It’s just as important to know that sometimes, no matter how wrong it is, you can’t change it. A lot of the bad stuff in the world wasn’t really that bad until someone tried to change it.
Hate politics, and politicians even more. They make a religion of being greedy. It’s unforgivable.
Fate has every power over us, but two. Fate cannot control our free will, and fate cannot lie.
Eats most of his meals
Czasami trzeba się poddać, zanim się wygra.
Crosses
And my heart was as clean and hungry for promises as a monsoon morning in the gardens of Malabar.
[It was] a beauty that sours if it isn't nourished by some goodness within.
You should let Jesus in your heart.’ ‘Jesus is in every heart, brother.’ ‘Are you serious?’ ‘Of course. I love that guy. Who doesn’t?’ ‘A lot of people don’t,’ he laughed. ‘Some people hate Jesus.’ ‘N...
You can see, by what we have done with these two boys, that justice is not only the way we punish those who do wrong. It is also the way we try to save them.
You can respect a man’s rights or opinions without knowing the man at all. But you can only respect the man himself when you find something in him that’s worthy of the word.
Yes. You’re a good listener. That’s dangerous, because it’s so hard to resist. Being listened to—really listened to—is the second-best thing in the world.
Will you help us, Lin? We feel very sorry for that bear. Love is a special thing in the world. When two men have so much love in their hearts, even so it is for a bear, it must be protected, isn’t it?
Where did we come from? Why are we here? Where are we going?
When you know you’re going to die, there’s no comfort in cleverness. Genius is vain, and cleverness is hollow, at the end. The comfort that does come, if it comes at all, is that strangely marbled mix...
When we say that this definition of good and evil is universally acceptable, what we mean is that any rational and reasonable person—any rational and reasonable Hindu or Muslim or Buddhist or Christia...
When we do suffer things, like pain and so, it means that we have lost control.
When I smiled my relief and surprise, the man grinned back at me with that perfect sincerity we fear and call simple-minded.
Whatever you do in life, do it with courage,
Well,’ I laughed, ‘I certainly don’t know God, and frankly I’m inclined to think that God is impossible to believe in, at least most of the notions of God that I’ve come across.’ ‘Oh, of course, natur...