Despite current ads and slogans, the world doesn't change one person at a time. It changes when networks of relationships form among… — Margaret J. Wheatley Copy Share Image
At first we will only skim the surface of the earth like young starlings, but soon, emboldened by practice and experience, we… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Rescuing women from their burden of unwarranted guilt is going to require 'educational practices and socializing agents' even more effective than the… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
The reason so many of us lose our bearings about practising early in life is that we practice in living rooms with… — William Westney Copy Share Image
The Buddha’s principal message that day was that holding on to anything blocks wisdom. Any conclusion that we draw must be let… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
The main argument is that capitalism is constituted by a varied of different practices, and so challenging capitalism needs to be about… — Cynthia Kauffman Copy Share Image
Improper breathing is a common cause of ill health. If I had to limit my advice on healthier living to just one… — Andrew Weil Copy Share Image
Sometimes people will think, I need to have pre-sanctioned spiritual joy. Getting joy from my contemplative meditation practice or getting joy from… — Moby Copy Share Image
The world can doubtless never be well known by theory: practice is absolutely necessary; but surely it is of great use to… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
At a certain point in the writing of any book, you become absolutely certain that it's terrible and is only getting more… — Greg van Eekhout Copy Share Image
I would encourage the youth to get in to their bodies as much as possible through sport or exercise, and to embrace… — Leilani Bishop Copy Share Image
I went to extreme measures to achieve my goals, from strapping heavy sandbags on my ankles, hopping on one leg, up and… — Li Cunxin Copy Share Image
Whosoever assumes a religious garb pleases not God even a bit. O ye men, understand this clearly in your minds, that God… — Guru Gobind Singh Copy Share Image
Such is the art of writing as Dreiser understands it and practices it--an endless piling up of minutiae, an almost ferocious tracking… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I support the rights of all people to practice their religious beliefs privately, but I oppose the idea of respecting religions. In… — Taslima Nasrin Copy Share Image
The material and the spiritual are but two parts of one universe and one truth. By overstressing one part or the other,… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
When you learn an instrument, it takes an awful lot of time to just learn the scales, and then eventually when you… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
The gym teacher's name was Mr. Caruso. Mr. Caruso did not speak English. He spoke 'Gym.' One day I was playing basketball… — Tommy Lasorda Copy Share Image
After a while, your coaching development ceases to be about finding newer ways to organize practice. In other words, you soon stop… — Anson Dorrance Copy Share Image
For it is an absurdity to call a country civilized in which a decent and industrious man, laboriously mastering a trade which… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The core distortion of the War on Terror under both Bush and Obama is the Orwellian practice of equating government accusations of… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
The difficulty in our education up till now lies, for the most part, in the fact that knowledge did not refine itself… — Max Stirner Copy Share Image
All that I have said up to now has merely been words. When people come to see me, I have to say… — Ajahn Chah Copy Share Image
It only takes about 50 contact hours to transmit basic literacy and math skills well enough that kids can be self-teachers from… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
I think, when people hear the word 'philosophy,' they think of Plato and a bunch of people sitting around in their robes… — Shannon Lee Copy Share Image
When, as today, there is a market in human organs, when fetuses are produced to make spare organs available, or to make… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Cloud-flying requires practice, even if you have every modern instrument, and unless you keep calm and collected you will get into trouble… — Charles Rumney Samson Copy Share Image
Of all the systems of religion that ever were invented, there is no more derogatory to the Almighty, more unedifying to man,… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“The good news is that just like pleasure can become pain with repeated use, we can also transform painful activities into pleasant… — Awdhesh Singh Copy Share Image
Feeling will get you closer to the truth of who you are than thinking. I cannot tell you anything that deep within… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
It is accordance with our determination to refrain from aggression and build up a sentiment and practice among nations more favorable to… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
I have got pictures of me sleeping on the bench when I was four years old while my dad was practicing. I… — Jose Calderon Copy Share Image
I've just simply tried to lose the fear of speaking it. I feel my English is not as bad now. I just… — Brandon Moreno Copy Share Image
I love to read the dedications of old books written in monarchies for they invariably honor some (usually insignificant) knight or duke… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
I realized the true function of a lawyer was to unite parties riven asunder. The lesson was so indelibly burnt into me… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
We could learn to stop when the sun goes down and when the sun comes up. We could learn to listen to… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
God is alpha and omega in the great world: endeavor to make him so in the little world; make him thy evening… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
None of us, irrespective of our sexual preference and/or practice, imagine that we can have an intimate relationship with a partner and… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
On every full moon, rituals ... take place on hilltops, beaches, in open fields and in ordinary houses. Writers, teachers, nurses, computer… — Starhawk Copy Share Image
“Scientists gladly accept any new truth demonstrated by evidence, that is, proved by the very law of the cosmos. Not so with… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
