#eli

The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever. ↗

— Anatole France

#life

salvation is for the feeble, that's what I think. I don't want salvation, I want life, all of life, the miserable as well as the superb. ↗

— Tom Robbins

#religion #life

Too often, feelings arrive too soon, waiting for thoughts that often come too late. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#dejan-stojanovic #feelings #literature #literature-quotes #philosophy

I thought by masking the depression with silence, the feelings might disappear. ↗

— Sharon E. Rainey

#feelings #mask #life

Yet rather than calling the earliest religions, which embraced such an open acceptance of all human sexuality, 'fertility cults,' we might consider the religions of today as strange in that they seem to associate shame and even sin with the very process of conceiving new human life. Perhaps centuries from now scholars and historians will be classifying them as 'sterility cults. ↗

— Merlin Stone

#goddess #pagan #religion #religions #sexuality

When I corrected her, I told her that in fact she was not so wrong; that Hindus, in their capacity for love, are indeed hairless Christians, just as Muslims, in the way they see God in everything, are bearded Hindus, and Christians, in their devotion to God, are hat-wearing Muslims. ↗

— Yann Martel

#life

We are always trying to convert people to a belief in our own explanation of the universe. We think that the more people there are who believe as we do, the more certain it will be that what we believe is the truth. But it doesn't work that way at all. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#common-sense #truth #universe #way-of-life #life

Non est ad astra mollis e terris via. That's my philosophy. Its a quote from the past. "There is no easy way from the earth to the stars. ↗

— Cecil Castellucci

#life #ways #life

There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else (parents in the case of children, God in the case of adults) has a responsibility to give your life meaning and point. [...] Somebody else must be responsible for my well-being, and somebody else must be to blame if I am hurt. Is it a similar infantilism that really lies behind the 'need' for a God? ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#life #religion #responsibility #life

Through all of our seasons this will be certain; this will be constant, shining and true: with the gift of your heart you gave my life meaning; and I'll spend a lifetime cherishing you. ↗

— Robert Sexton

#love #life