Matter Quote by Stephen Covey

The time which passes over our heads so imperceptibly makes the same gradual change in habits, manners and character, as in personal appearance. At…

— Walter Scott

Time, which wears down and diminishes all things, augments and increases good deeds, because a good turn liberally offered to a reasonable man grows…

— Francois Rabelais

The course of our lives is determined by how we react--what we decide and what we do--at the darkest of times. The nature of…

— Daisaku Ikeda

“Nowadays, the tendency to be preoccupied with having, at the expense of losing touch with the dimension of being, is becoming ever more pronounced.…

— Stephen Batchelor

When one has reverence for life, one will never do anything to harm, hinder, or destroy life. Instead one bends every effort to help…

— Wilferd Peterson

“Let us call this quality the Original Mind. This mind looked at the world more directly—not through words and received ideas. It was flexible…

— Robert Greene

We sometimes condemn the present, by praising the past; and show our contempt of what is now, by our esteem for what is no…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

In turbulent times, in times of great change, people head for the two extremes: fundamentalism and personal, spiritual experience...

— John Naisbitt

The more thoughts of the past we carry in our heart. The less capable we are of loving and living in the present.

— Anurag Prakash Ray

“In this environment, the development of modern consciousness was experienced not as an evolution from a previous way of understanding the world, but rather…

— Christopher Clark

The most transformative experiences people have - bliss, devotion, self transcendence - are currently anchored to the worst parts of culture and to ways…

— Sam Harris

“Always trust yourself and your own feeling, as opposed to argumentations, discussions, or introductions of that sort; if it turns out that you are…

— Rainer Maria Rilke