Non Privileged Communications Quotes & Sayings

I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve ... — Ivan Turgenev

If you spend time judging and criticizing people, you will not have time to heal from your pain or brokenness. You cannot love yourself when you judge or criticize others who are created in God's image and after His Likeness...in which you are also created. Love cannot operate from a space of pain. Love and hurt cannot reside in the same space. — Kemi Sogunle

Poetry glories in excess. When it's not extolling the virtues of austerity. — Jacqueline Carey

Music is the true breath of life. We eat so we won't starve to death. We sing so we can hear ourselves live. — Yasmina Khadra

Every night is Christmas Eve on old East Main,
Sailors and their sweethearts all agree.
Neon signs of red and green
Shine upon the friendly scene,
Welcoming you in from off the sea.
Santa's bag is filled with all your dreams come true:
Nickel beers that sparkle like champagne,
Barmaids who all love to screw,
All of them reminding you
It's Christmas Eve on old East Main. — Thomas Pynchon

Perhaps the most powerful cause of the breakdown of the closed society was the development of sea-communications and commerce. Close contact with other tribes is liable to undermine the feeling of necessity with which tribal institutions are viewed; and trade, commercial initiative, appears to be one of the few forms in which individual initiative and independence can assert itself, even in a society in which tribalism still prevails. These two, seafaring and commerce, became the main characteristics of Athenian imperialism, as it developed in the fifth century B.C. And indeed they were recognized as the most dangerous developments by the oligarchs, the members of the privileged, or of the formerly privileged, classes of Athens. — Karl Popper

I never really understood what a three-year itch meant because I never felt it before. Before Johnny, my relationships had a four-month expiration date. — Kath C. Eustaquio-Derla

All of the promises of politicians, generals, madmen, and crusaders that war can create peace have yet to be borne out. — Barbara Kingsolver