Wisdom

We are all sinful. Trouble is that some men consider themselves less sinful than others or holier than others.

If I wholly unleash my imagination and forcefully stretch it out beyond its own edges, even at such a point I can only imagine a thin shard of this most immense God. And even though it is but a thin shard, it will nonetheless be mesmerizingly colossal.

You may appreciate positivity when you accept and understand negativity.Petra Cecilia Maria Hermans September 17, 2016AmenGod.

A closed book will lie there like a dead horse. But an open book will kick, buck, and bolt through perceived adventures like a wild and free stallion. So hold on.

Read obsessively. It will make you a better human and a better writer.

It is distressing how often we repeat ourselves. When we ask questions, we know the answers already. We've grown accustomed to horizontal communication, flatlining banalities and droning insignificance.

The best of all lost arts is honesty.

Fiction is the evidence that reality exists.

I've learned a lot about stage-managing for illustration. Sometimes you have to delete characters from a scene just to keep from overcrowding the image. I've also learned to making big-scale design decisions early.

Certain bookworms eat books. Eat them, swear in them, spill things on them.

Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving.

The voice of the people is the voice of God. (Vox populi vox dei.).

Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.

The Jetavana Temple bells ring the passing of all things. Twinned sala trees, white in full flower, declare the great man's certain fall. The arrogant do not long endure: They are like a dream one night in spring. The bold and brave perish in the end:They are as dust before the wind.

He was an embittered atheist (the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him), and took a sort of pleasure in thinking that human affairs would never improve.

I have often thought that nothing would do more extensive good at small expense than the establishment of a small circulating library in every county, to consist of a few well-chosen books, to be lent to the people of the country under regulations as would secure their safe return in due time.

Don't feel bad if your youth cannot be joyful, but at least make it useful.

It seems improbable, unless one knows how obstinately, purposefully and unerringly any stricken animal will find its way to the same place where in the past it has endured suffering and recovered.

Stand aside for a while and leave room for learning, observe carefully what children do, and then, if you have understood well, perhaps teaching will be different from before.

It's not that I'm ahead of my time, it's more that the world is running late.