They call good evil and evil good. There are those who are so easily offended that they lose their ability to ever discern any truth, and this is often derived from a sort of frenzy by way of their own masked prejudice.
There is a certain delightful sort of hope which the introvert can receive only by having company over... the hope that they will leave soon.
Some days you feel like you’re the worst of sinners; others like you’re the most righteous person on earth. I am convinced that the former is when you’re closest to God.
Never marry when under the guise you need to ‘see if it’ll work’, but rather marry because in your mind you want to make it work.
One either cares what others think about him, or cares what others think he thinks about them. If you want to find someone who doesn’t care in the slightest what anyone thinks, try a lunatic asylum.
To the loyal and to the blood-lovers, in the good families and in the fiery dynasties, life is family and family is life. It is the same people who give advice and their vices to live well who turn out to be the ones who give resource and reason to live long.
Silence might be a shout for the truth. It might be the speech that someday, in its truest, most uncontaminated, unadulterated state, all will be revealed.
Confirmation bias is the most effective way to go on living a lie.
If you don’t like the solution, change the problem.
In each generation, there is this certain wisdom of the ages that gets reburied in the fleeting drivelings of modernity; then, like a diamond in the rough, it is yet again unearthed by a very small minority who not only restores it but also polishes it and presents it as something new, something highly valuable and refreshing as understood by the current.
Unsettling are the days in which everyone is an expert.
Character that is fruit-producing can be summed up in the mastery of these 5 qualities: morals, but a sense of humor; love, but respect for criticism; intelligence without pretense; humility without self-loathing; and a mind open, but with solid convictions.
One may suffer the long-term in order to grow in appreciation for the small things. For in short-term suffering, one only notices the large.
It’s a huge disservice to classify all minds as either closed or open. I find the best minds are closed by openable windows.
If only we were all better educated. If then, higher education would at last be a journey for skill and knowledge rather than for power and status.
Respect? Of course, always, to all, because everything seems funnier when you’re trying to show respect.
To the short-sighted, through the fog, God must be a monster.
You can never make someone like something they don’t like, but you can always help them to better understand it.
An assumption is the joke; truth the punchline.
Angels are good not simply because they see bad as bad, but also because they see bad as corny.