Relationships Between Statements Quotes

#1. Purification and redemption are such recurrent themes in ritual because there is a clear and ubiquitous need for them: we all do regrettable things as a result of our own circumstances, and new rituals are frequently invented in response to new circumstances.

Susan Cain

#2. Hamet, Seid, and Abdallah were stung by the irony that on the wild desert, where people had virtually nothing, they shared freely, but here, where resources were comparatively abundant, no one would offer them so much as a drink.

Dean King

#3. Noble disappointment, noble self-denial are not to be admired, not even to be pardoned, if they bring bitterness. It is one thing to enter the kingdom of heaven maim; another to maim yourself and stay without.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#4. Not all the labour of the earth Is done by hardened hands.

Will Carleton

#5. Transformationally motivated people are the growing edge of a great continuity of souls reaching back to the very earliest times.

Barbara Marx Hubbard

#6. And so worship is bound up with all three dimensions of the circular movement: the personal, the social, and the universal.

Pope Benedict XVI

#7. THE MISCONCEPTION: When you can't explain something, you focus on what you can prove. THE TRUTH: When you are unsure of something, you are more likely to accept strange explanations.

David McRaney

#8. Great news for someone is always bad news for someone else

John Green

#9. Marijuana is rejected all over the world. Damned. In England heroin is alright for out-patents, but marijuana? They'll put your ass in jail. I wonder why that is? The only reason could be: To Serve the Devil - Pleasure! Pleasure, which is a dirty word in Christian culture.

Lenny Bruce

#10. Statements don't exist by themselves. Just like people, they are in relationship with one another.

Patty Houser

#11. A man may welcome his beloved with circumstance, but a woman's love and her concern for his well-being are discreet.

Franz Grillparzer