When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others.
-Peace Pilgrim
When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others.
-Peace Pilgrim
We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.
Using, as an excuse, others’ failure of common sense is in itself a failure of common sense.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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.
God creates us free, free to be selfish, but He adds a mechanism that will penetrate our selfishness and wake us up to the presence of others in this world, and that mechanism is called suffering.
-William Nicholson
The most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar things new.
-William Thackeray
Catholics don't believe in divorce. We do believe in murder. There's always Confession, after all.
-Diana Gabaldon
No individual is lost and no nation is refused prosperity and success if foundations of their thoughts and actions rest upon piety and godliness, and upon truth and justice.