When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.
Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.
A great leader will not waste time reacting to the filthy toolkit but will devote that time to the growth of the entity.
Loving others always costs us something and requires effort. And you have to decide to do it on purpose. You can’t wait for a feeling to motivate you.
There is a huge difference between living a Christian life and living a religious life
Buffett does enjoy being a billionaire, but in offbeat ways. As he put it, though money cannot change your health or how many people love you, it lets you be in ‘more interesting environments.
He could only consider me as the living corpse of a would-be suicide, a person dead to shame, an idiot ghost.
I really believe that everyone has a talent, ability, or skill that he can mine to support himself and to succeed in life.
We lay there and looked up at the night sky and she told me about stars called blue squares and red swirls and I told her I’d never heard of them. Of course not, she said, the really important stuff they never tell you. You have to imagine it on your own.
Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on.
Yes Headwoman Azaze. But I never lie to Rosethorn. She, um, discourages it.Evvy and I have an understanding. She grabbed the teakettle and poured hot water into the mug. She tells me the truth, and I don’t hang her in the first well we come to. It’s a solution that works tolerably well for both of us.
Without darkness, nothing comes to birth, As without light, nothing flowers.
Life is a bowl of cherries. Some cherries are rotten while others are good; its your job to throw out the rotten ones and forget about them while you enjoy eating the ones that are good! There are two kinds of people: those who choose to throw out the good cherries and wallow in all the rotten ones, and those who choose to throw out all the rotten ones and savor all the good ones.
Love was that way. You could not render it in black or white. It always came down to the strange, blended shades of grey.
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
It’s really only all about music. It’s not like a big rocket scientist kind of philosophy or anything.
You can be in love and you can be in a relationship. But they’re not always the same thing.
I wrestled Jordan Burroughs two times – Jordan Burroughs had a hell of a time trying to take me down. I stopped his double leg numerous times. And he also, probably, fractured my sternum – from me trying to stop him.
That’s what I love about Aibileen, she can take the most complicated things in life and wrap them up so small and simple, they’ll fit right in your pocket.
Ackx must have owed him big time,” Q said in his drawly Clint Eastwood voice. “A favour like that doesn’t come cheap.” Bonnyman spat into the fire. “A favour like that is only made between psychosis and a lust for power.
The trouble with being in the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still a rat.
Show me your hands. Do they have scars from giving? Show me your feet. Are they wounded in service? Show me your heart. Have you left a place for divine love?
Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.
Oh God, Alaska, I love you. I love you, and the Colonel whispered, I’m so sorry, Pudge. I know you did, and I said, No. Not past tense. She wasn’t even a person anymore, just flesh rotting, but I loved her present tense.
Nature creates while destroying, and doesn’t care whether it creates or destroys as long as life isn’t extinguished, as long as death doesn’t lose its rights.
They do make love stories for girls with black hearts after all. They go like this.
To me, what philosophy does best is reflect on knowledge that’s generated in other areas.
Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.
What I try to tell young people is that if you come together with a mission, and its grounded with love and a sense of community, you can make the impossible possible.
Writing, painting, singing- it cannot stop everything. Cannot halt death in its tracks. But perhaps it can make the pause between death’s footsteps sound and look and feel beautiful, can make the space of waiting a place where you can linger without as much fear. For we are all walking each other to our deaths, and the journey there between footsteps makes up our lives.
Life always begins with one step outside of your comfort zone.
St. Paul would say to the philosophers that God created man so that he would seek the Divine, try to attain the Divine. That is why all pre-Christian philosophy is theological at its summit.
For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.
Each moment is perfect and heaven-sent, in that each moment holds the seeds for growth.
Follow me, reader! Who told you that there is no true, faithful, eternal love in this world! May the liar’s vile tongue be cut out! Follow me, my reader, and me alone, and I will show you such a love!
I answer the heroic question, ‘Death, where is thy sting?’ with ‘It is in my heart and mind and memories.
Be of good cheer about death, and know this of a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
Each moment spent on this bright blue planet is precious so use it carefully.
In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit.
Vrijeme se vrti oko nas premda se čini kako smo mi podređeni vrtnjama Vremena.
Love without sex is still the most efficient form of hell known to man.
Imagination is cheap as long as you don’t have to worry about the details.
Our immortality comes through our children and their children. Through our roots and branches. The family is immortality. And Hitler has destroyed not just branches and roots, but entire family trees, forests. All of them, gone.
In any case, this is how all our stories begin, in darkness with our eyes closed, and all our stories end the same way, too, with all of us uttering some last words—or perhaps someone else’s—before slipping back into darkness as our series of unfortunate events comes to an end.
Marius and Cosette were in the dark in regard to each other. They did not speak, they did not bow, they were not acquainted; they saw each other; and, like the stars in the sky separated by millions of leagues, they lived by gazing upon each other.
Death is an inevitability, isn’t it? You become more aware of that when you get to my age. I don’t worry about it. I’m ready for it. When I go, I want to go doing what I do best. If I died tomorrow, I couldn’t complain. It’s been good.
I hope it is not necessary for me to stress the platonic nature of our relationship- not platonic in the purest sense, there was no philosophical discourse, but we certainly didn’t fuck, which is usually what people mean by platonic; which I bet would really piss Plato off, that for all his thinking and chatting his name has become an adjective for describing sexless trysts.
When God issues a call to us, it is always a holy call. The vocation of dying is a sacred vocation. To understand that is one of the most important lessons a Christian can ever learn. When the summons comes, we can respond in many ways. We can become angry, bitter or terrified. But if we see it as a call from God and not a threat from Satan, we are far more prepared to cope with its difficulties.
There is just as much beauty in birth as there is in death, and it changes our lives just the same. They both add things to us and take things away. Pg. 155 Undone
Time is like a river flowing endlessly through the universe. And if you poled your flatboat in that river you might fight your way against the current and travel upstream into the past. Or go with the flow and rush into the future. This was in a less cynical time before toxic waste dumping and pollution filled the waterway of Chronus with the detritus of empty hours wasted minutes years of repetition and time that has been killed.
From whichever side I start, I think I am in an old place where others have been before me.
As commonly practiced, philosophy is the attempt to find good reasons for conventional beliefs.
It’s a reflex. Hear a bell, get food. See an undead, throw a knife. Same thing, really.
Change is not always growth, but growth is often rooted in change.Drizzt Do’Urden