We depend on our surroundings obliquely to embody the moods and ideas we respect and then to remind us of them. We… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
The unhappy are egoistic, spiteful, unjust, cruel, and less capable of understanding each other than fools. Unhappiness does not bring people together… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Too many of the elderly do not have the family or the communal attachments necessary to feel valued; too many are widowed… — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share Image
The precision of hisskill places his work beyond the tentative and the experimental stage. He is continually searching and exploring both himself… — Edward Steichen Copy Share Image
To live on a day-to-day basis is insufficient; we need to transcend, transport, escape; we need meaning, understanding, and explanation; we need… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
Art is a high calling - fears are coincidental. Coincidental, sneaky and disruptive, we might add, disguising themselves variously as laziness, resistance… — David Bayles Copy Share Image
a fool forgetting all the ideals and joys I knew before, in my recent years of drinking and disappointment, what does he… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Some people prefer solitude. They say their peace of mind depends on this. Others say they would be better off in church.… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
To think better, to think like the best humans, we are probably going to have to learn again to judge a person's… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
I see life everywhere I look. I get the energy off the water. Hawaii really, when I am there, it feels like… — Natalie Maines Copy Share Image
Deep Listening is listening to everything all the time, and reminding yourself when you're not. But going below the surface too, it's… — Pauline Oliveros Copy Share Image
The photograph, now they are detached from their original surroundings, they are involved in a close world in which they only relate… — Laszlo Moholy-Nagy Copy Share Image
The baby looks at things all day without winking; that is because his eyes are not focused on any particular object. He… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you manifest your true self through nature and your normal surroundings, I find that the most eerie. Like when you see… — Holland Roden Copy Share Image
In retrospect, the past seems not one existence with a continuous flow of years and events that follow each other in logical… — Eleanor Robson Belmont Copy Share Image
A man of genuine literary genius, since he possesses a temperament whose susceptibilities are of wider area than those of any other,… — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
There was once a town in the heart of America where all life seemed to live in harmony with its surroundings Then… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
I'm a writer and this is what I do no matter what name we put to it. Year by year, the world… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
In the end, the only events of my life worth telling are those when the imperishable world erupted into this transitory one… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The most remarkable discovery made by scientists is science itself. The discovery must be compared in importance with the invention of cave-painting… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
Try to be mindful, and let things take their natural course. Then your mind will become still in any surroundings, like a… — Ajahn Chah Copy Share Image
Many of us spend our entire lives in the same bubble - we surround ourselves with people who share our opinions, speak… — Adam Braun Copy Share Image
I am naturally pretty shy. I've come out of it a pretty good bit because I'm kind of a strange combination of… — Leigh Bingham Nash Copy Share Image
There's something about the awareness of the limits that makes you tune in more to your surroundings and I've experienced a lot… — John Lindsay Copy Share Image
Take the rose—most people think it very beautiful: I don’t care for It at all. I prefer the cactus, for the simple… — Charles Proteus Steinmetz Copy Share Image
Begin this moment, wherever you find yourself, and take no thought of the morrow. Look not to Russia, China, India, not to… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
When you're not doing fiction, there's a limit to how much illustrating you can do with your work. I mean, you can… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
From an early age she had developed the art of being alone and generally preferred her own company to anyone else’s. She… — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
There's more to being an environmentalist than occasionally signing an online petition and mailing your check to the Sierra Club. Really the… — Alex Steffen Copy Share Image
