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"Instead of worrying most what yous cannot control, shift your energy to what you can create." ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
"I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability." ― Oscar Wilde
"In a time of destruction, create something." ― Maxine Hong Kingston
"In the beginning, God created the earth, and he looked upon information technology in His cosmic loneliness.
And God said, "Allow Us brand living creatures out of mud, so the mud tin can see what We have washed." And God created every living creature that now moveth, and one was homo. Mud as human lone could speak. God leaned close to mud every bit man sat up, looked around, and spoke. Homo blinked. "What is the purpose of all this?" he asked politely.
"Everything must accept a purpose?" asked God.
"Certainly," said man.
"Then I get out it to you to think of one for all this," said God.
And He went away." ― Kurt Vonnegut, True cat'south Cradle
"Now there is a final reason I retrieve that Jesus says, "Love your enemies." It is this: that love has within it a redemptive power. And at that place is a power there that eventually transforms individuals. But continue being friendly to that person. Just go on loving them, and they can't stand up it too long. Oh, they react in many ways in the showtime. They react with guilt feelings, and sometimes they'll hate you a footling more at that transition menses, just just keep loving them. And by the power of your love they will break downwards under the load. That's love, you see. It is redemptive, and this is why Jesus says love. At that place's something well-nigh dearest that builds upward and is creative. In that location is something about hate that tears downward and is destructive. So love your enemies. (from "Loving Your Enemies")" ― Martin Luther King Jr., A Knock at Midnight: Inspiration from the Great Sermons of Reverend Martin Luther Male monarch, Jr.
"Now it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that anything and then listen-bogglingly useful could accept evolved purely by chance that some thinkers have chosen to run across information technology equally the last and clinching proof of the non-existence of God. The statement goes something like this: "I turn down to prove that I be,'" says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing." "But," says Man, "The Babel fish is a dead giveaway, isn't it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves yous exist, and so therefore, past your own arguments, y'all don't. QED." "Oh love," says God, "I hadn't thought of that," and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic. "Oh, that was easy," says Man, and for an encore goes on to prove that black is white and gets himself killed on the side by side zebra crossing." ― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
"If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that yous are not poet plenty to phone call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent place." ― Rainer Maria Rilke, Messages to a Young Poet
"Once at that place were brook trout in the streams in the mountains. You could come across them continuing in the amber electric current where the white edges of their fins wimpled softly in the flow. They smelled of moss in your hand. Polished and muscular and torsional. On their backs were vermiculate patterns that were maps of the world in its becoming. Maps and mazes. Of a thing which could not be put back. Not exist made correct again. In the deep glens where they lived all things were older than human and they hummed of mystery." ― Cormac McCarthy, The Road
"A blank slice of paper is God's style of telling us how hard it is to be God." ― Sidney Sheldon
"I would rather exist what God chose to make me than the nearly glorious animal that I could think of; for to accept been thought near, built-in in God'south idea, and so made by God, is the love, grandest and most precious matter in all thinking." ― George MacDonald
"Another flaw in the human being grapheme is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance." ― Kurt Vonnegut, Hocus Pocus
"I retrieve computer viruses should count as life ... I think it says something well-nigh human nature that the only form of life nosotros take created so far is purely subversive. Nosotros've created life in our own paradigm." ― Stephen Hawking
"The first men to be created and formed were called the Sorcerer of Fatal Laughter, the Sorcerer of Night, Unkempt, and the Black Sorcerer … They were endowed with intelligence, they succeeded in knowing all that there is in the world. When they looked, instantly they saw all that is around them, and they contemplated in turn the arc of heaven and the round confront of the earth … [Then the Creator said]: 'They know all … what shall we exercise with them now? Let their sight reach only to that which is virtually; permit them come across but a little of the face of the earth!… Are they not by nature unproblematic creatures of our making? Must they too exist gods?" ― Anonymous, Popol Vuh
"People cited violation of the First Amendment when a New Bailiwick of jersey schoolteacher asserted that evolution and the Big Bang are not scientific and that Noah's ark carried dinosaurs. This case is non about the need to carve up church and state; it's about the need to separate ignorant, scientifically illiterate people from the ranks of teachers." ― Neil deGrasse Tyson
"What is Human? Homo is a noisome bacillus whom Our Heavenly Begetter created because he was disappointed in the monkey." ― Mark Twain
"The most preposterous notion that Homo sapiens has ever dreamed upward is that the Lord God of Creation, Shaper and Ruler of all the Universes, wants the saccharine adoration of His creatures, can be swayed by their prayers, and becomes petulant if He does non receive this flattery. Even so this absurd fantasy, without a shred of evidence to eternalize information technology, pays all the expenses of the oldest, largest, and least productive industry in all history." ― Robert A. Heinlein, Time Plenty for Dearest
"Taking LSD was a profound feel, one of the most important things in my life. LSD shows you that at that place's some other side to the money, and you lot can't retrieve it when it wears off, just you know information technology. It reinforced my sense of what was important—creating dandy things instead of making money, putting things back into the stream of history and of human consciousness as much as I could." ― Steve Jobs
"It's easy to attack and destroy an human activity of creation. Information technology's a lot more difficult to perform one." ― Chuck Palahniuk
"Consciousness expresses itself through creation. This globe we live in is the trip the light fantastic toe of the creator. Dancers come and go in the twinkling of an eye only the dance lives on. On many an occasion when I am dancing, I have felt touched past something sacred.In those moments, I felt my spirit soar and become i with everything that exists.
I become the stars and the moon. I get the lover and the dearest. I go thevictor and the vanquished. I go the main and the slave. I get the singer and the vocal. I become the knower and the known. I keep on dancing and then it is the eternal dance or creation. The creator and cosmos merge into one wholeness of joy. I keep on dancing...and dancing...and dancing. Until there is only...the dance." ― Michael Jackson
"There is not one blade of grass, there is no colour in this world that is non intended to make united states of america rejoice." ― John Calvin
"Human being, practise not pride yourself on your superiority to the animals, for they are without sin, while you, with all your greatness, you defile the earth wherever yous announced and leave an ignoble trail behind you lot -- and that is true, alas, for almost every one of us!" ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
"I criticize by creation, non by finding error." ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
"Fashion is a linguistic communication that creates itself in dress to interpret reality." ― Karl Lagerfeld
"Do you know I don't know how one tin walk by a tree and not exist happy at the sight of it? How can one talk to a man and not be happy in loving him! Oh, it's only that I'm not able to express it...And what cute things at that place are at every stride, that fifty-fifty the most hopeless man must feel to be beautiful! Wait at a child! Look at God'south sunrise! Look at the grass, how it grows! Look at the optics that gaze at you and honey you lot!" ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot
"Nosotros are all refugees from our childhoods. And so nosotros turn, among other things, to stories. To write a story, to read a story, is to be a refugee from the country of refugees. Writers and readers seek a solution to the problem that time passes, that those who take gone are gone and those who will become, which is to say every 1 of us, will go. For there was a moment when anything was possible. And at that place volition exist a moment when zippo is possible. Simply in between nosotros tin can create." ― Mohsin Hamid, How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia
"The intention that human should be happy is not in the plan of Cosmos." ― Sigmund Freud
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