Thought Quotes
And so she ghosted on, in relentless pursuit of escape, not from society, but from herself.
bottom of page 33:We all want to feel needed, and we also want to be with people who can manage on their own, if needbe.
Anytime a group of people assemble for a common cause, amazing things can happen.
Around the lunch table everyone seems to have given something up---dairy, meat, gluten, sugar, carbs. Only in a land of plenty could people voluntarily go without so much.
Don't turn over rocks if you don't want to see the pale creatures who live under them.
Yes, I still believe in God. That hasn't changed. I just needed some time away.”“Ah.” Inspector Carrola clicked his tongue. “For your sake, I hope that God does not need some time away from you.
We are forever changed by the moments that we live but the moments we live cannot be changed.
If they'd given her a proper time machine, she probably would have used it to cuddle with him. Let somebody else kill Hitler.
Is religion defending our physical integrity or is it just opposed to fashion?
Nothing can be cut away. Even the worst of our memories is part of the foundation that keeps us in the world.
My life is like an O Henry story....the funniest girl in the world and the boy who never laughs.
What about an amnesiac, who awakes having lost his memories and must learn of his past from scratch? Has he died? How can we be just memories? How does that leave us with enough?
Show me a hero and I'll show you a man enslaved by his competence.
Are you a Christian? she said.I answered:I am a Christian, I am a Jew, I am a Catholic, I am Muslim. I am each and everyone of you my child, look into the mirror and you will see me, as i see you..
If we lost everything except for the clothes we stood up in, would we turn to each other and think....How lucky we really were?
Simply by living in this particular time and space, you're doing something nearly 100% of all other humans ever never could. Don't waste it.
But ask us to prove even to ourselves we are right in our belief, and we are in a quandary.
How do you explain to your friend's mother why a night out with friends has left her daughter dying from an ecstasy overdose?
Knowledge is what enables one to be wrong. (p. 11)
A slave mentality which had been built into him by years of carrot-and-whip grading, a mule mentality which said, “If you don’t whip me, I won’t work.” He didn’t get whipped. He didn’t work.
There are symbolic dreams-dreams that symbolize some reality. Then there are symbolic realities-realities that symbolize a dream
How can the removal of beauty from a world so lacking in beauty be anything but tragic?
I don't understand, " Belle cried. "I gave you gold. You only gave me grief.
They Were all clad in the same uniform of misery and filth. For all of time, for all of eternity
Have you ever been in a conflict with someone who thought he was wrong. If you are not wrong, then you will be willing to consider how you might be mistaken.
It's not, " Mormont told him. "Gods save us, boy, you're not blind and you're not stupid. When dead men come hunting in the night, do you think it matters who sits the Iron Throne?
Sometimes I wonder if any of us are cut out for the lives we lead.
Then we are living in a place abandoned by God, " I said, disheartened."Have you found any places where God would have felt at home?" William asked me, looking down from his great height.
This is how everything should end: with the forgotten remembered, the wounded healed, and the sinners forgiven.
Do you think it is better to fail at something worthwhile, or succeed at something meaningless
He lingered at the door, and said, 'The Lion wants courage, the Tin Man a heart, and the Scarecrow brains. Dorothy wants to go home. What do you wan
A book is the only true land of the free: within its borders, anything is possible
Stop waiting and start working. Stop wishing and start walking.
we believe certain things because they ought to be true.
In our Impulsive nature to write and repulsive nature to read that has led to a decline in literary genius in our times!
Random thoughts have the potential to create a chaotic reality.
You can't do wrong right, but you can do right wrong.
Most info-Web-media-newspaper types have a hard time swallowing the idea that knowledge is reached (mostly) by removing junk from peoples heads
His childhood passed in quiet anxiety.