Rispecchiamento Quotes & Sayings

The purpose of activism and art, or at least of mine, is to make a world in which people are producers of meaning, not consumers, and — Rebecca Solnit

The things we overcome in life really become our strengths. — Anne Bancroft

Hope differs from optimism. Hope does not arise from being told to "think positively," or from hearing an overly rosy forecast. Hope, unlike optimism, is rooted in unalloyed reality. — Jerome Groopman

When young we think there will come one person who will savor and sustain us always; when we are older we know this is the dream of a child, that all hearts finally are bruised and scarred, scored and torn, repaired by time and will, patched by force of character, yet fragile and rickety forevermore, no matter how ferocious the defense and how many bricks you bring to the wall. — Brian Doyle

Things might have been a lot worse. Don't you worry about it overmuch. When a thing's done, it's done, and if it's not done right, do it differently next time. Worrying never made a sailor. — Arthur Ransome

Ever since I was a little kid, I wanted to get married. I think because of the way I was brought up and seeing my parents in love. — Robby Benson

confirmed that Walsh was in a restaurant for a big family celebration on the evening Mr Oakley was killed. I had to — Stephen Puleston

Religion is about integration, about successfully bringing the selfish ego into line with the centre of the personality where God exists, as a divine spark, in every human being. Religion is about helping man to live in harmony with his true self and to become the person God's designed him to be. — Susan Howatch