One thing that remains the same is God. Time changes, people change too but God does not change.
Men drive off bridges and drink too much because of women like you.
Perhaps the easiest way of making a town’s acquaintance is to ascertain how the people in it work, how they love, and how they die.
My father lived by the philosophy, ‘Be yourself, because everyone else is taken,’ and he made sure I did, too. Whatever I wanted to do, he supported me. I don’t mean that I was spoilt – he didn’t believe in material gifts – but he watched my back while I worked to achieve things.
To get eight days a week, get up one hour early daily and you’ll have the time worth approx one working day. Use that time for the productive work you always dreamt of.
I tried to think the same thought in as many different religions as possible, so the thought itself wouldn’t be limited by any particular way of reasoning, the way words restrict — the whole eskimo-seventeen-words-for-snow idea.
Systematic theology – be careful how you tie down the Word to fit your set and final creeds, systems, dogmas, and organized theistic philosophies! The Word of God is not bound! It’s free to say what it will to the individual, and no one can outline it into dispensations which cannot be broken.
We have long become overgrown with calluses; we no longer hear people being killed. (X)
If you’re really listening, if you’re awake to the poignant beauty of the world, your heart breaks regularly. In fact, your heart is made to break; its purpose is to burst open again and again so that it can hold evermore wonders.
The one thing I regret is that I will never have time to read all the books I want to read.
Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.
Where the body began its slow dance with death, one falling leaf at a time, one sunset after the other, the spirit livened with every moment, with every realization that time was a gift far more precious than wealth.
My objection to the death penalty is based on the idea that this is a democracy, and in a democracy the government is me, and if the government kills somebody then I’m killing somebody.
I want to live and feel all the shades, tones, and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.
Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent.
Sometimes you will think you can’t take it another day. But if you hang in there, one step at a time, you will be able to accomplish more than you ever imagine.
The death penalty, I think, is a terrible scar on American justice, especially the concept of equal justice under law, but also of due process. And it goes state by state, and it’s different in different states.
We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically.
The stalker, meanwhile, stepped into the road. Didn’t even check for traffic. There wasn’t any, but something told me this was lucky for traffic rather than the stalker.
He couldn’t believe it was only Wednesday. And it was made worse when he realized it was actually Tuesday.
I can make it rain, just by waiting. I’m like that all the time, some of the time.
I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief… For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
He is a man, who is to be a man, the fruit is always present in the seed.
Life has but one true charm: the charm of the game. But what if we’re indifferent to whether we win or lose?
Few of us ever live in the present. We are forever anticipating what is to come or remembering what has gone.
Pretend you are foolish to the foolish, and be yourself when you are alone or with others like you, because if you take the foolish seriously as your friend, you might be a fool yourself.
You can be everything. You can be the infinite amount of things that people are.
God is a philosophical black hole – the point where reason breaks down.
Do not do anything local as believers. Whatever you do should be magnified to be comprehensive
Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.…’Tis not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger.
All men have an emotion to kill; when they strongly dislike some one they involuntarily wish he was dead. I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.
When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward – or go back. He who now talks about the ‘freedom of the press’ goes backward, and halts our headlong course towards Socialism.
I’m not afraid to die. What I’m afraid of is having reality get the better of me, of having reality leave me behind.
I’d heard you were dead.”I heard you wear a red lace corset,” I said matter-of-factly. “But I don’t believe every bit of nonsense that gets rumored about.
I don’t want to die in darkness any thicker than this. I want to bring some kind of resolution in my life.
If I had a single flower for every time I think about you, I could walk forever in my garden.
Ageing is nothing to be ashamed ofEspecially when the entire race is in it togetherAlthough sometimes it seems that she alone among her friends wants to celebrate getting olderBecause it’s such a privilege to not die prematurely
From now on, I’m not doing anything I don’t want to do! The world owes me happiness, fulfillment and success…. I’m just here to cash in.
But love is complicated, it’s messy. It can inspire selflessness, selfishness, our greatest accomplishments and our hardest mistakes. It brings us together and it can just as easily drive us apart.
Everyone knows revenge is a dish best served when you’ve had enough time to build up enough vitriol and fury.
Nor dread nor hope attendA dying animal;A man awaits his endDreading and hoping all.
That’s all you can do in this world, no matter how strong the current beats against you, or how heavy your burden, or how tragic your love story. You keep going.
Stop asking God to bless what you’re doing. Find out what God’s doing. It’s already blessed.
Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. It is the one thing we are interested in here.
The beauty of the sea is that it never shows any weakness and never tires of the countless souls that unleash their broken voices into its secret depths.
It is better to have an enemy who will fight you in an open field then a lover who will kill you in your sleep.
But death was her curse and her gift, and death had been her good friend these long, long years.
Something inside a man goes to pieces when he has to bury the only person who ever understood him. There is no time to heal that sort of wound.
The first and most important thing an individual can do is to become an individual again, decontrol himself, train himself as to what is going on and win back as much independent ground for himself as possible
Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time.
Grimly, she realized that clocks don’t make a sound that even remotely resembles ticking, tocking. It was more the sound of a hammer, upside down, hacking methodically at the earth. It was the sound of a grave.
It is perfectly monstrous,’ he said, at last, ‘the way people go about nowadays saying things against one behind one’s back that are absolutely and entirely true.
There is a compression in technology and it is getting smaller and smaller. The speed of processors is defined by how tightly the dies can be cast together. Which is why blue-shifting is related to consciousness. But this detail is, as far as I can tell, unknown to the Terran scientific community, despite every article relating to computing summarizing this fact.
If you think you don’t have enough time to work out remind yourself that there is no better way to make more time than increasing your chances of living longer.
I’m not ashamed of heroic ambitions. If man and woman can only dance upon this earth for a few countable turns of the sun… let each of us be an Artemis, Odysseus, or Zeus… Aphrodite to the extent of the will of each one.
Death was standing behind a lectern, poring over a map. He looked at Mort as if he wasn’t entirely there.Yᴏᴜ ʜᴀᴠᴇɴ’ᴛ ʜᴇᴀʀᴅ ᴏғ ᴛʜᴇ Bᴀʏ Oғ Mᴀɴᴛᴇ, ʜᴀᴠᴇ ʏᴏᴜ? he said.“No, sir,” said Mort.Fᴀᴍᴏᴜs sʜɪᴘᴡʀᴇᴄᴋ ᴛʜᴇʀᴇ.“Was there?”Tʜᴇʀᴇ ᴡɪʟʟ ʙᴇ, said Death, ɪғ I ᴄᴀɴ ғɪɴᴅ ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴀᴍɴ ᴘʟᴀᴄᴇ.
I was thinking about how people seem to read the bible a lot more as they get older, and then it dawned on me—they’re cramming for their final exam.
I used to spend so much time reacting and responding to everyone else that my life had no direction. Other people’s lives, problems, and wants set the course for my life. Once I realized it was okay for me to think about and identify what I wanted, remarkable things began to take place in my life.
I know LSD; I don’t need to take it anymore. Maybe when I die, like Aldous Huxley.