The world is such a marvel-it gave you trials, but if you were still and concentrated, if you tried to do the right thing, it always provided you with salvation.
Did life treat everyone so wantonly, ripping the good things to pieces while letting bad things fester and grow like fungus
The one thing we truly don't understand about God, about Life, and about Humanity is that we are ONE!✌
In the end things must be as they are and have always been--the great things remain for the great, the abysses for the profound, the delicacies and thrills for the refined, and, to sum up shortly, everything rare for the rare.
I used to watch the world as if it was a performance and I would realize that certain things that people did moved me, and certain things didn't move me, and I tried to analyze, even at that age, six and seven and eight, why I was moved by certain th...
Faith is not a blind thing; for faith begins with knowledge. It is not a speculative thing; for faith believes facts of which it is sure. It is not an unpractical, dreamy thing; for faith trusts, and stakes its destiny upon the truth of revelation.
One of the things I've always liked about science fiction is the way it makes you think about things, and look at things from angles you'd never have thought about before.
Harry loves slimy things, hairy things, and creepy things. Harry loves anything horrible. I know -- I'm his best friend Doug.
I am strong, but I am tired, Stephen, tired of always having to be the strong one, of always having to do the right thing.
a hero is just somebody who does the right thing when it would be far, far easier to do nothing.” -Cedric Diggory-
This is the way things work sometimes, that good things get ideas from each other, say, well now let’s go ahead and let her have it all.
There are known knowns, things we know that we know; and there are known unknowns, things that we know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns, things we do not know we don't know.
The world's a scary place these days. Grandpa,, you've seen worse things, haven't you? Please tell me the world has always been like this.
Duty is doing the right thing, at the right time, for the right reasons, without regard to the cost to one’s self.
My dear boy, looking like a thing has little to do with being a thing. Be the thing first, and you will grow to resemble it.
I know a thing or two about love. Well, maybe just a thing. A big, blurry thing, like Bigfoot.
If you will stay close to nature, to its simplicity, to the small things hardly noticeable, those things can unexpectedly become great and immeasurable.
The word connects the visible trace with the invisible thing, the absent thing, the thing that is desired or feared, like a frail emergency bridge flung over an abyss.
There are only two reasons why you leave someone you're still in love with - either it's the right thing to do, or it's the only thing to do.
One thing I've learned is that in the midst of your darkest moments of tribulation, there is no such thing as mass friends.
The thing about a story is that you dream it as you tell it, hoping that others might then dream along with you, and in this way memory and imagination and language combine to make spirits in the head. There is the illusion of aliveness.
