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5c0acf4 Art and love are the same thing: It's the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you. profound love Chuck Klosterman
92aceca The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply because they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings. profound faith inspirational flying birds wings J.M. Barrie
4c7af18 I told him I believed in hell, and that certain people, like me, had to live in hell before they died, to make up for missing out on it after death, since they didn't believe in life after death, and what each person believed happened to him when he died. profound hell Sylvia Plath
aec242c The splendid thin silence profound life-quotes positive-thinking life-lessons inspirational failures falling-apart life-path new-beginnings deep endings deep-thoughts falling Sanober Khan
91b93f5 The splendid thing about falling apart silently... is that you can start over as many times as you like. silence profound life-quotes positive-thinking life-lessons inspirational failures falling-apart life-path new-beginnings endings deep-thoughts falling Sanober Khan
2a11060 How satisfying it is to leave a mark on a blank surface. To make a map of my movement - no matter how temporary. profound inspirational Craig Thompson
54bd356 It is not until much later, as the skin sags and the heart weakens, that children understand; their stories, and all their accomplishments, sit atop the stories of their mothers and fathers, stones upon stones, beneath the waters of their lives. profound Mitch Albom
a408d60 At that time, I often thought that if I had had to live in the trunk of a dead tree, with nothing to do but look up at the sky flowing overhead, little by little I would have gotten used to it. profound meursault Albert Camus
1312971 No man can be an exile if he remembers that all the world is one city. profound inspirational C.S. Lewis
ae0a77a Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not. be-yourself acting adage adages aphorisms audacity axiom axioms balls cojones conforming courageousness dictum dictums fit-in hardihood heroism herself human-being intrepidity made-me-think make-you-think maxims motivated moxie murder murdered oneself persons pluckiness pretender pretenders profound provoke-thought quotation spunk standout themselves true-grit daring humour bravery courage inspired people human fear quote inspiration inspire death motivational humor inspirational fearful actor saying lemons conform animal pluck courageous lemon plants nerve boldness motive plant words-to-live-by killed gnomes nonconformity orange maxim tree brave actors façades act grit epigram epigrams gnome produce deep fitting-in valour proverbs facade aphorism pretending quotations sayings pretend conformity gallantry peoples guts standing-out trees animals satire satirical self thought-provoking person himself yourself quotes human-beings thoughtful insightful proverb humans kill fearlessness dead fruit fruits die Mokokoma Mokhonoana
5d332f2 ...But I own that I cannot see as plainly as others do, and as I should wish to do, evidence of design and beneficence on all sides of us. There seems to me too much misery in the world. I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created the Ichneumonidae with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars, or that a cat should play with mice... I feel most deeply that the whole subject is too profound for the human intellect. A dog might as well speculate on the mind of . Let each man hope and believe what he can. evolution profound science beneficence omnipotent biology tolerance design evidence misery isaac-newton newton Charles Darwin
db3fd50 The sadness which reigned everywhere was but an excuse for unfailing kindness. profound love Victor Hugo
5360b97 A story so cherished it has to be dressed in casualness to disguise its significance in case the listener turned out to be unsympathetic. profound Diane Setterfield
1d579fc You too must seek the sun... profound life truth Allen Ginsberg
26ad6ad "They were quiet for a while, eating, then Oromis asked, "Can you tell me, What is the most important mental tool a person can possess?" It was a serious question, and Eragon considered it for a reasonable span before he ventured to say, "Determination." Oromis tore the loaf in half with his long white fingers. "I can understand why you arrived at that conclusion-determination has served you well in your adventures-but no. I meant the tool most necessary to choose the best course of action in any given situation. Determination is as common among men who are dull and foolish as it is among those who are brilliant intellects. So, no, determination cannot be what we're looking for." profound wisdom prescient Christopher Paolini
7237662 "Then we are living in a place abandoned by God," I said, disheartened. "Have you found any places where God would have felt at home?" William asked me, looking down from his great height." profound thought-provoking Umberto Eco
e79c39f Dickens has not seen it all. The wretched of the earth do not decide to become extinct, they resolve, on the contrary, to multiply: life is their only weapon against life, life is all that they have. This is why the dispossessed and starving will never be convinced (though some may be coerced) by the population-control programs of the civilized. I have watched the dispossessed and starving laboring in the fields which others own, with their transistor radios at their ear, all day long: so they learn, for example, along with equally weighty matters, that the pope, one of the heads of the civilized world, forbids to the civilized that abortion which is being, literally, forced on them, the wretched. The civilized have created the wretched, quite coldly and deliberately, and do not intend to change the status quo; are responsible for their slaughter and enslavement; rain down bombs on defenseless children whenever and wherever they decide that their 'vital interests' are menaced, and think nothing of torturing a man to death: these people are not to be taken seriously when they speak of the 'sanctity' of human life, or the 'conscience' of the civilized world. There is a 'sanctity' involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it. Dreadful indeed it is to see a starving child, but the answer to that is not to prevent the child's arrival but to restructure the world so that the child can live in it: so that the 'vital interest' of the world becomes nothing less than the life of the child. However--I could not have said any of this then, nor is so absurd a notion about to engulf the world now. But we were all starving children, after all, and none of our fathers, even at their most embittered and enraged, had ever suggested that we 'die out.' It was not we who were supposed to die out: this was, of all notions, the most forbidden, and we learned this from the cradle. Every trial, every beating, every drop of blood, every tear, were meant to be used by us for a day that was coming--for a day that was certainly coming, absolutely certainly, certainly coming: not for us, perhaps, but for our children. The children of the despised and rejected are menaced from the moment they stir in the womb, and are therefore sacred in a way that the children of the saved are not. And the children know it, which is how they manage to raise their children, and why they will not be persuaded--by their children's murderers, after all--to cease having children. profound important revolution powerful James Baldwin
68761a2 The women watched the men, watched to see whether the break had come at last. The women stood silently and watched. And where a number of men gathered together, the fear went from their faces, and anger took its place. And the women sighed with relief, for they knew it was all right - the break had not come; and the break would never come as long as fear could turn to wrath. profound John Steinbeck The Grapes of Wrath
2638669 I don't speak, I operate a machine called language. It creaks and groans, but is mine own. profound science-fiction Frank Herbert
de354a8 A strange thing happens when you interview a robot. You feel an urge to be profound: to ask profound questions. I suppose it's an inter-species thing. Although if it is I wonder why I never try and be profound around my dog. 'What does electricity taste like?' I ask. 'Like a planet around a star,' Bina48 replies. Which is either extraordinary or meaningless - I'm not sure which profound robots meaningless Jon Ronson
0a4ae97 We cannot begin to define God's knowledge. We know, simply and profoundly, that nothing is hidden from Him or incomprehensible to Him. mind profound faith god heart love define comprehend simple hide knowledge Elizabeth George
5b24a27 The moon is profound except when we land on it. profound Rebecca Solnit
30a6f23 You don't ask questions of an attic profound telling Barbara Kingsolver
db85603 L'appetit vient en mangeant. Appetite comes by eating. Your appetite will come back, but it must be met halfway. You must want it to come. profound Diane Setterfield
4239b44 There are many ways in which life's little candle can be snuffed out. A cold wind pursues us all. profound Yann Martel
22602d6 I believe that this is the time to become warriors for peace and dialogue, not warmongers or mere worriers. profound wisdom peace Lama Surya Das
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