Top 44 Boylan Quotes
#1. Jenny Boylan might be the one person in this world whom I now think of purely as a human being, free of all the corporeal baggage of chromosomes, hormones, and footwear.
Tim Kreider
#2. I make it a point to look as healthy and attractive as I can at all times," Boylan had explained to Rudolph. "Even if I don't see anybody for weeks on end. It's a form of self-respect.
Irwin Shaw
#3. Matthew Boylan, former NASA operational graphics manager, worked for years creating photo-realistic computer graphics for NASA. Now a vocal Flat-Earther, Boylan claims that NASA's sole reason for existence is to propagandize the public and promote this false ball-Earth heliocentric worldview.
Eric Dubay
#4. Be careful what you feed your body and consider what you feed your senses. Both provide you sustenance that makes you who you are.
Simon Boylan
#5. No one leaped to his feet to rescue her. I think we all knew Grace well enough to understand that she would prefer to rescue herself from this predicament, and we were right.
Jennifer Finney Boylan
#6. Humanity is collectively compelled to take the path of spirit to its inevitable conclusion.
Simon Boylan
#7. Without awareness there is no freedom. Awareness is vital for any possibility of free choice.
Simon Boylan
#8. The moment of change is usually not dazzling. It is a quiet, internal choice. No one can see it, but your life will never be the same again.
Simon Boylan
#9. When the fire of your soul ignites the passion within your heart, don't view it as an opportunity for success or failure, view it as an open door for miracles.
Jennifer Finney Boylan
#10. I think it's very human, the hope that an all-encompassing love will change us into someone else, someone better. That this hope usually turns out to be false makes it no less human; the world is full of hopes far more unlikely than being transformed by love.
Jennifer Finney Boylan
#11. It's funny how you can know a person, think of him as your closest friend, and still never gain access to the secret chambers in his heart.
Jennifer Finney Boylan
#12. I used to stand at the lectern in my coat and tie, waving my glasses around, urging students to find the courage to become themselves. Then I'd go back to the office and lock the door and put my head down on the desk.
Jennifer Finney Boylan
#13. I see something of a comrade in you. You like a book. Silent revelation on a page pleases you better than a self-bolstering display of verbal spillage. What do you see in me?
Clare Boylan
#14. Straight women love a feminine sensibility in a man, but that love only goes up to, and unfortunately does not quite pass, the fact of his being an actual woman.
Jennifer Finney Boylan
#15. Please forgive my appearance. I am lately come from setting a house on fire.
Clare Boylan
#16. But surely the idea that one might slip away unseen and take up another life is nearly universal. Is there anything more fundamentally human than the desire to live in another world, as someone other than our own earthbound selves?
Jennifer Finney Boylan
#17. The open-minded pursuit of an educated life has the power to slay generational ignorance
Simon Boylan
#18. Beneath the cacophony of sound generated by our world lies the quiet whisper of universal intelligence. Allow it to be heard ...
Simon Boylan
#19. Which is to say that we all have dragons to slay in life. This one is mine. I hope that doing so will provide a model to others on how to find the bravery to be true to oneself, even if it means doing something that seems impossible.
Jennifer Finney Boylan
#20. That was the last time I saw Carol. I didn't want to be told I had to be a woman. What I wanted from her was the mystery to a solution.
Jennifer Finney Boylan
#21. Ignore your pain at your peril. Your most potent lessons are often wrapped within its uncomfortable embrace ...
Simon Boylan
#23. She is insolently grown-up for her size. I suspect the influence of unsupervised reading.
Clare Boylan
#24. We are both a student and a teacher from birth. How eagerly we embrace these roles determines how fulfilled we are with our lives.
Simon Boylan
#25. Magnificent opportunity is often obscured by a humble veil ...
Simon Boylan
#26. Fully experiencing the connection that exists between us all is the secret to true contentment.
Simon Boylan
#27. Everything you ever needed to know is waiting in the space between your thoughts.
Simon Boylan
#28. As we balance and become more and more identified with our spiritual nature, and the ego returns to its designated place, we again are led by the Spirit, but now in a conscious way.
Gerry Boylan
#29. I really did "choose" to be Jim every single day, but that once I put my sword down I haven't chosen Jenny at all; I simply wake up and here I am.
Jennifer Finney Boylan
#30. that Victoria's wife has said that she will phone the police if Victoria ever so much as even mentions this topic again.
Jennifer Finney Boylan
#31. Talking about ideas for a novel is a bit like showing pictures of the ultrasound if you're pregnant. Until they're out in the world, they can only be wonderful to you.
Clare Boylan
#32. As long as we still draw breath, we each have the power to bring change into the world.
Simon Boylan
#33. And so, out of the nothingness that was not God, He created us.
Dom Eugene Boylan
#34. Every interaction presents an opportunity for growth, one of the keys to our limitless potential.
Simon Boylan
#35. Briefly, I was a journalist in my twenties, although not a very good one. I didn't quite grasp the whole concept of accuracy.
Jennifer Finney Boylan
#36. It would be my first official reintroduction to the college community since I'd switched from regular to Diet Coke.
Jennifer Finney Boylan
#37. The more we feel compelled to keep explaining ourselves, the less like others we become.
Jennifer Finney Boylan
#38. Maybe ... it's easier to have enemies than not to have them ... If you don't hate people, you have to learn to like them ... And liking people? That's not easy.
Jennifer Finney Boylan
#39. You carry the past with you. Even if there's a before, and an after, in your life. It's still the same life. The trick is to build a bridge between that and what comes later.
Jennifer Finney Boylan
#40. As it turns out, we're all still learning to be men, or women, all still learning to be ourselves. pg 197
Jennifer Finney Boylan
#41. And at every moment as I lived my life, I countered this awareness with an exasperated companion thought, namely, Don't be an idiot. You're not a girl. Get over it. But I never got over it.
Jennifer Finney Boylan
#42. What transsexuality emphatically is not is a 'lifestyle,' any more than being male or female is a lifestyle. Gender is many things, but one thing it is surely not is a hobby. What it is, more than anything else, is a fact.
Jennifer Finney Boylan
#43. All great religions hold the power to enslave & the power to enlighten ...
Simon Boylan
#44. Gay and lesbian people don't necessarily have that much in common with transsexuals." "Yeah," I said. "Except for the fact that we get beaten up by the same people.
Jennifer Finney Boylan
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