Matousek Quotes

#1. When we set our hearts on knowing the truth, we assist one another in the long tender work of awakening. When the story is right, and the people we love are waiting to listen, we tell each other how to live.

Mark Matousek

#2. You don't actually get over things ... you incorporate them. They become part of everything you are. I don't mean that you walk about crying all the time. But you change.

Mark Matousek

#3. As one widow put it to me, Strength doesn't mean being able to stand up to anything, but being able to crawl on your belly a long, long time before you can stand up again.

Mark Matousek

#4. It's this simple law, which every writer knows, of taking two opposites and putting them in a room together. I love anything with Cartman and Butters at the same time, it's great.

Trey Parker

#5. Whatever it takes to break your heart and wake you up is grace.

Mark Matousek

#6. I'd like to get four people who do cart wheels very good, and make a cart.

Mitch Hedberg

#7. We live in a hostile world that constantly seeks to pull us away from God.

Billy Graham

#8. Faith is an act of rational choice, which determines us to act as if certain things were true, and in the confident expectation that they will prove to be true.

Dean Inge

#9. Any two people can set and jaw all day long, but it takes two people right for each other to set together and just be quiet.

Silas House

#10. The French have a term for this brazenness: je m'en foutisme, the brave art of not giving a damn.

Mark Matousek

#11. When people are in need, you must be present. When people suffer, you must let them know you're suffering with them." "The good side of bad acts?" I say. "I would not say that from horror comes goodness. That would be giving horror too much credit. But goodness prevails in spite of horror.

Mark Matousek

#12. There's a myth among amateurs, optimists and fools that beyond a certain level of achievement, famous artists retire to some kind of Elysium where criticism no longer wounds and work materializes without their effort.

Mark Matousek

#13. If God had meant Harvard professors to appear in People magazine, She wouldn't have invented The New York Review of Books.

Anna Quindlen

#14. Joy is not just about being happy. Joy is a rigorous spiritual practice of saying yes to life on life's terms

Mark Matousek

#15. The more we remember that life is a gift-that everything changes, we're not in control-the stronger our sense of well-being becomes.

Mark Matousek

#16. We speak here of the challenge of the dichotomies of war and peace, violence and non-violence, racism and human dignity, oppression and repression and liberty and human rights, poverty and freedom from want.

Nelson Mandela