"The brain is an island in an osmotically homogeneous sea."

-- Francis Daniels Moore

#Islands Quotes #Sea Quotes #Brain Quotes

“there's no chance at all: we are all trapped by a singular fate.”
“life's kind of like a painting. A really bizarre, abstract painting. You could look at it and think that all it is, is a blur. And you could continue living your life thinking that all it is, is just a blur. But if you really look at it, really see it, focus on it, and use your imagination, life can become so much more. The painting could be of the sea, the sky, people,buildings, a butterfly on a flower, or anything except the blur you were once convinced it was.”
“I feel like I'm really lucky.”
“Let the consequences of your obedience be left up to God.”
“Pay less attention to what you hear about someone, and more to what you learn about them...as you make the effort.”
“All things are literally better, lovelier, and more beloved for the imperfections which have been divinely appointed, that the law of human life may be effort, and the law of human judgment, mercy.”
“Individualism regards man - every man - as an independent, sovereign entity who possesses an inalienable right to his own life, a right derived from his nature as a rational being. Individualism holds that a civilized society, or any form of association, cooperation or peaceful co-existence among men, can be achieved only on the basis of the recognition of individual rights - and that a group, as such, has no rights other than the individual rights of its members.”
“If it is easy, something's wrong.”

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