"Nothing vivifies, and nothing kills, like the emotions."

“But I get frightened sometimes," she admitted."I know. Fear is only fear, though.""And somehow you live without it.""No," he corrected her. "You live with it.”

Source : Nicole Mones (2007). “Lost in Translation”, p.251, Delta

“People are murdering each other without any recourse... So we need to get in our communities and work from the inside out.”

“I just want to be in the moment and enjoy the outdoors and nature. Be able to take advantage of all the things God provided for us. That would be really nice.”

“Education truly can change a person’s story, it gave me everything. Whatever happens, get an #‎ education .”

Source : Twitter post from Dec 24, 2014

“Orthodoxy is idolatry if it means holding the 'correct opinions about God' - 'fundamentalism' is the most extreme and salient example of such idolatry - but not if it means holding faith in the right way, that is, not holding it at all but being held by God, in love and service. Theology is idolatry if it means what we say about God instead of letting ourselves be addressed by what God has to say to us. Faith is idolatrous if it is rigidly self-certain but not if it is softened in the waters of 'doubt.”

Source : John D. Caputo (2007). “What Would Jesus Deconstruct? (The Church and Postmodern Culture): The Good News of Postmodernism for the Church”, p.131, Baker Academic

“I guess I've always been really strong minded about what I wear; I've never followed what other people consider fashionable or what styles are happening at the time.”

“There's no symmetry in nature. One eye is never exactly the same as the other. There's always a difference. We all have a more or less crooked nose and an irregular mouth.”

“Beware of writing to me. I always answer ... My father spent the last 20 years of his life writing letters. If someone thanked him for a wedding present, he thanked them for thanking him and there was no end to the exchange but death.”