RavenDreams’s most recent Quotables

I have stepped off the relationship scene to come to terms with myself. I have spent most of my adult life being 'someone's girlfriend', and now I am happy being single.

Loneliness is not lack of company, loneliness is lack of purpose.

I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else.

Language has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone and the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.

I can't even find someone for a platonic relationship, much less the kind where someone wants to see me naked.

In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.

In life, we don’t get what we want — we get in life what we are. If we want more, we have to be able to be more. In order to be more, you have to face rejection.

A man is not a courtier unless he can do everything.

You have to love dancing to stick to it. It gives you nothing back, no manuscripts to store away, no paintings to show on walls and maybe hang in museums, no poems to be printed and sold, nothing but that single fleeting moment when you feel alive. It is not for unsteady souls.

Talk to me about the truth of religion and I'll listen gladly. Talk to me about the duty of religion and I'll listen submissively. But don't come talking to me about the consolations of religion or I shall suspect that you don't understand.

What makes a religion false? If any religion is right, then maybe they all have to be right. Maybe God doesn't care how you say your prayers, just as long as you say them.

If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.

Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control. Science deals mainly with facts; religion deals mainly with values. The two are not rivals. They are complementary.

There is nothing in which deduction is so necessary as religion. It can be built up as an exact science by the reasoner. Our highest assurance of the goodness of Providence seems to me to rest in the flowers. All other things, our powers, our desires, our food, are all really necessary for our existence in the first instance. But this rose is an extra.

Religion is a way of walking, not a way of talking.

Life itself is only a vision, a dream; nothing exists save empty space and you. And you are but a thought.

A crutch isn't bad if you need it.

Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life.

When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.

Not that I want to be a god or a hero. Just to change into a tree, grow for ages, not hurt anyone.