I hold it to be a paramount duty of us in the free states, due to the Union of the states, and… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I recently got back from Hiroshima and it was fascinating to me how the Japanese accommodate this paradox. We were talking about… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
It seems to me that Canadian sensibility has been profoundly disturbed, not so much by our famous problem of identity, important as… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
“This kindness, this stupid kindness, is what is most truly human in a human being. It is what sets man apart, the… — Vasily Grossman Copy Share Image
It is a curious paradox that precisely in proportion to our own intellectual weakness will be our credulity, to those mysterious powers… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
It was time to expect more of myself. Yet as I thought about happiness, I kept running up against paradoxes. I wanted… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
The deeper our faith, the more doubt we must endure; the deeper our hope, the more prone we are to despair; the… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for paradoxes. Petals are bone… — Maxine Hong Kingston Copy Share Image
What is the purpose of writing music? One is, of course, not dealing with purposes but dealing with sounds. Or the answer… — John Cage Copy Share Image
“The paradox is that by being ‘in love’ we are in fact falling in love with ourselves, and we have an opportunity… — Sarah Bartlett Copy Share Image
One of the paradoxes that makes the internet such a suggestive place is that, on the one hand, we perceive it as… — Virginia Heffernan Copy Share Image
“A heartbreaking paradox: if only I can finish my work so that it will live. Yet if it is finished, completed ,… — Hélène Cixous Copy Share Image
“In the matter of reforming things, as distinct from deforming them, there is one plain and simple principle; a principle which will… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“When you are going on a spiritual path, as I explain it, you are basically raising your vibration. You then begin to… — Dan Desmarques Copy Share Image
“... the Gen Y paradox: an entire generation of employees with the attitude that they know how to communicate with anybody, anytime,… — Bill Jensen Copy Share Image
“Joshua to Angela: "Please, Angela, do it for me… and you never know you just might have fun." She looked at him… — Patti Roberts Copy Share Image
The twisty nature of psychic attack - are you being attacked, or did you bring this attack on yourself? - speaks to… — Heidi Julavits Copy Share Image
“The Paradox: how do you lose something you never had? The answer: There was another way to have. A transparent stretch of… — Katie Roiphe Copy Share Image
Paul Otremba’s remarkable first book, The Currency, is an intriguing foray into lyric epistemology that tries to come to ter ms with… — Michael Collier Copy Share Image
“Certainly I wouldn't be writing this book, on this subject, if living with freedom were easy. The paradox seems to be, as… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
The great arises out of small things that are honored and cared for. Everybody's life really consists of small things. Greatness is… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“True belonging is not something you negotiate externally, it’s what you carry in your heart. It’s finding the sacredness in being a… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
It is all, as usual, paradox. I have to use what intellect I have in order to write books, but I write… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“The paradox—and a fearful paradox it is—is that the American Negro can have no future anywhere, on any continent, as long as… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“It is odd that the Bible says, ‘God created man,’ whereas it is the other way round: man has created God. It… — Béla Bartók Copy Share Image
On the one hand, we all want to be happy. On the other hand, we all know the things that make us… — Matthew Kelly Copy Share Image
If we have free will, by definition we cannot be granted it. We can't be given it. My [-audio-recording-distorted-] paradox states that… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
One ironic thing is that although (the Soviet Union) was one of the most oppressive systems, with no respect for the individual,… — Gabe Polsky Copy Share Image
If the Universe came to an end every time there was some uncertainty about what had happened in it, it would never… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
When you read a great book, you don’t escape from life, you plunge deeper into it. There may be a superficial escape… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“Love is the bridge that leads from the I sense to the We , and there is a paradox about personal love.… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
It's like a paradox. For one side, being popularized rap got better and the other side of it got worse. It's very… — Ice T Copy Share Image
The paradox is that we have this amazing capacity in our minds and hearts to learn and gain insights and then to… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
One of the paradoxes of liberal societies arises from the commitment to tolerance. A society committed to respecting the viewpoints and customs… — Martha Minow Copy Share Image
“Man requires a healing education which returns him to himself. Rousseau's paradoxes- his attack on the arts and the sciences and his… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
I was always aware, reading Chesterton, that there was someone writing this who rejoiced in words, who deployed them on the page… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Yet the paradox is that scientific methodology is the product of human hands and thus cannot reach some permanent truth. We build… — Paul Kalanithi Copy Share Image
“Oh, just some crap about the essential paradox of man: How we refuse to juxtapose the absolute to the relative, and some… — Stephen Adly Guirgis Copy Share Image
The paradox of love is that to have it is to want to preserve it because it's perfect in the moment but… — Elisabeth Eaves Copy Share Image
The central paradox of motherhood is that while our children become the absolute center of our lives, they must also push us… — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
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