Core Quotes

1227 quotes by 965 authors

We must be listened to: above and beyond our personal experience, we have collectively witnessed a fundamental unexpected event, fundamental precisely because unexpected, not foreseen… — Primo Levi
The individual soul touches upon the world soul like a well reaches for the water table. That which sustains the universe beyond thought and language,… — Yann Martel
We are searching for the core of our lives; our culture intuits that writing, that ancient activity, might be the pathway...Awakening does not feed ego's… — Natalie Goldberg
Branches grew from his hands, his hair. His thoughts tangled like roots in the ground. He strained upward. Pitch ran like tears down his back.… — Patricia A. McKillip
I felt like I was some kind of primitive spring-loaded machine, placed under far more tension than it had ever been built to sustain, about… — Elizabeth Gilbert
The core of any family is what is changeless, what is going to be thereâ”€â”€shared vision and values. — Stephen Covey
Imagining what it is like to be someone other than yourself is at the core of our humanity. It is the essence of compassion and… — Ian Mcewan
Falling into ruin was a bit like falling in love: Both descents stripped you bare and left you as you were at your core. And… — J R Ward
Every pellet has a story all its own. Every pellet has a story all its own. With its fur and teeth and bones And one… — Kathryn Lasky
He bit the inside of his cheek, Death purring wildy. The pleasure of her touch, even one so innocent, rocked him to the core. — Gena Showalter
We have one crystal clear reason apart from the blessed happiness of this way of life. It is this: prayer is the core of our… — Amy Carmichael
O Love, O pure deep Love, be here, be now, Be all â€“ worlds dissolve into your stainless endless radiance, Frail living leaves burn with… — Unknown Author
This was the truth at the core of my existence: this yawning emptiness, scantily clad in rage. It had been there all along. — Hillary Jordan
It is said that boys fall in love with their eyes, because they can be initially struck to their very core by a girl's mere… — L.A. Meyer
The humanities should constitute the core of any university worth the name. — Terry Eagleton
Selfishness at the core is to think you have a special problem- a problem that God cannot deal with, that God didnâ€™t deal with at… — Eric Ludy
Now I know what loneliness is, I think. Momentary loneliness, anyway. It comes from a vague core of the self - - like a disease… — Sylvia Plath
The Fairy's dress rustled as she turned. Human women dressed like flowers, layers of petals around a mortal, rotting core. — Cornelia Funke
He looked at a world of incredible loveliness. Old distaff Celt's blood in some back chamber of his brain moved him to discourse with the… — Cormac McCarthy
Maybe this is the point: to embrace the core sadness of life without toppling headlong into it, or assuming it will define your days. — Gail Caldwell

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