Mayling Soong Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes courage is nothing more than a willingness to think differently than those around you. In a culture of conformity, that's braver than it sounds. — Mary Roach

I thought dying for your country was the worst thing that could happen to you. I think killing for your country can be a lot worse. Because that's the memory that haunts. — Bob Kerrey

Man's chief delusion is his conviction that there are causes other than his own state of consciousness. — Neville Goddard

The rope connecting two men on a mountain is more than nylon protection; it is an organic thing that transmits subtle messages of intent and disposition from man to man; it is an extension of the tactile senses, a psychological bond, a wire along which currents of communication flow. — Trevanian

The main bone of contention is whether Islamic injunctions are legal or moral categories. When Muslims say Islam commands daily prayers or bans alcohol, are they talking about public obligations that will be enforced by the state or personal ones that will be judged by God? — Mustafa Akyol

Maybe we're always changing."
"Maybe we're always performing."
"Then who are we really?" I wondered. "At the end of the day, with the lights off, all alone, which of those personalities that we take on and off are real? — Katie Kacvinsky

Anyone who's ever put a stamp on an envelope or a note on their refrigerator knows what it's like to make a collage. There's no esoteric technique. — Elliott Hundley

Light is that grief which counsel can allay. — Seneca The Younger

The Dream thrives on generalization, on limiting the number of possible questions, on privileging immediate answers. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

Looking back on the God my friend believed in, he seems a little erratic, not entirely unlike her father - God as borderline personality. — Anne Lamott

Anne's horizons had closed in since the night she had sat there after coming home from Queen's; but if the path set before her feet was to be narrow she knew that flowers of quiet happiness would bloom along it. The joys of sincere work and worthy aspiration and congenial friendship were to be hers; nothing could rob her of her birthright of fancy or her ideal world of dreams. And there was always the bend in the road! — L.M. Montgomery

All my fears and cares are of this world; if there is another, an honest man has nothing to fear from it. — Robert Burns

I don't think human beings were meant to know so much about the world. All this time and all this
exposure to every conceivable aspect of life - wisdom so rarely enters the picture. We barely have enough time to figure out who we are and then
we become bitter and isolated as we age. — Douglas Coupland

Dude, you just got fucked up by a girl." Chico Rivera — Bella Jeanisse

We no longer claim that a genuinely religious government can be democratic, but that it cannot be otherwise. — Abdolkarim Soroush