quotes on religion

A disquieting loneliness came into my life, but it induced no hunger for friends of longer acquaintance: they seemed now like a salt-free, sugarless diet. ~Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany's, 1958


Too often we... enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought. ~John F. Kennedy


Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass. ~Anton Chekhov


If a multinational company developed a product that was a nutritionally balanced and delicious food, a wonder drug that both prevented and treated disease, cost almost nothing to produce and could be delivered in quantities controlled by the consumers' needs, the very announcement of their find would send their shares rocketing to the top of the stock market. The scientists who developed the product would win prizes and the wealth and influence of everyone involved would increase dramatically. Women have been producing such a miraculous substance, breastmilk, since the beginning of human existence. ~Gabrielle Palmer


If you don't have time to do it right you must have time to do it over. ~Author Unknown


At the moment I am looking into astrology, which seems indispensable for a proper understanding of mythology. There are strange and wondrous things in these lands of darkness. Please, don't worry about my wanderings in these infinitudes. I shall return laden with rich booty for our knowledge of the human psyche. ~Carl Jung


Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken. ~Orson Rega Card


Problems are messages. ~Shakti Gawain


I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes. ~e.e. cummings


There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice. ~Mark Twain


When you inhale, you are taking the strength from God. When you exhale, it represents the service you are giving to the world. ~B.K.S. Iyengar


But ne'er the rose without the thorn. ~Robert Herrick


It is seldom indeed that one parts on good terms, because if one were on good terms one would not part. ~Marcel Proust, The Fugitive, Remembrance of Things Past, 1925


Even if there is nothing to laugh about, laugh on credit. ~Author Unknown


No man suffers injustice without learning, vaguely but surely, what justice is. ~Isaac Rosenfeld


If the world was truly a rational place, men would ride sidesaddle. ~Rita Mae Brown


A man's children and his garden both reflect the amount of weeding done during the growing season. ~Author Unknown


Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely. ~Auguste Rodin


A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes. ~James Feibleman, Understanding Philosophy, 1973


I never read a patent medicine advertisement without being impelled to the conclusion that I am suffering from the particular disease therein dealt with in its most virulent form. ~Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat