Alan Johnson famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The present enables us to understand the past, not the other way round.
Every historian loves the past or should do. If not, he has mistaken his vocation; but it is a short step from loving the past to regretting that it has ever changed. Conservatism is our greatest trade-risk; and we run psychoanalysts close in the belief that the only "normal" people are those who cause no trouble either to themselves or anybody else.
Through all the relationship stuff I've gone through in the past few years, I know there are fundamental differences in how men and women view sex and how they view their futures.
The truth is in the mystery.
Dance on the edge of mystery.
Fear is born of Satan, and if we would only take time to think a moment we would see that everything Satan says is founded upon a falsehood.
One cannot choose wisely for a life unless he dares to listen to himself, his own self, at each moment of his life.
We fear our highest possibility. We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments.
There is only the constant knowledge and enjoyment of the Heart, moment to moment, through the instant of all conditions of appearance and disappearance. Of this I am perfectly certain. I am That.
I'm trying to get some building work done at the moment, quite seriously. Be careful.

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