“As small as a world as large as alone.”
“To accept the lively, the messy, and the unexpected things in our days, knowing that God sees them and has an eternal perspective, is to say with confidence I receive your timing.”
“Just remember that those who feel profoundly depressed are those whose happiness is likewise intense. What s so wrong with that?”
“Once the blinders are off, it s rather hard to go back to seeing things the way you used to.”
“If you love yourself the most at your happiest moments, there is no reason not to be fond of who you are in the dark.”
“And as I looked at the star, I realised what millions of other people have realised when looking at stars. We’re tiny. We don’t matter. We’re here for a second and then gone the next. We’re a sneeze in the life of the universe.”
“True inspiration unfolds itself, not by force or it becomes fake. True intuition is also the ability to be observant.”
“If we were to gain God s perspective, even for a moment, and were to look at the way we go through life accumulating and hoarding and displaying our things, we would have the same feelings of horror and pity that any sane person has when he views people in an asylum endlessly beating their heads against the wall.”
“Maybe belief is the biggest lie. In ages past, the earliest philosophers tried to explain the stars in the sky and the world around them. One of them conceived of the notion that the universe was mounted on giant crystal spheres controlled by a giant machine, which explained the movements of the heavens. He was laughed at and told that such a machine would be so huge and noisy that everyone would hear it. He simply replied that we are born with that noise all around us, and that we are so used to hearing it that we cannot hear it at all.”
“Each of us sees things not as they are but as we are.”
“How you look it is pretty much how you ll see it”
“After five seconds there was a click, and the entire Universe was there in the box with him.”
“The worm in the radish doesn t think there is anything sweeter.”
“We think of those nights spent with one or more friends, nights when we merged with the shadows and could see the world with eyes that were not our own.”
“Those two little words -- says you -- are the most powerful argument in any discipline: theology, philosphy, even domestic harmony. They are powerful because they are true. Whenever you say something, it is you who says it. You. And what do you know?”
“He had no ideal world of dead heroes; he knew little of the life of men in the past; he must find the beings to whom he could cling with loving admiration among those who came within speech of him.”
“There is no hour that has not its births of gladness and despair, no morning brightness that does not bring new sickness to desolation as well as new forces to genius and love. There are so many of us, and our lots are so different, what wonder that Nature s mood is often in harsh contrast with the great crisis of our lives?”