Jeanette Winterson Quotes About Values

Quotes about: Values

• Art can make a difference because it pulls people up short. It says, don't accept things for their face value; you don't have to go along with any of this; you can think for yourself.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Art, Thinking, Differences

• What you risk reveals what you value.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Risk, Literature, Take A Chance

  Jeanette Winterson (2007). “The Passion”, p.43, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

• What it means to be human is to bring up your children in safety, educate them, keep them healthy, teach them how to care for themselves and others, allow them to develop in their own way among adults who are sane and responsibile, who know the value of the world and not its economic potential. It means art, it means time, it means all the invisibles never counted by the GDP and the census figures. It means knowing that life has an inside as well as an outside. And I think it means love.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Art, Children, Mean

• If we had the courage to love we would not so value these acts of war.

  Jeanette Winterson

  War, Courage To Love, Ifs

• There is no discovery without risk and what you risk reveals what you value.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Discovery, Risk, Values

• You play, you win, you play, you lose. You play. It’s the playing that’s irresistible. Dicing from one year to the next with the things you love, what you risk reveals what you value.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Love, Winning, Years

  Jeanette Winterson (2007). “The Passion”, p.43, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

• ...to live differently, to love differently, to think differently, or to try to. Is the danger of beauty so great that it is better to live without it (the standard model)? Or to fall into her arms fire to fire? There is no discovery without risk and what you risk reveals what you value. Inside the horror of Nagasaki and Hiroshima lies the beauty of Einstein's E=MC squared

  Jeanette Winterson

  Lying, Fall, Thinking

• Reading things that are relevant to the facts of your life is of limited value. The facts are, after all, only the facts, and the yearning passionate part of you will not be met there. That is why reading ourselves as a fiction as well as fact is so liberating. The wider we read the freer we become.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Reading, Fiction, Passionate

  Jeanette Winterson (2011). “Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?”, p.117, Random House

• I did not realize that when money becomes a core value, then education drives towards utility or that the life of the mind will not be counted as good unless it produces measurable results. That public services will no longer be important. That an alternative life to getting and spending will become very difficult as cheap housing disappears. That when communities are destroyed only misery and intolerance are left.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Community, Mind, Important

  Jeanette Winterson (2011). “Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?”, p.140, Random House

• Organized religion is a very bad way of passing on spiritual values because it becomes so corrupted with political and repressive agendas which don't help anybody to develop their spirituality.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Spiritual, Passing On, Political

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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