The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength; and the means of showing pecuniary strength, and so of gaining or retaining a good name, are leisure and a conspicuous consumption of goods (Thorstein Veblen)
Caution is the eldest child of wisdom (Victor Hugo)
A hurt body and mind aren’t just like a dictatorship; they are a dictatorship. There is no tyrant as merciless as pain, no despot so cruel as confusion. That my mind had been as badly hurt as my body was a thing I only came to realize once I was alone and all other voices dropped away (Stephen King, Duma Key)
I have prayed in her fields of poppies I have laughed with the men who died – But in all my ways and through all my days Like a friend He walked beside. I have seen a sight under Heaven That only God understands In the battle’s glare I have seen Christ there With the Sword of God in His hand (Gordon Johnstone)
Did you get a secret thrill out of sitting across from me, eating a civilized dinner while pretending not to know you were teasing my cock?” Rate St. Sebastian – Samanthe Beck, Compromising Her Position
For hearts gone by in times past, unassuming, with not even a glance. In another lifetime, perhaps – Ernesto Mora, A Walk Among the Black Brambles
I don’t understand how I can always want to sleep, hate waking up, and yet be afraid of death (Mike Heil, The Quest for Immortality: And Other Misguided Adventures)
In the light of Buddhist meditation, love is impossible without understanding (Thich Nhat Hanh, The Heart of Understanding: Commentaries on the Prajnaparamita Heart Sutra)
Luck is when those who are prepared take advantage of the moment (Raymond E. Feist, Rise of a Merchant Prince)
Believe reality is what you were taught was myth (Nicholas A. McGirr, The Growing Dim Project)