The service of philosophy, of speculative culture, towards the human spirit, is to rouse, to startle it to a life of constant and eager observation.
Walter Pater
Great passions may give us a quickened sense of life, ecstasy and sorrow of love, the various forms of enthusiastic activity, disinterested or... →
That sense of a life in natural objects, which in most poetry is but a rhetorical artifice, was, then, in Wordsworth the assertion of what was for... →
In every life, there have to be some shadows. Look at me. My life has been filled with sunshine. A beautiful and caring wife. Five healthy children.... →
Joe Paterno
I don't think it's fair to 12-, 13- and 14-year-olds to say 'Show us you're a winner right now!' Winning isn't everything.... →
It doesn't matter what people think of me. I've lived my life.
You must relate athletic experiences to life.
I'd like for the young people, and older ones, too, who don't count themselves as readers, to know the joy of reading and what it does to... →
Katherine Paterson
Reading asks that you bring your whole life experience and your ability to decode the written word and your creative imagination to the page and be a... →
I've been very blessed in my personal life and in my career and I have never been ungrateful for what I have.
Mandy Patinkin