Try as they may to savor the taste of eternity, their thoughts still twist and turn upon the ebb and flow of… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Man is incomprehensible without Nature and Nature is incomprehensible apart from man. For the delicate loveliness of the flower is as much… — Hamilton Wright Mabie Copy Share Image
Religion is the dream of the human mind. But even in dreams we do not find ourselves in emptiness or in heaven,… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
Manhattanism is the one urbanistic ideology that has fed, from its conception, on the splendors and miseries of the metropolitan condition—hyper-density—without once… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
Reading the very best writers—let us say Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, Tolstoy—is not going to make us better citizens. Art is perfectly useless,… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
The Making of Friends Life is sweet because of the friends we have made And the things which in common we share;… — Edgar Guest Copy Share Image
But days even earlier than these, in April, have a charm, — even days that seem raw and rainy, when the sky… — Thomas Wentworth Higginson Copy Share Image
one reason we haven't any national art is because we have too much magnificence. All our capacity for admiration is used up… — Dorothy Canfield Fisher Copy Share Image
Lord, catch me off guard today. Surprise me with some moment of beauty or pain so that at least for the moment,… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
The splendor of a human heart that trusts it is loved unconditionally gives God more pleasure than Westminster Cathedral, the Sistine Chapel,… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
If it be true that God and man are in one image or likeness (and the affirmation that they are so is… — William Batchelder Greene Copy Share Image
There is in them a softer fire than the ruby, there is the brilliant purple of the amethyst, and the sea green… — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
Slowly, gently, night unfurls its splendor.Grasp it; sense it - tremulous and tender.Turn your face away from the garish light of day,… — Andrew Lloyd Webber Copy Share Image
The sheer splendor of the sight made my chest tighten and tears sting my eyes. All the darkness lately made it easy… — Jeaniene Frost Copy Share Image
The acute experience of great beauty readily evokes a nameless yearning for something more than earth can offer. Elegant splendor reawakens our… — Thomas Dubay Copy Share Image
As long as there are cold and nakedness in the land around you, so long can there be no question at all… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
...a chasm opened in the earth and out of it coal-black horses sprang, drawing a chariot and driven by one who had… — Edith Hamilton Copy Share Image
My favorite parts about 'The Battle of Five Armies' were the moments where you could clearly see that we were looking at… — Evangeline Lilly Copy Share Image
Christian faith is a grand cathedral, with divinely pictured windows. Standing without you see no glory, nor can possibly imagine any. Nothing… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Look at the evils of the world around you and protect yourself from them. Our teachers give all the wrong messages to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
First of all there will appear to you, swifter than lightning, the luminous splendor of the colorless light of Emptiness, and that… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Were I to define the British constitution, therefore, I should say, it is a limited monarchy, or a mixture of the three… — John Adams Copy Share Image
But days even earlier than these in April have a charm, — even days that seem raw and rainy… There is a… — Thomas Wentworth Higginson Copy Share Image
We must not only protect the country side and save it from destruction, we must restore what has been destroyed and salvage… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Don't allow yourself to become disheartened when the thread doesn't suit or seems unsightly to you. Wait and watch. Be patient and… — Colleen Houck Copy Share Image
“The splendor of that moment, its transcendent glory and aliveness, haunted him. He could thrust it aside by day, but it poisoned… — David Weber Copy Share Image
A minute analysis of life at once destroys that splendor which dazzles the imagination. Whatsoever grandeur can display, or luxury enjoy, is… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Other relaxations are peculiar to certain times, places and stages of life, but the study of letters is the nourishment of our… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The clouds were drifting over the moon at their giddiest speed, at one time wholly obscuring her, at another, suffering her to… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
We do not know the true value of our moments until they have undergone the test of memory. Like the images the… — Georges Duhamel Copy Share Image
The Holy Trinity doesn't need our permission to carry on in their endlessly resourceful work of making all things new. That we… — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
Personal beauty is then first charming and itself, when it dissatisfies us with any end; when it becomes a story without an… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are gone but… — Queen Elizabeth II Copy Share Image
Slowly, gently night unfurls its splendor. Grasp it, sense it, tremulous and tender. Turn your face away from the garish light of… — Charles Hart Copy Share Image
I learn immediately from any speaker how much he has already lived, through the poverty or the splendor of his speech. Life… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I shall spend every moment loving. One who loves does not notice her trials; or perhaps more accurately, she is able to… — Bernadette Soubirous Copy Share Image
Your home is regarded as a model home, your life as a model life. But all this splendor, and you along with… — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share Image
Only one thing I expect from all of you: to be yourself, to discover your inner beauty, your purity of consciousness, your… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Departed suns their trails of splendor drew Across departed summers: whispers came From voices, long ago resolved again Into the primeval Silence,… — Bayard Taylor Copy Share Image
Piety practiced in solitude, like the flower that blooms in the desert, may give its fragrance to the winds of heaven, and… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
