We live together, we act on, and react to, one another; but always and in all circumstances we are by ourselves. The martyrs go hand in hand into the arena; they are crucified alone. Embraced, the lovers desperately try to fuse their insulated ecstasies into a single self-transcendence; in vain. By its very nature every embodied spirit is doomed to suffer and enjoy in solitude. Sensations, feelings, insights, fancies—all these are private and, except through symbols and at second hand, incommunicable. We can pool information about experiences, but never the experiences themselves. From family to nation, every human group is a society of island universes.

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We live together, we act on, and react to, one another; but always and in all circumstances we are b...
ALDOUS HUXLEY

We live together, we act on, and react to, one another; but always and in all circumstances we are b...
ALDOUS HUXLEY I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES

We are far from perfect but willing to be different.
CRAIG GROESCHEL Inspired By Beauty In Creation We Are One
DANIEL GILMAN If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th...
GARY F EVANS...

So, tomorrow, I'm leaving. And I'm not going to let that happen again with anyone else. I'm going to...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Air is approximately 21% oxygen, our brains feed off of oxygen. So basically we are all airheads.
ANDONI GARCIA Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an...
LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD Use your heart. Understand. Learn to see things
in the now, not as they were or will be, or as ...
E.J. PATTEN A couple of customers interrupted [...] who wanted to know if we had some YA book about ants and ali...
SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON Because you can only die once but you can suffer forever.
SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON I am aware that everyone that exists has a story, and we all exist because that story is important f...
ARZELL Everything passes by, and we are left with just our memories
BEN OAK It's a lie to think that you are not good enough. It's a lie to think that you are not beautiful. It...
DISON ARNIBAL

Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over.
RICHARD CARLSON

We must become so alone, so utterly alone, that we withdraw into our innermost self. It is a way of ...
HERMANN HESSE We may not get to choose how we die, but we can chose how we live.
The universe may for...
SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON Dreams are hopeful because they exist as pure possibility. Unlike memories, which are fossils, long ...
SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON

