Peak Experiences Examples Quotes & Sayings

New Zealand is a country of thirty thousand million sheep, three million of whom think they are human. — Barry Humphries

Reincarnation is not an exclusively Hindu or Buddhist concept, but it is part of the history of human origin. It is proof of the mindstream's capacity to retain knowledge of physical and mental activities. It is related to the theory of interdependent origination and to the law of cause and effect. — Dalai Lama

I've had tremendous success ... I'm very lucky. — Rod Stewart

Ralph (Houk) brought out the best in everybody, and that included me. I consider myself lucky to have played for him. — Mickey Mantle

Poetry is a string of words that parades without a permit. — Linda Hogan

I think that peace is, in many ways, a precondition of joy. — Yo-Yo Ma

Some people think that evolutionary psychology claims to have discovered that human nature is selfish and wicked. But they are flattering the researchers and anyone who would claim to have discovered the opposite. No one needs a scientist to measure whether humans are prone to knavery. The question has been answered in the history books, the newspapers, the ethnographic record, and the letters to Ann Landers. But people treat it like an open question, as if someday science might discover that it's all a bad dream and we will wake up to find that it is human nature to love one another. — Steven Pinker

But this republic idea sounds like an improvement over our current government. — Suzanne Collins

And she did not want him to think her quite mad, only a little unique, only containing within her just that measure of the unexpected sufficient to make her irreplaceable. — Rose Tremain

Style! style! why, all writers will tell you that it is the very thing which can least of all be changed. A man's style is nearly as much a part of him as his physiognomy, his figure, the throbbing of this pulse,
in short, as any part of his being is at least subjected to the action of the will. — Isaac D'Israeli

You start by writing to live. You end by writing so as not to die. — Carlos Fuentes

Miserable are the persons who do not have something beyond themselves to search for. — Charles L. Allen

Freedoms are not only the primary ends of development, they are also among its principal means. — Amartya Sen