The past only has power over you when it's forgotten... ignored or repressed.
What can a soldier do when mercy is treason, and he is alone in it?
You let a possibility into your mind, you let it into your life.
How you refill. Lying there. Something like happiness, just like water, pure and clear pouring in. So good you don’t even welcome it, it runs through you in a bright stream, as if it has been there all along.
The moon hangs alien, heavy, like a lock on a door; the door is tightly shut. ("The North")
It’s funny how we think life works a certain way because of TV and movies. Most people don’t really think about how scripts are edited and how people get to practice their lines and rehearse. If one doesn’t get it right they get to redo the sce...
There came a time when you realised that moving on was pointless. That you took yourself with you wherever you went.
When every other facet of my life was a mess, music stayed true as math.
The ocean sleeps. The ocean wakes. And the waking of the ocean is the waking of the soul. At midnight wakefulness springs from within the ocean.
This life is but a dream. A state of sleep but how unfortunate that man's eyes open only when they are about to be closed (forever).
We wish to become one thing or another, rather we wish to become everything and in this pursuit of becoming everything we only end up becoming idiots.
In order to spend out our time (life) we sell some of this time. We work for someone, we labour. In freedom we do slavery.
The very air they breathed was almost a juice.
Worshiping someone requires complete passivity. To turn the principle of immobility into a rule.
Life really is a most whimsical thing. While we consistently try and chart its route, it goes ahead and takes its own turn. Just follow the paths it lays out before you. And you may find, at some sudden turn, a miracle waiting just for you.
there's no harm in hoping for the best as long as you're prepared for the worst.
It is said that our destiny is set, predetermined before conception. But I myself, have never been a believer…
No, I don’t think you do, fighting isn’t the release you desire.
Perhaps I did nothing because I don't have enough fear to be a good parent.
Patients are almost always preceded by their parents, because no matter how fast an ambulance can drive, terrified parents can drive faster.
Reason is and ought to be, as Hume said, the slave of the passions.
