“Sometimes the universe turns off all the lights so we have no choice but to find our own.”
“It's like we're surrounded by this big, all-you-can-eat buffet of incredible experiences and insights and feelings and opportunities and things and people and ways to share our gifts with the world, and all we have to do is align our energy with what we want and take decisive action to allow this good in our lives.”
Source: You Are a Badass / You Are a Badass at Making Money
“You didn't see us," she said to Anna...
"I was... lost in thought," Anna replied.
"What were you thinking about?"
"You," Anna said. "Isn't that strange? I was thinking of you two so hard that I didn't see you.”
Source: The Storyteller
“All the good things on this earth are trophy cups. The strong win them. The weak lose them.
from a speech by the Nazi Minister of Education”
Source: Berlin Diary: The Journal of a Foreign Correspondent 1934-1941
“Sur le mer, les hommes sont presque en dehors des lois; chez eux c'est le droit du plus fort, comme chez nous le droit du plus riche.”
Source: Rose et Blanche ou la Comédienne et la Religieuse (les 5 Volumes)
“He that has the Longer Sword, shall never want, either Lawyers, or Divines to Defend his Claim.”
Source: Fables of Aesop and Other Eminent Mythologists, with Morals and Reflections and Fables and Stories Moralized: Being a Second Part of the Fables of Aesop
“I rushed and rushed and
now, here I am,
standing on the edge of
nothing.
It doesn’t help:
“At least I got here quickly.”
It doesn’t work:
“I’m not dead yet.”
Source: Love and Gaslight
“[...] what it is now fashionable to call ‘realism’, meaning the doctrine that might is right.”
Source: Essays
“As the Qur’an itself had quoted Moses to declare (and as Muhammad had cited in his final letter to the assassin Musailimah): “The earth belongs to the Loving Divine, who allots it to whomever He wills; yet the most lasting legacy will be the enduring impact of those who have action-based hope.” Tellingly, when Al-Mansur inaugurated his new capital, the cornerstone of Baghdad featured that very verse etched for all to see.”
Source: The Life of the Qur'an: From Eternal Roots to Enduring Legacy
“That was the awakening, really; it dawned on me that this wasn't really very fair on anyone. On her. On me. On Sienna. But I wasn't willing to change anything, either. I was fiercely protective of my friendship with Sienna. I had fought for it, against my true feelings, for years. I had battled so hard to suppress my feelings, and succeeded. I could never let her go.”
Source: This is a Love Story