“Man is sad without a song.”
“I feel like I failed, I said. Don t beat yourself up, Jim said. She might not have turned out like you planned, but that don t mean she turned out wrong.”
“The sure way to succeed Is to endure to the very end.”
“There I was to attempt, Jupiter-only-knew what extravagant acts of foolhardiness, what some people call bravery, to rescue a barbarian I barely knew. Do not get me wrong. I did like him. But you don t go ahead and slit your throat because you like someone.”
“When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this - you haven t.”
“Whoever abides in love abides in God, for God is love.”
“Without holiness no human being can see the Holy God.”
“Worry not but worship.”
“Chiron had said once that nations were the most foolish of mortal inventions. “No man is worth more than another, wherever he is from.” “But what if he is your friend?” Achilles had asked him, feet kicked up on the wall of the rose-quartz cave. “Or your brother? Should you treat him the same as a stranger?” “You ask a question that philosophers argue over,” Chiron had said. “He is worth more to you, perhaps. But the stranger is someone else’s friend and brother. So which life is more important?” We had been silent. We were fourteen, and these things were too hard for us. Now that we are twenty-seven, they still feel too hard. He is half of my soul, as the poets say. He will be dead soon, and his honor is all that will remain. It is his child, his dearest self. Should I reproach him for it? I have saved Briseis. I cannot save them all. I know, now, how I would answer Chiron. I would say: there is no answer. Whichever you choose, you are wrong.”
“Sometimes I think that wisdoms slip from my mind like drool from the lips of an idiot... Where s all this stuff coming from? Is it any good? Any good in, you know, the wisdom sense? Who am I to spout this stuff anyway? Well, here s the thing. You too can find yourself shedding wisdom like cat hair if you only allow yourself the liberty of introspection. Think about what you alone know that no one else does. That one neat wonderful profound insight. It is fully yours. No one else on this planet of about six billion people understands it like you do. Now, see if you can share it with someone. Bestow it, a gift of yourself. Wisdom is like gossip. Except it s the good kind.”
“You ve got a lot of choices. If getting out of bed in the morning is a chore and you re not smiling on a regular basis, try another choice.”
“Hey Jude, don t make it bad, take a sad song and make it better.”
“Frustration is the result of failed expectations.”
“Gleaming shell of an outworn lie; fable of Right divine— You gained your crowns by heritage, but Blood was the price of mine. The throne that I won by blood and sweat , by Crom, I will not sell For promise of valleys filled with gold, or threat of the Halls of Hell!”
“Love is sweet affection between two souls.”
“It is hard to befool a fool who has already been fooled so many times”
“Hay personas que tratan de ser altas cortando la cabeza a los demàs Sri Yukteswar”