Today, philanthropy is a very unsophisticated, old world process where people who make a shitload of money go and give it away… — Peter Diamandis Copy Share Image
People without children do have the freedom to do things that caring parents with dependent kids can't - to work long hours,… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
Care-charmer Sleep, son of the sable Night, Brother to Death, in silent darkness born, Relieve my languish and restore the light; With… — Samuel Daniel Copy Share Image
We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke straps our vice. Where is the skillful swordsman… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
At the center, where a cuckoo bird would live in a more traditional timepiece, is the juggler. Dressed in harlequin style with… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
I don't like the income tax. Every time we talk about these taxes we get around to the idea of 'from each… — T. Coleman Andrews Copy Share Image
Finding a single investment that will return 20% per year for 40 years tends to happen only in dreamland. In the real… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
The feeling, "this can't be it", is a very powerful form of prayer. It's the agony of the separated self longing for… — Alan Cohen Copy Share Image
Looking up at the stars, I know quite well That, for all they care, I can go to hell, But on earth… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Altruism is one of the most fundamentally social impulses, and doing things for others without expecting anything in return is core to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The animate earth - this moody terrain that we experience differently in anger and in joy, in grief and in love -… — David Abram Copy Share Image
Pastor Saeed Abedini is coming home. Held for three and a half years, his unyielding faith has inspired people around the world… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
well, young man," the judge began, what it biols down to this if the court so desires and if you belive that… — Dave Pelzer Copy Share Image
I have been made to learn that the doom and burden of our life is bound forever on man’s shoulders; and when… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Whoever has experienced the power and the unrestrained ability to humiliate another human being automatically loses his own sensations. Tyranny is a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think there are three main values which are fundamental: that Georgia will never be a criminal country, that Georgia will never… — Vano Merabishvili Copy Share Image
Those who march with us will certainly face abuse, misunderstanding, bitter animosity, and possibly the ferocity of struggle and of danger. In… — Oswald Mosley Copy Share Image
Public health service should be as fully organized and as universally incorporated into our governmental system as is public education. The returns… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
In almost every country there are elements of opinion which would welcome such a conclusion because they wish to return to the… — Arthur Henderson Copy Share Image
Many great persons have been of opinion that love is no other thing than complacency itself, in which they have had much… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
Perhaps it’s that you can’t go back in time, but you can return to the scenes of a love, of a crime,… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
If you look at academic studies, you can see that stock prices are most closely correlated with cash flow. It's such a… — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
In the same manner, having been reduced by disorder, and sunk to their utmost state of depression, unable to descend lower, they,… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
When the waters of a lake are absolutely still, the lake reflects the trees, the sky, and everything around it perfectly. At… — Alberto Villoldo Copy Share Image
Three times a year, there's Strategicon convention, and I go for the board games. It happens Presidents Day, Labor Day, and Memorial… — Rich Sommer Copy Share Image
When public figures remain silent about depression, there is a cost to the rest of society. Silence contributes to the misperception that… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
Alice Adams wrote a sweet note to me after my first novel came out when I was 26, and I was so… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Once we meet our children, even for moments, in a place of "I don't know," of relinquished authority, we return to the… — Arjuna Ardagh Copy Share Image
After my return to England it appeared to me that by following the example of Lyell in Geology, and by collecting all… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Though most of the friendships of the world ill deserve the name of friendships; yet a man may make use of them… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
If it is a joint return, we are instructed to print the given names of both husband and wife. But since some… — W. C. Fields Copy Share Image
The Faustian trade of the 20th century was, we got 30 years of additional life, but in return we got heart disease,… — S. Jay Olshansky Copy Share Image
Daily life is a comprimised blend of posturing for the sake of role-playing and of varying degrees of self-revelation. Under stressful conditions… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
We are all a part of the divine spark. All have a purpose in creation and that purpose is called Love. That… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
The anorexic body is held in the grip of will alone; its meaning is far from stable. What it says - 'Notice… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
The only victory love can enjoy is the day when its offer of love is answered by the return of love. The… — William Barclay Copy Share Image
Drinking is an emotional thing. It joggles you out of the standardism of everyday life, out of everything being the same. It… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
The greatest blessings of general conference come to us after the conference is over. Remember the pattern recorded frequently in scripture: we… — Robert D. Hales Copy Share Image
Sometimes it's more generous to take than give, he said. "How?" Caroline asked. "To let the other person give you what he… — Luanne Rice Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of death, the death which is inevitable and common to all beings, and the death which is voluntary… — Abdelkader El Djezairi Copy Share Image
