It Is In Things. Quotes
I liked learning things. How numbers worked together to explain the stars. How molecules made the world. All the ugly and wonderful things people had done in the last two thousand years.
Learning is more than the acquisition of the ability to think
At no moment in history has a bright young girl with plenty of food and a good constitution perished from too much learning.
The great thing about remote or dead masters is that they can't refuse you as an apprentice. You can learn whatever you want from them. They left their lesson plans in their work.
Starting at the bottom is not about humiliation. It's about humility—a realistic assessment of where you are in the learning curve.
People, places and experiences aren’t meant to be labeled and judged, they are meant to be loved and appreciated, since deep down inside, the nature we all share is love, light and happiness.
It's not how long it glows. It's not how long the light lasts. It's what it says while it's still visible.
The world, full of past sound, would be like the sky, full of past light. The world would be like the mind, for which there is no once.
Security comes from Trust.Trust comes from Faith.Faith comes when you eliminate all fear.Ease comes when you are fearless.
Being apart was wrong. Simply lying side by side did more for a relationship than words. A warm bed, a nest of animal intimacy. Words could be misunderstood, whereas loving companionship bred trust.
Often we fail to consider the fact that our social, spiritual, and intellectual interests are miles apart. Our value systems and goals are contradictory, but we are in love.
If I did anything right it was when I decided to practice forgiveness and free my heart from pain.
When we take too long to forgive the people we love, we can sometimes be too damn late for it to matter.
How We Respond to Our Mistakes Has a Profound Effect on the People in Our Lives
Have you ever made a decision that sounded good at the time but then led to unanticipated results?
Ask God to give you the fifty-year view of your hurt.
I do not know where I am going or what I will do when I get there. I know only that to put one foot in front of the other, moves me on, away from you to a place, where I do not want to be.
...the nostalgia for things that weren't yet lost.
You are always going to love him, " she said. " You're stuck with that.
Only that once again they broke the Love Laws. That lay down who should be loved. And how. And how much.
I met death for the last time realizing that he, the creature I called, it because I did not want to believe came for me... Collecting.
Here's some simple advice: Always be yourself. Never take yourself to seriously. And beware of advice from experts, pigs, and members of Parliament.
There are so many torturous things in this life. Don't let a man who doesn't love you be one of them.
Self-pity, while it should be accorded due respect, is the greatest of all acids to the human soul.
We are all cynics now, I suppose, and even a mewling infant knows that to save a life is to make an eternal enemy.
Fear in the absence of knowledge breeds irrationality.We should always seek knowledge, even in the face of fear.
Contagiousness is an unexpected property of all kinds of things.
Your manager wants to believe that you enjoy your job, or at least you won't spit in her coffee when she looks away. At the office, attitude counts for a lot.
Don't cry over the shots you've missed
Just say “no” to bad attitudes. They may say you are “nobody”. Yes! That’s who you are
she's alone but never lonelyshe's been through a lot but never bittershe's loved and lost but keeps on lovingshe lives in the present because that's all there is right now...
People who care nothing for their country's stories and songs, ' he said, 'are like people without a past- without a memory- they are half people
There are things that can be forgotten. And things that cannot - that sit on dusty shelves like stuffed birds with baleful, sideways staring eyes.
This is the twilight shift, dear. Neither here nor there. But if you go into the dark, there'll be no turning back. Stay out of the office and you'll be happy. Trust me.
The would-be sorcerer alone has faith in the efficacy of pure knowledge
The best ever spiritual coach you can ever have is Jesus Christ
Jesus was a man for simple people. He didn't make his messages incredibly complex. If you were a person that had the eyes to see and the ears to hear... then his message was easily understood.
If economies collapse and lawlessness rules and resources are scarce, many people who claim with their mouths that they follow Jesus... will abandon him with their lives.
Experience, or what we call experience, is not the inventory of our pains, but rather the learned sympathy towards the pain of others.
It is not loving to impose our own grid onto others. We need to understand their situation and their needs accurately, and this comes from listening to them, not coming in with our own assumptions.
