If I had to design a mechanism for the express purpose of destroying a child's natural curiosity and love of pattern-making, I… — Paul Lockhart Copy Share Image
I meant it, Claire,' he said quietly. 'My life is yours. And it's yours to decide what we shall do, where we… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
“Blessed influence of one true loving human soul on another! Not calculable by algebra, not deducible by logic, but mysterious, effectual, mighty… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I determined to make my peace with Islam, even at the cost of my pride. Those who were surprised and displeased by… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
You have friends who actually care about you and speak the language of the inner self. You have avoided them of late.… — Jay McInerney Copy Share Image
The James Brown we saw tended to be the James Brown we chose to see: as the caped crusader of funk and… — Jonathan Miles Copy Share Image
One of the chief duties which [the Christian] will punctually and carefully fulfill is the duty of prayer. You will remember in… — Henry Edward Manning Copy Share Image
Jesus has to be and become ever more the center of my life. It is not enough that Jesus is my teacher,… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
But to proceed; as in order and place, so also in matter of her Creation, Woman far excells Man. things receive their… — Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa Copy Share Image
It seems to be saying perpetually; 'I am the end of the nineteenth century; I am glad they built me of iron;… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
“I read somewhere once that souls were like flowers,' said Priscilla. 'Then your soul is a golden narcissus,' said Anne, 'and Diana's… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
He (Abraham Lincoln) said he wanted to visit the Holy Land and see those places hallowed by the footprints of the Saviour.… — Mary Todd Lincoln Copy Share Image
Muhammad was a prince; he rallied his compatriots around him. In a few years, the Muslims conquered half of the world. They… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Peace be unto thy soul; thine adversity and thine afflictions shall be but a small moment; And then, if thou endure it… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
She smiled, if he could see that, and waited for him to ask the real question. But he was silent. He wanted… — Sharon Shinn Copy Share Image
Everything that God created is potentially holy, and our task as humans is to find that holiness in seemingly unholy situations. When… — Harold S. Kushner Copy Share Image
A religion such as Judaism or Catholicism might survive even if it comes to reject a literal account of God creating man… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
It was not necessarily the best of times in America when Catholics and Protestants were suspicious of and hated one another; but… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
“When can one say that he has attained the Soul? It is when worries does not occur to him. Even amidst mental,… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Tolerance of Cruelty in any form is a degraded state of mind and soul. When we freely allow the massacre and prolonged… — Russell Boyd Copy Share Image
But before he went loopy he was the life and soul of the party," said Fred. "He used to down an entire… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Moderation cannot have the credit of combatiug and subduing ambition, they are never found together. Moderation is the languor and indolence of… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
In every Christian's Heart, there is a cross and a throne, and the Christian is on the throne till he puts himself… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The disappointed man turns his thoughts toward a state of existence where his wiser desires may be fixed with the certainty of… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
No one's ever dared come out and say it before, but there's not a man among us that doesn't think it, that… — Ken Kesey Copy Share Image
The universe is a soul making machine, and part of that process is learning, maturing, and growing through difficult and challenging and… — Lee Strobel Copy Share Image
A fiery soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pygmy-body to decay, And o'er-inform'd the tenement of clay. A daring pilot… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
What did it mean, the first time, a thinking creature looked deeply into another's eyes? Did it take a hundred thousand years… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Language must resound with all the harmonies of music. The writer must always, at all times, find the tremulous word which captures… — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
You can accomplish anything that you dedicate yourself to. Think how many people struggle across the world, across the country. I know… — Henry Cejudo Copy Share Image
Where your talents and the needs of the world cross, therein lies your vocation. These two, your talents and the needs of… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
How many of us will be saved the pain of seeing the most important things in our lives disappearing from one moment… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
The spirit is the master; imagination the tool, and the body the plastic material ...The power of the imagination is a great… — Paracelsus Copy Share Image
W'en you see a man in woe, Walk right up and say hullo. Say hullo and how d'ye do, How's the world… — Sam Walter Foss Copy Share Image
As the blood of Christ is the fountain of all merit, so the Spirit of Christ is the fountain of all spiritual… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
In the East, we have developed a science: if you cannot find a soul mate, you can create one. And that science… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
If you no longer live, if you my beloved, my love, if you have died, all the leaves will fall in my… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
Think'st thou there are no serpents in the world But those who slide along the grassy sod, And sting the luckless foot… — Joanna Baillie Copy Share Image
I'm revealing information to people. I'm not creating it. And to the extent that people embrace it, I think they're empowered by… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Aspirations must be pure and free of selfishness. Arising from the depths of the soul, aspirations are spiritual demands penetrating all of… — Mas Oyama Copy Share Image