Better to illuminate than merely to shine to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate.
~ Thomas Aquinas
So, there’s this hornet’s nest. And there’s this long stick. And then there’s me. How I walk away from all of this will depend on whether I realize that some things go together and some things don’t no matter how hard you try.
~ Craig D. Lounsbrough
The greatest prayers that I could ever utter come from the heart. And when I pray that way, I rarely need to open my mouth. Therefore, maybe I should think about talking less.
As I contemplate a relationship with God, I find that I’m afraid to ride on the coattails of the infinite. But what I fear more than that is spending my life in the coat closet.
The writer's curse is that even in solitude, no matter its duration, he never grows lonely or bored.
~ Criss Jami
I do not have a problem with people killing themselves, as long as they took at least a hundred years to think about what they are about to do.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Rarely do I truly understand the disease which ails me. Therefore, rarely do I truly understand the fix that would cure me. And so maybe I should truly contemplate how rarely I recognize that God understands both.
In the dead of night I stirred. Wakefulness flowed back into me. I was a cup full of sorrow, but that sorrow was stilled, like a pain that abates as long as one does not move.
~ Robin Hobb
Nothing complements a fast mind better than a slow tongue. And nothing aggravates a slow mind better than a fast tongue.
The quieter the mind the louder the soul.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Dream on it, think on it, ink on it, speak on it... then proceed to bring on it. Fulfillment is ordered to find you. Shine time!
~ T.f. Hodge
A mystery is so much more exciting than a wrapped up answer...A mystery carries on but an answer just ends.
~ Jonathan Renshaw
No one answer is ever the answer.
~ Ahmed Mostafa
If we are merely a chance product of ‘random happenstance’ and nothing more, doesn’t it strike you as a bit odd that we have the ability to contemplate the question of ‘random happenstance’ with such methodical complexity?
...I've returned and I look around me and think, I've missed my life. While I was off and alone, it went on here, without me, and I'm forever doomed to be a stranger in my own home.
