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| 1a778a5 | When a man's love of finery clouds his moral judgment, that is vanity. When he lets a demanding palate make his moral choices, that is gluttony. When he ascribes the divine will to his own whims, that is pride. And when he gets angry at being reminded of animal suffering that his own daily choices might help avoid, that is moral cowardice. | Matthew Scully | ||
| 49b7096 | Though reason must guide us in laying down standards and laws regarding animals, and in examining the arguments of those who reject such standards, it is usually best in any moral inquiry to start with the original motivation, which in the case of animals we may without embarrassment call love. Human beings love animals as only the higher love the lower, the knowing love the innocent, and the strong love the vulnerable. When we wince at the.. | humanity love | Matthew Scully | |
| 5838ad3 | It's not that fact of him telling me he's not going to kill me that assures me I've got some time to breathe. Predo could look me in the eye and tell me whiskey's good and cigarettes are better and I'd still need a drink and a Lucky to believe he's not lying. The man breeds lies. He spawns them asexually, with no need for any assistance. He exhales and lies fill the air. Alone in a room, he mutters lies to himself to keep from falling into .. | Charlie Huston | ||
| 2930647 | The conflicting missions of the two armies seemed to have no fog, no gray, only black-and-white clarity. I had lived my life in terms of compromise, rule-bending, trade-offs, concessions, bargaining, striking deals, finding middle ground. In these two great armies, there was no such thing. Good was good, and evil was evil, and they shared no common ground. | Randy Alcorn | ||
| 5d5ed95 | It's always easier to avoid temptation than to resist it. | cross fornication immorality lust porn price purity redemption sex | Randy Alcorn | |
| 563eb11 | Earth is a in-between world touched by both Heaven and Hell. Earth leads directly into Heaven or directly into Hell, affording a choice between the two. The best of life on Earth is a glimpse of Heaven; the worst of life is a glimpse of Hell. | inspirational | Randy Alcorn | |
| 124c0db | it's my responsibility to cultivate the man in my son. I can't be passive about that. | maturity parenthood | Randy Alcorn | |
| ceddf1a | Good for you Woods. You're not as dumb as you look. Come to think of it, no one's as dumb as you look. | insults insults-and-slander | Randy Alcorn | |
| 0b96283 | You've got a chance to start out all over again. A new place, new people, new sights. A clean slate. See, you can be anything you want with a fresh start. | fresh-start new people place start | Annie Proulx | |
| 284906b | Again the ranch is on the market and they've shipped out the last of the horses, paid everybody off the day before, the owner saying, 'Give them to the real estate shark, I'm out a here," dropping the keys in Ennis's hand. He might have to stay with his married daughter until he picks up another job, yet he is suffused with a sense of pleasure because Jack Twist was in his dream." | death love | Annie Proulx | |
| bfc16ed | There's a feeling you get driving down to Casper at night from the north, and not only there, other places where you come through hours of darkness unrelieved by any lights except the crawling wink of some faraway ranch truck. You come down a grade and all at once the shining town lies below you, slung out like all western towns, and with the curved bulk of mountain behind it. The lights trail away to the east in a brief and stubby cluster .. | Annie Proulx | ||
| e374917 | Where are the reporters of yesteryear?' he muttered, 'the nail biting, acerbic, alcoholic nighthawk bastards who truly knew how to write? | Annie Proulx | ||
| 69587a6 | Home after midnight from a debate on the wording of a minor municipal bylaw on bottle recycling, he felt like he was a pin in the hinge of power. | E. Annie Proulx | ||
| 31c8ee8 | You're very old, aren't you?" "Just as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth." | Philippa Pearce | ||
| de37756 | Thus a day that had seen so many tears ended in the midst of a rainbow. | Jacqueline Winspear | ||
| de59f4b | The word has not been recognized as a virus because it has achieved a state of stable symbiosis with the host. | word | William S. Burroughs | |
| 5a7fb47 | There is a kidney-shaped fish pool outside the picture window. I cleaned it out and put in some large goldfish I bought in a bait store. The cats are always trying to catch the fish, with no success. One time the white cat leapt for a frog across the pool. The frog dove in and the cat fell in. He is trouble-prone. | William S. Burroughs | ||
| 4638734 | Men are disturbed not by the things which happen, but by the opinions about the things: | Epictetus | ||
| 4b8fcf2 | People with a strong physical constitution can tolerate extremes of hot and cold; people of strong mental health can handle anger, grief, joy and the other emotions. | Epictetus | ||
| 4384ba7 | It is possible to learn the will of nature from the things in which we do not differ from each other. For example, when someone else's little slave boy breaks his cup we are ready to say, "It's one of those things that just happen." Certainly, then, when your own cup is broken you should be just the way you were when the other person's was broken. Transfer the same idea to larger matters. Someone else's child is dead, or his wife. There is .. | Epictetus | ||
| f2bc2e5 | It has been ordained that there be summer and winter, abundance and dearth, virtue and vice, and all such opposites for the harmony of the whole, and (Zeus) has given each of us a body, property, and companions. | Epictetus | ||
