Empathy is one of our highest human skills and holds families and societies together. Feeling connected to other people is probably the… — Sue Gerhardt Copy Share Image
Man... is an inextricable tangle of culture and biology. And not being simple, he is not simply good; he has... a kind… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For it was thy sin, and the sin of all the world, that lay upon our Redeemer, and his sacrifice and satisfaction… — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
“Reality so often fails when it comes to small, satisfying details, she thought.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
It is our duty to look to God's commands, and not to His decrees; to our own duty, and not to His… — Thomas Boston Copy Share Image
Meanwhile, parents, students and teachers all report higher satisfaction with charter schools. People like them. They cost less money. They raise the… — Maggie Gallagher Copy Share Image
Look at Christ, my dear friend: His life was divine through and through, full of self-denial, and He did everything for mankind,… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
“More generally, as I shall repeat in Chapter 8, one of the truly bad effects of religion is that it teaches us… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Satisfaction, even after one has dined well, is not so interesting and eager a feeling as hunger. — Sarah Orne Jewett Copy Share Image
We can take some gratification at having come a certain distance in just a few thousand years of our existence as language… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
You don't always have to go so far as to murder your darlings – those turns of phrase or images of which… — Diana Athill Copy Share Image
Don't let someone have the satisfaction of seeing you upset. Smile for all you know, someone is dying just to see you… — Olga Copy Share Image
The range of socially permissible and desirable satisfaction is greatly enlarged, but through this satisfaction, the Pleasure Principle is reduced deprived of… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
I will leap into my grave laughing because the feeling that I have five million human beings on my conscience is for… — Adolf Eichmann Copy Share Image
It is not just that science and technology are possible means of great human satisfaction, as well as a matrix of complex… — Donna J. Haraway Copy Share Image
Doing what you want to do is life; and there is no real satisfaction in living if we are compelled to be… — Wallace D. Wattles Copy Share Image
Our age is one in which usefulness is thought to be the chief merit of nature; in which the attainment of power,… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
“What infinite heart's-ease Must kings neglect, that private men enjoy! And what have kings, that privates have not too, Save ceremony, save… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
There is something wonderful about turning up every day and knowing that not just the character but the whole movie kind of… — Domhnall Gleeson Copy Share Image
No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you… — Denis Waitley Copy Share Image
Researchers consistently find that most older volunteers, when compared to older nonvolunteers, have fewer functional and physical impairments, overall better health, higher… — Edgar Bronfman, Sr Copy Share Image
[He] was always here to offer cups of good clear Walden Pond, or shout down the deep well of Shakespeare and listen,… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I prefer that for my own satisfaction over radio, there's no audience. TV, there's no audience. I need the response of the… — Al Lewis Copy Share Image
A man who experiences no genuine satisfaction in life does not want peace. Men court war to escape meaninglessness and boredom, to… — Nels Fredrick Solomon Ferre Copy Share Image