“In regards to being a fashion aficionado, there's a certain amount of taking yourself seriously in the professional world. The self-effacing person can't completely go down the serious road. But I design, and love when things are beautiful.” WorldPersonsSelfBeautifulCertainFashionDesignSeriousAmountAnd LoveRegard Author:St. Vincent
“Sex and love are like tea and milk. They can be mixed or they can be taken straight. Each has certain distinctive characteristics, but when they are combined they form a unique substance.” FormCertainSexTakenUniqueAnd LoveTeaSubstanceCharacteristicsMilkDistinctiveSex And Love Author:Joyce Brothers
“I dream about speaking in big forums about issues that need to be spoken about. I dream about helping others who I know and love, helping them realize their dreams. I dream about being able to express myself through acting and writing, definitely. I dream about bringing more realism into the world. Sometimes I just feel like certain things are so glossed over and covered up and swept under the rug and I just want to bring them out.” KnowsWorldWantNeedsFeelsWritingSometimesHelpingDreamBigsAbleCertainRealizingActingIssuesAnd LoveHelping OthersCoveredRealismForumsCovered Up Author:Alicia Keys
“Culture is an abstraction; it cannot actually be seen or touched.... We see people acting in agreed-upon ways in the face of similar situations...we notice people moving their bodies in certain ways - making choices in their lives about where to live, what to eat, how to learn, how to work and love - in response to similar events and experiences, and say: "oh, these people belong to the same culture".” PeopleWayBodyFacesMovingCertainChoicesCultureActingSituationEventsAnd LoveResponseTouchedAbstractionMaking ChoicesWork And Love Author:H. Ned Seelye
“Living becomes a glorious experience only when it is sweetened by tolerance and love. Willingness to compromise with others ways of living and cooperation in common tasks, these make living happy and fruitful. Certain modes of behaviour have been laid down and proved beneficial by centuries of practice.” WayHas BeensCertainCommonPracticeCenturyTasksAnd LoveDown AndToleranceCompromiseGloriousWillingnessCooperationBehaviourBeneficialLive Happy Author:Sathya Sai Baba
“I care about the people I know and love the most, but I also care about what the people I don't know think in the sense that I want them to think and understand me in a certain way. I don't base my life around either one, and I don't change the way I live to please either set of people, but I do care.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWayWantCareCertainPleaseAnd LoveI CareDon't ChangeUnderstand MeI Do Care Author:Marilyn Manson
“We are all dropped into our lives on this planet with a limited amount of time and cosmic understanding, yet we know one thing for certain: we wish to live. We share this yearning for life and love with all the beings that fly, grow, slither or swim amongst us.” KnowsCertainWishGrowsUnderstandingOur LivesOne ThingSharePlanetsAmountAnd LoveSwimCosmicYearningLife And Love Author:Ian Somerhalder
“If you live in a society where those who govern society and determine its path do not respect freedom of speech and freedom of religion, freedom of choice, freedom of assembly, and if there is no democratic process and no way to change the order of things by reason and peace and love and so on, and if, as a result of that, certain ideas in which you believe are being crushed, then I think the only way you can defend yourself against this violence is in using violence of your own.” IfsThinkingWayBelieveIdeasReasonCertainOrderChoicesProcessResultsPathViolenceSpeechAnd LoveDemocraticDetermineFreedom Of SpeechCrushedAssemblyFreedom Of ChoicePeace And LoveFreedom Of ReligionDemocratic ProcessFreedom Of Assembly Author:Pierre Trudeau
“So the Midwest nourishes us [...] and presents us with the spectacle of a land and a people completed and certain. And so we run to our bedrooms and read in a fever, and love the big hardwood trees outside the windows, and the terrible Midwest summers, and the terrible Midwest winters [...]. And so we leave it sorrowfully, having grown strong and restless by opposing with all our will and mind and muscle its simple, loving, single will for us: that we stay, that we stay and find a place among its familiar possibilities. Mother knew we would go; she encouraged us.” PeopleMindBigsRunningMotherCertainStrongSimpleTreeLandPossibilityTerribleSummerWindowAnd LoveWinterFamiliarMusclesBedroomRestlessFeverOpposingMidwestHardwood Author:Annie Dillard
“There’s a reason we are drawn to the light. A reason why we fear darkness. It’s important to be terrified and unnerved about certain things. That way we will choose another path. The path that leads us to truth and love.” WayLoveInspirationalImportantReasonLightTruthCertainFearDarknessPathWise WordsAnd LoveDisappointmentReason WhyTerrifiedFinding LoveEverything Happens For A ReasonTruth And Love Author:Ted Dekker
“Human beings, in point of fact, are lonely by nature, and one should feel sorry for them and love them and mourn with them. It is certain that people would understand one another better and love one another more if they would admit to one another how lonely they were, how sad they were in their tormented, anxious longings and feeble hopes.” PeopleIfsFeelsShouldHumansFactsCertainHuman BeingsLonelyAnd LoveLongingSorryAnxiousMournLove One Another Author:Halldór Laxness
“He has built a pedestal for her so tall that she is afraid to be lifted atop it, because to fall would mean certain death. But oh, she would rise far, far beyond fear and be held by arms so strong, and love so pure, that falling would not be an option.” MeanCertainFallStrongArmsPureBuiltAnd LoveTallPedestalCertain Death Author:Ellen Hopkins
“If cynicism and love lie at opposite ends of a spectrum, do we not sometimes fall in love in order to escape the debilitating cynicism to which we are prone? Is there not in every coup de foudre a certain willful exaggeration of the qualities of the beloved, an exaggeration which distracts us from our habitual pessimism and focuses our energies on someone in whom we can believe in a way we have never believed in ourselves?” IfsWayBelieveEndsSometimesLyingCertainOrderFallEnergyQualityOppositesAnd LoveFalling In LoveBelovedPessimismCynicismSpectrumExaggerationHabitualCoupsLove Lies Book:On Love: A Novel Source: On Love: A Novel
“The only position that leaves me with no cognitive dissonance is atheism. It is not a creed. Death is certain, replacing both the siren-song of Paradise and the dread of Hell. Life on this earth, with all its mystery and beauty and pain, is then to be lived far more intensely: we stumble and get up, we are sad, confident, insecure, feel loneliness and joy and love. There is nothing more; but I want nothing more.” ThinkingWantFeelsMotivationalEarthPainJoyCertainReligionSongHellMysterySadnessAtheismLonelinessPositionAnd LoveAtheistGet UpParadiseMortalityDreadCreedsInsecureLeaving MeThere Is No GodCognitiveSirensTheistDissonanceThere Being No GodCognitive DissonanceSubtle AtheistSiren Song Book:The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever Source: The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever
“One cannot avoid a certain feeling of disgust, when one observes the actions of man displayed on the great stage of the world. Wisdom is manifested by individuals here and there; but the web of human history as a whole appears to be woven from folly and childish vanity, often, too, from puerile wickedness and love of destruction: with the result that at the end one is puzzled to know what idea to form of our species which prides itself so much on its advantages.” KnowsMenWorldHumansIdeasEndsWholeFeelingsActionFormCertainIndividualResultsExistenceStagePrideAdvantageDestructionAnd LoveSpeciesVanityFollyDisgustingWickednessHuman HistoryHere And ThereHuman ExistenceWovenPuzzled Author:Immanuel Kant