Pettinelli Associates Quotes & Sayings

Most men are like me. They cannot live in a universe where the most bizarre thought can in one second enter into the realm of reality
where, most often, it does enter, like a knife in a heart. — Albert Camus

Christ did not appoint professors, but followers. If Christianity ... is not reduplicated in the life of the person expounding it, then he does not expound Christianity, for Christianity is a message about living and can only be expounded by being realized in men's lives. — Soren Kierkegaard

How many mental health problems, from drug addiction to self-injurious behavior, start as attempts to cope with the unbearable physical pain of our emotions? If Darwin was right, the solution requires finding ways to help people alter the inner sensory landscape of their bodies. Until recently, this bidirectional communication between body and mind was largely ignored by Western science, even as it had long been central to traditional healing practices in many other parts of the world, notably in India and China. Today it is transforming our understanding of trauma and recovery. — Bessel A. Van Der Kolk

We have to change this idea that women are only supposed to work in the house ... Women should go out and be what they want — Malala Yousafzai

Religion is to democracy as a bridle is to a horse. Religion moderates democracy because it appeals to an authority higher than democracy itself.5 But — Charles J. Chaput

Complexity serves nothing but our ego. Be able to say what you do in a way that people can understand. — Chris Brogan

These are frightening times ... when she feels herself annointed by loneliness. — Carol Shields

I'm afraid for him because every day he has to fight the person he is, to be the person he wants to be. — B.B. Reid

When a husband and wife love each other, they reflect that same love that motivated Christ. They die to themselves and become one. — Aaron Smith

I finally demonstrated that typhus infection is not hereditary in the louse. — Charles Jules Henry Nicole

On the whole, men are more good than bad; that, however, isn't the real point. But they are more or less ignorant, and it is this that we call vice or virtue; the most incorrigible vice being that of an ignorance that fancies it knows everything and therefore claims for itself the right to kill. The soul of the murderer is blind; and there can be no true goodness nor true love without the utmost clear-sightedness. — Albert Camus