Marlane Kennedy Quotes & Sayings

And I will love words for their own sake, like 'hyacinth' and 'Piccadilly' and 'onyx.' And I'll have a good old dog, and think what I like, and be part of a different sort of family, with friends, you know? - who understand that things are only worth what you're willing to give up for them. — Rick Elice

The regime of globalization promotes an unfettered marketplace as the dynamic instrument organizing international relations. — William Greider

All the sobriety which' religion needs or requires is that which real earnestness produces. — Henry Ward Beecher

Lao-tzu advised, "As soon as you have a thought, laugh at it," because reality is not what we think. We perceive the world through a window colored by beliefs, interpretations, and associations. We see things not as they are but as we are. The same brain that enables us to contemplate philosophy, solve math equations, and create poetry also generates a stream of static known as discursive thoughts, which seem to arise at random, bubbling up into our awareness. Such mental noise is a natural phenomenon, no more of a problem than the dreams that appear in the sleep state. Therefore, our schooling aims not to struggle with random thoughts but to transcend them in the present moment, where no thoughts exist, only awareness. Our mind's liberation awaits not in some imagined future but here and now. — Dan Millman

Disobedience that is wholly civil should never provoke retaliation. — Mahatma Gandhi

When thou seest thine enemy in trouble, curl not thy whiskers in contempt; for in every bone there is marrow, and within every jacket there is a man. — Saadi

It is not that things are delusory but their separateness in the fabric of the Whole that is illusory ... — Frederick Franck

Romance novels feature nuanced portrayals of female characters having adventures, making choices, and accepting themselves just as they are. When we say these stories are silly and unrealistic, we are telling young girls not to expect to be the heroines in their own real lives. — Maya Rodale

People pay for that they do, and still more, for what they have allowed themselves to become. And the pay for it simply: by the lives they lead. - James Baldwin — Dorothy Allison

We are always impacting the world ... through our presence, energy, interactions - what kind of impact are we having? — Marianne Williamson

A man who has to forge his own tools, his own language, is a man who is going somewhere. — Samantha Hunt

There are three fundamentals for human happiness - love and faith, and work which will produce at least a minimum of material security. These things must be made possible for all human beings, men and women alike. — Eleanor Roosevelt