Martha Nussbaum Cultivating Humanity Quotes & Sayings

But what I want most of all is a normal life. — Mary Bell

Once we are willing to accept that anything worth doing might even be worth doing badly, our options widen. — Julia Cameron

Change without learning is painful. Learning without change is pointless. — Graham O'Connell

You and I possess manifold ideal bonds in the interests we share; but each of us has his poor body and his irremediable, incommunicable dreams. — George Santayana

I am definitely questioning the atonement and trying to discover how we can see it in a different way. We've got this image of God who needs some sort of flesh, some sort of blood, that needs some sort of vengeance to pay for sin. My experience of a loving God who's asked me to love my enemies - this isn't a God that demands something before you are accepted. I think Jesus died because Jesus was inclusive. God is inclusive. I think that the idea of God somehow being separated from us was more man's idea. — Jay Bakker

months earlier with Kristin, — Chris Bohjalian

'Get Skinny' is my sixth book. I look over the books that I've written, and my subject matters are varied, and I write books pertaining to that which I'm dealing with at the moment. — Suzanne Somers

Prayer is talking to something or anything with which we seek union, even if we are bitter or insane or broken. (In fact, these are probably the best possible conditions under which to pray.) Prayer is taking a chance that against all odds and past history, we are loved and chosen, and do not have to get it together before we show up. The opposite may be true: We may not be able to get it together until after we show up in such miserable shape. — Anne Lamott

Life's too short to be miserable, basically. If you can be happy, then be happy. — Jonathan Morris

I worked probably fewer jobs than most people, or fewer real soul-killing jobs than other people. I've been a typist, a typesetter, a keyliner, cappuccino-maker. I think I've been pretty lucky. — Bonnie Jo Campbell

I was always obsessed with being famous. I had Marilyn Monroe paper dolls as a child, and I was always obsessed with her. I've just been really driven in that direction, and none of my friends were. So, I don't know what put that bug in me at a young age. — Holly Madison

So answer me, are you merely a cowardly Moses, pointing the way to the Promised Land but poisoned by doubt and so unable to cross the River Jordan? — Tony Vigorito

We need open minds and open hearts when we wrestle with the past and ask questions of it, and the answers it will provide are in nobody's pocket ... We should let nobody tell us that they know all that it contains, or try to prescribe or constrain in advance what it has to tell us. — Eamon Duffy

Comedy is a camouflage for depression. — Rodney Dangerfield