“Only add Deeds to thy knowledge answerable; add faith; Add virtue, patience, temperance; add love, By name to come called charity, the soul Of all the rest: then wilt thou not be loath To leave this Paradise; but shalt possess A paradise within thee, happier far.”

Tagged: faith paradise

“When you know you can do something, and you feel good about yourself, you do not have to devalue others.”

Tagged: civility etiquette kindness manners personal-development social-media success

“The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.”

Tagged: enlightenment faith inspiration inspirational life philosophy

“It would be, for me, mere pointless pleasure, an illusion of order for this one frail, foolish, flicker-flash in the long dull fall of eternity.”

Tagged: philosophy

“Faith in the possibilities of continued and rigorous inquiry does not limit access to truth to any channel or scheme of things. It does not first say that truth is universal and then add there is but one road to it.”

Tagged: philosophy science-vs-religion

“If I could, Sister James, I would certainly choose to live in innocence. But innocence can only be wisdom in a world without evil. Situations arise and we are confronted with wrongdoing and the need to act.”

Tagged: evil good good-vs-evil religion right wrong

“Life is now in session. Are you present?”

Tagged: growth inspiration life

“O God — please give him back! I shall keep asking You.”

Tagged: christianity god prayer religion

“Love's mysteries in souls do grow,But yet the body is his book.”

Tagged: body love poetry sexuality soul

“Uh-uh, dude. I tried it your way with the dating and the girls and the kissing and the drama, and man, I didn't like it. Plus, my best friend is a walking cautionary tale of what happens to you when romantic relationships don't involve marriage. Like you always say, kafir, everything ends in breakup, divorce, or death. I want to narrow my misery options to divorce or death - that's all.”

Tagged: relationships

“I am—yet what I am none cares or knows; My friends forsake me like a memory lost: I am the self-consumer of my woes— They rise and vanish in oblivious host, Like shadows in love’s frenzied stifled throes And yet I am, and live—like vapours tossed”

Tagged: poetry

“The greatest enemy of hunger for God is not poison but apple pie.It is not the banquet of the wicked that dulls our appetite forheaven, but endless nibbling at the table of the world. It is notthe X-rated video, but the prime-time dribble of triviality wedrink in every night.”

Tagged: desire fasting god nibbling

“I like the idea of working in different genres and transcending genres and hopefully finding success, and ultimately make movies people like.”

Tagged: Movies Finding Genres

“People will walk in and walk out of your life, but the one whose footstep made a long lasting impression is the one you should never allow to walk out.”

Tagged: boo bring-back buddy companion consideration don-t-go-away experience friends friendship friendships good-times impression

“Sigmund Freud was a novelist with a scientific background. He just didn’t know he was a novelist. All those damn psychiatrists after him, they didn’t know he was a novelist either."(Interview in Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, Eighth Series, ed. George Plimpton, 1988)”

Tagged: freud novelists psychiatrists science sigmund-freud