Solitude, I reflected, is the one deep necessity of the human spirit to which adequate recognition is never given in our codes.… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
“St. Augustine said, "The very pleasures of human life men acquire by difficulties." There are times when the entire arrangement of our… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
I have not led an ordinary life, nor a life that would suit everyone. I took great risks, but because I did,… — Cameron Dokey Copy Share Image
“There can only be a true life as an other life, and it’s from the point of view of this other life… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
“Alone in my room, wrapped in a blanket, I whimpered and talked aloud to myself, recalling the lost glory of my youth… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
“In the beginning, poets make their best efforts to fit words into their rhyme and lyric. However, as time passes and the… — Alok Mishra Copy Share Image
The ancient Masters didn't try to educate the people, but kindly taught them to not-know. When they think that they know the… — Laozi Copy Share Image
“She tried to live like an ordinary woman, but some women cannot live an ordinary life. She tried to walk in the… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
Glamour is a beautiful illusion - the word 'glamour' originally meant a literal magic spell - that promises to transcend ordinary life… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
People would be amazed by the ordinary life William and I live. I do my own shopping. Sometimes, when I come away… — Prince Harry Copy Share Image
True joy, as it turns out, comes only to those who have devoted their lives to something greater than personal happiness. This… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
in reading ... stories, you can be many different people in many different places, doing things you would never have a chance… — Natalie Babbitt Copy Share Image
“You might want to sit in public squares and people watch for an hour in one place and a month in another.… — Kathleen Winter Copy Share Image
I have always said that it is completely about the music, and I have never been interested in anything else. I think… — Amy Macdonald Copy Share Image
An ordinary life used to look something like this: born into a growing family, you help rear your siblings, have the first… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
I have this sensation of being in flight all the time, but being on stage is like creating a sanctuary in which… — Florence Welch Copy Share Image
He (George W. Bush) should depart. He should go away from the presidency and let the Americans lead an ordinary life with… — Naji Sabri Copy Share Image
But that had been grief--this was joy. Yet that grief and this joy were alike outside all the ordinary conditions of life;… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Sublime places repeat in grand terms a lesson that ordinary life typically teaches viciously: that the universe is mightier than we are,… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
To walk into Bill Olsen's poems is to enter a mind so weirdly curious, you can't be released to sadness, not yet:… — Marianne Boruch Copy Share Image
“He knew then what it was that Liz had given him; the thing that he would have to go back and find… — John le Carré Copy Share Image
In strongly opposing the world of play to that of reality, and in stressing that play is essentially a side activity, the… — Roger Caillois Copy Share Image
Everybody has had the experience of something they love - whether it's a pop song or a painting or a movie -… — Will Sheff Copy Share Image
“Yesterday I was so full of hope. My life seemed blessed, full of adventures and answered prayers, and now something very, very… — Polly Horvath Copy Share Image
“Oh, Jo. Jo, you have so many extraordinary gifts; how can you expect to lead an ordinary life? You’re ready to go… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
