If I don't fish in the morning, I fish in the evening.
I catch a flash of red-gold beneath the surface of the water, and realize that there are koi in the pond, massive, serene, and I wonder: are they dreams of fish, or fish who dream?
The obligation d'âme meant that his only allegiance was to Felix, making them a separate kingdom of two, with Felix as king and Mildmay as ministers, army, and populace all combined in one. A stormy little kingdom, I thought, with periodic flare-ups of civil war and a magnificently unstable government. And I was glad I wasn’t a citizen of it.
Consider the stars. Among them are no passions, no wars. They know neither love nor hatred. Did man but emulate the stars, would not his soul become clear and radiant as they are? But man's spirit draws him like a moth to the ephemera of this world, and in their heat he is consumed entire.
I gave up on cussing - I'd run out of words filthy enough - and just started praying.
The dead person is not truly dead until the last person who rememebers them dies.
It is a rose planted in your heart, and as it's thorns tear you, so does it thrive and flower
So when Putin goes out to buy a Coke, thirty seconds later it is known in Washington DC.
When you see the world that God sees, you see a world that is loving, compassionate, and filled with individuals who live together in harmony and peace.
How prone we are to come to the consideration of every question with heads and hearts pre-occupied! How prone to shrink from any opinion, however reasonable, if it be opposed to any, however unreasonable, of our own! How disposed are we to judge, in anger, those who call upon us to think, and encourage us to enquire! To question our prejudices seems nothing less than sacrilege; to break the chains of our ignorance, nothing short of impiety!
Trading decisions should be made as unemotionally as possible.