"That by desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don't quite know what it is and cannot do what we would, we are part of the divine power against evil -- widening the skirts of light and making the struggle with darkness narrower."

-- George Eliot

#Struggle Quotes #Light Quotes #Evil Quotes

“Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.”
“Disappointment is just the action of your brain readjusting itself to reality after discovering things are not the way you thought they were.”

Source : Brad Warner (2010). “Zen Wrapped in Karma Dipped in Chocolate: A Trip Through Death, Sex, Divorce, and Spiritual Celebrity in Search of the True Dharma”, p.76, New World Library
“One of the greatest feelings in life is the conviction that you have lived the life you wanted to live-with the rough and the smooth, the good and the bad-but yours, shaped by your own choices, and not someone else's.”
“Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow. Follow-up is the answer to a bureaucrat's prayers.”
“A film writer is very much like a party girl. While you're good-looking and still unlined, the possibilities seem endless. But your appeal doesn't last long and you're quickly discarded.”
“Most of the time, the things that really change the world exist for something fundamentally selfish and then the world-changing ends up being a side-effect of that.”
“I don't remember writing anything until I wrote my college application.”
“No same man could walk through the same river twice, as the man and the river have since changed.”

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