I remember sitting parked by the roadside once, terribly depressed and afraid about my daughter's illness and what was going on in our family, when out of nowhere a car came along down the highway with a license plate that bore on it the one word out of all the words in the dictionary that I needed most to see exactly then. The word was trust. What do you call a moment like that? Something to laugh off as the kind of joke life plays on us every once in a while? The word of God? . . . The owner of the car turned out to be, as I'd suspected, a trust officer in a bank, and not long ago, having read an account I wrote of the incident somewhere, he found out where I lived and one afternoon brought me the license plate itself, which sits propped up on a bookshelf in my house to this day. It is rusty around the edges and a little battered, and it is also as holy a relic as I have ever seen. —Frederick Buechner More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There is no greater mistake than the hasty conclusion that opinions are worthless because they are badly argued. —Virginia Woolf More about this quote Tags: opinions Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved. The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory unannounced, stray dogs that amble in, sniff around a bit, and simply never leave. —Susan B. Anthony More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
To seek God by rituals is to get the ritual and lose God in the process, for he hides behind it. —Meister Eckhart More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as a judge of the highest matters. —Thomas H. Huxley More about this quote Tags: opinions Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I believe that we often disguise pain through ritual and it may be the only solace we have. —Rita Mae Brown More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It is much easier to break the rules when one s surrounded by strangers. One does not know any of them, so one cannot really care for their opinion. —Senator Patrick Leahy More about this quote Tags: opinions Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Without an understanding of myth or religion, without an understanding of the relationship between destruction and creation, death and rebirth, the individual suffers the mysteries of life as meaningless mayhem alone. —Marion Woodman More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Sane and intelligent human beings are like all other human beings, and carefully and cautiously and diligently conceal their private real opinions from the world and give out fictitious ones in their stead for general consumption. —Plato More about this quote Tags: opinions Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
He had the uneasy manner of a man who is not among his own kind, and who has not seen enough of the world to feel that all people are in some sense his own kind. —Willa Cather More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Our opinions do not really blossom into fruition until we have expressed them to someone else. —Mark Twain More about this quote Tags: opinions Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Why are so many Americans so unhappy . . . ? All manner of plausible causes present themselves, but the master cause may be the most elemental: Homo sapiens, a familial animal like the wolf or hyena rather than solitary like the bear, is genetically unequipped to live without the emotional support of uncles, aunts, first cousins, and second cousins, in addition to siblings, parents, and children. . . . Periodic gatherings for the ceremonies of birth, marriage, and death; the much more frequent celebration of birthdays, name days, anniversaries, and seasonal feasts; as well as webs of less-formal socializing, all serve to keep the machinery of human families in working order. That is how people live all over the world in village, town, or city — but not in contemporary America. —Edward N. Luttwak More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The dying process begins the minute we are born, but it accelerates during dinner parties. —Carol Matthau More about this quote Tags: death dinner parties Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I am not one of those who in expressing opinions confine themselves to facts. —Mark Twain More about this quote Tags: opinions Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth. —Lawana Blackwell More about this quote Tags: opinions Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email