“if there ever was a time for sentimentality and traditional merrymaking, one that has transcended religious orientation, Christmas must be that time. The effect seems salutary: even people who ordinarily are as colorful and gay as groundworms, who would dare not consider a flamboyant gesture, hang long strings of brightly colored lights around their houses, trim Christmas trees, and talk to strangers.” PeopleIfsLongLightSeemsHouseReligiousTreeEffectsGayDareStrangerChristmasTraditionalStringsGesturesOrientationColorfulSentimentalityChristmas TreeFlamboyant Book:The Vegetarian Epicure Source: The Vegetarian Epicure
“The best conversation is rare. Society seems to have agreed to treat fictions as realities, and realities as fictions; and the simple lover of truth, especially if on very high grounds, as a religious or intellectual seeker, finds himself a stranger and alien.” IfsRealitySeemsReligiousSimpleFictionLoversConversationIntellectualTreatsStrangerAliensSeekersHigh Ground Book:The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude Source: The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude
“Whoever fears God stands above all manner of fear. He has become a stranger to all the fear of this world and placed it far from himself, and no manner of trembling comes near him.” WorldInspirationalChristianReligiousThis WorldStrangerOrthodoxTremblingFear God Author:Ephrem the Syrian