Your education tends to develop the brain while it neglects the heart, so you have a longing for teachings that develop and strengthen the good heart.
If people only knew the healing power of laughter and joy, many of our fine doctors would be out of business. Joy is one of nature's greatest medicines. Joy is always healthy. A pleasant state of mind tends to bring abnormal conditions back to normal.
As life tends to become more and more distracting, let us firmly hold on to books.
When something comes up that attacks peoples beliefs, their first reaction tends to be fear.
The really great novel tends to be the exact negative of its author's life.
When you're watching a show like this or watching a movie, sometimes when you have big music in a scene, it tends to push the viewer out of the scene and makes someone feel like an audience member rather than like they're in the scene.
Any important disease whose causality is murky, and for which treatment is ineffectual, tends to be awash in significance.
The fact that people who create are good workers tends to be lost.
The idea of abolishing Income Tax is to me highly attractive, both on other grounds and because it tends to public economy.
Beauty in music is too often confused with something that lets the ears lie back in an easy chair. Many sounds that we are used to do not bother us, and for that reason we are inclined to call them beautiful. Frequently, when a new or unfamiliar work is accepted as beautiful on its first hearing, its fundamental quality is one that tends to put the mind to sleep.
One great flaw in the reforming passion is that in its eagerness to remedy social wrongs it tends to neglect, certainly to undervalue, the experience of those whose lives it wishes to improve.
the lady is almost the only picturesque survival in a social order which tends less and less to tolerate the exceptional. . . . In the age-long war between men and women, she is a hostage in the enemy's camp. Her fortunes do not rise and fall with those of women but with those of men.
The kind of experience of humility and happiness that comes with gratitude tends to crowd out whatever is coarse, or ugly or mean.
The thing you hate about yourself tends to be the thing that everyone likes about you.
Kitsch tends to wallow in beauty - its shortcoming is not aesthetic, but ethical
My art tends toward the literary. My pictures tend toward the outskirts of painting: But why generalize? It is possible to realize one thing or another, according to the impressions gained from one point of view or another. But it is too difficult to make a general rule.
In contrast to the knowledge that keeps man in a passive quietude, Desire dis-quiets him and moves him to action. Born of Desire, action tends to satisfy it, and can do so only by the 'negation,' the destruction or at least the transformation, of the desired object: to satisfy hunger, for example, the food must be destroyed or, in any case, transformed. Thus all action is 'negating'.
The vice presidential candidate tends to be a bit of an afterthought.
One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
For it is precisely because certain groups have no representation in a number of recognized political structures that their position tends to be so stable, their oppression so continuous.