Unitarian Universalist Inspirational Quotes & Sayings

Why it is that of all the billions and billions of strange objects in the Cosmos - novas, quasars, pulsars, black holes - you are beyond doubt the strangest or — Walker Percy

Paintings and fightings are best seen at a distance. — Benjamin Franklin

Our knowledge and all of our ideas are mutually connected; the more complicated they are, the more numerous must be the roads that lead to them and depart from them. — Cesare Beccaria

What harm is there in dreaming, if it eases pain? What good is reality, if it blots out hope? Can a man's mind be washed without bleaching his soul? — Bette Lord

How long do you think it will take her to figure out who you are?" "She is blind." "Then that makes two of you." Alejandro — Lorraine Heath

The deaths of children in poor countries from diarrhea, measles, and malaria have become part of the background of the world we live in, and if we know about it at all, we are likely to believe that it is a problem that will always be with us. But that isn't so. In the last two years, we have saved a million children. In the coming years, if we all give substantially more, we can save the entire 8.8 million. — Peter Singer

I think very long and hard about every possibly offensive joke I want to make. I really hate mean humor and would hate to make anyone reading my jokes feel truly bad. — Megan Amram

Then the fight went out of control. It quivered their arms and legs and wrenched their faces into shapes of hatred, it urged them harder and deeper into each other's weakest points, showing them cunning ways around each other's strongholds and quick chances to switch tactics, feint, and strike again. In the space of a gasp for breath it sent their memories racing back over the years for old weapons to rip the scabs off old wounds; it went on and on. — Richard Yates

In my home country, there was a little shop with old books, but it was really in the countryside. You couldn't find English books. I found this very avant-garde American art book that had information about Georgia O'Keeffe. I was very much impressed by her. — Yayoi Kusama

There was no way that I would admit that I wouldn't have minded sharing a room with Riley. Regardless of how annoyed and frustrated I was with his behavior, I still felt safer with him close by. — Ivy Sinclair

Loveliness is the Milky Way ... but also all the myriad points of radiance streaming from your beauty ... — John Geddes

I loved him the way the moon loves the stars - that is what we say, when a person fills the world with light. — V.E Schwab

A king who's innocent
of the things of which he's guilty? — Kristin Cashore

Far out of sight forever stands the sea,
Bounding the land with pale tranquillity. — Yvor Winters