#age

Everyone else felt the need to assure me that Mother's death was part of God's plan. Exactly, I wanted to shout after reading this sentiment half a dozen times--- his plan is to kill us all, and if an innocent child dies in agony and a wicked man breathes his last at an advanced age in his sleep, who are we to call it injustice? ↗

— Valerie Martin

#death #god #grief #injustice #religion

Anybody who has been seriously engaged in scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: 'Ye must have faith.' ↗

— Max Planck

#any #anybody #been #engaged #entrance

I have a plan, and I’m following it. I can focus on doing what is within my control, and I don’t need to be afraid of the results. ↗

— Elizabeth Grace Saunders

#inspiration #productivity #success #time-management #inspirational

... as we age we have not only to readdress earlier developmental crises but also somehow to find the way to three affirmations that may seem to conflict. ... We have to affirm our own life. We have to affirm our own death. And we have to affirm love, both given and received. [p. 88] ↗

— Mary Catherine Bateson

#age

Living a fulfilling relationship requires courage, nakedness and absolute fearlessness. ↗

— Liliane Mavridara

#personal-development #relationships #courage

Faith means that it doesn't matter what happens. You can trust that somebody is watching. Trust that somebody will make it right. It means that there will always be a way. ↗

— Brandon Sanderson

#trust #age

You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing. ↗

— Walker Percy

#age #because #deranged #doing #faintest

Rock Hudson let his gay agent marry him off to his secretary because he didn't want people to get the right idea. ↗

— Anthony Perkins

#because #gay #get #him #his

It doesn't happen very often that you get to work with some really good friends of yours and there's a common language between everyone, you don't have to explain what you're doing, you can just run with it. It makes it just so much easier and more relaxed. ↗

— Elizabeth Perkins

#common #common language #doing #easier #everyone

Our dependency makes slaves out of us, especially if this dependency is a dependency of our self-esteem. If you need encouragement, praise, pats on the back from everybody, then you make everybody your judge. ↗

— Fritz Perls

#dependency #encouragement #especially #everybody #judge