The measure of a friendship is not its physicality but its significance. Good friendships, online or off, urge us toward empathy; they… — Esther Earl Copy Share Image
The concept of God as a loving, all-powerful person, who created us, who has a plan for us, who issues commandments, and… — James Rachels Copy Share Image
It is only necessary to behold the least fact or phenomenon, however familiar, from a point a hair's breadth aside from our… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
People always make the mistake of thinking art is created for them. But really, art is a private language for sophisticates to… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
“it is (often) the quiet gesture which carries the most significance - the one which suddenly directs the symphony.” — mary anne radmacher Copy Share Image
“Could a literary life be referred to with the iambic pentameter of, say, harnessing wind power, transplanting hearts or saving the whales.… — Anita Nair Copy Share Image
The significance of man is that he is insignificant and is aware of it. — Carl L. Becker Copy Share Image
My frank response to all sex questions is that there is too much significance put on them to begin with. Sex is… — John Travolta Copy Share Image
...I is another. If the brass wakes the trumpet, it’s not its fault. That’s obvious to me: I witness the unfolding of… — Arthur Rimbaud Copy Share Image
Enthusiasm releases the drive to carry you over obstacles and adds significance to all you do. — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
You can't ascribe great cosmic significance to a simple earthly event. Coincidence. That's all anything ever is. Nothing more than coYou can't… — Scott Neustadter Copy Share Image
I spent on the Other Earth many "other years," wandering from mind to mind and country to country, but I did not… — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share Image
Music is neither old nor modern: it is either good or bad music, and the date at which it was written has… — Peter Warlock Copy Share Image
The search for some ultimate significance in the universe, and in our little transient role in it, the compulsion to learn, to… — Dale Rex Coman Copy Share Image
Among the few I have indicated, is there no dynamic man of action, the rebel who will help determine the aspect of… — Piet Zwart Copy Share Image
To identify your own idols, ask questions like these: What things take the place of God in my life? Where do I… — Philip Graham Ryken Copy Share Image
In a symbol there is concealment and yet revelation: here therefore, by silence and by speech acting together, comes a double significance.… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The more abstractly correct and hence powerful this idea will be, the more impossible remains its complete fulfillment as long as it… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
There are clear differences between child and adult artistic activity. While the child may be aware that he is doing things differently… — Howard Gardner Copy Share Image
Awe enables us to see in the world intimations of the divine, to sense in small things the beginning of infinite significance,… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
The word 'Italy' is a geographical expression, a description which is useful shorthand, but has none of the political significance the efforts… — Klemens von Metternich Copy Share Image
We may be able to tell how many stars are in the Milky Way; we may be able to count the petals… — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
2Pac wrote about life threatening situations after being shot so often, it made it seem like he was obsessed with it. He… — Curtis Jackson Copy Share Image
The progressive growth of the finite consciousness of man towards this Self, towards the universal , the eternal, the infinite, in a… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
