Oliver Sacks Quote

Traces of the same spiritual concepts and symbolism that enlighten the Egyptian texts are found all around the world among cultures that we can be certain were never in direct contact. Straightforward...

Only love interests me, and I am only in contact with things that revolve around love.

Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.

If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father l...

Each day I will accomplish one thing on my to list.

Her screams spiraled up into the night air

My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.

We have two natures within us, both struggling for mastery. Which one will dominate us? It depends on which one we feed.

Even now I remember those pictures, like pictures in a storybook one loved as a child. Radiant meadows, mountains vaporous in the trembling distance; leaves ankle-deep on a gusty autumn road; bonfires...

How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.