#iv

I looked out over no-man's land where Charlie had died. They lay as if they'd been heaped against the wire by the wind, and Charlie, I knew, was one of them. I wondered what I would write to Molly and Mother. I could hear Mother's voice in my head, hear her telling Big Joe how Charlie would not be coming back, how he had gone to Heaven to be with Father and Bertha. Big Joe would be sad. He would hum Oranges and Lemons mournfully up his tree. But after a few days his faith would comfort him. He would believe absolutely that Charlie was up there in the blue of Heaven, high above the church tower somewhere. I envied him that. I could no longer even pretend to myself that I believed in a merciful god, nor in a heaven, not anymore, not after I had seen what men could do to one another. I could believe only in the hell I was living in, a hell on earth, and it was man-made, not God-made. ↗

— Michael Morpurgo

#faith

I believe that the human race has developed a form of collective schizophrenia in which we are not only the slaves to this imposed thought behavior, but we are also the police force of it. ↗

— David Icke

#behavior #believe #collective #developed #force

We are reflections of one another, therefore I know that you are part of me and I am part of you because we are all projections of the universal principles of creation/destruction polarities of the same infinite consciousness that we call God. ↗

— David Icke

#another #because #call #consciousness #creation

I have lived to thank God that all my prayers have not been answered. ↗

— Jean Ingelow

#been #god #i #lived #prayers

I've been employed by the University of Helsinki, and they've been perfectly happy to keep me employed and doing Linux. ↗

— Linus Torvalds

#doing #employed #happy #i #keep

Don't count out other amazing programming like Frontline. You will still find more hours of in-depth news programming, investigative journalism and analysis on PBS than on any other outlet. ↗

— Gwen Ifill

#analysis #any #count #find #hours

The President has launched a very agressive campaign of self-defense, with the goal of getting Americans to buy into his vision of America on the world stage. ↗

— Gwen Ifill

#america #buy #campaign #getting #goal

Relentless, repetitive self talk is what changes our self-image. ↗

— Denis Waitley

#changes #our #relentless #repetitive #self

I live most of the time in New York now. I have an apartment there. ↗

— James Iha

#i #live #most #new #new york

I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#give #i #i see #little #lives