#rosy

The faith a movement proclaims doesn't count: what counts is the hope it offers. All heresies are the banner of a reality, an exclusion. Scratch the heresy and you will find the leper. Every battle against heresy wants only this: to keep the leper as he is. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#heresy #leprosy #poverty #faith

If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#feel #god #i #i can #into

It wasn’t that she necessarily wanted to “socialize” at the bonfire, but she wanted to broadcast to the general population that her antisocial behavior was a personal choice not a sentence to social leprosy. ↗

— J.D. Stroube

#behavior #bonfire #choice #cliques #horror

The State of the Union may look rosy from the White House balcony or the suites of George Bush's wealthiest donors. But hardworking Americans will see through this president's efforts to wrap his radical agenda with a compassionate ribbon. ↗

— Howard Dean

#balcony #bush #compassionate #donors #efforts

Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#flame #friendship #pass #rosy #sinking

With a strong domestic economy, low national unemployment at 5 percent, and increasing retail sales, the picture should look rosy. But one look at the trade deficit changes all of that. ↗

— Jo Ann Emerson

#deficit #domestic #economy #increasing #look

There are still 500,000 persons afflicted with leprosy in Latin America, so it is still very much present. ↗

— Walter Salles

#america #latin #latin america #leprosy #much

The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted. ↗

— Mother Teresa

#biggest #disease #feeling #leprosy #rather

What I secretly longed for was to disentangle myself of all those lives which had woven themselves into the pattern of my own life and were making my destiny a part of theirs. To shake myself free of these accumulating experiences which were mine only by force of inertia required a violent effort. Now and then I lunged and tore at the net, but only to become more enmeshed. My liberation seemed to involve pain and suffering to those near and dear to me. Every move I made for my own private good brought about reproach and condemnation. I was a traitor a thousand times over. ↗

— Henry Miller

#rosy-crucifixion #society #experience

I was not given to looking at life in a rosy light. ↗

— Georg Brandes

#i #life #light #looking #rosy