He who, having lost one ideal, refuses to give his heart and soul to another and nobler, is like a man who… — Constance Naden Copy Share Image
On a fading summer evening, late in the last hours of his old life, Peter Jaxon-son of Demetrius and Prudence Jaxon, First… — Justin Cronin Copy Share Image
Books come at my call and return when I desire them; they are never out of humor and they answer all my… — Petrarch Copy Share Image
“Imagine if all the car makers in the world were to sit down together to design one extremely simple, embellishment-free, functional car… — Jeremy Griffith Copy Share Image
I yearn to live and love and burn, and yet so much of my time is spent faking and forgetting, faking and… — Jon Foreman Copy Share Image
I started playing violin because I was fascinated by how violin players could play so fast. I would buy their cassettes, and… — Toby Lightman Copy Share Image
I was able to be distant by portraying another person, another character, if you will, and I found myself not stuttering and… — Pam Grier Copy Share Image
Homosexuality appeared as one of the forms of sexuality when it was transposed from the practice of sodomy into a kind of… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
How does your heart respond to the thought that the Universe is alive and compassionate and that with it and with other… — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
I realized the true function of a lawyer was to unite parties riven asunder. The lesson was so indelibly burnt into me… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Some gentlemen have made an amazing figure in literature by general discontent with the universe as a trap of dulness into which… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Many of the most deeply spiritual moments of my life haven't happened just in my mind or in my soul. They happened… — Shauna Niequist Copy Share Image
In Judith Barrington's striking collection, Horses and the Human Soul, human emotions come ushered and accompanied by animal companions, especially the horses… — Mark Doty Copy Share Image
“So I say to him: Lord, make an exception of me. Since You are All-Powerful, destroy my soul rather than my body.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I see nothing annihilated, and not even a drop of water wasted, I cannot suspect the annihilation of souls Thus finding… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The love of a wife to her husband may begin from the supply of her necessities, but afterwards she may love him… — Richard Sibbes Copy Share Image
In order to survive, a plurality of true communities would require not egalitarianism and tolerance but knowledge, an understanding of the necessity… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
No man, with a man's heart in him, gets far on his way without some bitter, soul-searching disappointment. - Happy he who… — John Brown Copy Share Image
Let those who think the soul is shallow rail, They must be warned before they dare to leap They'll plunge into the… — Philip Jose Farmer Copy Share Image
When the first light dawned on the earth, and the birds awoke, and the brave river was heard rippling confidently seaward, and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The fine gifts of temperament and imagination which are essential to the production of true poetry are often accompanied by morbid sensibility.… — Myrtle Reed Copy Share Image
We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles. Meantime within man is the soul of the whole; the wise silence;… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There is, they say, (and I believe there is), A spark within us of th' immortal fire, That animates and moulds the… — John Armstrong Copy Share Image
She either confused me with a much older child or else she glimpsed deep inside my soul and perceived a hole that… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
We are all regionalists in our origins, however 'universal' our themes and characters, and without our cherished hometowns and childhood landscapes to… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Sulky labor, and the labor of sorrow are little worth: if you could only shed tranquility over the conscience and infuse joy… — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
Destructive criticism is the biggest single enemy of human potential. It is worse than cancer or heart disease. While those diseases can… — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
To me the external existence of my soul is proved from my idea of activity. If I work incessantly until my death,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
We are in fact convinced that if we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the… — Socrates Copy Share Image
“My soul longs for God, but a man is not just his soul, is he? Terrible to say, my clay lusts after… — K.J. Bishop Copy Share Image
Everybody's got a hunger no matter where they are. Everybody clings to their own fear. Everybody hides some scar - Precious pain.… — Melissa Etheridge Copy Share Image
There is no greater joy for me than looking at the sky on a clear night with an attention so concentrated that… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
I'm most excited that the hard work has paid off for myself and the team. You put your heart and soul into… — J. Robert Spencer Copy Share Image
The body was a cage, and inside that cage was something which looked, listened, feared, thought and marveled; that something, that remainder… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Sinners in their natural state lie dead, lifeless, and moveless; they can no more believe in Christ, nor repent, than a dead… — Thomas Boston Copy Share Image
I wasn't present for my own life for a long time. I wasn't there; I wasn't in my relationships; I wasn't in… — John Rzeznik Copy Share Image
Football has to work really hard to put a smile on people's face and not to be so focused on the question… — Gordon Taylor Copy Share Image
It would be wonderful to become what Oprah has become: she is in such a class of her own, as an entrepreneur,… — Charlie Rose Copy Share Image
“I want to live where soul meets body And let the sun wrap its arms around me And bathe my skin in… — Death Cab for Cutie Copy Share Image
Let us each day search from the scriptures and from the prophets…. The scriptures that are never read will never help us.… — L. Tom Perry Copy Share Image
