Within Quotes
8741 Within quotes by 4437 unique authors
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Phoebe Marks was a person who never lost her individuality. Silent and self-contained, she seemed to hold herself within herself, and take no colour from…
— Mary Elizabeth Braddon
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There were profound reasons for his attachment to the sea: he loved it because as a hardworking artist he needed rest, needed to escape from…
— Thomas Mann
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Such reciprocity is the very structure of perception. We experience the sensuous world only by rendering ourselves vulnerable to that world. Sensory perception is this…
— David Abram
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The best stories I have heard were pointless, the best books those whose plot I can never remember, the best individuals those whom I never…
— Henry Miller
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Sometimes Dustfinger thought Basta's constant fear of curses and sudden disaster probably arose from his terror of the darkness within himself, which made him assume…
— Cornelia Funke
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You have to protect yourself from sadness. Sadness is very close to hate. Let me tell you this. This is the thing I learned. If…
— Michael Ondaatje
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We all have a Monster within; the difference is in degree, not in kind.
— Douglas Preston
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I was starting to come to grips with the fact that I had created a lot of pain and suffering around me, not just within…
— Anthony Kiedis
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Harry Potter is one boy in a long line of mythical heroes who have reminded the human race that we are so much more than…
— Marianne Williamson
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I HIDE myself within my flower That wearing on your breast, You, unsuspecting, wear me too— And angels know the rest. I hide myself within…
— Emily Dickinson
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All the buddhas of all the ages have been telling you a very simple fact: Be — don´t try to become. Within these two words,…
— Rajneesh
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No one can create negativity or stress within you. Only you can do that by virtue of how you process your world.
— Wayne Dyer
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It is in your power to withdraw yourself whenever you desire. Perfect tranquility within consists in the good ordering of the mind, the realm of…
— Marcus Aurelius
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This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First, to let go of life. In…
— Unknown Author
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Meditation upon death does not teach one how to die; it does not make the departure more easy, but ease is not what I seek.…
— Marguerite Yourcenar
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Before her marriage she had thought that she had love within her grasp; but since the happiness which she had expected this love to bring…
— Gustave Flaubert
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Reading fiction is important. It is a vital means of imagining a life other than our own, which in turn makes us more empathetic beings.…
— Ann Patchett
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I should like to be the landscape which I am contemplating, I should like this sky, this quiet water to think themselves within me, that…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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God exists outside of time, and since we are within time, there is no way we will ever totally grasp that concept.
— Francis Chan
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I hope you're as lucky as I am. The world needs inventors--great ones. You can be one. If you love what you do and are…
— Steve Wozniak
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