"If we say that God has always been, why not save a step and conclude that the universe has always been?"

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Carl Sagan

#Atheist Quotes #Why Not Quotes #Steps Quotes

“I had no romantic interest in Gable. I considered him an older man.”
“No man is an island, as they say. No. I've tried it. I've gone on retreats at various times in my life for three or four or five days. I was desperate to get out of there and talk to somebody. But I fly fish a lot, and I can only do that really by myself. I find I'm never lonesome when I'm on a river, far from it, but it's a lonely practice.”
“But when we get enough people who don't care, and who don't accept personal responsibility for high ethical standards, our organization gets the "M" disease. Mediocrity. Anybody in the place can be a carrier. By the same token, every individual can carry the cure: the ethics of excellence.”
“what primitive tastes the ancients must have had if their poets were inspired by those absurd, untidy clumps of mist, idiotically jostling one another about”
“When we pay attention, whatever we are doing...is transformed and becomes a part of our spiritual path. We begin to notice details and textures that we never noticed before everyday life becomes clearer, sharper, and at the same time more spacious.”
“Successful people understand the value of time. Once they commit to doing something, they would never cancel.”
“It’s funny. When you leave your home and wander really far, you always think, ‘I want to go home.’ But then you come home, and of course it’s not the same. You can’t live with it, you can’t live away from it. And it seems like from then on there’s always this yearning for some place that doesn’t exist. I felt that. Still do. I’m never completely at home anywhere.”

Source : Danzy Senna (2013). “From Caucasia, with Love”, p.315, A&C Black
“Let us not give up on the Lord. His blessings are eternal, not temporary.”

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