"Christian ethics demand that you should not take revenge. The paradox is, naturally, that Christians worship a God who is the greatest avenger of them all. Defy him and you burn in eternal hell, an act of revenge which is completely out of proportion to the crime"

-- Jo Nesbo

#Christian Quotes #Revenge Quotes #Demand Quotes

“If reality is not what you want it to be, change it. You should not accept anything blindly, not death, not immortality.”

Source : Hannu Rajaniemi (2012). “The Fractal Prince”, p.109, Hachette UK
“We need to put in proper safeguards. How are we going to feel if somebody leases to the Taliban?”
“I think when tattoos are new and colorful, they look bad. But they look better the older and more bleached out they become.”
“When a wicked and unworthy subject annoyed the Sultan of Turkey or the Czar of Russia, he had his head cut of without much ceremony; but when the same happened in England, the monarch declared : "We are not amused".”
“Today I want to belong. I want to feel safe and at home. I want to be aware of what it is like simply to be, without defenses or desires. I will appreciate the flow of life for what it is-my own true self. I will notice those moments of intimacy with myself, when I feel that â€œI amâ€ is enough to sustain me forever. I will lie on the grass at one with nature, expanding until my being fades into the infinite.”
“There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.”
“Understanding that everything is impermanent, that happiness is transformed into suffering, and that all phenomena are lacking reality in themselves and are only projections of our mind, will permit us to counteract the first hindrance to meditation, that is, our attachment to this world.”
“I don't think there's anything more important than making peace before it's too late. And it almost always falls to the child to try to move toward the parent.”

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