| 7e6540d | You journey to Olympia to see the work of Phidias; and each of you holds it a misfortune not to have beheld these things before you die. Whereas when there is no need even to take a journey, but you are on the spot, with the works before you, have you no care to contemplate and study these? Will you not then perceive either who you are or unto what end you were born: or for what purpose the power of contemplation has been bestowed on you?.. | Epictetus | ||
| 4200425 | The willing are led by fate, the reluctant are dragged. | epictetus marcus-aurelius philosophy seneca stoic stoicism | Cleanthes of Assos | |
| 88acd5d | Who, then, is the invincible human being? One who can be disconcerted by nothing that lies outside the sphere of choice. | Epictetus | ||
| 6d2c188 | Many people who have progressively lowered their personal standards in an attempt to win social acceptance and life's comforts bitterly resent those of philosophical bent who refuse to compromise their spiritual ideals and who seek to better themselves. | Epictetus | ||
| e8cbe1e | If a man has reported to you, that a certain person speaks ill of you, do not make any defense to what has been told you: but reply, The man did not know the rest of my faults, for he would not have mentioned these only. | Epictetus | ||
| 30c606a | Never praise or blame people on common grounds; look to their judgements exclusively. Because that is the determining factor, which makes everyone's actions either good or bad. | Epictetus | ||
| e5a865c | That Socrates should ever have been so treated by the Athenians!" Slave! why say "Socrates"? Speak of the thing as it is: That ever then the poor body of Socrates should have been dragged away and haled by main force to prision! That ever hemlock should have been given to the body of Socrates; that that should have breathed its life away!--Do you marvel at this? Do you hold this unjust? Is it for this that you accuse God? Had Socrates no c.. | Epictetus | ||
| 7629f13 | Friend, lay hold with a desperate grasp, ere it is too late, on Freedom, on Tranquility, on Greatness of soul! | Epictetus | ||
| c4af715 | You ought to realize, you take up very little space in the world as a whole--your body, that is; in reason, however, you yield to no one, not even to the gods, because reason is not measured in size but sense. So why not care for that side of you, where you and the gods are equals? | Epictetus | ||
| 2b068df | Submitting seemed to me a lot like giving up. If God gave us the strength to bail- the gumption to try and save ourselves- isn't that what he wanted us to do? | god hard-work religion | Jeannette Walls | |
| d93a0c3 | I'd rather have a yard filled with genuine garbage than with trashy lawn ornaments. | Jeannette Walls | ||
| b8d8d92 | Sometimes it didn't matter how much gumption you had. What mattered were the cards you'd been dealt. | truth turn-of-the-century-texas | Jeannette Walls | |
| 5058857 | If you get down, all you need to do is act like you're feeling good, and next thing you know, you are. | Jeannette Walls | ||
| d75e67b | The world seemed divided into girls with boyfriends and girls without them. It was the distinction that mattered the most, practically the only one that did matter. But I knew that boys were dangerous. They'd say they loved you, but they were always after something. | Jeannette Walls | ||
| a363b3b | To all families who, despite their scars, still find a way to love. | Jeannette Walls | ||
| 53658f1 | I'm not upset because I'll miss you," Mom said. "I'm upset because you get to go to New York and I'm stuck here. It's not fair." | Jeannette Walls | ||
| 27d38d9 | Stephen watched the packets of lives with their memories and loves go spinning and vomiting into the ground. Death had no meaning, but still the numbers of them went on and on and in that new infinity there was still horror. | Sebastian Faulks | ||
| d6c7e90 | Weir heard something different in the sounds. Once, during a period of calm, he sat on the firestep waiting for Stephen to return from an inspection and listened to the music of the tins. The empty ones were sonorous, the fuller ones provided an ascending scale. Those filled to the brim produced only a fat percussive beat unless they overbalanced, when the cascade would give a loud variation. Within earshot there were scores of tins in diff.. | Sebastian Faulks | ||
| 7b1444f | All my life I had lived on the presumption that there was no existence beyond... flesh, the moment of being alive... then nothing. I had searched in superstition... But there was nothing. Then I heard the sound of my own life leaving me. It was so... tender. I regretted that I had paid it no attention. Then I believed in the wisdom of what other men had found before me... I saw that those simple things might be true... I never wanted to bel.. | death-and-dying war | Sebastian Faulks | |
| e45e833 | If not just the brain but the quirks that made the individual were composed of recycled matter only, it was hard to be sure where the edges of one such being ended and another person began. | Sebastian Faulks | ||
| de85b86 | A bit of the vagueness of music stops you going completely mad, I imagine. | Sebastian Faulks | ||
| f6abdc2 | I never for a moment considered killing myself, because it wouldn't have achieved anything. | Sebastian Faulks | ||
| 6394fa3 | All reality about me now appeared to be in tatters, taken down and reduced to the civil war of its particles. I held on very, very tight indeed. Because in addition to that feeling, that disintegration, there was rage. I wanted to break something. | rage | Sebastian Faulks |