There is no chance, no destiny, no fate,Can circumvent or hinder or controlThe firm resolve of a determined soul.Gifts count for nothing;… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
I realized that an artist seeking to tell the truth in her art takes great courage. I recognize the courage required to… — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
“Jacopo Belbo didn't understand that he had had his moment and that it would have to be enough for him, for all… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Ah, sunflower, weary of time, Who countest the steps of the sun, Seeking after that sweet golden clime Where the traveller's journey… — William Blake Copy Share Image
One cannot enter don Juan's world intellectually, like a dilettante seeking fast and fleeting knowledge. Nor, in don Juan's world, can anything… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
The fact is that one significant way the Iranians have a posture different from the North Koreans, the North Koreans basically are… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
“What is it about her? he wondered hopelessly. What did she offer him that he couldn't find elsewhere? Why did he persist… — Rebecca Coleman Copy Share Image
I have met with political leaders, legislators, and diplomats, seeking the next steps to press in reducing and eliminating the nuclear threat… — Michael Douglas Copy Share Image
A village in a country which is taking pains to become altogether standardized and pure, which aspires to succeed Victorian England as… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
In the Gospels, for instance, we sometimes find the kingdom of heaven illustrated by principles drawn from observation of this world rather… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
I shall forget you presently, my dear, So make the most of this, your little day, Your little month, your little half… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
Human beings have a drive for security and safety, which is often what fuels the spiritual search. This very drive for security… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
All ancient books which have once been called sacred by man, will have their lasting place in the history of mankind, and… — Max Muller Copy Share Image
If you're brave enough to leave behind everything familiar and comforting, which can be anything from your house to bitter, old resentments,… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
All cravings are the mind seeking salvation or fulfillment in external things and in the future as a substitute for the joy… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
We are all healers of each other. Look at David Spiegel's fascinating study of putting people together in a support group and… — Rachel Naomi Remen Copy Share Image
Youth is the season of tragedy and despair. Youth is the time when one's whole life is entangled in a web of… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
We will be better and braver if we engage and inquire than if we indulge in the idle fancy that we already… — Plato Copy Share Image
I have learned to live my life one step, one breath, and one moment at a time, but it was a long… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
The captains of industry are not hunting money. America is heavy with it. They are seeking brains - specialized brains - and… — Charles M. Schwab Copy Share Image
Throughout the world, terrorists are actively seeking their next recruit. Alarmingly, terrorist organizations are increasingly targeting school-age children as the next generation… — Pat Roberts Copy Share Image
As an atheist evolving to agnosticism, and seeking answers to whether or not belief in God is potentially rational, my life was… — Francis Collins Copy Share Image
Everything you are seeking is seeking you in return. Therefore, everything you want is already yours. So, you don't have to get… — Bob Proctor Copy Share Image
“Was there a missing component in all human beings? The rural masses seeking the metropolis; the urban young fleeing to the woods.… — Michael D. O'Brien Copy Share Image
For common instinct of our race declares That body of itself exists: unless This primal faith, deep-founded, fail us not, Naught will… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
What does it mean to be Catholic and not a Catholic? I feel adrift, homeless. My Catholic imagination allows me to see… — Julianna Baggott Copy Share Image
What is politeness in the home but the outcome of affection and self-respect, and the suppression of all those natural instincts of… — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
I like to inquire into everything. Hercule Poirot is a good dog. The good dog follows the scent, and if, regrettably, there… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“Every form of life must struggle. Life is an aberration; death is ordinary. Life requires obstruction, conflict, reverses, and resolve. Life requires… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
It seems as if it is only through an experience of symbolic reality that man, vainly seeking his own “existence” and making… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
On the BSkyB bid, Rupert Murdoch is now in town in London seeking to sort things out. I would simply say to… — Nick Clegg Copy Share Image
I regret not working harder to create true friendships with other couples, not seeking out people with whom to go do things… — Robin Marantz Henig Copy Share Image
The world is so full of people who are grabbing and self-seeking. So the rare individual who unselfishly tries to serve others… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
Epicurus recommends bread and cheese as the staple, and his emphasis is more on avoiding pain than on seeking pleasure, insofar as… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
If somehow a proclamation were made that C.E.O.'s could only make a maximum of $300,000 a year, you would not have any… — James Sinegal Copy Share Image
A man who is seeking to understand violence does not belong to any country, to any religion, to any political party or… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
I cannot see that any rational American. . . could conceivably try to fulfill the major national purposes of the United States… — Charles Lichenstein Copy Share Image
As a yoga practitioner with some understanding of how karma works, you have to ask the question, "If I am seeking liberation,… — Sharon Gannon Copy Share Image
Human relationships are the tragic necessity of human life; that they can never be wholly satisfactory, that every ego is half the… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
The ruthlessness born of self-seeking is ineffectual compared with the ruthlessness sustained by dedication to a holy cause. God wishes, said Calvin,… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
