quotes about Journey Through Life

“Pentecost is a celebration of God... a celebration of God's power... a celebration of God's desire to empower us and to dwell within us.”

“I wasn't interested in going to the school dances. I wasn't interested in going to the football games. What I wanted was to be in my room painting my walls and doing weird stuff. That's what I wanted and I got to do what I wanted, so that, to me, is my high school experience.”

“And he [Louis Brandeis] talks to his young acolyte, Horace Kallen, who wrote this beautiful book called Cultural Pluralism, and he comes to believe that by being better Jews, or better members of our ethnic group, we can be better Americans, because America is like an orchestra in which identity is defined by the diversity of perspectives that we bring to the table.”

Source : Source: www.slate.com

“Because most people are not sufficiently employed in themselves, they run about loose, hungering for employment, and satisfy themselves in various supererogatory occupations. The easiest of these occupations, which have all to do with making things already made, is the making of people: it is called the art of friendship.”

Source : "Anarchism Is Not Enough". Book by Laura Riding. Chapter: "The Myth", 1928.

“There's nowhere else like London. Nothing at all, anywhere.”

“A lake carries you into recesses of feeling otherwise impenetrable.”

“The God that reigns in Olympus is Number Eternal.”

“Usually when fans find out about my music for the first time, they're like "Oh this guy's actually for real!" And it's just like yea, you found Waldo.”

“It is easy for desire to be caught like a bird in a net, its wings fouled and twisted, no longer free to cross back and forth between silence and word. Desire may also find itself so amputated by tradition and community that it wanders in a void with nothing to orient it, to shape or discipline it. Desire must find ways to navigate its bitter and sweet paradox: it moves toward but also always through and beyond every object.”

“Forgiveness is the only way to reverse the irreversible flow of history.”