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How strange that the nature of life is change, yet the nature of human beings is to resist change. And how ironic that the difficult times we fear might ruin us are the very ones that can break us open and help us blossom into who we were meant to be...

Broken Open: How Difficult Times Can Help Us Grow

Travel opens us up, exposes us to new people and places. New thoughts, new ways of being and a larger feeling of connection. And, the best part is, that it makes us appreciate our home that much more.

Erin Kouvas

The Guy Fawkes mask has now become a common brand and a convenient placard to use in protest against tyranny - and I'm happy with people using it; it seems quite unique, an icon of popular culture being used this way.

David Lloyd

My father being an outdoors person, he used to take us on quite a few adventures thorugh the wild areas down there, introducing us to alligators and rattlesnakes and all the trees and plants.

Jim Fowler

I think I don't sing as hard as I used to sing. I used to kind of hit the accelerator a lot back in my youth, but now it's just being able to control it, and not work it so hard and use more of an emotional or sub textual kind of approach to singing.

K. D. Lang

I'm used to being the underdog.

Mario Williams

I used to hate being recognised.

Charlotte Gainsbourg

The history of philosophy is not, like the history of the sciences, to be studied with the intellect alone. That which is receptive in us and that which impinges upon us from history is the reality of man's being, unfolding itself in thought.

Karl Jaspers

Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.

Friedrich Schiller

Mainstream news wants to keep you as a useful idiot. Instead, try being a non-useful idiot.

Xazaqazax

Let us fill our hearts with our own compassion - towards ourselves and towards all living beings.

Thich Nhat Hanh

Yes, please leave us, the mere presence of beings like yourselves is intensely painful to us.

Gene L. Coon

If we are not being maligned, scandalizing those who still sleep in the church, then we are missing the incarnational call to love the world's most vulnerable, the world's exiled, the world's most wounded. Our concern should be what the poor and pros...

Sarah Lance

Put simply, behavioural economics argues that human beings' decision-taking is guided by the evolutionary baggage which we bring with us to the present day. Evolution has made us rational to a point, but not perfectly so. It has given us emotions, fo...

Evan Davis

No one is perfect. Sometimes, it is the imperfections that make us more alive than those around us. It’s the happiness of truly breathing and living in freedom of ourselves. Even though we may look broken to the world, there is always someone who s...

Jennifer Megan Varnadore

I don't know what being god must feel like, but it can't be much different that being an inventor. There is power in the idea that a certain product never existed before you thought of it, there is joy in the act of bringing the idea into reality and...

Soumeet Lanka

There lies before us, if we choose, continual progress in happiness, knowledge and wisdom. Shall we instead choose death, because we cannot forget our quarrels? I appeal as a human being to human beings; remember your humanity, and forget the rest.

Bertrand Russell

I just wanted all the wars to be over so that we could spend the money on starships and Mars colonies.

Supergods: What Masked Vigilantes, Miraculous Mutants, and a Sun God from Smallville Can Teach Us About Being Human

If this book has made any point clear, I hope it's that things don't have to be real to be true. Or vice versa.

Supergods: What Masked Vigilantes, Miraculous Mutants, and a Sun God from Smallville Can Teach Us About Being Human

...we think being a Christian means to go to church on Sunday and trying to be good through the week. Now I see it means suffering, being willing to let the hard things happen to you, so that God can use us to do His work on this earth!

Passport through Darkness: A True Story of Danger and Second Chances

Psychopathy is like sunlight. Overexposure can hasten one’s demise in grotesque, carcinogenic fashion. But regulated exposure at controlled and optimal levels can have a significant positive impact on well-being and quality of life.

The Wisdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Can Teach Us About Success