"We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true."

-- Wendell Berry

“That was the thing about the world: it wasn't that things were harder than you thought they were going to be, it was that they were hard in ways that you didn't expect.”

Source : Lev Grossman (2015). “The Magicians Trilogy”, p.387, Penguin
“We only have one life to live, and must go on with it to the end, that if we feel it is meaningless, then we ourselves must give it meaning.”

Source : Susan Moody (1998). “Return to the Secret Garden”, G K Hall & Company
“I was born in the island of Ireland. I have Irish traits in me - we don't all have the traits of what came from Scotland, there is the celtic factor... and I am an Irishman because you cannot be an Ulsterman without being an Irishman”

Source : "Unionist Politics and the Politics of Unionism Since the Anglo-Irish Agreement". Book by Feargal Cochrane, 1997.
“I'll say life is simpler.”
“Like fanning through a deck of cards, my mind flashes on the thousand chances, trivial to profound, that converged to re-create this place. Any arbitrary turning along the way and I would be elsewhere; I would be different. Where did the expression "a place in the sun" first come from? My rational thought process cling always to the idea of free will, random event; my blood, however, streams easily along a current of fate.”
“What will happen when my heart stops beating?" Momo asked. When that moment comes," said the professor, "time will stop for you as well. Or rather, you will retrace your steps through time, through all the days and nights, myths and years of your life, until you go out through the great, round, silver gate you entered by." What will I find on the other side?" The home of the music you've sometimes faintly heard in the distance, but by then you'll be part of it. You yourself will be a note in its mighty harmonies.”
“If true happiness depended on the thoughts of man, then all philosophers and deep thinkers would be filled to overflowing with it.”

Source : Sadhu Sundar Singh (2013). “At The Master's Feet”, p.45, Simon and Schuster
“When we walk without the cross, when we build without the cross and when we proclaim Christ without the cross, we are not disciples of the Lord. We are worldly. We may be bishops, priests, cardinals, popes, all of this, but we are not disciples of the Lord.”

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