Mishmash Defined Quotes & Sayings

We must learn to let go, to give up, to make room for the things we have prayed for and desired. — Charles Fillmore

for religious parents, passing on their own beliefs and values is generally an uncomplicated, straightforward endeavor. Religious parents typically find it a joy and duty to simply pass on their own religious beliefs and traditions. They don't worry about unduly influencing their children's belief system. Quite the opposite - you actively seek to influence your children's beliefs in accordance with your religious faith. But many secular parents see this very process of passing on one's religion to one's kids as a form of indoctrination. They see religious faith as something that is directly and unfairly imposed on kids. They view young children as intellectually vulnerable, willing and perhaps even evolutionarily designed to believe almost anything their parents teach them about the nature of the world. — Phil Zuckerman

Sam,' the girl said. 'Sam.'
She was the past present and future. I wanted to answer , but I was broken. — Maggie Stiefvater

Treville understood admirably well the warfare of that period, when, if you did not live at the enemy's expense, you lived at the expense of your compatriots: his soldiers formed a legion of daredevils, undisciplined for anyone else but him. — Alexandre Dumas

They're always such alive females. And also, all those love stories - no man in Austen has ever fallen in love with a female heroine because she's pretty or beautiful or has long, blonde hair. They fall in love with them because of who they are, because of their vibrancy and their intelligence and if only we were teaching that a bit more in schools. — Anna Maxwell Martin

Sex is properly understood to be not only physical, but spiritual - an ecstatic union of two bodies and two souls, meant to mimic the joy and ecstasy of union with the Divine in Paradise. Two bodies joined together in pleasure. Two souls joined through the connection between two bodies and the whole-hearted, enthusiastic, selfless giving of the entire self. — Sylvain Reynard

Hip-Hop is bigger than the government. — Erykah Badu

In practice, the Internet functions more frequently as a hive of distraction, a simulated world through which most of us flit from one context to the next ... — Steve Almond

Because no matter how much we think otherwise, there are those ugly things that hold the greatest potential for beauty. — Jo Ann Fore

So far, I've managed to spend more time free than behind bars. Paranoia is my friend. — Cory Doctorow

If there is equality it is in His love, not in us. — C.S. Lewis

One of my favourite actors of all time, although he doesn't necessarily play villains, is Peter Lorre. — Robin Williams

When you see somebody actually be able to channel that into an accessible, beautiful tool, you start to see the craftsman behind it. — David Gordon Green

So, you may ask, what is the use of studying the world of imagination where anything is possible and anything can be assumed, where there are no rights or wrongs and all arguments are equally good? One of the most obvious uses, I think, is its encouragement of tolerance. In the imagination our own beliefs are also only possibilities, but we can also see the possibilities in the beliefs of others. Bigots and fanatics seldom have any use for the arts, because they're so preoccupied with their beliefs and actions that they can't see them as also possibilities. It's possible to go to the other extreme, to be a dilettante so bemused by possibilities that one has no convictions or power to act at all. But such people are much less common than bigots, and in our world much less dangerous. — Northrop Frye

I fling unconscious tendrils of belief, like slender green threads, across statements such as these, statements made so unequivocally, which have no tone or shadow of tentativeness. I build them into the mosaic of my world. I allow my universe to change in minute, significant ways, on the basis of things you have said to me, of my trust in you. — Adrienne Rich