"The equation of religion with belief is rather recent."

-- Arnold J. Toynbee

#Religion Quotes #Belief Quotes #Equations Quotes

“Every man that ever lived craved perfect happiness, the detective poignantly reflected. But how can we have it when we know weâ€™re going to die? Each joy was clouded by the knowledge it would end. And so nature had implanted in us a desire for something unattainable? No. It couldnâ€™t be. It makes no sense. Every other striving implanted by nature had a corresponding object that wasnâ€™t a phantom. Why this exception? the detective reasoned. It was nature making hunger when there wasnâ€™t any food. We continue. We go on. Thus death proved life.”
“Teaching is what is technically known as a polymorphous activity; it quite literally takes many different forms.”
“The Q I loathe and despise, the Q every single writer I know loathes and despises, is this one: 'Where,' the reader asks, 'do you get your ideas?' It's a simple question, and my usual response is a kind of helpless, 'I don't know.'”
“And that doesn't cost any money, to have decent relationships and viable situations. What costs money is car chases and shoot-outs, so I always thought that the thing to work on was the characters.”
“Promise yourself you will talk health, happiness, and prosperity as often as possible. Promise to think only of the best, to work only for the best, and to expect only the best in yourself and others. Promise to forget the mistakes of the past and press on to greater achievements in the future.”
“I suppose musicians have the kind of arrogant attitude that they can actually offer the world something, because through their passive power, they're able to be the strongest arms that they can be, incredibly strong. That's what keeps us going.”

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“I've still never had a dream that I'm disabled. Never.”
“I've got lots of books sitting here that have never been published because nobody could make any marketing sense of them.”

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