“It was for the best. So Nature had no choice but to do it.”
Source: Meditations
“Does anything genuinely beautiful need supplementing? No more than justice does- or truth, or kindness, or humility. Are any of those improved by being praised? Or damaged by contempt? Is an emerald suddenly flawed if no one admires it?”
Source: Meditations
“When faced with people's bad behavior, turn around and ask when you have acted like that. When you saw money as a good, or pleasure, or social position. Your anger will subside as soon as you recognize that they acted under compulsion (what else could they do?)”
Source: Meditations
“A witch deals with things, said her Second Thoughts. Get past the “I can’t.”
Source: A Hat Full of Sky
“Hans accepted the enterprise with such calmness, such indifference, such perfect disregard of any possible danger that I blushed at the idea of being less brave than he.”
Source: Journey to the Center of the Earth
“Axel,” replied the Professor with perfect coolness, “our situation is almost desperate; but there are some chances of deliverance, and it is these that I am considering. If at every instant we may perish, so at every instant we may be saved. Let us then be prepared to seize upon the smallest advantage.”
Source: Journey to the Center of the Earth
“Acceptance of others is acceptance of yourself.”
“If there is no place for integration in your identity there’s no way there’ll be integration in society.”
Source: The Gentalist: There's No Social Work, Only Family Work
“No Time, No Space (The Sonnet)
There is no time, no space,
There is only love.
There is no intellect, no philosophy,
There is only love.
There is no defeat, no victory,
There is only love.
There is no loss, no gain,
There is only love.
There is no path, no pedestrian,
There is only love.
There is no mission, no means,
There is only love.
All of us are either echoes of love beyond chains,
Or just some traditional trash of glory and gain.”
Source: The Gentalist: There's No Social Work, Only Family Work
“And you’re going to face the hiver even though you don’t know how to beat it? Yes. I am.”
Source: A Hat Full of Sky