#fe

Whether we realize it or not, most of us define ourselves by opposing rather than by favoring something or someone. To put it another way, it is easier to react than to act. Nothing arouses a passion for dogma more than a good antagonist. And the more unlikely, the better. … It’s difficult to hate an idea. … It’s much easier to hate someone with a recognizable face whom we can blame for everything that makes us feel uncomfortable. It doesn’t have to be an individual character. It could be a nation, a race, a group … anything. ↗

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

#life

Realmente não dá para entender como é que um sujeito faz uma bobagem dessas. So há uma explicação: Destino. Antes da gente nascer, alguém, sei lá quem, talvez Deus, Deus define direitinho como é que vai foder a sua vida. É isso. Era minha teoria. Deus só pensa no homem quando tem que decidir como é que vai destruí-lo. ↗

— Patrícia Melo

#god #god-s-plan #life #life

ethics is not about platitudes, let alone tautologies, logic or mathematics, but about difficult choices - dilemmas. ↗

— Martin Cohen

#philosophy #values-in-life #life

...Jesus opens his arms to his needy children and says, "Come to Me, all who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest"(Matthew 11:28, NASB). The criteria for coming to Jesus is weariness. Come overwhelmed with life. Come with you wandering mind. Come messy. ↗

— Paul E. Miller

#life

All civilizations at some time have fallen into this total terror, when the mystery of life was a kind of panic only to be assuaged by the spilling of blood. ↗

— Laurie Lee

#civilization #life #panic #religion #sacrifice

It was such a feeling of developing your inner self to the people who liked to dig deeper and deeper until you cannot fathom the deepest evil in you. ↗

— Fernando Lachica

#filipino-worker #life #love #money #ofw

It is quite futile to argue that man is small compared to the cosmos; for man was always small compared to the nearest tree. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#philosophy-of-life #science #life

One boy has it particularly hard. I won't tell you his name. But I will tell you all about him. He has very nice brown hair, and he wears it long with a ponytail. I think he will regret this when he looks back on his life. ↗

— Stephen Chbosky

#life

The truth is I wasn't brought into the world to write newspaper articles. But it's quite likely I was brought into the world to live with a woman. ↗

— Albert Camus

#love #women #life

You can’t move forward in your life… If you constantly look at the roads you left behind you. Stay focus on what you want to accomplish today and tomorrow will be a much brighter day! ↗

— Timothy Pina

#legend-of-the-peace-panda #life