If one fails to develop goals that give meaning to one’s existence, if one does not use the mind to it’s fullest,… — Dan Buettner Copy Share Image
Like many works of literature, Hollywood chooses for its villains people who strive for social dominance through the pursuit of wealth, prestige,… — Alex Tabarrok Copy Share Image
“Bond sat for a moment frozen to his chair. Suddenly, there flashed unwanted into his mind that most sinister line in poetry:… — Ian Fleming Copy Share Image
In the pursuit of Knowledge, every day something is added. In the practice of the Way, every day something is dropped. Less… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The ability to handle stress increases with the practice of meditation. In a culture like ours in which inner, spiritual growth is… — Daniel Goleman 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
The study of infinity is much more than a dry academic game. The intellectual pursuit of the absolute infinity is, as Georg… — Rudy Rucker Copy Share Image
My interest in science was always essentially limited to the study of principles… That I have published so little is due to… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
You know, an idea is just an idea. There seems to... the kind of epiphanies that you have, like the little sudden… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
So what is the difference between someone who willfully indulges in sexual pleasures while ignoring the Bible on moral purity and someone… — David Platt Copy Share Image
It is only possible to succeed at second-rate pursuits - like becoming a millionaire or a prime minister, winning a war, seducing… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
The retirement of Athanasius, which ended only with the life of Constantius, was spent, for the most part, in the society of… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Genial manners are good, and power of accommodation to any circumstance, but the high prize of life, the crowning fortune of a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If you loved everything you were writing, you would be deluding yourself or a complete and absolute narcissist. It's not about liking… — Brian Michael Bendis Copy Share Image
The meditative angler is not exempt from sensational periods. There are times when all the uncertainty of his chosen pursuit seems to… — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
If the sun is shining, stand in it- yes, yes, yes. Happy times are great, but happy times pass- they have to-… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
The spirit of philosophy is one of free inquiry. It suspects all authority. Its function is to trace the uncritical assumptions of… — Muhammad Iqbal Copy Share Image
Education is not merely a means for earning a living or an instrument for the acquisition of wealth. It is an initiation… — Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit Copy Share Image
sometimes, in pursuit of a greater peace, a man must stand by and lets those he loves suffer the injustices of men… — Darren Shan Copy Share Image
He will also find that the high and independent spirit, which usually dwells in the breast of those who are deeply versed… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
“And yet is not mankind itself, pushing on its blind way, driven by a dream of its greatness and its power upon… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
All equally see in the convulsion in America an era in the history of the world, out of which must come in… — Charles Francis Adams, Sr Copy Share Image
I’ve become obsessed with the idea of reconciliation, particularly reconciliation with nature but with people too, of course. I think that travel… — Jan Morris Copy Share Image
[Not enough is known about solid geometry] and for two reasons: in the first place, no government places value on it; this… — Plato Copy Share Image
We worry so much in this culture about being happy. The pursuit of happiness is even written in our Constitution. It's an… — Agapi Stassinopoulos Copy Share Image
Everybody Moral courage is a virtue of higher cast and nobler origin than physical. It springs from a consciousness of virtue and… — Samuel Griswold Goodrich Copy Share Image
What makes us exceptional, what makes us America is our allegiance to an idea articulated in a declaration made more than two… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The search for truth can be compared to a cat chasing her tail: frantic in her pursuit, her quarry nevetheless eludes her;… — Gina Barreca Copy Share Image
The pursuit of health is a symptom of unhealth. When this pursuit is no longer a personal yearning but part of state… — Petr Skrabanek Copy Share Image
In our society it is murder, psychologically, to deprive a man of a job or an income. You are in substance saying… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
(about organizing books in his home library, and putting a book in the "Arts and Lit non-fiction section) I personally find that… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
The pursuit of happiness is a matter of choice...it is a positive attitude we choose to express. It is not a gift… — Charles R. Swindoll Copy Share Image
People jump back and forth in pursuit of pleasures only because they see the emptiness of their lives more clearly than they… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
We come to believe that we can only learn when we are young, and that only ‘naturals’ can acquire certain skills. We… — Robert Twigger Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of intelligence in this world. People who are Monopoly smart and people who are Trivial Pursuit smart... If… — Christian Finnegan Copy Share Image
A college which does not confer the knowledge of the Spiritual Reality to the students who are engaged in the pursuit of… — Sai Baba Copy Share Image
When [beauty pornography is] aimed at men, its effect is to keep them from finding peace in sexual love. The fleeting chimera… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
Happiness is not always through success. Equally, the constant pursuit of success is sure unhappiness. But we have to find the balance.… — Amy Chua Copy Share Image
I think the American Dream used to be achieving one's goals in your field of choice - and from that, all other… — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
We think there’s someplace other than here to get to—that’s what drives the whole pursuit. Only when the pursuit ceases, is it… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
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