Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible.
Leo Tolstoy

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all.
Emily Dickinson

Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.
Emily Dickinson

Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.
Voltaire

What then do you call your soul? What idea have you of it? You cannot of yourselves, without revelation, admit the existence within you of anything but a power unknown to you of feeling and thinking.
Voltaire

Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.
Voltaire

Let us work without theorizing, tis the only way to make life endurable.
Voltaire

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
Carl Sagan

He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without patients does not go to sea at all.
William Osler

To study the phenomena of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all.
William Osler

A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.
Steve Martin

What is comedy? Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke.
Steve Martin

Confidence... thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.
Marcus Garvey

Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us.
Jane Austen

An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged; no harm can be done.
Jane Austen

Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.
Jane Austen

To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment.
Jane Austen

One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.
Jane Austen