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Social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings.
Octavio Paz
Begins
Criticism
Grammar
Meanings
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Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.
Octavio Paz
Another
Attempt
Being
Love
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Frederick Buechner
God
Place
Deep
Gladness
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Frederick Buechner
Life
Grace
Sleep
Night
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A miracle is when the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. A miracle is when one plus one equals a thousand.
Frederick Buechner
Miracle
Greater
Sum
Parts
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Frederick Buechner
Wise
Eternally
Curious
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The place to which God calls you is the place where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet.
Frederick Buechner
God
Place
Deep
Gladness
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Lust is the craving for salt of a man who is dying of thirst.
Frederick Buechner
Lust
Craving
Salt
Dying
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Frederick Buechner
Wake
Morning
God
Feet
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If you have never known the power of God's love, then maybe it is because you have never asked to know it - I mean really asked, expecting an answer.
Frederick Buechner
Power
God
Love
Answer
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Without somehow destroying me in the process, how could God reveal himself in a way that would leave no room for doubt? If there were no room for doubt, there would be no room for me.
Frederick Buechner
Process
Reveal
God
Room
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Frederick Buechner
Listen
Life
Moments
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Whether you call on him or don't call on him, God will be present with you.
Frederick Buechner
Whether
God
Preserve
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Frederick Buechner
Long run
Joy
Finally
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Lord, I believe; help my unbelief' is the best any of us can do really, but thank God it is enough
Frederick Buechner
Lord
Believe
Unbelief
God
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The story of any one of us is in some measure the story of us all
Frederick Buechner
Story
Measure
Us all
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He also said we should carve in the year and place where I was born, but I said no. As a man dies many times before he's dead, so does he wend from birth to birth until, by grace, he comes alive at last.
Frederick Buechner
Carve
Place
Grace
Born
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What's lost is nothing to what's found, and all the death that ever was, set next to life, would scarcely fill a cup.
Frederick Buechner
Found
Death
Life
Scarcely
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Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom,' the good thief said from his cross. (Luke 23:42). There are perhaps no more human words in all of Scripture, no prayer we can pray so well
Frederick Buechner
Jesus
Remember
Kingdom
Cross
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There is always the poet, the lunatic, the lover; there is always the religious man who is a queer mixture of the three.
Frederick Buechner
Poet
Lunatic
Lover
Religious
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What keeps the wild hope of Christmas alive year after year in a world notorious for dashing all hopes is the haunting dream that the child who was born that day may yet be born again even in us.
Frederick Buechner
Wild
Hope
Christmas
World
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Frederick Buechner
Theology
Fiction
Autobiographical
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In other words to live Eternal Life in the full and final sense is to be with God as Christ is with him, and with each other as Christ is with us
Frederick Buechner
Word
Eternal
Final sense
Life
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Self-discovery is above all the realization that we are alone: it is the opening of an impalpable, transparent wall - that of our consciousness - between the world and ourselves.
Octavio Paz
Above
Alone
Between
Consciousness
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The Mexican succumbs very easily to sentimental effusions, and therefore he shuns them.
Octavio Paz
Easily
He
Mexican
Sentimental
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When hypocrisy is a character trait, it also affects one's thinking, because it consists in the negation of all the aspects of reality that one finds disagreeable, irrational or repugnant.
Octavio Paz
Affects
Also
Aspects
Because
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One of the most notable traits of the Mexican's character is his willingness to contemplate horror: he is even familiar and complacent in his dealings with it.
Octavio Paz
Character
Complacent
Contemplate
Even
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Abstract painting seeks to be a pure pictorial language, and thus attempts to escape the essential impurity of all languages: the recourse to signs or forms that have meanings shared by everyone.
Octavio Paz
Abstract
Attempts
Escape
Essential
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Octavio Paz
Breathing
Involuntary
Mortals
Natural
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The idea of modernity is beginning to lose its vitality. It is losing it because modernity is no longer a critical attitude but an accepted, codified convention.
Octavio Paz
Accepted
Attitude
Because
Beginning
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Futurists wanted to suggest movement by means of a dynamic painting; Duchamp applies the notion of delay - or, rather, or analysis - to movement.
Octavio Paz
Analysis
Delay
Dynamic
Means
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Yes, I am well aware that nature - or what we call nature: that totality of objects and processes that surrounds us and that alternately creates us and devours us - is neither our accomplice nor our confidant.
Octavio Paz
Accomplice
Am
Aware
Call
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It is not proper to project our feelings onto things or to attribute our own sensations and passions to them. Can it also be improper to see in them a guide, a way of life?
Octavio Paz
Also
Attribute
Feelings
Guide
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No one is alone, and each change here brings about another change there.
Octavio Paz
About
Alone
Another
Brings
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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two. A constant coming and going: wisdom lies in the momentary.
Octavio Paz
Between
Change
Coming
Constant
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Octavio Paz
Always
How
Momentary
Were
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Human writing reflects that of the universe; it is its translation, but also its metaphor: it says something totally different, and it says the same thing.
Octavio Paz
Also
Different
Human
Metaphor
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All poems say the same thing, and each poem is unique. Each part reproduces the others, and each part is different.
Octavio Paz
Different
Each
Others
Part
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The sound of water is worth more than all the poets' words.
Octavio Paz
More
Poets
Sound
Than
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I've never done songs with people just for the sake of the great combination. I've always done songs with friends.
Kid Rock
Always
Combination
Done
Friends
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Octavio Paz
Alert
Awaits
Choose
Close
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I always looked up to so many people before me and was lucky to become such good friends with them. I learned so much hanging out with those cats.
Kid Rock
Always
Become
Before
Cats
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My good friends call me Bobby.
Kid Rock
Bobby
Call
Friends
Good
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Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning.
Joseph Campbell
Alive
Ascribe
Being
Bring
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I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
Joseph Campbell
Alive
Being
Believe
Experience
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One way or another, we all have to find what best fosters the flowering of our humanity in this contemporary life, and dedicate ourselves to that.
Joseph Campbell
Another
Best
Contemporary
Contemporary Life
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Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls.
Joseph Campbell
Bliss
Doors
Follow
Only
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When people get married because they think it's a long-time love affair, they'll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment. But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity.
Joseph Campbell
Affair
Affairs
Because
Disappointment
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Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble.
Joseph Campbell
Another
Every
Facts
Gets
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God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.
Joseph Campbell
God
Intellectual
Levels
Metaphor
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