… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
The natural effort of every individual to better his own condition is so powerful that it is alone, and without any assistance,… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
“For the gaming fishermen there was the Whatoosie River and its native cocka-snoek, the main game fish of the resident Skegg’s Valley… — Christina Engela Copy Share Image
“All obstructions to the execution of the laws, all combinations and associations, under whatever plausible character, with the real design to direct,… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Every obstruction of the course of justice,--is a door opened to betray society, and bereave us of those blessings which it has… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
You cannot teach a child any more than you can grow a plant. All you can do is on the negative side… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
A tree is a thought, an obstruction stopping the flow of wind and light, trapping water, housing insects, birds, and animals, and… — Gretel Ehrlich Copy Share Image
Only thru a mucus-free diet can we expect to eliminate the accumulation of waste and obstructions deposited in the body tissues during… — Arnold Ehret Copy Share Image
I know with certainty, that [an honest man] is not to put his hand into the fire, and hold it there, till… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Shadow is the obstruction of light. Shadows appear to me to be of supreme importance in perspective, because, without them opaque and… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
This is how great intellectual breakthroughs usually happen in practice. It is rarely the isolated genius having a eureka moment alone in… — Steven Johnson Copy Share Image