Sometimes we have the absolute certainty that there’s something inside us that’s so hideous and monstrous that if we ever search it out we won’t be able to stand looking at it. But it’s when we’re willing to come face to face with that demon that we face the angel.
– Hubert Selby, Jr.
Every day, think as you wake up, today I am fortunate to be alive, I have a precious human life, I am not going to waste it. I am going to use all my energies to develop myself, to expand my heart out to others; to achieve enlightenment for the benefit of all beings. I am going to have kind thoughts towards others, I am not going to get angry or think badly about others. I am going to benefit others as much as I can.
– Dalai Lama XIV
Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.
– Henry David Thoreau
You give little, when you give of your possessions.
It is when you give of yourself, that you truly give. For what are your possessions, but things that you keep and guard for fear that you may need them tomorrow. And what is fear of need but need itself. There are those who give little of the much they have, and they give it for recognition and their hidden desire makes their gifts unwholesome. And there are those who have little and give it all.
There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward. There are those who give with pain and that pain is their baptism.
And there are those who give and know no pain in giving, nor do they seek joy, nor give with mindfulness of virtue. They give as the flowers spread their fragrance into space. Through the hands of such as these God speaks, and from behind their eyes he smiles upon the earth. And to the open-handed the search for one who shall receive is joy greater than giving.
– Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
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There is no remedy for love but to love more.
– Henry David Thoreau
Your a Valkyrie looking for a demon to keep you safe and happy. You have seen and endured too much at such a young age, that now you enjoy pain and other depraved things. You want them, like a Valkyrie enjoys watching the battle while looking for souls, but it is not who you are. You are a scared little girl. You want someone who can give you your desires (no matter how depraved they may get) but who, outside of that, keeps you safe and loved and protected.
– Eximius_Novae, Feb. 28, 2009
Our character is but the stamp on our souls of the
free choices of good and evil we have made through life.
– John C. Geikie, 1824-1898