Uutena Quotes & Sayings

What is the value of any political freedom, but as a means to moral freedom? — Henry David Thoreau

The human body is strange and flawed and unpredictable. The human body has many secrets, and it does not divulge them to anyone, except those who have learned to wait. — Paul Auster

We are not even going to throw the challenge of changing a whole generation before the modern day church. This generation of believers don't even know what that means — Sunday Adelaja

Well, I don't know how to break this to you, but I think they might have noticed we broke into Gringotts. — J.K. Rowling

The sangha is a community where there should be harmony and peace and understanding. That is something created by our daily life together. If love is there in the community, if we've been nourished by the harmony in the community, then we will never move away from love. — Nhat Hanh

I'm not a stranger to depression and desperation. I can be kind of tortured but I do like to have a lot of fun. — Brett Gelman

I think, when I was younger, I believed in - and yearned for - conventional beauty. I thought there was a spectrum from ugly to beautiful, and that you could objectively plot everyone you saw along it. — Rainbow Rowell

Every one of these things I said was a knife at myself. Everything I had ever secretly held against my brother was coming out: how ugly I was and what filth I was discovering in the depths of my own impure psychologies (214). — Jack Kerouac

We were alone. Where, I could not say, hardly imagine. All was black, and such a dense black that, after some minutes, my eyes had not been able to discern even the faintest glimmer. — Jules Verne

I will miss it so," she said beside him. "This hell of a place, I will miss it so much. This fat body, walking mud puddle, deceived by everything, this impossible, ruinous accident of a world, these people who would truly rather hurt one another than eat - oh, there is nothing, nothing, nothing I would not do to stay here ten minutes longer. Oh, I will leave claw marks, I will drag mountains and forests away under my fingernails when I am dragged off. Such a stupid way to feel. I will be all dirty from clutching at this stupid planet, and the gods will laugh at me. — Peter S. Beagle

Life, religion and art all converge in Bali. They have no word in their language for 'artist' or 'art.' Everyone is an artist. — Anais Nin

The truth is that a woman who chooses not to have children has generally engaged the question of a mother's responsibilities to a degree of seriousness not previously explored when motherhood was simply a natural necessity. — Elisabeth Badinter

If you ignore little things, they become big problems. — Rohinton Mistry