"The world is rated R, and no one……" — N.D. Wilson
"The world is rated R, and no one is checking IDs. Do not try to make it G by imagining the shadows away. Do not try to hide your children from the world forever, but do not try to pretend there is no danger. Train them. Give them sharp eyes and bellies full of laughter. Make them dangerous. Make them yeast, and when they’ve grown, they will pollute the shadows."
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43 Quotes by N.D. Wilson
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Do you dislike your role in the story, your place in the shadow? What complaints do you have that the…
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We're all carnies, though some people are in denial. They want to be above it all, above the mayhem of…
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Life is a story. Why do we die? Because we live. Why do we live? Because our Maker opened His…
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The fall of man did not introduce evil; it placed us on the wrong side of it, under its rule,…
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The truth is that a life well lived is always lived on a rising scale of difficulty.
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Living is the same thing as dying. Living well is the same thing as dying for others.
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Drink your wine. Laugh from your gut. Burden your moments with thankfulness. Be as empty as you can be when…
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Marx called religion an opiate, and all too often it is. But philosophy is an anaesthetic, a shot to keep…
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To love is to be selfless. To be selfless is to be fearless. To be fearless is to strip your…
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Understand this: we are both tiny and massive. We are nothing more than molded clay given breath, but we are…
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Glory is sacrifice, glory is exhaustion, glory is having nothing left to give.
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Lay your life down. Your heartbeats cannot be hoarded. Your reservoir of breaths is draining away. You have hands, blister…
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For better or worse, zoos are how most people come to know big or exotic animals. Few will ever see…
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I think we all have a lot of darkness in our bellies. As an actor, the challenge of tapping into…
— Kevin Bacon
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Proletarian language is dictated by hunger. The poor chew words to fill their bellies.
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What you're going to be eating in the next year is decided by chefs. If the consensus is that pot-bellies…
— Anthony Bourdain
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The folks who go after grand challenges are impatient. They're pissed off. They're sick and tired, but in a passionate…
— Peter Diamandis
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Let not that man think he makes any progress in holiness who walks not over the bellies of his lusts.…
— John Owen
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But some of us are beginning to pull well away, in our irritation, from...the exquisite tasters, the vintage snobs, the…
— J. B. Priestley
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Motivation comes from within each individual. It's a personal thing. It's pride, guts, desire, whatever you want to call it;…
— Mike Ditka
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If men were equally at risk from this condition - if they knew their bellies might swell as if they…
— Barbara Ehrenreich
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Ethics is for people with full bellies.
— John Kessel
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Night. Heavenly delicious sweet night of the desert that calls all of us to love her. The night is our…
— Leslie Marmon Silko
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In other words, all of my books are lies. They are simply maps of a territory, shadows of a reality,…
— Ken Wilber
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