"This piece of rudeness was more than Alice could bear: she got up in great disgust, and walked off; the Dormouse fell asleep instantly, and neither of the others took the least notice of her going, though she looked back once or twice, half hoping that they would call after her: the last time she saw them, they were trying to put the Dormouse into the teapot. At any rate I'll never go THERE again!' said Alice as she picked her way through the wood. "It's the stupidest tea-party I ever was at in all my life!"

-- Lewis Carroll

#Party Quotes #Tea Quotes #Trying Quotes

“Perhaps we have more in common by virtue of our common humanity than we have differences by virtue of our religions.”

Source : "A Musician's Diary". Essay by Mark Heard. "Bearing the Mystery: Twenty Years of IMAGE". Book by Gregory Wolfe, 2009.
“I came so far- from nothing to a Super Bowl championship”
“I have no plans for the money but it'll be awfully nice to have it.”
“Reading is everything. Reading makes me feel like I've accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. Reading makes me smarter. Reading gives me something to talk about later on. Reading is the unbelievably healthy way my attention deficit disorder medicates itself. Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real. Reading is grist. Reading is bliss.”

Source : FaceBook post by Nora Ephron from Feb 02, 2012
“Looking back on the God my friend believed in, he seems a little erratic, not entirely unlike her father - God as borderline personality.”
“To be conscious of gratitude is to acknowledge a gift.”
“Throughout history, knowledge rises and falls, ebbs and flows. What once was known is forgotten again, lost in time, sometimes for centuries, only to be rediscovered ages later.”

Source : James Rollins (2014). “The 6th Extinction: A Sigma Force Novel”, p.8, Harper Collins
“A spiritual organization with a hierarchical structure can convey only the consciousness of estrangement, regardless of what teachings or deep inspirations are at its root.The structure itself reinforces the idea that some people are inherently more worthy than others.”

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