Empathetically Def Quotes & Sayings

The study of geometry is a petty and idle exercise of the mind, if it is applied to no larger system than the starry one. Mathematics should be mixed not only with physics but with ethics; that is mixed mathematics. — Henry David Thoreau

When it came to the definition of genius, the ultimate measure could never really be the skull - the measure was always the writing, the music, the art itself. — Colin Dickey

Now, hearing Tansi speak, Afua resumed her crying, but it was as though no one heard. These tears were a matter of routine. They came for all of the women. They dropped until the clay below them turned to mud. At night, Esi dreamed that if they all cried in unison, the mud would turn to river and they could be washed away into the Atlantic. — Yaa Gyasi

Even when we truly understand these matters, the journey of spiritual growth is still so lonely and difficult that we often become discouraged. — M. Scott Peck

I could never live a nonproductive life and I feel that I have lived a productive life as far as I want to in terms of this company that I have for so many years. — Katherine Dunham

Again and again we are confronted with the reality - some might say the problem - of sharing our space with other living things, be they dogs, trees, fish or penguins. — Jonathan Safran Foer

Sarah, I'm going to take care of you whether you like it or not. — Robyn Carr

If you want to endure life, prepare yourself for death. — Sigmund Freud

I don't think about my fame very much. — Calvin Klein

Playing music is a beautiful thing. But listening to music is just as great. — Flea

The way I was raised and the people that I grew up around for the most part were very humble people, and I appreciate all that they taught me, and their energy and their magnanimity help keep me grounded. — Lenny Kravitz

This valley is the only place that comes up to the brag about it, and exceeds it. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

There was no need to fake bitchy defiance. I had plenty of it to dish out. — Richelle Mead

To speak of happiness is to create happiness. — Marty Rubin

chicks before dicks manifesto — Tessa Bailey