A system of metaphor (pointing to a higher power) that one takes inside oneself as the truth and through its rules one… — Mason Jennings Copy Share Image
It is like visiting one's funeral, like visiting loss in its purest and most monumental form, this wild darkness, which is not… — Harold Brodkey Copy Share Image
One has to do sadhana for the total manifestation of the Divine in oneself. — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
Whether we meditate individually or collectively, there is one thing we absolutely must do: we have to meditate consciously. Making an unconscious… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
No matter what kind of difficult situation one may find oneself in, some opening, some opportunity to fight one's way out, can… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
What is a sense of humor? Surely not the ability to understand a joke. It comes rather from a residing feeling of… — Clifton Fadiman Copy Share Image
Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Just as there is no action weaker or more unreasonable than to submit one's judgment to another's, where there is no advantage… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
The world was an awfully large place and it wasn't easy to find a person who'd gone missing sixty years earlier, even… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
Every decision a person makes stems from the person's values and goals. People can have many different goals and values; fame, profit,… — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
A legislator must know how to take advantage of even the defects of those he wants to govern. The art consists in… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
One may rationally stick to a degenerating research programme until it is overtaken by a rival and even after. What one must… — Imre Lakatos Copy Share Image
life lived only for oneself does not truly satisfy men or women. There is a hunger in Americans today for larger purposes… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
The natural wish and impetus to feel oneself to be an individual, to be special, includes standing out more than anyone else. — Roger Housden Copy Share Image
To make images is a way of ordering one's world, of exploring and understanding one's relationship to existence. ... The images we… — John Blakemore Copy Share Image
Those who like tranquility and dislike clamor tend to avoid people to seek quietude. They do not know that when one wishes… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
Philosophy means thinking things out for oneself. Ultimately, there can be only one true philosophy, since reason is one and we all… — William Ralph Inge Copy Share Image
An act of love, a voluntary taking on oneself of some of the pain of the world, increases the courage and love… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
