"If we want great things to happen then we must create space in our lives for what we desire."
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"As for myself, I always willingly acknowledge my own self as the principal cause of every good and of every evil which may befall me; therefore, I have always found myself capable of being my own pupil, and ready to love my teacher."
"Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive."
"[God] will not be used as a convenience. Men or nations who think they can revive the Faith in order to make a good society might just as well think they can use the stairs of heaven as a shortcut to the nearest chemist's shop."
"He who is certain he knows the ending of things when he is only beginning them is either extremely wise or extremely foolish; no matter which is true, he is certainly an unhappy man, for he has put a knife in the heart of wonder."
"The principle of art is to pause, not bypass."
"When I open them, most of the books have the smell of an earlier time leaking out between the pages - a special odor of the knowledge and emotions that for ages have been calmly resting between the covers. Breathing it in, I glance through a few pages before returning each book to its shelf."
"She led the way. Eyeless sockets of the dead seemed to stare at them as they passed. "These are cool,"Dan decided. "Maybe I could-""No, Dan,"Amy said. "You can't collect human bones.""Awww."
"Life has no remote....get up and change it yourself!"
"We are the lucky ones for we shall die, as there is an infinite number of possible forms of DNA all but a few billions of which will never burst into consciousness."
"This morning my girlfriend was so loud in bed that we woke up the neighbors. So I told them to roll over and go back to sleep."
"Death is a stripping away of all that is not you. The secret of life is to "die before you die"--- and find that there is no death."
"We should never wait for science to give us permission to do the uncommon; if we do, then we are turning science into another religion."
"Humanity must forgive 'Humanity', for only then can we be Humane."
"To put meaning in one's life may end in madness,But life without meaning is the tortureOf restlessness and vague desire--It is a boat longing for the sea and yet afraid."
"When someone is suffering from anxieties, depression, and stress, the only treatment is to change awareness and consciousness."
"Love is like a portable lamp/sex toy. The world calls those flashlights, but I’m much more romantic."
"An unread book does nobody any good. Stories happen in the mind of a reader, not among symbols printed on a page."
"Definition of rock journalism: People who can't write, doing interviews with people who can't think, in order to prepare articles for people who can't read."
"No woman wants to be in submission to a man who isn't in submission to God!"
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