God had listened to my little-girl prayers back then and had orchestrated the events of my life, even the painful ones, to produce a present reality beyond my greatest hopes. How great were His ways compared to ours!
Control is as much an effect as a cause, and the idea that control is something you exert is a real handicap to progress
But I should caution that if you seek to plot out all your moves before you make them—if you put your faith in slow, deliberative planning in the hopes it will spare you failure down the line—well, you’re deluding yourself. For one thing, it’...
This principle eludes most people, but it is critical: You are not your idea, and if you identify too closely with your ideas, you will take offense when they are challenged.
When it come to creative inspiration, job titles and hierarchy are meaningless.
People who foster dependence on illicit drugs such as heroin are regarded among the most unscrupulous pariahs of modern civilisation. In contrast, pushers of licit drugs tend to be viewed as altruistically motivated purveyors of social good.
She liked who she was becoming, despite the pain and frustration it brought.
As one climbs up the ladders in society, one starts feeling more and more like an owner, less like a member of it.
In the world union, prosperity is a science, self-interest a new religion, peace is at hand and the future has never looked brighter.
You can only rise so far by climbing on others’ shoulders, you know.
This director could say many things about duty, and self-respect, and dignity, but she knew none of these meant much in the post-modern world.
The worst kind of victim was the kind that was aware of nothing.
Illusory universality is the universality of the art of the culture industry, it is the universality of the homogeneous same, an art which no longer even promises happiness but only provides easy amusement as relief from labour.
I can hear clouds drifting across the sky! The worms beneath my feet…demand freedom from the darkness…the secret hopes of humankind…all of it trivial. I can see into other worlds…other universes…they’re calling out to me. They’ve always...
In a well-functioning democracy, the state constitution is considered more important than God's holy book, whichever holy book that may be, and God matters only in your private life.
You just have too little faith, Estella...in yourself and in God. Don't assume that because He didn't give you one thing you wanted, He isn't ready to give you something else you might want more. He knows our desires better than we do, after all.
Imagination paints a charming view of the future, conveniently adapted to the demands of our current emotion.
Both liberty and equality are among the primary goals pursued by human beings throughout many centuries; but total liberty for wolves is death to the lambs, total liberty of the powerful, the gifted, is not compatible with the rights to a decent exis...
But leave us some magic in the world. Leave us some mystery to enjoy.
If you want to make amends for the life you have led then start now.
Moving from phonetics to etymology, ‘vagina’ originates from a word meaning sheath for a sword. Ain’t got no vagina.
