The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
-Hannah Arendt
The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
-Hannah Arendt
Direct the mind resolutely towards God, restraining the senses in their various seats, and looking on the state of the body as a matter of indifference. Realise your oneness with God, remaining continually intent on identifying with its nature…for what use is there in other, empty things?
Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth; I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.
-Khalil Gibran
Because, once alone, it is impossible to believe that one could ever have been otherwise. Loneliness is an absolute discovery.
-Marilynne Robinson
What parents inculcate in the child is permanently there because childhood is the most impressionable time of life.
Who knows this truly, and who will now declare it, what paths lead together to the gods? Only their lowest aspects of existence are seen, who exist on supreme, mystical planes.
All anger is about something which has already happened. Is it of any use getting angry about something which you cannot alter?
Who shall be so bold as not to accept for absolute the limitation of his years, his experience and his age? Old age plants more wrinkles in the mind than in the face.
-Michel De Montaigne
What we call reality is an agreement that people have arrived at to make life more livable.
-Louise Nevelson