“The human being is given by Nature little more energy than what is needed to maintain the species; to reproduce and to… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Plato described ordinary life as unthinking, lived in a dim cave of shadowy reflections, but said that it is possible to leave… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
It is not necessarily at home that we best encounter our true selves. The furniture insists that we cannot change because it… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“Deep within everyone's heart there always remains a sense of longing for that hour, that summer, that one brief moment of blossoming.… — Irene Nemirovsky Copy Share Image
I went camping in the Maasai Mara and we moved site every night. I had no idea how spectacular it would be,… — Georgina Chapman Copy Share Image
“Dumbledore's plan works well in giving Harry protection from the external danger of Voldemort. The plan also gives him an ordinary life.… — Luke Bell Copy Share Image
An ordinary life examined closely reveals itself to be exquisite and complicated and exceptional, somehow managing to be both heroic and plain. — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
Codi: So you think we all just have animal dreams. We can't think of anything to dream except our ordinary lives. Loyd:… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Though the parallel is not complete, it is safe to say that science will never touch them unaided by its practical applications.… — Arthur Balfour Copy Share Image
“Have you ever known a moment of bliss? ... Yet behold, only a little later, scarcely an hour gone by, and the… — Nick Bostrom Copy Share Image
“She [Thérèse] believed that the sublime splendour of ordinary existence was hidden from those who lived embedded in it, that for them… — François Mauriac Copy Share Image
Everyone must decide for himself whether it is better to have a brief but more intensely felt existence or to live a… — Rainer Werner Fassbinder Copy Share Image
My benefactor said that when a man embarks on the paths of sorcery he becomes aware, in a gradual manner, that ordinary… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
If your job is to leaven ordinary lives with elevating spectacle, be elevating or be gone. — George Will Copy Share Image
Among our own people also the church sorely needs clergy in close touch with the ordinary life of the laity, living the… — Roland Allen Copy Share Image
Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
In the business of politics, emotions and productive dissatisfaction with the world in which we live today are gradually being covered up… — Sigmar Gabriel Copy Share Image
Literary novelists who have a strong handle on plot are often characterized as good vacation reads because they manage to transport you… — Michelle Dean Copy Share Image
“If you are 'humble', it may help you in ordinary life. If you are not, you will get nowhere in higher things.” — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
In general, when you travel, you get into a different reality and are able to more accurately reflect on your ordinary life.… — John Mackey Copy Share Image
I began to feel that I lived on a higher plane than the skeptics of the ground; one that was richer because… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
“Lucien was a whole lot of trouble because he made her want things she couldn't possibly have. He made ordinary life feel… — Kitty French Copy Share Image
Serious or trivial, his daily behavior has instituted a canon which millions observe this day with conscious memory. No one regarded by… — David George Hogarth Copy Share Image
