We are the middle children of history. Born too late to explore earth, born too early to explore space.
From anger, complete delusion arises, and from delusion bewilderment of memory. When memory is bewildered, intelligence is lost, and when intelligence is lost one falls down again into the material pool.
Martians published magazines, just like we do. Something familiar; make the Martians seem more real. More human.
Psychology claims that when you can’t sleep at night, you are actually awake in someone’s dream.
The fifth-century Greek writer we know as Dionysius the Areopagite once said that as he grew older and wiser his books got shorter and shorter.
Humans are born, they live, then they die, this is the order that the gods have decreed. But until the end comes, enjoy your life, spend it in happiness, not despair. Savor your food, make each of your days a delight, bathe and anoint yourself, wear bright clothes that are sparkling clean, let music and dancing fill your house, love the child who holds you by the hand, and give your wife pleasure in your embrace. That is the best way for a man to live.
I’ll offer you the possibility that I’m wrong only if I’m fairly sure I’m right.
Hurt people hurt people.
The very fact that they were naturally caring and loving would be the milestone that weighed them down. The formula is perfect. The nurse becomes willing to sacrifice herself in the patient. But the patient isn’t suffering from an external illness, he’s suffering from self-inflicted wounds. The nurse wants to prevent him from this pain. The patient wants her to feel the pain, too.
God accepts only the love with which things are offered to Him.
While contemplating the objects of the senses, a person develops attachment for them, and from such attachment lust develops, and from lust anger arises.
We live on a blue planet that circles around a ball of fire next to a moon that moves the sea, and you don’t believe in miracles?
For I tell you this: one loving, blind desire for God alone is more valuable in itself, more pleasing to God and to the saints, more beneficial to your own growth, and more helpful to your friends, both living and dead, than anything else you could do.
Find three hobbies you love: One to make you money, one to keep you in shape and one to be creative.
It is during the worst times of your life that you will get to see the true colors of the people who say they care for you.
Whenever a soul leaves the body a void is felt across the world...
In New York, everyone just looks hurt. It seems more honest. Maybe I just identified with them.
Nothing should be accepted blindly; everything should be accepted with care and with caution.
All that we are is the result of what we have thought:.
Just as the dweller in this body passes through childhood, youth and old age, so at death he merely passes into another kind of body. The wise are not deceived by that.