Did you ever look back at some moment in your past and have it suddenly grow so vivid that all the intervening years seemed brief, dreamlike, impersonal—the motions of a May afternoon surrendered to routine?
See, Biff, everybody around me is so false that I'm constantly lowering my ideals...
The benefit of personal growth and self-discovery is that we become better human beings with the strength to endure and carry on, and then we may experience something magical when we begin to reach out to others. We discover a feeling that is so rewa...
If he was not exactly a Spartan, he was, you might say, spartanatical. Things happened to you; they were good,or they were bad - and that was the truth about everything.
A text is not a text unless it hides from the first comer, from the first glance, the law of its composition and the rules of its game. A text remains, moreover, forever imperceptible. Its laws and rules are not, however, harbored in the inaccessibil...
The future belongs to all who, refusing to look back at the past move ahead with the clock as it ticks.
The sidewalks flash silver with mica. Skyline smeared with geese. By way of recognition I lost the sound of your voice.
The individual cannot bargain with the State. The State recognizes no coinage but power: and it issues the coins itself.
Diplomacy and virtue do not make easy companions.
As far as I was concerned, the best thing one could do for the poor was to not add one’s self to their number.
Poor is what people become, not what they are born to be.
It is good to know that out there, in a forest in the world, there is a cabin where something is possible...
Endlich, wie denn in dieser Welt jedes noch so hartnäckige Stehenbleiben doch nur ein unvermerktes Weiterrücken ist, erscheint auch diesem Status quo ein Hoffnungsstrahl.
To be "modern" means refusing to worry about where the benefits of progress actually come from.
No one is allowed to be born without a purpose, no one.
Thoughts, intentions or feelings cannot comprehend God but they can see and acknowledge the works of God.
With this mindset, I decided to exact a little karmic revenge. Poking through my side-pocket I reclaim my trusty Ziploc bag with all the goodies inside it. It was almost empty now. This had indeed been one of the cycles where I had abused it a little...
Above all things -- read. Read the great stylists who cannot be copied rather than the successful writers who must not be copied.
She is a great gobbler of books, but reads only trash, memorizing nothing and leaving out the longer descriptions.
Virtual reality is a self-created form of chosen reality. Therefore it exists.
Someone who begins to develop an interest in the teachings can tend to distance themselves from the reality of material things, as if the teachings were something completely apart from daily life. Often, at the bottom of all this, there is an attitud...
