Transrational Quotes

#1. Remember, the opposite of rational is not always irrational, but it can also be transrational or bigger than the rational mind can process; things like love, death, suffering, God, and infinity are transrational experiences. Both myth and mature religion understand this.

Richard Rohr

#2. There is gravity in wisdom, but no particular wisdom in gravity.

Josh Billings

#3. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

Nolan Bushnell

#4. Blessed the one who continually humbles himself willingly; he will be crowned by the One who willingly humbled himself for our sake.

Ephrem The Syrian

#5. In the hospital, Jenny Fields felt she was making up for lost time; she was discovering that people weren't much more mysterious, or much more attractive, than clams.

John Irving

#6. I think I may well be a Jew.

Sylvia Plath

#7. There is no past. That's another illusion. Everything that has ever happened to you, to me, to anyone in this world, happened in the present moment. That's all there ever is. So your relationship to life isn't your relationship to your past, it's your relationship to the present moment.

Wayne Dyer

#8. The truth is, no man is white and no man is black. We are all freckled.

Clarence Darrow

#9. The thoughts he put in her head. Someone should've arrested him for it.

Junot Diaz

#10. My country tis of thee, to take swings at each other on talk show TV.

Ani DiFranco

#11. I am very happy to be part of European and world cinema as a British filmmaker.

Mike Leigh

#12. What we have to do is go on the offensive. [The science on climate change] has been maligned and misinterpreted, and we need to fight back ... [P]eople [need to] stop being moved by these talk show [hosts] and start looking for the facts themselves.

John F. Kerry

#13. The law tells us what to do; the gospel tells us what God has done for us in Christ.

Michael S. Horton

#14. I no longer say nice things about yoga. I was doing yoga so long before everybody else.

Jill Clayburgh

#15. Women love the lie that saves their pride, but never an unflattering truth.

Gertrude Atherton

#16. At the time I was feeling hopeful, which now seems kind of sad and brave.

Ruth Ozeki