Way Quotes - Page 114

One must somehow find a way of loving the world without trusting it; somehow one must love the world without being worldly.

We eat the way we eat because we are afraid to feel what we feel.

Kindness should become the natural way of life,not the exception.

We need truth to grow in the same way that we need vitamins, affection and love.

Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a summons to pilgrimage.

Marriage, like a submarine, is only safe if you get all the way inside.

I believe in talking behind peoples' backs. That way, they hear it more than once.

I’ve learned to live with rage. In some ways, it’s my rage that keeps me going. Without it, I would have been whipped long ago. With it, I got a lot more songs to sing.

I believe in the Bible. I believe that all good things come from God. I don't believe I'd sing the way I do if God hadn't wanted me to.'

I think personally, I've always felt that the Association [NAACP] got itself hung-up in what I call its legal successes. Having had so many outstanding legal successes, it definitely seemed to have oriented its thinking in the direction that the way to achieve was through the courts.

All the things you can talk about in anyone's work are the things that are least important.... You can describe all the externals of a performance - everything, in fact, but what really constitutes its core. Explaining something makes it go away, so to speak; what's important is what's left over after you've explained everything else.

It is curious to be treated by the old-fashioned people as a criminal because my thoughts and ways are beyond them.

One way to become aware many times during the day is to take a conscious breath. Doing so breaks the stream of thinking.

Prayer, in many ways, is the supreme expression of our faith in God.

I like to think of poetry as statements made on the way to the grave.

The best programs are written so that computing machines can perform them quickly and so that human beings can understand them clearly. A programmer is ideally an essayist who works with traditional aesthetic and literary forms as well as mathematical concepts, to communicate the way that an algorithm works and to convince a reader that the results will be correct.

Happiness isn't a thing. You can't go out and get it like a cup of tea. It's the way you feel about things.

Capote wrote every day. He said that's the only way, you have to sit down every day and do it.

Sex is a doorway to something so powerful and mystical, but movies usually depict it in a completely flat way.

The way a man penetrates the world should be the same way he penetrates his woman: not merely for personal gain or pleasure, but to magnify love, openness, and depth.

I returned to upstate NY where I just laid in bed for days with a fever that just wouldn't go away. After more of this, I grew increasingly sure that this was not simply the flu!

Gratitude is an astoundingly reliable, immediate way of becoming present.

No matter what happens, always be yourself.

To understand is to stand under which is to look up to which is a good way to understand.

Without Coretta Scott King, there would not have been a Martin Luther King, Jr. in the way that we know him.