Roger Housden Quotes

#1. Those who neglect the lessons of their past are doomed to no future.

T.A. Uner

#2. The fact is that trauma and risk taking hadn't become scarier over the years; it had become more normal.

Lynsey Addario

#3. Hierarchies are celestial. In hell all are equal.

Nicolas Gomez Davila

#4. Love, like everything else, exists in a spectrum. Love of another, love of the world, love of God, all these loves are really one love in different degrees of light and density.

Roger Housden

#5. But it happens, and I am thankful enough for that, for those fleeting, wakeful moments of beauty and truth. They are the real joy of being human, brief matches that flare in the dark.

Roger Housden

#6. If you have half a story and you don't know the rest, you use what you have to pry the rest out of someone.

Hunter S. Thompson

#7. You need the art in order to love the life.

Nicholson Baker

#8. The heart, like the grape, is prone to delivering its harvest in the same moment it appears to be crushed.

Roger Housden

#9. I've always been uninterested in boundaries or quarantines between tastes and types, between mediums and genres.

Jonathan Lethem

#10. That is what happens when the heart door opens- you become less yourself than part of everything.' Many are the sentinels who guard that door: our fears, our self-importance, our meanness, our greed, our bitterness, and others.

Roger Housden

#11. Although wherever you are going is always in front of you, there is no such thing as straight ahead.

Jeanette Winterson

#12. What has prepared Heather for her life in the Burrow?
Sleep, being hit over the head once in sixth grade and losing consciousness for a minute, waking up to find out someone had pushed her off the swings.
A life made of air

Jim Krusoe

#13. She explains that lost love is still love.Life has to end but love doesn't

Mitch Albom

#14. To keep faith with life is to experience that everything- everything that comes to us whatever it is- has its place in the puzzle of our existence.

Roger Housden

#15. The willingness to let go of what we know you might even call an expression of faith. Faith: not that things will work out as we hope, but faith, simply, in life and its extraordinary intelligence that never fails to surprise. While belief holds on tightly, faith lets go.

Roger Housden

#16. There have been occasions - and I think it's very good for any human being that such occasions would be rare - that one would feel that one is a channel, and there have been some occasions when it seemed as though I was standing outside of myself watching and listening to myself sing.

Jessye Norman

#17. Day by day, tiny specks of us float away.

Roger Housden

#18. Sissy dear. Your thumbs. HOLLYWOOD SPECTACULAR. LAS VEGAS. THE ROSE BOWL. Larger than any one man's desire.

Tom Robbins

#19. The most important phase of living with a person is respect for that person as an individual.

Millicent Carey McIntosh

#20. I'll be damned if I want most folks out there to do unto me what they do unto themselves.

Toni Cade Bambara

#21. When the heart opens, we forget ourselves and the world pours in: this world, and also the invisible world of meaning that sustains everything that was and ever shall be.

Roger Housden

#22. When you die, God and the Angels will hold you accountable for all the pleasures you were allowed in life that you denied yourself.

Roger Housden

#23. We had a citywide emergency on our hands, as there is no greater affliction for the southern mind than people up north coming down to fix our way of life.

Sue Monk Kidd

#24. Time, for example, is intimately connected with the goddess Kali, which partly accounts for her destructive nature. Energy - in Einstein's equation, E=MC2 - is personified in India as Shakti in her various guises.

Roger Housden

#25. Begin early to teach, for children begin early to sin.

Charles Spurgeon

#26. His priorities for a rich and contented life were friendship, freedom, the pleasures of an examined life, and enough food and shelter to keep body and soul together.

Roger Housden