Kathy Baker quotes

“There's different kinds of love, darling. Some people you love no matter what, and others you love when the situation is right. To me, the best kind of love is no matter what kind.”
-- Kathy Baker

#Love Quotes #Dream Quotes #People Quotes

“Some of the greater things are unseen. That's why you close your eyes when you kiss, cry, or dream.”
-- Kathy Baker

#Dream Quotes #Eye Quotes #Kissing Quotes

“The Quaker upbringing was not strict, but it was frugal. Extremely frugal. One was always encouraged to give away ones worldly goods.”
-- Kathy Baker

#Giving Quotes #Quaker Quotes #Strict Quotes

“I try to give all my characters a sense of humor, so I guess I feel like I have done comedy, but maybe I'm better known for drama.”
-- Kathy Baker

#Drama Quotes #Character Quotes #Giving Quotes

“Relationships are hard regardless! But I think they feed the artist: relationships, children, life, family - it all feeds the artist. Loss. Joy. Sacrifice.”
-- Kathy Baker

Source : Interview with Liane Balaban, logger.believermag.com. February 13, 2013.

#Children Quotes #Sacrifice Quotes #Loss Quotes

“I used to wish I would be a painter or a violinist, where maybe I wouldn't need to travel as much. Or maybe if I were a writer, I wouldn't need to travel as much. It's the travel that kind of killed me. And the hours. I always pictured if I were a painter you could make your own hours maybe... work after the kids were asleep.”
-- Kathy Baker

Source : Interview with Liane Balaban, logger.believermag.com. February 13, 2013.

#Kids Quotes #Wish Quotes #Would Be Quotes

“To kill nothing, that is love.”

“Look not in my eyes, for fear They mirror true the sight I see, And there you find your face too clear And love it and be lost like me.”

Source : A. E. Housman (2012). “A Shropshire Lad”, p.11, Courier Corporation

“The pleasure and the love of God for His creatures constitute the original state. His pleasure and love are the means by which He has brought His creatures into existence and are the cause of that bringing into existence. He who knows that he possesses neither being nor act rediscovers himself in that original state of pleasure and divine love.”

“In love one had need of being believed, in friendship of being understood.”

Source : Abel Bonnard (1933). “The Art of Friendship”

“Love is our most unifying and empowering common spiritual denominator. The more we ignore its potential to bring greater balance and deeper meaning to human existence, the more likely we are to continue to define history as one long inglorious record of man’s inhumanity to man.”

Source : Aberjhani (2014). “Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry”, p.17, Lulu.com

“All play aspires to the condition of paradise...through play in all its forms...we hope to achieve a state that our larger Greco-Roman, Judeo- Christian culture has always known was lost. Where it exists, we do not know, although we always have envisioned it as a garden...always as removed, as an enclosed green place...Paradise is an ancient dream...It is a dream of ourselves as better than we are, back to what we were.”

“God does not so much want us to do things as to let people see what He can do.”

“Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas.”

“I have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy.”

“The science of anti-Semitism finally comes to explain this phenomenon, enlightening further the consciousness of people, fully satisfying their instinct and its violent eruptions thus legitimized by revealing their cause - the parasitism of the Jews. Thus it gives us the formula of the scientific solution for the problem of Judaism, which in order to realize we have only to apply.”

Source : "Ştiinţa antisemitismului ("The Science of Anti-Semitism")". "Apararea Nationala" ("The National Defense") No. 16, Nov. 15, 1922.