I couldn’t have my happiness made out of a wrong – an unfairness – to somebody else . . . What sort of a life could we build on such foundations? Edith Wharton
“We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.”
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“No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.”
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“It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us; it is the very sign of His presence.”
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“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.”
― The Four Loves
― The Four Loves
“For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.”
― The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
― The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
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