My grandmother took me to church on Sunday all day long, every Sunday into the night. Then Monday evening was the missionary… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
it is impossible for any mind of common honesty not to be revolted by the contradictions in their principles and practice. They… — Frances Trollope Copy Share Image
Never in all their history have men been able truly to conceive of the world as one: a single sphere, a globe,… — Archibald MacLeish Copy Share Image
It is those who are successful, in other words, who are most likely to be given the kinds of special opportunities that… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
The cultivation of generosity is the beginning of spiritual awakening. Generosity has tremendous force because it arises from an inner quality of… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
Photography is linked with death in many different ways. The most immediate and explicit is the social practice of keeping photographs in… — Christian Metz Copy Share Image
What does Christianity mean today? National Socialism is a religion. All we lack is a religious genius capable of uprooting outmoded religious… — Joseph Goebbels Copy Share Image
We made basement practice songs.To have them presented in such a huge fashion today - like at Primavera, where it's thousands of… — David Pajo Copy Share Image
If the majority of the "spiritual market" is drawn to prerational magic and myth, how do you reach the small group who… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
I went to public school my whole life, graduated high school with my class. Growing up, I'd go to an audition, my… — Shailene Woodley Copy Share Image
The very problem of mind and body suggests division; I do not know of anything so disastrously affected by the habit of… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Don't think that only sitting with the eyes closed is practice. If you do think this way, then quickly change your thinking.… — Ajahn Chah Copy Share Image
Philip Kitcher has composed the most formidable defense of the secular view of life since Dewey. Unlike almost all of contemporary atheism,… — Leon Wieseltier Copy Share Image
The metaphor ( coaching) with sports is meant quite seriously... the coach stands back , observes the performance, and provides guidance. The… — David Perkins Copy Share Image
One of the tools I like a lot is the Just Like Me practice. It's one of the empathy practices where we… — Mark Coleman Copy Share Image
If you go out and practice super hard and then you go play in the game, it's going to be a lot… — Davante Adams Copy Share Image
Slavery was, in a very real sense, the first international human rights issue to come to the fore. It led to the… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
A traitor is a betrayer - one who practices injury, while professing friendship. Benedict Arnold was a traitor, solely because, while professing… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
“But I did not want to be common; I wanted to be uncommon. I did not want to do what was easy;… — Jay Bilas Copy Share Image
In his latest book Marc Ellis asks the defining question for Jewish life today: 'Can injustice, represented by Jewish domination of Jerusalem,… — Rosemary Radford Ruether Copy Share Image
I finally understood that by being on a perpetual diet, I had practiced a "disordered" form of eating my whole life. I… — Portia de Rossi Copy Share Image
The subconscious mind is probably the most important factor in being a good golfer. It keeps distractions on the course from ruining… — Wiffy Cox Copy Share Image
Kindness is a virtue neither modern nor urban. One almost unlearns it in a city. Towns have their own beatitude; they are… — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
Snohetta promotes a more democratic workplace atmosphere than most other architectural offices. This may merely reflect prevalent employment practices in Scandinavia, but… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
The nature of the mind is such that if certain mental qualities are developed on a sound basis, they not only remain,… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
I used to cheerlead in high school, and I had the biggest crush on one of my teammates' brothers. I was a… — Josie Loren Copy Share Image
I was a violent, self-destructive teenager, who was adopted right at the end of World War II. I was lied to and… — Sam Hamill Copy Share Image
Whenever learners or those beyond learning awaken the mind, for the first time they plant one buddha-nature. Working with the four elements… — Dogen Copy Share Image
While you are continuing this practice, week after week, year after year, your experience will become deeper and deeper, and your experience… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
One of the things that I noticed in my private law practice was the fact that so many people had gotten ripped… — Roy Cooper Copy Share Image
In theory we understand people, but in practice we can't put up with them, I thought, deal with them for the most… — Thomas Bernhard Copy Share Image
When like the patriarchs we learn to dig wells of virtue and spiritual knowledge within ourselves by means of ascetic practice and… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
Dialectical logic undoes the abstractions of formal logic and of transcendental philosophy, but it also denies the concreteness of immediate experience. To… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
The concept of 'talent' is formed under completely abstract criteria, having nothing in common with reality. But the reality is such that… — Alexander Morozevich Copy Share Image
But when it has been shown by the researches of Pasteur that the septic property of the atmosphere depended not on the… — Joseph Lister Copy Share Image
When we start out on a spiritual path we often have ideals we think we're supposed to live up to. We feel… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Armed with all the powers, enjoying all the wealth they owe to science, our societies are still trying to practice and to… — Jacques Monod Copy Share Image
Let us become thoroughly sensible of the weakness, blindness, and narrow limits of human reason: Let us duly consider its uncertainty and… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Corporate tax reform is nice in theory but tough in practice. It most likely requires lower tax rates and the closing of… — Andrew Ross Sorkin Copy Share Image
Just because you've had one or two of those games, you can't really go back to the next practice and change everything.… — Jonas Gustavsson Copy Share Image
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