Syster Jane Quotes & Sayings

I talked to Carolyn Dawn Johnson about doing a duet with her a few times, and we just haven't gotten it done. — Blake Shelton

Communion is at the heart of the mystery of our humanity. It means accepting the presence of another inside oneself, as well as accepting the reciprocal call to enter into another. Communion, which implies the security and insecurity of trust, is a constant struggle against all the powers of fear and selfishness in us, as well as the seemingly resilient human need to control another person. To a certain extent we lose control in our own lives when we are open to others. Communion of hearts is a beautiful but also a dangerous thing. Beautiful because it is a new form of liberation; it brings a new joy because we are no longer alone. We are close even if we are far away. Dangerous because letting down our inner barriers means that we can be easily hurt. Communion makes us vulnerable. — Jean Vanier

In our so-called democracy we are accustomed to give the majority what they want rather than educate them to understand what is best for them. — Carter G. Woodson

In the 1800s, the United States was divided over the issue of slavery. The North wanted the country to end all slavery. But the South wanted to keep slaves because more than four million African-American slaves worked in the huge plantation fields there. This disagreement between the North and South led to the Civil War. Jack — Mary Pope Osborne

Unless technology itself is drastically repressed, the idea of the dystopian monoculture like Orwell's 1984 gets harder to believe. But the danger of a solipsistic society will grow, of a disconnected society of mirror-watchers and navel-gazers. — Tad Williams

Happiness depends more upon the state of mind - and body, perhaps - than upon circumstances and events. — Flora Thompson

Let us rid ourselves of the fiction that low oil prices are somehow good for the United States. — Dick Cheney

Always a shy one, he swallowed his pill of Catholicism seriously. — Viet Thanh Nguyen

Friday night's alright for fighting
Saturday, Sunday, Monday too
Every night is a night of fighting
With family and friends like you — Jessica-Lynn Barbour

There is a desire of property in the sanest and best men, which Nature seems to have implanted as conservative of her works, and which is necessary to encourage and keep alive the arts. — Walter Savage Landor

There's a higher form of happiness in commitment. I'm counting on it. — Claire Forlani

I have made on occasion posters and things like that for political reasons but not my work. — Michelle Stuart

Minimalism is the intentional promotion of the things we most value and the removal of anything that distracts us from it. — Joshua Becker