People who leave their own time out of their work cannot be surprised if their time fails to find them interesting.
It is necessary, in this world, to be made of harder stuff than one's environment.
Intolerance is evidence of impotence.
For I am divided for love's sake, for the chance of union.
Dreams are imperfections of sleep; even so is consciousness the imperfection of waking. Dreams are impurities in the circulation of the blood; even so it's consciousness a disorder of life. Dreams are without proportion, without good sense, without truth; so also is consciousness. Awake from dream, the truth is known: awake from waking. The truth is: The Unknown
I did not hate God or Christ, but merely the God and Christ of the people whom I hated.
You must on no account attempt to use the squares given in the Book of the Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage until you have succeeded in the Operation. More, unless you mean to perform it, and are prepared to go to any length to do so, you are a fool to have the book in your possession at all. Those squares are liable to get loose and do things on their own initiative; and you won't like it.
Most suffering is human-made and avoidable. It's mostly in your head.
For me, fielding is everything - it is a passion that comes from within. You can get a bad ball while you bat, and your bowling may not always be up there, but you are completely in control of how well you field.
Some of the best lessons we ever learn we learn from our mistakes and failures. The error of the past is the wisdom of the future.
The tragedy of too many people is that they cannot allow happiness just to be there; they cannot leave it alone. Their sense of who they are and of what their destiny is cannot accommodate happiness. So they are drive to find ways to sabotage it.