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Terry Prachett quote: "It is said that the Devil has all the best tunes. This is..."
It is said that the Devil has all the best tunes. This is broadly true. But Heaven has the best choreographers Terry Prachett
A large section of the idling classes of England get their incomes by believing that Jesus was born of a virgin and that Jonah swallowed a whale; and with the progress of science they were naturally finding this more and more difficult. A school of ingenious Bible-twisters arose, to invent symbolical and literary meanings for fairy tales, in order that people who no longer believed could continue with good conscience to collect the salaries of belief. Upton Sinclair
From bitter searching of the heart, quickened with passion and with painwe riseto play a greater part this is the faith from which we start. Leonard Cohen
Aleister Crowley quote: "I've written this to keep from crying. But I am crying, only..."
I've written this to keep from crying. But I am crying, only the tears won't come. Aleister Crowley
Wavy Gravy quote: "The whole earth is in jail and we're plotting this incredible..."
The whole earth is in jail and we're plotting this incredible jailbreak. Wavy Gravy
I look East, West, North, South, and I do not see Sauron; but I see that Saruman has many descendants. We Hobbits have against them no magic weapons. Yet, my gentlehobbits, I give you this toast: To the Hobbits. May they outlast the Sarumans and see spring again in the trees. J. R. R. Tolkien
I knew that my brother would still be a part of this world no matter what happened next. I felt my love for him so deeply that my blood seemed to flow down the street to him. My blood sang out my prayer for Luis even while he was still living in our world. Alice Hoffman
John Donne quote: "To know and feel all this and not have the words to express it..."
To know and feel all this and not have the words to express it makes a human a grave of his own thoughts. John Donne
(From the story The Last Days of a Famous Mime)He said nothing. He was mildly annoyed at her presumption: that he had not thought this many, many times before. With perfect misunderstanding she interpreted his passivity as disdain. Wishing to hurt him, she slapped his face. Wishing to hurt her, he smiled brilliantly. Peter Carey
In one day I had altered my life; my life, therefore, was alterable. This simple axiom did not call out for exegesis; no, it entered my bloodstream directly, as powerful as heroin. I could feel it pump and surge, the way it brightened my veins to a kind of glass. I had wakened that morning to narrowness and predestination and now I was falling asleep in the storm of my own free will. Carol Shields
George Orwell quote: "Now, comrades, what is the nature of this life of ours? Let us..."
Now, comrades, what is the nature of this life of ours? Let us face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short. George Orwell
The karmic philosophy appeals to me on a metaphorical level because even in ones lifetime it's obvious how often we must repeat our same mistakes, banging our heads against the same ole addictions and compulsions, generating the same old miserable and often catastrophic consequences, until we can finally stop and fix it. This is the supreme lesson of karma ( and also of western psychology, by the way)- take care of the problem now, or else you'll just have to suffer again later when you... Elizabeth Gilbert
Suttree stood among the screaming leaves and called the lightning down. It cracked and boomed about and he pointed out the darkened heart within him and cried for light. If there be any art in the weathers of this earth. Or char these bones to coal. If you can, if you can. A blackened rag in the rain. Cormac McCarthy
And that must end us, that must be our cure: To be no more. Sad cure! For who would lose, Though full of pain, this intellectual being, Those thoughts that wander through eternity, To perish, rather, swallowed up and lost. In the wide womb of uncreated night. Devoid of sense and motion? John Milton
Many more people could ride out the storm-tossed waves in their economic lives if they had their year's supply of food…and were debt-free. Today we find that many have followed this counsel in reverse: they have at least a year's supply of debt and are food-free. Thomas S. Monson

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