Quotes of: Generalized Keyword

Because consciousness has no mass and extension, no parts or physical properties, it is Nothing, which on the other hand, can generate the matter and energy of the entire universe.

Change: Realizing Your Greatest Potential

Our country in general assumes that "the pursuit of happiness" really means "the pursuit of pleasure" and that therefore pleasure is the greatest good.

A Circle of Quiet

Two generations of Americans knew more about the Ford coil than the clitoris, about the planetary system of gears that the solar system of stars.

Cannery Row

Enron would keep its unearned windfall, generated solely because David Duncan didn't know what he was doing.

Conspiracy of Fools: A True Story

Life is not enjoyed by being busy over everything in general, but being passionate about one thing in particular. Always focus on that one thing; dream it and live it!

Daily Drive 365

You can go home again, the General Temporal Theory asserts, so long as you understand that home is a place where you have never been.

The Dispossessed

A work-in-progress generates its own energy field. You, the artist or entrepreneur, are pouring love into the work; you are suffusing it with passion and intention and hope.

Do the Work

It felt bizarre to be ignored in general, much less by an embodiment of Aidan--who used to stare at her so hard that he'd run into trees.

Dreams of a Dark Warrior

What should have died along with communism is the belief that modern societies can be run on a single principle, whether that of planning under the general will or that of free-market allocations.

The Ethics of Authenticity

To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations - such is pleasure beyond compare.

Essays in Idleness: The Tsurezuregusa of Kenko

Generally speaking, though, Americans have an inability to relax into sheer pleasure. Ours is an entertainment-seeking nation, but not necessarily a pleasure-seeking one.

Eat, Pray, Love

The problem with loneliness is that, unlike other forms of human suffering, it teaches us nothing, leads us nowhere, and generally devalues us in our own eyes and the eyes of others.

Forgotten Fire

Lincoln once said that America was founded on a proposition that was written by Jefferson in 1776. We are really founded on an argument about what that proposition means.

Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation

Fashion is life-enhancing and I think it's a lovely, generous thing to do for other people

Fashion Manifesto: The Style-smart Handbook

Your success and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them. But to be happy it is essential not to be too concerned with others. Consequently, there is no escape. Happy and judged, or absolved and wretched.

The Fall

Me neither,” Shane put in. “Homie don’t play that.” “I wonder, sometimes, if your generation speaks English at all,” Amelie said.

Fade Out

It is too true, however disgraceful it may be to human nature, that nations in general will make war whenever they have a prospect of getting anything by it.

The Federalist Papers

The Christian witness never benefits when Christian organizations are known more for what they are against than what they are for.

Generous Spaciousness: Responding to Gay Christians in the Church

When a person has lived generously and fought fiercely, she deserves more than sadness at the end.

Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise

Adam's hot Pheebs! Admit it girl. That body is like some kind of happy experiment. It's like he was manufactured in a nympho scientist's secret laboratory

Generation Dead

More generally, as I shall repeat in Chapter 8, one of the truly bad effects of religion is that it teaches us that it is a virtue to be satisfied with not understanding.

The God Delusion