“All the people we loved, who have died, are still alive in the past. The only thing that really separates us is time. It's a matter of perspective. That's what separates optimism and pessimism.”
Source: Carrera's Bride
“Living in the present moment is the recurring baptism of the soul, forever purifying every new day with a new you.”
Source: Living Peace: Essential Teachings For Enriching Life
“I could not find any evidence that her circumstances had harmed Jane Austen's work in the slightest. That, perhaps, was the chief miracle about it. Here was a woman about the year 1800 writing without hate, without bitterness, without fear, without protest, without preaching. Her mind consumed all impediments.”
Source: The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages
“You will die, and I, and all we can create—why not a city? But if there is one thing that deserves to be immortal, it is knowledge.”
Source: The Crucible of Time
“If God declares that all is well, ten thousand devils may declare it to be ill, but we laugh them all to scorn. Blessed be God for a faith which enables us to believe God when the creatures contradict Him.”
Source: Morning and Evening, Based on the English Standard Version
“Lucifer spoke thus. Pride took him from heaven, though he sat at God's right hand.' Her voice grew faint, the hint of a whisper. 'In the end pride is the only evil, the root of all sins.'
'Pride is all I have.”
Source: Prince of Thorns
“You look furious,” Pritkin said, watching me.
“I just—I can’t understand not fighting for your life— for what you want. Just giving up—”
A corner of his mouth quirked. “No. You would not understand that. You never stop trying, do you?”
“What else is there?”
“Despair. Hopelessness. Anger. Depression.”
“But those don’t get you anywhere.”
He huffed out something that might have been a laugh, only it didn’t sound happy. “No. They don’t.”
“The grass is always greener on the other side of personal extinction.”
Source: Drive
“Not an impossible task, just an outrageous challenge.”
Source: Please Don't Tell My Parents I'm a Supervillain
“To claim the mantle of purity is always a risky business. It just gives an excuse to be disillusioned once your ordinary humidity is exposed.”
Source: The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan