“To any intelligent being, there is no emotion more important than hope. Individually or collectively, we must hope that the future will be better than the past, that our offspring, and theirs after them, will be a bit closer to an ideal society, whatever our perception of that might be... It is at those times when we feel we are contributing to that ultimate end... we feel true elation.” FeelsImportantEndsMightPastBitsEmotionPerceptionIdealsUltimateIntelligentBeing ThereContributingOffspringElationIdeal Society Book:Siege of Darkness: The Legend of Drizzt Source: Siege of Darkness: The Legend of Drizzt
“The White Protestant's ultimate sympathy must be with science, factology, and committee rather than with sex, birth, heat, flesh, creation, the sweet and the funky; they must vote, manipulate, control, and direct, these Protestants who are the center of power in our land, they must go for what they believe is reason when it is only the Square logic of the past.” BelieveReasonPastSexWhiteLandCreationSweetBirthDirectLogicVoteUltimateFleshHeatSquaresCommitteesManipulateProtestantsProtestantismFunky Author:Norman Mailer
“It is not for man to seek, or even to believe in, God. He only has to refuse his ultimate love to everything that is not God. This refusal does not presuppose any belief. It is enough to recognize what is obvious to any mind: that all the goods of this world, past, present, and future, real or imaginary, are finite and limited and radically incapable of satisfying the desire that perpetually burns within us for an infinite and perfect good.” MenWorldMindBelieveDoeRealEnoughPastDesireBeliefPerfectThis WorldUltimateInfiniteObviousRefuseGoodsBelieve In GodSatisfyingImaginaryIncapableFiniteRefusalPast PresentPast Present And FutureUltimate Love Author:Simone Weil
“Most of society thinks that biography is destiny, that the past equals the future, and of course it does if you live there...but what we really have to remind ourselves is that decision is the ultimate power.” IfsThinkingInspirationalDoePastCoursesDecisionDestinyUltimateBiographiesUltimate Power Author:Tony Robbins