Zina Bethune Quotes

#1. My little blurb wasn't going to win me any speaker-of-the-year awards, but at least I hadn't tripped and fallen off the stage, crushing and killing three elderly jazz fans.

Jordan Sonnenblick

#2. You have to give others the opportunity to love who you love. If they don't accept it, it's their loss.

Alice Walker

#3. Seek home for rest, for home is best.

Thomas Tusser

#4. One advantage resulting from good actions is that they elevate the soul to a disposition of attempting still better; for such is human weakness, that we must place among our good deeds an abstinence from those crimes we are tempted to commit.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#5. I am just getting into Zora Neale Hurston, who is possibly a much better writer than the critics and rivals who tried to erase her from history, resulting in a life in which she worked as a maid and died in a welfare nursing home. She's clever. She does something modern to the sentence.

Rachel Kushner

#6. In a special sense ... the three great natural states of waking, dreaming, and deep sleep contain an entire spectrum of spiritual enlightenment.

Ken Wilber