Accelerations Parachutes Quotes & Sayings

Most of us live our lives desperately trying to conceal the anguishing gap between our polished, aspirational, representational selves and our real, human, deeply flawed selves. Dunham lives hers in that gap, welcomes the rest of the world into it with boundless openheartedness, and writes about it with the kind of profound self-awareness and self-compassion that invite us to inhabit our own gaps and maybe even embrace them a little bit more, anguish over them a little bit less. — Maria Popova

How hard it must be to keep fighting for a dream when that dream is probably a mirage. — Amy Hill Hearth

As far as the Pharisees were concerned, if you gave a dish to the poor it became unclean, because the poor were the great unwashed who didn't fulfill ceremonial washing. But Jesus says the dish becomes clean because it expresses love. — Tim Chester

[Creationists have] lost in the courts of law; they've long ago lost in the halls of science; and they continue to lose with every new piece of evidence in support of evolution. Taking offense is all they've got left. — Richard Dawkins

I'm alive. When I'm eating that's all I think about. If I'm on the march, I just concentrate on marching. If I have to fight,it will be just as good a day as any to die. If you can concentrate always on the present, you'll be a happy man. Life is the moment we are living now. — Paulo Coelho

Life is a malady in which sleep soothes us every sixteen hours; it is a palliation; death is the remedy. — Nicolas Chamfort

Things happen, people change,' is what Amanda said. For her that covered it. You wanted an explanation, and ending that would assign blame and dish up justice. You considered violence and you considered reconciliation . But what you are left with is a premonition of the way your life will fade behind you, like a book you have read too quickly, leaving a dwindling trail of images and emotions, until all you can remember is a name. — Jay McInerney

Everyone has a story to tell but only a few of those who are competent with a gift and drive to master it into a black and white masterpiece and those people are called ghost writers. — Euginia Herlihy

Happiness in life is not a given, it must be seized. — Kate Morton

Barbarism is not the inheritance of our prehistory. It is the companion that dogs our every step. — Alain Finkielkraut

We often need to be refreshed. — Rumi

This long lapse of time may be divided into four periods, called Ages: 1. The Rough Stone Age. 2. The Polished Stone Age. 3. The Bronze Age. 4. The Iron Age. The — Charles Seignobos

Curiosity can be as dangerous as a butterfly hovering over a flame. — Nancy B. Brewer

Pretty much, I am always open to input from everyone; although I don't require it, the feedback is conducive to getting the play together. — Jimmi Simpson