Eliminating Quote by Gerald May

I don't think anyone's found a way of eliminating thoughts of danger and loss. It's rather that, when they're unrealistic, you become an acrobat…

— Martin Seligman

Awareness must be like the rays of the sun: extending everywhere, illuminating all.

— B.K.S. Iyengar

When "everyone knows" that something is so, it is always more interesting and often illuminating to assumeexactly the opposite, and to see where that…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

There are few greater treasures to be acquired in youth than great poetry-and prose-stored in the memory. At the time one may resent the…

— Richard Livingstone

Go forth in every direction- for the happiness, the harmony, the welfare of the many. Offer your heart, the seeds of understanding, like a…

— Gautama Buddha

[Property] is a brilliant, chillingly revelatory piece of fiction, a work of craft, economy and such good merciless observation-one of those rare, crucial novels…

— Ali Smith

Imagination is not to be divorced from the facts. It is a way of illuminating the facts.

— Alfred North Whitehead

Finding Mecca in America weaves social theory and concrete ethnography into a significant contribution on Muslims in the United States, illuminating broader questions about…

— Eboo Patel

We don't know why we are here and . . . our role in the universe, and the thought of an infinite universe. It's…

— Joel Kinnaman

You just can't tell or calibrate motive or intelligence or sense. So I don't read anything unless someone tells me that it's really smart…

— Anna Quindlen

I think the first song I ever wrote ... was called "Can't Help Thinking About Me." That's an illuminating little piece, isn't it?

— David Bowie

The investigation of making is illuminating towards that moment rather than the other way around, a reversal of the way that I would approach…

— Julie Mehretu