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“[W]e may also find meaning in life even when confronted with a hopeless situation, when facing a fate that cannot be changed. For what then matters is to bear witness to the uniquely human potential at its best, which is to transform a personal tragedy into triumph, to turn one’s predicament into a human achievement. When we are no longer able to change a situation…we are challenged to change ourselves.”
― Man's Search for Meaning
― Man's Search for Meaning
“...we're allotted a little space on earth and...we survive in that wilderness that can take back what it has given, as easily as blowing its breath on us...When we forget how close the wilderness is in the night...someday it will come in and get us, for we will have forgotten how terrible and real it can be.”
― Fahrenheit 451
― Fahrenheit 451
“The...flower of unholiness can grow only in the close neighbourhood of the Holy. Nowhere do [devils] tempt so successfully as on the very steps of the altar.”
― The Screwtape Letters
― The Screwtape Letters
“For countless years I judged there had been no danger of war or solitary violence, no danger from wild beasts, no wasting disease to require strength of constitution, no need of toil. For such a life, what we should call the weak are as well equipped as the strong, are indeed no longer weak. Better equipped indeed they are, for the strong would be fretted by an energy for which there was no outlet.”
― The Time Machine
― The Time Machine
“If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey that catches his heart, which…is the great high road to his reason, and which, when once gained, you will find but little trouble in convincing his judgment of the justice of your cause, if indeed that cause really be a just one. On the contrary, assume to dictate to his judgment, or to command his action, or to mark him as one to be shunned and despised, and he will retreat within himself, close all the avenues to his head and his heart; and tho’ your cause be naked truth itself . . . you shall no more be able to [reach] him, than to penetrate the hard shell of a tortoise with a rye straw.”
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