Love is the very process of passing over, of transformation, of stepping outside the limitations of fallen humanity - in which we… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
In that moonlit hour, I acquired a sense of the otherness of things. I liked the feeling the moonlight gave me, as… — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
The radical otherness of birds is integral to their beauty and their value. They are always among us but never of us.… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
The planet is populated by human beings, of which there are only two sexes, and the role of the writer is to… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
I stood willingly and gladly in the characters of everything - other people, trees, clouds. And this is what I learned, that… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
“It is within the commercial realm of advertising that the drama of Otherness finds expression. Encounters with Otherness are clearly marked as… — Juliet Schor Copy Share Image
“It's not about outward appearances but inward significance. A grandeur in the world, but not of the world, a grandeur that the… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
The beloved is already in our being, as thirst and "otherness." Being is eroticism. Inspiration is that strange voice that takes man… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
I have discovered, passionate grief does not link us with the dead but cuts us off from them. This becomes clearer and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“If you’re an Orthodox believer, then what sustains this framework is the obligation that you follow. But if you live in a… — Kalid Gilad Copy Share Image
Pack the one bag. Unpack it, pack it, unpack it, pack it: passeport, ticket, book, taxi, airport, check-in, beer, announcement, stairs, airplane,… — Ryszard Kapuscinski Copy Share Image
I have read all of Daniel Aaron's books, and admired them, but in The Americanist I believe he has composed an intellectual… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
Reading has always brought me pure joy. I read to encounter new worlds and new ways of looking at the world. I… — Nancy Pearl Copy Share Image
Writing itself, if not misunderstood and abused, becomes a way of empowering the writing self. It converts anger and disappointment into deliberate… — Ted Solotaroff Copy Share Image
“Mujo is a refugee in Germany, has no job, but has a lot of time, so he goes to a Turkish bath.… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
“According to Melanie Klein, we develop moral responses in reaction to questions of survivability. My wager is that Klein is right about… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
By seeing the otherness in that which is most unfamiliar, we can learn to see it too in that which at first… — William Cronon Copy Share Image
“Life can be generous, but leaves us with a trilemma: How can we reconcile three diverse features: ‘I’, 'me' and the 'others'.… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
The childlike, gum-chewing naivete, the glamour rooted in despair, the self-admiring carelessness, the perfected otherness, the wispiness, the shadowy, voyeuristic, vaguely sinister… — Andy Warhol Copy Share Image
I think as women, you know, if you are considered a pioneer in these things, you can get really distracted by these… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
“While we are curling down in our comfort zone, the perverted talents of connectivity-designers drive us surreptitiously into a blind alley of… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
“When we feel fractured, redundant and nonessential, only bouncing back from lowliness may brighten up the story of our life. In this… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
The pursuit of otherness, the sense that we are somehow different than our brothers and sisters, no matter where we find them,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“There is an otherness inside us We never touch, no matter how far down our hands reach. It is the past, with… — Charles Wright Copy Share Image
“Even in the most closed cultures men believe that they are free and open to the universal; their differential character makes the… — René Girard Copy Share Image
“I suddenly remember how different I am from most of the kids here. Nobody would have to drag me or my brothers… — Angie Thomas Copy Share Image
It is a skill we learn early, the art of inventing stories to explain away the fearful scared strangeness of the world.… — William Kittredge Copy Share Image
“When we are looking for the unexpected, we are not only looking for the unexpected in ourselves, but we are also curious… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
“Love is a challenge with an illusion emanating an aura of otherness. Through their unrelenting attention, two smitten people can arouse a… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
“There was no one for him to tell, talk to about it, about his fear and suspicion, He trusted no man nor… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Ever since the Evil Empire turned out to be a collection of third-world countries, Americans aligned on the far right have tried… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
