Christopher Quotes

The forces of piety have always and everywhere been the sworn enemy of the open mind and the open book.

When our thoughts, at times, wander into darkness... remember we are human and have been imbued with free will to choose the light.

When we repay unkindness with unkindness, we perpetuate the cycle of negativity within which our world is embroiled. We have the right and responsibility to choose differently.

Concentrate on the here and now. The future can take care of itself.

A time will come when men will stretch out their eyes. They should see planets like our Earth.

You cannot believe what you do not believe, Rumi siad. I am an Untouchable because my karma dictates it.

I won’t tell you what to believe, Eragon. It is far better to be taught to think critically and then be allowed to make your own decisions than to have someone else’s notions thrust upon you.

[T]o believe in a god is in one way to express a willingness to believe in anything. Whereas to reject the belief is by no means to profess belief in nothing.

Nor is the limitation of what is sayable a limit to the doable: this last is the possibility of literature.

If the achievement of so much in life could not make one happy, then why bother living?

Is it God? Did God set up the dominoes and wait for some human to flick the first one? Or is it the opposite way around? Did humans set them up so God could do the flicking?

You’re like a candle in a dark room, throwing light backwards and forwards.

Buddha had said to make a light of yourself, and if Laurie had anything to say about it, one day he’d glow.

The people most reluctant to use weapons are the ones who can best be trusted with them.

I loved her not for the way she danced with my angels, but for the way the sound of her name could silence my demons.

To give up on a person you care for who is trying and failing is a bad thing, but to cut ties with an individual who is giving zero effort, yet doing a number on your heart makes sense.

Luck is the way the dust settles when God passes by.

Then forgive him. And if you can't forgive, at least forget, for he meant you no harm, however rash that act was.

There is no need to put your heart in a bottle, then you will die.- Ty from Stolen

Everyone dies alone, Eragon. Whether you are a king on a battlefield or a lowly peasant lying in bed among your family, no one can accompany you into the void.

But Charlie could imagine, because he was a Beta Male, and imagination was his curse....

Blessed with the Beta Male imagination, he spent much of his life squinting into the future so he might spot ways in which the world was conspiring to kill him...

Efficiency was a higher priority than imagination.

For Arthur, words gathered in waterfall thoughts that spilled off the page into the pools of imaginaton collecting in his head.

Women had cup sizes to track their development. Men had a ruler and hope.

...men are much softer than women, more sentimental. They cry at the movies and pretend not to. The male of the species is weak. He doesn’t tolerate pain well.

Diplomacy is the art of getting what you want without offending anyone too badly.

Getting healthy will always result in weight loss as a side effect, but a side effect of dieting and weight loss is often poorer health.

These pages testify to the discovery of uhnlikely gifts when we stay in community--especially when we stay after things get hard.

The dream was floating off satisfactorily on an inner sea.

Life is a very beautiful dream, he thought. I'm so glad I chose not to wake up from it just yet.

Mere words cannot defeat a true hero. Unless they happen to be the words to some sort of Instant Death Spell. Magic is scary.

I practice neither black nor white magic.What I do is a technology that I use for my own individual purposes. I don’t strive to be a member of a club.

If it was that easy, the American military would have figured it out years ago.

We were seekers. You are that which is sought, Joshua. You are the source. The end is divinity, in the beginning is the word. You are the word.

Human beings have a deep need to bond and form connections. If we can’t connect with each other, we will connect with whatever we can find … It is disconnection that drives addiction.

Compassion is the most powerful tool you can have when it comes to healing addictions of any kind. Put simply, what your partner needs most from you is compassion.

No one consciously chooses addiction to a substance or behavior over his partner. There are always reasons – powerful ones – why a person retreats into addiction.

In my view, compassion takes empathy to another level. With compassion, there is an internal calling to move empathy into action. Compassion is love in action.

The three jewels of Tao: compassion, moderation, and humility. Balthasar said compassion leads to courage, moderation leads to generosity, and humility leads to leadership.

To stay true to ourselves and remain kind to others is an art. It does require daily vigilance and, at the same time, it’s important to remember that art can often get messy.

Wealth is neither an ends nor a means, it is a symptom.

Awakening your spiritual self is like having a second childhood with faulty parents, broken bones and proverbial brussel sprouts.

Recognize, manage and master your beliefs. They aren’t genetic. They are choices. Choose ones that serve you.

Your life is not a result of your potential, skills or desires, but of your consistent expectations and actions, which largely flow from your values and beliefs.

Think, dream and expect great things. For would you rather be correct in your perception? Or would you rather be exceptional in your life?

Your life today is, for the most part, a manifestation of the stories you told yourself in the past.

Be careful what you look for and expect in life, because you will either find it or create it.

Leaders lead themselves first and foremost. Only then can they act as example and inspiration to others.

Growth or stagnation? There is no in-between. Life always seeks more of itself and death picks up the slack.