#ren

Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers. It tells people to go out and stick their noses in other people's business. ↗

— Jesse Ventura

#crutch #go #need #noses #numbers

I didn't know what types of movies I wanted to do. I want to do things that are different. I want to take my time with each role. ↗

— Leonardo DiCaprio

#each #i #know #movies #my time

I know there is strength in the differences between us. I know there is comfort where we overlap. ↗

— Ani DiFranco

#comfort #differences #i #know #overlap

Being a parent has taught me a lot of things already, you know, though it's only been a year and half, and has made me address parts of myself that I would otherwise live in comfortable denial of, or you know and - you know, for instance, my self-loathing. ↗

— Ani DiFranco

#already #been #being #comfortable #denial

I've never had a very closely connected family. My parents split up when I was young and I was living with my mom for a little while, then I was kind of just on my own really young. It wasn't some kind of global tragedy, it was just never really a very close-knit family. So there was support in the sense that they didn't stand in my way. ↗

— Ani DiFranco

#connected #family #global #had #i

Fairy tales in childhood are stepping stones throughout life, leading the way through trouble and trial. The value of fairy tales lies not in a brief literary escape from reality, but in the gift of hope that goodness truly is more powerful than evil and that even the darkest reality can lead to a Happily Ever After. Do not take that gift of hope lightly. It has the power to conquer despair in the midst of sorrow, to light the darkness in the valleys of life, to whisper “One more time” in the face of failure. Hope is what gives life to dreams, making the fairy tale the reality. ↗

— L.R. Knost

#fairy-tales #literacy #dreams

Chelsea Morning is a great Joni Mitchell song and I guess I'm partial to her lyrics because they show me a slightly different perspective on life. ↗

— Neil Diamond

#chelsea #different #different perspective #great #guess

I like movies that challenge people to recognize different things. ↗

— Casper Van Dien

#different #different things #i #like #movies

I used to go to my kids' soccer games and I was the only parent who wasn't screaming, because I'd have to do a show that night. It was hard. Moms and dads get more emotional at those soccer and Little League games than at a professional game. ↗

— Neil Diamond

#dads #emotional #game #games #get

You must learn to control your dreams or your dreams will forever control you. ↗

— Wayne Gerard Trotman

#dreaming #dreams #dreams-quotes #lucid-dreams #mind-control