“In studying other cultures, we learn more about ourselves and our relationship to all things in this world.” WorldCultureStudyThis WorldAll ThingsOur RelationshipOther Cultures Author:Eustace Conway
“The utmost we can hope for in this world is contentment; if we aim at anything higher, we shall meet with nothing but grief and disappointment. A man should direct all his studies and endeavors at making himself easy now and happy hereafter.” IfsMenWorldShouldEasyGriefStudyThis WorldHigherDirectAimDisappointmentContentmentEndeavorHereafter Book:The works of ... Joseph Addison, with notes by R. Hurd Source: The works of ... Joseph Addison, with notes by R. Hurd
“We must not judge God from this world. It's just a study that didn't come off. It's only a master who could make such a blunder.” WorldStudyThis WorldJudgingMastersBlunders Author:Vincent Van Gogh
“Oh how swiftly the glory of the world passes away! If only the lives of these men had been as admirable as their learning, their study and reading would have been to good purpose! But how many in this world care little for the service of God, and perish in their vain learning. Because they choose to be great rather than humble, they perish in their own conceit.” IfsMenWorldLittlesHas BeensCarePurposeReadingStudyThis WorldGloryHumbleVainConceitAdmirablePassing Away Author:Thomas a Kempis
“The answer comes to me through studying the lives of the Rosa Parks and the Vaclav Havels and the Nelson Mandelas and the Dorothy Days of this world. These are people who have come to understand that no punishment that anybody could lay on us could possibly be worse than the punishment we lay on ourselves by conspiring in our own diminishment, by living a divided life, by failing to make that fundamental decision to act and speak on the outside in ways consonant with what we know to be true on the inside.” PeopleKnowsWorldWaySpeakDecisionAnswersStudyFailingThis WorldFundamentalsLaysPunishmentBeing TrueParksDividedNelsonRosaConspiringConsonants Author:Parker J. Palmer
“So abundant and novel are the objects of interest in a pure wilderness that unless you are pursuing special studies it matters little where you go, or how often to the same place. Wherever you chance to be always seems at the moment of all places the best; and you feel that there can be no happiness in this world or in any other for those who may not be happy there.” WorldFeelsMayLittlesMatterMomentsSeemsInterestChanceNovelStudySpecialObjectsThis WorldPureWilderness Book:Travels in Alaska Source: Travels in Alaska