Rebecca Solnit Quotes

The desire to go home that is a desire to be whole, to know where you are, to be the point of intersection of all the lines drawn through all the stars, to be the constellation-maker and the center of the world, that center called love. To awaken from sleep, to rest from awakening, to tame the animal, to let the soul go wild, to shelter in darkness and blaze with light, to cease to speak and be perfectly understood.

Rebecca Solnit

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• Christianity is a battle not a dream.

  

  Wendell Phillips
  • Dream
  • Battle
  • Christianity

• I had experiences or exposure to music in church. I went to a church, it was very unique. It was a predominantly African American Catholic church. So they would have - one mass would be traditional church music, and then the other mass would be gospel music.

  

  Aaron Diehl
  • Music
  • American
  • Church

• Thus, in general, in the first instance, the direction of interest in empirical fact will be canalised by the logical structure of the theoretical system.

  

  Talcott Parsons
  • First
  • Will
  • Direction

• It puzzled me that other people hadn't found out, too. God was gone. We were younger. We had reached past him. Why couldn't they see it? It still puzzles me.

  

  Frances Farmer
  • People
  • God
  • Why

• I'm an awfully loyal friend. Once I've started a relationship with someone, it's like they are syrup and I'm a pancake. Their syrup gets into my pancake, so to speak.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Relationship
  • Friend
  • Speak

• I love designer stuff but like it will only be like, on a whim. I love Alexander Wang so much, but it's expensive.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • Stuff
  • Designer
  • Expensive

• Are you happy when you stick a needle in your vein?

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • Happy
  • Stick
  • Needle

• Trust is that there should be no difference between what you do and say and what you think.

  

  Umar
  • Thinking
  • Trust
  • Differences

• Everything that you do or say that raises the self-esteem of another raises yours as well.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Self
  • Wells
  • Esteem

• I am a geek nerd who happened to have a temporary period of jockiness.

  

  Cory Booker
  • Period
  • Nerd
  • Jockiness

• Sin? Sin is a delusional sickness spawned to peddle a delusional treatment.

  

  C. J. Anderson
  • Sin
  • Sickness
  • Delusional

• Horrible experiences lead us to wonder whether the person who experiences them might not be something horrible.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Wonder
  • Experiences
  • Horrible

• God prospers me not to raise my standard of living, but to raise my standard of giving.

  

  Randy Alcorn
  • God
  • Living
  • Standard

• Poor wretches that depend On greatness' favor, dream as I have done; Wake, and find nothing.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Done
  • Dream
  • Poor

• Religions are like fireflies. They require darkness in order to shine.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Darkness
  • Religions
  • Fireflies

• Readers want to see, hear, feel, smell the action of your story, even if that action is just two people having a quiet conversation.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • People
  • Action
  • Conversation

• The nearer we live to God while we live, the more ready we will be to dwell forever in His presence when we die.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • God
  • Live
  • Die

• He who loves not women, wine, and song Remains a fool his whole life long.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Life
  • Women
  • Loves

• The desire to go home that is a desire to be whole, to know where you are, to be the point of intersection of all the lines drawn through all the stars, to be the constellation-maker and the center of the world, that center called love. To awaken from sleep, to rest from awakening, to tame the animal, to let the soul go wild, to shelter in darkness and blaze with light, to cease to speak and be perfectly understood.

  

  Rebecca Solnit
  • Darkness
  • Awakening
  • Makers