Isn Quotes
897 quotes by 623 authors
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Cycling isn’t a game, it's a sport. Tough, hard and unpitying, and it requires great sacrifices. One plays football, or tennis, or hockey. One doesn’t…
— Jean de Gribaldy
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Perhaps it’s when you come to the realization that the point of life isn’t to be rich, or secure, or even to be loved -…
— Theodora Goss
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A basic assumption shapes most Americans’ mindset about labor: the belief that the death of unions isn’t my problem because I’m not in a union.…
— Eric Liu
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We are all, in the private kingdom of our hearts, desperate for the company of a wise, true friend. Someone who isn’t embarrassed by our…
— Steve Almond
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I’ve learned that a storm isn’t always just bad weather, and a fire can be the start of something. I’ve found out that there are…
— Cynthia Hand
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Writing isn’t a career choice. It’s self-medication that over time precipitates the madness it was meant to ward off.
— Alain de Botton
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Love isn’t only love, sweetheart. It’s hard work, and trust, and tears, with even a few glimpses of devastation. But at the end of each…
— Nicole Williams
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Preaching Christianity to skeptics without first setting out the praeambula fidei [preambles of faith], and then complaining when they don’t accept it, is like yelling…
— Edward Feser
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When someone isn’t smart enough to express their frustration, they use dirty words. Those are words that describe a lack of intelligence. Smart people don’t…
— Nouman Ali Khan
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Art is a reflection on life. Life isn’t something we can cut and fix. It’s always in a state of flux.
— El Anatsui
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Meditation isn’t about what’s happening; it’s about how you relate to what’s happening.
— Sharon Salzberg
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Our spirit is not dependent on the brain or body. It is eternal, and no one has one sentence worth of hard evidence that it…
— Eben Alexander
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I am doing enough to survive but it isn’t the same as living.
— Kerry Wilkinson
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Honesty without kindness, humor, and goodheartedness can be just mean. From the very beginning to the very end, pointing to our own hearts to discover…
— Pema Chodron
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The Devil isn’t made by what Mommy says, or what Daddy says. The Devil is there.
— Peter Shaffer
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A fearful man who knows he is fearful is far more trustable than a fearful man who isn’t aware of his fear.
— David Deida
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I don’t believe in god. There’s no proof he exists. In a world where there isn’t even proof of the future, the past exists. Even…
— Ryohgo Narita
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I begin to understand that failure is its own reward. It is in the effort to close the distance between the work imagined and the…
— Lewis H. Lapham
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Life isn’t how you survive the thunderstorm, but how you dance in the rain.
— Adam Young
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We leave something of ourselves behind when we leave a place. We stay there even though we go away and there are things in us…
— Pascal Mercier
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