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| quotes about gossip:
If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees. ~Kahlil Gibran, Sand and Foam
If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in
doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the
time to hold your tongue. ~Alice Duer Miller
Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you. ~Spanish Proverb
Nothing travels faster than light, with the possible exception of bad news, which follows its own rules. ~Douglas Adams
Gossip needn't be false to be evil - there's a lot of truth that shouldn't be passed around. ~Frank A. Clark
It isn't what they say about you, it's what they whisper. ~Errol Flynn
If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything. ~Mark Twain
A lie has speed, but truth has endurance. ~Edgar J. Mohn
We tell lies when we are afraid... afraid of what we don't know, afraid
of what others will think, afraid of what will be found out about us.
But every time we tell a lie, the thing that we fear grows stronger.
~Tad Williams
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| quotes about laughter:
At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities. ~Jean Houston
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter. ~e.e. cummings
Laughter is the shortest distance between two people. ~Victor Borge
When people are laughing, they're generally not killing each other. ~Alan Alda
A laugh is a smile that bursts. ~Mary H. Waldrip
Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on. ~Bob Newhart
What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries
of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the
ringing death-knell of a laugh! ~Agnes Repplier
I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose. ~Woody Allen
One of the holiest women I have ever known did little with her life in
terms of worldly success; her gift was that of bringing laughter with
her wherever she went, no matter how dark or grievous the occasion.
Wherever she was, holy laughter was present to heal and redeem.
~Madeleine L'Engle
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| quotes about faith and religion:
"If it can be verified, we don't need faith...Faith is for that which
lies on the other side of reason. Faith is what makes life bearable,
with all its tragedies and ambiguities and sudden, startling joys."
~Madeleine L'Engle
"I cannot say, 'That chair is not there,' if there is no chair there to say it about." ~Madeleine L'Engle
"To be a witness does not consist in engaging in propaganda, nor even
in stirring people up, but in being a living mystery. It means to live
in such a way that one's life would not make sense if God did not
exist." ~Cardinal Suhard
"It is perfectly all right, according to literary critics, to be
Jewish, or Buddhist, or Sufi, or a pre-Christian druid. It is not all
right to be a Christian. And if we ask why, the answer is a sad one;
Christians have given Christianity a bad name. They have let their
lights flicker and grow dim. They have confused piosity with piety,
smugness with joy." ~Madeleine L'Engle
"He calls all the stars by name." ~Madeleine L'Engle
"The novel we sit down to write, and the one we end up writing may be
very different, just as the Jesus we grasp and the Jesus who grasps us
may also differ." ~Madeleine L'Engle
"The opposite of sin can only be faith, and never virtue." ~H.A. Williams
"It is the Heart that is not yet sure of its God that is afraid to laugh in His presence." ~George MacDonald
"By love God may be gotten and holden, but by thought or understanding, never." ~The Cloud of Unknowing
"If you think you understand, it isn't God." ~St. Augustine of Hippo
"Safety is only an illusion, and letting it go is part of listening to the silence, and to the Spirit." ~Madeleine L'Engle
"Those who believe they believe in God, but without passion in the
heart, without anguish of mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, and
even at times without despair, believe only in the idea of God, and not
in God himself." ~Unamuno
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| quotes about art/artists:
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up. ~Pablo Picasso
It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very
often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work. ~Henry
Moore
The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do? ~Pablo Picasso
Art is spirituality in drag. ~Jennifer Yane
Artists can color the sky red because they know it's blue. Those of us
who aren't artists must color things the way they really are or people
might think we're stupid. ~Jules Feiffer
Art is communication, and if there is no communication it is as though the work has been stillborn. ~Madeleine L'Engle
If the work comes to the artist and says, "Here I am, serve me," then
the job of the artist, great or small, is to serve. The amount of the
artist's talent is not what it is about. ~Madeleine L'Engle
The artist, if he is not to forget how to listen, must retain the
vision which includes angels and dragons and unicorns, and all the
lovely creatures which our world would put in a box marked Children
Only. ~Madeleine L'Engle
Mauve takes offense at my having said, "I am an artist"--which I do not
take back, because that word included, of course, the meaning: always
seeking without absolutely finding. As far as I know, that word means:
I am seeking, I am striving, I am in with my whole heart. ~Vincent van
Gogh
The role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover. If
I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you do not see.
~James Baldwin
We do not judge great art. It judges us. ~Dr. Caroline Gordon
Leonard Bernstein tells me more than the dictionary when he says that
for him, music is cosmos in chaos. That has the ring of truth in my
ears, and sparks my creative imagination. And it is true not only of
music; all art is cosmos, cosmos found within chaos. ~Madeleine L'Engle
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| quotes on beauty:
Beauty... is the shadow of God on the universe. ~Gabriela Mistral
Beauty?... To me it is a word without sense because I do not know where its meaning comes from nor where it leads to. ~Pablo Picasso
I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want - an adorable pancreas? ~Jean Kerr
Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked. ~Saint Augustine
Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked. ~Ralph Ellison
Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty - they merely move it from their faces into their hearts. ~Martin Buxbaum
It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness. ~Leo Tolstoy | | |
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