Quotes of: Liberal-arts Keyword

Withholding love is a bit like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.

The Seven Levels of Intimacy: The Art of Loving and the Joy of Being Loved

Memory training is not just for the sake of performing party tricks; it's about nurturing something profoundly and essentially human.

Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything

Our lives are the sum of our memories. How much are we willing to lose from our already short lives by … not paying attention?

Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything

What better way to try to begin to understand the nature and meaning of human memory than to investigate its absence?

Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything

A meaningful relationship between two people cannot sustain itself only in the present tense.

Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything

That's what happens when you're thirty-seven years old: you do the things you always did but the result is somehow different.

Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game

The closer and more completely you can come to explaining what a work of art means, the less like art it seems.

The Magician's Book: A Skeptic's Adventures in Narnia

There was no experience, I thought, quite as wonderful as being an American in Paris.

Mastering the Art of French Eating: Lessons in Food and Love from a Year in Paris

To live a life of gratitude is to open our eyes to the countless ways in which we are supported by the world around us.

Naikan: Gratitude, Grace, and the Japanese Art of Self-Reflection

You want to know how I think art should be taught to children? Take them to a museum and say, 'This is art, and you can't do it.

An Object of Beauty

Like water poured from one vessel to another, metta flows freely, taking the shape of each situation without changing its essence.

Lovingkindness: The Revolutionary Art of Happiness

We can understand the inherent radiance & purity of our minds by understanding metta. Like the mind, metta is not distorted by what it encounters.

Lovingkindness: The Revolutionary Art of Happiness

When we practice metta, we open continuously to the truth of our actual experience, changing our relationship to life.

Lovingkindness: The Revolutionary Art of Happiness

To relinquish the futile effort to control change is one of the strengthening forces of true detachment & thus true love.

Lovingkindness: The Revolutionary Art of Happiness

All beings want to be happy, yet so very few know how. It is out of ignorance that any of us cause suffering, for ourselves or for others

Lovingkindness: The Revolutionary Art of Happiness

For all of us, love can be the natural state of our own being; naturally at peace, naturally connected, because this becomes the reflection of who we simply are.

Lovingkindness: The Revolutionary Art of Happiness

Stories of her children when they were small, their round little bodies barely containing their personalities, which bloomed and glittered and melted into her.

The Lost Art of Mixing

People with large book collections are almost always diligent learners.

The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing

The measure of a work of art is how much art it has in it, not how much ‘relevance’. Relevant to whom? Relevant to what? Nothing is more ephemeral than a hot topic.

Lost for Words

The only purpose of our lives consists in waking each other up and being there for each other.

Moon Time: The Art of Harmony with Nature and Lunar Cycles

A Spiritual Warrior looks for the most efficient and effective way to accomplish something -- the most direct way is a living truth.

Spiritual Warrior: The Art of Spiritual Living