Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind....Fo r Love not only annihilates our fear of meaninglessness but empowers… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I believe all suffering is caused by ignorance. People inflict pain on others in the selfish pursuit of their happiness or satisfaction.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Christianity cannot erase man's need for pleasure, nor can it eradicate the various sources of pleasure. What it can do, however, and… — George H. Smith Copy Share Image
The mystery of the Christian life is that Christ expects us to flee sin and the devil, but does not expect us… — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share Image
All successful individuals have become such by hard work; by improving moments before they pass into hours, and hours that other people… — Mary Baker Eddy Copy Share Image
Vegetarianism serves as the criterion by which we know that the pursuit of moral perfection on the part of humanity is genuine… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
If we feel that any habit or pursuit, harmless in itself, is keeping us from God and sinking us deeper in the… — William Ralph Inge Copy Share Image
The preserve of ambition and folly in pursuit of illusion, or delusion. — Derek Jarman Copy Share Image
From the fact of general well-being came the new position of the poor. They were now in most communities a minority. The… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
The practice of architecture is the most delightful of all pursuits. Also, next to agriculture, it is the most necessary to man.… — Philip Johnson Copy Share Image
I am not politically correct. I am all about the facts, I am all about the truth and I am all about… — Luke Scott Copy Share Image
In the application of Satyagraha, I discovered, in the earliest stages, that pursuit of Truth did not admit of violence being inflicted… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I've wrecked and ravaged half my life in the pursuit of women, and I suffer the pangs of about seventeen regrets --… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
When you are pursuing your dreams, they will call you CRAZY because they are LAZY. They never know you are a HERO… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The art of governing [focusing] the passions is more useful, and more important, than many things in the search and pursuit of… — John Jortin Copy Share Image
Luxury is...to be able to take control of one's life, health, and the pursuit of happiness in a way that is joyful. — Andre Leon Talley Copy Share Image
If two people want to get married, it's their prerogative - we hope. Everybody should be able to do what they want… — Mariah Carey Copy Share Image
There are three intellectual pursuits, and, so far as I am aware, only three, in which human beings have performed major feats… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
I never thought I'd be using this phrase, but the pursuit of happiness - that's my right. — Jenifer Lewis Copy Share Image
Reading is not simply an intellectual pursuit but an emotional and spiritual one. It lights the candle in the hurricane lamp of… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
If I devote myself to other pursuits and contemplations, I must first see, at least, that I do not pursue them sitting… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Beauty - what is beauty, forsooth? Form and color; that is, surface only. Fortune - what is fortune? Nothing is ever a… — Richard Jefferies Copy Share Image
To minimize my guilt at going to the pictures - to call this wanton pursuit of an effete pleasure by another name… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
Today, we stand as a united country and are much closer to the ideals set forth in our Constitution that all men… — Jim Ryun Copy Share Image
For many decades now - and certainly during my adult life in academe - the Western intellectual world has not been convinced… — Arthur Peacocke Copy Share Image
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