Imagination and fiction make up more than three-quarters of our real life.
-Simone Weil
To the question of your life, you are the only answer. To the problems of your life, you are the only solution.
-Jo Coudert
People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil... Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult.
-Anne Rice
God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.
-C. S. Lewis
Man learns through experience, and the spiritual path is full of different kinds of experiences. He will encounter many difficulties and obstacles, and they are the very experiences he needs to encourage and complete the cleansing process.
To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give, that takes courage because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.
-Madonna
Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.
-Jacques Prévert
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
It is difficult to discuss the beginning of the Universe without mentioning the concept of God… It is quite possible that God acts in ways that cannot be described by scientific laws. But in that case one would just have to go by personal belief.