Orance Theory Quotes & Sayings

As individuals die every moment, how insensitive and fabricated a love it is to set aside a day from selfish routine in prideful, patriotic commemoration of tragedy. Just as God is provoked by those who tithe simply because they feel that they must tithe, I am provoked by those who commemorate simply because they feel that they must commemorate. — Criss Jami

And if I am comfortable with it, why do I still call it loneliness? Because
and I think somehow she would understand this
you can have and recognize a sadness in your alienation and in other people's alienation and still not long to be around anyone. I think that if you wonder about other people's loneliness, or contemplate it at all, you've got a real leg up on being comfortable on your own. — Dana Spiotta

I think we did love each other. In our own way. But we simply didn't love each other enough. — Carole Matthews

The great Christian theologian Rudolf Bultmann liked to say that the quest for the historical Jesus is ultimately an internal quest. Scholars tend to see the Jesus they want to see. Too often they see themselves - their own reflection - in the image of Jesus they have constructed. — Reza Aslan

No matter where you are or who you're with, don't forget to smile. A smile makes the world go round. It becomes your strength and confidence in this world. Because that's the secret to true beauty. — Jo Ah-ra

Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters. — Herodotus

I hate that you went through hell for years and that you suffered. But without your past, you and I wouldn't have a future. — Codi Gary

A tall, dark, cold eyed, warm lipped, firm chinned, young man of thirty — C.N. Williamson