It Is Eternal. Quotes
Still amazes me that people spend more time researching a new vehicle than they do the religion they entrust their souls to.
Suffering is not good for the soul, unless it teaches you how to stop suffering. That is its purpose.
If Darwin had seen in life what Dostoevsky saw, he would not have talked of the law of the preservation of species, but of its destruction.
Sometimes it seems as though each new step towards AI, rather than producing something which everyone agrees is real intelligence, merely reveals what real intelligence is not.
Intellectual controversies tend to be like dog fights without the teeth, in which the barking not the biting does the damage.
First bubble baths. Now Disney parks. You're shattering every creep vampire myth I've ever heard.
I look for you in every life, but I don't always find you. And sometimes I find you too late.
After all, what more does a true genius want? The mind itself is the palace where all the real treasures, the works of art, the indulgences exist.
Okay, boys.” Pestilence's grating voice rang out. “Kill the human and the mutt, and let's get this Apocalypse started!
We're all dead the moment we're born. Just, some of us get there faster than others.
Rhage exhaled slowly, air easing out of his nose. As he sank into his skin, he reveled in the perfection of peace. The heavenly silence. The great roaring absence.
With thought, patience, and discrimination, book passion becomes the signature of a person's character.
GPs are almost the only doctors these days who understand all problems, can see the whole person…spend time with the dying…see things through to the end.
Language has created the word “loneliness” to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word “solitude” to express the glory of being alone.
He doesn't need to tend her, because she hunts her own prey. He doesn't need to shield her, because she kills her own enemies. He doesn't need to look for her, because she's always at his side.
I now understood that real secrets were lonely. They planted themselves inside of you and expanded, until you felt like that was all you were-a lonely little secret, isolated in your experiences.
What you did in the past is your business. Those were your choices—your mistakes—if you even believe they were mistakes. Stop caring what anyone thinks and live your life the way you want to live it.
To be defeated is only a fable in which one may tell of oneself. I will try and I will try again, though never shall I call it failure. I am simply one step closer to thy truth.
Life may look to be made up of incredible coincidences. One problem. I don’t believe in coincidences. I believe in twists of fate.
They’ve worked the absolute-power-corrupts-absolutely truth since the beginning of time. They foment destruction and chaos. It puts them in their happy place.
You are the reason my heart beats. Your love is my lifeline, and I'm not about to give it up - not now - not ever!
Whoever has hatred toward someone is that hatred.
One can repent of a sin and have done with it
The body is only a garment. How many times you have changed your clothing in this life, yet because of this you would not say that you have changed.
There was no need to hurry that future—yet the length of his own youth pressed upon him. Whatever he was to do next he wanted to begin now. But how to begin and on what?
But Dostoevsky does allow himself to ask just this very question: whether our reason has any right to judge between the possible and the impossible.
Believe in Eternity, believe in childhood, believe that the beauty of innocence lives on and on and on. I know it does.
If a cavalcade of organized killing has nothing to teach us, I don’t know what does.
Way to defuse a situation. It's tough to enjoy a good bloodbath in the middle of a PowerPoint presentation.
You are a manipulator.I like to think of myself more as an outcome engineer.
Whoever does decide to awaken should put their whole effort, attention, and life into it, in order to make it succeed.
You will never have a greater or lesser dominion than that over yourself...the height of a man's success is gauged by his self-mastery
You can not fix everything. You can not fix most of what's wrong. But you can try. And it is in trying that you learn who you are.
The gods made the world round so that we could never see too far into our own futuer.
To take each day as a separate page, to be read carefully, savoring all of the details, this is best for me, I think.
Crowds moved wherever he went, across the bridge to Manhattan, in New York, wherever he went, life flowed and eddied, but he was not part of it.
CLEMENTINE: This is it, Joel. It's going to be gone soon.JOEL: I know.CLEMENTINE: What do we do?JOEL: Enjoy it.
In Nepal, the quality of conversation is much more important than accuracy of the content. Maybe we get overexcited about information in England?
Major Chhetri's pronouncement when we'd first arrived in Nepal came echoing back: "Things that start in the rain end well.
Believers who come to know the Scripture in a living way, in both knowledge and Spirit, can in turn, use this Word to minister to people around them.