Don’t just DO something. Stand there! (and get perspective and understanding) – Scott J. Simmerman Ph.D.
Confess your sins. God will cleanse you of all the wrongs done
Confess your sins. God will cleanse you of all the wrongs done (Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind)
I seemed to still be alive. Which was unexpected. I’d feel good about it when I stopped retching my insides up
I seemed to still be alive. Which was unexpected. I’d feel good about it when I stopped retching my insides up (Alwyn Hamilton, Traitor to the Throne)
While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces, but it was not so easy to create noblemen and kings
While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces, but it was not so easy to create noblemen and kings (Henry David Thoreau)
No story ever looks as bad as the story you’ve just bought no story ever looks as good as the story the other fellow just bought
No story ever looks as bad as the story you’ve just bought no story ever looks as good as the story the other fellow just bought (Irving Thalberg)
Almost lost you,” he thought, surprised to find himself blinking back tears. “Been through too much, me and you. We’re going to finish this thing together
Almost lost you,” he thought, surprised to find himself blinking back tears. “Been through too much, me and you. We’re going to finish this thing together. (Brom, The Child Thief)
Most people willingly deceive themselves with a doubly false faith; they believe in eternal memory (of men, things, deeds, peoples) and in rectification (of deeds, errors, sins, injustice). Both are sham. The truth lies at the opposite end of the scale: everything will be forgotten and nothing will be rectified. All rectification (both vengeance and forgiveness) will be taken over by oblivion
Most people willingly deceive themselves with a doubly false faith; they believe in eternal memory (of men, things, deeds, peoples) and in rectification (of deeds, errors, sins, injustice). Both are sham. The truth lies at the opposite end of the scale: everything will be forgotten and nothing will be rectified. All rectification (both vengeance and forgiveness) will be taken over by oblivion. (Milan Kundera, The Joke)
Resolutions, like all spiritual virtues, can be misused by the ego when mindfulness is absent. There are few things that will keep you in the bondage of habit like a grand resolution. It is like an empty box wrapped in the best ofintentions, yet lacking anything of substance
Resolutions, like all spiritual virtues, can be misused by the ego when mindfulness is absent. There are few things that will keep you in the bondage of habit like a grand resolution. It is like an empty box wrapped in the best ofintentions, yet lacking anything of substance. (Darren Main, The River of Wisdom: Reflections on Yoga, Meditation, and Mindful Living)
Let us embrace Science and the new technologies unfettered, for it is these which will liberate mankind from the myth of god, and free us from our age old fears, from disease, death and the sweat of labor
Let us embrace Science and the new technologies unfettered, for it is these which will liberate mankind from the myth of god, and free us from our age old fears, from disease, death and the sweat of labor (Claude Vorilhon)
Fear does not incline people to be moderate in their use of extreme tactics
Fear does not incline people to be moderate in their use of extreme tactics (Joe Hill, The Fireman)