I like to borrow a metaphor from the great poet and mystic Rumi who talks about living like a drawing compass. One… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Why roots were rated so highly compared with branches or leaves, Peri had never understood. Trees had multiple shoots and filaments extending… — Elif Shafak Copy Share Image
Wildness we might consider as the root of the authentic spontaneities of any being. It is that wellspring of creativity whence comes… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
At 17, the smallest crises took on tremendous proportions; someone else's thoughts could take root in the loam of your own mind;… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Standing before you as the advocate of the lower races, I declare what I believe cannot be gainsaid...that just so soon and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
With my solo music, I really try to step out of the box and do stuff I don't get to do with… — Nick Carter Copy Share Image
Farewell, a long farewell to all my greatness! This is the state of man: today he puts forth The tender leaves of… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Washington's answer to a self-inflicted financial crisis reminded Americans why they so deeply distrust the political class. The 'fiscal cliff' process was… — Ron Fournier Copy Share Image
Every man who has reached even his intellectual teens begins to suspect that life is no farce; that it is not genteel… — Henry James Sr Copy Share Image
After my bar mitzvah, I started to assimilate, to really not pay attention to my roots. The anti-Semitic experiences of my youth… — Joel Grey Copy Share Image
Marriage. It's a hard term to define. Especially for me--I've ducked it like root canal. Still there's no denying the fact that… — Andrew Schneider Copy Share Image
To separate from my culture (as from my family) I had to feel competent enough on the outside and secure enough inside… — Gloria E. Anzaldúa Copy Share Image
What we are after is the root and not the branches. The root is the real knowledge; the branches are surface knowledge.… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
What disconcerts the modern world at its very roots is not being sure, and not seeing how it ever could be sure,… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
When the back-to-the-cities trend started taking root, albeit very unevenly, cities were so glad to finally land deals that they routinely overpaid,… — Sandy Smith Copy Share Image
“Sometimes a person might point to the roots and say that it is just here that we can find the real Dharma,… — Sadhak Anshit Copy Share Image
I know for me, going back the person I've bad-mouthed or lied to is absolutely humiliating! But isn't it interesting that "humiliating"… — Chip Ingram Copy Share Image
It's not possible to search for God using the methods of a detective... There is no way. You can only wait till… — Karel Capek Copy Share Image
Writing 'Hoop Roots' was a substitute or a surrogate activity. I can't play anymore - my body won't cooperate - so in… — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
Bearing in his right paw the shovel that digs to the truth beneath appearances, cut the roots of useless attachments, and flings… — Gary Snyder Copy Share Image
In college, I had a course in Latin, and one day the word "divorce" came up. I always figured it came from… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
The trees bathed their great heads in the waves of the morning, while their roots were planted deep in gloom; save where… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
Because of course she had known she must go. She always did the thing because in obedience lay the integrity that God… — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
Most people don't relate to and can't generate concern for something they don't encounter personally or feel personally affected by. People have… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
“I want you to learn the lesson of the lotus. This flower springs forth from muddy waters. It raises its delicate petals… — Colleen Houck Copy Share Image
“We are the Roots of the tree on which you flourish. Go on rejoicing in your beauty! But remember there is this… — Ivan Krylov Copy Share Image
Yet it would be unfair to the generality of our kind to ascribe to their intellectual and moral weakness the gradual divergence… — James G. Frazer Copy Share Image
I think of the trees and how simply they let go, let fall the riches of a season, how without grief (it… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
Temple mirrors of eternity remind us that each human being has "divine nature and destiny"; that "sacred ordinances and covenants available in… — Gerrit W. Gong Copy Share Image
There are few problems in the world that economic prosperitycannot help solve. Yet the engines of that prosperity are under fierceattack. The… — Ziad K. Abdelnour Copy Share Image
From the seed grows a root, then a sprout; from the sprout, the seedling leaves; from the leaves, the stem; around the… — Mary Caroline Richards Copy Share Image
A tree is made to live in peace in the color of day and in friendship with the sun, the wind and… — Jacques Roumain Copy Share Image
Mistakes are at the very base of human thought, embedded there, feeding the structure like root nodules. If we were not provided… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
You are good when you strive to give of yourself. Yet you are not evil when you seek gain for yourself. For… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
When man has mastered money he shall have mastered not only his economic problem of prosperity but also his political problem, for… — E.C. Riegel Copy Share Image
And thus flowed the current of life. The seeds of the silverbell were converted into squirrel; and squirrels were converted into foxes.… — Harvey Broome Copy Share Image
I certainly feel I'm carrying the flag for Britain. I feel an honour in that but, at the same time, knowing my… — Chris Froome Copy Share Image
To keep up the purity of the Race and its culture, Germany shocked the world by her purging the country of the… — M. S. Golwalkar Copy Share Image
The lordship of man over man is the root cause of all corrupt rule. In the light of this principle, no laws… — Abul A'la Maududi Copy Share Image
At the root of the assault on our liberties is, in fact, an assault on our character--an assault that assumes that we… — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
