This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten.

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Fool, 'tis in vain from wit to wit to roam: Know, sense, like charity, begins at home.

Every creative act involves...a new innocence of perception, liberated from the cataract of accepted belief.

The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win.

Ideas not coupled with action never become bigger than the brain cells they occupied.

Men's minds are too ingenious in palliating guilt in themselves.

Opportunities are there for only a second but you got to see it, just like a shooting star.

Feast of Columba, Abbot of Iona, Missionary, 597 Commemoration of Ephrem of Syria, Deacon, Hymnographer, Teacher, 373 Then are we servants of God, then are we the disciples of Christ, when we do what is commanded us and because it is commanded us.

For my own part I am persuaded that everything advances by an unchangeable law through the eternal constitution and association of latent causes, which have been long before predestined.

Do to others what you would have them do to you. The source of the famous Golden Rule. Many famous lines were variations on this theme. Matthew 7:12.

Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolutions.

Fear of the pain blinds us to the goal of healing. Only by seeing our problems clearly and experiencing them can we do something about them.

The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.

A jury consists of twelve people chosen to decide who has the best lawyer.

Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

The more we exploit nature, The more our options are reduced, until we have only one: to fight for survival.

The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.

We wait all these years to find someone who understands us, I thought, someone who accepts us as we are, someone with a wizard's power to melt stone to sunlight, who can bring us happiness in spite of trials, who can face our dragons in the night, who can transform us into the soul we choose to be. Just yesterday I found that magical Someone is the face we see in the mirror: It's us and our homemade masks. -Richard Bach.

Ring out old shapes of foul disease; Ring out the narrowing lust of gold; Ring out the thousand wars of old, Ring in the thousand years of peace.