Victor Prata

“This is a matter of definition, in the final analysis – and therefore, of faith. [The divine] is real insofar as its pursuit makes pain bearable, keeps anxiety at bay; and inspires the hope that springs eternal in the human breast. It is real insofar as it establishes the benevolent and intelligible cosmic order, that infinite place of sinful toil or faithful play. It is as real as the force that opposes pride and calls those who sacrifice improperly to their knees. It is as real as the further reaches of the human imagination, striving fully upward.”
― Jordan B. Peterson, We Who Wrestle with God: Perceptions of the Divine

“Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

“We don't rise to the level of our expectations, we fall to the level of our training.”
― Archilochus

“It is likely I will die next to a pile of things I was meaning to read.”
― Lemony Snicket