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I made the school team, and when I won in a match against another school it was the greatest moment of my… — Juha Vaatainen Copy Share Image
Almost everything we do is automatic, yet we're not aware of that. We feel like there's a circle of light. We're like… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
Trying to change ourselves doesn't work in the long run because we're resisting our own energy. Self-improvemen t can have temporary results,… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
C. S. Lewis observed that almost all crimes of Christian history have come about when religion is confused with politics. Politics, which… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
Wear whatever makes you less sad and feels right when it's on. Don't wear too many things that serve no function. Wear… — Margaux Williamson Copy Share Image
I guess its better then a suicide note? Once my father was joking and laughing about people who killed their selves. Dad… — Jade Copy Share Image
It is obviously easier, for the short run, to draw cheap labor from adjacent pools of poverty...than to find it among one's… — George F. Kennan Copy Share Image
Sometimes it was easier to swim with the current rather than fight against it. There was always a shallow pool somewhere ahead.… — Helen Hollick Copy Share Image
Adventrue rewrites the routine of our lives and wakes us sharply from the comforts of the familiar. It allows us to see… — Josh Gates Copy Share Image
When I forgave Jock Semple on Heartbreak Hill, I also got really cross with women. I couldn't understand why they didn't get… — Kathrine Switzer Copy Share Image
We're so screwed up with our principles. We used to mock Japanese game shows where they ate bugs. Now we're doing the… — Philip Glenister Copy Share Image
“It's a mystery. A man's at odds to know his mind cause his mind is aught he has to know it with.… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
Trying to wake you,” Bones answered crisply. “I cut you, threw water on you, slapped you, and set a lighter to your… — Jeaniene Frost Copy Share Image
Perhaps one of the most important things you can do for human beings is wean them off an animal-based diet. It hardens… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
Our life is made up of time; our days are measured in hours, our pay measured by those hours, our knowledge is… — Cecelia Ahern Copy Share Image
Human myopia cannot be overcome simply by well-meaning attempts to build [climate] models that purport to peer decades and centuries ahead. Action… — Colin Robinson Copy Share Image
It takes 25 minutes to recover from a phone call or an e-mail, researchers have found, and yet the average person receives… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
The merry-go-round was running, yes, but... It was running backward. The small calliope inside the carousel machinery rattle-snapped its nervous-stallion shivering drums,… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
If I had my child to raise all over again,I'd finger paint more, and point the finger less.I'd do less correcting, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This was like July 13th, 1943, the pivotal day of the Battle of the Kursk. We were like Alexander Vasilevsky, the Soviet… — Lee Child Copy Share Image
When the desire is too much to bear, we often bury it beneath frenzied thoughts and activities or escape it by dulling… — Gerald May Copy Share Image
Putin doesn't conduct elections in the Western sense of elections. This is more accurately probably described as a plebiscite, where people are… — Mikhail Khodorkovsky Copy Share Image
Bhakti is the one essential thing. To be sure, God exists in all beings. Who, then is a devotee? He whose mind… — Ramakrishna Copy Share Image
Sometimes, if you want to be happy, you've got to run away to Bath and marry a punk rocker. Sometimes you've got… — Julie Powell Copy Share Image
And if any of you want some tips on running, don't be in a hurry, and never let any of the other… — Colin S. Smith Copy Share Image
You know how in sports baseball players, they hit home runs. Football players, they throw and they score touchdowns. I get to… — Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa Copy Share Image
There are African leaders who have the dangerous habit of leading their people into an abyss. In Rwanda we've had presidents who… — Paul Kagame Copy Share Image
I really am just trying to tell stories. But stories are often grounded in larger events and themes. They don't have to… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
I know what it's like to finish the laundry and to look in the basket five minutes later and it's full again.… — Ann Romney Copy Share Image
I hear my own daughters talking about big companies polluting the environment, and then I realise they are talking about companies of… — Indra Nooyi Copy Share Image
Having Black hair is unique in that Black women change up styles a lot. You can walk down one street block in… — Queen Latifah Copy Share Image
I don't think bands should feel compelled to speak out unless they actually have something to say. I think that's a big… — John Flansburgh Copy Share Image
Several of my critics have said, 'Bowerman just tacks up a piece of paper in the locker room and turns his runners… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have something I need to tell you," he says. I run my fingers along the tendons in his hands and look… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
Running is a part of my medicine. It's what helps relieve my stress, and it's what helps me get away from the… — Ziggy Marley Copy Share Image
Theres an awkward silence when Eric clears his throat and speaks up. So Jade, tell us about yourself. Its slightly strange but… — Jade Copy Share Image
I had the good fortune of being 9 years old when The Little Mermaid came out, that whole run of really beautiful… — Lin-Manuel Miranda Copy Share Image
Religion has run out of justifications. Thanks to the telescope and the microscope, it no longer offers an explanation of anything important.… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image