Hillings Festival Lindsborg Quotes & Sayings

I feel stupid for thinking the future was going to be easy and simple and ours. — Corey Ann Haydu

I hadn't realized until this week that in [Moses'] youth he killed a man, an Egyptian, and buried him under some sandI used to worry that I wasn't enough like Jesus, but yesterday I remembered who was my king; a man who, when God addressed him and told him to lead the people out of Egypt, said, 'But I'm not a good talker! Couldn't you ask my brother instead?' So it should not be so hard to come at this life with a bit of honesty. I don't need to be great like the leader of the Christian people. I can be a bumbling, murderous coward like the King of the Jews. — Sheila Heti

I love people, but I love the thought and memory of them just as much. — Stevie Smith

I think we seek out people who we hope will fix what our childhood broke. — Yasmin Mogahed

If worries were warts, I'd be a toad! — Emily Nelson

Courage is meant to be strong, while fear is meant to be broken — Zoe Rosenberg

When I was younger I wish I'd known that what often seemed to be the 'end of the world' often turned out to be a positive and transformative experience! — Annie Lennox

The inerrancy of Scripture means that scripture in the original manuscripts does not affirm anything that is contrary to fact. — Wayne Grudem

No man is hurt but by himself," said Diogenes. — Maxwell Maltz

There is no real wealth but the labor of man. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

Against the suffering which may come upon one from human relationships the readiest safeguard is voluntary isolation, keeping oneself aloof from other people. The happiness which can be achieved along this path is, as we see, the happiness of quietness. Against the dreaded external world one can only defend oneself by some kind of turning away from it, if one intends to solve the task by oneself. — Sigmund Freud

'Philomena' was even better than I had expected. I was so pleased to see the evil Irish nuns thoroughly exposed, and I thought Judi Dench gave a flawless performance, as did everybody else. — Claire Tomalin