A widely held, but rarely articulated, belief in our society is that the ideal self is bold, alpha, gregarious. Introversion is viewed somewhere between disappointment and pathology.
I think it would be wrong to consider 'Ashes and Fire' a love album. The record is obsessed with time. I believe that there is a kinder view of the self on this record.
If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval.
I'm a big fan of Alan J. Pakula's films like 'All the President's Men', 'The Parallax View,' and 'Klute.' I'm a big fan of those movies.
Those who condemn gay marriage, yet are silent or indifferent to the breakdown of marriage and divorce, are, in my view, missing the real issue.
The materialistic view of happiness of our age starkly revealed in our understanding of the word "luxury.
You can learn a lot from people who view the world differently than you do.
Life has its enigmatic events, that can make it a mystery, or my misery. It all depends on how I view it.
Superstition is the need to view the world in terms of simple cause and effect.
What Republicans have done in my view is that they are systematically dismantling a sense of community in America.
What's in a view? The world, by any other, would remain just as it is, just as wonderful :-)
What's in a view? A world, by any other, would remain just as it is, just as wonderful :-)
I have seldom met an intelligent person whose views were not narrowed and distorted by religion.
It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.
If people have split views about your work, I think it's flattering. I'd rather have them feel something about it than dismiss it.
It is only in the fundamentalist religions that women are relegated to second class. Radical Evangelicals, Muslims, and Jews all have the same view of women.
What's the point of staying sober?
It's a question of attitude. If you really work at something you can do it up to a point. If you really work at being happy you can do it up to a point. But anything more than that you can't. Anything more than that is luck.
You're going to have to settle on one eventually. Why not save us both the hassle, close your eyes and point. Whoever you're pointing at will be our winner." "I've played that game once before. Ended up--" Paris shuddered. "Never mind. It's not good ...
I was born into a Christian family and brought up in a Lutheran church. My faith has been the center point of my life, really, since I was a child, but at 16 years of age, I fully surrendered my life over to Christ. At that point, as a teenager, I be...
Perhaps one of the reasons I've avoided standing on the point toward the horizon is the second you stand up and point toward a horizon, you realize how much there is to lose.
