"The Hopi, an Indian tribe, have a language as sophisticated as ours, but no tenses for past, present and future. The division does not exist. What does this say about time? Matter, that thing the most solid and the well-known, which you are holding in your hands and which makes up your body, is now known to be mostly empty space. Empty space and points of light. What does this say about the reality of the world?"

-- Jeanette Winterson

#Past Quotes #Reality Quotes #Hands Quotes

“I've still never gotten behind the defense and been caught.”
“Weâ€™re sick of hearing people say, â€œThat band is so gay,â€ or â€œThose guys are fags.â€ Gay is not a synonym for shitty. If you wanna say somethingâ€™s shitty, say itâ€™s shitty. Stop being such homophobic assholes.”
“Why God should want and need us is a mystery. But it is true: otherwise he would not have created us and life would ultimately have no meaning for us. It is good to remember that in God the is a constancy, a consistency of attitude which never changes, irrespective of what we are or how we act: he never changes in is wanting us or needing us.”

Source : Basil Hume (2002). “Searching for God”, p.100, Gracewing Publishing
“We say then, that Christianity is adapted to the intellect, because its spirit coincides with that of true philosophy; because it removes the incubus of sensuality and low vice; because of the place it gives to truth; because it demands free inquiry; because its mighty truths and systems are brought before the mind in the same way as the truths and systems of nature; because it solves higher problems than nature can; and because it is so communicated as to be adapted to every mind.”

Source : Mark Hopkins (1863). “Evidences of Christianity: Lectures Before the Lowell Institute, January 1844”, p.136
“Problems are rarely as bad as we think-or rather, they are precisely as bad as we think.”

Source : Ryan Holiday (2014). “The Obstacle is the Way: The Ancient Art of Turning Adversity to Advantage”, p.68, Profile Books
“I told him the truth, that I loved him and didn't regret anything about our lives together. But do we ever 'tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help me God' as my father used to say, to those we love? Or even to ourselves? Don't even the best and most fortunate of lives hint at other possibilities, at a different kind of sweetness and, yes, bitterness too? Isn't this why we can't help feeling cheated, even when we know we haven't been?”
“When we acknowledge a child's feelings, we do him a great service. We put him in touch with his inner reality. And once he's clear about that reality, he gathers the strength to begin to cope.”

Source : Adele Faber, Elaine Mazlish, Joanna Faber (2012). “How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk”, p.25, Simon and Schuster
“The blurring of fact and fiction has great commercial potential, which is bound to be corrupting in historical terms.”

Source : "Real concerns" by Antony Beevor, www.theguardian.com. July 24, 2009.

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