Demographers Association Quotes & Sayings

We are birthed into sangha, into sacred community. It is called the world. — Adyashanti

What in Gods name is it worth to be human, if we have to be saved from ourselves by a machine? — John Brunner

No single event can awaken within us a stranger whose existence we had never suspected. To live is to be slowly born. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Mrs. O'Hair died horribly, a victim of the world she helped to shape. Without the Deity she fought so hard against, there is no right and wrong, increasingly people are ruled by their passions and humanity is a tragedy waiting to happen. — Bill Murray

I roll over on my back and clutch the book against my chest; then I chuck it on the carpet. It's too heavy to rest on me, too full of history. Not all of it is bad. Some of the memories make me smile. Some of them make me mad. But more dangerously, some of them make me wonder what my life would be like as a girlfriend, what it would be like to have a regular relationship, with all its ups and downs and awkward moments.
I switch out my lamp and stare at the ceiling in the dark, taking a series of shaky breaths. I know that it's better this way, being the one in control. The one in control calls the shots, and the one in control sets the pace.
Most important of all, the one in control doesn't get hurt. — Laurie Elizabeth Flynn