Karen Armstrong Quotes

All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering.

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• Music can bring about different vibes on the field, off the field, urban life, going to church, leaving church. Everything the world may bring, there's a song for it to put you in the right frame of mind.

  

  Cam Newton
  • Life
  • World
  • Music

• I'm from Maine. I eat apple pie for breakfast.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Breakfast
  • Apple
  • Pie

• In general, I think the world is a good place if you work hard, believe in yourself, have good intentions, and if you are kind to people, I believe that good things happen to you.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• Mum and Dad were very much friends and up for life. There was no anxiety for anything when I was growing up; they just taught me to be me.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Life
  • Friends
  • Dad

• You know, I'm kind of a wild crazy workaholic guy.

  

  Randy Jackson Breakfast Club
  • Guy
  • Know
  • Kind

• I guess I crave stability.

  

  Gabrielle Reece
  • Stability
  • Guess
  • Crave

• I know you can be up one minute and drop the next, so I'm trying to maintain a steady course so I can have some longevity.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Know

• Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push it forward, till it shall become alike lawful in all the States - old as well as new - North as well as South.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Mind
  • Rest
  • Slavery

• I have seen life from the top down and the bottom up. I know how it looks both ways. And I know there is wisdom and that there is hope.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Life
  • Up
  • Hope

• I've taught myself how to use good, fresh ingredients and to prepare them as simply as possible by cooking only to enhance their intrinsic flavors.

  

  Ina Garten
  • Good
  • Myself
  • Cooking

• I think I've slayed my long jump demons.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Long
  • Think
  • Jump

• I'm a natural blonde!

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Natural
  • Blonde

• It seems that this situation is not restricted to science but is more generally human.

  

  Felix Bloch
  • Science
  • Human
  • Situation

• I love zoo sanctuaries.

  

  Nancy Travis
  • I Love
  • Zoo
  • Sanctuaries

• I was very close to my mother, and her death, which left a gaping hole in my life, has been very difficult for me and my father in a lot of ways.

  

  Vanessa Kerry
  • Life
  • Mother
  • Father

• Yes, I've kissed a lot of guys. I like to kiss, but that's it. I don't go home with anyone. I sleep with my animals, like my baby monkey, Brigitte Bardot.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • Home
  • Sleep
  • Baby

• When I was born, my parents - my mother especially - couldn't come to terms with that fact that they had another baby girl. I know these stories in detail because every time a guest visited, or there was a gathering, they repeated this story in front of me that how I was the unwanted child.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Time
  • Mother
  • Parents

• There are as many forms of happiness as sorrow, though most prove fleeting.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Happiness
  • Sorrow
  • Prove

• It's God's will for you to live in prosperity instead of poverty. It's God's will for you to pay your bills and not be in debt.

  

  Joel Osteen
  • God
  • Live
  • Poverty

• I feel I owe you another explanation Harry," said Dumbledore hesitantly. "You may, perhaps, wondered why I never chose you as a prefect? I must confess...that I rather thought...you had enough responsibility to be going on with." Harry looked up at him and saw a tear trickling down Dumbledore's face into his long silver beard.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Up
  • Long
  • Why

• The maids in my village talked of falling in love with a man at first sight. That has always seemed naught but foolishness to me. Until I enter Sister Serafina's workshop. It is unlike anything I have ever seen, full of strange sights and smells, and I tumble headlong into love.

  

  Robin LaFevers
  • Sister

• I don't see gender as the most significant fact of human existence.

  

  Jim Harrison

• Women have taken on traditionally masculine roles and professions, and there is no real equivalent for men. Men are still extremely reluctant, as we all are reluctant to see them, take on traditionally feminine roles or professions. That is just not something that they do easily.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Men
  • Women
  • Real

• All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Live
  • Suffering
  • Teach