Rebecca Quotes

You must always believe that life is as extraordinary as music says it is.

Existence in itself, taken at its least miraculous, is a miracle.

For me, childhood roaming was what developed self-reliance, a sense of direction and adventure, imagination, a will to explore, to be able to get a little lost and then figure out the way back.

Trying to forget really doesn't work. In fact, it's pretty much the same as remembering. But I tried to forget anyway, and to ignore the fact that I was remembering you all the time.

Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.

A procession is a participants' journey, while a parade is a performance with an audience.

What was tortuously secured by complex argument becomes widely shared intuition, so obvious that we forget its provenance. We don’t see it, because we see with it.

Reform is born of need, not pity. No vital movement of the people has worked down, for good or evil; fermented, instead, carried up the heaving, cloggy mass.

Pain serves a purpose. Without it you are in danger. What you cannot feel you cannot take care of.

I'm not Irish. Just because I have red hair doesn't mean I'm a lucky charm, you know?

I wonder if we are all wrong about each other, if we are just composing unwritten novels about the people we meet?

Did St. Francis preach to the birds? Whatever for? If he really liked birds he would have done better to preach to the cats.

It's a simple solution. You change one thing, and suddenly you've changed everything.

There are fossils of seashells high in the Himalayas; what was and what is are different things.

I think when you start messing with your own hormones, it's crazy-making.

We are all indigenous people on this planet, and we have to reorganize to get along.

Maybe people are more like the earth than we know. Maybe they have fault lines that sooner or later are going to split open under pressure.

Sense of place is the sixth sense, an internal compass and map made by memory and spatial perception together.

Good enough is good enough. Perfect will make you a big fat mess every time.

God does not want us to be living in the past, in shame, in fear, or in the future, in worry. He wants us to be living in the present, in now, with Him.

I still think the revolution is to make the world safe for poetry, meandering, for the frail and vulnerable, the rare and obscure, the impractical and local and small.

Sexy at the millennium means having a solid sense of self but never taking yourself too seriously.

Motherhood is neither a duty nor a privilege, but simply the way that humanity can satisfy the desire for physical immortality and triumph over the fear of death.

The interdependency of humankind, the relevance of relationship, the sacredness of creation is ancient, ancient wisdom.

There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all.

The presence of Christ brings us his power and ability to use our limited resources in limitless ways.

Life is short but it is wide. This too shall pass.

I suppose sooner or later in the life of everyone comes a moment of trial. We all of us have our particular devil who rides us and torments us, and we must give battle in the end.

The Internet is an empowering force for people who are protesting against the abuse of power.

The process of transformation consists mostly of decay.

I believe that illness has led me to a life of gratitude, so I consider Lyme disease at this point in my life to be a blessing in disguise.

When God is seeking a person, he will not allow my fear, my feeling of intimidation or my lack of knowledge or experience to prevent that person from finding him.

Once a secret society establishes itself within an open society, there is no end to the hideous mistrust it must cause.

The only legitimate purpose of government is to serve citizens, and ... the only legitimate purpose of technology is to improve our lives, not to manipulate or enslave us.

Despair is easy, or at least low cost.

I find to my astonishment that an unhappy marriage goes on being unhappy when it is over.

You try not to talk about the past too much as an artist. Instead, you focus on the continuity of your work.

Greed is good to most economists. It's greed that makes people work harder, be more productive and helps the economy grow.

The utter helplessness of a conquered people is perhaps the most tragic feature of a civil war or any other sort of war.

Christians and non-Christians have something in common. Were both uptight about evangelism.

Answers? Forget answers. The spectacle is all in the questions.

Art is not a luxury, but a necessity.

A city always contains more than any inhabitant can know, and a great city always makes the unknown and the possible spurs to the imagination.

It's crucial to understand that as a society, we can reorganize. We can reorganize socially, politically, and economically, and we can reorganize according to our values.

To hope is to give yourself to the future - and that commitment to the future is what makes the present inhabitable.

The things we want are transformative, and we don’t know or only think we know what is on the other side of that transformation Never to get lost is not to live.

Sometimes I go to sleep thinking, "I don't like this painting." But then I wake up in the morning, look at it again and think, "Actually, that's not so bad."

How will you go about finding that thing the nature of which is totally unknown to you?

The power of large corporations is still a scourge on the earth, but at least the arguments supporting them are undermined now.

War may be an armed angel with a mission, but she has the personal habits of the slums.