Relationships Quote by Thomas Jefferson

“For what is the Heart, but a Spring; and the Nerves, but so many Strings; and the Joynts, but so many Wheeles, giving motion…

— Thomas Hobbes

The calamities of tragedy do not simply happen, nor are they sent; they proceed mainly from actions, and those the actions of men.We see…

— A. C. Bradley

Such as are in immediate fear of a losing their estates, of banishment, or of slavery, live in perpetual anguish, and lose all appetite…

— Michel de Montaigne

Misfortune occurs or can occur to anyone, of any sort of character. The eudaimonic has more resources to avoid it (being in autonomous control…

— Kenny Smith

Believing people can soar beyond ordinary life.

— Frank Fools Crow

“This is how people behave when their dailiness is destroyed, when for a few moments they see, plain and unadorned, one of the great…

— Salman Rushdie

Whilst the Bihar calamity damages the body, the calamity brought about by untouchability corrodes the very soul.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“How do I avoid dullness, folly, and gross acts of excess? How do I distinguish cogent acts of survival from random acts of inanity?…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

It is, in both cases, that a spiritual life has been imparted to nature; that the solid seeming block of matter has been pervadedand…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

So we live; a spirit that broods and hovers over the continual death of time, the lost meaning, the unrecaptured moment, the unremembered face,…

— Iris Murdoch

A sanctity hangs about the sources of our being, whether physical, social, or imaginary.

— George Santayana

Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances.

— James Russell Lowell