Life creeps slowly upward… When some forgotten inventor of the older world smote his rival or enemy with a branch of wood… — Jack London Copy Share Image
Society can and does execute its own mandates: and if it issues wrong mandates instead of right, or any mandates at all… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
It is not only a matter, I believe, of religious observance and practice. To me, being Jewish means and has always meant… — Golda Meir Copy Share Image
In the nineteeth century, knitting was prescribed to women as a cure for nervousness and hysteria. Many new knitters find this sort… — Stephanie Pearl-McPhee Copy Share Image
Our practices - our most spiritual practices - are hanging laundry on the line, raising children, building strong relationships, practicing kindness as… — Dan Millman Copy Share Image
We can stop struggling with what occurs and see its true face without calling it the enemy. It helps to remember that… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Being able to recognize which of your desires are vital to pursue and which ones are not is often less than easy.… — Rod Stryker Copy Share Image
My favorite books are a constantly changing list, but one favorite has remained constant: the dictionary. Is the word I want to… — Beverly Cleary Copy Share Image
Sometimes you have a flash of insight, but it's not strong enough to survive. Therefore in the practice of Buddhism, samadhi is… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
And dieting, I discovered, was another form of disordered eating, just as anorexia and bulimia similarly disrupt the natural order of eating.… — Portia de Rossi Copy Share Image
It's never been just about me. It's about my grandparents who used to drive me to swim practice. My dad who -… — Jessica Long Copy Share Image
If you are serious, and you want to make a living as an author, then you need to hustle. Period. If you… — Larry Correia Copy Share Image
Man is appealed to be guided in his acts, not merely by love, which is always personal, or at best tribal, but… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
Poets are excellent students of blizzards and salt and broken statuary, but they are always elsewhere for the test. Any intention in… — Dean Young Copy Share Image
The ever-present impulse is to push against restriction and, in so doing, to feel intolerably hemmed in. Thus in practice, every liberation… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
Have faith to keep all the commandments of God, knowing that they are given to bless His children and bring them joy.… — Russell M. Nelson Copy Share Image
Believe in yourself and all you want to be. Don't let what other people say or do make you frown. Laugh as… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The sin of worldliness is a preoccupation with the things of this temporal life. It's accepting and going along with the views… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
Sufis have always been those that have tried to purify the ethics of Islam and society. And they don't have their hands… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
I balance my natural drive for speed and impact with a counterbalancing drive for significance, innovation and sustained customer intimacy. This involves… — Kevin Cashman Copy Share Image
Many good American companies have respect for individuals, and practice Kaizen and other TPS {Toyota Production System} tools. But what is important… — Fujio Cho Copy Share Image
The Role of Deliberate Practice in the Acquisition of Expert Performance”: “The differences between expert performers and normal adults are not immutable,… — K. Anders Ericsson Copy Share Image
The behavior and reactions of the oppressed, which lead the oppressor to practice cultural invasion, should evoke from the revolutionary a different… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
The Master said, "To study, and then in a timely fashion to practice what you have learned - is this not satisfying?… — Confucius Copy Share Image
I am a total zombie just after I wake up. It takes me half an hour even to get my eyes open.… — Diana Wynne Jones Copy Share Image
The discourse on the Text should itself be nothing other than text, research, textual activity, since the Text is that social space… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
Love is the capacity to take care, to protect, to nourish. If you are not capable of generatng that kind of energy… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
We thus begin to see that the institutionalized practice of citations and references in the sphere of learning is not a trivial… — Robert K. Merton Copy Share Image
Q. What is your view of the daily discipline of the Christian life - the need for taking time to be alone… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In Buddhism, both learning and practice are extremely important, and they must go hand in hand. Without knowledge, just to rely on… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
[I] can't actually imagine a time in which the need for more diversity would ever cease. Affirmative action has been an issue… — Eric Holder Copy Share Image
[America's] glory is not dominion, but liberty. Her march is the march of the mind. She has a spear and a shield:… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
Bathsheba loved Troy in the way that only self-reliant women love when they abandon their self-reliance. When a strong woman recklessly throws… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
There is no way of learning to pray but by praying. No reasoned philosophy of prayer ever taught a soul to pray.… — Samuel Chadwick Copy Share Image
Religion, or the duty we owe to our Creator, and manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction,… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Breathing is important in the practice of meditation because it is the faculty in us that is simultaneously voluntary and involuntary. You… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Debts that must be paid ... that sums up the concept of karma. But I would add that karma is not a… — Dada Vaswani Copy Share Image
A remedy [for masturbation] which is almost always successful in small boys is circumcision, especially when there is any degree of phimosis.… — John Harvey Kellogg Copy Share Image
Prayer doesn’t work. Perhaps it makes the believer feel better (in the same way that meditation or deep thought would), but prayer… — David G. McAfee Copy Share Image
...in the acquisition of this blessing human nature can find no better helper than Love. I declare that it is the duty… — Socrates Copy Share Image
![“Have faith to keep all the commandments of God, knowing that they are given to bless His children and bring them joy. [You] will encounter people who pick which commandments they will keep and ignore others that they choose to break. I call this the cafeteria approach to obedience. This practice…” quote by Russell M. Nelson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/59e/russell-m-nelson-1457_approach_have-faith-to-keep-all-the-commandments_741863.jpg)
![“[I] can't actually imagine a time in which the need for more diversity would ever cease. Affirmative action has been an issue since segregation practices. The question is not when does it end, but when does it begin [..] When do people of color truly get the benefits to which they are entitled?” quote by Eric Holder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/233/eric-holder-7429_action_i-can-t-actually-imagine-a-time-in-which_2551642.jpg)
![“[America's] glory is not dominion, but liberty. Her march is the march of the mind. She has a spear and a shield: but the motto upon her shield is Freedom, Independence, Peace. This has been her declaration: this has been, as far as her necessary intercourse with the rest of mankind would permit…” quote by John Quincy Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d44/john-quincy-adams-2098_america_america-s-glory-is-not-dominion-but-libe_954795.jpg)
![“A remedy [for masturbation] which is almost always successful in small boys is circumcision, especially when there is any degree of phimosis. The operation should be performed by a surgeon without administering an anaesthetic, as the brief pain attending the operation will have a salutary effect…” quote by John Harvey Kellogg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e04/john-harvey-kellogg-17002_attending_a-remedy-for-masturbation-which-is-almos_2240813.jpg)
