African Freethinker Quotes & Sayings

The only happy people I know are people I don't know well. This observation is a one-sentence antidote to this obstacle to happiness. If all of us realized that the people with whom we negatively compare our happiness are plagued by pains and demons of which we know little or nothing, we would stop comparing our happiness with others'. Think of those people you know well, and you will realize the truth of Helen Telushkin's comment. Most likely you know how much unhappiness everyone you know well has experienced. And even with regard to these people whom you know well, chances are that you do not know with what inner demons - emotional, psychological, economic, sexual, or related to alcohol or drugs - they have to struggle. — Dennis Prager

God's signs are not always the ones we look for. We learn in tragedy that his purposes are not always our own. Yet the prayers of private suffering, whether in our homes or in this great cathedral, are known and heard, and understood. — George W. Bush

You know, I spend most of my life turning things down. There's a lot of crap out there. — Bea Arthur

To take full advantage of computer animation, you have to pay as much attention to the believable as you do the unbelievable. — John Lasseter

I think it's just important to be always bouncing between TV and theater, and hopefully I'll get to do movies at some point. — Katie Lowes

See the Face of God in everyone. — Catherine Laboure

You can drain the life and nuances and complexity out of things by homogenizing them to make everything harmoniously dull, flat, conflict-free, strife-free. — Gary Ross

Black(people) hold onto their God just as the drunken man holds on to the street lamp post - for physical support only. — Tai Solarin

It's hard to live in a man's world when you are not the only woman in it — Bangambiki Habyarimana

The truth is to love yourself with the same intensity you would use to pull yourself up if you were hanging off a cliff with your fingers. — Kamal Ravikant

You can never stop and as older people, we have to learn how to take leadership from the youth and I guess I would say that this is what I'm attempting to do right now. — Angela Davis

My helpless friend, your helplessness is the most powerful plea which rises up to the tender father-heart of God. You think that everything is closed to you because you cannot pray. My friend, your helplessness is the very essence of prayer. — Ole Hallesby

To serve the Queen of Heaven is already to reign there, and to live under her commands is more than to govern. — John Vianney