It's a good sign but rare instance when, in a relationship, you find that the more you learn about the other person, the more you continue to desire them. A sturdy bond delights in that degree of youthful intrigue. Love loves its youth.
I'm starting to think that my level of intrigue outweighs my fear of controversy.
The common man prays, 'I want a cookie right now!' And God responds, 'If you'd listen to what I say, tomorrow it will bring you 100 cookies.
You maintain hope for humanity as an infinite skeptic of gossip and slander. In all mankind's desires for entertainment and exaggeration and sensationalism, when it comes to gossip, the individual always sounds worse than he really is. This is why ad...
We have better relationships with those who truly seek us rather than those sitting on the couch watching us move mountains trying to prove ourselves.
The idea that all souls are mortal is the only notion surely terminating love and all its forms.
What further helps to reveal reality is when our personal thinking ceases to take reality for granted.
What man ever openly apologizes for slander? It is not so much a feeling of slander as it is that of a massive lie, a misdeed not only to the slandered but also to those manipulated in the process. He has made them all, every one, his enemies, thereu...
A sign of power in a man is not only when people follow what he suggests, but also when people make a conscious effort to do the exact opposite of what he suggests.
The man who sins but wants to purify it is no more a sinner than the man who doesn't sin but wants to sin.
The most fragile, unhappy people destine themselves to live lives of constantly reminding themselves to be happy.
One may not always know his purpose until his only option is to monopolize in what he truly excels at. He grows weary of hearing the answer 'no' time and time again, so he turns to and cultivates, monopolizes in his one talent which others cannot pos...
With too much pride a man cannot learn a thing. In and of itself, learning teaches you how foolish you are.
Learning isn't acquiring knowledge so much as it is trimming information that has already been acquired.
There's a difference between thinking you can't be wrong and having no regrets. Wrongness is what occurs prior to empiricism, in hindsight a counterpart of revelation, and revelation is nothing to regret.
The humble ones are always learning and improving, and their secret is always that it's a secret.
Faith, in its most correct form, never removes responsibility; it removes fear of responsibility. The results are complete opposites with the greater saying, 'God's will is my delight.
If truth is like the terrain, are we the generation who sees it as one who has worn shoes all his life or one who has never worn shoes? Yet still, even if the walk starts out as painful, the experience may be well worth it.
There is, after all, no moral difference between the bigot and the tolerator. They are from case to case positive or negative. One man is bigoted because he was given the sword of truth, another because he is angered in thoughtlessness; then, one man...
When comprehending how different people truly are, you also comprehend the absolute necessity of some divine authority.
Normality is the new eccentric.
