#ill

I'm convinced that most men don't know what they believe, rather, they only know what they wish to believe. How many people blame God for man's atrocities, but wouldn't dream of imprisoning a mother for her son's crime? ↗

— Criss Jami

#apologetics #atrocities #belief #bias #biases

Will smirked, clearly pleased at the effect he was having. "I've no idea. I lost consciousness about then. I was having a lovely dream about a young woman who had mislaid all her clothes... ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#will-herondale #dreams

To be a god can ultimately become boring and degrading. There'd be reason enough for the invention of free will! A god might wish to escape into sleep and be alive only in the unconscious projections of his dream-creatures. ↗

— Frank Herbert

#free-will #god #philosophy #dreams

I had killed our careful relationship by driving my tongue through its heart and pushing it off a cliff. ↗

— Jeff Lindsay

#heart #killed #relationship #tongue #dreams

This world is for those who are born to conquer it, Not for those who dream that are able to conquer it, even if they're right. ↗

— Fernando Pessoa

#strong-willed #dreams

Where the will is strong there’ll always be a way The dream goes on forever and a day ↗

— Samael

#dream #strong #way #will #dreams

An individual ant, even though it has a brain about a millionth of a size of a human being's, can learn a maze; the kind we use is a simple rat maze in a laboratory. They can learn it about one-half as fast as a rat. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#ant #being #brain #even #fast

You may not be able to read a doctor's handwriting and prescription, but you'll notice his bills are neatly typewritten. ↗

— Earl Wilson

#able #bills #doctor #handwriting #his

And what did you do last night, Dexter? Oh, I played with my dolls while a friend chopped up my sister. ↗

— Jeff Lindsay

#dreams

Is anything truly impossible? Or is it that the path to our goals appears too unclear to follow? It seems to me that if you seek hard enough, pray hard enough, you usually stumble across a scattering of breadcrumbs that marks the trail leading to the goal you once considered beyond your reach. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#dreams #endurance #fortitude #goals #patience