#cult

Those East Coast rich kids are a different breed, on a fast track to nowhere. Your friends in Seattle are downright Canadian in their niceness. None of you has a cell phone. The girls wear hoodies and big cotton underpants and walk around with tangled hair and smiling, adorned backpacks. Do you know how absolutely exotic it is that you haven’t been corrupted by fashion and pop culture? A month ago I mentioned Ben Stiller, and do you remember how you responded? ‘Who’s that?’ I loved you all over again. ↗

— Maria Semple

#niceness #pop-culture #priorities #love

Men command the world that they know . Everything that men know they make their own. Everything that they learn, they claim for themselves. They are like the alchemists who took for the laws that govern the world, and then want to own them and keep them secret. Everything they discover,they hug to themselves: they shape knowledge into their own selfish image. What is left to us women but the realms of the unknown? ↗

— Philippa Gregory

#men #occult-and-women #men

Embrace the path your loved one's story has taken, and be part of the culture shift that acknowledges dying as part of living. ↗

— Carrie Chavez Hansen

#dying-well #inspirational #life-story #inspirational

..while I was happy enough to pray to any god, knowing that they were simply different faces created by men, of one indivisible truth. ↗

— Lian Hearn

#low-fantasy #men

The most difficult owner for me was the late George Marshall of Washington. ↗

— Pete Rozelle

#george #late #marshall #me #most

Imagine: If shifting from one universe to another is like moving up or down to parallel layers, overlapping with one universe, then going to another timeline is like taking a jump to the left.' 'Or a step to the right,' Jena said wryly. ↗

— E.C. Myers

#pop-culture #imagination

Every time you ask for forgiveness, you recognize that the biggest problems you face in life exist inside of you, not outside of you. ↗

— Paul David Tripp

#christianity #difficulties #forgiveness #forgiveness

If you are faced with a mountain, you have several options. You can climb it and cross to the other side. You can go around it. You can dig under it. You can fly over it. You can blow it up. You can ignore it and pretend it’s not there. You can turn around and go back the way you came. Or you can stay on the mountain and make it your home. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#coping #difficulties #mountain #mountains #obstacle

For something to be great, there has to be some kind of trial or some type of struggle that actually makes it special or valuable to you. Otherwise, anything could be easily taken for granted. ↗

— Hayley Williams

#greatness #inspiration #inspirational #problems #struggle

Religion is one dimension of culture, a transcendent element of it. ↗

— Francis Arinze

#dimension #element #religion #transcendent