""Events," I say to the Captain, "events control our lives, although we have no understanding of them nor do they have any motivation. Everything is blind chance, happenstance, occurrence; in an infinite universe anything can happen. After the fact we find reasons."

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Source : "Beyond Apollo". Book by Barry Malzberg, 1972.

Barry N. Malzberg

#Motivation Quotes #Understanding Quotes #Captains Quotes

“He that has satisfied his thirst turns his back on the well.”
“You need to know your faith. You cannot give what you do not have.”
“EVERYTHING is love, so the only thing that's not love is our resistance to love, is us trying to be separate from the world.”
“I believe in myself over everyone else. There's nothing that walks on two legs that I'm afraid of.”
“I learned everything about fashion during my time at the 'NY Times.”
“In the quiet moments of your day, what do you think and do? When you are with your Self and no one else, how does life proceed for you? Who are you when you are alone? Self-creation is a Holy Experience. It is sacred. It is you, deciding Who You Are.”
“Be kind to everyone,becaus e everyone you meet is fighting a battle”
“Fragile as reason is and limited as law is as the institutionalised medium of reason, that's all we have between us and the tyranny of mere will and the cruelty of unbridled, undisciplined feelings.”

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