One of the most spiritual things you can do is acknowledge the human aspect of your life. Once you acknowledge the human aspect of your life you'll recognize the spiritual fuel that ignites that human engine.

Just in our lifetime our society has become looser and more private, it becomes extremely difficult to hold to any permanent commitment whatever, least of all to organized religion.

Mary Douglas

My mom knows pretty well how I see her.

Lena Dunham

Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we bring new life as blithely as we do. Mostly, our children will resemble our own misery and spite and anger, because we give them no choice about it. In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways.

June Jordan

Don't be too busy earning a living to make any money.

Joe Karbo

I was always embarrassed because my dad wore a suit and my mother wore flat pumps and a cozy jumper while my friends' parents were punks or hippies.

Shirley Manson

To every problem, there is a most simple solution.

Agatha Christie

What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Friedrich Nietzsche

True prayer is neither a mere mental exercise nor a vocal performance. It is far deeper than that - it is spiritual transaction with the Creator of Heaven and Earth.

Charles Spurgeon

The degree of loving is measured by the degree of giving.

Edwin Louis Cole

To love is to destroy. To be loved is to be the destroyed.

Cassandra Clare

The intellect is a very nice whirligig toy, but how people take it seriously is more than I can understand.

Ezra Pound

Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Robert Collier