The older I get, the more I believe in what I can't explain or understand, even more than the things that are explainable and understandable.
Interpretation
As we age, we may find greater value in the mysteries of life than in rational explanations.
Lillian Gishβs quote reflects the wisdom that often comes with age, suggesting that as we grow older, we may become more inclined to embrace the unknown and the inexplicable aspects of life. This perspective highlights the limitations of rationality and encourages a deeper appreciation for the mysteries and wonders that cannot easily be understood, recognizing that these elements can hold significant meaning in our lives.
In practice
A public speaking event discussing the role of faith in understanding our lives as we age.
You know, when I first went into the movies Lionel Barrymore played my grandfather. Later he played my father and finally he played my husband. If he had lived I'm sure I would have played his mother. That's the way it is in Hollywood. The men get younger and the women get older.
I never approved of talkies. Silent movies were well on their way to developing an entirely new art form. It was not just pantomine, but something wonderfully expressive.
The stage was our school, our home, our life.
I've never been in style, so I can't go out of style.
If conversion makes no improvements in a man's outward actions then I think his 'conversion' was largely imaginary.
At the center of the Christian faith is the affirmation that there is a God in the universe who is the ground and essence of all reality. A Being of infinite love and boundless power, God is the creator, sustainer, and conserver of values....In contrast to the ethical relativism of [totalitarianism], Christianity sets forth a system of absolute moral values and affirms that God has placed within the very structure of this universe certain moral principles that are fixed and immutable.
If a juror feels that the statute involved in any criminal offence is unfair, or that it infringes upon the defendant's natural god-given unalienable or constitutional rights, then it is his duty to affirm that the offending statute is really no law at all and that the violation of it is no crime at all, for no one is bound to obey an unjust law.
MAJESTY, n. The state and title of a king. Regarded with a just contempt by the Most Eminent Grand Masters, Grand Chancellors, Great Incohonees and Imperial Potentates of the ancient and honorable orders of republican America.
This is the secret of spiritual life: to think that I am the Atman and not the body, and that the whole of this universe with all its relations, with all its good and all its evil, is but as a series of paintings...scenes on a canvas...of which I am the witness.
Pessimism is a very easy way out because it is a short view of life. If you look at what is happening around us today, you can't help but feel that life is a terrible complexity of problems. But if you look back a few thousand years, you realize that we have advanced fantastically. If you take a long view, I do not see how you can be pessimistic about the future of mankind.
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