To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness. — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
My view of life is, 'If you're going to miss Heaven, why miss it by two inches? Miss it! — Sam Kinison Copy Share Image
There is a time in the life of every boy when he for the first time takes the backward view of life.… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
The temper of mind that sees tragedy in life has not for its opposite the temper that sees joy. The opposite pole… — Edith Hamilton Copy Share Image
My father had a very simple view of life: you don’t get anything for nothing. Everything has to be earned, through work,… — Grace Kelly Copy Share Image
In writing Snowboarding to Nirvana I have intentionally written an inspirational spiritual adventure story, which will hopefully provide people with metaphysical techniques,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The idea that this world is a playground instead of a battleground has now been accepted in practice by the vast majority… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
The middle way is a view of life that avoids the extreme of misguided grasping born of believing there is something we… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
There's a certain road in life most people walk on, because it's familiar, and they can jostle to get in front place.… — Wayne Shorter Copy Share Image
Both my parents were Democrats. My dad was definitely more of a fiscally conservative traditional Democrat. My mom was more of a… — Lisa Kennedy Montgomery Copy Share Image
It is conceivable at least that a late generation, such as we presumably are, has particular need of the sketch, in order… — Max Frisch Copy Share Image
Music and the blues, they have taught me a lot. I think in this book, 'Book Of Hours,' there is this blues… — Kevin Young Copy Share Image
“6. Nature Favours Nothing in Particular. There is another point of view of life, which gave the present writer no small contentment,… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
First of all, Buddhism is neither pessimistic nor optimistic. If anything at all, it is realistic, for it takes a realistic view… — Walpola Rahula Copy Share Image
We read Charlotte Bronte not for exquisite observation of character - her characters are vigorous and elementary; not for comedy - hers… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Forgiveness is not a matter of exonerating people who have hurt you. They may not deserve exoneration. Forgiveness means cleansing your soul… — Harold S. Kushner Copy Share Image
If happiness is a state of the inward life, we have to look for its chief obstructions not in outward conditions but… — Hugh Black Copy Share Image
Modern capitalism is just as subversive as Marxism. The materialistic view of life on which both systems are based is identical. As… — Julius Evola Copy Share Image
“The secret of the Witch Doctor’s power lies in the fact that man needs an integrated view of life, a philosophy, whether… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Your mind recognizes repetition, so imputing negative information will cause a negative input desire which will lead to a negative crave and… — Edward Shaylitsa Copy Share Image
The power of imagination is the ultimate creative power.. no doubt about that. While knowledge defines all we currently know and understand..… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
For me, human rights simply endorse a view of life and a set of moral values that are perfectly clear to an… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Pop songs are not as graceful as they used to be. Performers today haven’t gone through the regimen of learning how to… — Hal David Copy Share Image
To take a gloomy view of life is not part of my philosophy; to laugh at the idiocies of my fellow creatures… — Noel Coward Copy Share Image
Sheeran is rarely political. Or preachy. He doesn't present a jet-set, Instagram-perfect, 'No Carbs Till Marbs' view of life. His songs are… — Grace Dent Copy Share Image
From the point of view of literature Mr. Kipling is a genius who drops his aspirates. From the point of view of… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Pessimism is, in brief, playing the sure game. You cannot lose at it; you may gain. It is the only view of… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Religious people ... hold a kind and merciful view of life, the faith of the broken, the hounded, the hopeless. Yet too… — Matthew Scully Copy Share Image
“When the Romantic Novelists' Association was founded 35 years ago (in 1960) the image was of pink fluffy bimbos. Now, the view… — Jean Chapman Copy Share Image
The whole thing [religion] is so patently infantile, so foreign to reality, that to anyone with a friendly attitude to humanity it… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“Frost interviewing Noel Coward and Margaret Mead. Sir Noel's view of life is Sir Noel. Mead's mind is large and open, like… — John Cage Copy Share Image
I am interested and deeply curious about our need for a spiritual life, a life of greater meaning, and how we come… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
We are to have no pictures which the puritan and the narrow, animated by an obsolete dogma, cannot approve of. We are… — Theodore Dreiser Copy Share Image
In the major institutions of education, government, science, and the arts, we are witnessing the imposition of a post-Christian view of life.… — D. James Kennedy Copy Share Image
My father, who was a cabinetmaker, told me, 'Wood has a grain and if you go into the grain, you have beauty.… — Christian Louboutin Copy Share Image
My tragic view of life... leads me to have little patience with the chronic complaining I hear in modern society from people… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
We paid off our debts, we learned some, made friends and returned in 1950 with a larger view of life. I had,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Growing up during World War II certainly affected my whole view of life, but I hardly know how, it goes so deep.… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
By choosing better feeling thoughts and by speaking more of what you do want and less of what you don't want, you… — Esther Hicks Copy Share Image
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