Life on a lifeboat isn’t much of a life. It is like an end game in chess, a game with few pieces. The elements couldn’t be more simple, nor the stakes higher. Physically it is extraordinarily arduous,...
L'ottimismo durevole può essere il prodotto di una cosa sola: ragione. Ogni ottimismo irragionevole tende a essere sconfitto dalla realtà e persino a sfociare in un'infelicità maggiore. L'ottimismo de...
Kalau nyawa kita sendiri terancam, kemampuan kita berempati jadi tumpul oleh hasrat egois yang amat sangat untuk bertahan hidup.
Jesus, Mary, Muhammad and Vishnu, how good to see you Richard Parker!
I’ll be honest about it. It is not atheists who get stuck in my craw, but agnostics. Doubt is useful for a while. We must all pass through the garden of Gethsemane. If Christ played with doubt, so mus...
It's important in life to conclude things properly.Only then can you let go. Otherwise you are left with words you should have said but never did, and your heart is heavy with remorse.
It was my first clue that atheists are my brothers and sisters of a different faith, and every word they speak speaks of faith. Like
It is pointless to say that this or that night was the worst of my life. I have so many bad nights to choose from that I've made none the champion.
It is not atheists who get stuck in my craw, but agnostics. Doubt is useful for a while. We must all pass through the garden of Gethsemane. If Christ played with doubt, so must we. If Christ spent an...
Isn’t it ironic, Richard Parker? We’re in hell yet still we’re afraid of immortality
Instead of coconut yam kootu, why not boiled beef tongue with a mustard sauce?That sounds non-veg.
In the wild, animals stick to the same paths for the same pressing reasons, season after season.
In a healthy individual, a broken bone that has healed properly is strongest where it was once broken. You have not lost any life, Henry told himself. You will still get your fair share of years. Yet...
If you are pitched into misery, remember that your days on this earth are counted and you might as well make the best of those you have left.
If there is a change, it is usually for the lesser rather than the greater; many people seem to lose God along life's way.
I'm afraid the popularity of the domestic cat would drop very quickly if little kitty could roar its displeasure.
I went about the job in a direct way. I took the hatchet in both my hands and vigorously beat the fish on the head with the hammerhead (I still didn’t have the stomach to use the sharp edge). The dora...
I was not wounded in any part of my body, but I had never experienced such intense pain, such a ripping of the nerves, such an ache of the heart.
I sang that tree's glory, its solid, unhurried purity, its slow beauty. Oh, that I could be like it, rooted to the ground but with my every hand raised up to God in praise!
I noticed how those who know the truth are always treated with suspicion and disdain. That was the case with Jesus, of course. But look at old Miss Marple. Always she knows, and everyone is surprised...