The words you can’t find, you borrow.
We read to know we’re not alone. We read because w...
GABRIELLE ZEVIN But in the end, in the end one is alone. We are all of us alone. I mean I'm told these days we h...
HAROLD BLOOM Everyone is the Umbrella Man and he is everyone. Every cough, sneeze, smile and wave means both ever...
CRAIG CLEVENGER See the world as it is, not as you wish it would be
E. LOCKHART We are like these children, holding a marble in their left hand and not letting it go until they are...
CHRISTIAN BOBIN (FRENCH AUTHOR) No natural feelings are high or low, holy or unholy, in themselves. They are all holy when God's han...
C.S. LEWIS Now is the only time we have, and the only time we have any control over.
RICHARD CARLSON Remember, we all stumble,every one of us. Thats why it is a comfort to go hand in hand!
NANDA KUMAR The farmer in us makes us do the things we do
SOTONYE ANGA Dae FATE NAYAE Nanagha Vandhuttoom Da, Sandy , Na Nata, London Lass,Russian Grapes, Ellorum Ippa Van...
SATHESH KUMAR M We are second-hand people. We have lived on what we have been told, either guided by our inclination...
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI All religious and spiritual practices lead to one deep realisation: We Are One. All is One.
ANITA B. SULSER An emotionally locked person refuses to let go of their sad memories and live in the now.
KILROY J. OLDSTER Orion is above the horizon now, and near it Jupiter, brighter than it will ever be ... But i expect ...
THOMAS HARRIS The most wonderful thing, Mary, is that you and I are always walking together, hand in hand, in a st...
KAHLIL GIBRAN The only way we can overcome the tragedy of an immense disaster like this one is by pulling together...
KEN THOMPSON Seeking knowledge is mandatory for every human being, as the quest for truth is the true purpose of ...
SUZY KASSEM We view ourselves on the eve of battle. We are nerved for the conquest and must conquer or perish. I...
SAM HOUSTON In religion and politics people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-...
MARK TWAIN And though all streams flow from a single course to cleanse the blood from polluted hand, they haste...
AESCHYLUS Because of experiences in the past we really don't make firm plans until we have adequate supply. Ev...
ELLEN GRAY Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That's why it's a comfort to go hand in hand.
EMILY KIMBROUGH Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That's why it's a comfort to go hand-in-hand.
UNKNOWN Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That's why it's a comfort to go hand-in-hand.
EMILY KIMBROUGH We are on a stroll, hand in hand, in a garden, in the moonlight and the sole purpose of such a ventu...
ANURADHA BHATTACHARYYA We came into the world like brother and brother;And now let's go hand in hand, not one before anothe...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Lovers must not, like usurers, live for themselves alone. They must finally turn from their gaze at ...
WENDELL BERRY we
sat there
smoking
cigarettes
at
5
in the morning.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Some delightful inscriptions are found in second-hand books. One, the most famous of all, may be fou...
VINCENT STARRETT There is a farmer in every person. It is the farmer in you that makes you sow and reap
SOTONYE ANGA Not," Swift said firmly, "for all the tea in China."
"That expression has never made sense to m...
LISA KLEYPAS Hand in hand, we climb the processional stair, rising in the celebratory uproar of a capricious cour...
KATHERINE LONGSHORE I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made ...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Without dignity, identity is erased. In its absence, men are defined not by themselves, but by their...
LAURA HILLENBRAND The faculty of memory cannot be separated from the imagination. They go hand in hand. To one degree ...
SIRI HUSTVEDT A new day is here! yesterday is gone! tomorrow is preparing to come! but why is today here?
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Empathy is a bridge. Our sufferings connect us. Let pain make you softer.
AKIROQ BROST Yes, I know that now that there is truth in beauty and beauty in truth. My nature is to be depressiv...
ABIGAIL GEORGE Imperfection and perfection go so hand in hand, and our dark and our light are so intertwined, that ...
JEFF BRIDGES The art of meditation is a way of getting into touch with reality, and the reason for it is that mos...
ALAN W. WATTS Life is an act and we are all actors in the arena of life. We all do act each day from dawn to dusk....
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH We have never died before, so lets live our lives together until our last moments. Lets enjoy oursel...
ANONYMOUS I think body-image issues are not just a dancer thing. I think we're much more in tune and aware...
MISTY COPELAND We are a racially diverse group and we write from our own cultural experiences. We are all different...
JUANITA CRIDER Wake up to a brand new day and realize why you woke up to meet the day! Live to the end of another d...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Two things are needed to raise awareness: education and love. And these go hand in hand because we c...
KAMAND KOJOURI Are shadows a shadowy reflection of the soul or is it a reflection of who we really are, or possibly...
GARY F EVANS... We are this fucking stick in the end...
DEYTH BANGER It is our suffering that brings us together. It is not love. Love does not obey the mind, and turns ...
URSULA K. LE GUIN In religion and politics people’s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at secon...
MARK TWAIN On the one hand we publicly pronounce the equality of all peoples; on the other hand, in our immigra...
EMANUEL CELLER The Champions Academy is a non-profit corporation. Although the people who run it are all Christians...
ED SCHILLING The Bible consistently and directly indicates that when we give generously, we're serving, honoring,...
CRAIG GROESCHEL Unicorns are immortal. It is their nature to live alone in one place: usually a forest where there i...
PETER S. BEAGLE Every day the choice is presented to us, in a thousand different ways, to live up to the spirit whic...
HENRY MILLER We could say that the human race is a great coauthorship in which we are collaborating with God and ...
WENDELL BERRY It was frustrating to still be in the dark about something and be given only so little light.
LAUREN LOLA It's a matter of ABC: When we encounter ADVERSITY, we react by thinking about it. Our thoughts rapid...
MARTIN E. P. SELIGMAN A lot of people have simply given up on their ideas, laying it down in the grave of their minds Ther...
SUNDAY ADELAJA By marrying to soon, many individuals sacrifice their chance to struggle through this purgatory of s...
AUGUSTUS Y. NAPIER Truth is irrelevant. What is relevant is whether or not they believe it."

