Quotes of: Stephen-hawking Keyword

So. Tell me. What do you think? Which is better? To take action and perhaps make a fatal mistake - or to take no action and die slowly anyway?

The Map of Love

Looking back, I realized that we were being raised to be schizophrenic; an appearance of perfection was more important than genuine feelings

My Feudal Lord

So at the heart of all things is the germ of their overthrow; the closer you are to the heart, the closer to the reversal. Nowhere to go but down. You reach the core and then you're blown away--

The Map of Love

...there are so many books left to read. For that reason alone it is worth going on living. Books make me happy, the help me escape from reality.

The Map of the Sky

Why had his mother gone to the trouble of bringing him into the world if the most exciting moment in his life was having been made lame by a bayonet?

The Map of Time

There is little more I can add short of dissecting the man, or going into intimate details such as the modest proportions and slight southeasterly curvature of his manhood.

The Map of Time

What all good teachers have in common, however, is that they set high standards for their students and do not settle for anything less.

Marva Collins' Way: Updated

It is not an external enemy we dread. Our foe is shut up within ourselves. An internal warfare is daily waged by us.

Making Life a Prayer: Selected Writings

Think of it this way," he rubbed a fist under his square jaw, "If we hadn't been on the same flight or at the same hotel, you would've had no one to spill your drinks on.

Love Bites

He was too smitten by his second wife and the sons she produced easily and regularly at eighteen-month intervals to bother too much about a daughter.

Ladies Coupé

If the US is a human melting pot, then Eastern Europe is a scrap yard.

The Last Window-Giraffe: A Picture Dictionary for the over Fives

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

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

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

I had spent my whole life feeling homesick. The only difference between the two of us was that I didn't know what or where home was.

Lucy Sullivan Is Getting Married

If a writer starts worring about what he or she has left out or forgotten, they might not be able to write even a single line.

A Life Less Ordinary: A Memoir

What he was scared of was not that maybe she was a creature who survived by drinking other people's blood. No, it was that she might push him away.

Let the Right One In

People with large book collections are almost always diligent learners.

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

In short, it became possible - never easy, but possible - in the poet Auden's phrase to find the mortal world enough.

The Swerve: How the World Became Modern

Meditation practice is neither holding on nor avoiding; it is a settling back into the moment, opening to what is there.

Seeking the Heart of Wisdom: The Path of Insight Meditation

Well, everyone and their grandmother knows she's still banging Charles after all these years —" "Like a screen in a tornado. Sure.

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