Humanists Portland Quotes

#1. Why was the judgement of the disapproving so valuable? Who said that their good opinions tended to be any more rational than those of generally pleasant people?

Shannon Hale

#2. People haven't even begun to tap into the potential of what the mind is possible of doing. We only use a certain percentage of our brains.

David Blaine

#3. Fly free and happy beyond birthdays and across forever, and we'll meet now and then when we wish, in the midst of the one celebration that never can end.

Richard Bach

#4. We're born to shimmer, we're born to shine
We're born to radiate
We're born to live, we're born to love
We're born to never hate.

Shawn Mullins

#5. Real love is always chaotic. You lose control; you lose perspective. You lose the ability to protect yourself. The greater the love, the greater the chaos. It's a given and that's the secret.

Jonathan Carroll

#6. I have cultivated my hysteria with delight and terror. Now I suffer continually from vertigo, and today, 23rd of January, 1862, I have received a singular warning, I have felt the wind of the wing of madness pass over me.

Charles Baudelaire

#7. Too often have we believed the old lie that says we're bad, we're perverted, we're abominations. But those who spread the lie don't know. They don't know how we love, how we hurt, how we live.

William J. Mann

#8. Sometimes breaking the rules is just extending the rules

Mary Oliver

#9. And August was a force. Charming, gregarious,

Sara Gruen

#10. Much testing, much reflecting, much living must intervene before we can say, 'My soul is my own.

Madonna Kolbenschlag

#11. Imagine feeling like every kiss goodbye to your loved ones each day might be your last kiss. Police officers and their families feel this way every single day.

Karen Salmansohn