"The biblical writers didn't need to say everything; they could assume some things. They didn't anticipate a day when even Jews and Christians would fall under influences of non-biblical religions, philosophies, and worldviews, to the extent that is now the case in our pluralistic culture and society."

“Hearts don’t realize they’ve been lied to. They still love anyway.”

“We are always looking into the future, but we see only the past.”

“... politics are nothing but sand and gravel: it is art and life that feed us until we die. Everything else is ambition, hysteria or hatred.”

Source : Louise Bogan (1973). “What the woman lived: selected letters of Louise Bogan, 1920-1970”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

“Don't assume your child is weak. If you, the parent, assume that they can't take anymore, what kind of signal are you sending them?”

“Truth is powerful and it prevails.”

“Younger people tend to associate happiness more with excitement and the future, while older people tend to associate happiness with peacefulness in the present.”

Source : Chip Conley (2012). “Emotional Equations: Simple Truths for Creating Happiness + Success”, p.167, Simon and Schuster

“A week of sweeping fogs has passed over and given me a strange sense of exile and desolation. I walk round the island nearly every day, yet I can see nothing anywhere but a mass of wet rock, a strip of surf, and then a tumult of waves.”

Source : John Millington Synge (2008). “The Aran Islands and Connemara”, p.39, Mercier Press Ltd

“When angels go bad they are worse than anyone else. Remember Lucifer used to be an angel.”