"They don't own me. If I'm gonna die, I wanna still be me."

“I'm so grateful for Living the Questions. These progressive voices offer less rigid and more expansive approaches to Christian faith, and make room for people who practice critical thinking and question the gatekeepers. They help us see that questioning the gatekeepers is exactly what Jesus was all about.”

“I see a wiser person than when I was younger: having babies, and passing 30, were the turning points. What women in their 40s - I am 39 - lack in gorgeousness, they make up for in wisdom. I love ageing, despite the drawbacks - thinner, drier skin.”

Source : "What I see in the mirror" by Thandie Newton, www.theguardian.com. December 23, 2011.

“What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give.”

Source : P. D. James (2011). “Time to Be in Earnest”, p.11, Faber & Faber

“Mindfulness meditation should be more than just watching what you are doing. What you really need to watch is your motivation.”

“It's all about putting the best team together - not just in the front office but the players on the field.”

“Everything you want also wants you.”

“I see God through my children. I speak to God through my children. I am humbled for the blessings He has given me.”

“Ernest Hemingway has been the most important influence on me as a writer. But at a certain point as a writer, I realized that he was writing about good people doing good things. This did not match my experience of life and so I found my sentences stretching and becoming less plain.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net