The sun, though it passes through dirty places, yet remains as pure as before. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done. — Marie Curie Copy Share Image
Marriage remains the most efficient engine of disenchantment yet invented. — Caitlin Flanagan Copy Share Image
One must not criticize that which is common since it remains always the same. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The fact remains that, if the supply of energy failed, modern civilization would come to an end as abruptly as does the… — Frederick Soddy Copy Share Image
When once the forms of civility are violated, there remains little hope of return to kindness or decency. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Suffering, once accepted, loses its edge, for the terror of it lessens, and what remains is generally far more manageable than we… — Lesley Hazleton Copy Share Image
There was a day when I liked writing letters -- it has gone. Unfortunately the passion for getting them remains. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Quadruped lions are said to be savage, only when they are hungry; biped lions are rarely sulky longer than when their appetite… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
It is always the time of hope, confidence and love. Everything passes; love remains. We will not be disappointed. — Carlo Maria Martini Copy Share Image
Traveling carries with it the curse of being at home everywhere and yet nowhere, for wherever one is some part of oneself… — Margot Fonteyn Copy Share Image
What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
it’s as if the universe has a sense of humor, since at a deep level it’s impossible not to lead a spiritual… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
There are men whose manners have the same essential splendor as the simple and awful sculpture on the friezes of the Parthenon,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I like shelves full of books in a library, but if all books become electronic, the task of big research libraries remains… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
In spite of the roaring of the young lions at the Union, and the screaming of the rabbits in the home of… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
This is, first and last, the real value of Christmas; in so far as the mythology remains at all it is a… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
He who, with strong passions, remains chaste--he who, keenly sensitive, with manly power of indignation in him, can yet restrain himself and… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
Science and technology have amplified the effects of the dysfunction of the human mind in its unawakened state to such a degree… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The First thing to understand about the universe is that no condition is "good" or "bad." It just is. So stop making… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
The man who has known pure joy, if only for a moment ... is the only man for whom affliction is something… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Just as God's love to us believers, his children, is unalterably the same, whatever may be the manifestations of that love; and… — George Muller Copy Share Image
This is what we see when we look up at Rainier, the beauty, the horror, the awe the unbelievability of size that… — Bruce Barcott Copy Share Image
While it is a very hard and sometimes very cruel profession, my love for the bike remains as strong now as it… — Stephen Roche Copy Share Image
All my life, to this day, the memory of my childhood remains grim and incoherent. If I close my eyes and think… — Burgess Meredith Copy Share Image
It is the mark of great art that its appeal is universal and eternal…… Great art remains stable and unobscure because the… — Clive Bell Copy Share Image
We cannot hope to change human nature. There will always be cranks and conspiracy theorists among us. But we can try to… — John Avlon Copy Share Image
With such global events looming over us like mountains, nay, like entire mountain ranges, it may seem incongruous and inappropriate to recall… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
