I believe the uncertain times are almost upon us, and they are much more uncertain than I imagined.

Many men wait all their lives for the opportunity to be good in their own way.

Wallowing in the metaphorical mud of life helps pass time but doesn't really achieve much of any lasting value.

Can we account for instinct?' said Monte Cristo. 'Are there not some places where we seem to breathe sadness? - why, we cannot tell. It is a chain of recollections - an idea which carries you back to...

Spiritual battles have greater consequences than earthly wars.

I ask myself, who do I trust? Then I answered, No - one

God is the only book that can never be touched, open and seen.

The space between between breaths is measured in moments. But the space between Truths..? Lifetimes.

It is only when we forget our learning, do we begin to know.

Though our collective level of knowledge may always be defined by a certain set of answers, we are never limited by the questions we may pose.

Nature endowed human beings with two teleological components that define our essential humanity: consciousness and memory. Consciousness enables people to make decisions, and memory allows us to learn...

Possibly, he was in a state of second growth and recovery, and was constantly assimilating nutriment for his spirit and intellect from sights, sounds, and events which passed as a perfect void to...

So many people concentrate on looks, but the invisible is sacred

"People see stories everywhere," Regine says. "That's what my father used to say. We take random events and we string them together in a pattern so we can comfort ourselves with a story, no matter how...

I embrace, I veritably hug and cuddle, the concept of optimism. It is the core of my approach to my existence.

There's a big difference, I discovered, between wanting to die and not wanting to live. When you want to die, you at least have a goal. When you don't want to live, you're really just empty.

I wonder, with all the flowers in the garden, how many of them ever think of hanging themselves with the garden hose, if ever they can.

... crazy world or maybe it's just the view we have of it, looking through a crack in the door, never being able to see the whole room, the whole picture.

The emotional pattern seems to be something like, "{Karl} Polanyi, a person of the left like me, says many true things, beautifully. Therefore his tales about what happened in economic history must be...

If there is a god maybe it rewards those who don't believe on the basis of insufficient evidence - - and punishes those who do.

Sometimes, your future is already set, and there is nothing you can do about it. There are some things you just can't change, no matter how hard you work. Unfair, don't you think? It isn't an easy...

Doubt is the act of challenging our beliefs. . . . This is an active, investigative doubt: the kind that inspires us to wander onto shaky limbs or out into left field; the kind that doesn't divide the...

We all have choices. What are you choosing to believe about yourself, and about your life? Believing you don't have a choice is a choice.

Depression is the feeling that everything is a waste of time. Joy is KNOWING that nothing in this Life is a waste.

As evolutionary time is measured, we have only just turned up and have hardly had time to catch breath, still marveling at our thumbs, still learning to use the brand - new gift of language. Being so...

Success is not to be pursued

The creative mind plays with the object it loves.

I create, therefore I am.

It turns out that indecision is a path itself; but figuratively, a vertical path - up or down - meaning it isn't always a fruitless path. One is forgotten, but the other is glorified. To be what they...

Can you hear Destiny laugh as she tiptoes toward you? Destiny is heartless.