quotes about Nourishment

“A feeling of confidence and personal power comes from facing challenges and overcoming them.”

“Much reading is like much eating -wholly useless without digestion.”

“My songwriting is so influenced by orchestrated music, dramatic, super glam rock-y stuff. Two of my biggest influences in songwriting were Elton John and Freddie Mercury.”

“You look at the world and see how scary it can be sometimes and still try to deal with the fear. Comedy can deal with the fear and still not paralyze you or tell you that it's going away. You say, OK, you got certain choices here, you can laugh at them and then once you've laughed at them and you have expunged the demon, now you can deal with them. That's what I do when I do my act.”

“In the crowd, herd, or gang, it is a mass-mind that operates-which is to say, a mind without subtlety, a mind without compassion, a mind, finally, uncivilized.”

“In Re-framing, you interpret the event in a positive way. You change your language . Instead if defining it as a problem you re-frame it as a situation . A problem is something that is upsetting and stressful. A situation is something that you simply deal with .”

“The mask, given time, comes to be the face itself”

“Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing.”

“The tree of life is growing where the spirit never dies, and the bright light of salvation shines in dark and empty skies.”

“Emotions can certainly be misleading: they can fool you into believing stuff that is definitely, demonstrably untrue.”

Source : Francis Spufford (2012). “Unapologetic: Why, despite everything, Christianity can still make surprising emotional sense”, p.19, Faber & Faber