You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-Mark Twain
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
-Galileo Galilei
Far better it is for you to say: I am a sinner, than to say: I have no need of religion. The empty can be filled, but the self-intoxicated have no room for God.
-Fulton J. Sheen
The science of mind is completely contrary to the knowledge of the brain. At
the level of mind, as we regret doing the wrong deed, we repeatedly commit the
same act. Hence, at the level of mind, it is advisable to understand, not repent.
-Deep Trivedi
A mountain is composed of tiny grains of earth. The ocean is made up of tiny drops of water. Even so, life is but an endless series of little details, actions, speeches and thoughts. And the consequences, whether good or bad of even the least of them, are far-reaching.
Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
-Cyril Connolly
Self-knowledge is not a thing to be bought in books, but it is awareness, from moment to moment.
Fashion does not have to prove that it is serious. It is the proof that intelligent frivolity can be something creative and positive.
-Karl Lagerfeld