“You see, I'm a believer in the rhapsodic. I like things that are happy. For no particular reason, I just like them. Most people don't seem to be like that in this particular place, in this world. You can tell by what they focus on. Read a newspaper, watch a TV show, go to a movie, look at a life.” PeopleWorldInspirationalLooksReasonShowsSeemsWatchesFocusThis WorldParticularInspirational LifeTvsBuddhismBelieverNewspapersTv Shows Author:Frederick Lenz
“It is such hard work to keep your heart hidden! And worse, by the time you find it easy, it will be harder still to show it. It is a terrible magic in this world to ask for exactly the thing you want. Not least because to know exactly the thing you want and look it in the eye is a long, long labor.” KnowsWorldWantLooksHeartLongStillsHardShowsEyeAsksEasyMagicThis WorldHard WorkTerribleLaborHarder Book:The Fairyland Series Source: The Fairyland Series
“Were a stranger to drop on a sudden into this world, I would show him, as a specimen of its ills, a hospital full of diseases, a prison crowded with malefactors and debtors, a field of battle strewed with carcasses, a fleet foundering in the ocean, a nation languishing under tyranny, famine, or pestilence. To turn the gay side of life to him, and give him a notion of its pleasures; whither should I conduct him? to a ball, to an opera, to court? He might justly think, that I was only showing him a diversity of distress and sorrow.” ThinkingWorldGivingShouldShowsMightTurnsNationsSidesPleasureFieldsThis WorldSorrowGayBattleDiseaseOceanDiversityBallsCourtPrisonNotionStrangerTyrannyHospitalsOperaShould IDistressCrowdedFaminePestilenceDebtors Book:Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)
“The true messianism of the Russian Church is not what the Slavophiles have imagined, but it is the example of suffering. It is in this way that she shows that she is the continuation of Christ in this world.” WorldWayShowsSufferingChristChurchExampleThis WorldContinuation Author:Leonid Feodorov
“I show people the techniques for gaining knowledge, and this inspires them in their search for truth, freedom and happiness. I also try to show people that truth exists as much in this world as it does in any other world.” PeopleWorldTryingDoeShowsThis WorldInspireBuddhismTechniqueRamaOther WorldsSearch For TruthFreedom And HappinessGaining Knowledge Author:Frederick Lenz