"Believing there is no God means the suffering I've seen in my family, and indeed all the suffering in the world, isn't caused by an omniscient, omnipresent, omnipotent force that isn't bothered to help or is just testing us, but rather something we all may be able to help others with in the future. No God means the possibility of less suffering in the future."

-- Penn Jillette

#Believe Quotes #Mean Quotes #Helping Others Quotes

“The name was supposed to be 'Googol,' which is the mathematical term for a 1 followed by 100 zeroes. It was before the Google spellchecker existed.”
“Love is the crown that glorifies; the curse That brands and burdens; it is life and death. It is the great law of the universe; And nothing can exist without its breath.”
“We know nothing of the principle of health, the positive of which pathology is the negative, except from observation and experience. And nothing but observation and experience will teach us the ways to maintain or to bring back the state of health. It is often thought that medicine is the curative process. It is no such thing; ... nature alone cures. ... And what [true] nursing has to do ... is to put the patient in the best condition for nature to act upon him.”
“Two in distressmake sorrow less.”
“Sometimes the greatest love is not found in the dramatic scenes that poets and writers immortalize. Often, the greatest manifestations of love are the simple acts of kindness and caring we extend to those we meet along the path of life.”
“The only real evidence that any critic may bring before his gaze is the finished poem.”

Source : allen tate (1953). “the man of letters in the modern world”
“I might add that in small towns, we don't quite know what to make of a candidate who lavishes praise on working people when they are listening, and then talks about how bitterly they cling to their religion and guns when those people aren't listening.”
“Happiness is essentially a state of going somewhere, wholeheartedly, one directionally, without regret or reservation.”

Source : William Herbert Sheldon (1936). “Psychology and the Promethean Will: A Constructive Study of the Acute Common Problem of Education, Medicine and Religion”

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