The first gulp from the glass of natural sciences will turn you into an atheist, but at the bottom of the glass God is waiting for you.
“When I think back on all the refugee camps I visited, all over the world, the people always asked for the same thing: books. Sometimes even before medicine or shelter--they wanted books for their children. (quoting his mother)”
― The End of Your Life Book Club
― The End of Your Life Book Club
“What's lost is nothing to what's found, and all the death that ever was, set next to life, would scarcely fill a cup.”
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“Indeed, it occasionally seems as if the book has attempted to inoculate itself against the prospect of actually being read.”
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“All diets are wholesome. Some are wholesomer than others, but all the ordinary diets are wholesome enough for the people who use them. Whether the food be fine or coarse it will taste good and it will nourish if a watch be kept upon the appetite and a little starvation introduced every time it weakens.”
― The Complete Mark Twain Collection
― The Complete Mark Twain Collection
“This would be an unbearable world were God to have only a single light, but we may be consoled that God has two lights: a light to guide us in the brightness of the day when hopes are fulfilled and circumstances are favorable, and a light to guide us in the darkness of the midnight when we are thwarted and the slumbering giants of gloom and hopelessness rise in our souls.”
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