"It is impossible to keep spiritual peace if we do not take care of the mind, that is if we do not drive out thoughts that are displeasing to God and, on the contrary, keep thoughts which are pleasing to God. It is necessary to look into the heart with mind and see what is done there. Is it peaceful or not? If not, then find out in what you have sinned."

-- Silouan the Athonite

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“It is the opposite of ignoranceâ€”it is intellectual honesty: to be willing to accept reality and to call things what they are even when it is hard.”

Source : Todd Burpo (2014). “Heaven is for Real Movie Edition: A Little Boy's Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back”, p.75, Thomas Nelson Inc
“What I've done for the last ten years is develop high profile entertainment properties for animation, so it's kind of funny to be able to create my own book to already know how I'd want to develop it for animation and live action.”

Source : Source: www.ign.com
“The best philosophical attitude to adopt towards the world is a union of the sarcasm of gaiety with the indulgence of contempt.”
“Homecoming's stupid." And it is. Buch of kids looking for excuses to grope eachother all night.”
“I am always saying "Glad to've met you" to somebody I'm not at all glad I met. If you want to stay alive, you have to say that stuff, though.”
“I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape. Something waits beneath it; the whole story doesn't show.”

Source : Andrew Wyeth, Greenville County Museum of Art (1979). “Works”
“Non-violence is not a passive idea. It is ethical activism at its political best”
“It was totally unrealistic to think that because there had been wildly unlikely coincidences in the immediate past, that there would be more wildly unlikely ones turning up in orderly succession. Yet...”

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