In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences.
“light up a lifetime” conveys the idea that hope can have a lasting, life-altering impact.
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In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences.
I know that if odour were visible, as colour is, I’d see the summer garden in rainbow clouds.
The law condemns and punishes only actions within certain definite and narrow limits; it thereby justifies, in a way, all similar actions that lie outside those limits.
I would start seeing, in just the sense I was saying now, the kind of record it was going to be and what the arrangement demands, and what my vocal part should be in the record. This was all emerging as the song was emerging.
I don’t feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves.
Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.
Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.
Whether women are better than men I cannot say – but I can say they are certainly no worse.
Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. If we split life into separated problems we split the possibilities to make good building art.
There’s many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
I don’t count that relationship with Ricky. It’s just like a blip at this point. I had to fall in love with the devil himself to get this sweet angel, Jack.
A civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them into revolt neither has nor deserves the prospect of a lasting existence.
The Jungian view of drama would be that it affects all of our imaginations and somehow taps into our hidden, ancient, primordial memories.
We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
‘How do you know so much about everything?’ was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was ‘By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.’
A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease.
Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.
Think how different human societies would be if they were based on love rather than justice. But no such societies have ever existed on earth.
That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.
My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.
Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.
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