Cosmogirl 2013 Quotes & Sayings

Faith is developed in a setting where we cannot see ahead. — Dallin H. Oaks

You are capable of explaining everything you feel. Why don't you go to the Emperor and talk to him? — Paulo Coelho

Amor es despertar a una mujer y que no se indigne.
(Love is when you wake up a woman and she is not mad at you.) — Ramon Gomez De La Serna

Wow," came a familiar voice, "Hypochondriac killed the cat."
-Dess — Scott Westerfeld

Systems and processes will always surpass motivation. — Chris Matakas

That all who have ever been born men from the beginning of creation, and are deceased, are either in heaven or in hell, follows from those things which have been said and shown in the preceding article, namely, that Heaven and Hell are from the human race. — Emanuel Swedenborg

Would anyone else ever find him attractive? Would he be able to trust them? Would he ever make love again, or even want to? And why love things you were destined to lose? Why let yourself feel things if the feelings were doomed to die? (And — Garth Risk Hallberg

College kids today are about 40 percent lower in empathy than their counterparts of twenty or thirty years ago," Konrath reports. — Kevin Dutton

Reigns of terror are thus the bastard child of the Enlightenment. Terror in the name of utopian ideals would rise again and again in the coming centuries. The Nazi death camps and the Soviet gulags were spawned by the enlightenment. Fascists and communists were bred on visions of human perfectibility. Tens of millions of people have been murdered in the futile effort to reform human nature and build utopian societies. During these reigns of terror, science and reason served, as they continue to serve, interests purportedly devoted to the common good
and to vast mechanisms of repression and mass killing. The belief in human perfectibility, in history as a march towards a glorious culmination, is a malformed theology. — Chris Hedges

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, — Michio Kaku

Sensing a favourable shift, Prim called for celebratory muffins and jam. Muffins and jam seemed to sooth everyone's temper, particularly the Alpha Vanara's whose delight in the jam was that of a child discovering blancmange for the first time. Rue could sympathise. She often felt that way about really good jam, not to mention blancmange. And this was, after all, gooseberry. — Gail Carriger

The gospel of Jesus points us and indeed urges us to be at the leading edge of the whole culture, articulating in story and music and art and philosophy and education and poetry and politics and theology and even, heaven help us, biblical studies, a worldview that will mount the historically rooted Christian challenge to both modernity and postmodernity, leading the way into the postmodern world with joy and humor and gentleness and good judgment and true wisdom. — N. T. Wright

First tell yourself what you want to be, then do what you need to do. — Epictetus