Signoria Bedding Quotes & Sayings

Religions are metaphorical systems that give us bigger containers in which to hold our lives. A spiritual life allows us to move beyond the ego into something more universal. Religious experience carries us outside of clock time into eternal time. We open ourselves into something more complete and beautiful. This bigger vista is perhaps the most magnificent aspect of a religious experience.
There is a sense in which Karl Marx was correct when he said that religion is the opiate of the people. However, he was wrong to scoff at this. Religion can give us skills for climbing up on onto a ledge above our suffering and looking down at it with a kind and open mind. This helps us calm down and connect to all of the world's sufferers. Since the beginning of human time, we have yearned for peace in the face of death, loss, anger and fear. In fact, it is often trauma that turns us toward the sacred, and it is the sacred that saves us. — Mary Pipher

When I can no longer create anything, I'll be done for. — Coco Chanel

So what was better for us all? An ignorance, or a cautiousness like his, towards our own hearts. — Michael Ondaatje

Peace is worth far more than anything they might take from you. — Vincent De Paul

Well, I started years ago with Flashdance and we also did Coyote Ugly, so I have put my toe in the water before with romantic comedies. I love making them and I love making people laugh. That's a trademark that I don't think any producer would turn down. — Jerry Bruckheimer

Desire dazzles, and the sun gives life. — Ruslana Korshunova

Avid readers are a breed of their own, and we're often accused of being heady. I don't care. I love books and can devour one in a whole day if I'm allowed. — AnnaLisa Grant

In the 90's action pictures were all the rage. As a woman, I was fed up with them and I initially thought that the script was just another action film dressed up as a period piece. — Madeleine Stowe

There is also somehow the idea that this gay thing is all just about indulgence in carnal pleasure. When I was twenty and felt that nobody could know I was gay, I was having sex with strangers in public parks. I don't think it was evil exactly, but it wasn't so great either. There was nobody particularly benefiting from it, except, I suppose, to the extent that it gave some pleasure to me and perhaps whomever I was with. — Andrew Solomon

Be patient and be yourself. Unbelievable that I needed to consume weeks worth of books and seminars to learn that. — John Duover

Whilst you can be a stepping stone to help others succeed, you are not a dirty mat to be abused by others. — Archibald Marwizi

The Kindly Ones would say it didn't matter. And maybe they were right. We still could have snatched happiness from our tragedy if we had made the right choices, the right wishes. If we had been kinder, braver, purer. If only we had been anything but what we were. — Rosamund Hodge

I open my eyes and see a head hanging upside down. Grinning at me. — Margarita Morris

Just because words come out of somebody's mouth doesn't make them true. — Rebecca Brockway

Most journalists expect me to answer all their questions about aliens and spaceships. — David Duchovny