Our triumph over sorrow is not that we can avoid it but that we can endure it. And therein lies our hope; that in spirit we might become bigger than the problems we face.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSONOur triumph over sorrow is not that we can avoid it but that we can endure it. And therein lies our hope; that in spirit we might become bigger than the problems we face.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSONThe nearest approach I have ever seen to the symmetry of ancient sculpture was among the Arab tribes of Ethiopia. Our Saxon race can supply the athlete, but not the Apollo.
BAYARD TAYLORGod loves each of us as if there were only one of us.
SAINT AUGUSTINETo rejoice in conquest is to rejoice in murder.
LAOZILock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.
VIRGINIA WOOLFReligion seems to have grown an infant with age, and requires miracles to nurse it, as it had in its infancy.
JONATHAN SWIFTThe world is nothing but ‘world-as-meaning.
MAURICE MERLEAU PONTYMy lover is experiencing reverse evolution.
AIMEE BENDEROur weapon is our knowledge. But remember, it may be a knowledge we may not know that we possess.
AGATHA CHRISTIEIt also contains a humbling light of recognition that compels many to do whatever they can to help reinforce the efforts of those who might be ‘at risk’ of not just giving up on their dreams, but of giving up on their continued existence.
ABERJHANIIf a window of opportunity appears, don’t pull down the shade.
TOM PETERSMr. President, prime ministers, let us have ambitions: ambitions to move beyond the violence and occupation, to the day when two states, Palestine and Israel, can live together side by side in peace and security.
ABDULLAH IIHelping a billion people connect is amazing, humbling and by far the thing I am most proud of in my life.
MARK ZUCKERBERGAnd the earth died screaming, while I lay dreaming.
TOM WAITSI tried college for three months but I was desperately unhappy. I just wanted to perform. I was getting straight As but I had no friends and cried every day.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEYI still like to save up and splurge. That’s an important thing to do.
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