Most of us fail to appreciate the extent to which our behavior is under situational control, because we prefer to believe that… — Philip Zimbardo Copy Share Image
Thus, in a middle course between these heights and depths, they drifted through life rather than lived, the prey of aimless days… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“I was an adventurer, but she was not an adventuress. She was a 'wanderess.' Thus, she didn’t care about money, only experiences… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
I willingly trust myself to chance. I let my thoughts wander, I digress, not only sitting at my work, but all day… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit; and our wandering thoughts in prayer are but the… — Jeremy Taylor Copy Share Image
A gardener is never shut out from his garden, wherever he may be. Its comfort never fails. Though the city may close… — Beverley Nichols Copy Share Image
It is an indication of the extent to which people are now isolated from the animals they eat that children brought up… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
By following "the path of reverie"-a constantly downhill path-consciousness relaxes and wanders-and consequently becomes clouded. So it is never the right time,… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
I rarely feel the desire to reread a scene the day before the shooting. Sometimes I arrive at the place where the… — Michelangelo Antonioni Copy Share Image
Looking back over a decade one sees the ideal of a university become a myth, a vision, a meadow lark among the… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
We have a great deal more kindness than is ever spoken. The whole human family is bathed with an element of love… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“So now it’s this thing I do. I go away, ever so often, by myself, for myself, to new places with foreign… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
Samsara-the Wheel of Existence, literally, the "Perpetual Wandering"-is the name by which is designated the sea of life ever restlessly heaving up… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
She was like me in lineaments-- her eyes Her hair, her features, all, to the very tone Even of her voice, they… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The spectacular landscape circling the fortress supplies an essential backdrop, inspiring dreamers to wander its ruins for the sake of it; North… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The brain has an attentional mode called the "mind wandering mode" that was only recently identified. This is when thoughts move seamlessly… — Daniel Levitin Copy Share Image
We are the music-makers, And we are the dreamers of dreams, Wandering by lone sea-breakers, And sitting by desolate streams. World-losers and… — Arthur O'Shaughnessy Copy Share Image
When my neighbor walks the dogs, he performs a ritual act of sacer simplicitas, to use the church Latin: "sacred simplicity." Walking… — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
I keep forgetting to put focus on my to-do list. I keep forgetting to wander and have fun. I know I'm transparent… — Buddy Wakefield Copy Share Image
When you do something moral and upright and wander off by yourself, well, everyone doesn't always follow you, do they, right? You… — Amity Shlaes Copy Share Image
Wildness was ever sounding in our ears, and Nature saw to it that besides school lessons some of her own lessons should… — John Muir Copy Share Image
Neither in thy actions be sluggish nor in thy conversation without method, nor wandering in thy thoughts, nor let there be in… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“Life is both sad and solemn. We are let into a wonderful world, we meet one another here, greet each other—and wander… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
Our heart wanders lost in the dark woods. Our dream wrestles in the castle of doubt. But there’s music in us. Hope… — Jack Gilbert Copy Share Image
There are moments when I can wander through my childhood's landscape, through rooms long ago, remember how they were furnished, where the… — Ingmar Bergman Copy Share Image
I love medieval cities; they do not clamor for attention; they possess their souls - their riches - in quiet; formal, courteous,… — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Copy Share Image
Ambiguity is really important to me. Part of the difficulty facing photographers is that almost any subject matter has accumulated a representational… — Larry Sultan Copy Share Image
Once in a lifetime, perhaps, one escapes the actual confines of the flesh. Once in a lifetime, if one is lucky, one… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
I don't hold to the idea that God causes suffering and crisis. I just know that those things come along and God… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
Daughter, we didn't need your note - or a prince's visit - to tell us you'd done nothing wrong. We know the… — Gail Carson Levine Copy Share Image
[Walking] is the perfect way of moving if you want to see into the life of things. It is the one way… — Elizabeth von Arnim Copy Share Image
I can tell you how to get what you want: You've just got to keep a thing in view and go for… — William John Locke Copy Share Image
The one who wanders independent in the world, free from opinions and viewpoints, does not grasp them and enter into disputations and… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
It not seldom happens that in the purposeless rovings and wanderings of the imagination we hunt down such game as can be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Putting facts by the thousands, into the world, the toes take off with an appealing squeak which the thumping heel follows confidentially,… — Lyn Hejinian Copy Share Image
“Home is where you go to find solace from the ever changing chaos, to find love within the confines of a heartless… — Kendal Rob Copy Share Image
The Promised Land, for many people, though, is something that's far off in the future. People are saved, but they don't feel… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
But when on shore, & wandering in the sublime forests, surrounded by views more gorgeous than even Claude ever imagined, I enjoy… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
The basic nature of all conscious beings is 'self-existing wakefulness'. Self-existing meaning spontaneous or without effort and wakefulness meaning natural awareness. To… — Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche Copy Share Image
For [Jane Austen and the readers of Pride and Prejudice], as for Mr. Darcy, [Elizabeth Bennett's] solitary walks express the independence that… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image