Famous July Fourth Quotes & Sayings

The cosmopolitan gaze of planetary love and hospitality _is_ what constitutes being _religious_. — Namsoon Kang

I learned that true forgiveness includes total self-acceptance. And out of acceptance wounds are healed and happiness is possible again. — Catherine Marshall

You know, I've always wrote my best stuff when it takes me hardly any time at all. Actually I wrote ... this is actually a really funny story ... 'Ghost Of Vincent Price', I've been wanting to write a song about Vincent Price coz he's one of my favorite characters of all time. — Wednesday 13

Realize that you may have misinterpreted the situation completely, that your anger about this person breaking your rules may be based on the fact that they don't know what's most important to you (even though you believe they should). — Anthony Robbins

The jellies living nearest the surface had transparent bodies, but their edges twinkled and flashed, as though traced by fiber-optic cables, blinking and undulating like neon signs. They were delicate; if you weren't looking — Susan Casey

Anything that's mended is but patched. Virtue that transgresses is but patched with sin, and sin that amends is but patched with virtue — William Shakespeare

...she had begun to learn that success was sometimes simply a matter of having the courage to proceed in the direction of one's dreams. — Karleen Koen

And now we step to the rhythm of miracles.
from The Light, That Never Dies — Aberjhani

Every time I think I'm getting smarter I realize that I've just done something stupid. Dad says there are three kinds of people in the world: those who don't know, and don't know they don't know; those who don't know and do know they don't know; and those who know and know how much they still don't know.
Heavy stuff, I know. I think I've finally graduated from the don't-knows that don't know to the don't-knows
that do. — Karen Marie Moning

It's not that I miss my mother. It's just that I miss the idea of what one would be. — Melina Marchetta

Even facts become fictions without adequate ways of seeing "the facts". We do not need theories so much as the experience that is the source of the theory. We are not satisfied with faith, in the sense of an implausible hypothesis irrationally held: we demand to experience the "evidence". — R.D. Laing

Complimenting yourself is the funnest form of manifestation. — Ronda Rousey

My place in Chicago is a 105 year old house, but I really like contemporary spaces too, so it's refreshing and fun to be in a space where you can do contemporary things. — Ted Allen

Mothers are often fondest of the child which has caused them the greatest pain. — Victor Hugo

You are not in this world. This world is inside you. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj