“Our roads are most often a tawdry detour we have chosen because the press of pain or the push of greed drove… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
I would like a countrywide retreat but am not sure whether I'll get a countrywide retreat in the future but I'll manifest… — Maisie Peters Copy Share Image
Too often, the idea seemed to be that the cost of being part of Europe was being less like Britain. So after… — Douglas Alexander Copy Share Image
Most fathers don't see the war within the daughter, her struggles with conflicting images of the idealized and flawed father, her temptation… — Victoria Secunda Copy Share Image
I remember to breathe throughout the day. I remind myself that I can choose peace, no matter what is going on around… — Doreen Virtue Copy Share Image
“but then one day Jessica went out to lunch with her and didn’t offer to pay the bill, and now they weren’t… — Liane Moriarty Copy Share Image
I see two opposite tendencies in Turkish society: people feel demoralized, they lose the interest in politics and retreat to their private… — Elif Safak Copy Share Image
Braving obstacles and hardships is nobler than retreat to tranquility. The butterfly that hovers around the lamp until it dies is more… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
The impossibility of a retreat makes no difference in the situation of men resolved to conquer or die; and, believe me, my… — James Wolfe Copy Share Image
I went on a meditation retreat. In 10 or so days, I spent about a hundred hours meditating, observing 'noble silence' the… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
Clearly, one does not have to give up being an academic, retreat from rigorous research, or renounce the importance of specialization in… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
It's time to question laws that senselessly expand the concept of self-defense and sow dangerous conflict in our neighborhoods. These laws try… — Eric Holder Copy Share Image
Life is like invading Russia. A blitz start, massed shakos, plumes dancing like a flustered henhouse; a period of svelte progress recorded… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
True transformation occurs only when we can look at ourselves squarely and face our attachments and inner demons, free from the buzz… — Julia Hill Copy Share Image
The only weapon we have to oppose the bad effects of technology is technology itself. There is no other. We can't retreat… — C.P. Snow Copy Share Image
A mother and daughter are an edge. Edges are ecotones, transitional zones, places of danger or opportunity. House-dwelling tension. When I stand… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
One of the first things a relationship therapist learns is that couples argue to burn up energy that could be used for… — Gay Hendricks Copy Share Image
Wilderness is a resource which can shrink but not grow. Invasions can be arrested or modified in a manner to keep an… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
When I wrote a long story about the retreat of sea ice, I made clear it could go the other way for… — Andrew Revkin Copy Share Image
I look at decisions like - it's like an Indiana Jones movie. The guy comes to a rope ladder, and he's being… — Mark Burnett Copy Share Image
“You’ll do fine if you have any strength at all, but listen to your Green angel and give yourself more exit points.… — Dawn Jayne Copy Share Image
“I want my heart to be the thin place. I don't want to board a plane to feel the kiss of heaven.… — Anna White Copy Share Image
To the desert go profits and hermits, through deserts go pilgrims and exiles. Here the leaders of the great religions have sought… — Paul Shepard Copy Share Image
“He who advances without seeking fame, Who retreats without escaping blame, He whose one aim is to protect his people and serve… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
Monopathy, or over-specialisation, eventually retreats into defending what one has learnt rather than making new connections. The initial spurt of learning gives… — Robert Twigger Copy Share Image
When one illusion vanishes, another shall appear, and, still leading me forward towards an horizon that retreats as I advance, the happy… — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
Eastern Muslim countries, such as Indonesia and Malaysia, are relative success stories, as they are not afflicted by the Arab heritage of… — Conrad Black Copy Share Image
I had a girls' writing retreat at my condo and a bunch of other female writers came down. Me and two other… — Jamie Lynn Spears Copy Share Image
Fence straddlers have no balls. In compensation, however, they enjoy a comfortable seat and can retreat swiftly, when danger threatens, to either… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Much has been written on the subject of self-care, and what truly counts as such; one woman's double gin and tonic is… — Lolly Adefope Copy Share Image
Doing retreats, getting personal teachings from time to time from inspiring teachers, all of this helps to recharge our batteries. Then we… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
The difficult thing about practice isn't learning to sit for an hour, or sit for a weekend, or go on a three-month… — Larry Rosenberg Copy Share Image
When there are conflicts of observation, when experiments cannot be replicated, scientists may then retreat to a study of the various specific… — Ernest Sosa Copy Share Image
Let the winds of evidence blow you about as though you are a leaf, with no direction of your own. Beware lest… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
“Staying silent is like a slow growing cancer to the soul and a trait of a true coward. There is nothing intelligent… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Anyone who has had their heart broken learns to keep a little safety area. Even now in my relationship, I have something… — Suzi Quatro Copy Share Image
Its no coincidence that the word holiday suggests a holy day, or that the longest book in the Torah concerns the Sabbath.… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
The spiritual life is a stern choice. It is not a consoling retreat from the difficulties of existence; but an invitation to… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
We do not want an expanding struggle with consequences, that no one can perceive, nor will we bluster or bully or flaunt… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Your interests will guide you. Give no concern to what they say you cannot do. Be willing to accept the challenge. Take… — Iyanla Vanzant Copy Share Image
