A stern discipline pervades all nature, which is a little cruel that it may be very kind. - Edmund Spenser
Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervades the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character. - James Russell Lowell
We look to the accumulation of sensory pleasures to give our lives meaning. We have the ability now to consume anything we want and this capacity far exceeds our actual needs. With so much at our fingertips, a kind of gluttony pervades our mind-sets. - Mark Epstein
If weakness pervades the body, then it's mind we must strengthen - Nina Leavins
A sense of security, of well-being, of summer warmth pervades my memory. That robust reality makes a ghost of the present. The mirror brims with brightness; a bumblebee has entered the room and bumps against the ceiling. Everything is as it should be, nothing will ever change, nobody will ever die. - Vladimir Nabokov