The logic in th...
SARAH MACLEAN Want LESS! Need LESS! Live MORE!
TANYA MASSE But I don’t want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked.'Oh, you can’t help that,' said the Cat...
LEWIS CARROLL They are, as it were, train-bearers in the pageant of life, and hold a glass up to humanity, frailer...
WILLIAM HAZLITT Our deepest insight into the nature of God is expressed with a family analogy. He is both Father and...
DANIEL DAY WILLIAMS Pressure from bunds is working its way into the Treasury market. Bunds and Treasuries are moving han...
GERALD LUCAS 35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give...
JAMES C. DOBSON The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have.
CRAIG GROESCHEL What will happen if we go to 0 day?
...

Everything has been wipe out from the techno...
DEYTH BANGER We are born winners, but we are hypnotized by the society to succumb to mediocrity and moulded into ...
VISHWAS CHAVAN To not be optimistic about the human race, would be a disregard of the power of the Spirit who creat...
MARTIN SUAREZ Clay in the hands of a good potter suffers so many good turns, but in the end, we see its real and t...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH One of the reasons for its success is that science has a built-in, error-correcting machinery at its...
CARL SAGAN Christianity is not a religion but a relationship of love expressed toward God and men. The church i...
SHERWOOD ELIOT WIRT We want value not only for the things we buy but the experiences we get and all those experiences ar...
ANDY MILLIGAN Every little gracious act adds to the quotient of grace in the world - how gracious can you be today...
ANGIE KARAN PEACE IS THE OBJECTIVE TO WAR, BUT THE BLOOD RUNNETH STILL
NATALIE URQUIETA Worship is not an experience. Worship is an act, and this takes discipline. We are to worship ''in s...
ELISABETH ELLIOT Abstract conversations are my favourite, for they unviel true convictions.
PARUL WADHWA Ambition is a very good quality to have. Ambition and the competitive spirit go hand in hand.
RYAN KWANTEN There are those who walk with their friends and family hand in hand, not away from, but right up to ...
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ALDOUS HUXLEY Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.
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ALDOUS HUXLEY Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.
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ALDOUS HUXLEY Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.
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ALDOUS HUXLEY Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirte...
ALDOUS HUXLEY It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels.
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ALDOUS HUXLEY Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.
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ALDOUS HUXLEY Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something.
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ALDOUS HUXLEY If we could sniff or swallow something that would, for five or six hours each day, abolish our solit...
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ALDOUS HUXLEY There are confessable agonies, sufferings of which one can positively be proud. Of bereavement, of p...
ALDOUS HUXLEY People will insist on treating the mons Veneris as though it were Mount Everest. Too silly!
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ALDOUS HUXLEY The only completely consistent people are the dead.
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ALDOUS HUXLEY Every man with a little leisure and enough money for railway tickets, every man, indeed, who knows h...
ALDOUS HUXLEY To us, the moment 8:17 A.M. means something - something very important, if it happens to be the star...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Chastity: the most unnatural of the sexual perversions.
ALDOUS HUXLEY A country which proposes to make use of modern war as an instrument of policy must possess a highly ...
ALDOUS HUXLEY People are much too solemn about things - I'm all for sticking pins into episcopal behinds.
ALDOUS HUXLEY If the Prince of Peace should come to earth, one of the first things he would do would be to put psy...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
ALDOUS HUXLEY I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is on...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same ...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Nonsense is an assertion of man's spiritual freedom in spite of all the oppressions of circumstance
ALDOUS HUXLEY The course of every intellectual, if he pursues his journey long and unflinchingly enough, ends in t...
ALDOUS HUXLEY It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
ALDOUS HUXLEY After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Your true traveler finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty -- h...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of o...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Death Its the only thing we havent succeeded in completely vulgarizing.
ALDOUS HUXLEY There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
ALDOUS HUXLEY The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
ALDOUS HUXLEY If you look up 'Intelligence' in the new volumes of the Encyclopeadia Britannica, you'll find it cla...
ALDOUS HUXLEY At least two-thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motiva...
ALDOUS HUXLEY An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Most vices demand considerable self-sacrifices. There is no greater mistake than to suppose that a v...
ALDOUS HUXLEY So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, the Caesars and Napoleons will arise to make them ...
ALDOUS HUXLEY A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cea...
ALDOUS HUXLEY There was a thing called Heaven; but all the same they used to drink enormous quantities of alcohol....
ALDOUS HUXLEY Words from the thread on which we string our experiences.
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