Concentration, itself, is nothing but a matter of control of the attention! Learn to fix your attention on a given subject, at… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
The wisdom of the appearance of the spirit in the body is this: the human spirit is a Divine Trust, and it… — Abdu'l-Bahá Copy Share Image
A transition from an author's book to his conversation is too often like an entrance into a large city, after a distant… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Must we to bed indeed? Well then, Let us arise and go like men, And face with an undaunted tread The long… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
The ethical life... is maintained in being by a common culture, which also upholds the togetherness of society... Unlike the modern youth… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
Children should Transcribe favourite Passages. A certain sense of possession and delight may be added to this exercise if children are allowed… — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
My son and I discovered Terry Pratchett's books together, when he was about eleven years old. He'd be reading on his own… — Linda Sue Park Copy Share Image
only grieving can heal grief; the passage of time will lessen the acuteness, but time alone, without the direct experience of grief,… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
At times the [radio telescope] records exhibited a feature characteristic of interference, occurring some time later than the passage of the two… — Kenneth Franklin Copy Share Image
Print will never die. There's no substitute for the feel of an actual book. I adore physically turning pages, and being able… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Do not forget, read a passage from the Gospel every day. It is the power that changes us, that transforms us, it… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
I am growing stronger. I am a stone being excavated by the slow passage of water; I am wood charred by a… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
As the work progresses the careful reader will insert mental interrogation points here and there. He will find that his interest increases… — John Bates Clark Copy Share Image
When the passage "All men are born free and equal," when that passage was being written were not some of the signers… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Very strange bridges are used to make the passage from one state of things to another; we may lose sight of them… — Herbert Butterfield Copy Share Image
I found out - the paper used to go to bed on Tues - on Monday. I found out that on Monday… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
I recall this passage as the hour of its first fully coming over me that she was a beautiful liberal creature. I… — Henry James Copy Share Image
We are not heavenly destined for a particular road; every road is our destiny; every path and every passage is our fate. — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
How science dwindles, and how volumes swell, How commentators each dark passage shun, And hold their farthing candle to the sun! — Edward Young Copy Share Image
I account the office of benefactor, or almoner, to which God appoints all those whom he has favored with wealth, one of… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
“How many human eyes ... had snatched glimpses of their secret anatomies, down the passage of years?” — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
I remember a passage in Goldsmith's "Vicar of Wakefield," which he was afterwards fool enough to expunge: "I do not love a… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The passage of time has not altered the capacity of the Redeemer to change lives. — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
Living most of the time in a world created mostly in one's head, does not make for an easy passage in the… — Sydney Brenner Copy Share Image