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Evil (ignorance) is like a shadow-- it has no real substance of itsown, it is simply a lack of light. You cannot cause a shadow todisappear by trying to fight it, stamp on it, by railing against it, orany other form of emotional or physical resistance. In order to cause ashadow to disappear, you must shine light on it Shakti Gawain
If you’re going to create, create a lot. Creativity is not like playing the slot machines, where failure to win means you go home broke. With creativity, if you don’t win, you’re usually no worse off than if you hadn’t played. Scott Adams
Hell needed horribly bright, self-centered people like Eric. They were much better at being nasty than demons could ever manage Terry Prachett
there was no gleam, no shadow, for the heavens, too, were one still, pale cloud; no sound or motion in anything but the dark river that flowed and moaned like an unresting sorrow. George Eliot
When everything is blocked off,' I was told by a dear friend who lives in Erfurt, "one must try to live in the interstices.' Apparently, the Christians of the Apocalypse, though they did not bear the sign of the beast, had discovered or created such spaces. From islands like these, true culture, Christian culture, may spread across the earth. Many people are athirst for it. Hans Urs von Balthasar
The best way to find out things, if you come to think of it, is not to ask questions at all. If you fire off a question, it is like firing off a gun; bang it goes, and everything takes flight and runs for shelter. But if you sit quite still and pretend not to be looking, all the little facts will come and peck round your feet, situations will venture forth from thickets and intentions will creep out and sun themselves on a stone; and if you are very patient, you will see and understand a... Elspeth Huxley
Do not be impatient with your seemingly slow progress. Do not try to run faster than you presently can. If you are studying, reflecting and trying, you are making progress whether you are aware of it or not. A traveler walking the road in the darkness of night is still going forward. Someday, some way, everything will break open, like the natural unfolding of a rosebud. Vernon Howard
For awhile I taped soap operas and watched them at night when I thought I might be forgetting what it was like to be human. After a while I stopped, because from the examples I saw on those shows, forgetting humanity was a good thing. Charlaine Harris
Margaret Atwood quote: "Remember,' she'd tell her staff, 'every customer wants to feel..."
Remember,' she'd tell her staff, 'every customer wants to feel like a princess, and princesses are selfish and overbearing. Margaret Atwood
A. J. Jacobs quote: "Paintings! They're like TV, but they don't move."
Paintings! They're like TV, but they don't move. A. J. Jacobs
If I feel ragged, my prep team seems in worse condition, knocking back coffee and sharing brightly colored little pills. As far as I can tell, they never get up before noon unless there's some sort of national emergency, like my leg hair. Suzanne Collins
Nathanael West quote: "He felt like a bottle that is being slowly filled with warm,..."
He felt like a bottle that is being slowly filled with warm, dirty warter. Nathanael West
Ayaan Hirsi Ali quote: "I would like to be judged on the validity of my arguments, not..."
I would like to be judged on the validity of my arguments, not as a victim. Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Years on end, and swords on end - where will it end, if our ears unbend - what shall I spend on a wrinkled friend in a pair of tights like a bunch of lights? Mervyn Peake
I often see how you sob over what you destroy, how you want to stop and just worship; and you do stop, and then a moment later you are at it again with a knife, like a surgeon. Anais Nin

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