I stared at the Ohio River every day as a child, a thing that for me is almost more symbol than river. The formation of personality is inextricable from place. It strikes me as an interesting example of dependent co-arising; land shapes the organism, which then reshapes - literally and figuratively - the land. This because of this; not that because not that. Nothing is separate, least of all the literary mind.
I got a cold feeling toward religion in general. I don't think God would want to separate families.
I think they should separate Microsoft's application group from its operating system group.
The first western gardens were those in the Mediterranean basin. There in the desert areas stretching from North Africa to the valleys of the Euphrates, the so-called cradle of civilization, where plants were first grown for crops by settled communities, garden enclosures were also constructed. Gardens emphasized the contrast between two separate worlds: the outer one where nature remained awe-inspiringly in control and an inner artificially created sanctuary, a refuge for man and plants from the burning desert, where shade trees and cool canals refreshed the spirit and ensured growth.
You have to separate yourself from your parents. You do. In order to find yourself.
When you have two people, separate beings, trying to share one life together. That's always going to have difficulties.
we love as soon as we learn to distinguish a separate 'you' and 'me. ' Love is our attempt to assuage the terror and isolation of that separateness.
All the media and the politicians ever talk about is things that separate us, things that make us different from one another
Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin.
Unlike the phone system, which is engineered around an application, the Internet layered model allows you to, in essence, separate applications from infrastructure.
The ego seeks to divide and separate. Spirit seeks to unify and heal.
That's where you have to look for your inspiration. Don't separate the rest of your life - who you are, what you love - from your work.
Plenty, as well as Want, can separate friends.
Ego is the movement of the mind toward objects of perception in the form of grasping, and away from objects in the form of aversion. This fundamentally is all the ego is. This movement of grasping and aversion gives rise to a sense of a separate 'me,' and in turn the sense of 'me' strengthens itself this way.
To separate the purpose of a business from the purpose of people who are in the business is, I think, not a good thing.
Gathering Blue' was a separate book. I wanted to explore what a society might become after a catastrophic world event. Only at the end did I realize I could make it connect to 'The Giver.
I don't think having separate bathrooms is a key to a successful marriage, if you love one another.