philosophy

"Your love is the light that will drive away all the darkness that surrounds you."

"The best things in life are crazy."

"It's impossible to walk through solid rock... You have to walk between the molecules that make up the rock."

"In the end mortals always expired before faeries. They were such finite creatures. Their first heartbeat and breath were but a blink from death. To add the weight of nourishing his insatiable court in a time of peace was to hasten that unconscionably."

"Love [10w] Love is a time machineset to your perfect present"

"The menu is not the meal."

"The seed of suffering in you may be strong, but don't wait until you have no more suffering before allowing yourself to be happy."

"Iran [10w] In Teheran daylight dawnswith minarets against skies of bronze."

"Only by examining our personal biases can we truly grow as artists; only by cultivating empathy can we truly grow as people."

"This is why they started us here so young: to give ourselves away before the age when the questions 'why' and 'to what' grow real beaks and claws."

"Do you know what punishments I've endured for my crimes, my sins? None. I am proof of the absurdity of men's most treasured abstractions. A just universe wouldn't tolerate my existence."

"I need just be a bayonet, a bayonet named Diving Punishment. I wish I'd been born a storm. Or a menace. Or a single grenade. No heart, no tears, just as a terrible gale'd have been good. If [by doing this] I become that, then so be it."

"Whatever fills your heart with joy and fills your mind with love--that is your truth of love."

"Life is like yoga; the only way you can enjoy it is by relaxing into any position you happen to find yourself in."

"Everybody knows that Aristotelian two-value logic is fucked."

"Love vs. Honeymoon [10w] Love is what truly begins when the honeymoon is over."

"Everything, no matter how beautiful, is only with us for awhile."

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."

"Isn't wine prohibited here?"the boy asked. "It's not what enters men's mouths that's evil,"said the alchemist. "It's what comes out of their mouths that is."

"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world."