Assumed Mothers Quotes

#1. Katie had slept through morning mass but she could still go to confession and make an effort to banish her unholy and unhealthy thoughts. Mother never asked what she was thinking and feeling on these trips; she just assumed that anything Katie had on her mind was dirty and sinful.

Carol Storm

#2. He who, seeking his own happiness, punishes or kills beings who also long for happiness, will not find happiness after his death.

Gautama Buddha

#3. Ask not what fun does for you. Ask rather what you do for fun.

Bernie De Koven

#4. People frequently believe the creative life is grounded in fantasy. The more difficult truth is that creativity is grounded in reality, in the particular, the focused, the well observed or specifically imagined.

Julia Cameron

#5. The hardest times to choose love are the very times when you can most grow spiritually. In fact, they are the only times you can grow spiritually!

Gary Zukav

#6. If you were to destroy in mankind the belief in immortality, not only love but every living force maintaining the life of the world would at once be dried up. Moreover, nothing then would be immoral, everything would be permissible, even cannibalism.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#7. Unto us Saviour is born at Christmas.
The love and light of the World.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#8. Every film I've made has a kind of frustrated love story in the center of it. They were people who saw life from opposing points of view, which has been in every film I've ever done. It had all the ingredients of the kinds of films I like to do.

Sydney Pollack

#9. We continue to focus on actually solving problems that real people have and not being distracted by what power users want.

Arash Ferdowsi

#10. I always feel sad for the girl that I was, because it never occurred to me that my mother might comfort me. She has never told me she loved me, and I never assumed she did. She tended to me. She administrated me.

Gillian Flynn

#11. It is appalling that the most segregated hour of Christian America is eleven o'clock on Sunday morning.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#12. Slipping away are the hopes that made Bliss out of sorrow, and sun out of shade, Slipping away is our hold on life; And out of the struggle and wearing strife ...

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

#13. You're a monster that mothers threaten children with and you're still touchy as an ugly girl in a pretty dress.

Caitlin Kittredge

#14. I come from Toledo, Ohio, a town that has been hurt badly by the shift of the automobile business towards Japan. And yet I remember how the car workers lived in the neighborhood that I grew up in. My father was a car salesman, and I remember how we lived. I remember how modestly we lived.

P. J. O'Rourke

#15. Because I teach and write about depression and bipolar illness, I am often asked what is the most important factor in treating bipolar disorder. My answer is competence. Empathy is important, but competence is essential.

Kay Redfield Jamison