Triumphantly Joyful Quotes

#1. What if the drive to survive was a form of faith, a form of prayer?

Anne Rice

#2. Why would we ever be surprised when truth turns up in strange places?

Rob Bell

#3. I don't think my intelligence is naturally analytic or political.

Seamus Heaney

#4. The ordinariness of living to be old is too novel a thing to appreciate.

Ronald Blythe

#5. Here's one more from my limited experience with all 3 fields: A writer creates life; a poet creates magic from life; a philosopher tries to understand life.

Siddharth Katragadda

#6. There is always the possibility of beauty where there is an unsealed human eye; of music where there is an unstopped human ear; and of inspiration where there is a receptive human spirit.

Charles Henry Parkhurst

#7. Do you actually think that you are in control of this world, think again for G-d has control what he allows is for a reason.

Virginia Garcia

#8. Before you conquer the mountain, you must learn to overcome your fear.

Isabel Allende

#9. The Catholic Church had strict racial attitudes and intolerance for anybody who was not Catholic. When I look at a lot of Black ministers and what went on in the Black church, I was more caught up with those who were in Cadillacs and shiny suits than I was with those who were Kingian in their style.

Harry Belafonte

#10. Housework is the only activity at which men are allowed to be consistently inept because they are thought to be so competent at everything else.

Letty Cottin Pogrebin

#11. I got married in Vegas on Warped Tour on July 4 - that's how crazy my life has been.

Geoff Rickly

#12. There's something really unique about 'Orphan Black' is that it has a lot of female leads, so it's about a lot of women's stories, but it's not women's stories in terms of trying to find a guy or keep a guy; it's about entirely other things.

Tatiana Maslany

#13. When absurdities get repeated often enough, they start sounding like truth.

T. Colin Campbell

#14. Here's my theory about meetings and life: the three things you can't fake are erections, competence and creativity.

Douglas Coupland