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“All power is in essence power to deny mortality.”
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“A society's apprehensiveness about divorce is an expression of its fear of change and of its resulting desire that personality remain unvarying.”
Source : Elsie Clews Parsons (1997). “Fear and Conventionality”, p.138, University of Chicago Press
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“. . . Americans are the best entertained and quite likely the least well-informed people in the Western world.”
Source : Neil Postman (2005). “Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business”, p.106, Penguin
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“Stress and worry is a residual of relying on yourself and being your own god, in control of everything. Worship allows us to rely on God's power to steer us through life.”
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“Sometimes I wish we could rub out all of our mistakes and start fresh, from the beginning,' I said. 'And sometimes I think there isn't anything to us but our mistakes.”
Source : Paula McLain (2011). “The Paris Wife: A Novel”, p.241, Ballantine Books
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“God wants to wipe away your past and lift your burdens. Do you let Him?”
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“In [The New Poetry] I had attacked the British poets' nervous preference for gentility above all else, and their avoidance of the uncomfortable, destructive truths both of the inner life and of the present time.”
Source : Al Alvarez (2013). “The Savage God: A Study of Suicide”, p.40, Bloomsbury Publishing
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“Being a father is sometimes my hardest but always my most rewarding job. Happy Father's Day to all the dads out there.”
