Basically, I want to spend my time in retreat, but to my own amazement, I agreed to help with a project to… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
I rarely feel like I'm in chaos, but when I am, I usually [retreat] and try to find the eye of the… — Mike Colter Copy Share Image
The retreat and disappearance of glaciers—there are only 160,000 left—means we're burning libraries and damaging the planet, possibly beyond repair. Bit by… — Gretel Ehrlich Copy Share Image
The American administration is trying to achieve any gain in the shadow of the embarrassment hitting it because of its failures in… — Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah Copy Share Image
Happy couples make it a habbit to refocus. Because it's quite normal to be distracted. So they talk. They get away for… — Bo Sanchez Copy Share Image
“To be set on fire, you must get close to God. When you feel cold, distant, and "out of it" spiritually, it's… — Bob Sorge Copy Share Image
Coordinating the retreat was important too, so important that Jiaan had assigned Aram as Fasal's assistant, to be sure he didn't overlook… — Hilari Bell Copy Share Image
“Possession is not only when the devil plays hide and seek in your brain or poison your medula oblongata with negativity, but… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
I lay and cried, and began to feel again, to admit I was human, vulnerable, sensitive. I began to remember how it… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
I'd sit at my kitchen table and start scanning help-wanted ads on my laptop, but then a browser tab would blink and… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
The great decisions of government cannot be dictated by the concerns of religious factions… We have succeeded for 205 years in keeping… — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
I think we all have a hunger that's hard to name. A lot of people who come to my retreats have never… — Geneen Roth Copy Share Image
The battle, Sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. Besides, Sir, we have… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
“I’ll find out who’s inside. Wait here and keep alert!’ Hallam rasped. He skirted the main path to skulk towards one of… — David Cook Copy Share Image
“Some details in life may look insignificant but appear to be vital leitmotifs in a person's life. They may have the value… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
No man is an island, as they say. No. I've tried it. I've gone on retreats at various times in my life… — Liam Neeson Copy Share Image
Dear Night! this world's defeat; The stop to busy fools; care's check and curb; The day of spirits; my soul's calm retreat… — Henry Vaughan Copy Share Image
From here, far away, people seem very good, and that is natural, for in going away into the country we are not… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
A man may be accused of cowardice for fleeing away from all manner of physical dangers but when things supernatural, insubstantial and… — Susan Hill Copy Share Image
Social solidarities are torn apart, furthering the retreat into orbits of the private that undermine those spaces that nurture non-commodified knowledge, values,… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
It is the act of reading itself that I miss, the opportunity to retreat further and further from the world until I… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
The heavy casualties, the constant retreat, the shortage of food and munitions, the difficulty of receiving reinforcements... all this had a very… — Vasily Chuikov Copy Share Image
“Mark also pointed out that mindfulness was a skill—one that would improve as I got more meditation hours under my belt. In… — Dan Harris Copy Share Image
As with Steinitz, Fischer's genius has often been concealed by controversies away from the board. Like Lasker, Fischer has raised chess to… — Andrew Soltis Copy Share Image
The church is a sort of hospital for men's souls, and as full of quackery as the hospital for their bodies. Those… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
God loves us. He is good, He is our Father, and He expects us to pray, and to trust and be believing,… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
“If we want to let loose and let reality sink in, silence can be a welcoming partner. It becomes a refuge, a… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
I think about death a lot, I really do, because I can't believe I won't exist. It's the ego isn't it? I… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
While a particularly deft sense of irony may be one of the tools of great storytellers, I think it's also true that… — Steve Erickson Copy Share Image
With the destruction of history, contemporary events themselves retreat into a remote and fabulous realm of unverifiable stories, uncheckable statistics, unlikely explanations… — Guy Debord Copy Share Image
A public that tries to do without criticism, and asserts that it knows what it wants or likes, brutalizes the arts and… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
“I center down - I retreat, not inside myself, but outside myself. ... Self-forgetfulness is tremendously invigorating. I wonder if we don't… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
What good is all our busy religion if God isn't in it? What good is it if we've lost majesty, reverence, worship-an… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
I focus for periods of time on creative work and I'm very insular during those times - not a lot of socializing.… — Danielle LaPorte Copy Share Image
You're a slave in your own country, White Man. Each year you get to keep less of the fruits of your labor;… — George Lincoln Rockwell Copy Share Image
Knowledge is a comfortable and necessary retreat and shelter for us in an advanced age; and if we do not plant it… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
His retreat into himself is not a final renunciation of the world, but a search for quietude, where alone it is possible… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
From time to time, to remind ourselves to relax and be peaceful, we may wish to set aside some time for a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I did not enjoy the violence of boxing so much as the science of it. I was intrigued by how one moved… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
This attitude of mind - this attitude of uncertainty - is vital to the scientist, and it is this attitude of mind… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image