#not

God is a character, a real and consistent being, or He is nothing. If God did a miracle He would deny His own nature and the universe would simply blow up, vanish, become nothing. ↗

— Joyce Cary

#being #blow #character #consistent #deny

In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing. ↗

— Mignon McLaughlin

#equals #everything #love #minus #nothing

But alas, if I have not maintained my victory, it is God's fault for not making man and the devil of equal strength. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#hunchback-of-notre-dame #quasimodo #victor-hugo #equality

Absolute equals nothingness. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#dejan-stojanovic #equals #literature #literature-quotes #nothingness

The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing. ↗

— John Powell

#mistake #nothing #only #real #which

Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair. ↗

— William Blake

#any #builds #care #despair #ease

Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#each #failings #forgive #friends #little

Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me. ↗

— Albert Schweitzer

#around #cannot #ever #exist #experience

Everything has its limit - iron ore cannot be educated into gold. ↗

— Mark Twain

#educated #everything #gold #into #iron

To me it seems that too many young women of this time share the same creed. 'Live, laugh, love, be nothing but happy, experience everything, et cetera et cetera.' How monotonous, how useless this becomes. What about the honors of Joan of Arc, Beauvoir, Stowe, Xena, Princess Leia, or women that would truly fight for something other than just their own emotions? ↗

— Criss Jami

#beauvoir #emotion #et-cetera #etc #etcetera