Necessaire Skin Quotes & Sayings

Religion is not God himself or herself. It is a system of teaching about God, an explanation of God's way to human minds. But God doesn't need explanations to exist. — Ilchi Lee

I don't belong on this earth. I always feel out of place - like a visitor. — Hattie McDaniel

a county with a unique history of people starving and mortifying themselves for higher causes and principles, a political reflex that has twitched steadily down the years and seems rooted in some aggravated sense of sinfulness because, like no other county it is blistered with shrines and grottoes and prayer houses and hermitages just as it is crossed with pilgrim paths and penitential ways — Mike McCormack

Theories should be judged by their ability to predict events rather than by the realism of their assumptions. — Milton Friedman

We are going to have to find ways of organizing ourselves cooperatively,sanely, scientifically, harmonically and in regenerative spontaneity with the rest of humanity around the earth ... We are not going to be able to operate our spaceship earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. — R. Buckminster Fuller

Practice giving things away, not just things you don't care about, but things you do like. Remember, it is not the size of a gift, it is its quality and the amount of mental attachment you overcome that count. So don't bankrupt yourself on a momentary positive impulse, only to regret it later. Give thought to giving. Give small things, carefully, and observe the mental processes going along with the act of releasing the little thing you liked. (53)
(Quote is actually Robert A F Thurman but Huston Smith, who only wrote the introduction to my edition, seems to be given full credit for this text.) — Huston Smith

I've found I sometimes have the best success working on characters I didn't really connect to right away. — Jeff Lemire

Beautiful words were beautiful words, even to the most practical of minds. — Renee Ahdieh

The only shame in masturbation is the shame of not doing it well. — Sigmund Freud

I knew not everyone would be intact at the finish line. — J.J. McAvoy

Examining the world in order to find consolation is very much like looking carefully over the pages of a great book in order to find our own name ... Whether we find what we want or not, our preoccupation has hindered us from a true knowledge of the contents. — George Eliot