My prayer is that when I die, all hell rejoices that I am out of the fight.
One of the most cowardly things ordinary people do is to shut their eyes to facts.
- Topic: Awareness, Truth
- Location: Grand Cayman
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.
Evil comes from the abuse of free will.
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most impressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be saturated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen — not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.
And then she understood the devilish cunning of the enemies’ plan. By mixing a little truth with it they had made their lie far stronger.
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Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousand of miles and all the years you have lived.
Hold every moment sacred. Give each clarity and meaning, each the weight of thine awareness, each its true and due fulfillment.
Amid the seeming confusion of our mysterious world, individuals are so nicely adjusted to a system, and systems to one another and to a whole, that, by stepping aside for a moment, a man exposes himself to a fearful risk of losing his place forever.
To fly as fast as thought, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived.
When civil fury first grew high, and men fell out they knew not why.
Jealousy feeds upon suspicion, and it turns into fury or it ends as soon as we pass from suspicion to certainty.
Being aware of a single shortcoming within yourself is far more useful than being aware of a thousand in someone else!
The hero of my tale, whom I love with all the power of my soul, whom I have tried to portray in all his beauty, who has been, is, and will be beautiful, is Truth.
We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.
Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.
Nothing can now be believed which is seen in the newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle.
None of us knows what might happen even the next minute, yet still we go forward. Because we trust. Because we have Faith.
The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.
To offend a strong man, tell him a lie. To offend a weak man, tell him the truth.
No matter how big the lie; repeat it often enough and the masses will regard it as the truth.
