#eve

Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble. ↗

— Joseph Campbell

#every #facts #gets #interpreting #metaphorically

I met my wife by breaking two of my rules: never date a girl seriously that you meet at a nightclub and never date a fan. ↗

— Corey Feldman

#date #fan #girl #i #meet

Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning. ↗

— Joseph Campbell

#ascribe #being #bring #life #meaning

What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience, something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else. ↗

— Joseph Campbell

#been #could #each #else #experience

The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party wouldn't have been complete without you. ↗

— Frederick Buechner

#been #complete #god #grace #here

You can't be too careful what you tell a child because you never know what he'll take hold of and spend the rest of his life remembering you by. ↗

— Frederick Buechner

#careful #child #his #hold #know

Financial crises are like fireworks: they illuminate the sky even as they go pop. ↗

— James Buchan

#even #financial #financial crises #fireworks #go

I went to Sunday School and liked the stories about Christ and the Christmas star. They were beautiful. They made you warm and happy to think about. But I didn't believe them. ↗

— Frances Farmer

#beautiful #believe #christ #christmas #happy

Even before he came to power in 1997, Gordon Brown promised to change the accounts to parliament from simple litanies of cash in and cash out, to a more commercial system that took notice of the public property the departments were using. This system is known as resource accounting. ↗

— James Buchan

#accounts #before #brown #came #cash

For all their current prestige, Osama bin Laden and the suicide bombers are still regarded in all but the most desperate districts of Gaza or Peshawar as romantics with little chance of more than symbolic victories, however bloody and brutal. That gives both the Middle East and the West a small and distant hope of security. ↗

— James Buchan

#bloody #bombers #both #brutal #chance