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Forgiveness is not about letting anybody 'off the hook.' Forgiveness actually has nothing to do with the person you are forgiving. It does, however, have everything to do with you.

Make It Happen

Light — i.e. space — is the structure of time, the essence of existence. The stuff of physics does not involve time. Orthodox contemporary physics sadly refers to this fact as “the problem of time.

Mythology & History

One great function of the arts is to keep ideals alive in a culture that does not yet realize them.

Moral Clarity: A Guide for Grown-up Idealists

> Why does everything that lives have to die? < So life would be precious, Asher. Something that is yours forever, is never precious.

My Name Is Asher Lev

The transitoriness of our existence in now way makes it meaningless. But it does constitute our responsibleness; for everything hinges upon our realizing the essentially transitory possibilities.

Man's Search for Meaning

All habits are bad habits. (...) Madness does not come by breaking out, but by giving in; by settling down in some dirty, little, self-repeating circle of ideas; by being tamed.

Manalive

As we watched the soldiers and the Rambo disappear I remember feeling preternaturally calm. This is what deep, deep fear does to you. It turns you into a state of unfeeling.

Mister Pip

People know what they do; frequently they know why they do what they do; but what they don't know is what what they do does.

Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason

...I tell myself it does not matter what one reads--favorite authors, particular themes--as long as we read something. It is not even important to own the books.

Major Pettigrew's Last Stand

Just as love makes you blind so does wealth, and of the two blindnesses wealth is the worse because of the incalculable harm it is able to do to people other than yourself.

Murder on the Yacht

Virtue lies in our power, and similarly so does vice; because where it is in our power to act, it is also in our power not to act...

The Nicomachean Ethics

Much more likely you’ll hurt me. Still what does it matter? If I’ve got to suffer, it may as well be at your hands, your pretty hands.

No Exit

You'll forgive the flowery talk, won't you? Our family does so love to be told they are beautiful. Vanity is an old and venerable habit.

In the Night Garden

There's more to clothing than just adornment. It does more than merely change how the world perceives us. It changes how we perceive ourselves.

Naamah's Kiss

Death does not concern me. He who takes his first step uses perhaps his last shoes. (Halmalo)

Ninety-Three

It is said that love does not last, that it is just a momentary spell cast upon your soul by some higher power, or a small trick of the mind. If this were all true, there would be no story to tell.

NIRVANA

Desperation works in job search as well as it does in dating.

Never Apply for a Job Again!: Break the Rules, Cut the Line, Beat the Rest

What," asked Mr Croup, "do you want?" "What," asked the Marquis de Carabas, a little more rhetorically, "does anyone want?" "Dead things," suggested Mr Vandemar. "Extra teeth.

Neverwhere

You really are like him, your father." "I can't tell whether you think that's good or bad." "What does it matter? It's simply true.

The Near Witch

What does being a girl have to do with it? There's no time to think when you're on the spot...

Ouran High School Host Club, Vol. 3

Why does it seem easier for us to accept reality when it is within the confinement of the animal kingdom yet so hard for us to face it in our?

The Opposite of Indifference: A Collection of Commentaries