...history is not what happened in the past, but the best story we can tell with the available material
The Present Celebrates Those Who Say "Yes". History Exalts And Remembers Those Who Said "No
Prayer holds together the shattered fragments of creation. It makes history possible.
I'm such a history-nerd that, with time for research, I could probably enjoy writing in just about any time period.
The tide of history only advances when people make themselves fully visible.
We were each of us trying; trying to undo our own history while wishing for Superman.
We are mosaics - pieces of light, love, history, stars -- glued together with magic and music and words.
Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.
One of the chief values reading history, this is the author, is its capacity to "provoke renegade thoughts".
God is the one who always remembers those whom history has forgotten.
History does not usually make real sense until long afterward.
Throughout history there have been those who have created change, and others who have feared it.
In a few years, it is very likely that this series will be considered a milestone in the history of Singapore photography.
History presents a record of follies and errors fondly cherished, and reluctantly abandoned.
The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself. Of course he wants care and shelter. You don't buy love for nothing.
When you tire of living, change itself seems evil, does it not? for then any change at all disturbs the deathlike peace of the life-weary.
[...]How can a great civilization have destroyed itself so completely?" "Perhaps,"said Apollo, "by being materially great and materially wise and nothing else.
You are not the mind itself. For You are the Lord God of the mind. All these things are liable to change, but You remain immutable above all things.
The body tries to stop the mind from killing itself, no matter the cost. It is only the lack of strength, the fatigue that lets the jumpers fall at last.
No civilization, no matter how mighty it may appear to itself, is indestructible.
If you tried to doubt everything you would not get as far as doubting anything. The game of doubting itself presupposes certainty.
