Every secret of the body was rendered up–bone risen through flesh, sacrilegious glimpses of an intestine or an optic nerve. From this new and intimate perspective, [Briony] learned a simple, obvious thing she had always...

The merciful Providence – or whatever power there is in the universe – has so ordained things that our little world will go on without us. Indeed, it will not miss us for long. It...

Choose to be happy. It is what we have all done.

Love is the language of the heart,which everyone understands.

Want less, live more

As long as we are children, we have the ability to experience things around us–but then we grow used to the world. To grow up is to get drunk on sensory experience.

That’s the thing about love, it secretly attracts and demands your attention.

The progress of mankind is due exclusively to the progress of natural sciences, not to morals, religion or philosophy.

The practice of Detachment encourages the positive aspects of your life to become dominant, while providing a clear path for the negative aspects to recede.

The sense impressions of one-celled animals are not edited for the brain: ‘This is philosophically interesting in a rather mournful way, since it means that only the simplest animals perceive the universe as it is...

Not just charity, even corruption begins at home.

Whatever you do, foolish or wise, important or unimportant, do with love and enthusiasm.

Serious thinkers are few, and the world is ruled by crude ideas.

And if ever you need encouragement, remember at least two sober facts which nobody can rationally deny: that you are a new and unique living force in nature, and that you can, by taking thought...

Love as the moon loves the night.Love as much as you can.Love as long as you can.Love as long as you live.Live only as long as you can love.

She wondered which was worse—living your whole life staring at yourself or waiting your whole life for someone to stare back at you.

It’s not really outstanding when you’re standing outOutcry is the only outburst,if you can’t shout

Be helpful. When you see the darkness, be the light. When you feel the hatred, be the source of love. In the end love always win.

Now to exert oneself and work for the sake of amusement seems silly and utterly childish. But to amuse oneself in order that one may exert oneself, as Anacharsis puts it, seems right; for amusement...

If you reveal your secrets to the wind,you should not blame the wind forrevealing them to the trees.

Love is a song, written in your heart.

The method of ‘postulating’ what we want has many advantages ; they are the same as the advantages of theft over honest toil.

I have come to learn about things that intrigue people through their strangeness. But barley did I find myself in you presence than I understood that life is none other than the different manifestations of...

When you truly love someone, you don’t want anything except giving everything you have.

In reality there are no separate events. Life moves along like water, it’s all connected to the source of the river is connected to the mouth and the ocean.

Part of it is a Midwest philosophy. It’s a Midwest lifestyle, where the types of foods that we eat in the Midwest tend to be a higher calorie, higher fat diet.

Without love life will be a flower garden without flowers.

Ownership is not limited to material things. It can also apply to points of view. Once we take ownership of an idea — whether it’s about politics or sports — what do we do? We...

Now that science has helped us to overcome the awe of the unknown in nature, we are the slaves of social pressures of our own making. When called upon to act independently, we cry for...

Zen is a journey of exploration and a way of living that, in and of itself, does not belong to any one religion or tradition. It is about experiencing life in the here and now...

You not only are hunted by others, you unknowingly hunt yourself.

LINK OUT OF SYNCWhen the mind fails to keep pace with the body’s maturityKamil Ali

A person who has nothing but love has everything but a person who has everything but love has nothing.

God’s pleasure–the beauty creation possesses in his regard–underlies the distinct being of creation, and so beauty is the first and truest word concerning all that appears within being; beauty is the showing of what is;...

SELF HELPUse the same amount of energy required to pull others down, to uplift yourself insteadKamil Ali

A strong personal philosophy does more than sustain us through the tragedies of life. It also stains us daily in everything we think and do. It gives us optimism and hope.

The light teaches you to convert life into a festive promenade.

On a grander scale, when a society segregates itself, the consequences affect the economy, the emotions, and the ecology. That’s one reason why it’s easy for pro-lifers to eat factory-raised animals that disrespect everything sacred...

Dream for life; dream for love; dream for a better world. The purpose of life should not be only to achieve silver and gold.

Teaching others, he corrected himself.

Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking. Peace and not war is the father of all things. Only economic action has created the wealth around us; labor,...

Life is a gift.Love is the lift.Happiness is the perception.Gratitude is the salvation.

We are the sum total of the decisions we have made.

But some of the greatest achievements in philosophy could only be compared with taking up some books which seemed to belong together, and putting them on different shelves; nothing more being final about their positions...

Do what you love; love what you do. You will be happy; your dreams will come true.

I have been told the best things in life are free ~ I found them very expensive.

Every man is worth just so much as the things about which he busies himself.

Let your spirit shine in the sky.

Be joyful and beautiful like a flower; then share your treasures with the universe.

And yet does the appetite for new days ever really cease?