As I bathe myself I pray with all beings that we can purify body and mind and clean ourselves inside and out.
Information is a lot like water; it's hard to hold on to, and hard to keep from leaking away.
The only thing a cat worries about is what's happening right now. As we tell the kittens, you can only wash one paw at a time.
I felt for the first time, maybe ever, how much harder it was to be the adults. And I wasn't sure I could do that when it was my turn.
… between the irrational promoted in churches and the Darwinian pseudo-science taught in schools, a revolution in the way we understand reality is not only necessary but also long overdue.
Sebagai republik yang merdeka, Indonesia berusia lima puluh tahun, tetapi kedengaran lebih mirip sebuah kekaisaran tak terkendali daripada sebuah negara bangsa modern.
They are not working in sync. Working on the same thing at the same time is not as effective as working on the same thing a the same time with the same strategy.
You shouldn’t be placing hope in our lives, Parvin. That’s my point. I don’t know the answers of the future, but your confidence and hope need to be in God.
We all didn't come into to the world at the same time so it makes sense that we don't leave it at the same time.
Because friendship is about laughing when the other person is joking to make you feel better. Even if you don’t find her joke all that funny.
We are living a life full of first experiences, from a first kiss, to the first time giving blood, to conceptual and philosophical explanations of humanity’s firsts.
The preface? Why would he waste time with the preface? Skip the preface and move on to the meat of the thing!
No such thing as time travel, he'd rumbled patiently, once. Only live with what you've done, and try in the future to do what you're happy to live with.
When you have a watch, time is like a swimming pool. There are edges and sides. Without a watch, time is like the ocean. Sloppy and vast.
When you aren't sincere you need to pretend, and by pretending you end up believing yourself; that's the basic principle of every faith.
For if there are (at a venture) seventy-six different times all ticking in the mind at once, how many different people are there not – Heaven help us – all having lodgment at one time or another in the human spirit?
Our lives are defined by fear from the very time we are born to the time we bid adieu to this material world.
I figured I only had about two seconds to live. It’s amazing how many thoughts you can have in two seconds.
We try too much and trust too little. Count the times God's Book tells us to "try." Now count the times it tells us to "trust.
I have heard that Paganism is for broken people, but life cracks everyone in some way. We are a religion of healing people.
People who believe their god loves them unconditionally are less able to be controlled through divine terrorism.
