How lazily “xperts” dismiss what they fail to understand!
I believe death is only a door. One closes, and another opens. If I were to imagine heaven, I would imagine a door opening. And he would be waiting for me there.
Our lives are not our own. We are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.
Books don’t offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.
She has to lose her pre-Copernican view of a universe revolving around herself.
You say you’re ‘depressed’ – all i see is resilience. You are allowed to feel messed up and inside out. It doesn’t mean you’re defective – it just means you’re human.
Unlimited power in the hands of limited people always leads to cruelty.
My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops?
In an individual, selfishness uglifies the soul; for the human species, selfishness is extinction.
I believe there is another world waiting for us. A better world. And I’ll be waiting for you there.
A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.
The better organized the state, the duller its humanity.
What wouldn’t I give now for a never-changing map of the ever-constant ineffable? To possess, as it were, an atlas of clouds.
I am going to tell you a secret. Everything is about wanting. Everything. Things happen because of people wanting. Watch closely, and you’ll see what I mean.
By each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.
Once any tyranny becomes accepted as ordinary, its victory is assured.
A book you finish reading is not the same book it was before you read it.
Truth is singular. Its ‘versions’ are mistruths.
Strip back the beliefs pasted on by governesses, schools, and states, you find indelible truths at one’s core.
Torturous advances won over generations can be lost by a single stroke of a myopic president’s pen or a vainglorious general’s sword.