John McAndrew

“Love is a temporary madness, it erupts like volcanoes and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is.
Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion. That is just being in love, which any fool can do. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident.
Those that truly love have roots that grow towards each other underground, and, when all the pretty blossoms have fallen from their branches, they find that they are one tree and not two.”
― Louis de Bernières, Corelli’s Mandolin

“Thus they both set a fatal trap for the believer: if you believe in God you can’t believe in evolution, and vice versa. But this is rather like saying if you believe in Tuesday you can’t believe in artichokes.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, No Time to Spare: Thinking About What Matters

“Even the best weapon is an unhappy tool, hateful to living things. So the follower of the Way stays away from it.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching: A Book about the Way and the Power of the Way

“The worship of power is an old religion.”
― George Santayana