#hr

Like some translucen latterday Cassandra, the prophetess of doom, (Heila the Comptesse von Westarp, the former secretary of the Thule Gesellschaff) rose up from the bosom of the limp and slumbering medium (Dr. Nemirovitch-Dantchanko) to give a warning that the man who was even now preparing to assume the leadership of Thule would prove himself to be a false prophet. Assuming total power over the nation, he would be responsible one day for reducing the whole of Germany to rubble and its people to a defeat and moreal degradation hitherto unknown to history. ↗

— Trevor Ravenscroft

#history #jesus-christ #the-occult #thule #leadership

If you don't know where you're going, any road'll take you there ↗

— George Harrison

#paraphrase-of-lewis-carroll #life

CALVIN: This whole Santa Claus thing just doesn't make sense. Why all the secrecy? Why all the mystery? If the guy exists why doesn't he ever show himself and prove it? And if he doesn't exist what's the meaning of all this? HOBBES: I dunno. Isn't this a religious holiday? CALVIN: Yeah, but actually, I've got the same questions about God. ↗

— Bill Watterson

#life #religion #life

It is a truth universally acknowledged that when one part of your life starts going okay, another falls spectacularly to pieces. ↗

— Helen Fielding

#life

We should live our lives as though Christ was coming this afternoon. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#judgement #life #preparation #religion #life

The world’s bumper sticker reads: Life sucks, and then you die. Perhaps Christian bumper stickers should read: Life sucks, but then you find hope and you can’t wait to die. ↗

— Ted Dekker

#christianity #pessimism #positive-thinking #life

To leave, after all, was not the same as being left. ↗

— Anita Shreve

#leaving #lesson #life #the-pilot-s-wife #life

I think it's possible to realize you love someone as deeply as you know how to love and not end up spending the rest of your life with him. ↗

— Robin Jones Gunn

#love #miller #life

Poetry is not the most important thing in life... I'd much rather lie in a hot bath reading Agatha Christie and sucking sweets. ↗

— Dylan Thomas

#poetry #reading #life

Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way round, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise. ↗

— Adolf Hitler

#application #clever #consider #constant #hell