J.R. Miller Quotes
Lonely as God, and white as a winter moon, Mount Shasta starts up sudden and solitary from the heart of the great black forests of Northern California
The man who is intoxicated with life does not pass judgment, does not seek to come to a conclusion, does not impose his message on the world.
What is the most innocent place in any country? Is it not the insane asylum? These people drift through life truly innocent, unable to see into themselves at all.
Clinging uncritically to traditional ideas and beliefs often serves to obscure or deny real facts of our life history.
If a mother respects both herself and her child from his very first day onward, she will never need to teach him respect for others.
Human beings are human beings. They say what they want, don't they? They used to say it across the fence while they were hanging wash. Now they just say it on the Internet.
My love for you isn't just my affair, it's yours too. My love says something about you that maybe you yourself don't know.
I soon found out you can't change the world. The best you can do is to learn to live with it.
Estrogen is a powerful if vengeful hormone affecting a woman's fertility, moods, sleep patterns, appetite. Estrogen is the household heating oil of womanhood.
Superman punched out Hitler. So did Captain America. That's one of the things they're there for.
TV evangelists say they don't favor any particular denomination, but I think we've all seen their eyes light up at tens and twenties.
A racial community provides not only a sense of identity, that luxury of looking into another's face and seeing yourself reflected back, but a sense of security and support.
I'm a tad paranoid. I think the person in front of me is following me the long way round.
as a society emphasizes and values some aspects of the total range of human potentials more than others, the valued aspects are associated closely with, and limited to, the dominant group's domain.
Conflict is inevitable, the source of all growth, and an absolute necessity if one is to be alive.
Fear is a manipulative emotion that can trick us into living a boring life.
No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore to us the belief in our own guidance.
Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate, or despise, serves to defeat us in the end.
In men whom men condemn as ill I find so much of goodness still, In men whom men pronounce divine I find so much of sin and blot, I do not dare to draw a line Between the two, where God has not.
Man, as man, has never realized himself. The greater part of him, his potential being, has always been submerged. What is history if not the endless story of his repeated failures?
We must look to Mary's example to know how to deal with the glorious impossibilities of God. Look how she turned the world upside down by making one simple statement.
'Cartoonists' dirty secret is that we tend to come up with stories that involve things that are really fun to draw.
You're confronted with the quandary: do I grind things to a halt? Ideally you would, but I have better things to do than educate people.
It is silly to go on pretending that under the skin we are brothers. The truth is more likely that under the skin we are all cannibals, assassins, traitors, liars and hypocrites.
If you want to bond with your friends, do something very hard with them, something that you won't be able to do alone.
I'm still having fun and as long as skiing is enjoyable, I'm going to continue to do it.
Sometimes I'm disciplined, but I like to be a total slacker, too. I party hard, but I train hard.
By choosing to live above the ordinary level we create extraordinary problems for ourselves.
All great people glorify their history and look back upon their early attainments with a spiritualized vision.
If what you are doing is important, you will encounter resistance. If what you are doing isn't important it will be easy.
The worst sin that can be committed against the artist is to take him at his word, to see in his work a fulfillment instead of an horizon.
Sometimes it's hard to pick right from wrong. The best thing we can do is go with our heart and hope it all goes well.
It's important to have a plan, a big picture. You can deviate from it or change it completely, but it gives you something to work for.
The poet speaks adequately only when he speaks somewhat wildly... not with intellect alone, but with intellect inebriated by nectar.
Gymnastics is a lot like life. You don't become an Elite gymnast by bickering and having a negative attitude. You have to be positive to get to that level.
The all-victorious Christ is like a great rock in a weary land, to whose shelter we may flee in every time of sorrow or trial, finding quiet refuge and peace in him.
The task of the real intellectual consists of analyzing illusions in order to discover their causes.
Women say they have sexual thoughts too. They have no idea. It's the difference between shooting a bullet and throwing it. If they knew what we were really thinking, they'd never stop slapping us.