#ene

Be just before you are generous. ↗

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

#generous #just #you

Regardless of one's point of view, it's quite easy to see that Darwinism is not in the same league as the hard sciences. For instance, Darwinists will often compare their theory favorably to Einsteinian physics, claiming that Darwinism is just as well established as general relativity. Yet how many physicists, while arguing for the truth of Einsteinian physics, will claim that general relativity is as well established as Darwin’s theory? Zero. ↗

— William A. Dembski

#einstein #evolution #general-relativity #hard-science #macro-evolution

Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance. ↗

— Arnold H. Glasow

#ignorance #lengthened #shadow

One needs no particular talent to be polite. On the contrary, being nice is what's left when you've failed at everything else. ↗

— Diane Setterfield

#talent

Nay, but prithee, with sprinkles 'pon it instead," I said solemnly, "and frosting of white. ↗

— Jim Butcher

#politeness #sweetness #political

I am somewhat exhausted; I wonder how a battery feels when it pours electricity into a non-conductor? ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#electricity #energy #exhaustion #futility #sherlock-holmes

Note that this journey is uniquely yours, no one else's. So the path has to be your own. You cannot imitate somebody else's journey and still be true to yourself. Are you prepared to honor your uniqueness in this way? ↗

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

#life #uniqueness #life

These two things are almost all I want, but unfortunately, neither one is my strong suit. I am very strong on blame, and wish this were one of God's values, but trust, surrender? Letting go, forgiveness? Maybe just after a period of prayer, but then when the mood passes and real life rears its ugly head again? Not so much. I hate this, the fact that life is usually Chutes and Ladders, with no guaranteed gains. I cannot will myself into having these qualities, so I have to pray for them more often, if I want to be happy. I have to create the habit, just as I had to do with daily writing, and flossing. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#forgiveness #happy #letting-go #prayer #surrender

All questions have a basis in love. All answers lead to LOVE. If you can color everything in love, you have all the colors in the world. ↗

— Eve Evangelista

#oneness #openness #life

You don't know how you haunt and bewilder me. You don't know how the cursed carelessness that is over-officious in helping me at every other turning of my life WON'T help me here. You have struck it dead, I think, and I sometimes wish you had struck me dead along with it. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#eugene-wrayburn #our-mutual-friend #life