philosophy

"If your life is Christ, then your death will be only more of Christ, forever. If your life is only Christlessness, then your death will be only more Christlessness, forever. That's not fundamentalism, that's the law of non-contradiction."

"How small a thought it takes to fill a life."

"We are here and it is now. The way I see it is, after that, everything tends towards guesswork."

"Don’t try to smell the flowers without planting them."

"The greatest lesson we should learn is that from the moment we are born we already have everything we need within ourselves."

"I don’t know what’s worse: to not know what you are and be happy, or to become what you’ve always wanted to be, and feel alone."

"Forgiveness reveals the ultimate beauty of life."

"To all appearances he was just drifting. In actuality he was just drifting."

"Later on in life, you expect a bit of rest, don't you? You think you deserve it. I did, anyway. But then you begin to understand that the reward of merit is not life's business."

"Old People [10w] At the mere mention of death they gasp for breath."

"In the mind of all, fiction, in the logical sense, has been the coin of necessity;—in that of poets of amusement—in that of the priest and the lawyer of mischievous immorality in the shape of mischievous ambition,—and too often both priest and lawyer have framed or made in part this instrument."

"Do Me No Favors Haiku 'Do me no favors ~I can take care of myself.So, pay the check and drive me home."

"Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free."

"It is possible that these millions of suns, along with thousands of millions more we cannot see, make up altogether but a globule of blood or lymph in the veins of an animal, of a minute insect, hatched in a world of whose vastness we can frame no conception, but which nevertheless would itself, in proportion to some other world, be no more than a speck of dust."

"By the way, if you get mad at your Mac laptop and wonder who designed this demonic device, notice the manufacturer's icon on top: an apple with a bite out of it."

"I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope."

"There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact."

"Compassion [10w] Compassion is the combination to enter the vault of heaven."

"Forgiveness is the best tonic for heart."

"All actual life is encounter."