7500 Prize Quotes & Sayings

You see, that hunger inside us, that ambition, or whatever you may choose to call it, is a compass really, a compass of true desire. And if you will be happy, you must follow that desire, no matter which way the needle points. — Kathe Koja

Nature is the birthright of everyone on Earth. The millions of species we have allowed to survive are our phylogenetic kin. Their long-term history is our long-term history. Despite all our fantasies and pretensions, we always have been and will remain a biological species tied to this particular biological world. — Edward O. Wilson

I pay attention to how I look but I don't let it go too far. — Colbie Caillat

Just to let you know, I talk in my sleep." He shifted on his bed and chucked something on the floor. It could only be one thing. "Also, I sleep naked. — Chelsea M. Cameron

Times change. Every generation has a new set of problems. Human nature is unmoved. — David Harsanyi

Interferometry, like surfing, is a search for the perfect wave. But physicists don't have to paddle around and wait. — Ken Goldberg

Through this process, wisdom clarifies the way that the mind manufacturers emotion and karma, and finally penetrates the illusion of self. Just as though one were investigating how a magician created his display of illusions, one studies mental events to understand the conditions and causes that support the operation of ordinary self-oriented experience. One first understands the root emotions as the basis for samsara, then studies the workings of the associated emotions and how each one manifests a distinctive character. Gradually, the manner in which the self supports emotion and emotion supports the sense of self becomes clear. Self and emotion are seen as relying on and reinforcing each other's existence. Understanding how this collusion gives rise to the whole range of samsaric delusion liberates the mind from all forms of deception. — Dharma Publishing

Fashion makes fools of some, sinners of others, and slaves of all. — Josh Billings

For most of the movies that I've done, we've shot in a contemporary house, in contemporary clothes, speaking in a contemporary way. So, I really enjoy that. It really helps. — Eve Hewson

I suppose everyone continues to be interested in the quest for the self, but what you feel when you're older, I think, is that you really must make the self. — Mary McCarthy

the phoenix feather in Harry's wand had come from the same bird that had supplied the core of Lord Voldemort's. — J.K. Rowling

Your success is hidden underneath a layer of your fears and weaknesses — Thabiso Monkoe